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"Unfortunately, the systems lack wireless connectivity so the only way to connect to the Internet is through the standard Gigabit Ethernet port." lol

Do you genuinely think you're being oppressed as a straight white guy?

I've never had much affinity for XCOM lore but I'm really enjoying the characters and background from their bios in this. The bits about what they did during the wars and immediately after is really fun after playing that XCOM 2 campaign so many times. The combat works for me for a game with this limited scope but it does feel like this started as a mobile game or some kind of Apple Arcade project with how it switches between these tiny encounters.

This isn't going to replace a numbered XCOM by any means but it's cool as a side project in that universe. I hope we get more of these where they can experiment and make dramatic changes with the gameplay and fill out some background and story and then get numbered games for the global conflicts that you can dump another 200 hours into. I'm assuming this will be on Switch sometime soon and I think I would much rather play this handheld than that full XCOM 2 release.

I had heard about some people having audio issues and figured whatever, usually not bothered by stuff like that and its been a month so they've probably fixed it anyway.

The sound is just unbelievably bad, it makes the whole game feel so cheap. It sounds like someone recorded the audio on a laptop from like 2006 over a built in mic. I don't know how the flagship series of one of the biggest companies on the planet doesn't have high quality audio lying around anywhere but I guess the only thing they could find was someones old Zune loaded with low quality mp3s or text ringtones someone bought for 99 cents each for their flip phone.

I would love to know the story behind what kind of encryption issues would produce this from what it seems like what they should be working with. Did they have to reverse engineer it off a retail disc or something?

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This reminded me of this thread. I could see Dan asking if plants die of old age and what would happen if there were no moon

https://twitter.com/JamColley/status/1115113759431843841

A key part of a Dan question is that it's something really naive or reductive that most people know the gist of but haven't ever had to explain it or maybe haven't even thought about the details of. I'm also struggling to think of anything but maybe like

If we burn fuel to heat things, how does the sun keep giving that much heat for so long? Is it getting smaller? How does the sun work?

If not a full armor system at least a way to customize what your character looks like. A character creator in that art style would be pretty rad.

He didn't do one this week

This is pretty reductive but basically the source code gets compiled from a human readable format to an executable format the target computer/cartridge/whatever can use. You can sometimes reverse engineer it but it's generally not a reversible process.