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Going 10 over the speed limit, at night, in the rain, and still getting tailgated? Drivers are idiots.

That was apparently in a 25 mph zone, 10 over being 35. It's a bastard of a thing getting people to stop going 50-60 through a 35 zone. Rol was lucky the twit didn't roll over the sidewalk or somethin' to pass them.

... in any case, in the continued adventures of Dong, it's now Dong, the man that was Dong's demon cat, and the man that was the ghost of a dead magic ferret that was living inside the magic rock lodged in Dong's hand. Also Dong primary occasionally is turning into a dragon now, because the dragon ape and golden statue thing wasn't enough.

... so anyone noticed the house has shat out its tax attempt? It's almost interesting, as it seems to fuck just about everyone outside of the extremely rich even more so than normal for GOP taxation bullshittery. There's cuts in there for the regular level of folks, but they're a substantially smaller portion of those that get benefits and a number of the deduction removals just kinda' screw over chunks of the working and middle class (never mind full on poor folks).

So far some of the highlights I've noticed, just since goddamn waking up this morning... takes a hilariously massive dump on higher education, to the point implementation could pretty easily cripple R&D on a nation wide scale. Fucks over people that adopt. Blatantly fucks over the parts of the country already disproportionately contributing to our tax coffers. Fucks veterans, killing the deduction that's pretty damn likely to have been a major aid towards getting them employed. Fucks over people with major medical expenses. Swathes of it are farcically tilted towards providing benefit in areas where the majority or supermajority of ownership lies in the hands of the top .01% of the country's earners, and to hell with the rest of us, a net hike on individual payments to marginally offset a massive cut in ones going to various sorts of business entities. _{and yes, I probably should link to all that but it's five in the morning and by the time I'm awake and done with stuff I have to do today, I'll probably have forgotten. It's not hard to scan the news for most of it, though.}

It's like someone took a caricature of criticisms of republican positions on taxation and saw it as a good idea, but not going far enough, and then took out their twirling moustache before deciding which parts to take further.

Heh. That dragon breath conversion weapon actually does pretty cruddy (relative to its general area progression wise, anyway) DPS, iirc. Think its projectile is one of those that interferes with other stuff, which kneecaps total output hard. Was something along those lines. Remember toying around with it for a while and then realizing it was more pretty than good... though it is very pretty. Good illumination weapon in base thorium, can't even lick the feet of a clockwork bow (with something to cause the arrows to glow) or burning sky.

So far as ammo goes... even with ludicrous firing rate, you'll eventually get the means to stack up enough conservation chance you can still use non-endless ammo without much concern. Amusingly enough, though, I actually kinda' dislike the quasar, heh. It's a'ight, but it can be out DPS'd by a monsoon (tsunami upgrade, though that does take killing fishron), as well as a number of other ranged weapons (and we'll not talk about throwing, of course, since a white dwarf setup takes a dump on just about everything until you're getting into jungle dragon territory).

I'd definitely recommend checking out a clockwork bow... pretty sure you can build them with just luminite (and gears). Can't recall if it can actually out damage the quasar, but pretty sure it can get close and the illumination aspect is hard to beat (until you get the burning sky and can cover the screen in fire)... plus you basically don't have to aim. Remember it doing particularly solid damage to providence, since it's best vs. large enemies. Just make sure to comparison check (probably via DPS meter, or some sort of enemy benchmark), as the listed damage on a lot of late game weapons range from useless to outright deceptive, heh. Pretty sure providence drops a fairly nice bow, too.

Also yeah, those 2 slot ember staff things are pretty beastly, as mentioned. Definitely try them and compare DPS meter readings or whatev'. You'll eventually get to see a minion summon that takes a full four slots, ehehe (and is actually good enough it might be worth, and definitely is for at least one).

... in any case, today's number is 4. Four minutes of a zerg potion'd blood moon (mind, this was after 1.5 nights of merely candled blood moon failed) being funneled into my inventory to get a shark tooth necklace to drop. And when I say four minutes of a zerg potion'd blood moon, (fair warning, it's fairly large because I'm too tired to fix the sizing) Got fed up enough with that 1.5 blood moons of no show I decided I needed a zerg arena. Burrowed through the batch of land somewhat leftwards my main I had been using for some boss farming and to deal with invasions.

