Seattleite

So, I could add "If I Didn't Care", but I'd have to remove, say, "Wonderful Guy"? No objectives. There's no shortage of songs in vanilla or on this list I'd rather never hear again and plenty of songs I'd love to add.

Animal whisperer is triggered by pointing the gun, not firing it. The main issue is you have to fire the gun, preferably in the direction of the bear, without hitting it. (Actually shooting a bear doesn't scare it, it pisses it off.) It may or may not be a problem to make that register, but I've been intending to try. But then, making a lot of noise to scare off a bear could draw something else more dangerous. Assuming the bears in this setting haven't built up a habit of running *towards* gunfire like Kodiak bears. Which might make sense, if they come to associate gunfire with dead things laying around to eat, which is what's happened with Kodiak bears.

As realistic as is possible within the engine.

All that work, and I lose my job to a clerical error. I have no words.

And the attacks in this mod will be substantially weaker, largely as a difference between the settings. For instance, you may return from a trip and find a bear rummaging through your dumpster. (I've actually done that once in real life, in almost the same area as this mod.) Which is quite a lot less than finding a half dozen people with guns, you know?

You can lose them, but it's highly unlikely they would all be lost in one attack as your settlers are usually fairly capable and the attacks are fairly weak. Actually, an attack killing *anybody* is a rarity. But if it's a concern, I can also scale settlement attacks to difficulty. They'll still be mortal, but the attacks will be less frequent for each difficulty down. I don't expect it'll have much impact on anything, though. It's not like these are organized assaults with military force. Usually, the "attacks" are done by monsters or animals that just kinda wandered in, and aren't really there to attack people so much as eat some livestock or raid the trash.

I generally oppose scripted deaths. Look, I'll just remove character mortality from the difficulties and have characters be mortal all the time. That should remove the issue.

N5jlPL1tNDY My girlfriend has control of the speakers, but I can't say I disapprove. Oh, and now we've got the Ink Spots. Because why not? UC_VzbtRGr0

The reason it's locked behind survival difficulty (I really do hope to change that name... I think I probably can) is because said content only exists once your second character dies, because said content is dealing directly with said character's death, and since they can't die on lower difficulties there isn't really any point going there otherwise. I suppose you could find a way to go in there anyway, but to what end? Some of it I can see you wanting to do anyway and it's still accessible, but the death-related quest areas just don't have any point otherwise and there's no conceivable reason why you'd go there, or be let in if you did. And actually, some of it would be physically impossible to access if both characters are alive, the only way to get there is to have your second character die and attempt to switch to them. That scene is as much an easter egg as anything else, but it's trippy and comedic. (Involving pitch-black waiting rooms, taking numbers, filling out a questionnaire, going through an interview, possibly going back to the waiting room and taking another number, and eventually being sent to your destination after having the gears of bureaucracy grind on you for an intentionally overly long period of time, only to be sent to another waiting room until it's your turn to depart. If you don't access this scene, it's assumed it all happened off-camera and your second character's destination is selected automatically, though you also miss out on the experience.)

Struggling to remain conscious.

To also drag old drama back up:

Now for another easy addition, difficulties work totally differently, having no direct effect on combat. Instead, difficulties affect other systems, and most of their impact is long-term, rather than short-term. Very easy: Limbs can heal on their own, infection does not exist, disease effects do not exist. Settlement attacks never occur. Easy: Limbs cannot heal when crippled without surgery or healing items, infection sets in if a limb is damaged especially badly, disease effects are minor. Settlement attacks occur at 20% of max rate. Normal: Limbs cannot heal when crippled without surgery or healing items, infection sets in if a limb is damaged especially badly, disease effects can be significant. Settlement attacks occur at 40% of max rate. Hard: Limbs cannot heal when crippled without surgery or healing items, infection sets in if a limb is crippled, disease effects can be serious. Settlement attacks occur at 60% of max rate. Very hard: Limbs cannot heal when crippled without surgery, infection sets in if a limb is crippled and necrosis sets in if it is damaged badly enough, disease effects can be life-threatening. Settlement attacks occur at 80% of max rate. Survival: Limbs cannot heal when crippled without surgery and can be injured so badly they cannot be healed at all, infection sets in if a limb is crippled and necrosis sets in if it is permanently crippled, disease effects can be life-threatening or incurable. Settlement attacks occur at maximum rate. This is the difficulty the mod was built for.

