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I was thinking a little bit (I know I shouldn't, but I can't help myself) and I was hoping someone could set my ass straight. The thought I had was that divisive issues like abortion, gay marriage, the innate hostilities between the parties, *insert divisiveness here*, actually fuck up the functioning of the government and prevent it from actually doing the things it is good at and tempts it to adjudicate on matters it has no business touching whatsoever if only because it's the only authority that really can.

What I mean is: A good government really only requires competent bureaucrats.

Or that least people able and willing to try to become one.

Unfortunately we have major political blocks that think a competent bureaucrat is either an impossibility or undesirable, and make damned sure their operatives live down to that standard.

Democracy wasn't particularly doomed from the start, we're just dealing with the consequences of a host of fuckwits spending generations trying to undermine it. So there's problems and problems getting problems fixed. You can be real damn divisive on subjects varied so far as government goes so long as you agree government is actually a potential solution, not something to be hacked at until it's weak enough you can drown it in a bathtub.

Ogre Battle. Said before somewhere on OG, will say again. Would friggin' love more of its general ethos in combat mechanics. Hands off-ish gameplay in general tends to do it pretty well for me. It's like an ant farm or somethin', just with RPG mechanics or whatev'.

So far as the AoS stuff (dota/lol), some of them actually do (at least provide the option) to do more with minions; imo, it's generally a sign of the design going in the right direction instead of jamming itself back up dota's ass in terms of formulation. One I actually play occasionally is EotA (twilight, maybe? Forgot exactly what its title was), which is a fairly recently updated WC3 map with pretty solid bots, that does some neat-ish stuff in terms of adding minions and messing about with that kind of thing.

There's a fair number of junk along those lines buried in Warcraft/Starcraft custom map obscurity, really. It's just kinda' hard to find 'em, heh.

There'd be several thousand fewer dead people per year if we reigned in gun proliferation in the US, just from the effects it would have on suicide. Never mind the rest of it. We've had solid statistics for years now that a firearm in a household makes everyone in it more likely to be injured or die. They're deadly in ways basically nothing else commonly encountered by civilians in the US is, to zero meaningful surprise considering they're literally made to kill people.

It's not the only problem by a long shot, but it's an actual problem in and of itself and one with real fucking clear effects when corrected.

Idly looking into this labyrinth of refrain thing mentioned in the sales thread. Everything else I'm seeing aside, I cannot help but be amused/confused that roughly the first thing the first (?) named character does is direct a young child to steal a drunk man's goat.

It's not often a game starts off with petty mutton thievery.

Internet/phone seems like it's finally back at home, fucking finally. If it stays up is a different question, but still.

... have to go to work, though. Can't veg/catch up all day. Four day weekend for thanksgiving, though~

Not really back yet but... maybe by Christmas at this rate? I'unno. Area's been pretty well screwed over, heh.

Heeey, library's wi-fi is finally working. For now. Only an hourish to use it because lunch break but sweet fucking hell I haven't had internet in over a goddamn month so I'll take this hour.

Update things! Still alive. Got power back to the house... not last wednesday but wednesday before? Something like that. Took longer than it probably should have and may be a fire/electricution risk because octogenarians shouldn't be in the middle of a disaster area but... whatever. At least it means no more generators running, ruddy noise boxes.

No phone, no internet, though. Getting to the point the other house people are considering satellite, mostly cause we can't seem to get a straight answer from the phone company over what's going on so far as repair and recovery goes.

Area's more functional and mostly operational so far as day to day goes but it's still pretty fucked. Something like half or more the trees in this county either got snapped in half or uprooted and knocked over (and it's fairly heavily wooded around here) so yeah. It's been a month-ish of clean-up and it'll be several more just to get shit off the sides of the roads, never mind everything else. Extra fun is I've heard news/gossip vine stuff about people trying to play the area off as not that badly hit due to some bureaucracy stuff (not enough people asking for assistance or something), which is a hell of a thing. We're maybe like a notch down in terms of fucked from Jackson county... but it's a small notch if we are.

Any case, thank fornication I had a small library on this tablet and could finagle means to keep it charged. Would have went out of my gourd entirely without it. Reeeeaaaaalllly want internet back. That whole bullshit about living without it being freeing or whatever the hell is pretty reliant on having the physical condition to do other shit, and I mostly don't. So it's pretty unpleasant.

And there's the first power flicker. Won't be long now before it stays off, methinks. See y'all on the other side, hopefully.