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I think there's a big but somewhat hard to articulate difference between the episodes of LDR that are the big bangers that are massive awesome sucesses and the average ones. Like Cooked Auto mentions some of them just smash cut to black and that's your ending. And maybe some people really hate that, fair enough. But each episode is roughly ten minutes long so the episodes are sometimes more like a scene or two cut out of story rather than a full self contained story condensed into a 10 or 15 minute segment. And I think that's the difference between the smash hits and the hit or misses, the ones we've listed as the big hits are ones that are generally around 15 minutes and are a complete story arc. But not only that, they pick a theme and hit it square on and hard. They make you think and it's really compelling. Some of the other type of episodes are still really good, but they don't accomplish this. The Very Pulse of the Machine was a good and cool short story, reminding me over other short sci-fi survival stories, and it's a good episode, but it doesn't stay with you. Lucky 13 makes you loving feel for an inanimate space marine dropship. It makes you feel bad when it gets shot up. It makes you feel good when the pilot lady defends it at all costs in the field and it's reputation in the hanger. Shapeshifters makes you feel for the two wolves, the struggles of fitting in, and their bonds as battle brothers, but it doesn't linger much after the episode is over. Zima Blue gets you downright existential at the end when Zima reveals himself, making you think about existence, and what would really made you happy, what would really make your existence meaningful. Kill Team Kill is just pure action and comedy. It's great, its funny and entertaining, but you're not going to get anything deep from it. Jibaro is a strange and cool episode, visually stunning as all hell, but it wraps up in such a way to leave me shrugging and going 'huh... oh well?'. Pop Squad is a brutal commentary and just punches you when you realize what the detectives job actually is. It's a real juxtaposition of utopia/dystopia right there side by side and it sells the weight, the burden of the detectives choice, his jobs role, very well. I could go on episode by episode. But it's fair to say some are absolutely superb while others are only entertaining or humorous and not worth recalling in detail. It's worth pointing out that almost every episode is directed by someone different, so it's hard to expect a lot of consistency when not only the theme is whatever the director dreams up, but it's also a different director dreaming it up every time.
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Sucker of Souls was probably the one that was the most disappointing to me. It had a kernel of good in it, with some good characters and banter. But then it just ends with a smash cut to black and blatantly ignores one of the plot conceits it set up before just because the writers wanted to do a gotcha. The Witness is also one of those really forgettable ones. While stylish it really doesn't say much of anything. And the first Three robots draws out the joke a bit too much, but saves itself with a good punchline. Suits is just starcraft, which is not helped by the fact that the main character is voiced by the same guy who did Tychus for Wings of Liberty. The highs are high but the lows are low as someone once said about something completely different but still works in this case.
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Aug 21, 2022 13:01
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I feel like the lows are only lows in comparison to the super highs. Like I'm not gonna be mad at watching a 15 minute short like Suits if i just needed something to pass the time while my frozen pizza cooks in the oven. ...exact circumstance I watched many episodes of LDR
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Aug 21, 2022 13:08
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Jade Star posted:What if this game took a swerve into the Occult?!? Wouldn't that be awesome.
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Aug 22, 2022 03:29
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Ah thank you. Screw that guy. He sucks.
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Aug 22, 2022 04:38
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 Free from the distractions of guerilla missions popping up it is time to set about ridding the world of the last Chosen. Having our team at full strength and able to pick whomever I want (Ciaphas) to go on this mission will make things easier. Much like the thread has talked about the Warlock is not the strongest fighter when he's alone. His real strengths shine when he can safely psionic you to death while a pod of regular ADVENT or aliens keep you pinned down. That makes this final showdown chamber of his a really poor idea on his part. I'm joined, as always by my good friend 'Guava Moment' as we recall fond times of our past together, work our way through the labyrinth of the Chosen's stronghold, and question where that haunting melody is coming from. 
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Aug 25, 2022 23:24
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Guava's commentary does get drowned out by game audio a lot of the time. Especially when the Warlock starts to monologue.
