Well, I've been listening to a ton of classic rock from various artists all day while playing classic PC games, and I picked up a very classic book for my next camp, War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. I figure if this is the third time I'm reading it and I'm still anxious to do so, I'll probably be revisiting it in a few months, so it was worth buying. Besides, it's a classic.

Anyway, I've been playing quite a bit of X-COM, and I got a good game going. I found a way to organize and remember my squad members a bit better. I used to not even give them names, but lists of main stats for names, but that's very drab, and I'm too lazy to go through all my soldiers like that. Half of them are going to die anyway! So, I came up with a way to remember my higher classed squaddies without overcomplicating it. I have begun giving the highest ranking officers the names of Red Vs Blue characters. Right now my highest ranking character is Tex, and she kicks ass. I have a black guy named Tucker (if you're a fan of rvb you get it, hehe), and a blond girl named doughnut. Simmons has recently been promoted as well. I know doc is dead now, but he's next on the list. I'm waiting for a good psi user to give the pride of being labeled my favorite character, Church.

Anyway, I shot down a large ufo, hoping it was just a simple supply ship trying to set up base, but to my suprise it was my first encounter with Snakemen, Terror class ufos, and the snakemen's elite and terrifying lackeys, Cryssalids. I Hate Cryssalids. They can't hold weapons, but they're still possibly the most lethal threat in the game next to etherials. They have big movement stats, so they can run right up to you before you know they're there, and if your guys don't take him down first, say goodbye to at least one of your allies, as they are turned into freaky zombies that when you shoot, explode to reveal another cryssalid. Luckily Tex had a trusty stun bomb, and that took care of the first one, that suprised the hell out of me. I still didn't know what kind of aliens to expect until that thing popped over a sand dune. I had a few stun bombs left, and it payed off. I only lost three members of my 12 person team on that hellish mission, and gained three live aliens, one of them a snakeman leader.

That gave me a big jump toward the final objective of going to mars to kick some of their weapons and powers back in their faces, but I still havn't made a ufo myself, and I still have a long way to go before this one's over. I wonder if I could beat it without psi... Nah, that would be suicidal.