Spirit always gets the worst terminal in the airport.

That look pierces right through your (cheesy) core.

It’s a party down here.

That doesn’t sound so bad.

If only adult jobs had recess. Someone needs to ring a bell for everyone to go play freeze tag outside for an hour, then back to staring at excel.

Surprisingly, I haven’t been able to find much merch other than the chryssalids, but it’s so far after the fact now that yeah, custom stuff is basically the only way. The chryssalids are still on eBay for about 10 bucks.

I played Enemy Unknown, but most of my time over the past decade(?) has been WOTC. I would have the same pattern of sinking hours into it, then getting distracted, then restarting. Over the past few months, I’ve been really grinding out Legendary+Ironman and finally just beat it for the first time ever. It took dozens and dozens of attempts. I’m eager to go back and play the original stuff too. I have them on steam, but the UI seems like a challenge to get used to.

PS: I created an XCOM community here when I joined lemmy, but it never really took off. It’s probably too niche to have regular content with the size of lemmy. https://lemmy.world/c/xcom

Damn, that’s cool.

I have that Vigilo Confido as a sticker on my PC case, and I picked up one of these Chryssalids to live on a shelf above where I usually play.

I figure it’s mostly in good fun, just banter. You know, like jokes about your cutting edge gaming PC being used for retro games.

Yeah, I agree on the larger environmental goals and necessity. I suppose what I’m getting at is more of the part that feels like normative pressure and shaming eccentricities. As in, the same thing that has contributed to car colors becoming more and more bland over the years too. There’s a pressure for conformity that pushes people back into their box when they stick a toe out.

Maybe I’ve gone too many years without religion, but sometimes the talk about simulations sounds less crazy than it should.

Everyone should just get what makes them happy and ignore the weird shaming for driving anything other than a standard beige sedan.

Fast cars, off-road cars, big cars, small cars, electric cars, big trucks, custom wrapped/painted cars, ducked out jeeps, w/e.

How do I know that someone isn’t going to fully replace the trolley piece by piece after I pull the lever?

I’m with you. What these games are selling is that feeling you get after overcoming their challenges, and if you modify that, it’s not the same product. It’s like asking an artist to also offer their painting with changes to the colors, scene, or poses of the subjects to appeal to personal tastes - yes, they could do it, but it’s a different piece of art at that point.

And omg yes, O&S. It’s not as hard now after many years of playing souls-like games, but relatively it was so hard on my first exposure to dark souls in DS1. I had no idea what I was doing, my build was jank as hell, and it took ages to beat.

I’ve been slowly ripping boxes of cds for months and putting them on my media server. I don’t know if there’s a simpler way, but I’ve been using “abcde” (A Better CD Encoder) on Linux, and it’s fairly straightforward.

Owl is a hard fight too. It still holds me up for a while on replays of the game.

I like it

This is why I could never be a streamer.

I’m a big XCOM fan, and I love that you have a Vigilo Confido patch.

I fought Demon of Hatred like a dark souls boss rather than a Sekiro boss. Lots of dodging. I’m sure there was a better way.