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Friday Fun Thread for October 14, 2022

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The sad part is that XCOM had a great lore justification for dynamic difficulty.

Terra Invicta also kinda has an explanation but it's not great. Just to do spoilers for the alien motivation, which you won't discover the entirety off in every faction's playthough. Spoiler:

The aliens themselves were almost defeated by other aliens, and only barely managed to win. So now they're terrified of all other aliens and seek to enslave them before they can be enslaved themselves. But they're they have a pro-peace political faction of their own that doesn't want to just destroy humans - which I guess ends up being the explanation for dynamic difficulty. The whole reveal of 'the aliens were nearly enslaved themselves which is why they're acting this way to humans/xenophobic' is portrayed as some really deep, and cool reveal ('doesn't it say something deep about society') but really comes off as trite and uninspired to me.

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