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Nordick posted:Hype level: Through the roof and rising Oh is it kosher to mention OpenXcom in here? My threads never last.
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gfanikf posted:People need FIOS. That's the issue. Uncapped and when wired to the computer I'm getting like 7mbs. Lol...so it really is just greed stemming from monopolies then? Welp...
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CrazyLoon posted:Lol...so it really is just greed stemming from monopolies then? Welp... It is a large percentage that, but the USA is kinda huge in terms of landmass and mostly sparsely populated west of the Mississippi, so there are sound (if really unfortunate) reasons for most of the country having poo poo all for internet infrastructure
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Claverjoe posted:Yeah, I have 2 ISP choices, Comcast with 300 GB caps or AT&T with 250 GB cap and 1/4 the speeds. And I thought Canada's ISP selection was bad.
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CrazyLoon posted:I thought US capitalism was supposed to be all like: "Competition gets us the best of the best." while in my socialist country there's only a few that just go wherever and whoever calls on them, cause the infrastructure was laid all across the country. But then again, our country is also tiny compared to the wide swathes of the US. There used to be multiple regional telecoms in the United States, but guess what actually happens when there's unregulated competition
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CrazyLoon posted:I thought US capitalism was supposed to be all like: "Competition gets us the best of the best." while in my socialist country there's only a few that just go wherever and whoever calls on them, cause the infrastructure was laid all across the country. But then again, our country is also tiny compared to the wide swathes of the US. That is how US Capitalism is supposed to work, but US Congressmen who are corrupt as gently caress and willing to sell state-sponsored monopolies kinda fucks everything up.
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Zaphod42 posted:That is how US Capitalism is supposed to work, but US Congressmen who are corrupt as gently caress and willing to sell state-sponsored monopolies kinda fucks everything up. Yeah, basically the free market in the US translates to 'pro-Business' politicians bending over backwards to support their lobbyists and prevent any competition from emerging. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/who-wants-competition-big-cable-tries-outlawing-municipal-broadband-in-kansas/ Fangz fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jan 29, 2016 |
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It also doesn't help that a whole lot of people who actually have the power to do something about the internet monopolies don't understand how the internet works and have no idea why anyone would need faster internet.
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Zaphod42 posted:I think they're running scared because Google Fiber is coming to town. Some state senators in Kansas that are in Comcast's pocket tried passing a law banning Google Fiber from being in the state.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 22:06 |
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Guys, you can talk about all the socialist BS you want in DnD. The rest of the world (including, most notably, me) doesn't care. e: vvv jesus loving christ
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Got to love the insane level of corruption that we live under in the USA.
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The Iron Rose posted:Guys, you can talk about all the socialist BS you want in DnD. The rest of the world (including, most notably, me) doesn't care. Lol, but yea...I was just curious for a quick answer, and I got it. No need for a debate here, I think. Still, thanks for that ARS link.
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Captain Oblivious posted:XCOM 3 should just keep assuming we lost in the previous game. Okay so we failed in XCOM 2 again. Now lets stage an insurrection as Muton-esque enforcers during an invasion of another planet and prevent another Earth from happening! They could also just pull a classic x-com "you won! but the earth isfucked because you triggered a calamity"
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 22:26 |
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Hm...fair competition and monopoly busting sounds like xcom propaganda citizen
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 22:26 |
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The Iron Rose posted:Guys, you can talk about all the socialist BS you want in DnD. The rest of the world (including, most notably, me) doesn't care. You may as well check out for a week dude, there's not going to be anything in this thread other than snaketits and trying to kill time until the game comes out.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 22:28 |
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Hey I live in Kansas and the thing all you guys forget is the word "tried". The reason you must say this is because even in the demons and dragons big corp republican hellhole folks seem to think this place is, that proposal got laughed out of the state senate because the system isn't perfect but it generally works. It's like you are offended that someone even thought of a thing, which is way more oppressive than anything that's been proposed. So thanks for being insensitive clods but I'd rather talk about OpenXCOM and all the cool stuff that project is doing and also it is 110% ok to talk about in this thread because it is XCOM and XCOM is good. Ps: snake tits
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 22:30 |
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yer mum's a snake tit
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CrazyLoon posted:I thought US capitalism was supposed to be all like: "Competition gets us the best of the best." while in my socialist country there's only a few that just go wherever and whoever calls on them, cause the infrastructure was laid all across the country. But then again, our country is also tiny compared to the wide swathes of the US.
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^ lol...what have I started?Zaphod42 posted:You may as well check out for a week dude, there's not going to be anything in this thread other than snaketits and trying to kill time until the game comes out. I suppose we could just revert to the staple hype posting, but yea...might as well go on GameFAQs for just that. So as to the subject mentioned above, I can't wait to meet snake tits in the game so that I can chop 'em all up and feed 'em to the non-announced 6th class of Shen's gift, that will no doubt be the much-anticipated dog class.
