London Expo 2006

Hey everyone. I managed to go to the London Expo 2006 October event over at the Excel House in Central London on the 28th.

And it was great. Despite the fact that games wasn't really a big part. The event showcased a couple of the latest games, had lots of stuff on comics from Marvel and such and even had a LOT of stuff devoted to Anime and Manga.

They also had a Manga drawing competition, had Marvel artists showcasing their work and drawing art for fans and even had english voice actors from some of the animes there.

There were also guest stars. Such as CHRISTOPHER LEE and MATT FREWER, various members of the CSI series (Mainly the lab workers) and several guests from STARGATE like JOE FLANIGAN (Major John Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis)
All of these people I got to see. But I never meet them as I was bouncing around with my friends buying stuff.

The event always takes place in May and in October. Usually the end of the month or so. It goes over the entire weekend. (Both Saturday and Sunday.) Although most of the focus is on Saturday.

It was a great time. Many people Cosplayed as characters from games like Resident Evil and the Final fantasy series. A lot were for Anime as well.

So if anyone wants to come along for the next event.

http://www.londonexpo.com/index.shtml

Check out the link when next May comes around to see what's there. And I hope I might see some of you guys there next time.

How low do Lobstermen Go?

Pretty low on the IQ level


I happen to have downloaded TFTD a long while back. (Somewhere last year) and I noticed whilst playing the game just how STUPID the Lobstermen in the game can be.

Note that the game happens to be on the beginner level.

Now, Lobstermen usually turn up on a shipping mission when they first appear in the game. When playing on that mission. One of my soldiers came across one at the front of the ship on the deck. (Second level) and, of course, I fired at it.

Suddenly, the lobsterman fires a S***load of sonic rounds at my soldier, followed by GAS rounds (YES, Gas rounds, the ones from the Dart gun and gas rifles from X-Com soliders in the game) and then went back to sonic rounds and then shot a load of missiles and then fired a massive S***load of sonic rounds before it stopped finally.

The amount of time it took to wait was enough for me to go downstairs into the kitchen, make a cup of tea, bring it up stairs to my room, drink it and take it back downstairs to put by the washing and come back and wait for another ten minutes to finally be able to do anything about it.

And the most funny thing is. It completely missed my soldier. They didn't get hit ONCE!!!!

Since then, I've had a couple more situations like that, but, because they took LONGER then the previous scenario, it usually ended up with me rebooting my computer because it was taking so long. And I have Windows XP.

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This next thing is also on a shipping mission. When I enter the kitchen area. I found about 3 lobstermen in there with 1 civi. I was able to save the civi. But one of the lobstermen went into the FREEZER in the kitchen and I had to send a soldier in there just to kill it. It wasn't coming out for anything.

Mutons=Terminators

I was looking through the UFOpedia of the first game, looking up for some source material on Mutons so I could do sketches.

Anyway, I was reading the UFOpedia description and I noticed as to how they had cybernetic upgrades to their bodies. Looking at other aliens, some of them had cybernetics as well.

But what got me was the fact that Mutons had armour plating in a skin suit with cybernetics underneath.

Now, I don't know why no-one else has thought of it. But wouldn't it make Mutons a bit like terminators? (The ones from the Terminator films if you are wondering.)

X-COM: X-Genesis

I've only done the prologue and the first chapter of my fic so far, but I'm working on the 2nd chapter right now. Its called X-com: X-Genesis and takes place 2000 years after X-com: Apocalypse.

I've placed it over at fanfiction.net if anyone wants to read it over there. But here it is anyway.



Year 4067:

Humanity has lived amongst the stars for nearly 2000 years. The Earth, Humanity's birthplace, was abandoned. With the incident of the Alien Dimension invading the last hope of life on Earth, Mega-Primus, no-one felt safe anymore. Humanity left Earth. Colonised other worlds and lived in space.

And Humanity was always safe, because of one Organisation was dedicated to keep them safe.

