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Not entirely sure who iain mackenzie is, but stuff like this is why I love me some electroswing.

E:Well shit. Finally following up on finding the term "jump blues" a few months back. My immediate impression is that it's like modern country lyric inclination was combined with actually good music :V

Though that seems to be more the first song I hit. It's supposed to be more like... well blues had a lovechild with swing, which is apparently exactly as great as that sounds if you weren't dropped on your head as a child. Somewhere in the vague space between those two and rockabilly, now that I've jumped through a few more.

Seem to be going through some of the older stuff at the mo' -- this stuff but more modern sensibilities is probably gon' be nice, if it's not just been subsumed under electroswing or somethin'.  Any case, playlist with a buncha' mostly 1950s stuff found here. Also this pneumonia thing is pretty nice. just, uh, maybe discount what appears to be the bit about domestic abuse. Friggin' old music grumblegrumble. Playlist seems to have a lot of good stuff, though. Timmons's 'Got Nobody to Love' is pretty damn solid for somethin' out the 50s

E2: this shit is ambrosia

Well... as long as you don't do the exploding dice UMD check thing for wands, they'll probably be better balanced than Incursion's are

Amusing as a wand-slinger default for "I want to blow the game up" is it can get excessive, ehehe. _{especially when the UMD check causes the wand's AoE to exceed its firing range :V}

That said, some other balance ideas... having a cross-wand cooldown between uses might be enough to offset recharging. Make it so you can't just spam out fireball for seven turns straight, but have to wait a turn or three before using the same effect again. Maybe outside of special wands that don't recharge but can be rattled off... or do it the other way around with more rare slow-firing rechargeable wands, perhaps with the default non-charge having fewer (only two or three) shots. Delayed fire could be interesting, too -- rechargeable, no CD, but it takes a turn or two for any particular shot to fire off.

Amusing but probably unpleasant could be a increasing chance of explosion on chain use* -- first shot is free, second has a 5-10% chance of exploding in your face, each turn after doubles the chance. Cools down a step each turn a wand isn't used. You'd still be able to use wands and even panic spam them, but it would have risks and wouldn't just be a more-or-less free hurl-fireballs-until-they-die thing.

Probably other stuff you could do, too. Have fun with it!

* Maybe feat-mitigated -- most fun there would be something not changing the odds (or maybe even increasing them), but reducing the self/ally damage and increasing the AoE, basically letting you suicide bomb your enemies via wand spam.

Oh, care homes and whatnot has that sort of thing, sure, I think. When they're not skimping on costs or equipment, anyway. They're funded by violently fucking the finances of their patients and their patients' relatives, though. Plenty of stateside families just... don't have the money to get fucked. Gov't support of extended elderly care is pretty slim, generally an utter bitch to get into (particularly for people having to deal with a person that needs the care while trying to navigate that shit) and, of course, forever being sabotaged by GOP anti-healthcare (and everything else) effots.

You still need people to use the things, though. And to convince the patient to get into them, probably clean varyingly literal shit off the devices, etc., etc. They're more wheelbarrow than automated call service or somethin'.

To go back to the topic of automation and nursing for a sec, aren't some form of electronic harness and pulley systems already in use in some care homes? Friend of the family developed pretty severe dementia and so was placed in a care home, and they used an electronic pulley system to get him out of bed instead of doing it by hand.

This is in the UK, so don't know if that's a thing elsewhere yet.

Quick check has some show up. You're talking hundreds of dollars for a patient lift device (that's pretty large and bulky). Lot cheaper to just wear out next of kin, who's still going to be doing a fair amount of lifting even with that sort of aid. Which is an issue when elder care is already ruinously expensive for a lot of folks.

Walk by TV to hear some televangelist fuckwit calling a fertility god a "god of sexual immorality". Not the first time I've heard that particular ass spew bullshit like that, either.

Aye, dude's first appearance was in chapter three. Been around almost as long as cio.

Similar stuff here, too, sure (though generally not specifically that, since we charge a buck a page for faxes and our area's pretty shitpoor, so...). I'm not technically front desk, but we play musical employees pretty regularly, so any particular day I could be dealing with stuff like that. Please observe basic consideration

... though that said, most of the folks that show up at our branches are pretty reasonable, from what I've noticed. Might be an artifact of being a small area but I'unno. It being shitpoor and expectations being low might play into it, too.

I am also confused as to why one would need untranslated subs in undubbed content. Maybe we are confused about whether we are talking dubs/subs?

that's actually kinda' helpful for learning a language, tbh

Having both the spoken word and their written form going at the same time can be pretty nice when you're starting to pick things up, et al.

But you're kinda' just talking normal captions at that point instead of sub/dub stuff, heh.