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Yeeeah, but your e-book, with its limited app selection, color capacity and refresh rate, is way less of a functional computer than a tablet would be. It might be at some point in the future, but not right now. To me it's a choice between having a functional book and some sort of inferior untertablet, at least at the moment.

*shakes fist* Reader. My ebooks cannot into programs, unless something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

That said, it's... an android OS, and amazon didn't try nearly hard enough to lock the machine down to amount to much. The app selection's as good as anything mobile is and easily covers everything I actually want to use the thing for, and color capacity and refresh rate I give less than zero complimentary fornications about _{I'm actually not sure why capacity matters at all, tbh. This thing's a fire, not an e-ink machine.} It is less functional than a lap/desktop, but... I don't need it to be that functional. It actually does about everything I'd want to do with a touchscreen, right now. Actually didn't think I'd be as fond of the thing when I got it as I am, now, and probably didn't when it was initially gifted to me, but after a few months of pointedly ignoring amazon and everything it wanted me to do and finagling the thing like a budget pimp in a back alley (and several more of just using the thing, after it was properly broken in) I'm pretty happy with it.

That said, circadian rhythm person above: Thing I use's called twilight. There's other f.lux equivalents, too. Helps tremendously for low-light usability, particularly if you like curling up and reading before you go to sleep. Vis a vis the versus thing, I'm not actually against books (been a bibliophile of limited means most of my life, and still have trouble stopping myself from getting books on the cheap when I notice them), m'just pretty certain digital wins on... basically every front except maybe tactile and durability (and that one's iffy... there's different concerns involved). Like paper well enough but y'know. Library in pocket. All the rest of it's just garnish. It's very difficult to drag a library around with you otherwise, and when you can and often do go through a trade paperback in 3-4 hours or less, you kinda' need a library :V

Plenty of ereader stuff has a backlight these days, anyway. And many of them also have f.lux equivalents if you prefer something gentler on the eyes.

And yes, they're several metric fucktons more practical, convenient, etc. Not only do I carry a small library around in my pocket these days instead of a book, it can easily read .pdf, .html, and so on, so non-standard format/publishing venues, etc., are easily accessed as well. Power can be an issue but eh.

... also it's an android OS so I'm making this post on the thing and all the other junk involved with such. Do recommend, pretty heavily, so long as you can manage the input et al, anyway.

There's a small handful of nation locked (ish) items, actually. C'tis has 'em, ferex, and beyond ragha you could make a half-hearted argument that some of the reanimation nations do, too, since the boosting amulets only work for specific corporeal undead (not manikins, not incorporeal ones, etc.). Pretty sure one of the UW nations got some kind of jellyfish stick or somethin' relatively recently. Probably some I'm forgetting, heh.

None that start with them, though, which is a thought. It'd probably be hell and a half to balance for anything outside of fairly specific scenario setups.

As for rag's one, I've forgotten exactly how it works too, but I haven't forgotten it being kinda' useless. Something about the only thing that can equip it just not being very impressive, iirc, or at least not particularly suited to what bonuses the item gives.

... so is secundus pathos's great-something grandparent, or just the name it took before the internet?

Eheh. Glad it helped, and yeah, it can be easy to overlook finesse on a rogue. Between some of the more common rogue inclined races having it naturally and it being as thematic as it is for the class forgetting you don't actually have it by default isn't terribly difficult. Can be hard to remember there's actually strength build rogues that neither want nor need the feat out there some days, heh.

TIL that Heaven is just a scheme by Judeo-Christian God to surround theirself with virile Men.

Thanks for far-improving my religious headcannon, thread.

Hey, the turn the other cheek bit can be interpret as divine command to full monty folks. Streaker J gets things done, good gasbug.

When you need to accelerate your sword to a significant fraction of C in order to kill someone with it, it's not a very good sword.

Need is not necessary, good fellow. Sometimes you make a city destroying oddly labelled butter knife not because you must, but because you can.

Though in either case, not accelerated. They who demeans the mighty blade moniker of excessive loaf annihilation get naught but a tilting and the inevitability of a tryst between gravity and several tons of an indeterminate metal.