Part 2
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It was late when I got back home but for as tired as I was, I knew that I wasn’t going to sleep a wink.
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I went into my computer room and opened up my laptop, before plugging in the USB the bartender had given me. There were four folders on it, each one containing the feed from a different camera in the Rooster. I clicked into one of the folders at random and picked through the video files inside, looking for the stretch of footage that I needed. It didn’t take me long to find it either.
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I clicked into one of the video files, and watched as the chaos of the Red Rooster played out before me. People drinking, flirting, laughing. Living their lives. Nothing I hadn’t seen before. I let the footage play for a bit, before getting up to grab myself a couple of beers from the fridge. When I got back, I started skipping through the video, waiting for the moment my two victims showed up.
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When I’d taken the bartender's statement, he’d told me that he’d seen the two before, both separate and together. He didn’t know their names, but he knew their faces. Other patrons recognized them too. One of them had identified the red haired girl as ‘Kayley’ and had mentioned she lived down at River Ridge, a trailer park outside of town. Nobody had been able to name the Elegant Woman, although a lot of patrons had said they’d seen her around before.
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Apparently, both of them usually came to hook up, leaving with a different stranger on most nights. Odds are, they’d why they were there on that night too. They’d come in at around 8:47. The Elegant looking dark haired woman seemed to be the one taking the lead, and seemed to be the one doing most of the talking. She and Kayley went to sit at the bar, talking amongst each other all the while. I couldn’t say for sure what they were talking about. Even if the file had audio, I doubt I’d have been able to single them out over the crowd. They looked at ease though.
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They shared a couple of drinks. Nothing seemed that out of the ordinary. I took a sip of my beer, watching them. Eventually, Kayley got distracted talking to a man further down the bar, while the Elegant Woman stayed at the bar, drinking casually as if she had all the time in the world.
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The man in the suit came in at around 9:12.
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My attention shifted to him the moment he came in through the door.
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He fit the description that every witness I’d spoken to had given about the shooter. A tall man with a red beard in a black suit who was wearing a pair of reflective sunglasses despite the fact that it was 9 at night. Even beneath his suit, it was easy to tell he had a good physique, and his crew cut implied a military history to me.
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Red Beard took a seat at the bar, a few seats down from the Elegant Woman. He ordered a drink, and nursed it for a bit, discreetly looking around at the other patrons of the bar but not seeming to look directly at either the Elegant Woman or Kayley. He just drank his beer, and when he was finished, he got up and switched seats, moving to sit beside the Elegant Woman. She looked over at him, putting on a charming smile as they talked. I almost got the impression that they were flirting with each other.
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They kept talking for a while and as they did, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. If I didn’t know what was coming next… it would have caught me completely off guard. When she turned to take a sip of her drink, the gun appeared in his hand, almost without warning. She didn’t even have time to react before he shot her at point blank range. Three bullets straight to the chest.
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I saw Kayley spin around and freeze up. Her entire body tensed, as if she was ready to lunge at the shooter. If that was her intention though, she never got the chance. He put two bullets in her without even thinking, then without so much as a glance backward, he took off toward the door.
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I rubbed my temples, watching as the chaos of the aftermath unfolded. Some people called 911. Some, like the bartender, ran to the aid of the bodies. I saw myself run in through the door less than six minutes after the shooting had happened.
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That was where I stopped the video.
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I took another sip of my beer, and sighed. I rewound it a little bit, watching as the shooter came in and watching as he left. I might recognize this man on the street if I saw him, but other than his red hair and sunglasses, there wasn’t really much to go off of.
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The way he left… he walked away almost casually, as if he had someplace to be. He didn’t run. He didn’t panic. He was cold, calm, and professional. I guess that fit with the other murders, didn’t it?
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I steeled myself to review the footage again, this time from another camera. Maybe there’d be something from one of the angles that I didn’t see. I checked the angles of the other three cameras. Two of them wouldn’t offer me much. One of them didn’t even catch the shooting. But the last one…
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The last one looked promising.
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It was situated near the back of the bar and through it, you could see out a window onto the street. It wasn’t the best view… but it was different.
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From that angle, I could see a black sedan pull up to drop the man in the suit off. I saw him walk in the door and sit by the bar and from there, the scene played out the same as it did before. The man in the suit shot the two women and he left.
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He strode out toward the sedan parked out front, got in the passenger seat and the sedan took off like a shot. There’d been a getaway driver. Interesting…
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I set my unfinished beer down. I could drink the rest of it later. I needed to go on a little drive.
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It was around 4 AM when I returned to the Red Rooster. I parked my car on the street, exactly where the black sedan had parked, and got out. The downtown area around me was dead silent. Lifeless almost. There wasn’t another soul in sight. But that was fine by me. That just meant that there were no distractions.
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It didn’t take me long to find what I was looking for. There was a bank across the street and I walked toward it. The doors were locked, but that was fine. I could see what I needed through the windows.
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Bank machines.
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More specifically, bank machines with cameras. Cameras that were pointed right at the Red Rooster.
Perfect.
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I was off shift the next day, but that just gave me time to get some actual work done. It was probably better I do it all from home. This case was Di Cesares now. I wasn’t sure what she’d do if she caught me working on it, and I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to find out. Judging by those fangs in her mouth, she wasn’t human either. Hell, I wasn’t sure if she was actually even from the State Police… I got the impression that Sheriff Smith didn’t seem to think so. But if she wasn’t with them, who was she with? Why hadn’t the State Police sent someone else? Had she done something to them? Even if she had, I couldn’t just believe that the State Police wouldn’t notice something like that.
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No… there was something else going on here. But I could figure that out later.
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First things first - I needed to review the footage from the bank machines. The bank was more than willing to give me access to the footage when I asked. They knew who I was, they knew what had happened and they knew why I was asking.
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Once I got back home, it didn’t take me long to find what I was looking for. Just as I’d hoped, the bank machines had recorded the car that had been waiting outside the Red Rooster. I couldn’t make out the license plate from the footage… but I could see enough to identify the make and model of the car.
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An Audi A6 Sedan.
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I’m not much of a car guy, but I can say that there’s not a lot of Audi’s in rural Ohio. Even without the license plate, this shouldn’t have been hard to find. I made a call to a buddy of mine in the BMV, told him what I was looking for and within the hour, he had the results for me.
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It turns out, there were actually only eight Audi A6 Sedans registered in our county and all of them were registered to the same company.
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Apostle Security.
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Naturally, I did a bit of research on them. Apostle was a mid-sized private security firm based in Cincinnati, although they had a few other offices in Ohio and some of the surrounding states. It’d been started by a man named Joseph Cray about ten years ago, although beyond that I couldn’t find out much about their history and really, I didn’t care. Their website didn’t list any offices in my county… but the BMV seemed to say otherwise. My friend there had given me an address outside of town and even if I was off duty, I figured that no one could give me any guff for taking a little scenic drive. And if I just so happened to see some black Audi’s that looked like the one that had been parked outside of Red Rooster last night… well, maybe I’d pass that information along to whoever was on duty at the time. I’m pretty sure it was Biggs and Hoffman. They could decide whether or not to tell Di Cesare. It would be completely out of my hands.
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I headed out to my car, plugged the address I’d gotten into my GPS and took a little drive.
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As I drove through the backroads leading out of town, I felt a sense of quiet apprehension. Maybe I was being naive, putting my hopes on this lead. But I’d done the work. If Apostle really was behind this, it would make sense for them to have some sort of location in the county. If I was right, maybe I wouldn’t find all the answers to this surreal mess of a case, but I’d at least find the shooters. That was something. At least people wouldn’t be dying anymore.
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Christ… I still didn’t know what to make of the victims. The gills on Kayley, the fangs on Patricia Russell, the fractures on Geoffery Vickers bones. Maybe these people really were monsters? If so… maybe these shooters knew that. Maybe that was why they did it.
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But even if that was the case - I still couldn’t just leave a roving kill squad to wander around unchecked. The way things were going, it was just a matter of time until one of the victims was just some innocent bystander. I passed by a familiar sign as I neared the edge of the county. An advertisement for the local Volkswagen dealership.
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‘You’re in Smith Country!’ It declared, along with a prominent smiling photo of Aaron Smith himself. I’d always found that sign a little creepy. The eyes and the smile were both a little too wide. It made the man look downright unhinged. I’d never actually met Aaron Smith in person, despite working for his older brother. The Sheriff would mention him from time to time and I could see the family resemblance, but it was hard to imagine the face on that sign sitting down to an odd Sunday dinner with Sheriff Smith.
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To be fair, they probably didn’t talk much. I don’t think Aaron Smith himself even lived in town anymore. He owned a bunch of other dealerships scattered around southwest Ohio. Smith Volkswagen was just the oldest. But the sign had been there forever, and why fix what ain’t broken, even if it is creepy as hell?
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Either way, just past that unsettling sign was my destination. Once upon a time, it’d been a small auto garage that had long since gone defunct. It’d been closed down since before I moved to town. From what I’d seen, Smith Volkswagen had used the property as an additional lot to store the cars they had no room for, from time to time but it didn’t seem like they did that anymore. Now the place just looked completely dead. There were no cars parked out front, Audi or otherwise.
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I pulled into the parking lot, and checked the address I had to make sure it was correct. This was definitely the place. I parked my car and got out, before making my way to the front door. I found it locked.
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Naturally.
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Guess my luck had to run out somewhere. Maybe this was a dead end? I already knew I probably wasn’t getting inside without a warrant, and I didn’t exactly know what my chances were of getting one.
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I tried the door again. It still didn’t open. From the corner of my eye, I noticed a security camera by the door. I stared up into it. The presence of a camera probably didn’t mean much. Whoever owned this property probably wanted to deter adventurous kids and urban explorers from going in. Maybe it was nothing, but I still couldn’t help but find it interesting.
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I considered just going back to the car but didn’t want to feel like I’d wasted my time, so I figured I’d snoop a little bit. I took a quick walk around the perimeter, peeking in through the windows that I passed. I didn’t see much, but judging by what I could see, this place wasn’t abandoned. I didn’t see anyone inside, but the inside looked awfully clean for an abandoned building.
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Going out around back, I noticed that there were garbage bags in the dumpsters out back. Not a lot… but enough to confirm to me that there were people here. Maybe this wasn’t a dead end…
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I heard a sudden mechanical whirr from the other side of the building that made me pause. I rounded the corner, moving along the back of the building just in time to see a convoy of five black Audi’s rolling out of the garage door, one after the other. They turned onto the road, moving almost in perfect sync as they headed toward town. I felt a knot form in my stomach as I watched them go.
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I’d found the cars I’d been looking for… although if they were going somewhere, odds are that we’d be getting a call about it all too soon.
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My heart was beating faster in my chest.
I knew I couldn’t just sit there and watch. I knew I needed to do something.
So I did.
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I ran back to my car as fast as my legs could carry me, leaping behind the wheel and keying the engine. I tore back out onto the road, speeding after the convoy. I didn’t know what my plan was. I didn’t have a plan. I just knew that if I didn’t do something, people were going to die.
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The convoy turned away from downtown, following the river north. They passed by the River Ridge RV park, moving further down the road towards the outskirts of the county. It was hard to say exactly where they were going. There wasn’t much out that way, not for several miles. But they were moving with purpose and so was I.
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About ten miles past River Ridge, I noticed something up ahead. Flashing lights, like what you’d see on a squad car, although there was no color to them. They were just white.
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The convoy in front of me finally began to pull off the road. I could see them passing another Audi, this one outfitted with an LED bar. Two men on the road waved them off. Both of them were dressed in well pressed suits and wore reflective sunglasses. One of them was bald with a very thick dark stubble, and the other had a familiar red beard and military crew cut.
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The knot in my stomach grew tighter as I drove toward the men, waiting for them to stop me. I reached for my pistol, ready for them to make a move. They just waved me on, barely even looking at me. I still kept my hand on my gun as I drove past, watching Red Beard and Baldy like a hawk.
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I could see two other men behind the parked Audi with the flashing lights out of the corner of my eye. They were on the ground, fidgeting with something. It took me a moment to figure out what it was.
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Spike strips.
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I’d seen them before. We’d used them back during my army days at vehicle checkpoints and while we’d never had to use them while I’d been working as a city cop, we did have them.
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They were setting up an ambush here. The five Audi’s that had pulled off the road parked along the shoulder further down. I could see men in suits getting out of them. I didn’t see any guns… I guess they were still partially trying to be subtle. But I still had a feeling that they were armed.
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I kept on driving, going further down the road. Stopping and confronting these men wasn’t an option. Maybe they weren’t interested in making a mess by shooting any random schmuck who passed by their little trap, but that didn’t change the fact that they were probably dangerous. Charging in and dealing with them by myself wasn’t a smart idea. So instead, I reached for my phone, and I called Biggs.
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He answered on the first ring.
“Hey Sawy-”
“Ethan, we have a situation,” I said. “Who’s on duty with you right now?”
“Right now it’s Hoffman, why what’s going on?”
“Call Hoffman, call the Sheriff and call Lopez. There’s going to be another attack.”
“What? Where?”
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“I’ve spotted some suspects setting up some kind of ambush ten miles north of River Ridge. How soon can you be here?”
“Twenty, thirty minutes, maybe?” He said, “Sawyer, where are you right now?”
“I just passed the ambush point. They’re gearing up for something, now move your ass!”
“Y-yeah, of course!”
Biggs hung up immediately, and I pulled off to the side of the road. I took a deep breath, before checking the magazine of my pistol and getting out.
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I wasn’t going to charge in needlessly… but I needed to have eyes on this situation. It’d be easier if I could get closer on foot. Leaving my car behind, I dipped into the woods along the other side of the road, letting them hide me as I walked back along the road toward the ambush.
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The river whispered beside me as I crept through the trees, and the steep incline leading down toward the river helped keep me low and hidden from sight.
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I could see the flashing white lights of the parked Audi, and watched as they suddenly went dark. Red Beard was speaking into a walkie talkie, and on the far side of the road, I could see several men waiting by the five parked Audi’s. This time, they had guns. Assault rifles, by the looks of it.
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I was right. There was another attack coming and it was coming now.
“Fish market’s on the move, gentlemen. Put out the nets!” Red Beard said.
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On his order, I watched one of the men pull the spike strip across the road, while Red Beard addressed the men on the far side of the road. He spoke like a drill instructor and the men he addressed carried themselves like soldiers.
“As of right now, we are locked in on this operation! We run things smooth, we run it clean, we get the job done. No mistakes like last time! No stragglers! Understood?”
“Sir yes sir!” Came a familiar chorus.
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After a few minutes, headlights appeared further down the road. I watched them from my vantage point, praying they belonged to Biggs. But the oncoming vehicle was too big to be a squad car. This looked more like an RV.
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No…
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This was a whole convoy of RV’s. Most likely coming from River Ridge.
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I couldn’t count them all, but they were all heading towards the ambush… and that was when the pieces slowly began to click into place.
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Kayley, the girl who’d survived… the girl the people at Red Rooster had been able to ID. She’d lived at River Ridge. If she and her friend from the other night weren’t human… then there was a damn good chance that there were others just like them there. Other women with gills. I guess River Ridge would be the perfect place for them… it was quiet, away from the hustle and bustle of downtown and close to the water. Whatever these people were… it’d just about be the perfect place for them.
‘Fish market’s on the move.’
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That’s what Red Beard had said.
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The other killings hadn’t exactly been low key… if there were more girls like Kayley at River Ridge, odds are they’d heard about them. And odds are that once they realized they were being targeted too, their first instinct would be to get the hell out of dodge. That would explain why they were carrying out this attack in broad daylight too. They weren’t going off of their own schedule, they were trying to catch the monsters as they fled. And now their targets were here… drawing closer and closer to their massacre with each passing second.
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There was no sign of Biggs or anyone else. They still had to be at least fifteen minutes out… probably more.. By the time they got here, the shooting would probably already be over.
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I couldn’t let that happen.
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For the record - I knew that what I was about to do was extraordinarily stupid, but I didn’t see a whole lot of other options. I couldn’t allow them to ambush those RV’s. I couldn’t. I didn’t really stop to weigh the pros and cons in my head. Sure, I knew that what I was about to do had a chance of survival that was damn near zero… but hey, everyone dies sometime, right? This was the only option I had available to me. In a lot of ways, it wasn’t really even a choice I made. I just did it. I took aim at the nearest target, and I fired.
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I saw one of the men by the car, the bald one with the scruff grab his shoulder and stumble back a step. He wasn’t dead, but he was hurt. I shot at him again, but he was low enough to the ground and far enough away that I didn’t hit him. He hastily dragged himself off the road and behind the Audi. He still managed to stand, so clearly he wasn’t in that bad a shape.
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The moment he heard the gunshots, Red Beard spun around, drawing his own pistol as he did. I knew that he saw me. I could see his expression creasing into a scowl the moment he did. Our eyes locked for only a split second before the air was filled with the sound of gunshots.
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POP. POP. POP.
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I felt a white hot pain sting across my arm as one of his bullets grazed me, and even though I returned fire I doubt I hit him. Red Beard dove behind his Audi, but behind him I could see his little kill squad moving in.
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I couldn’t count how many of them there were. More than ten. Fifteen, maybe? Twenty at most? Who could say.
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I retreated back into the trees, skidding down the forested incline toward the river as I waited for the gunmen to come for me.
“Keep off the road!” Red Beard snarled, “Watch your fire! Wait until you have a shot!”
He must’ve been trying to salvage this operation… Although from where I sat, the RV’s looked to be slowing down. Seems they’d noticed the gunfire.
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Red Beard glanced in the direction of the RV’s, and I could see the gears in his head spinning. This was all going wrong… but he didn’t seem the type to give up. On the road, the lead RV moved to make a U turn. I could see Red Beard watching it, and took a pot shot at him. It didn’t hit him, but it did shatter the driver's side window of his Audi.
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Roaring in frustration, Red Beard fired three shots back at me.
“Goddamnit! Fuck it! Squads 1 and 2, kill that son of a bitch! 3 to 5, intercept the convoy, NOW!”
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I saw some of his men back off, running back to their cars. The rest moved onto the road, coming after me. I fired at them, and I saw one of them stumble back as I shot him dead in the chest. But he didn’t die. He stumbled, but picked himself right back up.
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Great, they were armored too.
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I was punished for poking my head out by a burst of machine gun fire. The trees by my head splintered as I dove down into cover. I lost my footing, sliding further down the incline toward the river. The only reason I didn’t fall all the way down was because I caught myself on a tree. Looking up, I could see about eight figures at the top of the incline, coming down off the road. One of them spotted me and opened fire. All I could do was scramble out of the way and roll further down the hill toward the water.
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Gunfire followed me, but I couldn’t see who was shooting. I couldn’t see where they were. I couldn’t stop to try and get a shot. There were too many of them. I dove down to safety behind a fallen old tree. Bullets rained down on it, tearing off chunks of bark and sending splinters raining down on me.
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I gripped my gun tight. My blood rushing in my ears. Somehow… I always wondered if I’d die like this. Dug into the dirt, with bullets whizzing past my head. Maybe there wasn’t any other way for me to die? Who’s to say? But I’d be damned if I didn’t take at least one of those bastards down with me.
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I took a deep breath. Steeled myself for what I was sure was going to be my last stand.
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Then, gun in hand I rose to return fire.
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Only when the rifles went off, they weren’t aimed at me.
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I could see the eight figures standing in between the trees, but they’d turned away from me. They were shooting at something else now, although I couldn’t immediately see what. I just saw a shape, moving between the trees. I heard the ground shift and saw a cloud of dirt fly up. One of the armed men was sent screaming down the incline, into the river. I wasn’t sure if he’d survived the fall or not.
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One of the other men opened fire, only for the shape to grab his rifle, I saw them force it down, before lunging at his throat. He screamed as they sank their teeth into him, but didn’t seem to be able to put up much of a fight otherwise. Two of his friends opened fire on him, hoping to kill the shape that had him in its grasp. The ground seemed to shift beneath them, sending both of them down the incline and into the river. Within seconds, whoever or whatever the hell this was had just taken out half of the men who were supposed to be killing me.
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They tossed the man they’d just bitten to the ground and for the first time, I got a good look at my savior. Clementine Di Cesare’s mouth was smeared red with blood. Her sunglasses were absent and in her blue eyes I could see an unsettling calm. As if this wasn’t so much different to her than any other mundane chore.
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The remaining gunmen seemed to freeze at the sight of her, not seeming to know how to react until Di Cesare moved. She was fast. It was hard to tell if she was running, or if the ground simply shifted beneath her. She lunged for the nearest gunman, kneeing him in the stomach and tossing him aside like he weighed nothing, although while she dealt with him, the man beside him got off a lucky shot.
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Before Di Cesare could deal with him, he emptied half his magazine into her chest… but she didn’t fall. Hell, there wasn’t a scratch on her. The guy who’d shot her on the other hand?
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Blood dribbled from his mouth. His body jerked violently as he collapsed to the ground. It was as if he’d been the one who’d gotten shot, not her. Di Cesare barely paid him any mind, regarding the final two men with that eerie calmness.
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I could see one of them stumbling away, trying to get back up the incline. The other one just gritted his teeth and decided to fight on until the end. He was smart enough to know that shooting her wasn’t going to work, so instead he pulled a combat knife from his jacket and charged at her, as if it would do him any good.
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Di Cesare barely even reacted. She sidestepped him and casually sent him down the incline into the river below. I saw him tumble down into the river before crashing into the water below with a final scream.
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Di Cesare watched him fall with a quiet disinterest, before her attention shifted to me. I took a step back, half expecting her to come for me just like she did with the others. Instead, she simply wiped the blood from her mouth before she turned away from me, and headed back up the incline, moving with purpose.
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I hesitated for a moment before following her. Di Cesare stepped out onto the road and surveyed the scene before her with an intense gaze. Whatever Red Beards plan had been… clearly everything had gone catastrophically wrong. I could see some of the black Audi’s on the road, trying to follow the RV’s, although the one that got the closest to one of the RV’s near the back of the convoy got rammed by it and sent careening off the road.
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The tires of Red Beard’s Audi screeched as it tore back out onto the road. I saw him behind the wheel, sparing Di Cesare and I a single glance as he took off at top speed. I raised my gun to shoot at him but Di Cesare seized me by the wrist, stopping me from doing so. I looked over at her, confused.
“Let them run,” She said calmly. “We know where they are now.”
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She looked down the road, back toward the fleeing RVs, and seemed momentarily content. One of the five parked Audi’s, driven by the survivor of the group who’d gone after me sped onto the road and Di Cesare regarded it with quiet disinterest before walking over to the road spikes and beginning to move them.
“Help me with this,” She said coolly.
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I hesitated for a moment before doing exactly what she asked.
“You called for backup?” She asked, as we dragged the spikes off the road.
“I did,” I said. “Wait, you’re not with them?”
“No,” She replied plainly. We packed away the spikes but left them at the side of the road. Someone else could collect them as evidence. “I was with the RV convoy.”
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I raised an eyebrow at her.
“You were with them?” I asked. “So you knew about the attack?”
“I knew it was likely,” She said. “Although I didn’t expect you here, Deputy Sawyer,”
She tilted her head at me.
“Working behind my back, I see.”
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“I was following up on a lead,” I said. “I tracked the vehicle that last night's shooter used to a garage just on the edge of town. I saw some cars leaving and figured it was probably bad news, so I followed them here.”
“I see… you’re quite sedulous, aren’t you?”
“Well I couldn’t exactly sit around given the past few days, could I?” I asked. “What the hell just happened back there, on the incline? How did you… what the hell did you do? I watched someone shoot you, then die of their own gunshot wounds! How the hell did you do that? What the hell are you?”
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The questions spilled out of me without much thought, although Di Cesare didn’t seem to care much.
“That’s a question with a complicated answer,” Di Cesare replied.
“Uncomplicate it, then!”
“I’m an old soldier, same as you,” She said. “Maybe I know a little bit of magic… maybe I’m not entirely human anymore, but that’s what I am at my core.”
“Vampire…” I said quietly.
She didn’t answer, but there was a look in her eyes that told me I was right. At this point, after seeing what I’d just seen, I wasn’t in much of a state of mind to doubt it.
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“So that trick with the bullet wounds… was that a vampire thing or a magic thing” I asked.
“Attribution spell,” She said. “Makes me harder to kill. Not a lot gets through it. I’ll tell you what. Give me your car keys, and I’ll answer any questions you have later.”
She extended a hand to me.
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“I’m sorry, my car keys?” I asked, “Why?!”
“I need to follow the RV’s to make sure they make it out of the county safely. You said you’ve called in backup. You still need to be here for when they arrive. So… I’ll be borrowing your vehicle.”
I hesitated for a moment, before swearing under my breath and handing my keys off to her.
“Do what you’ve got to do…” I said under my breath.
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She nodded.
“It’ll be returned to you when I’m done, no worse for wear.”
With that, she pushed past me and walked toward my car and all I could really do was just watch. She took my car, and sped off after the RV’s, leaving me in the road to clean up the mess.

