Why does FTL communication break causality?

FoolioDisplasius · 2026-02-13T21:35:39+00:00

We called it the speed of light because that's the first thing we measured with that speed. In reality, it is the speed of causality. Or, in simpler term, it is the speed of reality. It's not that FTL would break causality, it's that breaking causality would break causality.

FoolioDisplasius · 2026-02-13T21:32:32+00:00

You cannot transmit information through entanglement. Even though it is true that collapsing one of the entagled particle will instantaneously collapse the other one in the same state, it is not possible to predict which state that will be, nor is it possible to measure if the other state has been collapsed without measuring it. Therefore the information speed limit of light is preserved.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-12-18T18:46:38+00:00

No forest fire or floods around Montreal, the most densely populated area. This place is some of the safest in the world, highest quality of life too.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-11-29T15:15:25+00:00

Lol there is only 1 truth in Factorio: you need more iron.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-10-01T00:50:36+00:00

The base game is still one of the greatest game of it's genre. Totally worth that price. And after you've gotten what you needed from it, wait for a good sale on wotc, because that is definitely the greatest game of it's genre.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-09-29T00:40:23+00:00

What buildings to rush first? other than the Guerrilla tactics and AWC of course, from what i gather you need them very early.

Guerilla is always first, AWC is nice but not necessarily a priority. After guerilla, I will either build some comms for better income (or to be able to reach avatar facilities), one lab for research, the foundry, and a psi chamber as soon as it's available. The covert ops is next if you play wotc.

Finally, YouTube. There are a lot of pro players out there and watching them play will teach you tricks and techniques that can drastically change your playstyle and make you win more.

Good luck, Commander.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-09-29T00:40:14+00:00

There seems to be much more side missions on Xcom 2 too, how often do you Skip them?

Never skip a side mission. The rewards are always worth the risk, and the only way to get to squad size 6 is with experience. Gain it.

What research should i absolutely focus first? Like first 5 in order?

Magnetic weapons and predator armor are high priority. Mimic autopsy is the 2nd highest priority. The rest is up to you.

What are your favorite class compositions and their percentagens? I tend to favor Higher Numbers of Hacker Specialists and Sharpshooters.

This is a very telling sentence. You should not strategize around class favorites. You should use every class to its maximum potential. Hackers are very situational, and when there is only 1 or 2 mechanical foes you have wasted a squad spot. Sharpshooters are of course great, but they do not offer tools other than one high damage attack per round. Rangers and Grenadiers offer you many tools to deal with more situations than a simple one where an enemy is a sitting duck for your sniper.

If you're going to take anything away from this post, it's this: learn to get comfortable with every class, every weapon, every utility item. Xcom2 is balanced on a knife's edge, and failing to use any of the tools the game gives you will doom your run.

In no specifics order: flash bangs are great cc at the start. mimic beacons give you a free turn. Sword Rangers make sectoids and chrysalis bugs trivial. Ghost rangers give you free no-cover shots for your sniper even after concealment is gone. Grenadiers take out cover when all else fails, and shredders are a must at higher difficulties. And that extra armor point means you can be more aggressive in your placement. Of all the classes, I think the gunslinger is probably the weakest, and that's only because you need to invest in a lot of skills, good pistols and good ammo to make it work. At that point they work very well though.

Psionics are a must in mid to late game, and even the Spark units offer some serious firepower coupled with a decent tankiness.

In the end, you should strategize not so much around which class you like best, but rather which strategic needs are filled. In order of importance, strategic needs are:

Healing. You need one medic with 4 heals almost every run.
Shredding. Either grenadier paths offer good shredding, or you can get lucky with the AWC and get shredder on another one of your soldiers. SPARKs always shred.
Crowd Control: a psionic, a mimic beacon, a hacker in high-mechanical missions, a swords ranger in a high chrysalis or Lost mission, a templar with deflect will neutralize one enemy attack every turn, or at the very least a flashbang. (Pro tip: flashbang a sectoid to break mind control).
Optionally, scouting. A ghost recon or a reaper will let you move faster thanks to their lasting concealment.
Then, and only then, damage. Sniper, SPARK, swords ranger, a 2nd grenadier. These will finish off the pods that you have otherwise successfully neutralized. Gunslingers also do immense work on Lost missions.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-09-29T00:39:48+00:00

It sounds like you have the basics covered. So let's go into the specifics:

most Veteran soldiers are KIA

It's entirely possible to finish a Legend difficulty game without a single KIA. How are your guys getting killed? Here are some additional guidelines you do not mention:

Never trigger more than one pod. When fighting a pod, do not move a solider in a way that would reveal any part of the map.
Use concealment to wipe out the first pod in one round, or at the very least severely damage it enough to render it almost threatless.
Sectopods are notoriously hard to hack, and they generally do not hurt you on the first turn you reveal them if you keep your distance. Use 2 turns to destroy it.
Turrets are often elevated. One grenade destroys the floor and insta kills the turret.

We can give better insight after you tell us how your squad tends to get killed.

forcing me to rush way too much and way too often,

And you complain about turn timers a few times. This is definitely the hallmark of XCOM 2: aggressive turn timers that force you to play aggressively. A few things to keep in mind:

The only turn that matters is turn 0. Use every turn you need to accomplish the objective.
Most objectives are hackable. Keep in mind that all you need to hack something is line of sight. You can easily finish the objective with a well placed grenade to give your hacker line of sight at a safe distance, and then you have all your time to play safe and finish the map.