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Aug 26, 2022 01:16
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Always happy to hear Klezmer Party.
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Aug 26, 2022 01:39
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Cooked Auto posted:Guava's commentary does get drowned out by game audio a lot of the time. Especially when the Warlock starts to monologue. His new audio set up is a mess. I had to amplify the music by like 20 db in post so he could hear it.
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I wonder why out of all the Chosen Weapons that Warlock's is so...unWarlocky? You'd think you'd get some kind of super psionic amp or at least something related to psionics in the slightest for getting rid of him! Makes me sad they didn't make a 4th Chosen that gives a super modded out Minigun/Rocket Launcher for Heavies. But i guess explosives are already super good as in Xcom 2 so maybe Jake though a Minigun with top tier mods AND the ability to ignore 5 armor like the other Chosen weapons on top of regular Shedder stuff was a bit too much.
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Jade Star posted:His new audio set up is a mess. I had to amplify the music by like 20 db in post so he could hear it. Fix your
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Aug 26, 2022 11:49
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Does anyone know why the Warlock turns to stone when he dies?
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Flair posted:Does anyone know why the Warlock turns to stone when he dies? It's mentioned elsewhere on the internet that the Ethereals turned to stone in Enemy Unknown, but I don't remember much of it. Maybe if you're just very psionic that's what happens as you die.
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LashLightning posted:It's mentioned elsewhere on the internet that the Ethereals turned to stone in Enemy Unknown, but I don't remember much of it. Maybe if you're just very psionic that's what happens as you die. Psychic bullshit means crystals. Most rocks are composed of crystalline solids at the very small scale. Turns out you don't get to be the fashionable shiny kind of crystal unless you die in a pressure cooker or something.
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Flair posted:Does anyone know why the Warlock turns to stone when he dies? He was a huge ELO fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDhJU_cNCZE
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The Shame Boy posted:I wonder why out of all the Chosen Weapons that Warlock's is so...unWarlocky? You'd think you'd get some kind of super psionic amp or at least something related to psionics in the slightest for getting rid of him!
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Ew, why'd you have to get Lunethex on? Last time I saw him on Discord he was peddling right-wing talking points.
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Feel free to not watch my LP. While Guava and I have similar views and have let that come up in the LP Lune didn't say poo poo about politics. I don't know his stance on anything, and I don't care because he behaved like a perfectly normal guest commentator. I do know that like 80% of the post recording poo poo I do Lune taught me. He set me up with software, settings, and help. This LP is possible because of the skills he taught me.
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AradoBalanga posted:The Disruptor Rifle makes sense when the player finally gets to use it. It has a 100% crit chance against psionic enemies. Pair it with bluescreen rounds and you can casually one-shot a Codex or severely damage a Gatekeeper, as they count as both psionic and mechanical units. Or pair it with flame rounds to really put the hurt on Priests or [REDACTED]. You know, that makes a lot of sense now, given how the Chosen are used to neutralize any threats to ADVENT. It takes a psionic to kill a psionic after all (well, unless you have a Ranger with a fork, that'll do as well).
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Tagaziel posted:You know, that makes a lot of sense now, given how the Chosen are used to neutralize any threats to ADVENT. It takes a psionic to kill a psionic after all (well, unless you have a Ranger with a fork, that'll do as well). Each of the Chosen had a faction to deal with and I would assume that the Warlock was tasked to deal with the Templars.
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Not sure if it's set or rotates, but The Warlock in the LP was vulnerable to skirmishers, which is why i brought Mox. Lore wise, i think it's the assassin thats tasked with dealing with them.
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I've definitely seen the Warlock vulnerable to the other classes before. It probably relates to if you have Lost and Abandoned enabled or not.
