Let's Play X-COM: UFO Defense!
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I believe Academia and myself will drink to that.
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You're not required to pass a sobriety test to pilot the interceptors, either.Darmalus wrote:I'm all for hurtling myself at high speed in a flying device built by someone who can't pass a sobriety test at any point during the day, sign me up!
Because seriously, who would climb into one of those things sober?
X-COM: Defending Earth by blasting the shit out of it.
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Writers are people, and people are stupid. So, a large chunk of them have the IQ of beach pebbles. ~fgalkin
You're complaining that the story isn't the kind you like. That's like me bitching about the lack of ninjas in Robin Hood. ~CaptainChewbacca
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Lord Revan
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I think we have 1 pilot who does that, but he's clinically insane so it doesn't matter.Peptuck wrote:You're not required to pass a sobriety test to pilot the interceptors, either.Darmalus wrote:I'm all for hurtling myself at high speed in a flying device built by someone who can't pass a sobriety test at any point during the day, sign me up!
Because seriously, who would climb into one of those things sober?
or was that me and transport, damn cybernetics are messing with my memory.
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Newly Deployed: Muton Annihilator: Appears Sufficient. Suggest Immediate: Firepower Upgrade.
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According to Starbound, it's a problem solvable with enough combat drugs to turn you into the Incredible Hulk.
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Well, I'm a teatotaller. Not sure if it doesn't qualify under the "clinically insane" label, though.Peptuck wrote:You're not required to pass a sobriety test to pilot the interceptors, either.Darmalus wrote:I'm all for hurtling myself at high speed in a flying device built by someone who can't pass a sobriety test at any point during the day, sign me up!
Because seriously, who would climb into one of those things sober?
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You willingly, knowingly, and not under the influence of alcohol or any other drug, climb into a hypersonic aerospace craft built by the lowest bidder and take it into mortal combat with something that can carve wet-naval battleships up like oversize reinforced tin cans?PeZook wrote:Well, I'm a teatotaller. Not sure if it doesn't qualify under the "clinically insane" label, though.Peptuck wrote:You're not required to pass a sobriety test to pilot the interceptors, either.Darmalus wrote:I'm all for hurtling myself at high speed in a flying device built by someone who can't pass a sobriety test at any point during the day, sign me up!
Because seriously, who would climb into one of those things sober?
You're not just sober, you're knurd - a few drinks short of sobriety. And on a new level of clinical insanity. First, there was the DSM-IV. Now, we need the DSM-PEZOOK.
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Heck, I pilot those tanks by remote control and even I need to be sufficiently drunk to fight xenos scum!
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hey I'm just clinically insane, but then again I only talk to aliens we hold captive, excuse me, I have some greys in a stress position I need to talk with....
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Only the insane are strong enough to prosper. Those who prosper define insanity.
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man iz a thread sapnning the abyss between zee beast and zee superman. (shoves cybernetic right hand down to avoid making a politically incorrect salute.)
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sanity is for the weak?
I may be an idiot, but I'm a tolerated idiot
"I think you completely missed the point of sigs. They're supposed to be completely homegrown in the fertile hydroponics lab of your mind, dried in your closet, rolled, and smoked...
Oh wait, that's marijuana..."Einhander Sn0m4n
"I think you completely missed the point of sigs. They're supposed to be completely homegrown in the fertile hydroponics lab of your mind, dried in your closet, rolled, and smoked...
Oh wait, that's marijuana..."Einhander Sn0m4n
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Okay, I know it's late in the game, but if there's any opening in the ground troop department, could I get in on that? Any position, doesn't matter.
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God-dammit. Now I have to go find my X-com disks, a Floppy drive, and Dosbox. Curse YOU!
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Well, since the thread was necro'd, a status update might be useful.
I've been meaning to work on an update, but that last Muton base assault basically Falcon Punched me in the crotch. 75% of the team was regularly killed within the first two turns by Blaster Bombs. I finally ragequit after the whole team was slaughtered like that about fifty times over, and I can't even look at my X-COM folder without feeling a brutal sense of crushing despair.
But I shall fight on! I will post another update, sometime this year!
I've been meaning to work on an update, but that last Muton base assault basically Falcon Punched me in the crotch. 75% of the team was regularly killed within the first two turns by Blaster Bombs. I finally ragequit after the whole team was slaughtered like that about fifty times over, and I can't even look at my X-COM folder without feeling a brutal sense of crushing despair.
But I shall fight on! I will post another update, sometime this year!
X-COM: Defending Earth by blasting the shit out of it.
Writers are people, and people are stupid. So, a large chunk of them have the IQ of beach pebbles. ~fgalkin
You're complaining that the story isn't the kind you like. That's like me bitching about the lack of ninjas in Robin Hood. ~CaptainChewbacca
Writers are people, and people are stupid. So, a large chunk of them have the IQ of beach pebbles. ~fgalkin
You're complaining that the story isn't the kind you like. That's like me bitching about the lack of ninjas in Robin Hood. ~CaptainChewbacca
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See, the challenge would be winning after losing that battle, and writing up the astounding difficulty therein. Could actually be an interesting chapter in this LP. 
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LOL. I love people like you. Go hunt for those disks, boy!MatSci wrote:God-dammit. Now I have to go find my X-com disks, a Floppy drive, and Dosbox. Curse YOU!
Plug in that useless floppy drive!
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Hey man, my floppy drive is still installed. I used to have a zip drive in this thing too.Stark wrote:LOL. I love people like you. Go hunt for those disks, boy!MatSci wrote:God-dammit. Now I have to go find my X-com disks, a Floppy drive, and Dosbox. Curse YOU!
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puh-lease it's ungodly cheap on Steam, which includes dosbox.MatSci wrote:God-dammit. Now I have to go find my X-com disks, a Floppy drive, and Dosbox. Curse YOU!
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It's also over at Direct2Drive for the same price. I think Gamer's Gate also has it.
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I want to hear more about kicking ass like I did back on page 25.
Or was I plastered to a wall somewhere and I didn't see? At either rate, tea-bagging, for great justice!
Maybe I need to pick this game up.
Or was I plastered to a wall somewhere and I didn't see? At either rate, tea-bagging, for great justice!
Maybe I need to pick this game up.
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Arise from the dead X-COM, we've still got work to do!
Vendetta wrote:Richard Gatling was a pioneer in US national healthcare. On discovering that most soldiers during the American Civil War were dying of disease rather than gunshots, he turned his mind to, rather than providing better sanitary conditions and medical care for troops, creating a machine to make sure they got shot faster.