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Fine. I vote for The Men who Stare at Goats
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Akira is wonderful, but it's gotta be The Shining.
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May 24, 2015 10:56
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Speedball posted:The longing got worse after I saw this video again... I loved that show! Did you guys know (I imagine you probably do, but just in case) that it's actually finished now? And it ends in typically humorous manner, which is great. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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May 24, 2015 10:58
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Speedball posted:I thought Chronicle was the Akira ripoff. Honestly speaking, Chronicle was actually pretty fun to watch.
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May 24, 2015 11:16
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Bacchante posted:Honestly speaking, Chronicle was actually pretty fun to watch. Hey, never said it was bad, but if the writer ever told me he didn't watch Akira I would not believe him. Speedball fucked around with this message at 22:10 on May 24, 2015 |
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May 24, 2015 22:07
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Speedball posted:Hey, never said it was bad, but if the writer ever told me he didn't watch Akira I would not believe him. Actually, according to Wikipedia, he straight up cites it as being a major influence on the story, alongside Carrie and The Fury.
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May 24, 2015 23:02
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berryjon posted:Fine. Seconded.
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May 24, 2015 23:06
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Not a lot of sources where No-clip Mode is a psychic ability, but I think even that was in part of the Akira manga, haha. For those who never saw it, the Akira movie got made long before the Akira manga got finished so it went in a waaaay different direction. Akira is mute but alive and well at the center of the freezer pod, Japanese civilization collapses, Tetsuo steals a ton of psychic-power-enhancing pills and gives them to a bunch of volunteers (the ten percent who don't die become psychic too) and he starts a little warrior fiefdom run by creepy psychics in the ruins of Japan. Also there is a really cool old lady the size of a bear who fights off a bunch of bad men with Kei; at one point she bashes a man's head in with a loaded RPG.
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May 25, 2015 01:00
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It helps that you gave Van Doorn all the dam puns, he seems like he might have been a nice dam guy in his day.
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May 25, 2015 23:14
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Glazius posted:It helps that you gave Van Doorn all the dam puns, he seems like he might have been a nice dam guy in his day. He's been finding all the concrete evidence.
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May 25, 2015 23:26
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I like the flow of this conversation.
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May 25, 2015 23:32
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Let's not deluge ourselves into thinking that any of these dam/drat puns are even remotely acceptable 
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May 25, 2015 23:48
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sheep-dodger posted:Let's not deluge ourselves into thinking that any of these dam/drat puns are even remotely acceptable Acceptable or not, that dam's already broke. Speedball posted:I thought Chronicle was the Akira ripoff. I don't know anything about that movie so I can't say. Lucy's premise is literally Akira but with Scarlett Johannson and Morgan Freeman says stuff at some point. The latter isn't actually important, I just like Morgan Freeman.
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May 26, 2015 03:03
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ViggyNash posted:Acceptable or not, that dam's already broke. But weir do we go from there?
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May 26, 2015 04:20
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Wait a minute, the other LP of XCOM going on right now (with Long War enabled) has Van Doorn as a PC too?
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May 26, 2015 06:02
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Speedball posted:Wait a minute, the other LP of XCOM going on right now (with Long War enabled) has Van Doorn as a PC too? Its a 'feature' of long war, yes. Not the LPer's direct doing.
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May 26, 2015 06:08
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Sonova... drat, I wasn't aware of that.
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May 26, 2015 06:19
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Speedball posted:Sonova... drat, I wasn't aware of that. It hardly invalidates your rendition of him. Long war van doorn is kind of annoying really, cause he like to yell his rescue mission quotes every time you shoot at an alien. Or an alien targets him. Or you select him. Or youCOMON IM NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!!!
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May 26, 2015 06:21
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The Evil Thing posted:But weir do we go from there? I think we should levee this whole conversation behind.
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May 26, 2015 06:45
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Scanners.
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May 26, 2015 06:46
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Dreamscape Can you name any other movie about psychics where you fight a snakeman? If you can, I'll vote for that one too.
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IMJack posted:I think we should levee this whole conversation behind. Water under the bridge.
