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dewomser<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/xcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xcom</span></a> macht mir Vorschläge. Kann mich gar nicht entscheiden. beide sind so gleich…. :mastorofl:</p>
IT News<p>Marvel’s Midnight Suns is free right now, and you should grab it (even on Epic) - Enlarge / All these goons are targeting Captain America, as shown in ic... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2029779" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=2029779</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/turnbasedstrategygame" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>turnbasedstrategygame</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/marvelsmidnightsuns" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>marvelsmidnightsuns</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/x" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>x</span></a>-comenemyunknown <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/epicgamesstore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>epicgamesstore</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cardbattler" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cardbattler</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/epicgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>epicgames</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/firaxis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>firaxis</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/x" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>x</span></a>-com <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/xcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>xcom</span></a></p>
The Video Game Library 📚<p>Admittedly I haven't played much of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a>, and the geo-specific naming conventions make my head spin. </p><p>That said - "Monsters in the Dark" is a book that's high on my list to read this year.</p><p>It chronicles the legendary journey of Julian Gollop and the creation of X-COM.</p><p><a href="https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">thevideogamelibrary.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/XCOMUFODefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOMUFODefense</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/XCOMEnemyUnknown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOMEnemyUnknown</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JulianGollop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JulianGollop</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VideoGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGame</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VideoGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGames</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gamer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Games</span></a></p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a> </p><p><strong>MISSION SUMMARY</strong></p><p>Kills: 9<br>Casualties: SQ Queen (wounded)</p><p>RK Queen promoted to SQUADDIE<br>SQ Book promoted to CORPORAL<br>SQ Manley promoted to CORPORAL<br>SQ Theodora promoted to CORPORAL</p><p>Dr. Doreen Hunter, a network engineer from the local resistance cell, has joined XCOM and transferred to the Avenger.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a> </p><p>HADDOCK: People. <em>Please.</em> Squaddie Queen?</p><p>QUEEN: The two lancers approached me from opposite sides. Alli got one, but the other tagged me with those electrified clubs they carry. Pretty sure I felt a rib snap. Then my head was spinning and I was seeing double, so I just shot both of him.</p><p>BOOK: I mean, you emptied an entire magazine into the wall, I suppose at least one or two rounds were bound to hit him.</p><p>QUEEN: Shush, you.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a> </p><p>MANLEY: I turned that priest into sushi, though.</p><p>BOOK: What? I love sushi. Don't ruin it for me?</p><p>MANLEY: Okay, into cottage cheese.</p><p>BOOK: Better.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a> </p><p>BOOK: We were almost out of time, but I was able to execute a remote hack with the Gremlin drone. Those things are handy. I also found the location of a nearby ADVENT supply drop; we loaded that on the Skyranger on the way back.</p><p>QUEEN: We were preparing to extract when reinforcements dropped in. Two stun lancers—</p><p>MANLEY: I <em>hate</em> those guys.</p><p>QUEEN: — and a priest.</p><p>THEODORA: I hate <em>those</em> guys.</p><p>BOOK: This part didn't go so well. We were scattered, and they were able to outmaneuver us.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a> </p><p>HADDOCK: Please focus on the factual elements of the mission. The question we are asking here is "What did we learn?"</p><p>MANLEY: We learned aliens die when you shoot them a bunch!</p><p>THEODORA: Or once. If you do it right.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a> </p><p>QUEEN: I didn't think you knew words like that, babe.</p><p>MANLEY: [ WILD LAUGHTER ] She vaulted three banks of equipment, then spun and SHOT the bug from behind!</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a> </p><p>QUEEN: After that we had a straight run to the network terminal. It was protected by two more ADVENT goons, another grunt-and-sectoid combo. The sectoid used some kind of psychic attack on Lexi — we think maybe it was mind control?