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CrazyLoon posted:^ lol...what have I started? I expect it to go down something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJJOvrBHPSQ
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LordNat posted:Got to love the insane level of corruption that we live under in the USA. *by making massive and essentially unregulated campaign contributions.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 22:39 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:I'd like to hear Junpei's hot take on these current events, actually wait that could actually save this page
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I'd like to hear Junpei's hot take on these current events, also XCOM's socialist-anarchist platform
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LordNat posted:I expect it to go down something like this: What the heck is this and why are they microwaving dogs?!
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CrazyLoon posted:^ lol...what have I started? A grave sin indeed.
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xcom 2: feel the bern
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Pomp posted:xcom 2: feel the bern
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Zaphod42 posted:What the heck is this and why are they microwaving dogs?! Metal Saga. It is part of a really strange line of JRPGs focused on driving tanks around a post apocalyptic world. Really great but really strange game. Worth checking out if you like games where you hunt wild buses around the desert to capture and strap rocket pods to.
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LordNat posted:Metal Saga. It is part of a really strange line of JRPGs focused on driving tanks around a post apocalyptic world. Really great but really strange game. Worth checking out if you like games where you hunt wild buses around the desert to capture and strap rocket pods to. It has dogs in it, so I might actually do that at some point in the future. EDIT: Also, I hope this picture of a dog will save this page, since I'd rather not see Junpei return just yet. CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Jan 29, 2016 |
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splifyphus posted:On one of the failed runs it was the most intense mission I've ever played. I had two guys go down in the first encounter but managed to stabilize them both before they bled out. I finished the rest of the mission with a support and an assault, only to have the NPC get sniped two tiles from the extraction zone by the thin man who spawns on the other side of the map. Ok, so I failed the mission, but I'm still bringing everyone home alive! I get my remaining two soldiers into the zone, only to have the game tell me that if I leave now the guys still on the battlefield are toast. So, I go and kill the remaining thin man and end the mission that way. The stats screen comes up - zero soldiers lost. Hell yes. In the original you could huck peoples bodies around. Whenever I captured an alien I'd drag it back to the skyranger where a rookie with a shock prod could smack it any time they woke up (Because they could wake up in the original). X-Com remastered would be something I'd totally play. The modern games have the occasional "And then catastrophy struck" moments. But really nothing compares to kicking the skyranger door open, and an etherial that's right across the street immediately panics the blaster bomb toting dude into nuking the entire squad.
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LordNat posted:Metal Saga. It is part of a really strange line of JRPGs focused on driving tanks around a post apocalyptic world. Really great but really strange game. Worth checking out if you like games where you hunt wild buses around the desert to capture and strap rocket pods to. Why would you name a game "metal saga" when there's things like "metal gear solid", "metal slug", "full metal jacket","full metal alchemist"... it just seems confusing. Games have terrible names. XCOM is a very unique and good name though
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Rhymenoserous posted:In the original you could huck peoples bodies around. Hopefully, in XCOM2 the condition to researching alien corpses could be: "You have to have one soldier pick it up and lug it around, or take it back to the Skyranger, in order to get the option of dissecting it back at base." Or at least, that would be a cool thing to mod in for the realism folks anywho.
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Zaphod42 posted:Why would you name a game "metal saga" when there's things like "metal gear solid", "metal slug", "full metal jacket","full metal alchemist"... it just seems confusing. Games have terrible names. But how can they be a Extraterrestrial Combat Unit if they are all humans?
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SupSuper posted:Likewise. If OpenXcom development completely halts next week, you'll know why. It loving better be. OpenXcom is doing important work.
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Rhymenoserous posted:Whenever I captured an alien I'd drag it back to the skyranger where a rookie with a shock prod could smack it any time they woke up (Because they could wake up in the original). I was worried that would happen the first couple of times I stunned one in the new version. I don't miss that at all. If those fuckers get stunned, they should drat well stay stunned unless woken up by an alien with a medkit.
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Thyrork posted:It loving better be. OpenXcom is doing important work. OpenXcom is cool and good
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 22:56 |
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maybe with openxcom we'll have things that make sense, like using laser and plasma weapons on overland TFTD maps
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 23:01 |
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Is OpenTFTD at a point where it can be completed by us
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 23:02 |
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People said snake tits
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SeaTard posted:I was worried that would happen the first couple of times I stunned one in the new version. I don't miss that at all. If those fuckers get stunned, they should drat well stay stunned unless woken up by an alien with a medkit. It didn't bother me too much. I always left a guy in the skyranger so I could at least get that back when poo poo went horribly wrong. So he'd get prisoner duty, and more often than not he was also on blaster bomb duty since "Why the gently caress not?" There's a lot of stuff I miss from the original. Designing my bases so they'd be kill zones for anyone attacking was a big one. 3 Hangars at the top connected to the rest of the base via the elevator. You can just put four dudes in the next set of rooms south of the elevators on overwatch. It was basically a plasma weapon/grenade/etc farm. What I don't miss is having to man/arm all my auxiliary basis instead of just having one really good base. You needed at least 4-6 dudes on "Defense Duty" for any interceptor bases you had setup or they'd get eaten.
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