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Noticed that there is a bunch of people playing X-piratez and decided to give it a try. In 3 work days of feverish grinding playing (and i don't remember how much in-game time, it's july 26 now), there were two moments that very much reminded me of one funny song:
"Trust me, i'm an engineer
What the hell just happened there!?
Trust me, i'm an engineer
And i'm getting out of here!"

1. Someone landed nearby, so of course i attacked them. Coming out of the bus to see a guy in black armor standing with his back to me. He then proceeds to seemingly no-sell all the bullets. First enemy to survive full old shotgun blast to the back! Okaaay... end turn. Guy turns around and mows down two gals. Savescummed.
Try two. Managed to stun him and see who it is. Government enforcer? Whoopsie, i'm not actually supposed to kill those. Anyways, i'm taking him to base for research. And his gun. Oh god, the gun! *Swiftly noped to death by three more* Okay, go your way, i'm out!
2. Yet another "scientific experiments" mission. The one that is "deal with cryssalid breakout", not "beat up and enslave some scientist girls", as it turned out. And, as it turned out, that single cryssalid needs to be shot by whole squad of 5, preferrably in the back, to be killed. And you need to kill him three times in a row (is this vanilla?), or else he will get back up properly snd murderbone everyone. Oh, and there are also zombies, which are just a bit less tough, have near-zero sight range, and there are a lot of them. And they may or may not also get back up when you are close. And you can't make a check with shotgun blast to the head before they do. Which is the reason i didn't killed off the last ones in a lab (not counting the fact that zombies in cramped spaces is nonono) on my last savescum attempt and just made off with unconscious zombie, zombie corpse and cryssalid corpse. And didn't even get any research from that. Damn.

Just random things.
1. Second attack on my base, this time dogs, bigger dogs and ratmen with incendiary\chem ammo. And since almost everyone who is going on missions is wounded, i got to defend with three peasants, one swabbie and one proper lokk narr soldier with tommy gun. Former inevitably died, but the latter (after multiple savescums) survived and managed to kill all ratmen in 50 damn turns, thus getting quite a list of titles.
2. Mutant pogrom mission (it's mid-august already). I wonder if i would get better score if i skipped it altogether. Looted a lot of money and a flamethrower, though. And flamethrower made one of original 6(?) drop her weapon and run around screaming in one shot, so that's something.
3. At first, i have thought "why shotguns are so precise?". Then "well, 116% chance of hitting is probably for a single pellet". Then "those things are broken". Because, while having 116% chance to hit the enemy on the adjacent tile they still miss left and right. As in, turn to the left, shoot squadmate in the face, turn to the right, do the same thing. Even funnier with minigun (rotagun). And i have thought that arse-shooting was new X-COM's unique feature, and old UFO have no such thing.
4. This picture is just amazing. I wonder where author got it. 

It says it's 0.56 now. And "Unnacauntably Peckish" is a "menace" in Fallen London that makes player character eat and do increasingly freakish stuff, finishing with own teeth, in exchange for small steps on a long and grueling way to permadeath. Somewhat related quote: "You could eat a priest. A whole priest. Not just a little priest. A big, fat, toothsome priest.". And IVAN character can eat the whole zombie and get merely satiated. 

  Finally decided to try out "mother of all RPGs" Baldur's gate. Overwhelmed by urge to minmax, made chaotic evil human necromancer (what do you mean, "no elf necromancers"?) with max intelligence-charisma-wisdom and min constitution that acts like a paladin just to see what "consequences" it will bring. And i didn't looked at stat descriptions very carefully...
  In an effort to clear out five ordinary rats out of a basement, i did shoot at them 20 stones from a sling, 10 darts from a hand, and broke two daggers against their abnormally tough hides (at a rate of one rat per one dagger), then finished off 2 remaining ones with a staff.
"MCreeper attacks the rat x ad nauseam.
MCreeper crits! Rat dies."
 Then there were two guys outside that want to spar. I can't deal damage to them because i just can't, they can't deal damage to me because we are sparring. So they runned around all fortress with me, bashing and shooting me ceaselessly.
Also, it turned out that beginner mage can cast grand total of 2 spells per day. And that first companion has 8 hp, while a freaking wolf deals 4 damage to her, if it manages to hit. So, i'm literally one hit wonder. Who would have thought that constitution is both for HP and for damage. 

Well...
Also can't stop pulling off Unnacauntably Peckish on zombies to get chaotic points, despite knowing well that it ends with your limbs falling off. And pulling off Unnacauntably Peckish on them, too!

IVAN

And here i am, just hoping that next proper release will be tthis year.

And here we go again. Not the first time, hopefully not the last. 

What was that rather old (early 200X) civilization 3 look-alike with a (futuristic pilot?) face(s) on it's cover?