I Want To Get Off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
toskarin
toskarin

the 2010s were crazy because every other year someone would reinvent a SaGa game seemingly without knowing a SaGa entry did their game's central gimmick first

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not even exclusively a western thing, a few japanese games did this too and it was like.. well you can't dock points for getting featuresniped by SaGa, they did so much weird experimental shit that you wouldn't see again for like a decade minimum, it's the exception

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when I explain the meat mechanic in SaGa 3 to someone who doesn't already know about it, they usually (understandably) assume I'm fucking with them, because why would that be a feature

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lumsel

David McBride is I think the funniest whistleblower in history, in a very dark sort of way.

Military lawyer David McBride is mad that the SAS keeps getting "wrongfully accused" of war crimes. He thinks the whole thing is all trumped up political bullshit and the investigations into them are illegal. The boys out there are just doing their jobs, but the top brass keep breathing down their necks casting aspersions on them.

He gets in touch with investigative journalist Dan Oakes to try and get his story out about how awful their treatment has been. He hands over a trove of classified military documents to support his case.

Dan Oakes takes one look at these documents and goes what the fuck. these guys are doing insane amounts of war crimes.

Oakes releases a bombshell article 12 months later about war crimes in Afghanistan, making a compelling case that they should be investigated harder over their conduct, essentially the exact opposite story that McBride wanted him to write.

The Australian Federal Police work out pretty quickly that McBride was the one who leaked those files to the press, and he flees to Spain for a time but eventually returns to Australia and is arrested. He faces time in jail for leaking the files.

Fortunately for him he also finds a trove of supporters. They help raise money to pay his legal fees and protest to raise awareness of the miscarriage of justice held against him. Unfortunately, this support is mostly predicated on the premise that he bravely risked it all to spread the word about the horrible crimes the SAS had been committing. He would prefer to correct them about this, but he is not really in a position to refuse their help.

It is something of an awkward situation.

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Anonymous asked:

hello toskarin. i am enjoying Elin so much but I keep townmaxxing and crafting at an early level, and not progressing such with nymelle. can you please seduce me with allure of what the main dungeon could unlock for townmaxxing

toskarin answered:

if you do the town questline, you unlock an npc who can duplicate food you cook, including its blessing status, allowing you to make one really good dish and then simply duplicate it to level skills. he can also duplicate furniture you craft to the same end, meaning you only need to make something once to have more of it

you also get a second free town from this storyline and an npc who can duplicate spellbooks for you

that being said, it’s good to get your town in order. it’s basically half of your character and represents the supply chain behind them. you won’t be able to (for example) reliably produce ice/fire blankets without a good town