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I could, or I could drag her into the game's bonus dungeon death pit and let the good times roll until she stops dying. Drop farming's pretty pointless in this'un and characters get the xp-y junk whether they're breathing at the end of a fight or not, soooo...

It may. I'm pretty sure what did it for me was the crab mount, which gives some serious underwater scoot. Don't think I even brought it up, just hollowed out some extra space in the water.

Incidentally, finally double checked how you get the thing, heh. Turns out it's not a drop, but something a new NPC sells. If you're interested in giving it a try and haven't done it yet, build up a jellyfish reactor (aquatic bars + coral; you're way past the point it's a problem to get those) and go call up the queen jellyfish. Murder that and the diverman will show up, who sells the crab claw that provides the mount. It does make your hitbox a bit bigger, but again, it gives you some very much notable speed underwater, which makes dodging more feasible.

... I Ship It was playing over the walmart intercom/music things today.

Can't say I ever expected to hear that particular song playing in a southern rural walmart.

Hey, he's not wrong. It is worse. They're not inventing as many stories as they usually do about ruddy anything.

Or at least that reading isn't. There's at least three other things that worse could be aiming at. Belief numbers lower or higher, invented stories higher.

... probably some other ones, too, but the wake up haze has dissipated enough to remind me it's one in the goddamn morning, sleep lasted less than an hour, and I really don't have to deal with some shitfuck on twitter that's less capable of clear writing than a drunken philosophy freshman.

Also I say that with authority. I tend to avoid folks drinking but I've still been around drunken philosophy freshmen before. Seen some folks that couldn't walk straight and wouldn't know concise if it hit them with a brick put together a less ambiguous statement than that. Senile ratfink bastard.

I mean. I guess? But did it actually make much of a difference? Last I recall most of the effort over there really just kinda' ain't the US doing it, and at least at the mo' I can't remember any mention of those loosened rules really doing jack all of note since trump's verbal diarrhea washed the shit to shore.

@red, cause to hell with quoting on this damn tablet: Less risky loans fuck over a lot of less than rich people if it goes too far, and I'm pretty sure actual hard caps are past that point. It ain't particularly the banks that get screwed from that. Maybe make a bit less money, but that only hurts them in a very relative sense. You'd certainly be getting lenders with more reliable borrowers, but mostly because there'd be noticeably less of them, and not in a good way.

Also pretty sure there's other ways to go about debt control and mitigation that gets the effect you're looking for without the same level of economic fuckery landing on the backs of folks that really don't need to be dealing with that shit right now. Probably want rate limits which (functionally if not explicitly) exist in most places, better venues for challenge or annulment when shit goes too far, etc. More focused strike at a problem instead of drunken hammer to the entire economy.

Eh, bankruptcy, debt annulment and selling. The whole collecting thing. It's not eternal, usually, and there's a bucketload of disincentives for it to go the debt slavery route these days. More or less indefinite being there's mostly for bonds and long term investments and whatnot, iirc. Practically, there probably is a sort of societal/economic soft cap. Hell, want to say tracking that sort of thing is important for economic prediction making, canary in coal mine style.

You could cap it at something but I think folks decided it'd be less effort letting that bit be and sticking exceptions for cases of import. Also screw a bunch of people (mostly the person after the loan, rather than the one giving it) over to have that sort of hard debt cap, since the possibility of it extending that far is one of the ways lenders mitigate risk... weren't there, and you'd probably be seeing much smaller loan caps and more stringent barriers to access, if I'm recalling the interaction correctly. Some of that is good, but too much strangles a lot of potential inroads for starting business and crap.

Bad juju on the economic front, basically.

Oh. Uh, yeah, for some of the late game thorium stuff I'm pretty sure I already mentioned I ended up cheating like goddamn. Slapped that thing in the face with a twelve inch cheat engine. Not so much the game's fault (... except for the very last boss or two, because good god) or even mine, just my computer and its inability to handle the performance requirements when the screen's lit up like a fireworks display of murder. Reeeeaaaal hard to survive a fight when it's a slideshow and your command input takes a second or two to notice you told it to do things

... that said, as mentioned there are a few things that can do some easement. Mentioned the throwing thing already... even if you can't scrounge up the max-hp damage of transient enemy existence, getting desert dude and the "yes I'd like to triple my damage" accessory can do wonders for dealing with stuff without getting gibbed. Could swear there's a couple other things like that, that can seriously make stuff easier for at least a bit.

Forget how I handled the abyssal, though. Pretty sure I didn't freeze my health for that one, but can't recall how I managed it...