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Walk out into the yard to check something, end up with cat orbitals on way back in. Felines equidistant on three sides, maintaining same speed. Frumple's morning involved spontaneous shmup cosplay, I guess.

2020 being what it is I think I'm just glad they didn't start launching missiles at something coming over the horizon...

Dunno about nightmare, but trump being stricken by grief over someone else dying definitely involves some sort of dreamscape or hallucination.

Now, lying about it as an excuse to start shit with china, now you're getting closer to reality.

Might check out Urtuk, I think. It's closest to battle brothers in that list, but there's definitely a higher level of individual badassery. It's also fairly lenient with deaths... characters don't necessarily die when they're killed, but instead take wounds, which can be healed with a specific resource. Dying while wounded is permadeath, and wounds will get worse if untreated, but it's a relatively gentle system.

Combat wise there mostly isn't RNG. Stuff tends to either work or not work depending on clearly designated triggers, with about the only exceptions being crits (sorta', there's lots of stuff that interact there), cover, or some support mechanics.

I've reached a fairly interesting equilibrium with a character somewhere in the day 200s -- basically my army can beat just about any one enemy army (and my main character is spending most of their time beating people to death unarmed to save on repair costs ) I've encountered... but the trick is outside the bandit clan type factions you don't actually fight those, especially not fast enough to finish before reinforcements come in.

So I've hit the point I can beat any similarly sized opponent I'm finding, sometimes even twice that number, but proper knock-down drag out late-game fights don't have those kinds of fights. You get in a dustup with random character N and before the fight's over five of their friends have shown up and now you're up against 3-400 enemies, ha.

It's a pretty neat state to be in, actually. Piggybacking on proper faction fights is also quite nice, since you'll participate in fights with actually thousands of troops waiting in the wings. It's delightfully hectic.

Had one pretty amusing one last night, where I stepped in to help out a random civilian group that was getting attacked by the desert brotherhood or something, and part way through I got reinforcements. Which was neat until we thoroughly trounced the bandits and it turns out the "help" was someone that hated me and a few of their friends, who immediately turned around and ganked me

... I reloaded to a day or two prior to that after seeing the options were "lose >50% of my gold by surrendering" or "lose even more gold, a quarter or so of my inventory, and rack up a huge number of injuries from losing the fight". Gotta' be careful where you're fighting if you know hostile folks are loitering around!

Sands of Salazar has its factions run around and conquer each other.

Basically, like. Any grand strategy game probably counts. Stuff like the X3 games I think has it? Space rangers, I think drox operative. The last federation has it as a key mechanic, chunks of your time is spent manipulating the factions involved.

Pretty sure there's plenty I'm forgetting, games trying to have dynamic faction mechanics aren't really that uncommon, the bigger question is how bad they are at it

Or in other words, they did a no-knock raid on a location they had no legitimate reason to suspect the person they were actually after was at. That turned out to be the wrong fucking place after they were done illegitimately invading it and killing someone living there.

Pretty sure that's what you call the wrong address.

Fun fact: Lovecraft came to The United Amateur's attention after the editor read a letter Lovecraft had written to another fiction magazine, complaining about how empty and insipid their romance stories were. Lovecraft's letter provoked a storm of responses from both defenders of those stories, and those who agreed with him, and apparently United Amateur's head honcho thought Lovecraft showed promise as a writer based on his critique. UA reached out to him, and "The Alchemist" received its first printing.

In other words, Lovecraft first got published by starting a flame war in the comments section.

Got a chuckle from me, anyway. The read thing itself you can find by googling that last sentence with quotes around it.

Is it at least local assholes most of the time, or do you get to deal with trump as a commercial subject more often than not?

Actually, even if they are largely more local, does that even help on that front?

... either way, hey, sounds like a good excuse to stop watching TV and getting a nice adblocker setup