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OTTO ZANDER IS A CHEAT NAME?!

Welp, gotta go confirm that.  Because, holy fuck.

I have to say, this game has given me a new appreciation for Iron Man playthroughs.

So my boss is finally committing to buying some office space.  I'm helping him pick out cubical designs and good carpet colors to hide coffee spills, whilst rather handily covering the work of three people after one guy quit and the other has turned out to be thoroughly incompetent.  While talking about office spaces, my boss - who is basically Ned Flanders as a closet nerd - offered all on his own and is totally on board with putting up Demotivational posters.  Y'know, the real ones, because he finds them absolutely hilarious.  And I agree, because they got famous for a reason and the originals are still entertaining.

I guess there's something about computer programming that lends itself to a grim sense of humor no matter who you are.

I hate Thin Men with a goddamn passion.  I haven't had a mission with them yet that didn't turn to complete shit.  The only reason I didn't lose my whole squad to the latest mission is that the program crashed before they had a chance.  Bastards took out my tutorial squad, my all Squaddie-squad including that brave French and a reward soldier on his first mission, then shot Pharaoh in the temporally-lost mission.  They're just such pricks and really fast and accurate.

I also hate Argentinians and Russians, because they're total pussies.  Look, I can't help it if the aliens want to knock out my satellites that take a month's time and budget to build and then hit three cities at once every few weeks.  I can only keep so many plates spinning at the same time guys.

There's a pretty sharp curve difficulty level-wise.  Classic really is classic, you lose multiple soldiers every mission.  Normal is kind of a joke by comparison, I've only lost one guy I think.

I really should have expected it, but somehow it didn't dawn on me until I saw the difficulty selection screen.  Whatever else you can say about Sid Meier and his company, if there's one thing they knows how to do it's make an unbeatable AI.  Usually by letting it cheat it's pants off, but twenty years of practice at making "Impossible" difficulty mean something really does shine through in an XCOM successor.

Once again literary analysis is thwarted by a giant octopus....

I think I'm the only person who believes Ziegfred (???) was supposed to have a larger role in the comic-relief side-plot.  He only appears twice in the game, and the second time he's talking about an impostor.

I still love that game's plot.  Especially how the key to getting into the Empire to free gods from another world is to impersonate an opera singer (who simply never appears for no given reason) to carjack a rich hobo, and winds up hinging on fighting a vaudvillain octopus to full orchestral accompaniment.

That game had such a great theme.

So the other day I was going along with the Firehawk quest, minding my own business, getting my shit wrecked by Scorch because Zer0 isn't particularly survivable at close range and spiderants got even more annoying to fight... When I suddenly noticed that I'd been holding down the trigger on my SMG for like a solid minute.  Granted it was a Bandit gun with lots of ammo, but it was not actually using any of that ammo.  A bit more experimentation with a coachgun proved my suspicion.

For some unfathomable reason, Borderlands 2 randomly glitched out in exactly such a way as to give me unlimited ammo with no reloading.

I did some more experimenting.  Tediore guns would explode when reloaded exactly as advertised and used up no ammo in the process.  Rocket launchers could fire indefinitely.  Chainguns do have a maximum firing speed.  And the one thing that my miraculous glitch did not apply to was Grenadier-style rifles, they still used ammo as normal.  But they did not reset the glitch.

I hadn't actually planned on playing very long, but at that point it would have been a crime against nature to stop.  So I proceeded to power through the Dangerzone and Bloodshot Dam quests with wild abandon.  Too wild actually, because hitting IDKFA did not activate IDDQD and unlimited bullets forever went straight to my head.  By the time I finished practically walking through the Hyperion bot assault, I knew that like any time you turn on the cheatcodes it kinda sucked the fun out of the game.

But not really, because that bot assault part is balls annoying, and I think I got far greater enjoying there specifically because I could just walk along with a hail of rockets going, "I'M THE KING OF EVERYTHING".

Sadly, I didn't feel like leaving Borderlands running indefinitely, and the bug did not persist to next startup.  But I'll always have the memories.

That chug until they stop being over time rule probably just killed a few people.

I can already see what clips will be replayed on which channels.