That line of eyeball banners in the full one is what happens when you eat an entire bloodmoon with a zerg potion going. Potion lasts a little longer than the moon (like 30-40 seconds remaining), but eh. Faintly disgusting amounts of drops trashed aside, I ended up making around three or four hundred platinum by the end of it. Finally got my sharktooth necklace, with two more dropping by the time the sun came up. Waifus hitting for around 1k a hit, projectile wise, birbdragons doing, uh. More. Four slot or not they're pretty monstrous damage wise.

E: Oh, and definitely check any new throwing weapons vs. the mjollnir, doubly so if you actually rock the book/dwarf combo (pretty sure both at least the providence drop throwing weapon and the shadow dagger can out deeps it with that combo). Oddly enough, sexy as the hammer is its damage is kinda' sketchy relative to some of the other stuff roughly where you're tooling around.

Aye, the incredible machine stuff... pretty sure at least some of them still work on modern computers, and if not it's nothing a VM or whatever with an older OS wouldn't be able to handle. Then there's just similar junk. Puzzle games are a dime a dozen, and ones along TIM's style aren't the rarest in the world.

Actually, hell, here. Thought to just check, heh. GOG has 'em, seems to claim it'll work up till win 10.

... well alright then. Previous magnetic sphere line has been kinda' sketchy. The vanilla is the vanilla and it's alright, its first upgrade is sorta' that but a shotgun and it's passable, but 780k HP mothrons don't need okay and passable they need five digit DPS and screen destroying.

And damn. The voltaic climax is five digit DPS and screen destroying. Emits a circle of eight upgunned (current numbers are 202 magic damage, with mythical and some accessories) magnet spheres wherever you're pointing the cursor. Which is, like. Okay? Except A, the cool down is fairly low, B, the individual attacks do not interfere with each other and anything else you might be doing, and C, the only limit to how many you can have out is how fast you fire.

One shot is pretty kickass, but it's maybe not that impressive. I just checked, and at least with my current stuff, if you can maintain the mana, you can shoot ten times before the first shot starts to fade. Which is to say a potentially sustained eighty upgunned magnetic spheres blowing the hell out of anything they can reach or that runs into them.

This. Is the good shit.

... also it's freakishly good at proccing the ethereal talisman's instakill normal enemy effect. Just lays absolute waste to anything that isn't immune to it. This is nice.

Quote from: ChairmanPoo on November 06, 2017, 01:20:17 pm

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So here's a stupid question only partially related to the current conversation from someone who does not remember any of their preschool bible lessons.  In a lot of art like that I see satan with a crown but I never see it ON his head, it's always hovering above his head, or on his horns instead.  Is there some significance to that?

The on horns bit seems pretty straightforward, 'tis a revelations thing. One of the depictions mention crowns being worn like that, so you see more.

Floating one's sketchier, though. Probably just a halo thing in most cases, with an actual crown coming in for ol' scratch 'cause of the various royalty related cruft built up around the critter. Floating crowns in general are also fairly throwaway divinity symbols, either of or of relation to (which a devil depiction could be either, really). Can't remember and couldn't find anything more specific than that.

Rapid pokeabout suggests there's also some kind of habit/artistic flare/etc. of putting floating crowns (or other simple-ish 2D objects) above whatever, mostly just as a contrast to a more detailed work or as a bit of cheek.

Guy was apparently kicked out the military for domestic abuse (that included cracking a stepkid's skull, or something like that).* Haven't seen a solid yea or any on the specifics meaning he was later barred from firearm ownership, but it is possible to get kicked out the military hard enough a lifetime ownership ban is nailed to your ass when they boot it, and he seems to have been in the general region of behavior what earns it.

Anyway. So far as prior indications of violence go, least if what's turned up so far is accurate those were definitely there.

* The particulars are a little more fiddly than that, but it's an accurate enough gist.

The lesser jackass ore* is pretty easy to find both in the jungle, and apparently the spirit ice, if you're hunting it. For reasons I never bothered trying to figure out, apparently bloom slimes (that drop a good dozen or better pieces of ore) like to spawn in the spirit ice. Sees a pretty decent way to build up more than you'll ever need, if for whatever reason you don't feel like digging around the jungle for the stuff.

* Greater jackass ore being perennial. They both take forever to get something able to dig through 'em and particularly with the pink one are bloody everywhere, so for the longest time they're constantly getting in the way if you're digging around. They're jerks.

Perennial's even worse due to the coloration both on the map and on screen, since they're basically identical to certain other ores. Sometimes I dig the damn things out and trash them out of pure spite.