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... I'unno, I haven't really noticed much slowdown in GD and OG, which is mostly where I've loitered over the years. Little quieter, but part of that was losing some of the more energetic folks or others chilling for one reason or another. Maybe more in line with some of the slower years, but last year was pretty eventful, pretty sure both with new DF releases and... otherwise. Part of that's probably because I don't really notice that kind of thing to begin with unless it's hella' overt, but...

Anyway, entirely too lazy to check, but is the reduced post count you're seeing coming disproportionately from any particular part of the forum? If it's primarily some portion of FG&RP, ferex, it might not necessarily mean much regarding the rest of the forum. Also totally possible for a post-release slump to be settling in, which iirc is fairly common (as is a spike when a big new one happens).

Though, being bannon/a long term right wing media producer, you can give good odds he'll find plenty of people anyway. Probably at least one or two that straight up don't exist.

Quote from: Reelya on January 08, 2018, 04:14:15 pm

If that happens, then it's going to be very good for the Democrats going into the 2018 elections.

Wrong dichotomy - I don't want it to be good for "the Democrats" or "the Republicans." I want things to be good for the people.  I make no mistakes about assuming that is more likely with one party or the other.

Right now either party is good for some people and outright bad for others.

Uh. No, it's more one is good for some and somewhat worse than previous for others, and the other is bad for most folks and a very literal existential threat for all but a sliver of what's left. S'what happens when one of the parties is dead set on defunding vital -- in the "not having this will kill people" sense -- services, amongst other things. Good for the people would be the GOP leadership vanishing in a puff of logic and its base somehow finding more than about three folks that give a single sodden shit about the people to replace them.

And mostly ninja'd, if with a fairly different outlook on thing, but eh.

It's a risk, yeah. However, Trump has done depositions before (remember, he's been involved in ligitative stuff most of his adult life), so, he knows how to handle that stuff. Plus Mueller is a professional and he acutely knows what's on the line.

Eh... trump's been involved in litigative stuff of a rather different sort most of his adult life, and he's spent a good deal of that life getting intermittently bled by it, too. Add on the non-negligible chance of diminishing capacity and it's likely any lawyer worth a damn would be trying real hard to prevent trump getting interviewed. 'Course, considering his lawyers it's still up in the air whether it happens or not, but eh.

Presumably roughly as much trouble as anyone that converts a book into electronic format and distributes it without the author or publisher's consent. Maybe more considering the circumstances, but when the normal amount is "none whatsoever", well. Zero times two is still zero, heh.

You could probably make an excuse pretty easily, though. Mutter something about the walls and be done with it. Maybe forts all have an outer layer we don't see encrusted in wards that have to get torn down before ethereal stuff can get in. Want to say most/all of the passwall ethereals even have something in their description that would suggest they have the means to bypass something like that, too.

...

... though, y'know, I suddenly wonder why there isn't a strategic level passwall buff. Something like a hell-travel check to jump directly into the fort battle, maybe even right past the walls. Probably be expensive and/or pretty risky, to balance it out, but... still. Feels like it's a gap in dom's magic.

*waggles hand* Fixing those short term symptoms can help a bit with the longer term ones pretty easily, though, or potentially keep you at least still mostly functioning when they're trying to kick off. Helps so you can live long enough to middle through longer term stuff.

Being able to deal with random short term stress can definitely help with long term issues, too... and similarly, not being able to can exacerbate them. At the absolute least a modicum of breathing and muscle (relaxation/untensing) control can do a good bit of good.

Personal level, gods know if I couldn't keep some of my physical stress/anxiety reactions under a least partial control I'd be a helluva' lot more fucked up than I am. Also utterly incapable of driving, heh.

How much would that even be relevant, anyway? There's critters in this thing with books for heads, iirc. The exact level of import facial features have might not be exactly high

Heh. Yeah, buncha' folks in florida remember at least the good ol' BP spill we're still feeling the effects of in places. More coastal drilling is one of those, "this might get you lynched if you don't oppose it" things. Potentially literally. We're only so far off from the cohort that was still doing that...

'Course, GOP being GOP it won't be surprising if it's bark loudly and then roll over supine and actively help the constituency get reamed, again. Still. Probably going to need another generation or two (with few to no cockups by relevant entities) before on the ground apprehension starts fades out most of the way. American electorate may have goldfish memories, but that shit that wrecked your (friend's, neighbor's, whatever) job is forever.