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I suppose you could make the argument the U.S. is safer if johnson ignores that the rest of the world exists?

Defend all you like. I'll still be cooking the blood out and replacing it with delicious sauces.

*waggles hand* He did sorta' advocate for the republican party line, at least from what I glanced over of the transcript. He just didn't advocate for trump.

Though from what I can tell being an "ideas guy" would actually be fairly antithetical to pence's brand. Doesn't really seem to be what he's been running on.

Eh, it's definitely traditional in some places. Or was, anyway. Used to be pretty easy to find family restaurants and whatnot that had the stuff as a primary dish, at least down here in the south east US and near-ish the coast. And bacon's definitely one of the more common additives, from what I can recall. Never really ate any myself, because you're not getting me to eat shelled sea bukkake, but it was definitely common and historied.

Also those pop things actually sound interesting. Tiny poutine calzones, basically.

Huh. Kneel says the demon light, I guess. Kinda' wondered for a while if it's going to hit a point where islanders just say to sky hell with this shit and leave. Or sky hell says to hell with them and there stops being islanders to consider, anyway.

Then again, I vaguely remember something about relatively cheap/improved geodesic domes starting to propagate a bit, a few years back, able to stand up to some pretty significant winds and whatnot. Maybe they'll just start building differently, at least until the islands functionally sink.

More or less as above. You use the starting gun for a while unless you've got serious trouble, splash magic (20-30 will either bring down cost to around half or 2/3rds, or flatline them, on most guns in the game) if it's really being hard to keep your cash reserves under control, and maybe avoid using/use sparingly the more expensive options you've got on hand until you're in richer areas. Maybe even dig up some gold medals and have a dosh generating weapon set on hand. Also maybe never buy any weapon that's not the 85k junk shop ones. Compo stuff's a bit more useful, but you still want to not for most things... and no books, unless you're just really lazy. The wiki has the same info without the expense, heh. Can also consider just avoiding dex investment, maybe for a while maybe at all -- it does mean more DPS and a more responsive character, but it also means higher costs.

After a bit, the problem will fix itself. Want to say somewhere around submarine or desert is when the money starts rolling in enough you really just don't have to care anymore, heh, save possibly with the really expensive stuff... and you'll be able to tank even those by snowfield or so without that much trouble. Incidentally raking in a few hundred thousand stops being something you have to try to do later in the game.

E: Oh jeeze, I had never really played around with knockback cards before. Particularly when matched with someone with a slow effect. Currently farming the snow 4 boss for a quick card with the computer party... getting the party to the boss room and then going elsewhere while they plink it down. Every once in a while when I check back the boss will be floating around the top of the screen above my doods, occasionally getting juggled straight off the screen. It's pretty hilarious :V

Nonuple arrow with knockback 4 (i.e. 100% chance) and an icicle priest. Is fun, heh.

E2: Ten day edit, but I've got to state for the record that a freeze whipper (currently freeze whip, quick 5, diamond 4 -- agi is 8-10 :3) is rather incredibly satisfying. I just took the pyramid boss with it only getting one attack off. With some snowfield kit and level 71, but still. The priest/magician/whipper/gladiator up a bit has changed up, with the back three usually running full freeze and the glad stronger on the raw DPS (though the magician and whipper still contribute plenty just by dint of sheer quantity of attacks, ahaha). It's bloody nice to wade into a level and everything that comes within a set distance just kinda' stops moving and waits to die.

I think that leaving poverty is not overly wonderful, as you put it, on its own.

Then you've never experienced poverty, apparently, or anything close to it. Either that or you're just bugfuck insane, and not in anything approaching a good way. There's not really a third option, tbh.

Leaving poverty is goddamn amazing, just on its own. If you really can't stop yourself from making the perfect an enemy of the good, you can think of all the human resources that sort of shit would free up to deal with basically bloody anything else. Hint: When you're not in poverty conditions or in threat of poverty conditions, you suddenly find significantly more free time to do things like figure out how to fix other problems, or think for further out than next week when you run out of food and/or money. Even if a lot of it doesn't got to whatever the hell you want things fixated on it's still going to mean more things are in an absolute sense.

Oddly enough desperation is not very conducive to things like long term planning or research. One would think that's something that would be bloody obvious, but, well, apparently here you are.