splifyphus posted:

you just wrote a multiparagraph diatribe at a teenager, bre. busy guy like you should value his free time.

by posting about xcom 2 for instance.

who likes xcom? i like xcom.

Pwnstar posted:

The ending of the game after you've kicked all the aliens off the planet is Bradford saying "Commander... we're back" as he puts the sweater back on.

FraudulentEconomics posted:

Junpei, I was like you once. Full of self-proclaimed fantastic ideas and only needing people to turn my dreams into reality.

I was in high school when I first tried recruiting for a project as an ideas guy. I got laughed out of the forum and thankfully, one of the people there imparted wisdom to me. He said that it's never enough to be an ideas guy, especially when you don't have any proof that you can deliver. You have to work toward it. Draw characters, do simple coding, show people that you're willing to work but know you don't have every necessary skillset.

This doesn't mean make a lovely game with a ton of placeholder art; it means make the most of your abilities on your own and if people can perceive your ability and drive, they will follow. You're never too young to learn and never too old to begin. The only person who is going to stop you from making it a reality is yourself. Look at it in the same way as someone trying to lose weight. You need to overcome the haters. You need to fight against the part of you that doesn't want to work hard. You need to be ready to struggle. People don't just stumble into a perfect game concept or team. Indie dev is in one of the best places ever right now, you have loads of free tools, free tutorials, and post-mortem reports. Grab ahold of your future and make it into whatever you can dream of. It's cliche, but what ARE you waiting for? Tomorrow becomes next week, which becomes next month, which becomes next year, which becomes never because you don't have the lack of responsibility to take risks anymore.

Ciaphas posted:

wasn't it, like, a cardigan

I mean we might as well get the details right

PBS Newshour posted:

Bradford wouldn't be a baby but your teenage baby sitter who does sweet skate tricks.

Junpei posted:

And goes "Totally gnarly, bros!"?

PBS Newshour posted:

No that is stupid, Bradford would never do that. Sorry about this truth bomb, but that idea is totally bad and wrong.

LionYeti posted:

A Cardigan is a button up sweater, Central Officer Bradford's sweater did not have buttons.

PBS Newshour posted:

Please don't use truthbombs unironically

Cythereal posted:

Besides, we all know the key to stopping the Avatar Project is going to be talking Vahlen into coming back to X-COM.

Uncle Jam posted:

When does this poo poo preload? Its going to take 5 days to download.

Coolguye posted:

This just proves you weren't interested in the answer to begin with, dude. You are competing against some serious players to even get a single brain cycle out of my head. You got more than a few of them in my answer to you, which is honestly a lot more than anyone else in either of your threads has given you. Have you never had a coach in, like, anything? They don't yell at you because they hate you, they yell at you because they know you can do better. If they ignore you, that's the really bad poo poo.

If I were in a bad mood, you would've gotten another no-effort shitpost, or nothing at all. And you'd continue to waddle around not knowing anything.

Or we can do it like this, where you get truthbombs dropped on you and you don't absorb a single thing. We could do that too. Whatever, by tomorrow I'll be too busy to do anything but laugh at you again.

splifyphus posted:

fair enough.


I *think* there's a review embargo ending Monday morning, and that's when people can start streaming their review builds. Drawing a blank on where I read that though. I do know that all the preview copies are deactivated right now.

Generation Internet posted:

Same

Colapops posted:

meltdowns vs. middle schoolers. you've done good work, junpei.

Chiwie posted:

Wow.

Edit: I'm not going to try and pretend to be a high speed creative smart guy, but maybe someone can point the kid in the right direction of a beginners coding YouTube series rather than spewing a couple of ranty paragraphs at him.

busb posted:

show your creative talents by writing xcom fan fiction

busb posted:

How easy is it to modify the soldier name pool in xcom2?

Coolguye posted:

i'm pretty sure that that's part of the resistance fighter pack actually

Coolguye posted:

From what I understand it's just a flat text file the same way it was in EU

so, basically trivial.

Sky Shadowing posted:

Oh god, I wonder how hard it will be to add a new country, because suddenly I'm getting the idea XCOM 2 could be a bridge for all the Paradox mega-LPs to hit Stellaris.

Coolguye posted:

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

look, junpei is the kind of person whose parents have never told him the word "no" and he is going to parse exactly 0% of what you had posted

just treat him like a Special Boy and be on your merry way

Cheston posted:

Another thing to get excited about that I don't think got enough attention the first time around: one of the heavy weapons the exo suit can mount is basically a flak shotgun.

Junpei posted:

Actually, I am going to learn to code. So take that, Cristo wannabe!