BeamBrain

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

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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

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Bonus post from the same guy: "The most effective tool against the genocide of Palestine has been showing Israelis the humanity of Palestinians and vice versa. It isn't 'enlightened centrism', or any kind of centrism at all, even."

• 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.