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There totes is, but the general use is scattered further than the results of a week long street orgy.

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Except when it doesn't, of course. Which is often. Or when people disagree as to what the original meaning was. Also fairly common. Or when it's basically just a generic swear word, c.f. most right wing media better than half the time.

Cus 'murrica actually has a fair bit to do with that, though. A lot of our schools kinda' blow in particular when it comes to stuff like history and social sciences, and the more nativist political corner has persistently tried to fuck the systems related to that into a deeper hole. So a chunk of the fuzziness has been due long running attempts to wreck the things that make terms like that stay particularly consistent in meaning, because bloody somehow that's "real american" or whatever works as an appropriate designator depending on the specific group doing the sabotage.

Today I learned: One of these mods (probably thorium) introduces butterflies that will explode when you catch them. Dynamite level, 422 to 0 hp through 48 armor, just big enough to hit at the extreme range of the golden net, explode. Et tu, game?

E: And later, I'm reminded the enchanted sundial speeds up time rather than skips it. No, game, I wasn't ready for a blue moon about three days into hard mode. Wasn't even able to keep all my npcs alive during the fast forward despite most of the critters spawned being unable to go through doors (or at least the 3 tile high spaces they fill). Rest in pieces, gobbro the second.

E2: You ever get that oddly specific feeling you might be indulging in slime king farming a bit too much?

Yeah, me neither.

... that was the output of a five stack of the ten king summon items, incidentally. So fifty slime kings done one ten set at a time because even two drops so much junk stuff starts to despawn. Checking, I started it off killing the 5250th during the first batch, so there were over a thousand blue slimes killed, just now. Might just be set on light souls for a while, whee~

I... think it's calamity? That has it. It wasn't active (nah, just a battle potion and water candle on top the zerg, ha), but GRealm also has a 2x accessory you can build early-ish and something in the mess I'm running has a 10x one, too, though that's hard mode (and maybe post moon lord, been a bit since I saw the recipe).

Still, riding out a zerg potion is definitely one of the more enjoyable things I've done in terraria. Consistently great watching everything pile in from everywhere, heh.

Bloody goddamn hell. More or less fatfingered a zerg potion. Promptly panicked, didn't want it to go to waste (currently don't have the sludge to make another), only one thing I could remember wanting to farm... an obsidian rose.

So, of course, I immediately jumped down the hellavator. Way down was mostly uneventful except roadkilling something I didn't notice before it died and spending some time in a place or two goomba stomping something that had managed to jump in below me.

Exit was hopy shit levels of congested -- I had used that instant hellavator thing to make it, so the side exits were only the 5 tiles high or so I dug out the 1 tile thick wall. They were buried in slimes, bats, imps, three or so bone serpents humping the land trying to get to me, etc. Digging out further up was a joke, as everything above those entrances were basically layered in flying enemies. Demons, more bats, those gluttony things, crap falling in from the caverns above, so on. Normal zerg rush environment, basically.

Now, I try to clear enough space to get out (I've been constantly forgetting to get a knockback canceller, so I couldn't just walk out and tank it very easily). This actually lasts for a bit, as I had done up the surroundings pretty well to prevent voodoo trigger, and eventually my summons manage to stop humping the wall and start woodchipping the mass of meat trying to agglomerate its way up to where I was hooked to the hellavator wall.

Amusingly enough, I'm pretty sure that's what caused what most reading has already figured out was going to happen. When my seven-ish stack of dank creeper and blood clot started chewing into the enemies swarming into the bottom of the hell shaft, slimes started dying so fast that, despite the fact most of the bottom and surrounding area were vented to let lava drain, lava was not just collecting but rising up the hellavator by sheer dint of collective slime death. And, of course, spreading its way into the surrounding area.

So said obvious thing happened. Something killed a (okay, probably several between the point the first appropriately placed one dropped the doll and it landed, the spawn rate was actually more than just the 30x zerg effect) voodoo demon. The slime genocide got its last laugh, as I then got to experience the wall of flesh, mid zerg rush, with it starting with me still inside the hellavator, without knockback immunity, unwilling to cancel the potion effect, and the exits (and land outside, and air, and ceiling, and...) buried in things that wanted me dead.

Not only was the wall coming with its normal stuff happening, most everything between ceiling and floor (and below floor) was covered in so many enemies it was like there was another wall of flesh in front of the other, except made out of demons and bats and shit. Extra fun bonus points, the direction the wall was moving? I hadn't explored more than like a half a screen or so, yet, and I had no intention of freezing my health and shitkicking things that way.

So yes, vulgarity started flowing copiously as panic mode left easy modo 30x spawn rate and went into extra hard, I jammed my character into the mass of death (which ate about half my 424 health even with a 100 point heal) and did my damnedest to flee and chuck whatever I could in the other direction.

Now, no spoiler here, this ended with my ass hella' dead. Despite everything I made it past three buildings and a hill before the last bit took me. What was pretty goddamn amazing, imo? Wall's HP at the end, expert mode and all? 366. I almost got the blighter even though my total prep was farm proofing going the wrong direction, whatever crap I was carrying at the time, and a knee-jerk jump into the hell hole after forgetting the all buffs button includes the zerg potion.

Overall, even dead as hell at the end of it, the experience was pretty damn great. 9/10, would panic jump my way face first into a 30x+ spawn rate pre-wall hell again.

Ah, there we go. Knew it was something but memory et al, bleh.

Bright side, fish is both ubiquitous and often varied enough in terms of local contaminant concentration you'll have different areas getting different degrees of dosage. If we really want to see if bits of arsenic is beneficial, that may be one of your best bets.

Yeah, it's a Pareto-optimal thing, which I get. (Of course, the same argument could apply to...oh, I don't know...border security?)

But saying the air needs to be dirtier, because it'll make kids healthier in the long-run is a far cry from "the air needs to be dirtier because it's too expensive to keep it really clean", which is the Pareto-optimum argument.

Y'know, it just now hit me that's a pro-vaccine stance the fellow's. Anyone got an idea of if the critter is at least not an anti-vaxxer, or is it just the Nth case of blatant doublethink?

Though re: arsenic, don't we have a couple things we normally eat that has trace amounts? Apples or almonds or something like that? Would think that would be a potential testing/observation venue without the small problem of having to go through the whole "convincing the ethics board to let you feed people arsenic" thing.

... yes, yes, come in and wish that the major discussion point for the last few pages gets screwed over.

Condolences to your regular reading failure, but it'd be real nice if mod compatibility didn't get broke yet again any time soon.

And in today's episode of medium world dungeons gone wild,
Why you go so far that way, dungeon? I'm going to have to dig holes to you to farm worth a damn if I don't get access to teleporters before the point I have reason to farm.

Also yeah, once the initial resource hump is over it's pretty smooth sailing. Think my limit's either 400-ish or double that, finally, so my everything is now in the box and I've got a while before I have reason to do much upgrading.