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GRAPHICAL Liberal Crime Squad! To get a sense of the game from Toady, the original maker: quote:
So what is LCS? It's a strategy rouge-like with lots of squad management, fast and lethal combat, open world and heavy political satire. Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress, made LCS sometime around the 00's as a satire of the era's political hyperbole, in his words something like "what if political cartoons were real life." He developed it for a few more years until the Dwarf Fortress community began to expand on it themselves. LCS has become a janky C++ mess over the years but is still very much in active development. If you get the old version that Tarn or the first community developer Jon Fox worked it'll still work on every system. There are two main currently updated forks over the years since- the main one that to the best of anyone's knowledge no longer compiles on unix-like computers, which is probably the most feature rich and "polished". The other is the Terra Vitiate mod which will still compile on every system and has a ton of interesting features but riddled with bugs and prone to crash. I'm not going to bother to link every bit of info about the OG LCS, you can go to Bay 12 and just ask them since most of the developers active or not still post there and link their releases and mods there, or ask them for a discord invite to the LCS dev discord if you really want to try out the bleeding edge. One of the developers, Cheshire Cat, decided to totally remake the game from the ground up in Unity, with actual graphics! http://lcs.wikidot.com/ The wiki happens to be more or less accurate to the version of the game the graphical remake was based on. https://the-cheshire-cat.itch.io/lcs Since it's unity it now compiles for just about everything without issues, and executables are already available on his website. I'll be playing on debian right now. The features/balance of the game is generally based upon the last Fox release rather than the latest community release, though compared to the C++ spaghetti of the OG it's downright simple to mod the Unity version as you see fit compared to the old one. So what's the world of LCS? Part of the concept was inspired by the SLA, or at least what the SLA thought of themselves, if the SLA were Hillary Clinton voters. The United States enters a civil war where all "Liberals" and "Conservatives" must struggle for the future of the nation, through the only possible mechanism for change: doing lots of crime to encourage people to VOTE. You win by passing the ELITE LIBERAL amendments and lose if everyone dies/quits or the Conservatives make Republican Jesus and Ronald Reagan's ghost president for life or something through amendments as well. There is no nuance or difference between liberals/left/socialism nor conservatives/libertarians/fascists, you're either a Liberal or a Conservative, or worst of all, a dirty moderate. Hopefully we can convince them to pick a side. There's also elements of some sort of woo-y "The Secret" type stuff with reality bends with laws, so if you encourage the public to vote that dogs are equal to humans you can talk to dogs and convince them to become liberals. The TV mod takes this REALLY far. Once you start making waves, the CONSERVATIVE forces will found the Conservative Crime Squad, your mirror enemy but heavily funded and equipped by the CIA/Corporations/Ted Cruz. You have to defeat them by either interrogating captured members and wiping out their hideouts or raiding the CIA and stealing proof of their ties to conservative leaders. They also raid and impact public opinion much like you. However, instead of shooting up AM Radio stations, they shoot up the ACLU. There are four parties that you don't have any direct ties to but your actions can make them popular or unpopular. There's the Republican and Dem parties, but also when one side is close to winning the LIBERAL ELITE or the $$$USA FLAG EAGLE$$$ party will begin to claim election victories. You start as a young liberal with a backstory. I have my own preference where I tend to make my founder more of a talker that only does very minor crimes so they can develop some thief skills to train up new liberals. The various backstories that you can mix and match parts of if you stick to one entirely break down into: 1. Thief 2. Gunman 3. Scholar 4. Leader 5. Survivor Survivor has the most potential so I tend to mostly do that with a splash of leader and maybe a thief option. I'll be posting the backstory in the second post and I'll be giving the founder my username. I tend to roll with a few heavy armed defense/assault squads and one or two elite stealth/disguise squads plus some specialists like tailors or trainers to stay home. You can have vandals, musicians, recruiters, spies, hackers, just about anything. I've messed around with just about every type of squad though, so please feel free to ask for anything. Go ahead and post if you want to help advance the radical socialist liberal agenda and what sort of character you want. I may not always be able to accommodate the specific type depending on the state of the campaign but shouldn't usually be a problem.
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Sep 1, 2021 22:49
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I recommend you get the following- a Hacker, a Hitter, a Grifter, a Thief, and a Mastermind. The similarity of this team to the heroes of a popular tv show called Leverage is probably coincidence. Since I try not to get involved in this sort of politics unless I must, put me down as audience only.
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Sep 1, 2021 22:56
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 1. The day I was born in 1984… the Nobel Peace Prize went to Desmond Tutu for opposition to apartheid. 2. When I was bad… my parents argued with each other about me, but I was never punished. 3. In elementary school… I was the class clown. I even had some friends. 4. When I turned 10… my parents divorced. Whenever I talked, they argued, so I stayed quiet. 5. In junior high school… I played guitar in a grunge band. We sucked, but so did life. 6. Things were getting really bad… and I went completely goth. I had no friends and made costumes by myself. 7. Well, I knew it had reached a crescendo when… I was resorting to controlling people. Had my own clique of outcasts. 8. I was only 15 when I ran away, and… I volunteered for a left-wing candidate. It wasn't *real*, though, you know? 9. Life went on. On my 18th birthday… I celebrated. I'd saved a thousand bucks! 10. For the past few years, I've been… surviving alone, just like anyone. But we can't go on like this.