I thought this was one of the stranger moments of TEATD3 and an interesting showing of what the Emperor's faith can do even during the Heresy before his mass worship
Sigismund and a small force of Astartes assault a Death Guard army besieging The Fallen who hold The Astronomicon after saving a column of civilian refugees, led by Euphrati Keeper who encourages them to view the Emperor as a god. Sigismund believes that if he can assassinate their leadership his smaller force can still overcome the traitors but after defeating the Lord of the Death Guard he is disappointed at the results:

Sigismund has already whipped the black sword around in a double- grip underhand slash that cuts Skulidas’ exposed throat.
The Cadaver Lord falls. His bone-blade falls with him, and lies twitching and helpless on the bloody ground. The cloak of flies falls too: it falls onto Skulidas like a shroud, pouring in through the joints of his plate to feed on his still-hot corpse. Sigismund turns, and fights off other attackers. He’s anticipating the reaction, the wash of unrest that bathes an enemy force when its leader falls, the pivot-point of falter and dismay that he and his Seconds can use to shift the balance of the battle.
It doesn’t come. The Death Guard fights on, oblivious to the loss. Sigismund, master of single combat, understands the terrible strength of his enemy clearly at last. It fights as a whole, like some colonial hive, as unified in its intent as a swarm of flies. It cannot be confounded by a single loss, no matter how significant. It cannot be killed by a head wound. Sigismund’s fundamental methodology is useless.
He finds himself in a churning press with Pontis to his right and Janjar to his left. Faustal is dead. Most of the men who followed him in are gone. His bravura tactic, the only chance they had to win, is shot.
A chaos encloses him, a dozen swords and lances, and he feels a change in the enemy’s temper. At first, he thinks – with what little wit he can spare to do anything other than fight – that it is the reaction after all, a delayed reaction to the Cadaver Lord’s execution that has finally slid, belatedly, into the fever-fogged minds of the Death Guard.
But it isn’t that.
The Death Guard has recoiled because another army has joined the fight.
On what is now a memory of the Via Aquila, Keeler hears the echo of the voice. It was a war cry, unmistakably, a call to arms. But it was also a cry for help. The light of revelation is clearer than ever in her mind. It is a strange kind of revelation. Keeler knows precisely what it wants of her, but not how or why. She has to trust it. She has to allow her faith to accept it. In this, she knows, she is akin to Sigismund. It is the same uncompromising devotion that spurred him to assault, directly, a far greater foe. His consideration was each step, each blow. He focused on what he had to do, second by second, not on the outcome, because the outcome was not his concern. The future is neither here, nor now.
She starts to walk towards the churning fight. There’s no fear left in her. One step, then another, across the copper dust, striding calmly towards a maelstrom of violence that she cannot survive.
At first, she walks alone.
‘Keeler! What are you doing?’ Lord Zhi-Meng calls out behind her. ‘Keeler!’
But others are walking too. One or two at first, then members of the conclave, and whole sections of the halted pilgrimage. They are either following her lead, or they are touched by the same certainty that she has felt. She sees Wereft, and Leeta Tang. They are almost abreast of her, walking in parallel.
Leeta glances across at her, and smiles. ‘North!’ she calls out, and laughs.
Yes, there is a certainty. A strong and calming grace, a collective purpose that can no more be expressed than it can be denied. Behind her, the stilled column of the pilgrimage, that endless river of humanity, stirs and pours after her. There is little panic, and no haste. It follows her as it followed her from the very start.
‘Keeler! Keeler!’ Limping and scurrying Zhi-Meng catches her up, supported by Perevanna. ‘Keeler,’ cries Zhi-Meng, gesturing at the carnage ahead with a dusty hand. ‘They will kill us!’
‘My lord,’ she replies, ‘they can’t kill all of us.’
The Pale King’s host shivers. Bathed in a mantle of ochre dust that it has kicked up, it is trying to clench itself to exterminate the fierce pockets of Sigismund’s attack. Nearly two-thirds of the Seconds have been killed. It is the verge of an outright rout. But the Death Guard wavers. A sense of the approaching mass spreads through it, a distraction, a puzzle, an inexplicable event: thousands of people, tens of thousands, with a column of perhaps millions behind them stretching away as far as the arid horizon, approaching slowly, most of them unarmed, most of them startlingly composed and unafraid.
The traitors begin to turn, struck by indecision and confusion. Some manoeuvre to face the advancing host. In turning, they slacken their focus on the fight, and Sigismund’s depleted forces are able to strike harder and deeper, breaking rank lines from within. The battle becomes clumsy and incoherent, as though the Death Guard’s collective mindset prospered against individuals, but is perplexed by another large group acting in unity.
Some of the XIV line up and begin a repulse. They have no qualms about killing the unarmed and the civilian. It is not a lack of compunction. In their febrile minds, there is no distinction. A servant of the False Emperor is a servant of the False Emperor, in any guise. Once Sigismund and his fellow aggressors were finished, they would have turned on the rest anyway, and commenced a wholesale slaughter.
They are good at killing. They are cultured for it. Bolters and heavy las begin to bark and spit. Holes begin to appear in the leading edge of the pilgrim tide as civilians are cut down or vaporised mid-step. But the inexorable flow of people does not abate.
Keeler sees mass-reactives scream past her. She feels the heat of their burning propellant. She hears the impacts. Blood dots her cheek. She smells fyceline. Las-bolts streak by, some so close she ought to flinch. She does not. She keeps walking.
The Death Guard doubles down. Rates switch to full-auto and rapid. There is nothing they cannot illuminate when they work together. Even a million people.
Keeler keeps walking as dust and smoke fumes back across her. The air is shaking. It is finally time the traitors showed them the respect they deserve. They’ve earned it. There is no longer any shame in death, nor any real pain. None of that matters any more. The only true pain is in failure, in refusal to resist, in loss of faith. She won’t submit. She won’t go quietly. Armed or unarmed, she will stand for what she believes in.
She wonders, almost idly, what she will do when she finally reaches them, if she lasts that long. What could she do against an armed and armoured giant of the Legiones Astartes? She imagines she will grasp and claw and tear with her bare fingers against the unbreakable plate. It will have no effect. One pair of human hands can’t tear down a Traitor legionary. But a million? Two million? Three? Like water lapping against rock, though it takes ten thousand years, the rock will wear away in the end.
It is asymmetric warfare of the most perverse kind, the macabre logic imposed on mankind by the atrocity of Horus Lupercal’s heresy. She will stand, and she will resist, for though the enemy is mighty and her one life is as nothing, the true souls of the Imperial faithful are many and numberless.
You had your chance, traitors. You should have bloody taken it. How do you like these odds?
She balls her fists, ready to do what she can. The chance doesn’t come. She almost feels cheated. The tight ranks of the XIV collapse as they retreat before her. It isn’t fear. She understands that completely. The Death Guard is not afraid of her, or the legions that walk with her. It is simply mystified. It is withdrawing askance, unable to make sense of what is happening, forced into a fall-back effort in order to process this turn of events, this thing that has never happened before.
Sigismund and his bloodied fighting groups take full advantage of the reversal, cutting loose at the enemy now pouring back around them. Leading the harrying action, Sigismund sees that the XIV are trying to quit the field by means of a deep gorge that splits the line of mesas behind their field position. He ascends the gradient, killing as he goes. If the Death Guard withdraw into that geographical cover, they win time to regroup and rethink. They may have reinforcement strengths waiting in the deep shadows of the gorge. He wants to break their resolve and their spines before they reach that safe haven.
He needs time to rethink too. A glance over his shoulder shows him the impossible: the steady advance of the entire pilgrimage column soaking up the traitor resistance like blotting paper laid on a spill of ink. What madness has possessed them all?
Not madness. Whatever it is, he feels it too.

This is sorted by who took the rom down and not who the publisher is. Sometimes the takedown isn't completely thorough, but searching for and listing every discrepancy isn't worth my time.
Nintendo of America

• Mario
• Zelda
• Pokemon
• All the different regions of these franchises were removed

Sega Corporation

• Sonic
• Yakuza
• Shin Megami Tensei/Persona
• The North American and European versions of these roms have been taken down, but the Japanese roms are still up

LEGO Juris A/S

• LEGO only targeted certain systems it seems like.
• Namely the Wii,Xbox 360 and Gamecube, a lot of the earlier Lego games seem to be pretty good and while the libraries on other systems aren't guaranteed to be complete, the three I listed have the most missing.

