This is great! Followed.

Oh my god, this is dark.

I’m a big XCOM fan, but I haven’t ever given this game a shot since it was so different. Will have to check it out.

(I also crossposted this to /c/XCOM)

SNES - I love 16bit pixel art.

I can hear the music

Ooh, I’ll check this in a little bit this morning!

Thanks for the ping! This could be interesting…

There’s a 3-dot options button next to “quote” that has “Text Faces”.

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Oh my god, I’d never tried tapping this button before.

Now THAT also sounds like early internet too…

I’m going to say yes. Every teenager is an alien.

Now I’m imagining someone legitimately putting their Jan6 involvement on a resume.

Window Structural Integrity Tester (Jan 6th, 2021): Responsibilities included - unconventional team-building activities, conditioning, navigating unfamiliar territory, and breaking down barriers.

Lol, you mean you didn’t like them singing Row Row Row Your Boat around the campfire? Or Uhura’s sexy fan dance? How about Scotty running into a crossbeam like he’s in the Three Stooges?

It seems like such a creative way to do social commentary. We get to see our present failings in aliens, and then contrast it with how the crew (future humanity) carries themselves. Sometimes it’s very clunky and heavy handed (like that TOS episode with the half-white/half-black aliens), but it’s still good. My favorites are every time Picard monologues about their values to an alien race in TNG.

Even if you already share the values, it’s fascinating to hear them laid out so clearly.

Oh yeah, it’s TV for sure. The original ran from 1966-69 with 79 episodes, and that was going to be it because they had never heard of a “fandom” before.

Then, they realized that people were showing up to conventions and obsessing over the show, so they finally made the first movie in 1979 and then started the next show in the 80s (which ran for like 140-150 episodes).

The TV series is the main draw, with any movies along the way just being a bonus.

That sounds like such a an awesome early internet thing.