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Sep 1, 2021 23:07
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So are you going to play on nightmare mode, or at least show off some of the crazy stuff that appears when things are that bad?
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Sep 1, 2021 23:08
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achtungnight posted:I recommend you get the following- a Hacker, a Hitter, a Grifter, a Thief, and a Mastermind. The similarity of this team to the heroes of a popular tv show called Leverage is probably coincidence. More or less, this ends of being the cadre group of leader/trainers I keep around. Someone with high security/computers, weapons, persuasion, stealth/disguise, and the leader (who usually ends up being the persuasion guy/gal). I can send out a leverage squad when I have the people to spare but they likely won't last long since each squad has to stick together so they'll be handicapped by the worst disguise/stealth skill.
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Sep 1, 2021 23:12
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NewMars posted:So are you going to play on nightmare mode, or at least show off some of the crazy stuff that appears when things are that bad? Nightmare mode doesn't appear to work in this version of the game, interestingly. I selected it but it doesn't appear to have taken.
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Sep 1, 2021 23:13
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Turns out you have to enable/disable the option for it work right. Okay, meet your NEW IMPROVED AND EVEN MORE LIBERAL LCS founder  Yikes!
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Sep 1, 2021 23:28
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Ah, the 2024 option.
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Sep 1, 2021 23:31
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Hello liberals, it's time to change we WE NEED A SLOGAN because we need a slogan.
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Sep 1, 2021 23:32
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We're not off to the strongest start. Gonna have to work on our persuasion a bit.  
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Sep 1, 2021 23:37
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We've found a few more sensible, yet nearly useless stat wise REAL liberals among the hippies I'm going to focus on recruiting some hippies and training them up. Won't update unless something significant happens for a few. In the meantime. FYI, if you want to be one of the hippies, keep in mind hippies tend to be pretty expendable in the service of liberalism on nightmare mode. You will likely find yourself in Liberal Valhalla early on, Shiny and  'ed1. Sign up for the LIBERAL AGENDA so I can put some names in and tell me what sort of character you want to build! 2. Pick a slogan! Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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Sep 1, 2021 23:40
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Not very surprising that hippies are cannon fodder in this game.SMEGMA_MAIL posted:More or less, this ends of being the cadre group of leader/trainers I keep around. Someone with high security/computers, weapons, persuasion, stealth/disguise, and the leader (who usually ends up being the persuasion guy/gal). That would probably be the Hacker on the actual Leverage squad, though he did get better with time. One of the more intriguing things about politics in this vein (to me anyway) is how liberal by the dictionary definition conservatives are on certain things. Gun rights is one example, speech supporting them another, masks is another more recent one. And yet they still use liberal as a dirty word, especially when I point this out.  I still remember the days when more people knew what liberal actually means.
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Sep 1, 2021 23:57
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Sign me up for the liberal Agenda! As for a slogan, howsabout: "Vote out the fascists!"
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Sep 2, 2021 00:03
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I have no idea how anything works but I would like to sign up to be part of the liberal agenda. Just like in real life! I would like to be an intensely fascist cold war russian style communist caracature . I want conservatives sent to fema reeducation camps and turned into gay cucks with magic chemtrails. I will always choose the most violent, big government style tactics in every situation. If possible i would like to have a military hat. edit: slogan: "We are the biggest brother." Digital Prophet fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Sep 2, 2021 |
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Sep 2, 2021 00:07
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Digital Prophet posted:I have no idea how anything works but I would like to sign up to be part of the liberal agenda. Just like in real life! Interesting note: one of the things that has yet to be implemented in any of them but has been talked about is a late-game boss: The Stalinist Comrade Squad, who seek to hijack the liberal revolution. If they defeat you, you are sent to a gulag in newly annexed Canada.
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Sep 2, 2021 00:16
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Better make that “biggest sibling”. Ultra-liberals should be gender inclusive. My slogan suggestion- “You don’t have the right to infringe on my rights!” It’s vague enough to survive in an ultra-conservative dystopia, and those on our side will know what it means.
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Sep 2, 2021 00:21
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Shout-out to Judge Judge, the lone bastion of Elite Liberal reason in the Supreme Court.
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Sep 2, 2021 00:25
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sure but "big brother" has connotations that "big sibling" does not.