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May 26, 2015 07:49
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Speedball posted:Wait a minute, the other LP of XCOM going on right now (with Long War enabled) has Van Doorn as a PC too? Yeah, and they were inspired to do so by Beaglerush, a guy on youtube who's really good at XCOM, one time on a stream of Long War he did the Van Doorn mission and then named a trooper after him (a lot like you) and then that trooper proceed to kick a fair amount of rear end, and as the Long War devs (some of them at least) watch him, they were inspired to make it so that when you do that mission in Long War, you get Van Doorn as a trooper. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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I don't know if I saw that particular video. One guy I've been watching, Christopher Odd, has some really weird priorities when it comes to what he does in XCOM:EW. Counter-productive, even, or so it would seem, like putting off anything to advance the storyline until way later despite the planet's rising panic levels, moving all four of his squad together in a cluster and overwatching them (including the sniper, who is set to Snap Shot), and foregoing Gene Mods like bioelectric skin when they make the most assholish of enemies, Seekers, much less of a threat. But he seems to be doing okay because he's halfway through Ironman Impossible as of the video I'm watching. Working on next update. It is Annette Learns the Ropes And Meets Everyone day, hee hee hee.
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Speedball posted:I don't know if I saw that particular video. One guy I've been watching, Christopher Odd, has some really weird priorities when it comes to what he does in XCOM:EW. Counter-productive, even, or so it would seem, like putting off anything to advance the storyline until way later despite the planet's rising panic levels, moving all four of his squad together in a cluster and overwatching them (including the sniper, who is set to Snap Shot), and foregoing Gene Mods like bioelectric skin when they make the most assholish of enemies, Seekers, much less of a threat. But he seems to be doing okay because he's halfway through Ironman Impossible as of the video I'm watching. I know some of the guides out there advocate not advancing the plot at all until you've got full satellite coverage. I'm trying it out on a run through currently, and within a few months I've got full coverage and am pulling in obscene amounts of cash per month. It's a cool trick, but kind of ruins some of the fun.
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Yeah, like, I don't think you're supposed to do everything in a month (I think the pace I've set in the LP is about fine) but putting it off forever just makes it harder too. Finishing the alien base assault so you can start working on psychic powers of your own and getting better equipment to match the ever-strengthening aliens is a must, plus that "-1 panic to all nations" it gives is just a godsend in the tight months when you just haven't covered enough countries adequately. Once that Nexus is done building, we'll have complete coverage over every country except three, woo! Sorry, Europe...
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My strategy is to wait until the end of the month and, if doing so would prevent a nation from leaving XCOM, only then perform the alien base assault. If it should never prove necessary, then I put off the assault until I've got all the satellites and goodies I desire.
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May 27, 2015 13:38
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DANGER SPEEDBALL ROBINSON! REBUILD 3 IS OUT OF BETA.
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AAAAAH! (Just let me total up some paperwork in the Real World and then I'll get back to updating XCOM part 37. Sorry guys. I've already recorded part of it and let me tell you, it's gonna get messy.)
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Speedball posted:AAAAAH! Well, that can't be good, unless the mess is someone eating sloppily, but somehow I doubt that. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Part 36: France Gets hosed Week  Welcome to XCOM, Annette! Here, soldiers, scientists, engineers and other specialists from every country on earth have agreed to put their national boundaries aside to work together. You name a country, we’ve got someone from it. Yemen. Hoda Mufaddal, support-class soldier. Whoah. Just follow my floating viewscreen and I’ll give you the tour. This is Engineering, run by Dr. Shen. We’re currently working on a way to make our weapons more efficient, and another SHIV upgrade. SHIV? A tiny rolling tank with a big laser gun. Really handy against missions with zombies. Zombies are real too!? Zombies are way too loving real. You think you’re sick of zombies in video games, wait until you