Entertainment Software Association

• Ace Attorney
• Ace Combat
• Assassin’s Creed
• Battlefield
• Batman Arkham
• Bioshock
• Borderlands
• Call of Duty
• Castlevania
• Contra
• Devil May Cry
• Doom
• Diablo
• Donkey Kong
• Dragon Age
• Dragon Ball Z
• Dragon WarrioQuest
• Elder Scrolls
• Fallout
• Far Cry
• Final Fantasy
• Fire Emblem
• God of War
• Gran Turismo
• Grand Theft Auto
• inFamous
• Jak and Daxter
• Just Cause
• Kingdom Hearts
• Madden
• Mass Effect
• Max Payne
• Medal of Honor
• Mega Man
• Metal Gear
• Metroid
• Minecraft
• Monster Hunter
• Mortal Kombat
• Need For Speed
• Nier(Drakengard is ok)
• Pac-Man
• Plants vs Zombies
• Pro Evolution Soccer
• Ratchet and Clank
• Red Dead Redemption
• Resident Evil
• Scribblenauts
• Soul Calibur
• Super Smash Bros
• Tales of
• Tekken
• The Last of Us (Sony actually removed this one themselves)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
• Uncharted
• Watch_Dogs
• Wolfenstein
• Like with Sega, the American and European roms were targeted but the Japanese roms stayed.

Let me know if I missed anything because given the amount of companies are members of the ESA, its very likely I did.

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Carnival Games VR
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Party Hard
GNOG
Broken Age (x2)
Psychonauts
A Mortician's Tale
DUCATI - 90th Anniversary
Tropico 4
This is the Police
Magicka
HIVESWAP: Act 1
Alien Spidy
Stealth 2: A Game of Clones
Hacknet
Tilt Brush
LostWinds
Speed Brawl
Starfinder: Pact Worlds Campaign Setting
Train Valley 2
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart (x2)
Eagle Island
Road to Guangdong - Story-Based Indie Road Trip Driving Game
Valnir Rok Survival RPG (x2)
Garfield Kart (x2)
Resort Boss: Golf (x2)
Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution
CTU: Counter Terrorism Unit (x2)
XBlaze Lost: Memories
Men of War: Assault Squad
Prime World: Defenders
Original Journey
64.0
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Sinking Island (x2)
Curse: The Eye of Isis (x2)
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
This Book Is A Dungeon
Better Late Than DEAD
Haimrik
Bird of Light
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
Raining Blobs
Shoppe Keep (x2)
Starward Rogue
Pizza Express
Override: Mech City Brawl
Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage
World Ship Simulator
Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice
Zoo Park
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
Syberia 3
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Micro Machines World Series (x2)
DungeonUp
Farming World
Dad Quest
Bionic Dues
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Etherlords I & II
BLACKHOLE
Vampire of the Sands
Independence Warâ„¢ Deluxe Edition
DinoSystem
Dungeon Siege
Codex of Victory
Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
STAR WARSâ„¢ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcastâ„¢
Victory At Sea
AI War: Fleet Command
Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology
Drive!Drive!Drive!
Valhalla Hills
Slain: Back from Hell
Oh My Gore!
Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
Space Moth DX
Post Master
Eschalon: Book III
The Samaritan Paradox
Still Life 2
Iron Storm
Subject 13
Endless Space® - Collection
Darkest Dungeon Shieldbreaker DLC
Eastside Hockey Manager
This War of Mine
The Ball
Super Time Force Ultra
Overlord II
Kingdom Classic
Gonner
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
System Shock 2
Broken Age
Newt One
All You Can Eat
No Time to Explain Remastered
Knights of Pen and Paper 2
StarCrossed
Vertiginous Golf
EarthNight
Plunge
Pesterquest
Realpolitiks
My Memory of Us
MirrorMoon EP
In Between
Gunscape
Neo Cab
Regular Human Basketball
Planet of the Eyes
Crowntakers
FRAMED Collection
Age of Wonders III
Rising Hell
Sir Whoopassâ„¢: Immortal Death
Toki
The Oil Blue: Steam Legacy Edition
Blue Fire
Unloved
Orbital Bullet – The 360° Rogue-lite
Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
The Oil Blue: Steam Legacy Edition
NeuroVoider
White Noise Online
Garbage
Hero of the Kingdom
10 Second Ninja X
Pumped BMX Pro
Hero of the Kingdom II
GRIP: Combat Racing
Strategic Command: World War I
Autonauts
Dust to the End
ENCODYA
Nomad Survival
DARQ: Complete Edition
Ziggurat
Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
DOOM II
Golden Light
Pumped BMX Pro
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Spiritual Warfare & Wisdom Tree Collection
Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX
The Deed: Dynasty
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Drink More Glurp
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Castle on the Coast
Mini Thief
Omen Exitio: Plague
Caveblazers
Time Loader
Hue
Edna & Harvey: The Breakout - Anniversary Edition
I Am Fish
The Spectrum Retreat
Cook Serve Delicious
The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
Synergia
Ironcast
Deadly Days
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Hero of the Kingdom III
Mech Mechanic Simulator
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
OUT OF THE BOX
Super Panda Adventures
Eternal Edge +
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Neverinth
The Deed II
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Lila’s Sky Ark
Vanaris Tactics
Hellbound
12 is Better Than 6
Onde
Chenso Club
Police Stories
Golf Gang
Pharaonic
For the People
Switchball HD
Embr
The Enchanted Cave 2
Ganryu 2
Minute of Islands
Time Loader
Switchball HD
In Between
10 Second Ninja X
Creepy Tale
Double Cross
Castle on the Coast
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Caveblazers
The Oil Blue: Steam Legacy Edition
DEATHRUN TV
Autonauts
Onde
Ludus
For the People
Pumped BMX Pro
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Drink More Glurp
Biped
Cook Serve Delicious
Adventures Of Chris
Hero of the Kingdom
Super Star Path
GRIP: Combat Racing
King of Dragon Pass
Rage in Peace
The Spectrum Retreat
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Ironcast
White Noise 2
Encodya
12 is Better Than 6
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
The Haunted Island a Frog Detective Game
Joggernauts
12 is Better Than 6
10 Second Ninja X
Beautiful DESOLATION
Tempest Complete Edition
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
White Noise 2
King of Dragon Pass
Heaven Dust
The Deed: Dynasty
Hero of the Kingdom
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Neverinth
The Spectrum Retreat
OUT OF THE BOX
Castle on the Coast
Farabel
ENCODYA
Strategic Command: World War I
The Ascent
Nomad Survival
Pumped BMX Pro
Mini Thief
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
Frostpunk
Dead End Job
Surgeon Simulator
Slaycation Paradise
Warman
Looterkings
Telepath Tactics Liberated
Lost Castle
Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Doom 64
Call of Juarez
Andro Dunos II
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
Landlord's Super
Dead Age
Dark Deity
King of Dragon Pass
Red Line
REZ PLZ
Slime-san
Ganryu 2
Spirit of the North
Clustertruck
Bing in Wonderland
Internet Cafe Simulator 2
Spiritual Warfare & Wisdom Tree Collection
Arx Fatalis
Everhood
Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
WizardChess
Virgo Versus The Zodiac
Lila’s Sky Ark
Magenta Horizon
The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
Surgeon Simulator
The Enchanted Cave 2
StrikeForce Kitty
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX
Chenso Club
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Spirit of the North
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
DOOM II
Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Call of Juarez
The Deed: Dynasty
REZ PLZ
Chenso Club
The Deed: Dynasty
Telepath Tactics Liberated
Peachleaf Pirates
My Lovely Wife
Surgeon Simulator
Journey of Greed
Warman
Defend the Rook
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Vanaris Tactics
Nippon Marathon
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
The Sexy Brutale
Toki
Just Die Already
Dead End Job
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX
Telepath Tactics Liberated
Deep Sky Derelicts
Dead Age
Fallout 3
This Way Madness Lies
Sir Whoopassâ„¢: Immortal Death
I still have 5 choices from humble choice of April 2020 between those games:
Opus Magnum
MOLEK-SYNTEZ
DRIFTLAND: THE MAGIC REVIVAL
TRUBERBROOK / TRÃœBERBROOK
SHOPPE KEEP 2
Capitalism 2
I want :
Hogwarts Legacy
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Crash Bandicootâ„¢ N. Sane Trilogy
Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time
Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Spyroâ„¢ Reignited Trilogy
Tony Hawk'sâ„¢ Pro Skaterâ„¢ 1 + 2
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Definitive Edition
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 3 Full Burst
SiN Gold
Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 2
Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion
CarX Streets
NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM
PowerSlave Exhumed
Forsaken Remastered
NARUTO X BORUTO Ultimate Ninja STORM CONNECTIONS
Blood: Fresh Supply
Protocore
Riftstorm
ASCENDANT
Wardens Will
FUBG
PayPal

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I HAVE :
Sid Meiers Pirates!
Civilization III
Carnival Games VR
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
Party Hard
GNOG
Broken Age (x2)
Psychonauts
A Mortician's Tale
DUCATI - 90th Anniversary
Tropico 4
This is the Police
Magicka
HIVESWAP: Act 1
Alien Spidy
Stealth 2: A Game of Clones
Hacknet
Tilt Brush
LostWinds
Speed Brawl
Starfinder: Pact Worlds Campaign Setting
Train Valley 2
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart (x2)
Eagle Island
Road to Guangdong - Story-Based Indie Road Trip Driving Game
Valnir Rok Survival RPG (x2)
Garfield Kart (x2)
Resort Boss: Golf (x2)
Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution
CTU: Counter Terrorism Unit (x2)
XBlaze Lost: Memories
Men of War: Assault Squad
Prime World: Defenders
Original Journey
64.0
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Sinking Island (x2)
Curse: The Eye of Isis (x2)
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
This Book Is A Dungeon
Better Late Than DEAD
Haimrik
Bird of Light
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
Raining Blobs
Shoppe Keep (x2)
Starward Rogue
Pizza Express
Override: Mech City Brawl
Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage
World Ship Simulator
Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice
Zoo Park
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
Syberia 3
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Micro Machines World Series (x2)
DungeonUp
Farming World
Dad Quest
Bionic Dues
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Etherlords I & II
BLACKHOLE
Vampire of the Sands
Independence Warâ„¢ Deluxe Edition
DinoSystem
Dungeon Siege
Codex of Victory
Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
STAR WARSâ„¢ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcastâ„¢
Victory At Sea
AI War: Fleet Command
Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology
Drive!Drive!Drive!
Valhalla Hills
Slain: Back from Hell
Oh My Gore!
Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
Space Moth DX
Post Master
Eschalon: Book III
The Samaritan Paradox
Still Life 2
Iron Storm
Subject 13
Endless Space® - Collection
Darkest Dungeon Shieldbreaker DLC
Eastside Hockey Manager
This War of Mine
The Ball
Super Time Force Ultra
Overlord II
Kingdom Classic
Gonner
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
System Shock 2
Broken Age
Newt One
All You Can Eat
No Time to Explain Remastered
Knights of Pen and Paper 2
StarCrossed
Vertiginous Golf
EarthNight
Plunge
Pesterquest
Realpolitiks
My Memory of Us
MirrorMoon EP
In Between
Gunscape
Neo Cab
Regular Human Basketball
Planet of the Eyes
Crowntakers
FRAMED Collection
Age of Wonders III
Rising Hell
Sir Whoopassâ„¢: Immortal Death
Toki
The Oil Blue: Steam Legacy Edition
Blue Fire
Unloved
Orbital Bullet – The 360° Rogue-lite
Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
The Oil Blue: Steam Legacy Edition
NeuroVoider
White Noise Online
Garbage
Hero of the Kingdom
10 Second Ninja X
Pumped BMX Pro
Hero of the Kingdom II
GRIP: Combat Racing
Strategic Command: World War I
Autonauts
Dust to the End
ENCODYA
Nomad Survival
DARQ: Complete Edition
Ziggurat
Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
DOOM II
Golden Light
Pumped BMX Pro
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Spiritual Warfare & Wisdom Tree Collection
Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX
The Deed: Dynasty
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Drink More Glurp
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Castle on the Coast
Mini Thief
Omen Exitio: Plague
Caveblazers
Time Loader
Hue
Edna & Harvey: The Breakout - Anniversary Edition
I Am Fish
The Spectrum Retreat
Cook Serve Delicious
The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
Synergia
Ironcast
Deadly Days
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Hero of the Kingdom III
Mech Mechanic Simulator
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
OUT OF THE BOX
Super Panda Adventures
Eternal Edge +
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Neverinth
The Deed II
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Lila’s Sky Ark
Vanaris Tactics
Hellbound
12 is Better Than 6
Onde
Chenso Club
Police Stories
Golf Gang
Pharaonic
For the People
Switchball HD
Embr
The Enchanted Cave 2
Ganryu 2
Minute of Islands
Time Loader
Switchball HD
In Between
10 Second Ninja X
Creepy Tale
Double Cross
Castle on the Coast
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Caveblazers
The Oil Blue: Steam Legacy Edition
DEATHRUN TV
Autonauts
Onde
Ludus
For the People
Pumped BMX Pro
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Drink More Glurp
Biped
Cook Serve Delicious
Adventures Of Chris
Hero of the Kingdom
Super Star Path
GRIP: Combat Racing
King of Dragon Pass
Rage in Peace
The Spectrum Retreat
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Ironcast
White Noise 2
Encodya
12 is Better Than 6
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
The Haunted Island a Frog Detective Game
Joggernauts
12 is Better Than 6
10 Second Ninja X
Beautiful DESOLATION
Tempest Complete Edition
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
White Noise 2
King of Dragon Pass
Heaven Dust
The Deed: Dynasty
Hero of the Kingdom
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Neverinth
The Spectrum Retreat
OUT OF THE BOX
Castle on the Coast
Farabel
ENCODYA
Strategic Command: World War I
The Ascent
Nomad Survival
Pumped BMX Pro
Mini Thief
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth
Frostpunk
Dead End Job
Surgeon Simulator
Slaycation Paradise
Warman
Looterkings
Telepath Tactics Liberated
Lost Castle
Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Doom 64
Call of Juarez
Andro Dunos II
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
Landlord's Super
Dead Age
Dark Deity
King of Dragon Pass
Red Line
REZ PLZ
Slime-san
Ganryu 2
Spirit of the North
Clustertruck
Bing in Wonderland
Internet Cafe Simulator 2
Spiritual Warfare & Wisdom Tree Collection
Arx Fatalis
Everhood
Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
WizardChess
Virgo Versus The Zodiac
Lila’s Sky Ark
Magenta Horizon
The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
Surgeon Simulator
The Enchanted Cave 2
StrikeForce Kitty
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX
Chenso Club
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Spirit of the North
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
DOOM II
Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Call of Juarez
The Deed: Dynasty
REZ PLZ
Chenso Club
The Deed: Dynasty
Telepath Tactics Liberated
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My Lovely Wife
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Warman
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Dead End Job
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Telepath Tactics Liberated
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Dead Age
Fallout 3
This Way Madness Lies
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DRIFTLAND: THE MAGIC REVIVAL
TRUBERBROOK / TRÃœBERBROOK
SHOPPE KEEP 2
Capitalism 2
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Crash Bandicootâ„¢ N. Sane Trilogy
Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time
Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Spyroâ„¢ Reignited Trilogy
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Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Definitive Edition
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Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition
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I'm sure everyone, at some point, found a way of doing something in a much less cumbersome way than they used to. I'm eager to hear yours and I'm sure everyone can learn some tricks. Some might be game changing, others just slightly faster ways of roaming Appalachia. Some useful for newbies, other ones probably even 100+ didn't realize. I'll quickstart with some of them in no particular order.

