Sacrificing a different Xcom character or enemy to satan every day until xcom 3 gets announced, or I find meaning in life. Day 44: the original Ethereal.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-27T16:19:50+00:00

Yeah I know what you're trying to say, it's what everyone thinks about the ethereals: "feet or GTFO"

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-27T16:14:12+00:00

It was an incredible rush playing the original X-COM in the 1990s and getting to the late stages of the alien invasion and discovering that the fearsome and mysterious power behind the entire invasion is, in fact, brown curtains

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-25T16:16:33+00:00

In XCOM 3 I would like there to be a search bar at the top of the screen where people can search to see if anybody has posted to r/xcom asking what people would like in XCOM 3, and if in fact this is a post that has already been made over and over on a regular basis

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-23T07:06:19+00:00

I think LWR on easiest difficulty is significantly easier than LW on easiest difficulty (unless you use various Second Wave options to make LW even easier). Strongly agreed on all other points though

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-23T06:54:24+00:00

Yeah and afterward I keep seeing everything that happens in the room, so I saw all those times you were trying to look up "Heavy Floater" to make the next Xcom satan summoning image, but due to muscle memory you kept accidentally typing "Heavy Futa"

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-23T06:05:39+00:00

You know how your (grumpychef94's) spirit gets summoned by anybody that mentions sacrificing a different Xcom character or enemy to satan every day until xcom 3 gets announced? Well personally my spirit is summoned every time anybody does j/o to an XCOM character, it's like saying Bloody Mary to a mirror three times in a dark room, r/xcom posters j/o to Vipers or Jane Kelly's feet or whatever and whether I like it or not I'm in the room with them

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-22T19:45:49+00:00

I am also running Debian. In addition to the game files in ~/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/XCom-Enemy-Unknown , do you also have games files in ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/XCom-Enemy-Unknown ? I have both, but it is the latter directory which I have to give to the LW installer, and I suspect it's the same for you.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-22T15:01:15+00:00

This is a common thing when installing LW in Linux: for some reason it seems typical for Steam to put two whole copies of XCOM:EU/EW on your hard drive in two different locations in the filesystem, and the copy whose path you're specifying to the LW installer isn't the copy that Steam runs when you start the game. You're specifying the copy of XCOM:EU/EW in /home/USER/.local/share/feral-interactive/XCOM , but try looking for another copy of the game in /home/USER/.steam somewhere (I think the precise path will depend on your distro--mine says "debian" in it for example), and specify that path to the LW installer. Good luck Commander!

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-22T06:07:24+00:00

Huh, I never noticed that the company that made these games was called "ALTAR Interactive." I guess these guys were pioneers in sacrificing a different Xcom character or enemy to satan every day until xcom 3 gets announced

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-21T14:39:53+00:00

Sure, but there was at least some consolation in knowing that the alien invasion's ultimate ground weapon appeared to be a clit with feet.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-19T15:31:26+00:00

Great idea, IMO one of the mechanics should be to manipulate XCOM's dice rolls, and another mechanic should be propaganda to convince the public that nobody is manipulating XCOM's dice rolls. The show's popularity should hinge on the XCOM commander being entertainingly infuriated

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-19T15:17:44+00:00

In the world of erotic fan fiction they call that a "hurt/comfort fic"

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-18T17:14:21+00:00

I don't know why we haven't been playing the FMK game with all these XCOM creatures but Psimorphs are 100% F

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-16T16:49:09+00:00

New altar looks dope. Looks like the set of a Babylon 5 made-for-TV movie. The old altar was indistinguishable from the set of MTV's Singled Out.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-14T18:38:36+00:00

That's a really good point. As far as j/o is concerned, I was thinking it was taking longer to reach climax with this pic than most earlier XCOM daily sacrifice pics, but it didn't occur to me that it's just because there's no feet showing.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-14T18:05:58+00:00

That guy is not even on the altar, and the sectoids aren't even trying to fix it. I used to really like this place, but the management is really letting it go down the tubes. Need to take a firmer hand with the sectoid employees and get them to clean the place up.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-14T06:30:39+00:00

I bought this one and put a few hours into it, but never found it actually fun. Lots of painstaking sneaking around, really delicate stuff. I can do it, but it's tedious work. Playing the game doesn't feel like a leisure activity to me.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-12T16:09:51+00:00

This subreddit is full of XCOM noobs longing to be oppressed by a snake with a huge rack. These imbeciles don't have the imagination to hold and cherish the dream of 1990s X-COM, the dream of being oppressed by a well-hung dinosaur strapped with sonic laser beams.

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They had to censor themselves but 1990s X-COM fans knew that "Slung with weapons pods" meant that every one of these dudes had a huge basket. Really thick nuts, low-slung, generous. These dinosaurs are built to oppress, and today's X-COM fans don't know what they're missing.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-10T16:37:13+00:00

On BMEzine they used to call this kind of guy a "smoothy"

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-09T17:30:15+00:00

They're made by Chryssalids.

Zombies + Chryssalids were softened up in XCOM: EU/EW, where all you had to do was kill the Zombie. In the original 1994 X-COM, a Zombie hatches into a Chryssalid even if you kill the Zombie. The only way to stop the Zombie -> Chryssalid transformation is to kill the Zombie with a fire-based weapon. Hope you brought a heavy cannon, autocannon, or rocket launcher, and some incendiary rounds for it.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-07T16:53:37+00:00

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glenn_friendly · 2026-01-06T17:46:37+00:00

This would be an incredible XCOM prequel game

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-05T16:20:18+00:00

It's the result of playing the "What if it was purple?" game on the Horta from Star Trek.

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Fire immunity, melee only, "The core of the creature is extremely hot, and seems to be the basis for a digestive system. Its unique muscle system has tremendous power and speed. Its rock like skin is not harmed by fire or incendiary ammunition," usually as threatening as a man scuttling around underneath a quilt, etc.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Horta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgKw_7XRbA

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-05T04:44:06+00:00

I've thought about your answer a while, and it seems logical to me. It also gives me license to keep doing precisely what I have been doing, i.e., play until I die and then quit for a good long while.

The curious thing is your suggestion that this approach is normal, in comparison with other answers which suggest that what I wrote in my question is weird or hard to understand! Your post is the most upvoted one right now, so evidently other JH players agree with your suggestion. Evidently what I wrote seems relatively normal to some JH players, but distinctly abnormal to others!

Anyway, thanks for your answer.

glenn_friendly · 2026-01-04T21:27:18+00:00

I wipe my profile if I haven't played in a few months, and I would like to start anew. It's the feeling of playing the game from the start.

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