see zombies all over you in real life. Here’s the Gene Lab, where we’ve learned to use that weird mutagenic alien goo to give our soldiers superpowers. Right now, EVA is bravely volunteering to undergo an eye operation that should help her hit her targets a bit more often. Hello! Is it true you’re psychic? Can you read my mind? I’m not that kind of psychic… There’s another soldier who just underwent a different use we’ve found for meld: altering your appearance to match the DNA of someone on record. Where she’s— Yoko, what the hell are you doing? I am Zero. No. No, I am calling a veto on this. You’re a person, not a number. Take off that drat skull helmet, you are not doing the “mysterious killer with no past” thing. But it makes me feel special! HELMET OFF!  There, you happy? Whoah! Melanin upgrade. You look good like that! Glad you kept the cute ponytail. It was never my face to begin with. I’m a mental clone of an abductee crammed into the body of some other abductee, there is no “real me.” (She’s what!?) So I volunteered to use Meld to change my appearance to someone I’m going to impersonate for the next Covert Ops mission. I’m externally identical to the girlfriend of a known EXALT operative. Might as well put my lack of identity to good use… *sigh* (I thought I would be the most screwed-up person here…) And speaking of that, here’s our Big Board of Intrigue, where we monitor the panic levels of our funding nations and try to figure out where the hell EXALT is. …wait a minute. France?! Is there a problem? Sonova… we were going to send Yoko to a different country! Obviously we should send the French girl. No, they’re still looking for her, she’s too high profile.  Then it’s time for the backup backup Covert Operative: ZINCHENKO! Oh, no… Don’t worry, Commander, this time I’ve got two grenades in case they try anything! And my French is very fluent! For gently caress’s sake… Whatever. Just don’t cock it up, okay? Now, Yoko, since you’re not going out into the world yet, get your eyes upgraded at the Gene Labs too. This is the World View, where we watch and wait for other stuff to happen. Why don’t you rest a bit while we get all the paperwork settled for you to become a proper member of XCOM? Oh…okaaaay.******TIME PASSES*******  Blaugh! Hurrk. It tastes like melted caterpillars! From now on, you should be able to see much more clearly than before. With a catch… you’ll need to squint to activate the ability. What? Oh, no, I can’t squint constantly. Then just squint if you ever find yourself missing a shot. You won’t miss the second. So, you think we scared the crap out of the new girl enough? Hey, I’m not scary! Nothing about me is scary. I can see the pores on your faces now. Everyone is scary. Mmm! This is good, especially with Kahlua. The vodka is Swedish, not Russian, though. Ha! I like you, kid. Anyone who knows their alcohol that well… anyway. Like I said before, if your supposed parents aren’t going to take you in anymore… gently caress it. Hilda could always use a sister. Ohhh… heh. Let me think about it, sir.  Ugghhh… I do not recommend being shot with an alien plasma cannon. Ah, good! Latisha’s back! And just in time to check out the new SHIV upgrades. It’ll automatically target incoming enemies, and the dismantled drone tech we’re using will let it repair its own armor plating. Great. I’ll pilot it on the next mission. —which is apparently right NOW! What the hell? Crap! The aliens are unleashing another terror attack on France! What? Why? Is it because of me?! Maybe. Maybe this week is just “France Gets hosed” week. Regardless, move out, team! That includes you, Annette. We’ll give you a trial by fire. What? I mean, I’ll help, but… I’m a forest ranger! So you know how to hike around, you’re good with smoke signals and you know first aid and rescue. Perfect for a support. You have your orders. Save civilians, kill aliens. GO! At least we have someone who can blow stuff up with her mind on our side now. Uh…no. I can’t focus it, it’s no good as a weapon. I can make everyone’s ears bleed all around me at will, but not just one enemy. poo poo, now you tell us! It figures we’d get a defective psychic… Hey! There’s reports of chrysalids, zombies, floaters and cyberdiscs. Aside from the floaters, most of these enemies will require multiple hits to down. I authorized the ammo efficiency project specifically to allow you all to unload on these motherfuckers, you hear? Bury them in hot photons! And just so we’re clear, the machines take point, Annette. The chrysalids can’t turn the SHIV into a zombie. …least, I fuckin’ hope they can’t… I saw this one video game, Shinobi, that had zombie tanks. Right. Prioritize saving civilians. Every one we rescue is one less zombie we have to fight later. Here I go! Stop standing around! Go to the ship! Oh! Thank you, miss. Good job! Now, breach that door. MERDE! JESUS! Four of them! AAAAUGH! I can’t see where two of them went. Snap-shotting the