Imagine being this fragile the execs kill their own franchise because their original "fuckup" was popular with "the wrong people".
Thank fucking Christ. They keep trying to make more and more media with her despite it never being wanted or ever being good.
"Real Harley Quinn has never been tried!"
- the execs, probably
lol, speaking of, he tried posting about that recent Reddit thread calling having a family a fetish over on the "Funny" board.
Now first off, /Funny isn't funny most of the time so his post going down like a lead balloon is ironically not out of place there.
Second, to the surprise of nobody those who knows how the posts he still rants about the usual crap* regardless of what the topic might be. Even when he's the one making a thread about something.
Third, as is tradition he got downvoted to oblivion for continuing to be completely retarded.
https://communities.win/c/Funny/p/1995H1ADJ5/its-a-fetish-you-fucking-losers-/c
Edit: Some highlights of what "the usual crap" is when in a thread about families having children.
wanting that many kids is a fetish
This is at least on topic. The rest however...
handshake
Because he still doesn't understand how the site as a whole works.
Melinda
Because why the fuck not? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Could you fit any more buzzwords in there?
The irony of this considering what follows is as the kids say: "peak".
"trans agenda"
JK Rowling
TERFism
All of those from the same post, mind.
Yawn...
One of his typical deflections.
tl;dr he treats every single poster he replies to as both a brand new person, "handshakes", and yet as if it's someone who would know the ins and outs of all the random colloquialisms he repeatedly uses over and over, "Melinda", "Yawn", and more.
So he's still as unhinged as ever.
Funny thing is I didn't even realise it was him posting that thread when I saw it at first. I just found both the post and OP comments to be retarded and downvoted both as such. Then the reason for it being retarded become apparent when I took a second look whom the OP was.
chastising people for not navigating the FBI's website correctly
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Ken Rex McElroy
McElroy was shot to death in broad daylight as he sat with his wife Trena in his pickup truck on Skidmore's main street. He was struck by bullets from at least two different firearms, in front of a crowd of people estimated as numbering between 30 and 46. To date, no one has been charged in connection with McElroy's death.
lol, amazing.
Edit:
McElroy fathered more than 10 children with different women. He met his last wife, Trena McCloud (1957–2012), when she was 12 years old and in eighth grade and he was 35. He raped McCloud repeatedly. McCloud's parents initially opposed the relationship, but after McElroy burned their house down and shot the family dog, they begrudgingly agreed to the marriage
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
She became pregnant when she was fourteen, dropped out of school in the ninth grade, and went to live with McElroy and his second wife Alice. McElroy divorced Alice and married Trena in order to escape charges of statutory rape, to which she was the only witness. Sixteen days after Trena gave birth, she and Alice fled to Trena's parents' house. According to court records, McElroy tracked them down and brought them back. When Trena's parents were away, McElroy went to their home, where once again he burned the house down and shot the McClouds' new dog.
Because burning down one house and shooting one dog clearly wasn't enough.
In 1980, one of McElroy's children got into an argument with a clerk, Evelyn Sumy, in a local grocery store owned by 70-year-old Ernest "Bo" Bowenkamp and his wife Lois, allegedly because the young McElroy child tried to steal some candy.
Apple not falling far from the tree.
McElroy began stalking the Bowenkamp family, and eventually threatened Bo Bowenkamp in the back of his store with a shotgun in hand. In the ensuing confrontation, McElroy shot Bowenkamp in the neck; Bowenkamp survived, and McElroy was arrested and charged with attempted murder. McElroy was convicted at trial of assault, but freed on bail pending his appeal. Immediately after being released at a post-trial hearing, McElroy went to the D&G Tavern, a local bar, with an M1 Garand rifle with a bayonet attached, and made graphic threats about what he would do to Bo Bowenkamp. This led to several patrons deciding to see what they could legally do to prevent McElroy from harming anyone else.
Considering the nature of this story it's quite clear how those attempts went.
McElroy's appeal hearing was again delayed. On the morning of July 10, 1981, townspeople met at the Legion Hall in the center of town with Nodaway County sheriff Dan Estes to discuss how to protect themselves. During the meeting, McElroy arrived at the D&G Tavern with Trena. As he sat drinking at the bar, word got back to the men at the Legion Hall that he was in town. Sheriff Estes instructed the assembled group not to get into a direct confrontation with McElroy, but instead seriously consider forming a neighborhood watch program. Estes then drove out of town in his police cruiser. The citizens at the meeting decided to go to the tavern en masse; the bar soon filled completely. After McElroy finished his drinks, he purchased a six pack of beer, left the bar, and entered his pickup truck.
I wonder how clear the sheriff made it that he was going to drive out of town.
While sitting in his truck, McElroy was shot at several times but hit only twice—once by a centerfire rifle and once by a .22 rimfire rifle.
