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Gun Hazard would be another one (plain front mission was pretty great, too, of course). Then there's the SRW stuff, and a handful of other ones, strategy, rpg, and otherwise. Cyber Knight and its sequel were pretty rad. SNES didn't actually lack that much on the giant robot front, heh.

Mystery Dungeon - Shiren the Wanderer, which has the merit of being one of the few roguelikes to ever hit console, and it's a pretty good roguelike for its time.

Mystery Dungeon games (which are probably the most common console roguelike implementation) actually aren't really that unusual. There's more than shiren on the SNES (the DQ merchant one, ferex, which is also pretty nice), a good handful on the PSX (Chocobo, several more), some on the GBA/DS (Pokemon), and that's just off the top of my head.

There just hasn't been very many officially localized, particularly among the older ones, ehehe.

It's... probably worth noting it is possible to play (some) fan-tranz'd games on an actual SNES. I don't know how it's done, but it's doable. Some of 'em it's not really possible, though.

Also, 7th Saga original english release... don't. Just... don't. The version(s) patched back to the original japanese difficulty are fine, but for whatever reason whoever officially localized that game decided english speaking players needed a screwing.

... I liked the one or two that was basically Angband, the Text-Based Interface. They were actually fairly true to the roguelike, just with some extra stuff added and the whole real-time/multiplayer thing going on. Pretty sure they went under and never came back probably half a decade or better ago, though :V

Thaaat said, sweet goddamn client. Client client client client. Don't self-flagellate yourself trying to go it telnet or just the MUD's command support. Strong alias/macro support, built in notes, the whole north/etc. bound to arrow keys or somethin'. All that stuff. If there's any poor souls out there still trying to go through it alone, take a moment and save thineself because holy hell does even basic UI sanity add tremendously to the experience.

Pretty sure I used to use... MUSHClient? Or something like that. The one with the yellow icon, if my memory's working right. Was pretty nice _{also the only one I could really get to work worth a damn at the time, so...}

Eeyyuup, that'd be it. Thanks, heh.

The worth is pretty proportional to the amount of spite you have in your heart, I find. You have to make the decision whether ruining part of the map is worth that extra real time investment. If nothing else, you can always take those last few turns and use them to tear down your buildings and pillage your lands, so as to give your aggressors little but wasted time and a great deal of unrest to deal with :3

... seeding as much of the map as possible with high stealth (servants) bane venom carriers is pretty great, too, when you've got the death access and gems for it. Even if you don't win, if you can make someone else lose it can be a moral victory, heeheehee.

... beyond habit, it's mostly just a matter of convenience, to me. I don't live in a house of nudists, so walking around without clothes isn't exactly kosher and sleeping without means another step between getting out of bed and doing something else. House coat of some sort would be a least-step, I guess, but I like to let those hang loose when I wear 'em so... yeah. Regardless, it's a step I can avoid by just... wearing something when I sleep. Shirt, underwear of some sort that can double as housewear, that sort of thing. Also means I mostly only really have to bother with paying attention to clothes when I shower (or go somewhere, I guess, but I usually shower before I go places, so...), which is yet another thing-I-don't-have-to-deal-with.

Times I've tried in the past it was pretty uncomfortable, anyway. Heat, clothes help keep the sticky off the skin, there's this whole... environment thing that likes to stick things places clothes stop things from sticking, that still exists in most houses. So on, so forth. Maybe if this state had some kind of in between season where it wasn't cool enough to warrant something but not humid enough light clothing doesn't make things better, it'd be more enticing, I'unno.

The secret to knockoff brands is to add more cheese. So long as that cheese is not velveeta. Some bloody how velveeta cheese is straight up the worst cheese I've found for adding to other foods. I've had stuff that claimed to be imitation cheese (I still don't know how that worked) that did better than velveeta cheese. Your standard american "looks like orange plastic, tastes like something trying to be cheese" cheese improves flavor and texture more. So on and so forth.

Actual kraft brand M&C's mostly meh to me, these days. Would rather get offbrand and go from there. Tastes better, probably still costs less with the additives >_>

It's an interesting thought though because I wonder how productive people were back then compared to now?

We have people working in similar conditions today. They produce cheap goods, usually, and sometimes turn a better profit for the company, but their productivity is usually pretty shit per worker and you might not be able to get even half the working lifetime out of 'em. We've seen a fair few number of studies and whatnot showing that by and large better treatment and conditions means a worker that is going to work harder for you, do better, stick around longer, and be less likely to do something that screws you over (sell corp secrets, whatev'). They cost more, but it's pretty common the better output outweighs said cost.

If you're not caring about variables or technology advances or whatev', the answer is we curbstomp them into the ground then run their businesses out of town and dance on the corpses of their CEOs, though. Productivity (particularly efficiency, often enough in straight up raw units) has not stopped growing pretty much anywhere, in almost every industry. We're really damn good at making shit these days, been getting better for a long time, and show plenty of signs we're still not going to stop any time soon.

Though yeah, close to nothing has been pure capitalist, full on free market damn the guns, for a long time. Mostly because systems that try tend to collapse like a wozzname in short order, either into another system or just outright. Unfettered capitalism in the vast majority of markets is a riotous and thoroughly unpleasant orgy of incredibly unbalanced market forces followed by no hangover because everyone involve died. Is bad juju as a rule.