first! Killed one, wounded #2! Someone else finish it. Right here! Annette, DUCK! Enemy down! I got it! Quick, everyone save these straggling civvies as you move forward. Those bugs are going to start turning everyone into zombies in minutes, but if we can kill them before they get to anyone… I see one! I’m rushing the fucker! AH! Bad idea, bad idea! Two more coming right at me! FUUUUUCK! DIEEE! One down, oh god, oh god— AAAAAAH! GET AWAY! It’s coming right for me!!! Don’t you touch my kid, rear end in a top hat! Thanks, Mom. Don’t thank me yet. Oh, poo poo! It’s going for the civilians! NO! You bastards! Three more to the west! How many goddamn bugs are there!? One less over here! One less wall, too. Oh, poo poo. There’s the disc. God drat it, I don’t think we can save everyone this time… …but we’re hosed if we don’t try! Taking another doubleshot!  Running, running, running! The zombies are reanimating. poo poo. They’re slow but they’ll kill you in one hit, don’t let them get close. And the far chrysalid just made another one! I’ll kill them. I’ll kill them all. The SHIV is auto-targeting anything hostile that gets close. I’ll use it to shield us from the zombies. Stay back! poo poo! It’s coming in close! I don’t wanna get my face fried off! AAAAH! FaaaUUUuaaauauH! Why do aliens hate me the most!? *sobbing* Cam, get out of the way! Eva, rocket NOW! That got ‘em! Annette, heal Cam before— I’m fine, I’m regenerating, just kill those last two chrysalids, NOW! Bar-lev, you finish the cyberdisc. Disc’s down! I’m finishing off the chrysalid over here in the parking lot. I’ll use the SHIV as zombie-bait. Thanks, mom! Okay, last chrysalid! I’m emptying my gun! I wasn’t fast enough, it zombiefied someone. It’ll reanimate in a second and kill the person next to it. Hilda, get that lady out of there! Psst! Lady! Go that way. I can’t see where you’re pointing, you’re invisible! Aaah, poo poo. There. *stomp* Over THERE. *stomp stomp* It’s working, they’re going for the SHIV! Ahh, hell, I hope this thing’s tougher than it looks… They just keep on coming, Jesus! I will finish them. You scum. You come here, abduct my whole town, melt all my friends and family before my eyes, kill half my country and now you turn the rest into monsters? DIE. MIMI! I got it, I got it! poo poo, that thing almost ate me! Squint…yes! I can see it! I have this one! I got it! Any left? Not anymore. They’re toast. *huff… huff* Fffuuck… I have to crack my bones back into place again. The rest of the French military has concluded their operations. All alien attackers have been repelled. This could, and should, have been much worse. It’s a goddamn miracle we only had four zombies this time. … Excellent job, folks. Cam, take a couple days sick leave to fully regenerate. poo poo, I take a plasma cannon to the face and I’m out for half a month, but Cam just needs the weekend off? Hey. Not bad for a psychic park ranger. …no. I’m not a park ranger any more. 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(sorry if this one ran a bit long, I wasn't sure where to snip...)
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Speedball posted:(sorry if this one ran a bit long, I wasn't sure where to snip...) Absolutely nobody is complaining about getting more of your writing, dude.
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Speedball posted:(sorry if this one ran a bit long, I wasn't sure where to snip...) It's a bit hard to cut an entire chrysalid terror mission shorter unless you start committing zombies and chrysalids anyways. As for zombies? eer, is Killing Floor close enough? I'm sure it would appeal to the troops more than the usual zombie stuff at least.
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My most favourite zombie fiction is a close race between Shawn of the Dead and Evil Dead. My least favourite is approximately half of the video games made the last few years, indie or AAA. Are the special troops you get affected by Not Created Equally?
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Favorite: World War Z, the book. Least Favorite: World War Z, the movie.
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Ah, Annette Duran, the video game incarnation of our annoyance at all those drat Surrender Cheese Eating Monkey "jokes" that have been in use for DECADES. Her stats are pretty beastly too, you got pretty lucky there.
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Shaun of the Dead, hands down.
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habeasdorkus posted:Favorite: World War Z, the book. I very much concur with this assessment.
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Favorite - Shaun of the Dead Least Favorite - Pretty much everything else that's come out recently that tacks on zombie stuff for the sake of appealing to people who like zombie stuff. Also, kinda sick of hearing about "The Last of Us" all the goddamn time.
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