• If you want to collect dirty water for cooking from a faucet or whatever, drinking a sip and then spamming collect is much faster than collecting.
• If you want to attend an event, you don't need to search for and click in the "!" in the map, which is barely impossible and mildly infuriating when the event is full of players. Just click in the event in the left panel below in the map.
• Related with this, when a server has been heavily nuked that list might be full of nuke events. However, if you expand it, the other events are below those, so if you are not paying attention to the notifications you might be missing events.
• Fast travelling while overencumbered. Has been mentioned many times but if you are overencumbered you can enter an expedition and then fast travel to Whitespring to unload your (useful) junk.
• Talking about Whitespring, it has two entrances. If you fast travel to the north one you can enter directly to the mall instead of the refuge and then using the door to access the mall.
• For the "scrap X (insert junk)" dailies you can craft bulk materials and scrap them instead of going in search of specific junk.
• Not using the weight reduction perks in your crafting perk set up makes sure you don't curse yourself for attending an event for the 47th time with the wrong perk set up. Better to be overweight in your camp than being shooting peas at Earle.
• You can assign your PA to your quick menu, making it easier for the lazy people to get out of it for traversing in low danger zones faster and setting it quick when you need it. (Apparently you can't, thanks for the input). Credit: u/Takeshi_Castles
• Your second CAMP, even if you don't use it, acts as a fast free travel point which can be switched almost instantaneously. You can set it in a point you usually visit due to dailies or other reasons and is far from the rest of the free travel points. No one likes to pay the ft Todd tax.
• Maybe this one is oriented for the newbies but you can repair your weapons on the go with the repair kits. Select the weapon and below you'll see the prompt to repair.
• There's a key for weapon sheathing, especially useful if you use explosive weapons, there's a key for using health items apart from the quick menu.
• Renaming your items so that they are kept in the bottom or top of the list and specially applying paints makes sure you don't scrap them.

I'll stop here as maybe I'm already rambling, hope some of you find something useful. Which are your little life hacks?
Editing to include the most voted suggestions:

• If you hold the BACK button while on a terminal, you completely exit out without having to cycle back through the pages. Credit: u/Feenux420
• You can just hold down the crit button with an auto weapon. I used to be that guy jumping on the spot constantly at events. Credit: u/Unhappy_Peanut9470
• If you go to earl, sqb or titan: bring an endangerol syringer. If 4 people do it, that bosses extra resistances get dropped to 0% making the kill trivial. Credit: u/chillshock
• Never want for ammo, simply run Daily Ops or Expeditions to resupply. Credit: u/Jake_THINGS
• On PC: hold CTRL to scroll through menus faster. Credit: u/Louupy
• The biggest one for me that has been there for multiple games was that one where you could delete wrong guesses in the hacking mini-game by selecting bracketed nonsense. Blew my mind when I found out. Hacking became super easy after that one. Also if you are doing events with a team and your teammates have been around a while, you could set up different tents with different work benches. My wife will drop hers with the weapon bench and I’ll drop mine with the armor bench so that we can repair anything without using repair kits. Credit: u/TwiggBeard
• You mentioned the event navigator on the bottom left of the map. I would add it also lists everyone's camps/vendors minor events if you change the view option. But if you like the map option, if you hold down the aim button while bringing up the map you can view the whole map. Credit: u/FlavoredCancer
• There are multiple free travel locations dotted around the map, always jump to the closest one to the location you want to travel and then onwards to your destination. It takes a little bit of patience but can save a lot of caps in the course of a session (add the Travel agent perk card for further reduction.) It all adds up! When you drain the NPC vendor of all their caps, buying plans etc from the NPC vendor will top up the available caps again and then you can sell again. Credit: u/RebelDog77
• You don’t have to stop playing instruments to use a stimpak. Just pop open your map, pick a quest to view in your pip boy, and there you are. Huge help for One Violent Night if you just want to play your mouth harp. Credit: u/Mysterious-Milk-4104
• You can fast travel for free to anyone on your team by going thru the social menu in the top right corner of the map screen and clicking on their names. Credit: u/RexThunderman
• You can control where visitors spawn at your camp by moving your C.A.M.P. module after you’ve placed it down for the first time. Credit: u/HeUnit
• Who was going to tell me that you can hold E while building in your C.A.M.P. to slide the item around?. Credit: u/ScaldingAnus

Please, go to the comment section and give proper credits to these wastelanders!. I'll be completing this section as new tricks are published. Thanks to everybody for their contributions, I learned many new cool tricks as well.

Title!
With the success of my thread yesterday on favorite units, I figure a thread where people can share their favorite WH3 mods would be welcome. There's a bunch of standard/great ones for expanding your units, heroes, factions, map etc.
Here's my list:

1. Lost Calm: Jurassic Normal (adds a ton to Lizardmen)
2. Audio Mixer; Mod config tool v.0.9 Beta; MIXER - Mixu's Unlocker (required for lots of mods)
3. Immortal Empires Expanded (adds lots to the map)
4. Mixu's Legendary Lords (basically the best LL mod out there)
5. Mixu's Shadowdancer (neat WElf hero type)
6. OvN Lost Factions Albion, Araby, Citadel of Dusk, Dread King Legions, Fimir and Grudgebringers (adds some neat and unique factions to the game with their own rosters)
7. Expanded Roster Beastmen, Chaos Dwarfs, Dark Elves, Empire, Greenskins Goblins/Orcs, Norsca, Vampire Counts (add a ton of new units that flesh out these factions)
8. The Pheonix Court (big addition for high elves politics)
9. Landmarks of Eternity Immortal Empires Expanded edition (adds lots of unique buildings and combines with other mods to add unique heroes, recruits, etc)
10. Lily's Bretonnia Overhaul [Unit pack submod and Definitive Edition] (basically a completely suped up Bretonnia with lots of neat additions
11. Cultist of Pleasure etc. Reskins and Cultist Expansion mods (add new and better heroes for chaos)
12. SCMs LCCP (adds 16 new factions for the expanded map)
13. Rune Golems, Dwarf Polearms, Hashut Polearms and Derpy's Asset Pack (additional units for dwarves)
14. Dark Land Orcs (additional awesome orcs for Greenskins)
15. In memory of a dear friend (heartfelt lizardmen salamander hero)
16. Heroes of Legend: Leopard of Luccini (Adds some legendary heroes)
17. Bad Legendary Characters (adds some bad guys!)
18. Remove Character Traits Limit (very useful)
19. Auto Resolve Quest Battles (also super useful!)
20. Tribes of the North! (Forgot this one, but it's arguably one of the best on here as it adds EVERYTHING you could ever want to norsca)

And here's a top 30 vid with other mods you all may enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kY6uH79dBo&t=1s&ab_channel=Mecha0turtle
And yes, I have all of these enabled at once. Recommend downloading WH3 Mod Manager and copying everything into Data though.
Honorable Mentions: Legendary Characters 101 Dalmations and Legions of Nagash (Havent been able to get them working with the above mod list)

That happens with me sometimes. I'll just be playing a game on auto-pilot, just because it happens to be in my backlog and I want to get my money's worth so I just power through it. The biggest culprits are licensed games from a franchise I have a particular fondness for; in this case it's Fist of The North Star: Lost Paradise and Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time.
The Fist of the North Star game is essentially a Yakuza game with a FotNS skin layered on top of it. Even though the main characters are lovingly re-created, I'd say the graphics are generally pretty bad, particularly the backgrounds which have bland textures everywhere. I've never really been a big fan of the combat in the Yakuza games (really stiff-feeling dial-a-combo mechanics with little flexibility) and FotNS isn't much different other than the pressure-point mechanic, which admittedly is pretty cool and carried combat for a while. There does seem to be more juggling potential here than your average Yakuza game but that's not saying much. Even the combat in the Dynasty Warriors-esque Ken's Rage makes this one look very simple & limited in comparison. The open-world and side content I just found bland, repetitive and uninteresting. I can't stress how much this game just feels like Yakuza but with half the budget and love put into it. It felt like corporate slop, and it took me around 30 hours to realize I wasn't actually having fun playing it and put the game down for good.
Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time fared a little better. It captured the vibe of Samurai Jack very well and combat had a bit more to it than you'd expect. It felt like the type of smaller-scale AA game you don't see much of anymore. Still, what the game offered wasn't enough to hold my interest as I put it down one day about half way through and never picked it back up with no regrets. I probably put around 15 hours into this one.
What's the longest amount of time you've spent with a game before realizing you didn't actually like it all that much, and you asked yourself that existential question: "why am I still playing this?"

That happens with me sometimes. I'll just be playing a game on auto-pilot, just because it happens to be in my backlog and I want to get my money's worth so I just power through it. The biggest culprits are licensed games from a franchise I have a particular fondness for; in this case it's Fist of The North Star: Lost Paradise and Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time.
The Fist of the North Star game is essentially a Yakuza game with a FotNS skin layered on top of it. Even though the main characters are lovingly re-created, I'd say the graphics are generally pretty bad, particularly the backgrounds which have bland textures everywhere. I've never really been a big fan of the combat in the Yakuza games (really stiff-feeling dial-a-combo mechanics with little flexibility) and FotNS isn't much different other than the pressure-point mechanic, which admittedly is pretty cool and carried combat for a while. There does seem to be more juggling potential here than your average Yakuza game but that's not saying much. Even the combat in the Dynasty Warriors-esque Ken's Rage makes this one look very simple & limited in comparison. The open-world and side content I just found bland, repetitive and uninteresting. I can't stress how much this game just feels like Yakuza but with half the budget and love put into it. It felt like corporate slop, and it took me around 30 hours to realize I wasn't actually having fun playing it and put the game down for good.
Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time fared a little better. It captured the vibe of Samurai Jack very well and combat had a bit more to it than you'd expect. It felt like the type of smaller-scale AA game you don't see much of anymore. Still, what the game offered wasn't enough to hold my interest as I put it down one day about half way through and never picked it back up with no regrets. I probably put around 15 hours into this one.
What's the longest amount of time you've spent with a game before realizing you didn't actually like it all that much, and you asked yourself that existential question: "why am I still playing this?"

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Asian/Indian(North-Indian)
• Income Bracket: Middle Class(Lower middle class by US standards)
• Type of School: Highly competitive private school (top 5 in country)
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): None

Intended Major(s): Computer Science
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): School doesn't do GPAs, only unweighted percentage for each year is given. Scored 86% in junior year(extremely hard courses, salutitorian was 80%)
• Rank (or percentile): 1/70(junior), 5/120(sophomore)
• Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc: school doesn't offer any
• Senior Year Course Load: (hardest-you can choose max 5 subjects)Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, English Literature and Language(compulsory)

Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT: 1600 (no superscore)

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

• Programming and Hackathons: 20-30hwk since 2020, grades 8-12. Built multiple projects, won MLH hackathons. Built an innovative project which won 2nd in inter-school national innovation league
• Research: researched about computer memory optimization techniques(getting published in springer), now researching about optimization techniques using v-trees in distributed decentralized networks.
• Author of a book published by a nationally well-known publisher. Second book on its way
• Podcast Host: I run a podcast where I aim to empower the Youth by talking to accomplished guests about topics that the youth must know about. Started in March 2024, have gotten nationally well-known personalities as guests.
• Public speaker: delivered keynote speeches at 5 events with 100-300 people as audience
• School Captain(Head Boy) of my school: organized 11 inter-school state level and national level events, discipline enforcement, speeches, school outreach, conferences
• Debate Team Captain: Inter-school nationals individual special commendation(team messed up on the spot), Inter school nationals runners up. Practicing for frank anthony nationals(August)
• Captain school golf team, 2nd in state
• captain of school IT and robotics team, recently 2nd in inter-school nationals,
• Founder of event organizing company, profitable
• Working on a decentralized system to ensure authentication/trust: recieved interest from blockchain company to invest 5000usd seed.
• Volunteering: Collect grains every month and donate them to nearby orphanages, 12hmo
• Jobs: Worked as community manager at a company to learn biz and community management(20hweek, 5weeks). Worked as salesman at an auto dealership and real estate firm to learn sales skills(during junior and sophomore summer)
• Others: AFS coordinator; Blogger; TEDx organizer; freelance web developer; working on cybersec awareness app.

Letters of Recommendation
I am going to ask these people for LORs

• English teacher: 9.5/10- amazing writer, says that I am one of the best students in her 30+ year teaching experience
• Math Teacher: 7.5/10- Bonded with him over the love of Maths, nobody except me understood him well, I was the only person who attended his classes most of the time. Not too sure of his writing skills
• Have to decide between the two:
  • IT and Robotics coach: 9/10- Nerd bonding. Was flabbergasted by my projects and skills when he first met me. Not too sure of his writing skills. He is a senior doing CS at state uni.
  • School Director: 7/10- Retired Army general, ex right hand of president. He admires my confidence and style of conversation. Not too sure if he will have the time to write a good LOR. He will ask me to send a draft.

Essays

• I love writing essays, have just now sumbitted me entry to John Locke. I have written over a 100 essays which I post on my website. May recycle some of them. But I have an idea to write an essay about a personal incident that I faced in grade 9 about my religion(Sikh) that had a very negative impact on me but I somehow bounced back.

Schools:

• Reach: MIT(lore), Stanford, UCB, Caltech, CMU, Cornell, NYU, Vanderblit
• Target: UIUC, Michigan, NYU
• Safety: Purdue, Uni of Minnesota

Post Notes:

• I think my GPA is low but that is the best I could get. Since we have board exams(nation-wide) in grade 12, our school teachers mark us lower in junior year so that we are motivated to work harder in grade 12(bs but cant do anything).
• I have a lot of ECs but less awards, will they lower my chances?
• Financial Aid: I would require financial aid to attend school in the US, I do not want student debt

I am open to all suggestions, please let me know how I can improve my application. I will be starting to work on it in the 3rd week of June.

Hamburg is a more than 800 year old harbor town in the north of Germany. As such, it was always also a hotspot for a wide range of subcultures, cranks and crooks, rowdy sailors, prostitutes, pirates that found their place in shady pubs, back alleys and similar dark places.
I entered Hamburg in 1980 by birth, so I can’t tell you much about the 60s or 70s of Hamburg, but in the 80s, it was a place for anarchists, punks, rioters and similar people – creating the current for places of alternate music and political views to be set up. This is a bit of a back story for what happened in the 90s in Hamburg, regarding the then emerging hardcore techno scene.
Fischkopf
Container Records was a record store in the red light zone of Hamburg – the Reeperbahn – one story above a store for alternate clothing. It was focused on techno music only and one of the largest (or the largest?) of such stores in Hamburg. They also were involved in other things, such as running a record label also named Container. And this Container Records had a sublabel called Fischkopf. The first generation of Fischkopf was a group of people around Martin, the owner of Container Records; I don’t know exactly who was directly involved in running the label, but Cybermouse, DJ Raid and Christoph De Babalon are names I heard over the years (please correct me).
Cybermouse got to Fischkopf because it was noted that he bought only the most extreme and obscure records at the store; something that made the crew think he’d fit right in, apparently. So the first Fischkopf record was released, “Surprise Attack” by Cybermouse. They were all done on an Amiga computer using tracker software and a special FX software; actually, the tracks were first released on a diskette magazine called “Neurowaver” (if you don’t know what a diskette magazine is, ask Google). Cybermouse’s debut was followed by Christoph De Babalon’s debut, the “Love Under Will” EP, named after Aleister Crowley obviously. On it we find some of the most haunting music with “jungle beats” made in this era.
After a few more EPs, the management changed, and Hardy Storz took over. He steered Fischkopf into the direction that brought worldwide acclaim to it. Releasing experimental, intellectual music that at the same time is hardcore techno. In one of the rare interviews with him, he states that he was annoyed by the turn gabber had taken at that time; becoming more dumb, simplistic, macho. And Fischkopf for sure was the opposite of that. Fischkopf had most of the major players in the more refined hardcore scene of those days on it’s rooster: Patric C as Eradicator, Lasse Steen with a variety of aliases, Nawoto Suzuki as Burning Lazy Persons, Taciturne, Amiga Shock Force and EPC, and the Michelson sisters Auto-Psy and No Name. Especially these two female fighters brought some of the most interesting music to this label; tracks that are so complex and structured and finetuned, that the word “hardcore” is almost too brutish for them.
Although the pressing for “Fisch” releases were limited to 500, they quickly got known worldwide in the more underground scenes. After a while also parties were set up by the Fisch crew, again in the red light district of Hamburg. These parties attracted a wide range of performers such as Rage Reset, DJ Entox, La Peste, and many many more. Without going too much into this, let’s just repeat Taciturne’s summary that the amount of fog issued in these nights in the dark, strobe filled rooms would’ve clouded a soccer arena. Even though opposing the “commercial” “Dutch” “gabber” scene, Fischkopf spawned one big hit in exactly that scene; Taciturne’s totem which is still sought after, after all these years. Fischkopf faltered in 1997; the exact reasons are not known, but talk is about disagreement on the direction to take Fischkopf between Hardy and Container; or that Fisch just did not generate enough “dough”. One more release appeared in 1998 (and a test pressing of a “Fisch 26” by Cybermouse), only for Fischkopf to disappear completely after that.
Interesting fact: at one point, Alec Empire and Somatic Responses were planned for a Fischkopf release too.
Listening suggestion: Taciturne – 6 Fragmente In Der Chronologie Des Wahnsinns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkM9zheFCl0
Cross Fade Entertainment
DJ Raid, who was also involved in Fischkopf, set up this label with Paul Snowden and Christoph De Babalon. The word “hardcore” only vaguely fits here; this is just brilliant, brilliant subcultural music. The first release was the premier release of Somatic Responses, who took the world by storm in the years (or rather, even decades) that followed. This was still a lot different to their later style: heavy, heavy distorted drums (or noises) in a 4/4 route, with experimental sounds in the vein of early synth experimental music. As fierce as fierce gets.
The second release was done by Christoph De Babalon and Paul Snowden, aptly named “We Declare War”. Paul Snowden’s site has some of the most distorted acid, and CdB brings us assault troop breakbeat tracks here, going on from his Fischkopf release. In a rare German TV interview, CdB stated CFET to him is “auteur music”, in the sense that the artist take their music in their own individualist direction, regardless of trends. And the releases give proof of that.
Later, we find some fine breakcore releases on CFET. I can’t find much info on this, but according to defunct websites, the CFET personnel was once involved in the “Repulsion Parties”, taking place inside the “Rote Flora”, the most infamous squat in Hamburg. Line ups included artists like E-De Cologne, Alec Empire and Somatic Responses. CFET left Hamburg with Jan (CdB) and Paul moving to Berlin.
Listening suggestion: Christoph De Babalon & Paul Snowden – We Declare War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC30j9q6_nU
Nordcore
No Hamburg hardcore history text is complete without Nordcore. Nordcore started as “Die Tekknokraten” organizing small techno and hardcore parties, changing the name later. As Nordcore they ran a weekly hardcore club called “The Box”, in the midst of Hamburg. I think this was one of the only regular hardcore clubs worldwide that existed in the 90s outside of Netherlands and Belgium; the Bunker in Berlin being another important location. Almost all the big names in the hardcore, gabber and speedcore scene played in the box; Speedfreak, the PCP crew including Smash? (sic), BSE DJ team, Laurent Hô, E-De Cologne… And also a lot of the Dutch DJs.
Those were speedy times, but The Box had to close in 1996; much too soon! The parties got bigger though, and Nordcore moved to the Markthalle, usually a location for rock and pop bands, with their “Operation Nordcore” parties, again attracting all the “big name” performers to play.
With some breaks in between, Nordcore continues their hardcore journey to this day.
They also ran a record label, called Nordcore Records; and, beginning with issue 5, compiled the “Terrordrome” CDs, the biggest name in hardcore CDs in the 90s, only eclipsed by Thunderdome.
Listening suggestion: Nordcore GMBH – Hartcore Will Never Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Kp6AZBsB4
Blut
After Hardy left Container, he set up his own record store, called Otaku Records, again with a “Hardcore” label, called Blut Records; and in many way a spiritual successor to Fischkopf Records. The rooster was similar too: Taciturne, Nawoto, Amiga Shock Force and EPC. We also find a record that was originally planned as Fischkopf 25 here, Taciturne with Ebizieme.
The sound was taken a step farther in extremism with this label, so be prepared for a noise assault on your ears; but, again, a sensible one. The record store itself was also a good destination to shop for obscure and not so obscure hardcore, speedcore and breakcore records in Hamburg, with it’s own special charme. Blut never officially ended, but there was no release after Blut 6; a shame!
Listening Suggestion: Taciturne & EPC – Vendetta Vol.1 EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VUi--SxydM
Hardcore didn’t end in the 90s in Hamburg, but that, my child, is written in another tome…

