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Yeaaah... the work harder == (probably) get ahead thing has been pretty bullshit in the US for a... long time. Upward mobility hasn't been particularly great for a while now and backsliding is too goddamn easy. Been like that for generations, more or less.

Most of what's happening lately-ish is that folks are getting more cognizant of it/wiling to say it out loud, with a side of it actually getting worse by some metrics, too. Underemployment being fucking rampant really emphasizes the job lotto thing on top of all that. It's overall quite a mess that the younger generations are getting increasingly fed up with, especially when the older ones go out of their way to shit on everything that might mitigate it.

I've managed to dodge a fair amount of that stuff myself, but my position's fairly precarious anyway and I seriously, seriously fucking empathize with folks that didn't manage their evasion check.

Too much effort, more like, when other means are technically viable. Their official updates on the matter and shite have been emphasizing "there's other shit to use that work more easily with mobile crap and we don't want to spend money on updating anymore kthxbai" more than anything about security.

*blinks* Wait, big black book of dick? Is that a bible black reference?

I mean, now the question is, can they one-up John "Khorne-Has-The-Right-Idea" Bolton?

Does it also do the Darkest Dungeon/Nethack BS with "you must have memorized this much wiki to succeed"?

From what I've seen so far, not really, and I have pretty low tolerance for nethack level wiki shenanigans. There's some stuff where foreknowledge can mitigate some (mostly energy, from what I've encountered) wastage, but it's not been super major from what I've played up to now. Nix the energy mess and it's even less of a concern.

... also wow, the arena mode for DSD is pretty goddamn brutal. Combat gauntlet, not even sure if you get to heal but if you do the first chance is like eight to ten fights in and the fights by and large do not screw around. It's pretty impressively mean. Techie going heavy shield recovery (or something equivalent) seems near vital.

OB's from the '00s, though

Though the older ones generally didn't play around like the ring thing, much. Part of that was just because they were making the tropes to eventually be fiddled with, but still. Its dickery tended to come from poor directions or whatev' than more explicit screw-yous.

... speaking of those, an early-ish warning sign from OB is a minor fetch quest you catch wind of super early and get access to shortly thereafter. The short of it is some dude gets you to bring them this tricked out sword (few hundred gold for a base weapon cost, then studded with the spell components you murder out of passing wildlife), and your reward is... basically the cheapest healing item in the game. Costs like a tenth or less what you trade for it. Dude was super enthusiastic about the thing and it supposedly tastes delicious, though! Game's honestly fairly legit so far, heh.

Well played, Oriental Blue, well played. Normal game expectations, you fight sleep inducing enemy, steal special accessory off them called Sleep Ring, obviously it's a status resist accessory, right? Slip that baby on and enjoy your status immunity.

Oriental Blue's like, haha, actually unremovable cursed ring that inflicts sleep on the wearer. And not as, like, randomly or something. Straight up your ass is unconscious from turn 1 of a fight. Also you can't get it off and acquired it decently deep in a place full of enemies that hit pretty hard. Have fun with that~ and by fun i mean load your savestate and give the designers a nod of respect

It's a common design in places with limited space. Also helps save on plumbing. Only need one feed and one drain rather than a seperate one for each.

I'm not saying it's the best idea, but it's used fairly widely, and been done so for quite a while.

Literally where, though? I've never seen it, or heard of it used outside of what's popped up lately, and would suspect only people without means to protest would stomach it (for a given value of stomaching rooted in a complete inability to fight back).