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Hey, your government is at least attempting to look like it's trying to function. Bloody amazing.

... now, I don't know what y'all have jacked those buggers up with, but I'm going to need you to get them to drop some hits on the US congress. Quickly.

CoQ's a RL of the ADOM vein, sure. The mystery dungeon stuff definitely is as well. Generally pretty simplified, but eh.

Gods no to that all, though. Phone/tablet ones, maybe, but you'll have to pry my keypad and hotkeys out of my cold, dead, hands.

Though, of course, trump's lying there, too. There was some shite about a video and an erection floating about some time or another in the past, apparently.

I have memories of banzai buddy, too. I can't speak of them without violating the forum ToS and seeing reality tint red at the edges, but they're there. One of my earlier experiences in having to dig out a piece of software with a jackhammer.

Think it'd depend on how stat progression worked, as well as how explicit the stats were about what they did and how to improve them. Like, if everything else remained the same and the numbers were fairly opaque, I'm not sure too terribly much would change, other than the obvious stuff re:stratification and exploitation (muggers probably get a lot more comfortable if they know they have a few times your physical stats and you have no self defense skill visible, ferex, or scholarships being given out based on stats/skills and their rate of improvement.).

Motivation would be really inconsistent, though. Sometimes knowing you're improving and how much helps keep you interested... other times the exact opposite. Generally some kind of uncertainty on that front is ideal; knowing you're improving, but not necessarily how much or how fast, particularly relative to others. It would also likely screw some folks over hard unless the skills were very discrete -- like, just an "art" skill would likely shaft people that are abnormally good at a specific sort, but bollocks at everything else.

Neurology and theology/metaphysics would see an absolute explosion in funding and study, though, just to figure out what the hell just happened to everyone's brainmeats.

Yeah, I wouldn't try hunting cali's avatars. There's been a few that were very explicitly from porn. Haven't noticed any in the current batch, but I also don't spend too much time specifically trawling through lascivious sheepgirl media.

E: Wait, no, there's still at least one in there.

Goku, namek saga. Pretty sure they can do it through training, too. Want to say the training to near death thing came up in the buu saga, too, with the kids and the chamber.