I absolutely despise this and am off to share this with friends.

Gonna need to see your interpretations of gumbo members as xcom soldiers

Yeah this is just bizarre stuff. Like how do the execs convince themselves that this makes any sense?

That's fair. Her boons this time around are all fantastic, but I want more than just one on only some runs!

Yeah that's fair. I feel like the speedrun mentality I go with is "if I die, I die". And I can't turn down Raki's promise of "number go up".

Are you using Strength/Athena/no death defies? I feel like I've been only really using that setup for speedrun attempts, but I could see how deflect and damage reduction are still better on high fear.

The version of this scene from the Koirien Kalevala (taken from here- kirjasahkokayra.blogspot.com/2014/02/koir...)

There are also starter packs, which will have a bunch of folks to follow. For example, this is an nyc indie dev starter pack- go.bsky.app/N3pteUP. If your old mutuals are part of one, you might be able to get them in one fell swoop.

But it's a good 3.