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We may also see the Republicans use their majority to change the rules regarding the filibuster, which is a pretty good outcome in my book. People will yell at them for pulling the ladder up behind themselves, but if the Democrats did it instead the accusation'd stick just as hard.

I'd be pretty impressively surprised if either of them did, tbh, especially if it involved making the things weaker. Wouldn't be pulling up the ladder behind 'em, it'd be shooting themselves in the foot in another 4-8 years, possibly less.

... mind you, it happening still wouldn't make me lose sleep or anything out of shock. If we've learned anything over the last handful of years it's that congress has the collective foresight of a headless chicken.

There's not really a basic attack, per se, iirc. Just starting skills, one of which is usually no CD and scaling off your class's native primary stat(s). You can swap 'em out if you feel like it without much effort, heh.

... probably get a chance to swap something else in within a few rooms, really. So long as you didn't just remove the last offensive ability you had, anyway.

... extra content is only so compelling when it takes like a month realtime to see any of it, ehehe. I haven't really sunk into mobile games, much, but I've poked at a few dozen and... timers usually just mean I binge for however long the initial glut lasts and the uninstall the thing 'cause I ain't waiting a week to see the next layer of whatever. Functionally ain't a difference between a game with sparse content you burn through in a day and a game with profuse content you only see a day's worth of, yeh?

Totes is a potentially pretty substantial opportunity cost, though, having to stop and do something else. Not all time is equal. Sometimes only being able to put in, say, an hour in a day means the player is only going to be able to touch the thing once every four or five days at most. Ain't met too many folks in my life that's going to put up with that, in most cases. Game'd have to be a hell of lot more unique and well made than almost any of the sorts of game that uses timers/energy have managed to date to pull something like that off, heh.

FFT-style wise, Devil Survivor was pretty nice, iirc. Forget how lengthy it was, though.

Other stuff... radiant histora was good, from what I played of it.
Infinite space is pretty neat; there's a bit of an LP of it lurking somewhere back in play with your buddies.
Knights in the Nightmare is also neat, if you can/once you wrap your head around how to play it.
I personally enjoyed what I played of Black Sigil... battle system was pretty nice for what it was and the writing/plot cracked me up. Iirc a common criticism of it though is old school encounter rates, heh.
The Super Robot Wars thing (Endless Frontier) is... is. Kinda' fanservice-y, but interesting combat, fairly well written/amusing dialogue despite it, etc., etc.
If you feel like wrangling fan translation stuff, Soma Bringer is a pretty neat action RPG thing, I believe. Never got very far into myself, but still. There's actually a few other NDS games that got unofficially localized, heh. Sands of Destruction is another one on that front... again didn't get very far into it, m'self, but what I saw was intriguing. Also heard pretty good things about 7th Dragon.

Echo etrian odyssey. I actually kinda' enjoyed what I played of the ones I did play, and I kinda' despise that style of first person dungeon crawler.

That's a handful off the top of my head, anyway. Bunch more I forget at the moment (it's a quarter past midnight ) and haven't been mentioned so far, too... DS actually has a fairly killer library even without getting the 3DS involved, imo, if a fair amount of stuff that didn't get much attention despite being pretty ruddy solid games. Will say most of the stuff I didn't get very far into had a lot less to do with the games themselves than personal attention span and hardware issues. Stuff I didn't sink much time into mostly wasn't 'cause of the game's quality, heh.

Still ain't exactly terrible, heh. The changes to stuffing parts into things definitely made it more limited, though.

That said, heavy acts are fairly functional in GH2 providing the melee weapon you're using is throw/return. It still boosts those, and they're significantly more functional in space. If it's actually just melee, yeah, you probably don't want to bother.

... mind you, with GH2 that's more a statement regarding melee weapons entirely, not just the efficacy of heavy acts in conjunction with them, ehehe.

... all I can add to that is that non-binary attempts at logical systems are kinda' fascinating, to me. Fuzzy logic et al. The whole binary thing has long struck me as a sort of "This is your brain on biology" mess more than something particularly on point, heh. Or at least less capable of being a sort of general use thing... most logic systems are cognizant enough about what they're really doing to be pretty explicit about what they don't (a lot of things) and do (not actually that much) apply to, if you poke at them hard enough to actually get a straight answer, whereas something that's less... rigid? I guess. Might be able to invert that to whatever degree. What I can remember and what little I've paid attention to it recently says we're still not terribly close to it (it's a pretty impressively unnatural, for lack of a better word at th mo', way of thinking for us humans), but it's a nice line of inquiry.

If my brain hadn't started falling apart faster on me like a decade ago I might've been working with that stuff for a living at this point. Ethics, rhetoric, and logic were largely the fields that hooked me the most so far as my academic studies went, heh, and non-binary stuff easily the most compelling of the third. Probably woulda' been pretty interesting, but eh.

... today, I have watched the making of cornbread that involved no corn. No cornmeal. Somethin' else of a similar nature, though I've already forgotten what and am too lazy to get up and go check exactly what it was, but not cornmeal.

Like. I've been around the stuff all my life, but never really liked the taste and didn't get acclimated to it when I was younger 'cause I really didn't like corn, so I never bothered to actually learn how it's made or what can go into it. And now I learn it's basically just fried somewhat coarse(r) flour with a bit of salt. Most of the time checking what goes into your food is a mistake _{(if you like it, eat it and stop wondering what's in it. Things will turn out better that way)}, but this time it's just mild confusion and curiosity as to what exactly it is about fried bread of that particular sort that throws off the taste for me.

Not really enough to start cooking the stuff and playing around with the recipe, 'cause I mostly avoid fried foods in general these days, but... still.