I'm sure both those rifles suffered terrible boating accidents and were never found.
In all, there were 46 potential witnesses to the shooting, including Trena McElroy, who was in the truck with her husband when he was shot. Nobody called for an ambulance. Only Trena claimed to identify a gunman; every other witness was either unable to name an assailant or claimed not to have seen who fired the fatal shots. The DA declined to press charges, and an extensive federal investigation did not lead to any charges either. Missouri-based journalist Steve Booher described the attitude of some townspeople as "he needed killing."
You could jokingly label this as the 46 potential witnesses all claiming they "dindu nothing", except everyone else also went along with it for the same reason. However many of the witnesses being at the bar may have also worked in their favour as any number of them could claim to have been UTI and therefore incapable of making a proper ID. Anyone dumb enough to try and challenge that would destroy any and all foundations for prosecuting drink drivers in the process.
The 70s and 80s were a different time.
One of the things Yahoo is best known for is how retarded the replies to questions are. It's just ironic the feature translates to the other parts of the brand.
Don't forget Meryl the elf being voiced by Gwen from Torchwood.
Gwen is that much of a cunt in Torchwood any time I hear her voice it makes me see red.
Cheats on her fiance
Tells him, then wipes his memory to clear her own conscience
Almost brings about the end of the world after said fiance who she is still with gets killed by the Big Bad of the first season
Ruins the life of a mother whose son went missing by finding said son even though Jack tells Gwen to stop. The son was swallowed by a portal, comes back aged 40 years and with enough PTSD he spends half the day screaming. The mother later states it was better off not knowing what happened than learning the truth.
I'm still missing things out and that's before getting onto the rest of the cast who were also some of the worst people you can imagine being in charge of anything, let alone acting as the hidden line of defence against aliens and other potential world ending shit.
Wonder how much panic there would be if someone showed up to check their basement. The servers would be unlikely to actually be in the basement but it would make for an ironic meme.
That and Austin Powers being seen as peek peak Bond spoof which led to the "dark and gritty" reboot of Craig's Bond in the first place.
Same reasons here tbh. Connery is just, well, Bond. Both Brosnan and Dalton were ones I liked while similar to your reasons Moore just didn't really "fit" what I expected of the character. Lazenby is... probably best left forgotten. Craig was just too much action hero for what was meant to be a spy/assassin.
And one of his rapid successors, who was also at those same parties.
I honestly can't remember if Truss was there, she was barely in the door before she left after fucking over the £ on the advice of someone who then stabbed her in the back.
if [he] was president then law enforcement would take protecting him more seriously
I wonder if the sheriff realises just what he said there.
“I’m the GOAT, y’all, and I know it.”
“And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.”
- Tywin Lannister, A Storm of Swords
Better make it tree-fiddy. 🐍
Globally they always were.
Technically this counts as a Darwin award.
Its one thing Xcom 2 does better
Apart from all the friendlies you "team up" with during Retaliation missions that are determined to plink every single alien possible which means you end up with a billion Codex clones, enraged Muton Berserkers, and perma-shelled Gatekeepers. 🙄
The game gives you risky situations that you have to take, and then deal with the consequences of.
Especially in 2 where turtling forever doesn't work due to the various timers which mean you need to play aggressive. Overwatch kill boxes worked too well in earlier games.
part of the fun/challenge of tactics games like XCOM is making a plan, and then having a plan to deal with if/when the first plan falls apart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-iNE6zv90
I've missed a 100% shot before, back in Long War 1, due to mod number rounding. I remember it a decade later, because that was hilarious.
There's also the point that 100% just means your chance of hitting, a mob can still dodge if the numbers are close enough and reduce your hit to "Grazed" doing only partial damage in later games.
Thin Mints from EU/EW and Sneks from XC2 were similar in that regards as both were snakes agile fuckers.
I can't personally think of a way to remedy it without just removing the "entire team goes at once" mechanic,
Mods can help with some of the AI issues, the stealth thing is actually intentional design where pods move towards a fireteam.
it's uniquely frustrating to accidentally reveal the wrong tile and basically give the aliens a free turn.
This ends up as more of an experience thing in the reboots that comes down to slowly moving up a map and never double dashing - blue and yellow moves at the same time - unless you're doing something drastic like running a Bladestorm Ranger/Templar into a pod because you know it will scatter than and Bladestorm will still mean several attacks of opportunity. Templars are slightly better for this than Rangers as sometimes a Templar can learn Fortress which prevents fire damage, so accidentally meleeing a Purifier with a flamethrower doesn't end up being lethal.
Activating a pod should at least give your entire team free overwatch or something.
It used to in the original if you left soldiers with enough AP.
original X Com if you take the scorched earth approach.
I do miss this option from the later games. Being able to actually tell your fireteam where to fire so they can blow down the side of a wooden hut or concrete wall, or even an alien ship so you can then lob a fusion bomb in.
