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Let's Play X-Com: UFO Defense! (ironman, superhuman, starting tech & council funding only)

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  • LilnoobsLilnoobs Alpha Queue Registered User regular
    edited March 2015
    edit -- wrong thread -- carry on with the original disaster

    Lilnoobs on
  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    What happened there? I don't really understand the error message?

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    What about operation "99 Balloons"?
    We need those alien bladders and tubes.

    The hell am I going to do with this much helium?

    Everyone's a superhero? Everyone's a Captain Kirk?

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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    What happened there? I don't really understand the error message?

    It's not an error message. Fanda saw the writing on the wall and said "nooooope!"

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    Okay let me ask the question a way that will get me an answer.

    I have absolutely no idea what is going on and cannot interpret that screenshot in any way.

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  • RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    Okay let me ask the question a way that will get me an answer.

    I have absolutely no idea what is going on and cannot interpret that screenshot in any way.

    Fanda didn't want to deal with a hot zone and potentially losing 1-3 squaddies on a Small Sectoids Scout, so we aborted the mission to avoid casualties.

    FandaGONG-00
  • fedaykin666fedaykin666 Registered User regular
    edited March 2015
    What happened there? I don't really understand the error message?

    We came, we saw and we began to have serious doubts about Elvenshae Airlines tour packages while running the hell away.

    fedaykin666 on
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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited March 2015
    Oh its the ABORT text.
    I've never aborted before, I've only played a few missions of old xcom.
    I thought it was talking about aliens when it said units.
    Like it was an automated warning message put into OpenXcom.

    Okay I'm cool now.

    Morninglord on
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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Damn...I knew I should have let my first draft of my reply get posted. I actually used the phrase "he aborted the mission". That'll learn me to try to be clever (well, cleverer than needed).

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  • FandaFanda Hang a shining star upon the highest boughRegistered User regular
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    As the Skyranger nears home, a blip suddenly appears on Elvenshae's onboard radar.

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    He hands over the contact to Baske, who continues tracking it from Haus Von Trapp. Down in the hangar, technicians rush to warm up the fuelling pumps. We're going to need a very fast turnaround on this one.

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    With the UFO passing out of range over the Atlantic, we take one last bearing on it and find that it's altered course south-southwest.

    Hurry home, Skyranger-1.

    Hurry hurry hurry.

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    Four hours and ten minutes later, we receive the alert.

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  • RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    Well, shit.

  • StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    oh boy

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.

    Elvenshaechiasaur11
  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    You are aware this is a punishment for your cowardice, yes

    Iolo
  • MolybdenumMolybdenum Registered User regular
    hoooo boy

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    Nos vamos a morir

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    What happened there? I don't really understand the error message?

    We came, we saw and we began to have serious doubts about Elvenshae Airlines tour packages while running the hell away.

    Elvenshae Airlines promises two things:

    1) A short walk to the UFO landing / crash site.
    2) Kick-ass in-flight music.

    You'll note that "a safe landing zone" is nowhere in that list.

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  • YerMumYerMum Registered User regular
    Go time.

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  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    I'm not from Buenos Aires and I still say kill 'em all!

    Black lives matter.
    Law and Order ≠ Justice
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  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    This will be our finest hour.
    Wait, no. Last, it'll be our last hour. an_alt, fire my speech writer

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  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    edited March 2015
    My personal message to the aliens currently terrorizing the people of Buenos Aires.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PbdyJ_ybSI

    Seriously, they're dicks. You're welcome to them.
    Though, I think it should go without saying that we'd appreciate it if you'd leave the banks intact. Our spaceships aren't going to buy themselves.

    see317 on
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  • StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    I love Buenos Aires and have friends there! @Fanda, please save my peeps
    Also, the food there is so good.

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  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    the food there is so good.

    The reapers or chrysalids on the ground agree with you.

    Black lives matter.
    Law and Order ≠ Justice
    ACNH Island Isla Cero: DA-3082-2045-4142
    Still waiting on Dan "Man of his Word" Ryckert to eat a hat
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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I'll be here in the control room with popcorn, Err I mean carefully watching the camera coverage and giving the team updates. Yes. Useful updates.

    Phew, I salavaged that one!

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  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    I love Buenos Aires and have friends there! @Fanda, please save my peeps
    Also, the food there is so good.
    Okay, fine, I'll ask the aliens to spare the food joints as well.
    Hopefully someone leaves behind a cookbook as they're being horribly mutilated.

  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    Speaking of ...
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    2) Kick-ass in-flight music.

    Ladies and gentlemen, our in-flight entertainment for our approximately 8-hour trip to beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina, will consist of a bootleg recording of Konzertstuck for Four Horns and Orchestra by Schumann, opus 86*, that I picked up in Spain; and season four of GET RIPPED!, featuring a previously-lost 2-hour interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger himself.

    Sit back, relax, and take special note of the subtle interplay between the first and third horns during the major melodic passage of the second movement. Also, GUNS . *flex*

    *

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt (effective against Russian warships) Registered User regular
    You're not playing 30 Seconds to Mars? I am disappoint.

  • Oh My GodOh My God Registered User regular
    You're not playing 30 Seconds to Mars? I am disappoint.

    It's not like we're on the offensive yet. :)

    Stormwatcher
  • MolybdenumMolybdenum Registered User regular
    If this is a joke it is the best joke

    I love the konzertstuck

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  • FandaFanda Hang a shining star upon the highest boughRegistered User regular
    I love Buenos Aires and have friends there! @Fanda, please save my peeps
    Also, the food there is so good.

    I come to purify Buenos Aires, not to save it.

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    We rescued two civilians in our last terror mission. Any bets for this one?

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  • StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    Yeah, burn them floaters do1n.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    That one in that house looks pretty secure, so I'll say one.

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  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    Did we ever get around to naming the HWP?

    Black lives matter.
    Law and Order ≠ Justice
    ACNH Island Isla Cero: DA-3082-2045-4142
    Still waiting on Dan "Man of his Word" Ryckert to eat a hat
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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    it's not snakemen.
    yet.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    That one in that house looks pretty secure, so I'll say one.

    Confirmation Bias.

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  • wiltingwilting I had fun once and it was awful Registered User regular
    edited March 2015
    That one in that house looks pretty secure, so I'll say one.

    The door is open.

    wilting on
    Rainfall
  • FrozenzenFrozenzen Registered User regular
    I'm fairly sure houses only exist to be leveled though.

    There is always an alien hiding behind some of the walls!

    And if there wasn't, well shit. Better safe than sorry!

    TeeMan
  • StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    Houses are just a fancy liberal name for barns

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  • MolybdenumMolybdenum Registered User regular
    "Were you raised in a barn?" Is the most dire insult known to mankind

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    ... Whereas "Are you razin' a barn?" is a pretty common mid-mission question for X-COM.

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