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So when JC says that "Denton" is an old code name from his UNATCO days... how long has it actually been? And did he have UNATCO days? Was he there for more than 24 hours?
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He was in the academy before that, the game just starts in his first 24 hours as an active duty agent.
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Oct 9, 2014 06:29
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I appreciate that the default real name you can enter at the start of the game is also JC Denton. He is not a great agent.
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Oct 9, 2014 18:22
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FactsAreUseless posted:I appreciate that the default real name you can enter at the start of the game is also JC Denton. He is not a great agent. UNATCO's new agent has been given the codename JC Denton. Coincidentally, this also happens to be his real name. UNATCO, ladies and gentlemen.
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Oct 9, 2014 18:26
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It's the last thing they'll suspect. besides, JC seems to be a very lonely person. Reyes and his brother seem to be the only people he has a pre-game connection with that JC acknowledges. He doesn't have anyone in New York he knows, or anywhere that he tries to connect to. It's all business to him.
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Oct 9, 2014 18:29
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To be fair, though, he's not exactly got a lot of free time. It's mission->mission->mission->plot twist->mission->mission->plot twist the whole way through. He may be making calls to old buddies during those helicopter rides for all we know.
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Oct 9, 2014 18:45
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FactsAreUseless posted:I appreciate that the default real name you can enter at the start of the game is also JC Denton. He is not a great agent. Does that dialogue change if you leave your real name as the default?
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Oct 10, 2014 00:12
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Dabir posted:Does that dialogue change if you leave your real name as the default?
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Oct 10, 2014 00:35
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Well obviously he says that out in public, never know who could be listening.
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Oct 10, 2014 01:31
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RZApublican posted:UNATCO's new agent has been given the codename JC Denton. Coincidentally, this also happens to be his real name. I mean seriously what kind of secret agent uses his own name?
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Oct 10, 2014 02:13
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FinalGamer posted:This is like the James Bond rule isn't it? Hiding in plain sight, just like when you set your password to "password".
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Oct 10, 2014 02:21
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RZApublican posted:Hiding in plain sight, just like when you set your password to "password". UNATCO...hacked
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Oct 10, 2014 03:06
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Mico posted:UNATCO...hacked 
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Oct 10, 2014 05:06
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Which mod is this?
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Oct 10, 2014 06:18
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OAquinas posted:Which mod is this? One that gets its user forcibly escorted off of the premises, I'm sure.
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Oct 10, 2014 12:26
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Doctor_Blueninja posted:One that gets its user forcibly escorted off of the premises, I'm sure. The guy with the camera is most likely the one getting the escort, the other guy is just "testing the computers" after all.
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Oct 10, 2014 12:43
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I am kind of surprised, Bobbin, that you didn't mention the acidification of the oceans, directly I mean. Essentially, because there's more CO2 in the atmosphere, it ends up, through osmosis, in the oceans. And I'd say that oceans are a tiny bit important for us humans. (We are SO screwed)
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Oct 10, 2014 20:00
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If you hearken back to the Conspiracy Corner on drugs and crack, you may recall how I mentioned that there was a movie coming out soon about the man who exposed the CIA's complicity in Nicaraguan drug smuggling. Well, I just thought I'd mention that soon has come to pass. The film won't be fully released until October 24th, but hey, it might be out where you live.
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Oct 11, 2014 20:40
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Gary Webb is one of the worst sad-sack stories in modern journalism. To be fair, the Iran-Contra-CIA-cocaine connection had already been established by previous reporting, but Webb went and wrote about what happened to the cocaine once it traveled into America -- hustlers like Freeway Ricky Ross turned it into crack and created an epidemic. And his fellow journalists loving hated him for it, driving him into professional ruin, depression and suicide.
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Oct 11, 2014 20:49
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Today's episode gets pretty deep.    Handouts: Last Will Lab Email: Malfunctioning Turret Lab Email: Illumination Is At Hand Fires everywhere It's all Ridley's fault Lab Email: Where are you? Universal Constructor: Theory, Principles, and Practice Thursday: Sanity APR: US Situation Worsens Hurry. CYA Login Lab Email: destroy EVERYTHING UC Component Known misses: The Tiffany reward exploit has a second, more powerful form. Bobbin Threadbare fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Oct 13, 2014 17:00
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Atlantis sunk because Arkantos kicked Poseidon's rear end. 
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Oct 13, 2014 17:55
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Early on you mention the water pressure being dangerous, but it shouldn't be. Water pressure alone wont kill you; what kills you is the difference between the water pressure and the pressure of the air in your lungs, and since the ocean base is open to the water the air pressure must be the same as the water pressure. On the other hand, the water would probably be cold enough to kill a normal person within a few minutes.
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Oct 13, 2014 18:16
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A fun thing to try with Walton Simons: you can lure him out the hatch (this works more easily if he switches to a Dragon's Tooth sword to chase you) and go for a swim with you. Needless to say, if you have a rebreather or two, you'll outlast him...
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Oct 13, 2014 20:52
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The worst thing about that Simons fight is the plasma white-out. It's like he's shooting burning flashbangs at you.
