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*waggles hand* A number of nations have some defensive stuff they can do with retreating, for what it's worth. Return effects and first turn (semi-)permanent spells (curse/disease/affliction induction/decay, etc.), junk like that. Fighting for a turn or two and then dipping can be leveraged pretty interestingly if you've got the right tools. Particularly if you don't really care about whatever chaff troops you might be bringing along... thug squads, disposable mages, SC (lights) moving in packs, that sort of thing, where the important parts of the retreating force don't need a commander to move around. Ideally you use wageless chaff in that case, heh.

Though do remember, if your split army did enough damage those "deserters" + the PD where they land can slow down, stop, or even just redirect that 1 month advance when the PD alone couldn't, well...

... completely incidentally, can someone remind me how/if that suicide bomb spell works with communions? 'Cause thinking on that I just noticed there's a lot of stuff with cheap 1(S/B), and pheonix pyre is only 2F >_>

Console 2D platformer. Genesis console 2D platformer. 99 lives or riot.

... nah, you good. I don't remember what my highs were on the old sonic games, heh.

That, and the reluctance of some Democrats to call a riot a riot.  Consider Baltimore last summer.  There were what, 3 days of rioting?  They stopped the minute the governor sent in the National Guard.

Eh, that's not really a party focused thing, tbh. Republicans are notably skittish about calling stuff like sports riots what they are (or just pointedly ignoring they existed) and pretty quick to downplay/attempt to reframe similar stuff that manifests differently (see that church shooting... a year or two ago? Something like that. Just as one example among many.).

... also very quick to call shit that very much isn't rioting that in order to discredit protesters. There's definitely all sorts of framing issues that have been plaguing american politics for years, now, basically. FTFE, et al.

I wonder if the additional modules actually work with this one. Y'know how Diamond had the three expansions and then a handful of modules that you were supposed to register online to get and then it asked for you to pay for those again?

Yeah, those ones.

Last time I reaquired/reinstalled the game the modules ran fine. If nothing else there's... solutions... of one sort or another around these days.

For what it's worth, it's... probably a good thing. If D4 had easily leveraged comeback mechanics the game could pretty easily end up having match lengths that are just too long to actually play. Considering MP games can already take up a few months without much trouble, if the game was designed so that it regularly got stretched out even further I'd probably wager the player base would just kinda' collapse. Very few people want to get stuck in a game that's unending back and forth. To say nothing of how unsatisfying it tends to be when you win a game pretty much strictly by dint of playing until the other side got sick of keeping things going and quit. Or being on the other side of that, heh.

Saw few seconds of news as I was turning off a TV no one was watching. Apparently tennessee is on fire? Or was recently. 7 dead, many thousands either evacuated or had their houses burnt down or something. Tis the season for wildfires, iirc, but still. I'm hearing about them more this year, apparently.

braingate bci chips have been installed in als and quadraplegic people for over a decade now, and they are designed to sit on the motor cotex of such patients. they have been connected to robot arms, mouse pointers, and all sorts of things.

Oh aye, that stuff's been around for a while. Was talking actual connected-to-nerve-endings whatsit, which we haven't been playing with much, yet, so far as I'm aware. Want to say it was something that didn't need a chip, just... plug and play, for want of a better term. Iirc it was either an arm or a leg, want to say it was japan or somethin' that it happened in. Some kind of fairly notable thing on that side of medtech, anyway. Can't remember much in the way of details and not even remotely interested in going to check, so eh.