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kw0134 posted:Oh hey Dan picked up an epic shotgun! I'm sure he'll put it on Godmother and make good use of that. So since we got another 4 episodes recorded before he'll see these comments, odds are that he goes another four without realizing it?
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Oct 31, 2020 21:10
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Crane Fist posted:Torque was right, humans are the real aliens Wait until he finds out that if Torque is binding the last enemy on a map, she snaps their loving neck for the sake of expediency.
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Oct 31, 2020 21:15
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Y'all are a bunch of cops   New Episode!Let's Play XCOM Chimera Squad Episode 18 - One Continuous Mom
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Dead Reckoning posted:Wait until he finds out that if Torque is binding the last enemy on a map, she snaps their loving neck for the sake of expediency. It's great that when they were doing the character concepts for this they were like okay we'll have friendly shield guy, big punchy guy, robot nerd, comedy medic, murderous literal monster who can leap out of vents like an actual loving nightmare and suffocate you to death, cheerful demolition guy, Danaru posted:Y'all are a bunch of cops Uh actually we're Reclamation, it's a separate organization with some plague rats fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Nov 1, 2020 |
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Nov 1, 2020 02:37
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I'm a bit disappointed that you passed up on Claymore, but I can understand the appeal of wanting rad snake lady. That said, Claymore does have some of my favorite squad banter moments, specifically with Axiom and Verge.
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Nov 1, 2020 02:46
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W.T. Fits posted:I'm a bit disappointed that you passed up on Claymore, but I can understand the appeal of wanting rad snake lady. That said, Claymore does have some of my favorite squad banter moments, specifically with Axiom and Verge. I'm not sure that Danaru would still have a liver by the end of the LP if Claymore was on the team.
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Nov 1, 2020 04:34
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Agreed. Claymore is cool, but the guy whose theme is "grenades for everybody" isn't exactly conducive to bringing in bad guys alive. Crane Fist posted:It's great that when they were doing the character concepts for this they were like okay we'll have friendly shield guy, big punchy guy, robot nerd, comedy medic, murderous literal monster who can leap out of vents like an actual loving nightmare and suffocate you to death, cheerful demolition guy, Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Nov 1, 2020 |
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Nov 1, 2020 07:12
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Dead Reckoning posted:got paperclipped into XCOM's post war tactical development unit, This is actually the perfect way of putting it and I absolutely love the idea of XCOM doing Operation Gladio during the reconstruction, that's incredibly dark Can't wait for Italy to launch into the Years of Plasma
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Nov 1, 2020 07:51
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Chuu posted:I'm not sure that Danaru would still have a liver by the end of the LP if Claymore was on the team. Dead Reckoning posted:Agreed. Claymore is cool, but the guy whose theme is "grenades for everybody" isn't exactly conducive to bringing in bad guys alive. There's plenty of nonlethal grenades for Claymore to play around with. Flashbangs, Cease Fire Grenades, Smoke Grenades, Bubble Grenades, Kinetic Screens, plus other assorted goodies that haven't been seen yet.  But seriously, I understand the myriad number of reasons why taking Claymore along would be a bad idea. And Torque is just as fun, albeit in a different way.
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Crane Fist posted:This is actually the perfect way of putting it and I absolutely love the idea of XCOM doing Operation Gladio during the reconstruction, that's incredibly dark I mean, resistance XCOM itself was a deniable, unaccountable direct action network, whose methods could often be described as "terroristic", being funneled guns and money by a senior administration spokesman, and descended from an organization whose underground lair literally contained a chamber for torturing and dissecting captives. So old habits die hard, I guess? Some reporter looking into why a Senior Agent of the Reclamation Agency bears a striking resemblance to the snake lady who ran New Arctic Human Liquidation Black Site #7 is going to be found crushed to death in a steamer trunk, and Godmother is going to No Comment when City 31 PD files it as a "death by misadventure." Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Nov 1, 2020 |
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Nov 1, 2020 08:29
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I want to see the XCOM version of the truth and reconciliation commission. Imagine the questions that would be asked. Does it count as a war crime if you were mind controlled at the time? Is "I thought he was a faceless" valid grounds for a self-defense plea? Did you let the Lost overrun major cities because you, quote, "hate those missions"? Imagine getting called in front of a panel of snakes and asked did you kill their king, follow up question, are you wearing his skin right now?