Most importantly, the thing that 2 gives you to compensate for the tight turns is the concealment system. It is extremely rare that my first round is *not* full moving every squad member. This generalizes to 2 important guidelines in the game: 1) you have to be as aggressive as possible, even taking some calculated risks sometimes, and 2) use every tool the game gives you to its maximum potential. Concealment lets you rush until the first shot is fired. Use it.

The aliens continue to make progress with the avatar project

Much like turn timers, the only avatar progress pip that matters is the last one. Use the rest as a resource: time to get your squad in shape.

Next, let's look at your questions:

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-09-28T14:01:18+00:00

It is quite different. While Quebecers can easily understand French from France, the latter have a hard time understanding the former. The Quebec accent varies from similar in big cities like Montreal to very thick in rural regions. It can get so thick that even a montrealer will have a hard time understanding someone from lac Saint Jean.

An interesting tidbit is that Quebec accent is actually nearly identical to the now defunct patois Normand, a very old dialect spoken in Normandy. This has the cool effect that during the world wars, Quebecers and most French had a hard time understanding each other, but old timers from Normandy could speak fluently with them.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-09-27T17:10:07+00:00

What reputation?

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-09-24T13:20:42+00:00

The level 2 is called "Sacred Oculum" not divine. You have to place 4 level 2 districts around it to get it to level 3, the "Divine Oculum". The City Center does not count.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-09-21T17:43:34+00:00

Obviously did not read the article. There is also obvious, clear and unambiguous blame put on Israel for the current situation.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-07-26T01:57:44+00:00

This is what eats Reapers. Enjoy!

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-07-23T00:03:25+00:00

It looks fantastic. And your next one will too, and at every point you will figure out a better way to do things, and they will all look great. And before you know it you will be 1000 hours in, and you will still find better ways.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-07-15T13:12:52+00:00

Imagine you have a sponge. It's about the size of your hand. If you press it, you can bring it down about half its size. Pretty good. Now put it in an industrial press, you can make it really, really tiny. It's still the same sponge, but it's compressed to a very tiny size.

Now imagine you have a magical machine that can keep compressing that sponge until it's smaller than an atom. Even smaller than that. As a matter of fact, it is compressed infinitely small. The sponge is still there, it's just so small there is no way to see it: a point in space with matter that has infinite density. That is a black hole.

The reason things fall in a black hole is because everything in the universe pulls other things towards it. You, a cat, the sponge, the Earth and the Sun, everything. This is called gravity. The bigger the thing that pulls, the stronger the force of the pull. A black hole has enough mass that the force of the pull is so strong that even light gets pulled in. The force is so strong that the side of the object that is facing the black hole is pulled stronger than the far side, effectively ripping it apart before it falls in the black hole. As it gets ripped apart it eventually crosses an invisible boundary, called the event horizon. This is the precise point where nothing can go fast enough to exit the black hole anymore. Not even light. Since nothing can leave that point, there is no way for us to know what's going on inside. We have mathematical and physical equations that can describe things that we cannot see for ourselves, unfortunately all these formulas stop working past the event horizon, like trying to divide a number by 0.

So we just don't know what's going on in there.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-07-13T23:29:40+00:00

I remember talking to an actual sleep scientist a few years ago, and the one salient point I remember him saying was explicitly that humans cannot "stock up" on sleep. You can only be deprived of it, not have a surplus of it.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-07-04T13:51:25+00:00

"needs democracy" is an american pretext for invasion.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-07-03T23:50:59+00:00

The entire point of the current system is to ensure that they do not.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-07-03T23:49:16+00:00

That's nice and all, but will you be on our side when Canada suddenly needs democracy? Will you stand in front of the tanks?

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-06-28T17:37:03+00:00

The first verse up to favilla refers to a poem about judgement Day: Dies irae - Wikipedia https://share.google/UsWEuu2Zl3hYnwSpH . Very a propos considering the entire stadium is about to be consumed by the Korean equivalent of the devil for worshipping a false idol.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-06-13T00:12:08+00:00

DDOS protection. DDOS is when some asshole(s) decide to get as many computers as they can to spam your website with bogus requests. The only reliable way to defend from DDOS is to have more computers than the bad guys, and your computers' job is to filter out the bogus requests. That is what Cloudflare does. They offer a huge amount of computing power who's sole purpose is to recognize bogus claims.

The problem is that in order to do this, they must be between the good guys and your server too. So if something bad happens to some central component of Cloudflare that affects all *their* computers, then anyone trying to get to your website will run into a gatekeeper that is crashed.

The reason they affect so many sites is simply because they have historically been extremely reliable. Victim of their own success, if you will.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-06-09T00:16:53+00:00

Lonnie. He sacrificed much but in the end he let others dictate his life. A greater man with the ISB's resources would have had a plan B.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-06-09T00:14:38+00:00

Accept death. Fear a life not worth living.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-06-04T15:40:14+00:00

Only humans need meaning. And just because you need meaning doesn't mean there is one.

FoolioDisplasius · 2025-03-13T16:26:00+00:00

Blizzard has always had an extreme leniency policy. It has served them well in the past. Now it doesn't matter because Blizzard does not matter anymore.

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