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[Yoink]

Aw.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Almost done with my Art History Project.

[Sirus]

It's my Friday! Day was nice and easy, so that's good.

[Gentlefish]

It's my Friday! Day was nice and easy, so that's good.

New route? How is it?

[Sirus]

Pretty simple. Start in a specific drop yard, pick up a trailer, drive it a few hours, trade with another truck, drive back. Sometimes the traded trailer has to be delivered somewhere in the area before I finish up.

The trickiest part of the route is that the shift starts at noon, and can easily go until midnight or later if things don't go well. Not a problem today, thankfully.

[Pnx]

Been reading a new webcomic. It's called Trying Human, it's basically this story where Roswell greys are real and abducting people, and also there's extremely carnivorous shape-shifting lizard men, that have been known to eat humans sometimes (though I don't think they're supposed to).
So of course the comic is a romance drama about forbidden love shared between these species and humans. Despite the dark overtones, it's honestly pretty silly in that straight faced kind of way.

I love it.

[Xantalos]

Oh god David Icke was right about his shapeshifting Illuminati lizard men aliens that engineered every bad thing in human history while projecting a psychic suppression field from the moon which is really a giant battleship of theirs.

[Putnam]

Checked out my first Dota 2 match.

lol I bought power treads and boots of speed

Even funnier: I bought two sets of boots again second time around

[Pnx]

Oh god David Icke was right about his shapeshifting Illuminati lizard men aliens that engineered every bad thing in human history while projecting a psychic suppression field from the moon which is really a giant battleship of theirs.

And getting into homosexual relationships with teenagers. 

[Vector]

I did not expect to like X-Com quite this much.

[chaoticag]

X-com is pretty fun I think. Both the old and the new. The old one is pretty good at evoking a sort of horror and respect for who you are fighting I guess. It's pretty clunky in some places, but I did have a moment where storming a UFO, I had everyone at the entrance, was pretty sure we outnumbered the aliens inside, and I had a rookie activate her bomb for next turn. Cue a floater opening the door, and shooting the rookie, after that the bomb took out most of my people and I had to clear out the UFO with someone low on hitpoints and bleeding to death.

The new one is great still, since it makes moves more transparent, plus I can give my soldiers funny hair. Plus I'm not a big fan of taking over logistics in strategy, at least as far as making sure we don't run out of ammo and grenades.Still, I think knowing your options up front and executing them without doing any measuring makes it pretty good. If you'd like something with a bit more crunch, look up Silent Storm. It's got a bit of old X-Com in it, and a silly amount of guns, but it's also a fun strategy game.

[Max White]

You know what is fun? Nitrous oxide... We have a canister of the stuff. Hoo boy this stuff is too good to not have some terrible side effect I don't know about.

[Vector]

Honestly, it's just the entire package.  The tech trees, the RPG elements, the ability to pew pew aliens, the missions... it's pretty much like it takes everything I liked about Civilization, abstracted out everything I didn't like, and then added some more great features.  I love this game.

[scrdest]

You know what is fun? Nitrous oxide... We have a canister of the stuff. Hoo boy this stuff is too good to not have some terrible side effect I don't know about.

Nitrous oxide works, basically, by putting your neurons in reverse gear. So, it is a debuff to INT, DEX and PER in the short term, but is mostly kinda sorta safe-ish in the long term.

Honestly, it's just the entire package.  The tech trees, the RPG elements, the ability to pew pew aliens, the missions... it's pretty much like it takes everything I liked about Civilization, abstracted out everything I didn't like, and then added some more great features.  I love this game.

Huh. I kept hearing Good Stuff about X-Com, but thought it's more just plain turn-based tacticky strategy. Now I'm interested...

[Max White]

Totally worth it for the massive boost to CHA though... Seriously I sound like Morgan Freeman.