</p><p>BOOK: I could feel it in my head, trying to make me think its thoughts. But it just made me scared. And really angry. I screamed something at it—</p><p>[ NOTE: Audio logs show Squaddie Book yelled speculations on the sectoid's ancestry and the physiologically improbable conditions under which it was conceived. - W. Haddock]</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a></p><p>QUEEN: Then Theodora finished off the X-ray from a position she'd established on a nearby ledge.</p><p>THEODORA: Eye in the sky, bad guys die.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a> </p><p>QUEEN: We encountered a second patrol closer to the objective. Another ADVENT grunt and one of those weird new sectoids. They fell back to cover and prepared to engage.</p><p>MANLEY: I grenaded that, too. Screw you and screw your cover, alien assclowns! Scragged the ADVENT toady and left the bug naked.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a> </p><p>BOOK: SIGINT indicated ADVENT was in the process of shutting down the vulnerable node. We didn't have much time.</p><p>THEODORA: We encountered some ADVENT grunts on patrol—</p><p>MANLEY: [ LAUGHTER ] Yeah! I greased them both with my grenade launcher!</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a></p><p>RK JENNIFER QUEEN: A local resistance cell said an ADVENT computer system had some kind of bug that made it vulnerable—</p><p>SQ ALEXIS BOOK: It was a buffer over-read exploit caused by an unplanned interaction between the alien network's transport protocol, and the human hardware on which most of the physical layer runs. Because the two don't work together perfectly, you can use a packet with a header containing a very high prime number, which in turn—</p><p>QUEEN: I don't know what any of that means.</p><p>BOOK: The aliens think we're dumb monkeys who can't count.</p><p>MAJ WILL HADDOCK: Can we get back to the mission, please?</p><p>SQ ALLISON THEODORA: We inserted to a rooftop near the target. Good sniping spot.</p><p>SQ FERRET MANLEY: They had no idea we were coming! [ LAUGHTER ]</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a></p><p>]X[ Debriefing transcript: Operation PURPLE PRINCE<br>]X[ Location: Madagascar<br>]X[ 2035-03-07/11:54:20</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a></p><p>]X[ From: central@avenger<br>]X[ To: whaddock@avenger<br>]X[ Subject: re: recruit dossiers<br>]X[ 2035-03-08/08:56:29</p><blockquote><p>Central, if I may be frank... I have serious qualms about the quality and discipline of these people. They are unconventional, to say the least. Unless you object, I intend to have a conversation with the resistance cell leaders about recruiting standards.</p></blockquote><p>As you were, Haddock. This is not a conventional war. Unconventional soldiers are exactly what we need.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a></p><p>ROOKIE EVANS, STAN<br>Role: undetermined</p><p>Evans seems pretty solid. He impressed me in his intake interview: His chair collapsed halfway through the interview, but Evans showed no surprise at all. Nice cool head on that one. He also achieved excellent scores on all his marksmanship tests. (Personal note: No fewer than four different weapons misfired, jammed, or in one case outright exploded during his weapons evaluations. I had a talk with the armorer about acceptable maintenance standards.) Finally, he came with a very strong recommendation from his former resistance cell commander: "Please, please, take him. He's like nobody else I've ever seen. Put him right into the firefight, you'd be doing us all a favor." High praise! I am certain Evans will prove to be an exceptional soldier along multiple axes.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a></p><p>ROOKIE QUEEN, JENNIFER<br>Role: undetermined</p><p>A recent recruit from the US midwest, I was initially somewhat impressed by her professional attitude, despite her penchant for wearing nothing above the waist except shoulder guards, a leather vest, and a sports bra. She came to us from a loosely affiliated guerilla resistance network calling themselves "Customer Support." When I asked what her role was with the organization, she simply repeated "customer support." And she giggled.</p><p>Sir, with respect, where do we find these people, and why do we keep giving them guns?</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a></p><p>ROOKIE JOHANNESSEN, LEE<br>Role: undetermined</p><p>No specialization yet, as per your standing order, no specializations will be assigned for soldiers with no field experience, and Rookie Johannessen has not yet completed a field operation for XCOM proper. At least this one is wearing full armor, but he painted it all with hearts, sir. Hearts. White and pink hearts.</p>
Sphinx of Black Quartz<p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/XCOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XCOM</span></a> 2: War of the Chosen<br><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/letsplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letsplay</span></a></p><p>SQUADDIE THEODORA, ALLISON<br>Role: Sharpshooter</p><p>Of all our recruits, Squaddie Theodora scored the highest in the marksmanship evaluations. In addition, on her one previous field deployment for XCOM, she pulled off some truly impressive long-range shots on hostiles. Accordingly, I have earmarked her to be the first of our sharpshooters.</p><p>Personal note: When I asked her a friendly question about how she learned to shoot like that, she replied "I practice on people who ask me annoying questions." Clarified with armorer that live ammunition will absolutely not be issued to Theodora except for field duty.</p>
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