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I'm really hoping this was simply an attempt at humor that fell flat.

I was shocked earlier that my fairly heavily armored medic got one shotted critically by a muton and died outright. Luckily I had another highly ranked medic, because I am now heading off to the big final battle.

It's odd, but I enjoyed Xcom 3 a lot when it originally, but when I've tried to go back to it over the years I haven't been able to get going. It was definitely a very different experience from the original.

In a lot of ways I'd say Origin is better than Steam, it seems to run smoother at least. But you can't beat those Steam sales

That's the thing, if he's clearly a conspiracy nut, no jury is going to send him away for 20 years.

Choosing some ammo types would be cool, just research it in the foundry or something. Although I'm really not missing having to make ammo clips and grenades. That little piece of simplification is fine by me Edit: I would love TFTD DLC. Fighting through the cruise ships was always a blast.

I just can't believe how long it took for us to get a good squad level tactical combat game. It isn't magic! Seriously, it was a long barren stretch between JA2 and here.

Okay thanks, but 28% is still a huge difference for the same job. Is this something that is known about and accepted or is this behavior that is actually illegal? It isn't something that is easy to enforce legally. You aren't just dealing with one company that pays men more than women. It gets even messier when dealing with bonuses and such, so a base salary may be equal, but many executives pull in more on bonuses than anything else.

Yeah, I love how kickstarter manages all my pledges in one easy location. I'm uncomfortable pledging this project simply for that reason.

Last night I had brought a berserker down to one health and was going to move my assault guy in for a stun, but the berserker did some rage move and one of my other guys fired off a reaction shot that killed him. First time I've ever screamed NOOOO! at a dead on interrupt shot.

Anyone who thinks the terrorism charges would stick to this guy hasn't watched enough Law & Order.

It sounds like I'm not the only one who had to have an awkward conversation with my wife about how much money they put down. I now have to match my pledge in jewelry costs

It's still pretty solid of EA to allow people to keep the games. Obviously it would be bad PR to take them away, but they would have every justification to do so.

Americans don't watch the debates silly. We just trust or news source about how it went down, either Fox News, MSNBC, or Jon Stewart.

I feel naked without 2 assaults, I find they work best as a team anyways. I like having two snipers too, so usually I roll with one support and one heavy.

If you can make the latter more like the former, I'll be very happy

I don't think anyone is content with the acid and poison attacks. The reason this one attacks getting more exposure and attention is because she was a very popular figure for her willingness to speak out about education. She had received a major award from the government and there are interviews of her that are now circulating the web. Now you could take the cynical approach and go "she's getting the attention because she's a celebrity" or you can see her as a very good symbol for all the girls that have been attacked by perverse groups like the Taliban. I would hope the outpouring of attention her attack is receiving will help change Pakistani society. Well, that's hardly cynical, it is the reason - I doubt the authorities would have done squat without all this outrage and condemnation, happens everywhere and does make some sense I suppose as if you're just some plebe no one cares unless you die in droves or something. As for changing Pakistani society, heh that's one long shot. http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/16/world/asia/pakistan-activist-reaction/index.html?eref=igoogledmn_topstories It might not be as far fetched as it initially sounds.

Good to see you Wals! Hopefully you got a chance to pledge Project Eternity

Are you guys on Twitch? I'll shout you out

Yes - complexity of the challenge is important to me. And when I see that remake goes from 26 soldiers to 6 I lose interests. Wow, yeah I don't know how much of a fan you were of the original, but you are seriously missing out. In the original, I really only had 6-8 effective guys out there on most missions. That was my core squad. All they did was get rid of the fluffers I've been playing the original and TFTD religiously pretty much every year. There is always a week or two where I get the scratch, I load up Xcom, and I play it like crazy. This is the first year where I know I won't be doing that. This game completely updates the franchise.

When I'm up against a squad of sectoid commanders or mutons, I'm more than happy to blow them up and lose some gear. My heavies, especially once they get two rockets per mission, do a lot of damage and can do so from a nice range. Although for some reason I ended up with 4 straight rookies going heavy when they leveled. Now I have too many low level heavies and not enough assault guys. I only have two assault guys, they rock, but they take turns in the med bay.

Sounds like you are volunteering ;-)

I was at $140 originally, then added $8 for the order, then added $10 for card. But just now I broke down and upped it to $250. I'm tapped out. That $350 tier went fast, too! Glad it isn't their to tempt me.

Huh, I was able to change the loadouts of people in psy eval, I thought.

Losing? You meant "already lost", I presume.