"Great days and glorious victory! My name is Spifflemonk and welcome to Slime Rancher! I was given this game so I could 'relax' between bouts of suffering induced by Subnautica. So thank you... erm..."
Spiff looks at his notes.
"Thank you Blitz! Oh... another StarTuber? Hm... I seem to have a fanbase within a fanbase. Either that or people really do enjoy watching me suffer."
Spiff gives the camera his signature all consuming death stare and starts the game. He stares at the title screen for a bit as he tries to figure out what the hell he is looking at. Its Beatrix standing proud with her vacpack, while dozens of small slimes fall from the sky and bounce around, making cute noises and leaving stains on the ground and walls.
"What.... Am I looking at!? These things are 'slimes'? What am I supposed to do with them exactly? What's 'ranching' anyway? Well... I guess we find out."
Spiff starts a new game, chooses the icon for the Honey Slime as his save file, names it Spifflemonk and starts the game. He is too distracted trying to figure out what the hell's going on, he fails to read the story intro and simply appears in the ranch, ready to play.
"OH! Oh my! I'm in already... Okay. I guess I need to get going. Theresa tutorial? Okay then uhh... press that button to walk..."
He follows the tutorial and lets out an odd squeak as he cavs a slime into the first storage slot. He appears genuinely confused and spends a few minutes shooting a slime out, vaccing it up again, then shooting it back out. He watches the slimes leave slime puddles everywhere and tries to understand why.
"What... is this? Okay... food? Okay food. So take food, put slime in a pen, shoot food at slime. Simple enough."
He grabs a carrot nearby, shoots it at a pink slime and the slime poops out a Plort.
"WHAT!?"
Spiff grabs another slime, another carrots and produces another plort. He groans in frustration and facepalms.
"I have been in this scene for long enough to know that humans have this odd fixation with how funny their bodily functions are. Are you telling me THIS WHOLE GAME IS ONE BIG ADORABLE POOP JOKE!?"
Spiff collects another slime, feeding it a Hen-hen. The animal lets out a terrified cluck and produces a Plort in response. Spiff collects it and resumes playing.
"FINE. Let's keep going. At least the game is cute. The slimes are adorable. They make many booping noises. I like the booping."
Spiffle sighs in surrender and plays the game, very quickly figuring out how simple it really is. Find slime. Feed slime. Money. Rinse and repeat. He collects a few slims from the nearby nest, an oddly shaped hive-like structure and grabs some PogoFruit and Carrots for use later. He does this for a while longer and starts exploring options for plots.
"Let's see now. This thing is the Corral. Okay then. High walls... makes it harder for them to jump out. Oh I like that. Music box calms them down. Air Net makes them harder to bounce out. Solar shield is for... a special kind of slime. Okay. Plort collector and Auto-feeder. Oh... those two will be most useful!"
For now, Spiff hasn't got enough money and buys two new farm plots, one growing carrots, one growing Pogo-fruit. He then sets out to find new slimes and enter the rest of the games world. He moves around, eventually encountering the entrance to the Quarry and finds a Rock Slime.
"Oh, hello! What are you? Youre blue and spiky! Come here! Let me vac you up! Okay... Rock Slime? Oooh... these are kinda cute! They're all pointy. Will it hurt me if I-OW!"
Spiff shoots the slime out and walks towards it to try to get a closer look, only for it to hurt him. It's only a few points of damage but Spiff learns the lesson.
"Okay... so it's not THAT simple... Some slimes are cute, but deadly. Im just gonna vacuum this one up then..."
Spiff vacs up a few rock slimes and encounters a Tabby Slime in the process. He stops in his tracks as he hears the Tabby Slime meow like a cat.
"What... was that? Is it this thing? Wha- a... Tabby Slime? What's a Tabby?"
The slime bounces around, mewing and meowing, and grabs a Pogofruit nearby and plays with it. Spiffles eyes go wide, his cheeks change color and he pauses the game.
"Wh... what's going on!? Why are my cheeks warm!? Why is my heart rate so high? This isn't a scary game! I don't get like this! Whats going on!?"
Spiff is the first alien to experience the concept of "D'Aaaaawww!" On camera, and is blushing, his eyes are bulging to take in as much cuteness as possible and his heart is racing.
"Okay.. Okay I have no idea why, but apparently I really like this slime. So Let's go..."
Spiff vacs up a few Tabby Slimes and heads back to the ranch. He sells the plorts he has, gaining enough money to buy a plot and upgrade it with High Walls. He puts the Rock Slimes and Tabby Slimes in one spot owing to how the other plot he has is full of Pink Slimes. He tosses some Pogofruit in and waits to see what happens. Nothing.
"Hmm... Am I missing something? Is there a thing I can look at?"
Spiff pauses the game and notices the SlimePedia button in the pause menu and takes a look at it.
"OOOhhh... Okay... Rock Slimes only eat Veggies with a Heart Beet... whatever that is, being their favorite. The Tabby Slime only eats meat! Okay... Need to.. Oh here!"
Spiff finds a Carrot nearby and feeds it to one of the Rock Slimes. A Plort is produced and as he tries to grab it, a Tabby Slime chows down and turns into a RockTabby Largo. Spiff is taken by surprise and takes damage from the large creature as a result. The RockTabby is - as one would expect - a combination of a Rock Slime and a Tabby Slime, and looks as you would expect. Spiff responds with both fear and cuteness, the combination of a blue spiky slime making him Squee.
"Oh god look! What is that? Can I pick it up? I can! Okay... Largo... What's that? It's so cute! It's all... blue and spiky with fluffy ears! What is this game!? Can I carry you around? I can't. Damn. So what is a Largo?"
Spiff looks at the Slimepedia after playing with the Tabby Slimes for a while, figuring out more of the game's mechanics. Which were ridiculously simple.
"Is this another one of those 'so simple its silly' games? Find slime, feed slime, sell poop of slime and... that's it? Seriously? Welp...."
Spiff decides to just go with it and quickly figures out how to min-max the slimes he has, going through the motions of simply exploring what is available. In short order, he finds his first Gordo Slime - which is a massive immobile variant of a standard slime.
"Good GOD that thing is fat! My goodness!"
Spiff notices the giant pink slime on an island peninsula off the first area and heads towards it, noticing a path nearby. He ignores it for now and returns to the task at hand and approaches the giant puddle of wobbly jelly that is the Pink Gordo Slime.
"You sir. Are. FAT. Fat and wobbly. What do I do with you then... Uhhh... Slimepedia says feed until you explode. Okay then, it's a pinky boi, he eats anything. Okay, I shall be back!"
Spiff rumbles around collecting two full slots of food, Carrots and Pogofruit and shoots them at the gordo. After emptying both slots, the last two carrots bounce off and the gordo explodes, splitting into 8 pink slimes, three boxes and a floating key.
"Oh hello! A Key!? Okay then, imma collect THAT, then let's grab all of these slimes and put them somewhere. What's in these boxes? How do I open them..."
Spiff faffs about for a bit then learns how to open the boxes, receiving a few carrots, a Tabby Slime and one HeartBeet as a reward.
"A HeartBeet!? Don't my Rockies like those!? OOOOO I can feed that... No. Stop being stupid Spiff, we can put that in the farm plot then get more of them! To home!"
Spiff shakes his head and charges back home, deleting the carrots and planting the Heart Beets. He uses some extra carrots he has left over and feeds the rest, turning the last few Slimes into RockTabby Slimes.
"Alright... Gods I cannot fathom how... simple this game is! It looks complex on the outside but... SO simple! I wonder what would be the best combinations to use? Can I make it easy on myself and make it so there's only veggie or fruit slimes?"
Spiff learns pretty fast and catches on to the games mechanics with ease as he starts figuring out how to min/max the games plort mechanics, figuring out the best amount of Largo's to have in a corral at one time, in his case, 8. Spiff spends some time farming and gathers about 8000 coins over a few days, collecting random items and exploring, eventually finding the entrance to the Indigo Quarry.
"OOhhh okay then. Well, time to go in here I guess. I think this is where I will get to use my Key thing I found. So where do I- GAH!"
Spiff is attacked by three Feral Largos. Unable to do anything because he has no food on him, he runs around like a headless chicken trying to escape them. He gets cornered, taking a decent amount of damage before finally finding a way out.
"Oh my goodness! Silly creatures! Why were they so angry!? What did I do!?"
Spiff carries on through and unlocks the first Gate to the quarry, the first of many. The area around him is purple - his favorite color, and he is immediately giddy on entering the area. He is drawn immediately to the massive turquoise crystal formations poking out from walls and floors.
"Oh my! These crystals! Do these exist in real life!? Now, for all my non-human viewers, humans have this thing where most of their media is based on experiences or mythology. If something like this exists in a game, it's very likely that it exists in reality. I would LOVE to visit something like this!"
Spiff marvels at the dated but pretty graphics of the goofy game and stares at crystals for a bit. He quickly finds two of the most dangerous slimes, The Boom Slime and The Rad Slime in the quarry. He grabs two Rads, Six Booms and finds an Oca Oca among the veggies in the area.
"My! That's efficient! Slimepedia says these are exploding slimes and radioactive slimes... Well that's... Not nice. Still, it should be easy. These Oca Oca things are the favorite food of the radiation slimes so, there we go! Efficiency! Let's go see what's over here-WHAT."
Spiff wanders over to the pond nearby and has his first encounter with a Puddle Slime. It's a slime that squeaks like a toy and purrs like a cat underwater, in the shape of a little puddle, hence the name.
"My GOD that thing is cute! What is that? A... Puddle slime? It's a slime that lives in a puddle or pond. Okay then. MINE. The cuteness is all MINE!"
Spiff runs around and grabs three Puddle Slimes and rushes back home, unable to get past the bridge to the next location. He spends a decent amount of his money buying a new corral and farm plot for the new slimes and a Pond for his new favorite pets, The Puddles.
"Sooo cute! This game seems so... family friendly! Which is a big change from horrors such as Zomboid or Rimworld. But it can't be that simple though so... I need to see something before I go further."
Spiff keeps wandering about, once again towards the quarry carrying a load of Heart Beets for the Rock Slime Gordo he passed by earlier in a cave. After popping the Gordo he unlocks a teleporter pad.
"What's this swirly thing? What happens if I step on it?"
Spiff steps in and is instantly returned to a spot next to the market back home. By this time, the first day is ending and it's almost night time. This is where Spiff encounters his first enemy - the Tarr Slime.
"Oh look! It's a new slime! It... looks strange though. but these are like living slime creatures so I suppose that's not abnormal. What slime is-OW! It attacked! Get away!"
The Tarr attacks Spiff and bites him a few times before Spiff grabs it and shoots it away. Spiff looks on in horror as a Tarr nearby grabs a slime with strange slimy tentacle like appendages and then eats it.
"A slime that EATS other slimes!? GET AWAY FROM MY BOUNCIES!!!"
Spiff gets angry and grabs all the Tarrs in the area and flings them into the ocean nearby. He nearly died on account of taking so much damage from wrangling them to where he could throw them.
"Where does that come from? Wait a minute, Slimepedia... A Tarr slime? A slime that appears when a Largo of two different slimes eats a plort from a third different slime. Oh... So these things are a form of population control built into the game? That's an interesting mechanic. Hmmm... Alright. That's all for this one. I'm satisfied."
Spiffs outro plays with a smile.
TOP COMMENT: Slime Rancher eh? Fun game, very fun indie game! SR is one of the best 'relax and turn brain off' kinds of games. SR 2 might also be fun for you. Look forward to the next episode of Subnautica!
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The video starts and Spiffs Intro plays. The cameras open and its Spiff and one other Eridani in a split screen. The screen to the left is Spiff, the screen to the right is the other one, who is clearly a lot smaller in stature and demeanor.
"Great days!" Spiff says.
"And Glorious victory!" Comes the squeaky kid voice from the other.
"I am Spifflemonk, and after much deliberation and showing my wife the game, she has finally agreed to allow my lovely little daughter to play a human game! As a consequence, say hello to Mini-Monk!" He says with a strangely happy grin.
"Hiii!" The child squeaks happily and waves at the camera.
The camera zooms out to see the child, around a quarter of her fathers height, sitting in his lap on a pillow in Spiff's usual seat, the camera making sure both are fully visible. The child is adorable, has very light blue, almost cyan skin tone and big bright pink eyes, and in human terms is the age of about 8 years old. The games screen starts up, and Spiff goes for a New Game, this one modded with some Quality Of Life and Graphics mods.
"Yes yes, I have my own save game where I will be finishing the game vanilla. But this is necessary! I have been looking for MONTHS to find a game friendly enough for my daughter to play, both in terms of content and mechanics, and I finally found one! But, as per my Wife's request, she isn't allowed to play it without me here."
Spiff smiles at the camera and shows the child how to use the keyboard controls, teaching her what certain symbols of the standard English Alphabet are for on the keyboard. He mostly stays hands off, only really intervening when she's lost or presses the wrong key by accident.
"So I vacuum up these things and stuff? Does it hurt them?" She asks.
"Nope! Doesn't hurt them. Slimes dont hurt apparently."
"And... I feed them like this?" She asks as she puts a slime in the Corral and feeds it a carrot.
"Yup! Then you take its poop and sell it." Spiff replies with a smirk.
She looks up at him with a confused scowl. "Seriously? you're making me play a game about slime poop?"
"It's a bit more in depth than that sweetie but that's basically it. Get slime, feed food to slime, slime poops out these things called 'Plorts', then you sell the plorts. Plorts are slime poop." Spiff smiles down at her.
"Are there blue ones? I like blue."
"Oh there's lots of blue ones! Even a whole blue/purple place you can find!" He replies.
"Mine."
Spiff barely holds in a chuckle as she excitedly goes about the game. Spiff does most of the 'grind' elements or talks her around while she's in his lap, so she gets to enjoy the exploration aspect more. He shows her how to set up a farm of Pink Slimes and shows her the basics, before allowing her to move on to other spots. Eventually, she comes across the entrance to the Indigo Quarry cave in the second area, and finds a Rock Slime.
"It's blue! What is it?" She asks, then vacs it up.
Spiff, being the only one in the room that can read Human English, explains as they go. "That's a rock slime. It's a slime that has rocks and minerals in it and eats veggies."
"It... eats veggies? and it's a slime made of rock. Whaaa?"
"Don't question it, ginky, this game is about farming slime monster poop. Don't expect it to make sense, just enjoy playing it!" Spiff says with a laugh.
"Okay..." She shrugs and resumes playing.
She grabs a few more Rock Slimes and a few Hen-Hens from the local area and moves on, looking around her at various things to figure out what they are. Spiff stays mostly hands off, simply trying to let her explore and enjoy. Until she finds a Tabby Slime. The meowing and squeaking, as well as the playful behavior makes the child's face light up.
"Whats THAT its so cute!" She hastily gabbles as she vacs up a Tabby Slime nearby.
"That's a Tabby Slime! It's a slime inspired by a creature that lived on Earth once called the 'cat'." Spiff said.
"This actually exists!? Can we have one!?" She squeals and stares her father down with puppy eyes.
Spiff laughs heartily in a fatherly laugh. "Hell to the heck no we aren't. Cats are evil. Humans have told me cats are evil. I've seen cats. I don't let evil things near my children. Not even if they are cute. BUT... There are cat based games humans have made. You can have a virtual cat. We can try some of those in the future, if your mother allows it."
"Okay." The child sighs and resigns herself, both defeated at the failure to get a cat, and also happy at the prospect of other cats somewhere else.
She wrangles a few Tabby Slimes and returns to the Ranch to put them in their pens. The squeaking and meowing sounds coming from the Tabby Slimes makes the child go giddy and start an adorable giggle fit as she vacs one Tabby up, then throws him out again to listen to the adorable noises. This carries on for a bit longer than one would expect and Spiff looks into the camera with a knowing fatherly smirk and rolls his eyes with a smile.
The child's giggling is cut short when eventually, one of the Tabby Slimes eats a Rock Slimes Plort and becomes a Largo. The large blue cat/rock slime combo takes her by surprise.
"HEY! Wh-where’d my cat go? What's that? Why is it big?"
Spiff looks down at her with a smirk. "You'll figure it out. This game is a tiny bit more complicated than you think."
She looks back at the game and tries a few things. She flings a plort at the RockTabby, and nothing happens. Then she grabs a Hen-Hen and the Largo isn't hungry, so nothing happens. She then takes a Tabby Plort and flings it at the Largo. It bounces and hits a Rock Slime, that then eats it and turns into a RockTabby Largo.
"OOOOhhhh kay... So these things can be two in one? It can be a... RockCat Slime?" She asks.
"Yup. But be caref-"
"What happens if I do this though..." She says as she picks up a Pink Plort and yeets it at the Largo, creating a Tarr Slime.
The black mass of wobbly slime begins the mass consumption of the slimes in the pen and she squeals in terror and anger at the sight. Spiff pauses the game and gives her a cuddle to calm her down.
"He's eating my slimies!" She cried between sobs.
"Now now little bug, that's not how a Lady acts is it!? No 'Tis not! So, watch. They aren't scary at all." Spiff says and grabs a Tarr, then yeets it into the ocean behind the Ranch. He pauses the game again and looks down at her.
"Is it gone?" she asks.
"Nope. there's still more there. Now you and I both know that you're way too old to be cowering in my lap like this! Ladies don't behave like this. Are you a lady?" He says, smirking.
"I am!" She squeals.
"Prove it! Take those Tarrs and throw them into the ocean! Prove that, just like a lady, you can take care of your problems!" Spiff commands with a smirk.
She squeals in an adorable warrior's roar and grabs the Tarrs one by one, throwing them off the edge into the ocean. She cringes a bit in fear each time she grabs one but manages to hold her own and saves her slimes from further Tarr-ification. In the end, only a few are lost. She holds her tiny hands high and yells the Eridani word for 'Victory!' and carries on playing the game, eventually making it to the Moss Blanket Gate.
Spiff however, ends it there as she has now been playing for two hours.
"Okay then, well, that's all for now." He says, pausing and saving the game.
"AAAwwww nooo! I wanna play more!" She protests.
"No. Remember what happened that time I got hauled away by the funny police? That's what happens when you play human video games. You forget who you are sometimes. NO. Not happening to my little one. You get two hours a day, maximum. That's the rule. Now run along. Tomorrow your chair arrives, I had it made specially for you, so you don't have to sit in my lap all the time." He says, stern and direct.
"Okay... darn it..." She says with a sad frown and walks out the door.
Spiff looks at the camera and smiles broadly, then the channel outro plays.
TOP COMMENT: Thatta boy. That's how a dad do. She is ADORABLE! I was NOt expecting the cute. That was… refreshing :)
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"Great days and glorious victory! My name is Spifflemonk and welcome back to Slime Rancher! Back to a moment of rest after a... close encounter with a... certain very very large spider in a game called Grounded."
Spiffle visibly shudders in terrified disgust.
"In any case, we're going back to the ranch! Mods for my daughter's save are disabled so we can work in a base game as most people say I should during my first play, so here we go."
Spiff returns to the game and wastes no time going back to min-maxing, figuring out the Upgrade and jetpack system in short order, using it to acquire more slimes. He quickly went through and grabbed a few more slimes for a better payoff, getting a farm that was relatively self-sustaining.
"So, here is the best option that I have found. A maximum of eight slimes per corral with a fully upgraded farm plot to sustain them seems to be the best option so I can continue to explore the game without grinding too much. That's a decent pace I think. Let me take you on a tour!"
Spiff heads towards the ranch and shows off the stock. Eight Largos in each, with a farm plot feeding it, and four corrals on the main farm. All are fully upgraded as best as possible.
"This one has RockTabby's! They eat Heart Beets! This one has RadBooms, Rad slimes and Boom slimes. Dangerous but fed with Oca Oca for a good payday! AThis one has a new slime in it! The HoneyHunter! A Hunter slime which I found off camera yesterday, and another one called the Honey Slime, which eats these Mint Mango things. These are my favorites! Look! They go invisible! You can only see eyes!"
He shows off the honey flavored cat-like slimes going invisible and giggles inanely at the sight.
"So cute! And here, New slimes! I found these while exploring some caves near the Quarry. They are Crystal Slimes... which by itself is AWESOME! But while around at night, I found these ones, which were Phosphor Slimes. These guys were hard to figure out and then I understood the Solar Shield upgrade. That... hurt a bit. After losing three stocks of Phosphor Slimes."
Spiff scoffs and shows off the slimes. He moves away to a back area near the Plort Market and shows off several Hen-Hen coops, including a full Corral that's completely full to the top with squawking and squirming Hen-Hens.
"I'm going to toss a slime in there one day... see what happens!"
Spiff laughs in a rather disturbingly sadistic manner and resumes work, going to the dockyard further down.
"Both of these areas I had to unlock with cash. Wasn't easy but I got the farm going. Now I have a lot of cash I've no idea what to do with. In any case, here we go! The Puddle Ranch!"
The last four plots are made up of ponds, one of which has a dozen Puddle slimes in it at once.
"They are so cute! Yes I know you can't get anything out of them if there's more than four in a pond, but I keep finding more and they're so CUTE! Look at da little puddle! In any case I also have this. An incinerator. No idea what its for but I guess i'll find out."
Spiff fangirls around the Puddle Slimes for a while and leaves the Ranch, grabbing four individual Plorts and heads to the North. Here he finds the Slime Portal, surrounded by Slime statues, each one having a slot in it that contains a Plort.
"I am ashamed to say It took me a while to figure this out. But you take plorts corresponding to the slime statue and... poof. Now... what do it do?"
Spiff watches as the Portal opens, a cute song plays and the gate slides open to allow him access to the rest of the map. He enters and finds The Ancient Ruins - a puzzle maze of shifting gates and twisting passages. Thankfully he has one Slime Key left, so he can essentially skip the puzzle this place offers and go straight to the Glass Desert. Well that is until he encounters a Quantum Slime.
"What... Is this yellow slime? Is it a gold slime or-QUANTUM SLIME!? WHAT!?"
He stares at the camera in his signature 'you know too much' glare and watches what the slime does. It phases out of existence and teleports itself to another spot nearby.
"A teleporting slime!? How does that make any sense!? HOW???"
Spiff stares at the slime for a bit and just says 'fuck it' and starts exploring the area, grabbing a few Slimes. He finds a Phase Lemon and struggles for a while, eventually giving up and consulting the wiki to figure out how to get one and then resumes exploring. The entire time he grumbles about how annoying this whole thing is, and arrives at the gate. He puts in the key and uses the slimes he has on him plus a few Pogofruit to get Quantum Plorts and finishes the puzzle, entering the Glass Desert.
"Well... This is... very empty, barren and dead compared to where I came from. Hmm..."
Spiff isnt wasting time, heads straight to the wiki and figures out what to do. He seems to be impatient for some reason and is rushing through it, grabbing slimes and securing resources he thinks he might need, following the breadcrumb trail left by all the strange floating holographic H signs left everywhere. Eventually, he scrambles through the huge maze of stuff everywhere, unlocks a few gates and reads the last sign he can find left by the mysterious 'H'.
"OOOhhhh so that's how that works! Okay so the story i-WHAT THE FU-"
Spiff is grabbed by four sets of tiny Eridani hands and dragged out of his chair. Four Eridani children, including his daughter Mini-Monk, scramble into his seat, exit, save the game and start a new game in his place. Each child is around the same age.
"CUTE SLIMIES!!!" The children excitedly chirp as Spiff just sighs in annoyance.
"Uggghhh... kids."
Spiffles outro plays, along with a short, but adorable slideshow of him showing pictures of each of the kids taking turns playing the game, enjoying themselves, figuring out how everything works and trying to handle a swarm of Tarr slimes due to a Plort accident at the Ranch.
TOP COMMENT: I think I've died and gone to cute. Your kids are adorable! Ready to go back to Subnautica yet Spiff? I WANT TO SEE YOU FACE THE LEVIATHAN.
Spiffs response: FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR GIANT SCARY DEEPWATER CURSED FISH. And no those aren't my kids, it's just my daughter and a few friends. Only one is mine.
Response: Oh god I'm gonna LOVE watching you play Phasmophobia! That might kill you! LOL
Spiffs response: EVIL. HUMANS ARE EVIL.
((Authors note: BEFORE YOU ASK no i don't have kids and i'm not expecting any. This was just something funny I wanted to write. So here you go.))

