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Well, chickens kinda suck in general.  Also frogs suck for anything but alchemy, for which they seem to have an affinity.  Or maybe just the one that I recruited purely because of that.  Pretty sure rabbits suck too, cats can be pretty good.

I mean... maybe? The chicken was doing remarkably well prior to tribulation. Walked all over the local demon weeks before, had a flat out max stage mixed element arm and actually managed to get the shinbone stuff up and running, combat wise they seemed to be going pretty solid. 'Bout two thirds of the way to second breakthrough, even, which seems to be pretty good for a sub-60 day tribulation from what I've seen so far?

The angry tornado just beat them like someone knocking dirt out of an old rug.

E: Though I can definitely vouch for bull yaoguai making stupidly good outer disciples, at a minimum. If I could find a decent way to just cut off their tribulation and not need to advance to inner disciple or functionally die, I'd be all over that. Blighters are like tier 6+ vessels except they actually do things... the chicken in question's map was a canyon, and by that day 40-50-ish tribulation a pair of bull yaoguai had managed to mine away something like half or better the minable tiles on the map. Shit was intense.

welp, finally got to a tribulation! Quarter strength tribulation 'cause I wanted to try easy modo to start with.

turns out easy modo kicked my punch chicken's ass sideways

I was hoping to at least see some struggle or it take a bit but lol no tornado whooped my sect leader's butt in like two frames

not two seconds

two frames

now there's a giant angry demon chicken where my best cultivator used to be and it's eating my doggo

whee

e: huh

Missing limbs show on the characters. I just noticed.

... amusingly, though, it doesn't seem to register for doing stuff with said limbs? So this guy I got that lost a hand from fei baiting just kinda' levitates food when they eat :V

... anyway, anyone else notice the Wisconsin recount? To quote someone else's response,

3 million dollars to lose harder *chef kiss*

I have learned, and learned well. Game is not kidding when it says snake yaoguai make bad physical cultivators. It is extremely not kidding. At all.

Short form: Scaley little nuts don't have arms according to remold. Or legs. Or any special racial secret bodies. I.e. they're completely freaking defenseless. Even if you achieve breakthrough on one, well, tier two still ain't got no secret bodies. So you're still defenseless after first breakthrough, hahaha.

I'ma keep going, but I doubt this poor thing makes it through tribulation, heh.

E: In the continued adventures of the Worst Snake Cultivator, I've now noticed devour even applies to stuff you could otherwise just eat normally. So that wonderful +50 stamina red ginseng your outers can chomp down for 8k foundation? Lol no, it's tier 6 and baseline devour is 5.7. Nyet nommo snek hombre.

E2: Snek on pause, gonna try forest chicken this time. New thing learned this map: Protector guy cannot, in fact, take the map's starting demon.

The demon can, however, knock the protector guy out without killing them. Knock them out long enough for you to strip mr useless of his clothes.

Another thing to consider is just getting better component clothing and a good crafter. Set of fei hide 100 quality thin clothes will drop your minimum ideal by a bit over 40 and bump the maximum by 33 or so, and only needs 22 fei hide. Dunno how hard it is to find those adventuring, but demon hide's pretty decent, too, iirc, and it's fairly easy to encounter demons.

Today I learned catching frog people when you go fishing is apparently totally a thing.

Also they are very unhappy with that whole Face 99.0% [Hook Damage] thing >_>

e: poor frog fellow, though. Turns out trying to punch a sect master in the face can be... unwise

E2: Though yeah, spirit vessels are... not that great? Sorta'? They're also kinda' great! The downside to them is they basically only do stuff under the peon workgroup (and maybe firefighting?), so, like. They're not particularly versatile, can't cook, can't finish buildings, etc.

The upside, though, is that, well, they're peons. Untiring, unsleeping peons that never eat and never stop working (until their durability conks out, anyway, which at least for spirit stone takes quite a long while). So your buildings will be cleaned, your storages organized, your worktables and constructions stocked with whatever materials they need, and so on.

The main other upside is, well. A spirit stone block vessel isn't hard to make. Costs 75 spirit stones to make a tier six vessel and those things, those things scoot. They move damn fast, talisman boosted max constitution fast, outrun some flying cultivators fast. Just one can manage the peon work of probably four or five or more outer disciples, who can go do... whatever else you want them to do.

Ultimately my "start loner and try vessel support" plan has mostly taught me spirit vessels are both disappointing (they can't sub for your outer disciples) and also remarkably helpful. Would recommend!

Eh, depends on the person, the situation, and the song, y'know? I'm reminded of an old story about Reed's Metal Machine Music, where it was reported at one point a rather drug riddled party ended up playing one of the parts for significantly longer than the piece actually lasted; the disc they were playing from was damaged, and near the end started skipping and whatnot.

It took, like, over an hour for anyone to notice; they were impaired enough and the song messy enough folks just couldn't tell part of the song was skipping/repeating. There's some bits of music out there you'd be hard pressed to tell if it was desync'd to begin with, especially if you're not already well familiar with the song.

If Biden pardons Trump he's a failed President right out of the gate. There's no ambiguity about that. Prosecuting Trump is one of the only things that center and left Democrats somewhat agree on.

The one exception I could see to that is a poison pill pardon that puts the shitgibbon directly on the hook for state level convictions. That'd be about the only situation where the words "pardon trump" isn't goddamn reprehensible.

It'd still be strictly worse than finally holding our presidents accountable for bloody anything, but better than the alternative pardoning scenarios.