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I mistype and correct it basically with sheer muscle memory, m'self. More or less part of the automatic touch-typing process. It's fun editing on the fly while you're not even looking at the computer screen.

Think the last typing test thing I had was 80-90 words a minute at 98 or so percent accuracy, and gods know it wasn't from getting things right the first time. Just being plenty quick on the backspace.

At this point even fucking pence, vile zealot he is, would be better off for the country. And probably little to no worse for the demographics he'd set out to oppress.

Beyond that, hey. Pelosi's pretty high up the line of succession, iirc. There's non-GOP on the list, maybe even one or two of those somewhere that hasn't guzzled the reactionary koolaid. I'd trust a fucking magic eight ball with the job more than I would trump at this point.

Finished unpacking the library of congress surplus we had. Thanks to the last two boxes there are now eighteen books in our cataloging room that are over 90 years old, most over a hundred, waiting for us to figure out what the hell we're going to do with them.

Also yeah, hey GC. Thanks for the changeup, it's about time someone treated the title as an emergency food source.

Digital clutter basically isn't a thing, though, outside of like the horrible messes I tend to make of my desktops after a while. Doesn't take up space, doesn't mess up a room, the most it might do is take up some mental attention and even that is far more easily dealt with. You just uninstall or hide whatever you're not actively playing around with. Particularly with stuff that comes pre-organized like with steam it's just... not the same sort of mess.

Quote from: Frumple on January 12, 2019, 10:53:45 pm

... man, I'm trying to figure out a way to read that that doesn't come across as kinda' fucking horrible. What exactly are you calling "leverage", here?

This is something Dems do consistently.

I mean, that's certainly a sidestep from the question presented. I guess I'll just agree with you that old era republicans might actually have decided to treat people that are american in just about every way but the paperwork with some modicum of fucking dignity, and went on to wrestle with some problem that didn't involve shitting on people, that they didn't go out of their way to cause.

You might have to go pretty far back considering the ethical character of the GOP establishment in general since, like... before nixon or something... but hey, maybe. It's extra maybe due to the "leverage" you seem to be implying involving minorities, but eh.

Though I'm sure your consistently done thing has a slate of examples, considering, as per trekkin's note, the current situation isn't one of them.

I mean, the purely physical side of meditation (paying attention to/keeping breathing steady, relaxing your muscles/keeping yourself from physically tensing up) you can do basically whenever -- it's about the only way I was physically able to drive through the panic/anxiety doing so induced when I started, ferex. It's harder when you have something interfering with breath and/or muscle control but that's about it. Meditation mixed with yoga or similar things is pretty bog standard.

Nooot even close. A unit. Singular. Much more DOS-y graphics, too. Think it had fantasy in the title...?

Besides the scouting (which I think Il Palazzo captures perfectly - that doesn't feel like exploration), the part of Dominions that feels the least 4x-y for me is: what do you do when you're not at war? There's no peacetime development, nor does it feel like there should be.

I mean, you research, make gubbins and figure out new and interesting ways to get their wearers killed, roll around in the massive pile of spells to see what happens. Probably better than half the time I sink into SP (well, for earlier dominions since I don't have 5, yet) I spend huddled up behind massive piles of PD tooling around with... whatever. Effectively ignoring the "war" the AI desperately tries to wage. Dominions is as much a playground as it is a battleground.

... any case, Dominions is definitely a strategy game, and if it's not of the 4x variety I'm not sure what it is, exactly (though I guess it doesn't really matter what the most accurate label is, either, since it's plenty fun and the rest is icing on the holy war cake). There's nothing saying the four Xs have to be particularly balanced in X allocation, and its broad strokes are pretty similar to plenty of other province-ish based TBS games that iirc got shoved into the 4x pile (I'm thinking of a couple old 95/dos era fantasy games off the top of my head, but gods know I can't remember what the blazes they were called. One had real time combat where you controlled a unit, I think?).