In diesem Megathread findet ihr verschiedene Infos zu den Spielen, den Reisemöglichkeiten, dem Stadion, Public Viewing und weiteren relevanten Themen rund um die EM. Darüberhinausgehende Fragen können gerne hier gestellt und beantwortet werden – bei Bedarf ergänzen wir den Post.
In this megathread you will find various information on the matches, travel options, the stadium, public viewing and other relevant topics relating to the European Championship. Any further questions can be asked and answered here - we will add to the post if necessary.
Für allgemeine Infos über München, schaut in unserem Wiki vorbei!
For general information about Munich, take a look at our wiki!
First time in Germany? Check out germany for general information regarding German culture and travel tips!

Welche Spiele finden in München statt? / Which matches take place in Munich?

• 14. Juni 2024 um 21:00 Uhr: Deutschland - Schottland
• 17. Juni 2024 um 15:00 Uhr: Rumänien - Ukraine
• 20. Juni 2024 um 15:00 Uhr: Slowenien - Serbien
• 25. Juni 2024 um 21:00 Uhr: Dänemark - Serbien
• 02. Juli 2024 um 18:00 Uhr: Achtelfinale
• 09. Juli 2024 um 21:00 Uhr: Halbfinale
• 14 June 2024 at 21:00: Germany v Scotland
• 17 June 2024 at 15:00: Romania v Ukraine
• 20 June 2024 at 15:00: Slovenia v Serbia
• 25 June 2024 at 21:00: Denmark v Serbia
• 02 July 2024 at 18:00: Round of 16
• 09 July 2024 at 21:00: Semi-final

Reise nach München / Travel to Munich

Mit dem Zug
Für Inhaber des kostenlosen Fan Passes gibt es ermäßigte und kostenlose Reisemöglichkeiten mit der Deutschen Bahn und dem ÖPNV innerhalb des MVV. Weitere Informationen hierzu findet ihr hier: UEFA
Mit dem Flugzeug
Der Flughafen München (Franz Josef Strauß) ist über den ÖPNV an das Stadtzentrum angebunden. Weitere Flughäfen, die in Betracht gezogen werden können, sind Nürnberg, Memmingen & Stuttgart (Deutschland), Innsbruck & Salzburg (Österreich) und Zürich (Schweiz).
Vom Flughafen München in die Stadt kommt man u.a. mit der S1, S8 und dem Lufthansa-Express Bus (akzeptiert D-Ticket).
Vom Flughafen Memmingen kann man neben dem Zug auch den Allgäu-Airport-Express nutzen (akzeptiert keine ÖPNV Tickets).
Mit dem Fernbus
Der ZOB München befindet sich an der Hackerbrücke (S-Bahn Station) unweit vom Hauptbahnhof München.
Mit dem Auto
Von der Nutzung eines Autos wird aufgrund des erwarteten erhöhten Verkehrsaufkommens abgeraten. Parkplätze am Station stehen nur für im Voraus angemeldete Autos zur Verfügung. Falls dennoch eine Anreise mit dem Auto geplant ist wird die Nutzung der P&R Standorte des MVV-Netzes empfohlen, da Parkplätze in der Innenstadt knapp sind. Die Umweltzone ist zu beachten.
By train
Holders of the free Fan Pass get exclusive travel benefits, including reduced and free tickets for international trains, national high-speed trains, and local public transport. Further information is available here: UEFA
For planning your trip and staying up to date in case of delays you can use the DB Navigator App.
By plane
The closest Airport is Munich International Airport (Franz Josef Strauss Airport). Additional airport options to consider are Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg, Memmingen & Stuttgart (Germany), Innsbruck & Salzburg (Austria) and Zurich (Switzerland).
From the airport Munich into the City you can take the S1, S8 and the Lufthansa Express Bus (accepts local transit tickets).
From Memmingen Airport you can use the Allgäu-Airport-Express (does not accept public transport tickets) as well as the train.
By long-distance bus
The Central bus station (ZOB München) is located at the S-Bahn-station Hackerbrücke and close to Munich Central Train Station.
By car
It is not recommended to travel by car as car traffic is expected to be particularly busy. Furthermore, parking facilities and the stadium is limited to pre-booked cars only. If you still choose to travel by car, make use of the Park + Ride locations as down-town parking is scarce.
The inner city prohibits cars below a certain environmental standard from entering (Umweltzone) – cars that meet the standards need a visible badge (Umweltplakette) to enter. If you travel in your own car, check beforehand if your car qualifies and how to obtain an Umweltplakette.

