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I had one crash at the end of the tutorial. Now (8 hours later) my game is stuck on the end mission screen and as the game only has one save, I am forced to abandon the completed 48 minute mission, as otherwise it loads me onto the stuck screen. (A patch was just uploaded which may be exactly for that: Dev comment in the patch note "We're sorry to have caused this to happen on Friday when you need to play comfortably." That said. It is a good game. Every story mission you do adds the map as a repeatable map so you can grind. It is a jrpg in this. There is a lot to grind. For example I bought something from the shopkeep and got told our relationship was improved by +2. I think I currently have a relationship of +23. Which means I only need another 2976 points to reach the 3000 needed to improve from Neutral to Friendly 😄 The story is very... Asian. When your character runs into a crime in progress he shouts his name "I am Troubleshooter Albus!" Though here people react to it a bit more realistic? As in, early on you get told off for doing so. And the only other person who does it is a certified lunatic (who may think you are a villain. Unless you are a villain or perhaps a villain. But probably you are a villain). The combat works well. It isn't as deadly as normal XCOM games. Especially in the story missions where you control some tougher characters. But it is more RPGy than XCOM games. You seem to have to check buffs on enemies for example lest you kill someone in melee next to a gas station who was affected by a Fire Veil which makes his corpse explode -> blowing up the gas station and setting half your team on fire. You start with only one character and get a second fairly early (in the first few hours). But you aren't alone in missions as you get police backup and thus have some generic assault rifle wielding grunts (edit: just went into an underground parking lot and police sent me strikers instead, armed with shock batons. Practical as we went and turned off the power to practically disable ranged combat). In a review someone mentioned they got their third character just before 30 hours. That may be quite strongly affected by how many repeatable missions they farmed though (edit: it took me 10.5 hours to get number 3, but don't know if the way I handled a specific mission sped that up). You do have a deployment max of 8 though apparently (at least the game tells me I am sending 2/8 units to the mission), so I guess we have a long way to go (and not in the bad way like the Mulan training montage). The English translation is not perfect. It does not make blatant mistakes though. Unit voice messages are in ... Korean? I am afraid I am not experienced enough to tell.

And the XCOM test. Is this a proper, true XCOM clone? Let's find out: I did not miss this attack. Test failed. Not a true XCOM clone.

Bought Troubleshooter. Played for three hours. Had dinner. Played for three hours. Brushing teeth now... Plan is to go to bed right after and not add a "Played for three hours" in between.

Dialogue choices that matter done right:

Got started on the XCOM-clone, JRPG, Harry Potter prequel Getting ready to head for Hogswart Waiting at station 9 3/4 Meeting Luna on the train (that's why I dislike prequels - characters so very often have quite different personalities to the original)

Trying to play Emperor: Battle for Dune. That game hasn't aged well.

Yeah, his term is over anyway. It's for later. But I doubt they'll get enough republican senators to go for it.

The SPD makes it easy for them though. They moved away from their roots to standing for nothing with candidates people have trouble remembering unless they managed to stumble about memorably enough. To say it in German: hätte, hätte, Fahrradkette. The most social democrat rhetoric we heard in the last years were satires by Böhmermann. Heck, I think I would vote for him if he did join the party.

Someone in New Zealand tried to copy the USA: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/13/asia/new-zealand-parliament-axe-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

Slowly working on my backlog. Not making political commentary.

Ignore him. That isn't Skarpen. Obviously it is ANTIFA pretending to be Skarpen. *sagely nod* I am a leftist, I would know. It was in our weekly briefing.

Yesterday a friend here in Greece said: "Yes, but Biden is an alleged pedophile." To which his wife replied: "He is???" "Well, he has never been convicted, but would he be? You do read it a lot online though."

All I want is a good Dune RPG.

Tell Paradox, they'll make you CEO.

World of Darkness Crusader Kings 4 DLC 45

So Trump tried to ban TikTok and got banned from TikTok instead?

If I ever get tried by a jury of my peers: "We the jury find the defendant not guilty as no Mordheim screenshots were found at the scene of the crime."

You haven't posted the paper here, how can we, your obsidian peers review it?

Apparently it is only the account though and not he as a person?

So since my understanding of US law is limited to some brief stuff mentioned during some international law lectures I had to attend and mainly comes from watching a lot of Law & Order, Boston Legal and the odd legal drama like Runaway Jury or Legally Blond, are those "conspiracy crossing state lines" charges from the Chicago Seven applicable here?

Well, you are a prime candidate for the Battle Brothers fan re-education camp

Quite possibly. The weird bobble head people are probably the main reason I didn't try the game.

Yup

A friend send me this one and it took me a moment to get it: