Bay 12 Games Forum

... I think this may be one of the few times I've actually reached the point I was winning a game so hard it was making it hard to play.

Siralim 2. Mentioned somewhere or another a cerebus recursion loop thing, which I've been continuing to refine in starts and stops, that basically makes so when one of my creatures attacks (or is forced to attack by one of the other's spells) it pretty much doesn't stop attacking until everything on the enemy team is dead, buried under a recursion loop of face punching and magical armageddon. Problem is, well. It doesn't stop. Which may mean it's several dozen, several hundred attacks before the enemy team actually dies. And, uh. That takes time. It takes a lot of time. It takes an annoying amount of time. It's actually getting frustrating that this thing's kicking so much ass the biggest roadblock I'm having at the moment is how long it takes to kill an enemy that is getting its face smashed by an unending torrent of pain.

I don't encounter this very often, where the mechanics of victory is actually sapping my enjoyment out of said victory. I get bored and whatnot, sure, but... not like this. Not like this. Still love the game, but it's looking increasingly like I need to retire the dog of literally infinite annihilation and see about building some other nightmare orgy of death. Just... just not the mark 2 dog of literally infinite annihilation, that is in fact a bird of even more literally infinite annihilation and its five bird friends of mutually recursive omnicide. Which is kinda' a shame, because the BoEMLIA and FBFoMRO would be even more awesome than the DoLIA, which is itself approaching too awesome to actually play.

All wrong. A hundred locals going into the desert on horses and a hundred different locals coming out on camels.

And then you look behind you, and there's a hundred heads rising out the sands, sinuous tongues tasting the air and hunger in their stare.

BAD END

I'd be more concerned about what the non-locals are riding out of the desert on, myself.

The sudden dying does look maybe accurate, checking around a bit. Seems sorta' like it's likely to be caused by treating them poorly or ignoring illness, primarily -- the rider basically doing stuff to them that causes their body to go into shock and stop working. Also looks like horses will keel over and die to similar treatment, though, and have all sorts of pretty substantial disadvantages in low-water terrain. And camels still have plenty of signs you're pushing them too hard, they're just, y'know. Not the exact same ones horses have. Do seem a bit less expressive, so maybe the horses giving more obvious signs are accurate, but other than that, it's... fairly bad advice. And a fairly deceptive description of the way of things besides.

Guess what it comes down to is they look like they can go from standing to dead pretty quick, but there wouldn't be anything unexpected about it unless you were a blind idiot that has no idea how to take care of your animal, and even in that case the only one that would be surprised is you. And anyone else similarly impaired, I guess.

And they only stopped doing that because at some point, taking hostages became a sure-fire death sentence. It was a policy detrimental to the hostages in short-term, sure... but in the long-term, the constant hostage-taking spree has been stopped.

Why can't we do the same thing with these people?

There's been some pretty major changes in the nature of communication and the available relevant infrastructure since then, serg. That'd be why similar actions aren't getting similar results. Twenty, thirty years ago the chances of hearing about the results of a kill-the-hostages-too was much smaller and the likelihood of it actually seeing much dispersion even if anyone did hear about it was slim to none. The political cost and knock-on consequences weren't nearly as large. Nowadays? Things ain't like that anymore.

I'd ask to join in, but I think every update for the last while as made my computer like terraria less. Thing runs fine for maybe 10-15 minutes and then performs increasingly worse, heh. Especially when there's much of anything happening on the screen. Main character's actually kitted out mostly so I don't have to aim at anything and half-way don't even have to move to keep most expert/hard mode enemies off of me. Dragon, spores, hatchet, stand, etc., etc.

Trump does have a legit (YMMV legally) reason to get it out of the way though.

Got that backwards a bit, heh. It's legally legit, because settlements generally are. If someone drops charges the charges are dropped, usually regardless of whether the person charged actually did it or not.* Whether it's legitimate on other fronts, that's a bit more questionable. It's definitely on the sketchy side of ethical, at the very least, trying to weasel your way out of admissions of guilt rather than let the court decide. Common, particularly among less ethical businesses, though.

*This is one of the ways a number of domestic abuse or rape cases never make it to court, by the by. Critter can be guilty as sin, but if the victim won't press charges or drops them part way through the trial et al process there's not much legally that can be done.