Reise zum Stadion / Travel to the stadium

Eine Anreise mit dem ÖPNV wird empfohlen. Es gibt verschiedene Apps für den Münchner ÖPNV z.B. MVGO oder München Navigator. Wer mit dem Auto anreist sollte sich vorab für 24€ einen Parkplatz in einem der öffentlichen Parkhäuser reservieren.
Eintrittskarten-Inhabe-innen für München haben ohne zusätzliche Kosten Anspruch auf eine 36-Stunden-Fahrkarte für das gesamte MVV-Netz (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund). Diese Fahrkarte ist von 06:00 Uhr am Spieltag bis 18:00 Uhr des Folgetages gültig.
Die Allianz-Arena befindet sich am U-Bahnhalt Fröttmaning (U6). Von hier aus werden Zuschauer zur Arena geleitet. Reisende die z.B. vom Hauptbahnhof starten können mit der S-Bahn (alle Linien) zum Marienplatz fahren und dort in die U6 umsteigen.
Voraussichtliche Reisedauer

• Hauptbahnhof zum Stadion – 35 Minuten
• Flughafen zum Stadion – 60 Minuten
• Fan Zone zum Stadion – 25 Minuten

It is recommended to travel using the local public transport. There are multiple public transit apps for available for Munich, for example MVGO or München Navigator*. If you still decide to travel by car, make sure to pre-register for parking for 24€, as only registered cars have access to the public parking facilities.*
Match ticket holders are entitled to a 36 Hour Travel Pass across the entire MVV (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund) network at no additional cost. The pass is valid from 06:00 on match-day until 18:00 the following day.
The Stadium is at the Subway Station Fröttmaning (U6). Pedestrians arriving here will be guided to the stadium. If you start your journey at the Main Central Station or Munich East you can take the S-Bahn (all lines) to Marienplatz and transfer to the U6 there.
Estimated Travel Times

• Central station to stadium – 35 minutes
• Airport to stadium – 60 minutes
• Fan Zone to stadium – 25 minutes

Munich Football Arena (Allianz Arena)

Der Name des Stadions wurde für die EM geändert, da Allianz ein Werbepartner des FC Bayern ist, nicht aber der UEFA.

• Taschen größer als A4 sind nicht erlaubt
• Eine Powerbank, die nicht größer als das Handy ist, ist gestattet
• Einlass nur mit gültigem Ausweisdokument
• Professionelle Kameras und nicht-faltbare Regenschirme sind nicht erlaubt
• Rauchen jeglicher Art ist nicht erlaubt
• Es gibt kein Mindestalter, unter 16 Jahren Einlass nur in Begleitung einer erwachsenen Person
• Es wird empfohlen zur Toröffnung am Stadion zu sein, also ca. 3 Stunden vor Anpfiff
• Bags larger than A4 (~ 8 x 12 inches) are not allowed
• You can bring one small powerbank, no larger than your phone
• Make sure you have a valid form of ID on you
• Professional cameras and cane umbrellas are not allowed
• Smoking in any form is not allowed
• There's no minimum age, spectators under the age of 16 can only enter with an accompanying adult
• It’s recommended to get to the stadium when the gates open, so 3 hours before kick-off

Barrierefreiheit / Accessibilty

• Das Stadion verfügt über Einlassschlangen, sowie Toiletten für Personen, die sich nicht innerhalb des binären Geschlechtskonzepts identifizieren.
• Der Zugang vom U-Bahnhof Fröttmaning über die Esplanade bis zum Stadion wurde an die Bedürfnisse aller Fans angepasst. Besucher, die auf Liftanlagen angewiesen sind, benutzen den Zugang am Südende des Bahnsteigs. Dort sind - im Gegensatz zum nördlichen Zugang - Rolltreppen und Lifte vorhanden.
• Zutritt für Rollstuhlfahrende ist aus sicherheitsrechtlichen Gründen nur mit speziellem Rollstuhl-Ticket möglich.
• Die gesamte Ebene 2 mit Kiosken, Behindertenbetreuungseinrichtung und Behindertentoiletten (zugänglich nur mit EURO-Behinderten-WC-Schlüssel) ist barrierefrei erreichbar. Für den Ebenenwechsel zu anderen Einrichtungen stehen reservierte Aufzüge auf der Nord- und Südseite zur Verfügung.
• Eine Toilette für Schwerstbehinderte ist mit Lifter ausgerüstet.

Weitere Informationen zum Thema Barrierefreiheit findet ihr hier UEFA und hier Allianz Arena.

• The stadium provides gender-neutral lanes at all entrances, gender-neutral toilets will be available.
• There is unrestricted access to the stadium for all fans from the Fröttmaning underground station via the Esplanade. Visitors requiring lifts should use the access to the southern end of the platform. In contrast to the north entrance, escalators and lifts are available here.
• For health and safety reasons, access for people with wheelchairs is only possible with a special wheelchair ticket.
• The entire Level 2 with its kiosks, facilities for people with disabilities and disabled toilets (only accessible with EURO-disabled-person-WC-key) is barrier-free. Designated lifts are available on the north and south sides for changing levels to other areas.
• One toilet for people with disabilities is fitted with a hoist.

Further information regarding accessibility can be found here UEFA and here Allianz Arena.

Fan Zone

Im Olympiapark wird die Fan Zone ab dem 14. Juni eingerichtet. Hier gibt es das offizielle Public Viewing, bei dem alle 51 EM-Spiele live übertragen werden. Darüber hinaus gibt es ein Programm mit Musik, Kultur, Kunst und Mitmachaktivitäten für alle Altersklassen. Der Eintritt ist frei!
Die Anreise ist mit der U3 Haltestelle Olympiazentrum, sowie Tram (20, 21, 27) und dem Bus möglich.
Weitere Informationen findet ihr hier Olympiapark.
An official Fan Zone will be open from June 14^th in the Olympiapark. All 51 matches will be broadcast live in the public viewing area. A diverse program with music, culture, art, and activities will also be available. Admission is free!
For travel it’s recommended you use the U3 to Olympiazentrum, the tram (20, 21, 27) or buses.
Further information is available here Olympiapark.

Weitere allgemeine Infos / Further general information

Cannabis / Weed
Auch wenn der Besitz von bis zu 25g Cannabis für den Eigenkonsum erlaubt ist, ist die Ein-, Aus- und Durchfuhr sowie der Kauf/Verkauf aktuell weiterhin illegal.
Even though the possession of up to 25g of cannabis for personal use is permitted, the import, export and transit as well as the purchase/sale remain illegal as of now.
Alkohol / Alcohol
Im ÖPNV (Bus, Tram, U-Bahn, S-Bahn) und am Hauptbahnhof ist das Konsumieren alkoholischer Getränke untersagt.
While consuming alcohol is allowed in public places, drinking in local public transit (Bus, Tram, Subway/U-Bahn, S-Bahn) and at the Munich Main Train Station is prohibited.
DB – Deutsche Bahn
Im Falle von Störungen (Verspätungen, Zugausfällen, etc.) habt ihr eine Vielzahl von Rechten und Ansprüchen, wie z.B. die Aufhebung der Zugbindung oder eine Teilrückerstattung des Ticketpreises. Alternative Transportwege wie Taxi oder FlixBus werden für gewöhnlich nicht erstattet.
Fahrgastrechte
In the event of disruptions (delays, train cancellations, etc.), you have a variety of rights and claims, such as the cancellation of the train connection or a partial refund of the ticket price. Alternative Transport options such as taxi or FlixBus are not usually reimbursed. Other train operators have different rules and regulations.
Fahrgastrechte (your rights)
ÖPNV Ticket / Local public transit ticket
Netzplatz / Network plan
Ticketübersicht / Ticket overview
If you’re inexperienced with public transit or want an explanation on how the system works, take a look at our wiki. Be aware that the wiki article is a few years old, so the prices aren’t correct any more, as is the information regarding covid. We’ll get to it… eventually…
The Deutschland-Ticket (49€ Ticket) is a subscription-based ticket, meant for regular commuters, not for tourists. While you can purchase it as a tourist, only do so if you know what you’re doing, as buying it for a very specific time frame can be tricky, and failure can lead to paying for multiple tickets, and/or not purchasing a ticket for the desired time frame.
Unterkunft / Where to stay
Wiki-article
Unterkünfte in den Vororten oder umliegenden Städten (Starnberg, Augsburg, Rosenheim, etc.) können zu sehr gefragten Terminen günstiger sein und ermöglichen dank guter ÖPNV-Anbindung ebenfalls eine An- und Abreise am Spieltag.
Accommodation in the suburbs or surrounding towns (Starnberg, Augsburg, Rosenheim, etc.) can be cheaper on very popular dates and, thanks to good public transport connections, still give you the option to travel to and from the stadium on match day.

Hey all. I picked up a Carista Evo a few weeks back during the sale.
Device connects to the car, pulls the vin and everything, but I cannot seem to get any of the settings to actually change. I go into the app, change a value on something cosmetic (say dash color), it shows it made the change, and yet, nothing happens in the car.
I'm not getting errors about it. I have on certain swaps (such as a dash variant being rejected.) Before I jump to their customer service, I wondered if anyone else had an idea.
I've got a 2023 SE if that matters in North America. I'm using the Android version as well.
One other thing I noticed - the car does not like sitting without the engine running after about 5 minutes and complains about battery drain while I fiddle with the Carista App. Never has a problem cranking after I turn it off and go start it later, but I do find that odd behavior.
I wonder if Android Auto could be causing the app and dongle to desynchronize possible. Appreciate any advice here if you've experienced the weirdness.

29 - Fallout 1 Build

Point Summary

Point Total: 1300 CP 1000 (Base) + 300 (Jump Drawbacks)

Jump Details

Document name: 29 - Fallout 1
Author: YJ-Anon
Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19mJtoS2TQINqpCswjkDGx36f48h41Y_X/view

Jump Duration

Years: 10 Months: 0 Days: 0

Perks

Heroic Perception (Free)
Nothing gets past you anymore; ambushes are a thing of the past, and people will have a hell of a hard time hiding anything from you. You can see in the dark with how good your eyes are, with the rest of your senses equally as formidable. Your powers of perception will allow you to pick the easiest locks or set and disarm some common traps even without any special training in those fields, and with the right training you could learn to shoot out someone’s eyes from over a hundred yards away... with a pistol. At night.
Heroic Agility [200/800 CP]
You’re practically a blur now, ducking and dodging in and out of firefights like greased lightning. With your dexterity, you could even “dodge bullets” by moving out of the path of the bullet before it’s fired, or maybe even afterwards if you’re lucky. You’ll find that you have a natural talent with all weapons, including your fists, as well as subtler arts like stealth or thievery; however talent is no replacement for training.
Tag skills: Energy Weapons, Barter, Sneak (Free)
Just as important as your SPECIAL stats are Skills, which consist of some of the most common or useful skills in the wasteland. Shocking, right? You may “tag” three skills for free, receiving a substantial bonus to your ability to use that skill, as well as making it far easier to learn new things relating to it or developing new techniques related to that skill. You can also “tag” a fourth skill for 100 CP, and can “tag” more skills afterwards for 200 CP each.
Awareness (Free)
You’re capable of sizing up your enemies with just a glance, getting all sorts of information with just a brief look. Not just obvious stuff, like how injured they are or what they’re wearing, but more subtle things like what weapons they have or what they’re carrying on their person.
Silent Death [300/500 CP]
You’re a warrior of the shadows; while some prefer to face their enemies head on, you know the value of killing unseen. Your footsteps are entirely silent, allowing you to rush through the darkness unheard, and if you can attack an enemy from behind you’ll find that your attacks are twice as effective as they would normally be. Lastly, you’re capable of devising or finding inventive ways to kill your opponents, from setting off the self-destruct in their military base to something as simple as using dynamite to bury them alive in a cave.

Items

Fallout Starting Gear (Free)
You get a 10mm pistol and 72 10mm Hollow Point rounds, a simple, non-armored outfit of your choice, a week’s worth of food and water,
Motion Sensor (Free)
A hand-held motion sensor, this device aids in the detection of nearby enemies. While travelling it can help one avoid enemies very handily, but needs to be used in conjunction with a Pip-Boy to track enemies.
Electronic Lock Pick [50/450 CP]
A highly advanced lock pick designed for doors that are electronically locked and require key-cards or access codes rather than keys. It can’t be used on regular doors, but won’t break from overuse.
Stealth Boy 3001 [150/300 CP]
A highly advanced experimental piece of military hardware, allegedly reverse-engineered from something the Chinese used; the Stealth Boy 3001 was created by RobCo as a personal stealth device, and can generate a modulating field around its wearer that transmits reflected light from one side of an object to another- essentially making the wearer blend in with their surroundings.
Deathclaw Nest [300/0 CP]
You’ve somehow stumbled upon a deathclaw’s nest. While normally you might have to worry about getting torn apart by a furious mother deathclaw defending her babies, it seems mama’s not around. You could have yourself a lot of omelets... or, if you let the eggs hatch, you’ll find that the young deathclaws will somehow see you as their mother. If you keep them safe, you’ll find yourself in control of your own deathclaw pack in only a few years. Not only that, but they’ll be remarkably intelligent even for a deathclaw, and capable of following orders like a dog would. The nest and deathclaws will follow you.

Companion Imports

Companion Import [200/-200 CP]
You can import an old companion, or create a new one for 50 CP, giving them 800 CP to spend as well as all of the discounts and freebies that you would get. You can also recruit a canon character for the same price, though you’ll need to convince them to come along with you and they won’t get any CP to spend here. Imported Companions

Drawbacks

Hunted (Master's Mutant Army) [300/100 CP]
One of the big factions in the region- either the Brotherhood of Steel or the Master’s Mutant Army- have decided that you need to die for the good of the wasteland’s future. You’ll be facing parties of Brotherhood Paladins armed with the heaviest weapons available or similarly armed Mutants leading packs of Centaurs and Floaters with regular frequency during your stay here, even if you wipe their faction out. You’ll face at least one band a week; possibly more if you linger in their territory.

29A - Modded Fallout Build

Point Summary

Point Total: 1600 CP 1000 (Base) + 600 (Jump Drawbacks)

Jump Details

Document name: 29A - Modded Fallout
Version: v1.2
Author: Songless
Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13sFK7ES-qG9GAfa6WbxjWOT1ZVrZ_ABh/view

Jump Duration

Years: 10 Months: 0 Days: 0

Origin

Origin: Loot Or perhaps you’re looking for Loot? The biggest guns, the most magnificent suits of armor, or just one of every kind of Nuka Cola made in Pre-War America, whatever the case is: you’re here for the shinies. And as is often the case, mods can both add whole new treasures to look for or improve the benefits from what’s already there.

Perks

Tool King (Free)
Starting with a cartload of random junk and ending with high-quality ammunition or power cells, cutting-edge improvements to power armor, overcharged laser weaponry or even entirely new kinds of science is practically trivial for the average Fallout protagonist… yet their talents pale compared to yours. This Perk grants you immediate access to pretty much any kind of crafting shown in the Fallout series: from Hand Loader to Science! and Chemist to Robotics Expert, if it somehow involves building things out of other things (from guns to ammo to even entire buildings), you’ve got it - including perfectly memorized designs for the kind of components and tools you might need, like the Robotics Workbench or Nuka-Cola Mixer station. In fact, you’re good enough that you’ll never make mistakes while doing this type of crafting (assuming someone doesn’t start shooting at you or some such), and you’ll be perfectly aware of where you were in the process if you do find yourself interrupted and have to continue later on.
Bobby Pins And Boot Scripts [200/800 CP]
Enjoy everything, collect anything, and above all else: if you’re not supposed to have it, that just makes it more valuable. Often, the best and most valuable items for your hoard (metaphorical or literal) are those locked behind some pretty solid security. But you’ll get at them. Master level locks and computer systems are powerless to keep you out, the good old bobby pin or reboot interrupt letting you get your hooks into those defenses and turn them aside with ease. But more than that - you’ll find that you can use similar tricks on any kind of security system you might encounter in the future, be it the vaults of ancient civilizations or advanced firewalls built by alien societies that would otherwise laugh at the Robco termlink loopholes you’re so familiar with. If it’s meant to keep greedy hands away, you’ll have ways to get through.