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Nov 1, 2020 09:38
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The alien rulers were abominations who were created by a rogue element of XCOM who has been disavowed, and they were put down for everyone's safety
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Crane Fist posted:I want to see the XCOM version of the truth and reconciliation commission. Imagine the questions that would be asked. Does it count as a war crime if you were mind controlled at the time? Is "I thought he was a faceless" valid grounds for a self-defense plea? Did you let the Lost overrun major cities because you, quote, "hate those missions"? Imagine getting called in front of a panel of snakes and asked did you kill their king, follow up question, are you wearing his skin right now? I think the humans and aliens could probably agree to forget about the "I was fighting mind-controlled gene slaves of the Elders/I was a mind-controlled gene slave of the Elders" stuff. The more awkward questions are going to be about, for example, whatever happened to all those human Advent VIPs who were snatched out of city centers, brought to the Avenger, and then never heard from or spoken of again?
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Nov 1, 2020 19:42
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Dead Reckoning posted:whatever happened to all those human Advent VIPs who were snatched out of city centers, brought to the Avenger, and then never heard from or spoken of again? Depends on how easily they talked, either we dumped them naked in the woods a kilometer from the closest city, or we swept whatever's left off the Avenger while flying over the ocean. This is off the record, right?
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Nov 1, 2020 20:27
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Dead Reckoning posted:The more awkward questions are going to be about, for example, whatever happened to all those human Advent VIPs who were snatched out of city centers, brought to the Avenger, and then never heard from or spoken of again? The inside man informing on Avent Burger arranged for them to be released into the waiting
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Crane Fist posted:This is actually the perfect way of putting it and I absolutely love the idea of XCOM doing Operation Gladio during the reconstruction, that's incredibly dark Better that than whatever the XCOM equivalent of the Dutroux Affair is.
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Danaru posted:Depends on how easily they talked, either we dumped them naked in the woods a kilometer from the closest city, or we swept whatever's left off the Avenger while flying over the ocean. 
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White Coke posted:Better that than whatever the XCOM equivalent of the Dutroux Affair is.  Something being better for rebuilding a society compared to a convicted murderer and serial child rapist is a pretty low bar to clear. Conducting an almost 8 year long clusterfuck of an investigation rife with mistakes and rumors of a cover up didn't help society either. On the other hand, leaving behind agents to influence and badger a country into doing what you want, rather than respecting the people's choice, and actively attempting to destabilize the country with terror bombings is just as lovely, but in a different way. Assuming all the aliens have the same life expectancy as humans, I'd guess it would take at least 50 years before "who did which war crimes during the war" would cease to be a really influential issue in politics and everyday life. kw0134 posted:The alien rulers were abominations who were created by a rogue element of XCOM who has been disavowed, and they were put down for everyone's safety  They killed off XCOM's best scientist and replaced her with  Tygan. 
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Nov 2, 2020 03:02
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Someone asked to see Vahlen's diploma and she threw down a smoke bomb and vanished
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I mean, let's be honest, an episode of the xcom 2 LP was literally titled "A Mild War Crime"
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Pea posted:This is an oddly specific old reference. The Dutroux Affair isn't just what Dutroux himself did but all the suspicious circumstances around him, like the dozens of dead witnesses or him owning ten houses while being on welfare, that all look like there's a cover up going on to protect powerful people. Pea posted:On the other hand, leaving behind agents to influence and badger a country into doing what you want, rather than respecting the people's choice, and actively attempting to destabilize the country with terror bombings is just as lovely, but in a different way. Gladio wasn't just right-wing terrorism but had ties to organized crime, drug and human tracking among others, which they either partake of directly or allow to happen.
