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I just might get home in time to dowload and run Unreal World. I wonder what that game's about, but judging by reactions it seems fun?

It's basically a wilderness survival roguelike set in northern Europe a few centuries back... sorta'. It's got a fair amount of similarities to DF's adventure mode, just with certain things fleshed out more. S'pretty good, for what it is.

Woah, major kudos for the heads up, J. Always found URW to be intensely sexy (well... except for the photo things ), but never really had the means or the will to nab it up.

E: Aannndd gots it. Huzzah! ... back to playing Master of Mana >_>

Nah, that's actually kind of an interesting question. I just... I can't remember the specifics of many alien invasions in media (currently, the only one I can dredge up the memory for is EarthScorpion's Eva/Cthulhutech crossovers... which is sorta' western media via the lovecraft influence, but not animated. Also not a terrible invasion, heh.), much less any animated ones.

In a more general sense, most alien invasions are handled pretty shittily... X-Com (and some fiction for it... offhand, I'd cite Chryssalid's Road to Cydonia.) is one of the better ones. Mostly what I'm vaguely meandering toward is that a full out invasion is almost always basically the worst and most moronic choice a species could decide to enact (Sun Tzu laughs 'is bloody arse off at a lot of writers ). Infiltration, long-term social engineering, stuff like that... all much more effective with less effort. Even with emergency colonization scenarios, it'd be a lot better to bribe us with some shitty knockoff tech for rights to the poles or something, and then work from there. I can't really respect/fear a spacefaring race who's first major action is to show up over the white house or whatever and say surrender earthlings.

More or less, most alien species seem to be ridiculously inept. It's like... you put a human in command and next Tuesday these chuckleheads would have control of all seven continents, but these xeno idiots do stupid stupid things and end up taking two whole seasons or whatever just to get kicked off the planet. I mean... damn. Some day, someone's going to start a show in which the aliens are smart, and just kinetic kill vehicle everything worth mentioning. The show will last one or two episodes 

E:Woah, buggery. List thing. What blazes, I've seen most of those and don't really recall the invasions as being particularly notable... maybe something that happened during them (Mighty Ducks, ferex), but the invasion itself was almost a... set piece, I guess? Weird.

E2: There's also pretty different sorts of invasions going on in that list... a lot you might not even be fair in calling an invasion at all. Interaction, definitely, but no conquer world/large chunk of geography going on, which is what I think when I think alien invasion. Damn, I wish I remembered that stuff well enough to comment more meaningfully on this subject.

Quote from: Frumple on June 29, 2012, 10:14:46 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on June 29, 2012, 10:13:08 pm

We're just lucky to know Truean. True is less lawyer, more LawBatman-inna-dress.

Totally gave me a sudden flash of phoenix wight wearing a dress over the batman suit. Someone needs to draw and/or photoshop that.

I always see True as less Phoenix Wright (seriously, don't you guys know any other fictional lawyers?) and more like Atticus Finch. True has the...well...truth at hand, but the public is too stupid to see it.

I in fact don't! At least, that's the only one I actually remember. But yeah, whoever works. Dress over batman suit.

Yeah, just chiming in a bit belatedly, MZ. You've got/had drink in you and didn't get behind the wheel. Regardless as to whatever she says about it, you did the right thing, period. Lady was asking you to put your life and the lives of other people on the road at risk for a situation that wasn't an emergency. That's frankly flat out immoral and insofar as that goes, you were specifically in the right to tell 'er (and anyone else that tries to get you to drive intoxicated) to go screw themselves.

Have a pat on the back from someone with a frothing hatred of people who drive under the influence.

Everyone complains about social cohesion and helping the less fortunate and when someone shows their lack of education or ignorance on the matter, we point and laugh.  Yeah, that's helping things.

Well, no. We (in this case, those on all sides of the political spectrum actually willing to engage others) extend our hand and try to help, and get either a metaphysical or literal gun shoved in our face and told to go screw ourselves because,

It's not that there's no attempt at dialectic, it's just that a subset of the political population responds to attempts at dialogue and increased understanding by just yelling that much louder and probably threatening violence. Frothing loon is as good a term as any for that sort.

Totally. I'm only about an hour from the coast, but the difference in temperature is usually between that of, well, the coast and a frothing hellswamp. Sea brings a nice breeze and usually (somehow) less humidity. Inland florida is a swamp. The air doesn't really move, comparatively, and the only place the heat has to go is onto you, where it congeals and slowly sinks into the inner core of your very essence. This does you no favors. It's like over clocking without a good cooling system, only the part in question receives absolutely zero benefit from the increased energy and God you're doing it mostly out of spite.

... Nad probably knows all this, though