Items

Pre-War Relics [50/750 CP]
Nuclear Armageddon (Free)
Ah, Fallout. You’re here for the world, but before the world came the games - and why not get those, too? You receive a full collection of all the Fallout games, including DLCs and canceled titles, all of which are certified bug-free (if you want) and compatible with just about any platform, including your Pip-Boy, though the graphics might not be the greatest on something like that. You’ll also get a complete collection of all the other Fallout productions, like official merchandise, art-work, and so on.
Finally, since this is modded Fallout, you’ll find a connection in your Warehouse to… ah, let’s call it a cosmic mod database, containing just about any mod imaginable for the Fallout series and a user-friendly interface that ensures you’ll find what you want with a minimum of fuss and effort. Enjoy, and remember: War Never Changes!
RobCo Pip-Boy (merged with Tablet of the Free) (Free)
The latest in handheld computing systems, coming in a wide variety of designs and configurations. Whether you prefer the tablet-styled Pip-Boy 2000 with its various upgrade ports, or you’d rather have a wrist computer such as the Pip-Boy 3000, this compact and potent computer will serve you well during your time here. Carrying a built-in Geiger Counter, medical analysis suite, mapping and database functionality, input/output ports compatible with a wide range of other hardware, and more besides, this device is one of the most versatile personal assistants on the market today. Not that that’s saying much, given that the market is a ruined hellhole, but you get the idea.
Bobbleheads (Free)
One of the most popular icons to come out of the Pre-War world, the Vault Boy (and Vault Girl) were immortalized in everything from posters to software to these: genuine Vault-Tec Bobbleheads. You get a full collection of every bobblehead made for the series, the perfect memento to remember your time in Fallout by. These Bobbleheads are only decorations, providing no boosts to any 'base stats' like they did in, for example, Fallout 3.
Augmented Scanner (Free)
Part of a next-generation analysis suite, this scanning and tracking system allows for fast and easy analysis of the user’s environment. Fine-tuned for materials and elemental analysis, this upgrade excels at tracking down items that are of particular interest to the user, as defined by various priority or exclusion lists (which may be altered by the user whenever desired). For example, if you need more crystal or fiber optics to complete some modifications to your Laser Rifle, the system will highlight containers or items that might contain such components. Likewise, you could have the program point out specific weapon types, medication or chems, and just about any other such item of interest. It can even track exploration, allowing you to configure the system to only highlight boxes, chests or even corpses that you have not yet searched.
Somewhat uncommon in the wasteland, scanners of this type are most often found installed into the RobCo Pip-Boy, though this variant is compatible with most other systems as well.
Full Storage [200/550 CP]
This old, half-broken Pip-Boy seems to be incapable of even starting its operating system, the diagnostics indicating that the entirety of its vast 64k RAM is already in use. Most people might simply discard it or strip it for spare parts, but a closer look will reveal the exact reason for its fault: its internal database has been crammed full of Fallout design specs, schematics, scientific principles and so on. How full, you ask? Well, it’s got just about every semi-common piece of Fallout tech in there somewhere, from Laser Rifle schematics to Assaultron software and Berry Mentat formulations to Power Armor designs. Though mainly limited to the kind of technologies one could have found in the Pre-War world of old, a number of designs that were only finalized in the two centuries following the apocalypse can also be found here (such as the Hydra drug, the Enclave’s X-01 and Hellfire armor designs, and the Radium Rifle). Though you’ll still need a way to actually build all of these things, this database is nonetheless one of the most spectacular treasures scavvers could find.
Heavy Vertibird [250/300 CP]
Few factions in the wasteland have access to flight - most technologies required to build or even maintain aircraft were lost during the nuclear apocalypse. But that doesn’t mean such things are gone entirely, and you seem to have acquired a working aircraft of some kind, in pristine condition.
For 200CP, you will acquire a Vertibird (a twin rotor VTOL craft) similar to the ones used by the Brotherhood Of Steel circa 2287. It comes with a nose-mounted pair of heavy machine guns, a minigun linked to the side door for passengers to use, and armor plating that gives it moderate protection against most types of weaponry.
For an additional 50C (250CP total), you may upgrade your Vertibird to the heavier design used by the Enclave in 2277, which sported heavier weapons (a nose-mounted Gatling Laser, missile packs under the wings and a small bomb bay for Mini-Nukes) and substantially stronger armor.
All variants of this purchase come with unlimited fuel and a replenishing stockpile of ammunition in your Warehouse or another, suitable location of your choosing. Settlement [100/200 CP]
Upgrades: Mobile, Flight, Orbital [200/0 CP]
Upgrade: Protected x2 [200/-200 CP]
Mothership Zeta (Free)
Settlement (50-100 people, self sufficient) Protected x2 (nuke-blocking shields) Integration + Teleporter (orbital teleportation capabilities) Firepower + Armageddon x3 (nuclear yield orbital Death Ray with reload time of <1min) Support + Garage (hangars for Recon Craft, manufacturing capabilities and infrastructure) Paradise Mobile + Flight + Orbital (spaceflight with presumed FTL) SCIENCE! + Cutting Edge x3 (Alien technologies)
Cutting Edge upgrades:

• Super Teleporters (capacity to beam up/down a vertibird, extended range)
• Spaceflight and Warp drive
• Stealth technology

Major Mods [200/-400 CP]
At this level of modding, you’re starting to see some serious impact on the overall way you’re interacting with the setting. Mods here would include weapons or powers that are substantially better than those found in the Fallout setting, such as Power Armor with built-in shields, granting you double the number of normal in-game ‘perks’ as a learning booster of sorts, and other such effects that noticeably increase your power. This also includes mods that could have a far-reaching impact on the setting but don’t immediately do so unless you use them in such a manner - an Auto-Doc that can install the majority of cybernetics seen in the series with no requirements other than the necessary supplies, for example. Mods like this will be immediately obvious to anyone comparing your time here to a hypothetical ‘unmodded’ situation.

Companion Imports

Friends and Companions [200/-600 CP]
Though you might follow in the footsteps of the Lone Wanderer, sometimes the company is what makes the journey worthwhile. You may import an existing Companion or create a new one of your own design for 50CP each, or pay 200CP for eight Companions at once. Each receives a background and 600CP to spend on whatever purchases they prefer. You may also use this option to recruit new Companions while in the setting - this can be applied alongside and combined with similar recruiting options in the ‘main’ jump if using Modded Fallout in the Supplement Mode. For example, if you import or recruit a Companion in the ‘main’ Fallout jump, you can do the same for that person here. Doing so still costs the normal amount of CP. Companions recruited from this setting receive their background and CP at the end of their time here. Imported Companions

Drawbacks

Long Forgotten [600/0 CP]
A creature, buried beneath Appalachia. A building in the wastes outside D.C. A blackened book underneath the swamps of Point Lookout. A deep, winding mine North of Boston, stained with the blood spilled in their name by the wicked blade of the old, old world.
Places. Names. Dangers that have nothing to do with laser beams, rocket launchers or machine guns. Reality has never been kind to mortals, but most of the time, the rends in the sanity of the world were always… well-hidden. Out of the way. Unlikely to be found by many, or survived by the few who did encounter them. But no more.
The world changes, now, occult rituals performed in the dark places of the world, hallucinations and madness becoming commonplace. Whispers abound of eldritch beings, things wrong in ways even the twisted animals of the Post-War world never were, spotted in the wastes far from civilization. Radiation was always there, always a risk to health and wellbeing - but never like this, never so… corrupting. Mutations become a sign of something darker, Ghouls and madmen the first heralds of the eldritch terrors yet to come.
You’re in a horror world now, Jumper, where nightmares are no longer merely constrained to the realm of dreams. They are coming… or, rather, they never left.

A few months ago, I put this post together to share sets of questions with connections.
Here are some more:

1. What word can mean to write music for a film, to carve a line into paper (without cutting through), or to buy illegal drugs? Score
   
2. What Starbucks drink size comes between Grande and Trenta? Venti
   
3. What is the two-letter denotation of the female chromosome? It is shared by an English indie-rock band, most famous for their 2005 song Intro. XX
   
4. In January 1835 what president was confronted by a would-be assassin who twice fired point blank? Incredibly, both pistols misfired and the president beat the man with his cane before other politicians subdued the attacker. Andrew Jackson
   
5. Name the element whose 2-letter symbol appears in all the following: a mounted knight, a large waterbird that is the state bird of Louisiana, and temporary framework used to support construction. CALCIUM, (Ca) Cavalier, Pascal, Scaffold
   
6. Connection 20
   

1. What fastening method was retired by the US Army because it was too noisy and impaired by sandy conditions? Velcro
2. Standing for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, YKK is found on about half of the world’s what? Zippers
3. What is the name of the charity supergroup that released the song Do They Know It’s Christmas Time? The single featured Bob Geldof, Bono, Phil Collins, and Sting among a plethora of performers. BAND AID
4. In 1960 the Sealed Air Company introduced what item, which originally went by the name Air Cap and was incredibly marketed as wallpaper. Bubblewrap
5. In ice-hockey, what is the name for the vehicle used (at one point by your host, Andy) to resurface ice between periods? Zamboni
6. How are the previous 5 answers connected?>! All product names that became common names. (Genericized trademarks)!<

1. What 2020 film follows Tom Hanks as a commander of a destroyer in the US Navy escorting an Allied convoy of merchant and troop ships that come under attack by German U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. Greyhound
   
2. What manufacturing company with diversified products as disparate as garden equipment, yachts, and atomic reactors, moved into sports equipment post WWII becoming most known for their bowling alleys. AMF
   
3. In March 2014, what natural disaster struck near Oso, Washington killing 43 people? The event is thought to be the most deadly of this type of disaster in U.S. History. Mudslide
   
4. According to legend, Dutch settlers purchased this New York island from Native Americans for $24 worth of beads and trinkets. Manhattan
   
5. Connection Cocktails
   

1. When dutch painter Vermeer’s story was told on film in 2003, what actress portrayed the titular character? Scarlett Johansson
2. A prune is the dried form of what fruit? Plum
3. A group of these birds, the national bird of India, is known as an ‘ostentation.’ Peacock
4. In military hierarchy, what rank is superior to Major, but subordinate to Brigadier General? Colonel
5. What is common among the flags of Mexico, Ireland, and Palestine? >! Green and White!<
6. Connection Clue

1. He is Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us, the eponymous Mandalorian, and Prince Oberyn in Game of Thrones. Pedro Pascal
   
2. ANAGRAM Action wanes (Clue: A 'lawful' citizen) Isaac Newton
   
3. During the American Revolutionary War, what was the name of the New England civilian militia who were highly trained and ready to turn out at a moment’s notice? Minutemen
   
4. What word can describe a type of mammal, a growth, or a sauce used in Mexican cuisine? Mole
   
5. Connection Units of measure
   

1.On May 10 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to have what piece of technology installed in the White House? Telephone

1. The bright blue, copper-based blood of what arthropod species is one of the most expensive liquids in the world at $60,ooo per gallon? Prized for its applications in vaccine development, the blood is collected before releasing the creatures back into the sea. Horseshoe Crab
   
2. Who was the Brigadier General who led the French forces during the American Revolution? For Hamilton fans, his name is the code word, dig me? Rochambeau
   
3. In the 90s animated MTV show, Beavis and Butt-Head (which saw a reprisal in 2022), what is the name of the hyper-active alter-ego of Beavis? Cornholio
   
4. Who was the 13th century Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer, famed for his travels from Italy to the Orient along the Silk Road. Venice airport takes his name. Marco Polo
   
5. What acronym is the name of the space probe that intentionally impacted an asteroid and its moonlet in 2022 to test redirection as part of NASA’s planetary defense research? DART
   
6. Connections Games
   

1. Sir Richard Branson is a British entrepreneur who has founded a record store, train operating company, airline and a space tourism company all under what conglomerate? Virgin
   
2. In what city could you catch an NFL or MLS game at BC Place (pictured) or an NHL game at Rogers Arena? Vancouver
   
3. The establishment of the what colony, in present day Virginia, was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America? The attempt became known as the Lost Colony due to the subsequent unexplained disappearance of its population. Roanoke
   
4. Colossal Biosciences (the company behind plans to de-extinct the mammoth) is also attempting to de-extinct the thylacine, a marsupial that was hunted to oblivion around 100 years ago. By what name is the thylacine better known? Tasmanian Tiger
   
5. What hip-hop trio, active since 1988, features vocals from B-Real and Sen Dog, with Eric Bobo on drums. Cypress Hill
   
6. RIDDLE: Toss me in a bowl if you want some fun. / If I fit in your hole, I can turn you on. / I’m black, I’m white. My scale is legendary. / I’ll be impressed if you manage to play me. Keys
   
7. NFL team, the Jets, play their home games in what state? New Jersey
   
8. What ancient statue, erected in 280 BCE, would be considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Standing as tall as the Statue of Liberty, it would collapse in 226 BCE. The Colossus of Rhodes
   
9. How are the previous 9 answers connected? Islands (Thousand Islands, Virgin Islands, Vancouver Island, Roanoke, Tasmania, Cyprus, Florida Keys, Jersey, Rhodes)
   

1. The skeleton of what species, discovered by Barnum ‘Mr. Bones’ Brown in 1902 is used as the logo for the fictional Jurassic Park? TRex
2. In 1938, two climbers of the Seattle based Mountaineers Club, Lloyd and Mary Anderson, became members No. 1 and 2 of what co-op that now operates nationwide REI
3. What author has had more of his novels adapted into movies than any other, including, The Running Man, The Lawnmower Man, and The Shawshank Redemption? Stephen King
4. What recording artist is known for albums including Born to Die, Ultraviolence, and Norman Fucking Rockwell? Lana Del Rey
5. In Disney’s Aladdin, what is the name of princess Jasmine’s pet tiger? Rajah
6. What trumpet playing ‘band’ features George (playing strictly rhythm guitar; he knows all the chords), and Harry, who can play Honky Tonk like anything? The Sultans of Swing
7. How are the previous 6 answers connected? King in different languages

1. What word describes fictional content that is accepted as being officially part of a creative work or series, (often used in contrast to fan-fiction)? Canon
   
2. The ‘P’ symbol used in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabet is equivalent to what letter in English (which uses the Latin alphabet). R
   
3. What do fictional characters Nick Fury, Rooster Cogburn, Elle Driver, Alastor Moody, and Snake Plissken have in common? Wear an eye-patch
   
4. This nocturnal primate [accompanied by picture] hunts insects in trees by tapping branches to detect hollows, and using a special middle digit to extract its prey. According to local lore, they bring bad luck and death and must be killed on sight, a superstition that has contributed to their endangered status. Aye Aye
   
5. How are the previous 5 answers connected? Pirates
   

1. It is believed that this phrase, originating in the 1920s and associated with the slang of flappers, derives from a shortening of expression "the be all and the end all of everything" which became "the B's and E's" The bee’s knees
2. What is the historical unit of measurement used to determine the height of horses which is still widely used in lots of English-speaking countries. Hands
3. What 60s English rock band featured Ronnie Wood (who went on to join the Rolling Stones) on guitar and Rod Stewart on vocals. Faces
4. The insect Acherontia Styx is better known by what name? It is a prominent symbol in The Silence of the Lambs, being placed in the mouths of the victims, and is featured in the promotional artwork.>! Death’s Head Moth!<
5. The flags of Sicily and the Isle of Man both feature a triskelion (or trinacria)--an unusual rotationally symmetric symbol--of three what? Legs
6. In what short story would you read the line: “Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! –tear up the planks! –here, here! –it is the beating of his hideous heart! Tell-tale Heart
7. Next Lyric: "Killed her husband, whacked him / Can’t convince me that it didn’t happen / Fed him to tigers, they snackin’ / What’s happenin’" (looking for next 2 words) Carol Baskin
8. What American novelist was a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany, where he survived the Allied firebombing of the city by sheltering in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. Kurt Vonnegut
9. Three major league sports franchises take the name of their home state of Arizona. One point for each. Diamondbacks, Cardinals, Coyotes
10. The first American woman commemorated in statue is Hannah Duston of Haverhill, Mass. She was taken captive in a Native American raid in 1697 but later returned home with 10 gruesome trophies taken from her captors. Duston became known as the “Mother of” what? Scalping
11. What ancient board game, with a 5000 year lineage, is a battle between two players to be the first to ‘bear off’ all 15 of their pieces, or ‘tablemen’? Backgammon
12. Portrayed by Claire Danes in a 2010 movie that takes her name, what animal behaviorist, who lives with autism, is a prominent spokesperson and activist for both autism rights and animal rights. Temple Grandin
13. A full English breakfast often includes black pudding. What is the main ingredient of black pudding? Blood
14. Whose skeleton do the Goonies find crushed by the boulder-trap? Chester Copperpot
15. Graphologists are experts in the study of what? Handwriting
16. What tree--which for centuries had been the most important American lumber, used for homes, barns, and furniture--celebrated with harvest festivals that saw entire villages foraging the woods for weeks, was struck down in the early 1900s when a blight destroyed over 4 billion trees, basically every specimen in North America? American Chestnut
17. In what movie does a band’s guitarist insist to an interviewer that his amp is loudest because it “goes to 11.” This is Spinal Tap
18. What word describes the young of a hippo, rhino, and giraffe? Calf
19. In what 2007 remake of a 1988 John Waters film does John Travolta star as Edna Turnblad? Hairspray
20. Connection (Body parts)

1. What is the most numerous bird in the world? Chicken
   
2. What 1985 sci-fi novel was adapted to a 2002 film of the same name starring Guy Pearce? The film was directed by Simon Wells, the great grandson of the original novel’s author. The Time Machine
   
3. The spacecraft Voyager 1 included a gold record with ‘The Sounds of Earth’ - a kind of message-in-a-bottle intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. What song, recorded in 1958 by Chuck Berry, was included on that gold record? Johnny B Goode
   
4. What is shared by the logos of RCA, Gatorade, and auto manufacturers Opel, as well as the album art for David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane? Lightning Bolt
   
5. How are the previous 5 answers connected?>! Back to the Future!<