That's what it says on the bottom of the index, innit? Yeah, 23. As near as I can tell, it is in no way different from 22. There's also no party, might be a cake I don't know, and I start work tomorrow like it never happened.

Another year, another birthday I don't give a shit about.

Yes, on the important issues they are identical and rhetoric aside most perform more or less the same once in office. But that doesn't change their public image still being a deeply partisan two-party body. They can maintain this illusion while further focusing people away from the issues they want out of the public mind, using this system to reward people for taking the side their party had assigned to it on the topics they have specifically selected.

I mean that the US is a corporatocracy, and I'm pretty sure each company or group of companies would run their own version of this, rather than there being a single official government one. At most, the republican and democratic parties might have their own.

I also do not believe they could make it quite so... Unified.

I suspect the rewards would be rather a lot... Smaller than that.

Yup. And over minute lore bullshit, never mind that the Fallout lore is convoluted, contradicts itself, has different levels of canon and a lot of ambiguous canon in it. Kinda like Star Wars before Disney ruined it, except it doesn't have the excuse of being FUCKING ENORMOUS the way Star Wars is. I just can't understand how people can get so obsessive over lore that the creators clearly never gave a shit about.

And therein lies the problem. Well, from the corporations in question, which would be using it to further things that benefit them or their owners' ideals. Hence one example being getting free broadband for supporting the Comcast-TWC merger (which already went and failed, but they could do it again), presumably only if you're a customer of Comcast or TWC. I can see them giving up on a month's worth of profit to force a deal through like that, can't you? I accept Visa, American Express and Mastercard. Also Paypal, US dollars and Bitcoins only. Yes. Yes it is.

I was going to watch Castle in the Sky, but my internet is CRAZY slow right now.

Nonsense, for two reasons. 1. Americans only support the freedom when people aren't doing anything they don't like. The amount of time it takes Americans to go from "we support freedom of speech" to "everyone who disagrees with me should go to jail" is measured in Plank Time. Sure, they're all for allowing people to speak their minds, then somebody speaks against gun control and then it's all "THOSE CHILDREN ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU" and "YOU SHOULD GO TO JAIL FOR EVEN SAYING THAT". Freedom of religion is super important, then there's a terrorist attack and people are screaming "kill all Muslims". Freedom of assembly is in the constitution, and then teachers take to the streets about their squalid work environment and we declare everywhere a no protest zone. 2. Obvious violations of basic human rights are a-ok with the american public, generally only seeing backlash from a small percentage of the population for a short period of time. I submit as evidence the NSA spy program, COINTELPRO, NAFTA, the TPP, MKULTRA, the CCA and general privatization of prisons, the drug war, the drone program, the military-industrial complex in general and every war we've fought as a result of their influence for the last forty years. There only needs to be a few slight tweaks to make this work in the US, and once it's done it'll work better for our government's purposes than theirs. All they need to do is make a version for each party, and get corporations to sign on to give discounts for aligning strongly with the party line, which is easy because it's also free marketing. Want a discount on Microsoft games? Play up the hysteria on gun ownership. Want 20% off at Home Depot? Scream and rant and rave about prayer in schools. Want half off on a new Ford truck? Better not be friends with any democrats. Free Chic-Fil-A for the biggest homophobe! A free frappucino for everyone who calls the proposed ban on free speech a ban on hate speech! Support putting ground troops in Syria, get $20 of gas for free! Support the Comcast-TWC merger, and get free broadband for one month! This will destroy us.

Because the company making it is called Ali Baba. See, all of this is right on the money, but here's what makes me especially worried: If this works in China, it'll be everywhere FAST. Every political body in the world has reason to do something like this, and none are principled enough to turn down this kind of power. How long do you give it before it reaches each of our home nations? Before our own governments begin making their own version of Sesame Credit? China rolls out its version in full in 2020. I'm betting two years for development to start on an American equivalent and five years before it's released.

lHcTKWiZ8sI FUCK.

Freaking out, mostly.