BeamBrain

joined 5 years ago
 

I don't even mean the box, I mean the little individual cups inside. I have a bruise on my big toe now.

 

I am serious. With some slight tweaking, there's some fertile ground here:

  • Set the game on a populated Mars instead of Phobos/Deimos to preserve the basic game structure of intercept enemy ships/respond to terror missions/take out bases
  • Plasma rifle/BFG 9000 as early game research options (equivalent to vanilla X-Com's laser rifle/heavy laser), use Doom 64's Unmaker and demon weapons as inspiration for late-game tech (heavy plasma/blaster launcher equivalent)
  • In Doom and Doom 2 alone there's enough baddie variety to have a suitable roster of enemy units
  • Even though the games mostly have heavy metal soundtracks, there are many songs that would make suitable geoscape music
  • You could recreate the revenants' homing fireballs by just taking the blaster bomb code and reducing the explosion size/power
  • Final research is opening a portal to Hell, final mission is invading Hell
  • Absolute bullshit like a cyberdemon reaction firing and instantly wiping your squad would both preserve the authentic X-Com experience and reflect the effectiveness of non-Doomguy marines in Doom's lore

If only I didn't have a million other projects I already wanted to do.

 
  • Shit Fire: When you ate spicy food and the resulting bowel movement burns
  • Shit Water: Diarrhea
  • Shit Air: Farting
  • Shit Earth: A regular shit
[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

but it's (for the most part) not propaganda, because it's not state run.

On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

 
 

I've been developing an unhealthy obsession with mechanical calculators lately. It's fascinating what people were able to do centuries ago.

 

It took the team years to finish because the game has so much text and they had to rewrite a significant chunk of menu code to accommodate the longer English words

 
 

Based Advance Wars teaching that it's perfectly okay to kill the footsoldiers of the bourgeoise

 
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2 contains data for a cut level called "Genocide City"
  • Obscure Wolfenstein clone Corridor 7 randomly jumpscares the player with a red demon face during regular gameplay
  • Dog Island, a Wii game in which all the characters are adorable chibi dogs, has a subplot about a doctor whose botched treatment caused the death of someone he loved many years ago. He still sees her in his dreams, unable to let go or move on.
[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

Every web forum is a propaganda machine, the whole point of a web forum is to convey ideas and information.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who gets to have kids?

Definitely not poor people.

The surest proof that liberalism inexorably leads to fascism and eugenics is that liberals keep independently recreating them.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

parenti-hands "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

"If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 0 points 11 months ago

going as far as putting lgbt flags on government buildings

This motherfucker actually fell for rainbow capitalism agony-consuming

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does China have to do with anything?

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe the US should try bribing people instead of bombing them

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

CatholicSocialist's criteria for who counts as people: us-foreign-policy

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