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Oct 13, 2014 21:02
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Another fun bug similar to the infinite skill points from Gary Savage is talking with him while your inventory is full while one of the items in your inventory is an upgrade canister. If you do so you'll end up throwing an upgrade canister to the floor, and you can pick talk to Savage again to get another one much like the skill points bug. So if you really want to you can at this point max out all your skills and your augmentations.
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Oct 13, 2014 21:06
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The lack of transition between the last level and this one is especially jarring if you're the kind of clown who will open the sub door and then close it again. You don't explode. In fact, you make it to the Ocean Lab just fine, and the door is still closed when you get back.
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Oct 13, 2014 21:35
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Regarding Simons, there's a bit of alternate dialogue he has. If somehow you manage to miss him talking about his augs at UNATCO, instead of saying "As you may recall from our chat" etc., he says "Because as I told you in Paris, this time you'll face someone with your own abilities" (or something close to that). Also I had no idea you could leave him behind and run off like you did 
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Oct 13, 2014 21:35
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Maybe Tracer Tong has a quantum computer, those will pretty much trivialize prime number factorization based encryption.
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Oct 13, 2014 23:00
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Sir Juan posted:Maybe Tracer Tong has a quantum computer, those will pretty much trivialize prime number factorization based encryption. If Tong has one, I can only imagine that Page would, or would at least acknowledge that possibility before bragging about how futile their cure was.
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Oct 13, 2014 23:03
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Ometeotl posted:If Tong has one, I can only imagine that Page would, or would at least acknowledge that possibility before bragging about how futile their cure was. Page is literally sitting on the most powerful computer in the world which has the ability to parse, censor, and redirect data from every corner of the internet simultaneously. Besides, there are always more prime numbers.
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Oct 13, 2014 23:09
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Bremen posted:Early on you mention the water pressure being dangerous, but it shouldn't be. Water pressure alone wont kill you; what kills you is the difference between the water pressure and the pressure of the air in your lungs, and since the ocean base is open to the water the air pressure must be the same as the water pressure. On the other hand, the water would probably be cold enough to kill a normal person within a few minutes. You'd also have to keep a close eye on the gas mix. If it is any any great depths then they must be controlling the gas mix in the base pretty closely. You do get some very funky effects as you compress certain gases which are distinctly deleterious to health. Unless you take some precautions it can do unpleasant things to your interior chemistry. Any divers here able to work out how long it should have taken JC to safely surface if the base was at a depth of 75 meters? Gotta go Just also had a glance at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_diving and 66 meters is where Oxygen toxicity starts becoming a serious concern. It doesn't mention Helium tremors which is another gas toxicity effect which occurs at deeper depths. [edit] Bobbin Threadbare posted:Page is literally sitting on the most powerful computer in the world which has the ability to parse, censor, and redirect data from every corner of the internet simultaneously. Frankly at that point I'd just attack the substrate rather than the encryption...
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I kinda wish that after Daedalus and Icarus merged, all the e-mail lines in the future levels changed from Daedalus:(whatever) to Helios:(whatever). It'd be a subtle nod towards the fact that someone new has control over all the data now.
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Oct 13, 2014 23:54
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JT Jag posted:I kinda wish that after Daedalus and Icarus merged, all the e-mail lines in the future levels changed from Daedalus:(whatever) to Helios:(whatever). It'd be a subtle nod towards the fact that someone new has control over all the data now. Then again, having them stay the same could be considered a subtle nod to the unending horror that is firmware updates.
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Oct 14, 2014 00:09
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drat, that Conspiracy Corner really got deeper than I was prepared for  Gave me lots to think about. I really want to just shoot the breeze with you about science and philosophy sometime, Bobbin. I may not be able to contribute much, but drat if it won't be interesting and fun.
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Mikl posted:Also I had no idea you could leave him behind and run off like you did It's what I did my first time through as well, mostly because the projectile intercept aug wasn't destroying plasma like I thought it would, so I decided to run for it. Though instead of leaving him in the dust he pursued me into that flooded room and it was entertaining to watch him swim after me in an attempt to finish the fight.
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Oct 14, 2014 07:29
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Actually, the entire Atlantis thing Smith is spinning has deep links to anthroposophical beliefs (Rudolf Steiner, of course): https://sites.google.com/site/waldorfwatch/atlantis-and-aryans And yes, it is weird. And apparently it is part of the history curriculum in Waldorf schools. Taught as history. Go figure. By the way: Thanks for this highly informative and entertaining LP.
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Oct 14, 2014 19:13
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And it was revived partly because they kept finding evidence that African folk were more advanced than they thought. "So we found rather elaborate cities and evidence they were way more savvy on science than folk thought before the age of Discoveries? Huuuuuh that was Atlanteans."
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Kunster posted:And it was revived partly because they kept finding evidence that African folk were more advanced than they thought. "So we found rather elaborate cities and evidence they were way more savvy on science than folk thought before the age of Discoveries? Huuuuuh that was Atlanteans." Racism in our conspiracy theories? Say it isn't so?!
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Oct 14, 2014 19:38
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I wonder if we would remember Mu / Lemuria right now if Lovecraft and other 20's pulp authors didn't pick up the slack.
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I think I once filled the place where Walton Simons spawns with lams, and only heard a huge explosion/scream. It was totally worth it. I also remember a way to make him unconscious somehow so you can carry him around. Wasnt there also a trick to duplicate augment canisters with the roof encounter?
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