"So what do you miss?" "Dishwasher, I guess." "Your own machine to wash your own dishes?" "Yeah. Well, you had to keep buying the detergent, and there was a water monthly bill..." "So what's the big difference?" "Those things are also true if you wash dishes by hand. Then we had a clothes washer, shared between neighbors, but that one wanted quarters. That's how it started I guess." "... ah." "For some things it was legitimately convenient, don't look down on it. Then it got worse. Poor people would rent-to-own furniture even though it cost more, because a bill was easier to manage than a big purchase. On the other end of the spectrum,

 "Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Two years of searching. But... the space ninja broke free. "Damn it!" "Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Two years of searching. But... the space ninja broke free. "Damn it!" "Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Three years of searching. But... the space ninja broke free. "Damn it!" "Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Five years of searching. But... the space ninja broke free. "Damn it!" Were they getting rarer? He couldn't tell - it was mission after mission, but... it felt like that. "Captain Verr, we found one!" Finally. Verr felt lightheaded. This planet was not quite there. Still... E

XCOM Academy - Narrator's Cut - Premise    Played on Normal at first. After the alien base assault, played on Classic, with "plot" missions played on Impossible.    Two soldiers per squad will be "cadre" soldiers that get leveled up normally. One SHIV may be used instead of a cadre soldier.    Everyone else is rookies, who are sent to XCOM by various countries' militaries (or even NGOs) in order to learn how to fight the aliens. This is the primary (stated) point of the project.    Non-cadre soldiers who level up to Corporal are rotated out (fired) after their first mission with the Corporal rank, which is their graduation mission.

Last Journey Home "We forgot Kitty!" "Honey, it's fine, we can just spin a new Kitty when we get through the portal." "WE FORGOT KITTY!" "Jerrodd, I got it." Jerrodine looks inside her toolbox, rapidly blinks some commands, loads a photo, extrapolates, and the toolbox compliantly spins a new plushie. She hands it to her daughter. Jerrodette glomps the plushie, holds it to her cheek, smells it. Too new. "That's not Kitty! Bad auntie!" "But-" "We can try to go back. I don't want to enter the singularity knowing that the last thing we did with our charge as flesh-and-blood people was lie to her. Probability of success?" Jerrod's watch re

A common myth dating to the beginning of the Third Age talks about the struggle to find and destroy a small but potent artifact -- a ring, a chalice, a crown -- before the Lord of Decay could retrieve it and restore himself to full power. The Alphatians narrate of a mighty tournment between wizards and sorcerers, organized by the Lord of Decay himself as a pretext to get one of the contestants to recover the artifact, and how the winner managed to turn the evil one's deceit against him. The Thyatians somberly report the entire might of an empire turned to one task, culminating with the largest army ever assembled constructing a road across

https://emlia.org/dwiki/index.php?n=Main.MarsThoughts I can't SEE! That's what I get for freaking out. I got plenty of air, but my mask is fogged and all I can see is a red blur if I look down and a pink blur if I look up. In meantime there's a dog-person with a gyro crossbow looking for me. I hear a thunk through the thin martian atmosphere - very faint. Sounds like she's plinking the obvious rock to hide behind that I didn't slide past - no, wait, thin air, she hit this rock. Okay, how do I get out of this? Stop, McFly, think. That was a good run. You're winded and your breathing mask is fogged. She's probably in the same shape. Whoever