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Sep 2, 2021 00:26
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NewMars posted:Sign me up for the liberal Agenda! You're first! I'll wait to hold off on naming you since my current batch of hippies is extremely expendable, I'll wait until I have a normal person recruited.  Digital Prophet posted:I have no idea how anything works but I would like to sign up to be part of the liberal agenda. Just like in real life! It is ultimately the LIBERAL crime squad, as Newmars is saying the Stalinist Crime Squad is a partially implemented feature in some of the newer ones so the dialogue can't really change. However, since Lennists love newspapers you'll write op-ed's and eventually for the LIBERAL GUARDIAN paper. I'll give you the one mutant I have since they're probably going to be an artist/writer.   The very first raid went well. Liberals stormed the AM radio station where the speaker was very convientely close to the door, spoke some liberal reason, and shot their way out. However, none of the OG members of that squad are alive after several other LCS raids. Nor the second, or the 3rd.
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Sep 2, 2021 00:29
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Thankfully Judge Judge is quite young and healthy too!
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Sep 2, 2021 00:32
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Sep 2, 2021 00:34
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My founder liberated a bunch of sweatshop workers, who became another suicide assault team. Codename NewMars, the sole survivor after a few brushes with the deathsquad, will hopefully be taking up a position as a leader and recruiting some liberals. Multilevel Maoism! 
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Sep 2, 2021 00:54
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While breaking into a CONSERVATIVE auto plant to free child workers, Liberal NewMars ran into some non-union workers and dealt with the scabs appropriately. Tragically, one of the scabs pulled out a .45 and ended comrade NewMars on the spot. 
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Sep 2, 2021 01:00
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I would like to die for the glorious cause of getting people to Pokemon Go To The Polls please
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Sep 2, 2021 01:05
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Please equip me with the deadliest weapon in the left’s arsenal, the guitar.
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Sep 2, 2021 01:20
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MY LIFE FOR AYERS
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Sep 2, 2021 01:20
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Sign me up as part of the Soros-paid conspiracy to put chemicals in the water to turn everyone gay please. I want those checks for protesting ty
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Sep 2, 2021 01:54
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I did have one yet to be goon-named guy in the squad who just happened to catch a bullet while the rest of you escaped on the last raid. These 3 survivors will need a bit more juice before they can recruit their own squads but it's looking up.
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Sep 2, 2021 02:05
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Freudian recruits some gang members,  Kangxi leaves the gang hideout and joins the cause of liberalism! 
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Sep 2, 2021 02:11
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Our Liberal Crime Squad has.... denounced capitalism? Whatever comrades pokemon go to the polls!
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Sep 2, 2021 02:14
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Welp, doing street activism for the Lincoln Project is quite dangerous. While doing Liberal Disobedience "Squirting People with Fake Polluted Water", Kangxi has an encounter with the death squad. One would be easy but two is pretty tricky for an untrained Liberal.    The first burst badly wounds one of the death squad members but the other returns fire, killing Kangxi instantly. Rest in Liberalism
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Sep 2, 2021 02:22
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Raise awareness for my death. Make me viral
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Sep 2, 2021 02:27
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Kangxi posted:Raise awareness for my death. Make me viral We will play a liberal song in your honor! The team swaps out their guns for guitars and gets to busking. Busking is much more dangerous in this version of LCS  One escapes... one doesn't.  RIP megane
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Sep 2, 2021 02:36
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Oh hey I made this. This is the closest thing to a playtest the game has had beyond me getting scattered bug reports from people on the itch.io page or Bay 12 forums over the years; if you run into any issues I can try to patch things as you're going. Also liberalize me please.
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Sep 2, 2021 03:09
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Oh hey I made this. This is the closest thing to a playtest the game has had beyond me getting scattered bug reports from people on the itch.io page or Bay 12 forums over the years; if you run into any issues I can try to patch things as you're going. You did? Great work! LCS is a deeply underrated game.
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Sep 2, 2021 03:31
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Holy poo poo this is a game I haven't seen in a while. I had no idea it was still being updated as my last version was *checking old game folder* version 4.06.3. The times, they've left me behind. Go ahead and sign me up, preferably as an old liberal. I fought in the trenches before, this'll be my last time.
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Sep 2, 2021 03:53
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Sign me up for l i b e r a l i z a t i o n. I guess with a name like mine, what's the closest I can get to doing comedy or television?
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Sep 2, 2021 04:12
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Colin Mockery posted:Sign me up for l i b e r a l i z a t i o n. You can recruit conservative news anchors via either rocking out at them until they see the truth of liberalism or In either case, you can keep them on as a sleeper agent, where they can use their position to spread the liberal agenda.
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Sep 2, 2021 04:15
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Oh hey I made this. This is the closest thing to a playtest the game has had beyond me getting scattered bug reports from people on the itch.io page or Bay 12 forums over the years; if you run into any issues I can try to patch things as you're going. Holy poo poo I didn't know you were a goon too. Great game! I'll try to leave good bug reports if I find any. So far I've only encountered the need to press/unpress/press button once or twice but given LCS/LCS clones are my favorite game I don't even notice tiny jank because the underlying game is so fun and open-ended. I'll do some skill grinding and get some combat trainers, goons are dropping a little faster than I intended! Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Sep 2, 2021 |
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Sep 2, 2021 04:45
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:RIP megane a more glorious death I could not have hoped for 
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