Man, now I want to go play the original X Com again.
It's like 8 MB and very easy to find online if you don't want to repurchase it somewhere.
enemy movement doesn't make any sense when you haven't been discovered yet, especially in 2.
It does, but for the wrong reasons. Players tested the stealth AI, it hones in on your fireteam even when they are still in stealth. Mods exist to change this and maintain a more realistic patrol pattern.
I went with Reaper alone
This can still work for some missions once your Reaper is high enough in rank. Remote Start doesn't break stealth/Shadow for example, so hostile VIP missions where you CBA to kidnap the target become extremely easy if the VIP is next to a car and also within LoS and range of the evac point. You can move all the way to the evac point then spend your last turn setting off Remote Start and then hitting evac.
It's options like this and other facets of the Reaper which in my opinion make them both the strongest hero class out of the three, but also the most important class to have on any mission when things like Target Definition which lets you track previously seen pods through FoW and out of LoS. They don't even need to attack to be the MVP of a mission, simply feeding info to the rest of a fireteam with Target Definition or spotting for a Sharpshooter with or without Long Watch due to Squadsight.
If you really want to play unfairly you take 1 Reaper and 3-5 Sharpshooters with Spider/Ghost armour to grapple to a sniping spot and just lay waste to everything on the map the Reaper spots. The ship defense mission can benefit from this extensively since any custom turrets you build also have squadsight. So a Reaper booking it for the EMP device or Chosen cannon power source then has 2-4 turrets with 100% aim and infinite range against objects, aka both those objectives, as well as however many Sharpshooters you may have at hand.
tl;dr Reapers are the most powerful unit in War of the Chosen.
standing point blank next to an alien means something. In X-Com it doesn't mean diddly squat.
It means a 'lid is about to eat you.
In all seriousness, in X-Com 2 it meant more crit which was of particular use to Rangers using shotguns.
fake stealth
There are mods to fix this.
drip fed enemies
And this. Various difficulty mods exist that either flat out buff mobs, like Beta Strike so you won't be 1 shotting entire pods, or The Hive which can end up throwing so many 'lids at you that you really do need to specifically build loadouts for them, namely Bladestorm Rangers, otherwise you're not going to have enough AP to deal with the never ending waves of teeth and claws.
where the character and alien are on screen do not correlate with the game.
Yeah, no. This isn't true in the slightest, and again especially for X-Com 2. You gain bonus aim for being higher than a target. Sharpshooters gain even more stats from this as well as learning perks like Death from Above that grant an AP return if you kill something with a shot. Positioning is vital in some situations where you can block off ladders being used by Lost and if you are lucky enough to have the Between the Eyes park then you can pistol fire down every Lost in range and LoS providing you have the sharpshooters or modded classes which also take a pistol. Early game it can matter so much that Gatecrasher goes from a suicide run in Holland to shooting fish in a barrel in Hong Kong - this references Holland being flat and HK having more skyscrapers than anywhere else. Position, both elevation and proximity, absolutely fucking matter in early game.
Seriously, have you actually played these games are you literally just falling back on the first line of your second paragraph?
the "95% to hit meme"
It's a meme because people remember missing a 95% shot. Same reason Repeater executes are mostly remembered because they are low RNG, then even more so when it ends up 1 shotting something like an Alien Ruler or Ethereal hybrid with 40++ hp. So a 95% miss which causes a TPK gets remembered far more than one which at worst fails to stop a 'lid eating another civvie.
Try it next time you play, completely ignore the visuals and imagine your character as a card drawing a dice based attack against another card.
This doesn't even work as an example either because there are card games which do care where you place things. Gwent from The Witcher 3 has actual combat locations: Close Combat, Ranged, and Siege. There are effect cards which can specifically target those locations or the entire map which then significantly change how a game might turn out.
For example: Biting Frost - Sets the strength of all Close Combat cards to 1 for both players.
Followed by: Villentretenmerth - Scorch - Close Combat: Destroy your enemy's strongest Close Combat unit(s) if the combined strength of all his or her Close Combat units is 10 or more.
If there are 10 cards in the CC locations, of which the Monster deck in particular will easily manage, then you destroy every single card with a two-card combo, which even the Witcher wiki points out.
It is extremely powerful when Biting Frost is active should the enemy have a melee hero placed (which is unaffected by weather cards) or more than 10 regular units (commonly happens when fighting against a Monster deck), since all melee units will then have a strength of 1 (or 2 with commander horn/Dandelion). This means when Villentretenmerth is played, it will destroy every regular melee unit on the opponent's side.
Your entire opinion post reads like that of a casual tourist who asked ChatGPT to summarise X-Com and lacked the knowledge base to know whether the result was complete garbage or not.
That's a lot of bananas.