X-COM The eXtra-terrestrial-COMbat unit. Created to help fight the Aliens that were hell-bent on destroying humanity and taking Earth.

But X-COM had fought them so hard that the 2nd Alien War had devastated Earth. Turned it into a worldwide wasteland with very little left to rebuild.

However, after nearly 2000 years of decay since humanity left Earth, GSC scientists monitoring the Earth noticed renewed life on the surface and quickly dispatched a team of scientists and soldiers to find the source of this renewed life. But they were never heard of once they touched down.



13 Years later:



The largest amount of X-COM soldiers and scientists has been en route from Epsilon Sirius and Theta Regulus. Reports suggest they are currently heading towards Earth. Which has long been abandoned since the fall of Mega Primus. One can only remember the Disaster 13 years ago when 15 soldiers and 10 scientists disappeared upon touchdown on the surface.

Also reported are several new types of X-COM Interceptors accompanying the transports. These are the latest Interceptors to have flown in the Frontier, the new types include the new Super Avenger Mark X (Ten) Which includes the new Hyper-drive system which has been known to go from one side of the Galaxy to the other in 5 minutes flat.

In other news: BioTronic and Nanotech, have recently been arguing at court over reports of copyright infringement concerning a new Bio-Nano Computer that was due out last mouth. Ninsoft Corporation, the company which set out the commission of a new type of computer, category deny having personal dealings with either company for fear of favouritism.

Also-BBBBEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

The PDA screen shut off with the deafening tone of the "Low Battery Warning". The PDA soon found itself flying across the room with the sound-output system smashed in.

"SHIT! Those new batteries only lasted a fortnight! Gotta get some tomorrow."

A man sat back into the chair and sighed. The room was dark. Very small. The only light came from a desk-light in front of the man. The desk was put up against the wall. Next to the desk on the right was a single bunk with a couple of lockers opposite the desk. The entrance hall was finally on the last wall.

X-COM Earth Outpost 1 - Defence Garrison 21:

The laptop on the desk suddenly beeped. The man came forward to the desk and typed on the computer. The screen switched to an intercom interface.

"Colonel Jackson. I trust you got the first part of the news."

"Ah! Yes Commander Sir. About the troop transport! I was going to enquire about that Sir." Jackson said with a bit of a hesitation.

"No need." Said the Commander. "We're moving them to Earth as part of an Operation that you personally are going to explicitly oversee."

"You don't mean? Earth?" Jackson asked with fear.

"Unfortunately yes. We're doing a reclaiming operation. We're going down to the Mega-Primus site. Area-Zero will be avoided at any and all costs. So don't worry."

Jackson sighed. Mega-Primus was half-way across the world from Area-Zero. The landing area of the disaster 13 years ago.

"You will be accompanied by 5 other colonels on this operation Jackson. But you will be the one to give out the orders."

"What about the Avengers?" Jackson asked. "Could we use those?"

"I knew you were going to ask that. The Avengers are there in case of any problems. The transports will be used as well for the Operation. I had to personally go through a lot of red tape to get those."

"Ah! Sir? What about the science personnel involved in the movement? Their not coming are they?"

"Don't worry Jackson." The Commander said reassuringly. "They're going to the GSC Station for some preparations before they come down. After you've set up a base of operations of course."

"Yes sir. So what are the objectives?"

"Right. Your primary mission is to reclaim the old X-COM bases set up around Mega-Primus. From there, the remaining structures. Once Mega-Primus is up and running, proceed with extreme caution to the areas surrounding Mega-Primus. We're going to be bringing a lot of manpower for this. So don't waste it."

"Any assessment on the threat level?" Jackson asked.

"Use extreme caution. If nessecary, prevent access to the hangers and bail out."

"Right. Mission understood. How long before the troops arrive?"

"Estimated time should be in about 14 days. But you never know."

"Understood."

"Good luck Jackson."

The Intercom shut down. Jackson sighed again.

"Yeah. I'm gonna need it."