By that logic you should be voting for the book. It is the item most likely to be useful no matter what it is. We're still not certain that these items are magic, and if they're not, the book would easily have been the best choice.
The time for arguments is over.
The dumbfounding part is how many people just accepted that logic. Not a lot of critical thinkers here, I suspect. I can get behind D because seeing as MC has shit charisma, putting in more effort to be in the girls' good books can be rewarding for our social standing, but the idea that last pick is somehow the magic touch of destiny did strike me as pretty odd. It's not like the girls suddenly lose the magic touch of destiny for picking first.
Perception is great and I'm all for raising it, but raising int is unavoidable too. We're making a traps character for once, and that means high int. Jing was already the instinctive type (and pretty much a hunter, given his maniac island experiences) anyway, so I don't see the problem with raising int. I'd rather we became more of an Indiana Jones type. You know, a respectable archeologist.
I still don't see what is supposed to be good about boots. I'd honestly rate the eyeglasses above it since special perception powers or eyelasers strike me as more useful. Only faggots obsess over needing shoes to complement their look anyway. Magic books are usually the best loot we can find in ruins anyway. Even if it's not magic it'll still contain something useful (which is more than can be said for the other items if they're not magic either). I feel this is going to be Yuhe Finger all over again, abandoning the option with the best long-term prospects for short-term gains that we'll outgrow before long.
Ditto. I want the book, I really do, but boots are okay, too. Flipping to B>A A.
Spoken like a man who never went on a ruck march. Comfortable and reliable footwear is one of the most important things a young outdoorsman needs, unless we want blisters on our feet.
I like it.
We know that they are comfortable, for one, and as a professional soldier, I can tell you that this counts for a lot.
Looks like it. We're getting all kinds of stupid flops now.
You're getting a bit carried away there. I know the practical value of a good pair of shoes, especially when you do a lot of walking (the value of good soles should not be underestimated either). But treave only told us that they look comfortable. We haven't even tried them on yet and you're already ascribing all these benefits to them. Besides, if comfort is the concern at hand here, we can just get a nice pair in town, assuming that this CYOA even cares that much about footwear quality. And seeing as MC is a self-sufficient hunter, it wouldn't surprise me if MC knows a thing or two about maintaining his own shoes/boots. This sort of reason honestly reinforces my trepidation about picking boots. The value it presents is nothing special. They're benefits we can acquire just by spending some money, whereas the book is most likely to be a benefit that is hard to come by and the eyeglasses, if they have powers, will likely give us sensory abilities that are also hard to come by. Meanwhile boots will... what? Make us go faster? Move more silently? Jump higher? We can already do basic stealth, and for speed/acrobatics what we really need is to fix our bum leg first. Boots appear to be the most short term in their benefits. We can get comfortable shoes without wasting our pick here, and you know that.We know that they are comfortable, for one, and as a professional soldier, I can tell you that this counts for a lot.
A pair of good, well-fitting boots can prevent things like bunions, corns, hammer toe, ingrown toenails, fungal infections and back problems. Not only that, a pair of good boots also provide protection for the joints of your feet and promote a good walking and running technique.
If we are going for a pragmatic, down-to-earth fella, then a good pair of boots is a wonderful choice. Not my first choice, but not at all catastrophic, so let's not get carried away, yeah?
Acupuncture would have released butthurt by now if it were real.Did I hear Yuhe Finger? Does it make it six years of unceasing butthurt?
Acupuncture is real.
Huh? If anyone is min-maxing here, it's you. Min-maxing is all about overspecializing to a ridiculous degree so you can be a game breaker in some respects while trying to avoid anything that's outside the narrow comfort zone you define for your character. Are you defining min-maxing as "trying to do the smart thing?" Is that what you're upset about?
Nah. Participating in a treave CYOA again with many of the same codexers just has a way of drawing out old memories. You know what I'm talking about. Still, it's useful to bring up shitty votes of the past as a matter of reference. Not like people don't bring up Sphere Diplomacy, and that's even older. Odds are if treave is still doing CYOAs 5 year later, the cow vote will become some kind of reference too.
Some of it is, but a lot of capabilities ascribed to acupuncture are what we politely refer to as "pseudo-science."Acupuncture is real.
