slingstone @ slingstone @lemmy.world

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I do this thing where I pop my ears (like when pressure changes from altitude) and then it's like I'm hearing my breathing inside of my sinuses or something. When I breathe this way, it effectively blocks conversations I don't want to overhear. Do other people do this, or am I odd?

Aren't those guys kinda anti-federalist, except where it benefits them?

I, also, am hip and with it. Witness my funky fresh lingo and in-your-face attitude, home skillet.

So that explains the apparent undead working for them...I only read the first book or three and it's been a minute. This is the sign for me to go back and finish the series.

God help the poor mathematical geniuses who accidentally discover that math. If they're lucky, they end up working for the Laundry.

I wonder what would happen in the same scenario but with John Constantine or Dr. Fate?

That would be phenomenal, but I imagine it's unlikely.

However, if we're in the realm of unlikely scenarios, maybe they can give me a follow-up to Xcom: Enemy Within that proceeds from an Xcom victory in the first game. I never got into Xcom 2 because it ignored the buildup to the greater enemy foreshadowed at the end of Enemy Within. Not knocking those who liked what we got...it just didn't work for me.

I miss Looney Tunes so much.

Alpha Centauri with the Alien Crossfire dlc

Best 4x ever.

Honestly, I could deal with Adrian's shenanigans just fine. That whole thing was supposed to be over the top, so they shifted most of his story to non-canonical status. I understood why, at the time. But then, the main storyline moved on to a lot of odd muscle porn stuff that was kinda not important to the story. I was dealing with that when I came across a thread lamenting the fact that the actual Gilgamesh of ancient legend was coming into the story as a living character somehow. I read ahead to confirm, and then I gave up. It was just one ridiculous bridge too far. The beautiful HFY story I'd started reading all the way back with Kevin Jenkins (whose character transformed in some nonsensical ways himself) was just too off the rails for me at that point. Add the dismissive treatment of female characters later on, and it was just another story ruined for me. So many great characters and so much unrealized potential...

There were some seriously emotional stories in the Jenkinsverse, but there were so many side stories that went nowhere. I've just been disappointed too many times to continue to sort through it all.

If you liked it all, more power to you. It had some pretty fantastic moments. It just transformed too far away from what I enjoyed about it for me to continue.

Shiny

It's just the ice wall on the edge of the flat earth. Checkmate, globe-lovers!

/s

I mean, a rocket will get you past the sky, so...

Nah, dude. Just wait until the deceased field gets oversaturated. All the hordes of people wandering pointlessly, everybody trampling over everyone else trying to eat the organs of the living...it's a dead end job that'll get worse with time.

God, I'm still so sad that that universe went so off the rails. It's like the GoT of online fiction.

First real guffaw I've had in a while. Dry humor is the best humor.

Good one, bro!

Making an important distinction, my friend.

Loved this game.

Fun fact, the two lead characters showed up again as soldiers in Valkyria Chronicles.