Spirit always gets the worst terminal in the airport.

Ah! Ok, I’ll just remove the period and try to remember that for future posts.

That look pierces right through your (cheesy) core.

Oh, I bet. I’ll just keep muddling through it and letting the Hungarian speakers correct me, lol

That’s what I’ve been doing, but it’s not always right. I think it’s a mix of the usual translator rigidity and sometimes struggling to read Hungarian cursive from an image.

Really? I just tried it and it’s still working for me.

It’s a party down here.

Haha, oh no, she took him back!

Edit: that was before I started translating the titles of these before posting. It looks like it has the exact same title as this one: “Jucika and the robot man”

That doesn’t sound so bad.

I also wouldn’t attribute language like “slams” as a bias to one party, but it’s often used in a sensationalized way like in the comic. To me, it immediately brings to mind TMZ trying to start drama and farm clicks.

If only adult jobs had recess. Someone needs to ring a bell for everyone to go play freeze tag outside for an hour, then back to staring at excel.

Once you start looking for editorializing, it’s everywhere.

Surprisingly, I haven’t been able to find much merch other than the chryssalids, but it’s so far after the fact now that yeah, custom stuff is basically the only way. The chryssalids are still on eBay for about 10 bucks.

I played Enemy Unknown, but most of my time over the past decade(?) has been WOTC. I would have the same pattern of sinking hours into it, then getting distracted, then restarting. Over the past few months, I’ve been really grinding out Legendary+Ironman and finally just beat it for the first time ever. It took dozens and dozens of attempts. I’m eager to go back and play the original stuff too. I have them on steam, but the UI seems like a challenge to get used to.

PS: I created an XCOM community here when I joined lemmy, but it never really took off. It’s probably too niche to have regular content with the size of lemmy. https://lemmy.world/c/xcom

Unless it’s DS2, then it’s

Mysterious coffins remain as the transport option

That’s hilarious. The patience you must have!

Damn, that’s cool.

I have that Vigilo Confido as a sticker on my PC case, and I picked up one of these Chryssalids to live on a shelf above where I usually play.

Yeah, I wouldn’t say there’s much of a message intended in these either, other than that she’s often relatable and sticks up for herself. A big part of the humor is that she’s ditsy and free-spirited, and there’s definitely a trend of “fan-service”, or titillation, or whatever you want to call it. I like the art, the jokes are good, and I largely appreciate it as a window into the past.

I haven’t delved into fan art myself, but I can imagine. Fan art on the internet always seems to go down that path…

I figure it’s mostly in good fun, just banter. You know, like jokes about your cutting edge gaming PC being used for retro games.

Yeah, I agree on the larger environmental goals and necessity. I suppose what I’m getting at is more of the part that feels like normative pressure and shaming eccentricities. As in, the same thing that has contributed to car colors becoming more and more bland over the years too. There’s a pressure for conformity that pushes people back into their box when they stick a toe out.

Maybe I’ve gone too many years without religion, but sometimes the talk about simulations sounds less crazy than it should.