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It's my understanding that none of that will prevent him from running, it might even help him among his crowd.

There is extremely few things that can prevent any american citizen of applicable age from running for president. Nothing trump's been indited for is among them.

Trying to run a presidential campaign from a jail cell or while dealing with multiple criminal trials is something of a difficult thing to manage, though. He's almost certainly locked in for the primary if he doesn't drop out the race or literally die, but there is precious little chance he'd do anything but get drubbed in the general trying to campaign under those conditions.

... would that make the male a dullacock?

Would. Would it float? Do you sharpen the heads of dullacock to make them evolve?

e: no, i get it, if you sharpen the dullacock head calcutta grows chicken legs and becomes cockcutta, it's like some kind of baba yaga house thing except undead pokemon expies

this works less well considering calcutta apparently changed its name a couple decades ago and no one told me, but whatever

grind their bones to make your... breard?

For some reason that portmanteau is mildly discomforting to even look at

Hey, maybe they've figured out a way to get those to work really, really hard instead of having a bunch of them...

... or it's talking about a chip from several decades ago or something.

E: In other news, today I learned of pink kryptonite.

now i just wonder if there were kryptonian frogs that survived to be turned gay by pink kryptonite in the water

So... Changeling vigilante who targets murderers while wearing the faces of the victims that were killed.

I think the concept could have some merit. Could even tie it in as a side plot thingy by luring the party in with talk of undead activity being spotted... But of course the only people who have seen these "undead" are themselves killers, and probably not too keen on revealing why/how they know the "deceased".

I've seen that in writing before, somewhere or another. Can't even a little remember where, but it's a concept someone thought was good enough to publish.

Traditional solution to mouse disposal is nearest garbage can or cat.

I don't think I've ever seen a mousetrap used that had the mouse survive the experience, though. Catch and release would be kinda' weird, chucking a dead/crippled mouse out your door. At least nudge it towards something that's going to eat it, sheesh.

Yeah, I'm starting to feel all that. Been doing a run or two with a psiblade pugilist build again, and I'm killing everything easy peasy. No competition. And then some rando monster comes 'round a corner and manages to score a single lucky hit, suddenly one-shotting me for 1.5k HP. Never mind hundreds of armour from repulsion or anything else for that matter.
It is a bit silly at this point. But it's been a good twenty hours or so of surprisingly well-crafted fun.

Yeah, high cycle you have to be a lot more deliberate in how you move, basically, even if you're mulching everything you touch. Corners are the devil, heh (any of the stand-still-do-damage hats are really helpful for this, incidentally, as it gives you an easy way to see if there's something back there), and any personal HP count below like 2.5-3k is functionally irrelevant, might as well be 1 hp 'cause you're still in 1-shot range. It's one of the places in the game you can really notice the traditional roguelike influence in it, because it's definitely willing to blow you up if you move wrong.

The defensive stats are interesting things that are way, way better tuned for low-cycle runs (which, in fairness, is explicitly what the game's balanced around -- the dev is building this thing for 1st cycle, everything after that is just for fun, not reasonable design), because they've all got an unmitigable 10% chance to fail. Low cycle, not much is going to be both reasonably able to get close to you and able to blow you up with a 2k+ hit, so that 10% failure chance isn't much of a "your run ends" 10% chance.

High cycle, though. High cycle it is. High cycle, defensive stats are a roulette that might get you through the game but you're pulling the trigger every time something with a hit stat higher than your HP takes a swing at you, and there's going to be lots of things with a hit stat higher than your HP. You can usually play around it, barring a remarkably terrible spawn, but building around it is somewhere between difficult and impossible. Not relying on just one of them reduces the chance something rolls a 90 and invalidates it, but it never entirely removes it.

So for the folks that have been playing, since I haven't seen any explanation in the playthrough I've been watching...

... does the game ever explain where Zelda picks up the hyrulean prison ink, and who she killed in the process of getting it? 'Cause teardrops like that are known as a sign you've murdered someone, and I've been wondering who she offed ever since they showed up. She didn't start the game with the things, so it had to have been picked up in the past at some point.