That was one of my favorite ways of flushing out aliens into my choke point.

I really enjoyed cyberpunk fiction. This picture illustrates perfectly why that genre didn't age well.

I doubt this would ever happen, but one thing I'd really like to see with the X-COM franchise are more varied mission types. I always figured that X-COM represented a small tactical force and wasn't there to wage a war so much as to be the first respondents to a new alien incursion and do high-precision missions.…

Well. . . no one if forcing you to buy it.

Also with environments. I'd love it if you could see the difference, for example, between a European metropolis and a Latin American mountain village.

I think one of the places that Firaxis dropped the ball was eliminating the differences between the three weapon types. For example, in older iterations laser weapons were more accurate, did less damage, and never ran out of ammo. This meant that it wasn't, as you put it, a linear progression from your starting…

That's been part of the game since the 1st installment, and I'd be sad to see that element of chance go. X-COM is one of the few franchises where I feel cheated if I can win more than about 1/3rd of the time.

A lot of the Elf Kings just had a *terrible* time. Fingon comes to mind as well, though he went out well.

That sounds awful. What was the rationale behind that legislation?

Oh boy. Here it comes.

*shudder*

. . .gimmie a minute to stop laughing.

. . . give me a minute to stop laughing.

Speaking of *ridiculous* 80's ads, how's about this one?

Beat me to it.

The first time I read that comic, I got more than half-way through before I realized that I wasn't a satire. And then I tried to decide if that was even funnier.

Ug. Let's not bring up that episode.

This.

I cannot say how much I agree with this.

Everything comes with a tradeoff. Some professions, such as mine, aren't particularly lucrative; I'll never live wealthy with my job, but the satisfaction I garner from it is more important to me than my income. To someone else, however, money might be big enough of an issue that it's worth taking a less-ideal job…