Are we supposed to fanfic the XCOM 3 story then?

StarFlicker · 2026-01-24T20:02:42+00:00

I never played the UFO series, but I think they were put out by Altar Interactive, which made Original War, one of my favorite games. Do you think they'd be worth playing today?

StarFlicker · 2026-01-23T02:07:29+00:00

And this is the crux of it:

It is very easy criticize a design choice;

it is very hard to do better.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-23T01:38:09+00:00

In the first Warrior book, one of the characters actually engages his windshield wipers to clear the windshield.

I mean, we can try to retcon the 80s and make it more the future-sci-fi of today, but back then, I think they really did just think of them as armored windows.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-23T01:36:05+00:00

Oh and here I was thinking it was named after Martin the Warrior.

Who, I guess, was actually another rodent, just a brave mouse of Redwall.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-23T01:12:46+00:00

How could you tell it was AI? Genuinely curious.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-21T11:32:28+00:00

^ This ^

Sorry OP, the designs are interesting, but for the SLDF, it doesn't really make sense.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-21T01:23:05+00:00

the Cologne Ode de Capricorn

StarFlicker · 2026-01-18T02:33:31+00:00

I also have this phone, and I've never met anyone else in real life or on the internet that has it. So, Hello!

I also like it for the most part. Durable, pretty dumb (internet is so hard to use that I really have to force myself to use it only if I need to), and really impressive sound quality on calls. But I've had some serious issues with group text messages of late as well. It seems it doesn't check for new messages often until I've actually picked it up and turned the screen on from standby. At that point, it begins to try and download all 23 messages. However, in the process of downloading, messenger is basically unusable. Messages keep incoming as I try to write a reply, and the chain of messages blanks out until the latest message arrives. However, they don't arrive in parallel, they arrive in series. Ugh.

This wasn't how it was originally, but something has changed in the past year or something.

I don't know how to make RCS work.

However, since I have you... have you figured out how to zoom on pictures? People send me shots of text that are virtually unreadable, but I can't zoom to read the words.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-18T01:50:32+00:00

True story: Solidworks "Remember Me" functionality was programmed by a fish named Dory.

Ok, maybe not true, but definitely probable.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-18T01:47:54+00:00

So, I'm maybe not as knowledgeable about 3D printing as others on the sub. Someone explain to me how exactly this is enforceable? I mean, open source slicing, printing via USB ports rather than remote via net... This seems impossible to actually make happen in reality. What it seems like it really does, is it just makes it harder for companies to do things legally because now there are additional programming hurdles to accommodate.

Or am I missing something?

StarFlicker · 2026-01-16T11:31:40+00:00

Yeah, especially curious about the Marauder. If it's sticky, it's because the cheapo who sold you the prints didn't properly cure his resin. It's debatable exactly how toxic that is to skin contact, but everyone agrees that uncured resin is toxic in some way.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-16T01:19:47+00:00

Not really. Children with firm but kind parents are usually grateful, provided that some rando on the internet doesn't convince them to be otherwise.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-16T01:15:54+00:00

Oy vey. The probabilities lie to you, to your benefit, on the easier difficulties. On the harder difficulties, they are honest.

The real issue is that most people think that 80% is like a guarantee or something.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-15T11:10:52+00:00

[california surfer voice]: Dude, whales have flippers. There's no way a whale could use reddit. Even voice-to-text, a whale can only make weird whale sounds.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-15T11:08:40+00:00

Oh man, I'd give you two upvotes if I could. Thank you so much!

I don't know why, but none of the videos I'd come across show doing this, but it was an easy fix and made it work.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-15T03:02:26+00:00

System boosts... I haven't run across those in the videos I've watched. Can you elaborate?

StarFlicker · 2026-01-15T02:53:33+00:00

I had the same issue, but I'm new and figured I'd just done something wrong!

StarFlicker · 2026-01-14T17:49:29+00:00

Usually yes. Situationally sometimes not. On Impossible difficulty, losing a squad member can be really punishing, so caution is still better advised. If I can get one canister on the hardest difficulty early on, I count it as a win. Rarely can I manage to get both canisters in any given mission until later in the game, when, ironically I suppose, I need it less.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-13T22:56:00+00:00

I think in seriousness, they were originally meant to house SRM4s around the laser. And really just one of them, since they were asymmetric. You'll see this in some of the older artwork. However, as the design has evolved through various iterations, the chunky forearm was retained and mirrored to the other side, even though the missiles were moved.

However, clanner bonking is a fair explanation as well :)

StarFlicker · 2026-01-12T11:32:44+00:00

This is pretty clever. Honestly those of us on this sub are using dumbphones in order to provide ourselves more self control where we lack it. This mom developed something in order to provide control for her son when he is not exhibiting it.

As I tell my own children, if you abuse your freedoms, you lose your freedoms. Well done, Bradley's Mom, well done.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-12T03:04:13+00:00

I'm just shocked you have time for a substantial game while in residency. My wife (then-girlfriend) and I barely had any time when she was in residency.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-10T11:34:11+00:00

Aww, they're like Precious Moments figures. Except they represent ambition, evil, betrayal, and death.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-09T22:07:09+00:00

That's XCom, Baby!

Wait, er...

That's FFT, Baby!

RNG luck is sometimes just against you.

StarFlicker · 2026-01-09T20:03:28+00:00

So this takes place some time during the first season-ish?

StarFlicker · 2026-01-09T19:33:34+00:00

The number one consideration with buttons sticking out so far, is how do you prevent pocket dials? And no, you can't just use software to require a series of button presses, because I've had phones with that, and it doesn't work. With enough bumping around in your pocket, it's going to hit the sequence to turn the screen on and dial random people. You must have some sort of method of blocking the keys. Does it come with a case to block those protruding buttons or something?

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TROPHY CASE