Evening folks!

First things first, a bit of news regarding this weekend's streaming. Due to a doctor's appointment tomorrow night, I'll be getting started a little bit later than usual. That means Tomorrow, 08/03/2018 the stream is going to start at 7:00PM CST and will likely go until around 10-ish. Come join me when you can!

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Well, there was one that couldn't be saved but I made him look like a Clone Trooper so he's way more expendable than all my other soldiers and therefore doesn't count.

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Twilight Sparkle's image was taken and modified from "Twilight Sparkle and Sci-Twi vectors" by StacyHirano34, with permission.

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http://www.twitch.tv/ign/v/6218650

The XCOM 2 footage starts around the 1:30:00 mark. My reactions, go!

The video starts off with a bit of the talking heads prefacing the setting for the game: XCOM lost and was shattered, and for the past twenty years they've rebuilt what they could so they could finally strike back.

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I had a lot of fun streaming and playing this game yesterday, so I'm doing it again! This one will be much shorter than 6 hours though, so be there! 5:45 PM PST.

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Almost done with season one. The marathon is going a bit slower than ideal. I've also been writing down bits of canon as they get mentioned. A couple of episodes in I decided I wanted to see what was actually in the show. So places, creatures, etc. At he end of season one the list is four pages long. One of the reasons why we all like the show I guess. So much fun stuff.

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I'm re-doing everything. Mostly everything. I'm not happy with the story as is. I've paid attention to the comments pointing out flaws in the story, and I'm gonna try to fix them.

Evening everyone! I wanted to upload the next Lets Play video, only for it to be removed for being over 15 minutes long. I'm attempting to verify my account so that I can upload longer videos, but I'm encountering a problem. In order to verify the account I have to receive a text message or automated voice message. The system is not accepting my phone number which is preventing verification. Help?

Edit: Nevermind it's working now!

AKA, the XCOM spin-off with the fifties, black goo blob monsters, and tons of cigarette smoking.

Oh, and some aliens and shooting, too.

Jokes aside, I've got a soft spot for this game. It's no great all-time classic, but not borked trash-tier stuff either. Decent shooting, decent characters, decent twists, decent enemies, decent guns, decent powers...

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Hello everyone, so, at 3 mins to midnight (EST) I must face the fact that I'll miss another day of my "daily".

While there are some reasons as to why I didn't start writing earlier today, I think it's time to admit I need to take a bit of a deep breath and maybe write a couple of chapters in advance instead of writing the chapter to be uploaded that same day.

I mean, it was a good run. But I need a bit of a buffer so this doesn't happen again and I don't get stressed out.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVe6WxmOp8

First thing first. Lets take a moment and appreciate the operation name. Purple Spark. If that isn't fate I don't know what is.

The first operation for the Mente Materia Let's Play, sadly with one casualty but otherwise a good start. Next week we will be starting with our first crashed UFO. Until then, have fun!

Number of That's XCOM Baby! moments this episode: 3
(Double alien pod activation)
(Unexpected 3rd alien pod activation)

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...that no one mentioned

Hey guys, I'm trying to write a couple of chapters in advance given that next week is going to be intense time-wise. I apologize for the delay.

In the meantime, maybe we can talk a little about the story up to this point!

Here's some topics:

-What's your favorite Ranger moment up until now?
-Most surprising twist so far?
-What scene (besides sneks) needs art?
-If I were to share some of the creative process behind writing Ranger, what would interest you the most to find out?

Well, I lost ten days of writing to the Arizona trip, but even without that I'm way behind my 1500-word-per-day goal. But I'll keep plugging at it.

One major problem is finding away around a plot block in the current-in-progress chapter of Changeling Space Program. I'm almost there, but it's not quite ready to write in my head. I've been making slow progress on other projects, but nothing ready to post here yet. Sneak peeks are available for Patreon supporters.

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Just posted a couple of videos to YouTube demonstrating my poor judgment in XCOM 2.

First, the mission where I sent six rookies on a Very Difficult supply raid for the sake of getting a certain achievement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HQitm3c93c

Second, what happens when the game crashes and I restart it... and then forget I popped up the facecam...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLCZ8X0I8B4

So, those of you who have been following me know that I've been working on a twitch channel and a YouTube channel. Thing is, is that I work, so I can't really do twitch like how I want to. I can do YouTube videos though. And I've just started a YouTube series.

I call it Knight Breeze dies a lot.

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IGN released an article today about mods for XCOM 2. I have to say that I'm -extremely- interested in the process at this point. Depending on how much of an involved process it is, I may have to explore a possible Mente Materia mod. Now involved that mod becomes is going to be dependent upon a number of factors that will come into play once we get closer to release.

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You may have noticed a lack of updates for my stories. Between Calculus and other life stuff, I'm going through a major rewrite of my two main works, as well as creating a set-piece.

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Hello! Here's the last part of my first playthrough for the new XCOM DLC, unfortunately I haven't had the time to play the second mission yet, but at least I've finished this one!

Warning: I get annoyed.

In other, non-video game news:

Ranger

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