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People can usually guess who did it however...

I wish those spells would scale with your magic scales, like if the god of "I have 9 water + ring of water + the booster cape" hits you with a lvl 11 water magic tidal wave, it should hurt more...

Pretty sure some of them do? Have to double check to be sure about anonymous ones (which in complete honesty, I'm not going to do because I don't care nearly enough about the question right now), but there's certainly remote attack spells that scale to some degree with caster power. Usually not much, from what I recall, but some.

Except that's outright and explicitly fucking wrong, smj. Trump lost the popular vote by millions. He was very much disliked by more people than clinton was. The primary reasons he's in office are the EC (I.e. voter placement, not numbers), however many tens of thousands of voters the GOP's bullshit has disenfranchised, and shit like, you know, foreign intervention. What happened damn sure didn't happen because trump was somehow the more liked of the two, because just about goddamn everything we know at this point says otherwise.

Clinton's also been fairly damn forthright about ways she and the democrat party fucked up. There actually has been reconciling from her front, regardless of how much certain segments of our population are set on ignoring or intentionally misinterpreting it.

I'unno about republicanism, but the GOP's elected officials, well. There's an argument to be made, there, these last handful of years. Gets stronger the harder they insistent on trying to make a caricature of themselves

It's definitely a great deal of hostility. Probably sarcasm, too, but it's mostly significantly filtered hostility.

Also note that "just" doing it closed doors is only a portion of how much they're shitting on the legislative process, healthcare legislation specifically, and more or less our entire goddamn country. Shit's pretty much everything conservative politicians have ever accused other segments of the country's political groups of doing vis a vis legislative malfeasance.

Frankly, at this point I'd say the healthcare crap, as bad as everything we can guess is likely to be, has somehow managed to be less of a freaking travesty than how the goddamn GOP is acting regarding it. Could disregard half the shit they're doing and it'd still be one of the most egregious violations of american political mores and procedure in something near or over a friggin' century.

Anywhere underground or below, not in hell or dungeon. There's probably occasionally biome oddities that lead to 'em looking like they show up in one or the other, though.

... well, no, not really balanced like that. Some people have been somewhat more fucked than they would have been pre-ACA, maybe (because it's not quite that easy to say if they wouldn't still have been if things had remained on the course it was taking, or precisely blame the ACA for insurance companies and/or gov't/conservative powers being massive shits about things), but since has been a pretty fucking huge shift from fucked to at-least-less-fucked. Our healthcare system before the ACA was bad enough the ACA is an improvement.

Personal anecdotes can get stuffed, I've been worse off myself after because the conservative politicians in florida are fucking bastards, none of that changes the flat fact the damned thing has been a significant improvement on the net, or that things were bad enough that even with the ACA being constantly and intentionally sabotaged it's still churning out better results. Stateside healthcare still isn't good by a long damn shot, but a couple decades ago it was a friggin' farce.

In any case, what the hell is even going on with this grahm-cassidy nonsense? Senate GOP seems to be trying to be even more craven scumshit than they were with the last attempt, which would almost be impressive if it wasn't an ethical and political failure of unusually large degree.

For some goddamn reason the thing seems to be slated to be seen before the homeland bloody security committee -- which has had precisely zero hearings on healthcare in its history -- and as near as I've noticed since noticing that ruddy nothing else. Buncha' other crap going on I can't be arsed to link to, too. This point I'm half considering actually calling the R senator in florida and asking what the blue hell they think they're doing. Normally doesn't seem like much of a point considering who they are, but seriously, what the hell.

Doesn't help much for a while, but just using some of the... mechanic, I think? Their buyable stuff. The junk that you can stick in your inventory and toggle off and on to display wiring and whatnot. Renders traps more or less a non-issue, no potions or item fiddling required.

Though re: trap on an ore node, ehehe. The boulder traps aren't the real kick to the crotch, there. If y'haven't ran into one yet, you'll know it when you see it.

So I'm confused. Very confused.

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Am I having a stroke or something? Or is it reality (and the media) that is confused, not just me?

Strictly speaking, what happened earlier was a declaration of intent to withdraw (and a refusal to ratify or something along those lines) not an actual withdrawal (which kinda' can't happen until 2019-ish anyway). For whatever reason (distraction from the last huzzah attempt to fuck the ACA and our entire goddamn country assuming it's not just, y'know, the president being his normal incompetent and/or insane and/or senile self?) the white house has decided to use that to throw out even less clear signals on the subject than they usually do on stuff. If you're seeing contradictory messages or whatev' it's because, yet again, this admin is producing contradictory messages. Intentionally, by dint of sheer incompetence or some form of cognitive degeneration, who the hell knows.

Basically, reality isn't being confused, you're not having a stroke, and this is just example the Nth of this administration being a piece of shit. Media doesn't quite seem to know how to react, though, that's fairly true. Hard to exactly blame them much considering they're dealing with some wildly inconsistent fuckers so far as WH and its repeatedly shat upon public statements go.