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Oh sure, that's the sort of spin it gets. Still a helluva' thing, heh.

Not to be a downer (because I certainly appreciate the email irony going on), but people got their panties in a twist when they found out Hillary may have sent classified information over an unsecured email account, and then (again, this is what I witnessed) when they found that she absolutely did, and when the Democrat-led administration decided that no action would be taken, it hugely deepened the presupposition that she was an out-of-touch aristocrat who felt herself and her party was above the plebs/deplorables.
 
Politico says there is no indication that Kushner sent classified info, also it looks like it was just him responding to people sending him news articles?

Eh, people got their panties in a twist because people were screaming it was worth getting their panties in a twist about it, more than anything. Account was private, not unsecured, just (mostly?) not secured by department resources. What classified info was involved also involved other folks with clearance, and a near as people could tell, the stuff in question didn't seem to be particularly compromised (and not in the sort of "doesn't seem" our election infrastructure is involved with, where every few weeks someone comes back out and goes, "Hey, remember how we said it was only that bad? About that..."), so on, so forth. It was poor craft, so to speak, but far, far from catastrophically poor.

More, it's not like there's not more than one political figure that did things of near, equal, or worse magnitude on that front, with the same or less consequences for it, and a fucked up different degree of response. Some people might have legitimately been bugnut concerned about the infosec aspect, but it's hella' sketchy that was the primary cause of the response that was.

Any case, the kush thing seems mostly to be about who was involved and things said previously. Already forgot the details of this particular incident, but that lot has been having this thing happen with morbidly impressive frequency where they go "I totally didn't do that/didn't have communication with those people" (sometimes under oath, ha), and then a bit later stuff gets dug up that says, "Uh, no, you totally did, and we have copies or whatev' now."

Basically less a matter of infosec per se and more a matter of shit what we impeached a president for that one time. The emails comparison is probably more of a generalized go-fuck-yourself kinda' thing towards everyone (or at least everyone that's not torch and pitchforking with equal fervor for vaguely similarly or far more meaningful issues) that's been riding the butter, really. After goddamn months of being deluged with those emails, some folks are somewhat tetchy

Fairly sure it was as close to common knowledge as anything of that sort was (considering how tech savvy our population wasn't, even compared to more recent years), actually. People just cared less unless it was actually causing problems, as NFO states in a different manner, heh.

Regardless, calling it a trick learned under cheney is disingenuous as all hell. Sorta' thing's been common with higher level (and/or all levels of) admin for about as long as there's been internet to be used by admin and an IT putting up hoops they don't want to jump through. It's less than ideal, but as black marks go it's not exactly a dark one, especially if the usage has been actually checked and found not to have been a problem in other ways.

Which in clinton's case it was. By swaths of our legislative and criminal systems, as well as silly amounts of the general population. Repeatedly. For months.

... that feeling when you find out someone you're living with went to the hospital at 1 AM, when someone living elsewhere calls for a check in around half past 2. The phone ringing at two in the morning is WTF enough when there's not been hella' bad weather (about the only time that happens normally is when a tornado has touched down and is heading in our town's general direction), but the whole no one tells you family was going to the ruddy ER at a hour past midnight thing is pretty rough, too.

Can sorta' understand part of the why,* but... seriously. Tell people about these things as some kind of step one, bloody hell. Know most of it isn't even remotely intentional, but it's still pretty damn frustrating when folks don't tell you about this kind of stuff

Stroke of luck (?) I had lost track of time playing something, otherwise the call might not have woke me up. Sounds like whatever it is isn't major major, so it's possible I might not have found out about the ER trip at all otherwise.

* The third person in the house is old, it's obviously late/early, and when I went looking for them they were asleep sitting down, the person that actually took 'em was probably distracted and is forgetful about that sort of thing, and friggin' somehow (TVs still on, mostly, I think) the one that went left the house without me hearing the door open.

'Course, you don't exactly need the missouri compromise to tack an element of racism onto the current state of gerrymandering. It's pretty bloody blatant. Can't recall at the moment if it's one of the things the judiciary has specifically told the GOP to knock the fuck off on discrimination grounds, though.

Interesting. Oddly enough, that system looks more to me like Grand Knights History (A PSP game from back in 2011 that got fan-translated a few years back) than Darkest Dungeon. Shared AP pool, grid movement, exhaustion and whatnot post combat... hella' reminiscent.

... fairly sure GKH is pretty obscure, though, at the absolute least outside japanese et al speaking countries. Might be they just incidentally developed inspiration from DD towards the system of a game they'd never heard of, heh.

Moon Lord honestly feels like mostly a dps check.

Duke Fishron is the hardest boss by far IMO, especially on expert. He doesn't take prisoners.

I found fishron to not be that bad, even on expert. Which is a bit unusual 'cause my rig is kinda' shit and beating the late game bosses without cheating is not terribly viable -- chug and whatnot makes it basically friggin' impossible to dodge, and without cheese I think's been fixed, you can't really facetank 'em. Took a couple tries, but actually managed the duke without freezing my HP.

The trick was a few screens worth of asphalt, iirc. It's been a while so I don't remember details, but that much I remember.

E: Though as for the EoC, if you're on the ball all you really need to make it fairly painless is a stack or two of shuriken, and maybe a bit of platform to make some of the vertical dodging a bit more reasonable. Was a while I was finding it fairly trivial to take the thing out without armor at all. Only thing easier is the destroyer once you have a high enough damage piercing weapon, heh.

Eh, doesn't look like there's much of it, and it's mostly fairly tame as the stuff goes. I'd give the internet a pass on this one, it's been gentle.