The Ultimate Getaway, right into another time, another place. You can enjoy a leisurely tour through the Bardos, or you might prefer a run through Ancient Rome, or a boat ride down the Nile past ancient temples and rich royal palaces, all exactly as they were, back when YOU lived there and then.
It’s easy to escape from Planet Trump — the MOTIVATION is really there, so the rest of the ride is comparitively easy, just slide out of one reality and into another, simple as that.
You can choose a variety of escape routes from Planet Trump, but all of them are strictly temporary solutions, intended to give some relief to the constant onslaught of emotion tantrums and childish whining.
God, can you IMAGINE what Trump was like in Military School? Or in ANY discipline?
The guy has no control over his thumb, his mouth and his mind, of which he has precious little. Still, he’s doing okay by the standup comedians — giving us LOTS of material.
In fact, everyone’s doing Trump jokes now, so it’s probably time to change, maybe to something like “You know how you stop Canadian bacon from curling in the hot pan? Just take away its broom!”
Or something even less Trumpian, like “In America, you have to win an election to become a Senator, while in Canada, you have to lose one.”
Or perhaps your taste in non-Trumpian humor goes more along the lines of: “A Ukranian guy goes to the Motor Vehicle to apply for a driver’s license, and of course they give him an eye test. The clerk shows him a card with the letters CZWIXNOSTACZ — ‘Can you read this?’ he asks.
“Read it?” the Ukranian replies, “I know the guy personally!”
Okay, that’s sort of Trumpian in the sense that there is some mention of Ukraine, so I’ll stay away from that sensitive subject and go right to: The doctor told me the other day, “I’m prescribing a squiggly line, two slanted loops and something that might be a P or a J.”
Then again, I can still get into my graduation suit, but I’m the only one in my class who actually still has to.
Run away, hide, find somewhere to go. I’ll be retreating into folk and blues music this afternoon at 4:00 pm, and you should, too.
Throughout the night, I retreat into a variety of escapes, one of which is Second Life, another of which is Godd™ Engine work, and a third option is of course Diablo 2.
Last night, I spend most of the night getting the waypoints in Hell up to the Outer Cloister, with my solo Level 70 Trap Assassin.
Traps are basically lightning, and in Hell you’ll often run into an entire level and sometimes the first three levels, entirely population with exactly that immunity that counteracts what you consider your primary weapon.
There are several simple solutions that won’t cost you.
First of all, you need to get the waypoints for Cold Plains and Stony Field. Between Blood Moor, Cold Plains and Stony, you should be able to find a place where you can play and at the same time keep your merc alive.
It’s tricky, when your merc blasts right over to something unkillable, so make sure you’re fighting in an area where there are no total immunes, and of course no immunes tuned to your particular frequency, such as “lightning”, “fire”, “cold” and physical damage.
In some not particularly rare cases, you’ll find some creature that’s immune to absolutely everything. Just re-cast another game and forget it.
If you want to practice your Baal Runs, try running them in NORMAL, even though you’re playing a Hell character. You’ll get a better sense of the timing, and you’ll figure out how to get to the Throne Room faster with a bit of repetition, like maybe fifty times in a single sitting.
Want to level up the safe and easy way? Do Baal runs in Nightmare or Normal. You will level, albeit painfully slowly, although you’ll have the advantage of seeing the most miserable drops from Baal in NORMAL.
NORMAL doesn’t give great drops. On the other hand, there is no Experience Points penalty for dying in NORMAL, whereas there is, in both NIGHTMARE and HELL.
Gosh, gotta dash!
See You At The Top!!!
gorby