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In short, the Assassin's enemy and having guaranteed Shadowstep are set if you have Lost & Abandoned enabled Other than that, everything is randomized for all three Chosen, though each Resistance Faction can only be strong against one of the three Chosen
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Weakness to Templar combined with Brittle Weakness to melee damage 
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Lore wise, the "official" setup is Assassin-Reaper (The Elders blamed her for the Reapers escaping so it was her job to hunt them), Hunter-Specter (he was made out of one to fight them), Warlock-Templar (Send a psion to hunt a psion). That's basically the "canon" matchup if you read the lore files. In practice, each Chosen's weakness and matchup are randomized each game, with only the Assassin having a fixed matchup if you do the story missions.
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Alkydere posted:Lore wise, the "official" setup is Assassin-Reaper (The Elders blamed her for the Reapers escaping so it was her job to hunt them), Hunter-Specter (he was made out of one to fight them), Warlock-Templar (Send a psion to hunt a psion). That's basically the "canon" matchup if you read the lore files. You got the Reapers and the Skirmishers backwards here, but yes. For support see https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hunter
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I am dumb and should play more and post less  I have actually been running 2/3 sparks per mission this most recent playthrough, and the overwhelming volume of fire is so satisfying The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Aug 30, 2022 |
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^ also the spark gun sound at whatever tier jade's currently at is just lovely
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The Shame Boy posted:Weakness to Templar combined with Brittle Weakness to melee damage
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Worth noting, the "Brittle" weakness does not refer specifically to Melee damage; it refers to any attack launched from within 2 or 3 tiles of the Chosen in question. Getting up close and personal with a Shotgun against a Brittle Chosen leads to great amounts of pain.
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 Sometimes you get stuck while solving a crime and the only thing you can do is take a walk in the woods. For no reason. Just because it's the absolute last and only thing you haven't done. Not that there's any reason to suspect you have to. Ah well. e: it's not a sex cult Guava
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Jade Star posted:e: it's not a sex cult Guava "Just keep pushing... Keep pushing! Keep pushing! You can push it all the way in Tom if you want to! Excellent Tom!"
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I haven't finished the video yet, but morphine does come in tablet form taken orally under the name provided (ora(l)morph(ine) get it?). A brief google search tells me that morphine is also heavily controlled in the uk, just like the US. So uh, their initial cover story given is that a) their doctor is misprescribing a scheduled narcotic and should lose his license and face criminal charges b) Ryan is using a scheduled narcotic that was prescribed to someone else which is also hella illegal. c) Rebecca gave Ryan a scheduled narcotic prescribed to her In short their initial defense, to a cop, was something that should have immediately landed everyone in jail. Although I guess that's better than "oh yeah, we're totally dealing them to our students."
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Halifax be dragons.
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What I love most about this is that while my own geographic knowledge is poor, even I know XCom geography is just... Look when the aliens showed up everything got shuffled around okay. Seattle is in Canada, Victoria Island is in Mexico, and London's in Japan now.
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 Today's episode is a bit of a long one so get a snack and prepare ahead of time. During the mission I saw an interaction for the first time. Something that in hindsight seems quite obvious and straightforward, but I'd just never seen the parts come together during a mission for it to happen. And then it got kind of silly. Fun stuff. I will also add context to the map Guava posted, because Guava is a jerk.  
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I actually had that board game. If I remember correctly, it wasn't Gowron that stole the Enterprise but some random klingon that they got O'Reilly to play, and he really hammed it up in a truly glorious way.
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radintorov posted:I actually had that board game. If I remember correctly, it wasn't Gowron that stole the Enterprise but some random klingon that they got O'Reilly to play, and he really hammed it up in a truly glorious way. They used the TNG sets to film the game, and a lot of the TNG production people also worked on it
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Honestly, when it comes to these "Mark the crates" missions, my preferred tactic is to just focus on enemies, and only mark crates that ADVENT has marked, just to sort of counter their mark. After all, if you win the map, you get any crates left on the map. So unless I plan on grabbing what I can and leaving without clearing the map, there's no real reason to spend the effort to mark crates that ADVENT isn't about to swipe.
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