The Dog Stars by Peter Heller is a beautiful book , for all its postapocalypse setting . And The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Charon is my forever favorite emotional roller coaster . <| sep |> How were the census ' of Native American populations done in the 15 th 17 th centuries ? How can we be so sure that they have achieved preColumbian estimates ? <| sep |> I remember shit as far back as being 4 years old . Like almost drowning one time . <| sep |> It ' s quite telling that the right wing rags aren ' t calling for the banning of the publications which radicalised him . One would normally expect them to be screaming it on the front page , but then they ' re responsible so perhaps not . <| sep |> The story for those who don ' t know , Ironman Challenge is a challenge where you have to get to max level without dying and in graywhite gear etc Full rules here IronManRulesArmory for reference ringLosthersimpleSo I was questing in Zangarmarsh after putting a ton of time into my priest , and at level 66 I got killed by a quest monster with two adds . The whole fight was nothing special apart from what I experienced earlier in Zangarmarsh , average hits of 300 were okay for a priest to mitigate with Power Word Shield , Smite absorb and occasional heals , but then , in a split second , I was dead . Daggerfen Servant melee hit you 1869 physicalChieftain Mummaki Melee hit you 2063 physicalDaggerfen Servant melee hit you 86 physicalWhole combat log pic you can see , their damage was mixed with my DoT damage on them three swPains , shown as little Atonement heals here and the three attacks happened without any dot proccing or any of my damaging abilities dealing damage , believe me it was instantaneous . I believe it must have been a bug where monsters normally hitting for 250300 suddenly all at once deal over 1800 damage per hit with normal attacks 6 times more than usual ! only the Chieftain has an damage dealing ability Backstab but he didn ' t use it through the fight . I ' m trying to contact a GM to change my deaths count in statistics from 1 to 0 so I could continue participating , and I know GMs did change that for other challengers in very rare occasions but . it just feels completely soulcrushing being taken away what I worked for just by a dumb bug , and I wanted to share .