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White Coke posted:Better that than whatever the XCOM equivalent of the Dutroux Affair is. It doesn't have to be all bad, imagine XCOM using a physics glitch to recreate Spain's first astronaut on some Advent goon
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this ain't X2 anymore, and it didn't make sense to raise the Dan Metal Gear LP thread from the dead for it, but drat, look at this nonsense
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White Coke posted:The Dutroux Affair isn't just what Dutroux himself did but all the suspicious circumstances around him, like the dozens of dead witnesses or him owning ten houses while being on welfare, that all look like there's a cover up going on to protect powerful people.  Crane Fist posted:It doesn't have to be all bad, imagine XCOM using a physics glitch to recreate Spain's first astronaut on some Advent goon  moments in the games, XCOM basically wrote the book on military glitching.
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Dead Reckoning posted:"Remember that extremely questionable poo poo most governments have at least dabbled in at some point IRL? Welp, XCOM did it too after they won the war. Cherub loves nachos!" people are not going to ask for comment when you get to David Carradine levels of misadventure
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Pea posted:It simply surprised me to see it mentioned on a US-based forum in an LP thread about XCOM. Let alone 24 years after his arrest and 16 years after he was finally convicted. Seeing Operation Gladio mentioned jogged my memory. I learned about him when he was described as being kind of like Europe's Epstein. starbucks hermit posted:people are not going to ask for comment when you get to David Carradine levels of misadventure A lot of ex-ADVENT officials kneeled forcefully after the war.
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starbucks hermit posted:snake lady themed strip club "Hey, we goin' to the Viper Pit for Shelter's bachelor party?" "The snake youth hostel? Why the heck would we go there?" "I thought Viper Pit was the strip club?" "That's Adders' Den, bro." "No, Adders' Den is the snake food restaurant on Broadway." "Cobra Club? Where did we buy Torque a no-lap dance last month then?"
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The snake food place is just the local pet shop.
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evilmiera posted:The snake food place is just the local pet shop.
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New Episode! Let's Play XCOM Chimera Squad Episode 19 - Tiny Babbor Muton I will never remember that Torque uses SMGs, for some reason my brain wont let go of thinking she uses rifles
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Nov 7, 2020 14:42
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I guess I'll have to be the smart rear end then. Vipers are immune to poison. The medkits special abilities is to prevent the holder from being poisoned.
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Yeah we figured that out after the session, so expect me to continue getting confused about it for a while. It's actually really clever game design since poison is one of the only persistent damage effects you cant just hunker down to get out of, and if you're equipping medkits on people it likely means Terminal's off the case, so you dont have the situation of having to use your only medkit to depoison yourself
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Protip: when it comes to breach points that have "The first/last unit through this point is rooted/has their weapon disabled" effects on them, use Zephyr in that spot. She has built-in immunity to being rooted, and since she punches/kicks people in the face, her weapon can't be disabled either. 
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W.T. Fits posted:Protip: when it comes to breach points that have "The first/last unit through this point is rooted/has their weapon disabled" effects on them, use Zephyr in that spot. She has built-in immunity to being rooted, and since she punches/kicks people in the face, her weapon can't be disabled either. E: Also glad to see Dan is a very smart and good dude who immediately recognized that you should Dead Reckoning posted:Always buy Impetuous Spire the instant you see it. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Nov 8, 2020 |
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Not an issue if she's the only one through the "gets rooted" door, though 
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W.T. Fits posted:Protip: when it comes to breach points that have "The first/last unit through this point is rooted/has their weapon disabled" effects on them, use Zephyr in that spot. She has built-in immunity to being rooted, and since she punches/kicks people in the face, her weapon can't be disabled either. Wait, she can't be rooted? I never figured that out I generally send Verge through those because if you're having him move around or shoot you're using him wrong
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Crane Fist posted:Wait, she can't be rooted? I never figured that out Also, yes, if Torque is binding the last enemy on a map, she snaps their loving neck for the sake of expediency. Fun fact, Vipers would do this in XCOM2 as well!
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I'm just happy you've found a decent beer, the sheer amount of beverage masochism up til now was worrying me a little.
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Dead Reckoning posted:It's in the tool tip on one of her abilities, easy to miss. Like Dan, I figured it out after she got hit with rooting and shrugged it off. That's almost too good I just started up a new run and I'm forcing myself not to take Zephyr just so I have to use the other agents on their own merits instead of just going "okay who will assist her in punching better"
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