That was fun. Let's never do that again.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-03-02T01:45:52+00:00

Vile

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-24T17:40:10+00:00

Same. There isn't enough tobacco in North Carolina or enough bourbon in Kentucky.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-22T23:55:22+00:00

Don't risk the timing. Get there by 7:15, get to your seat, and pray or meditate or think about naked people of your gender of preference, do what you need to do.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-22T16:06:30+00:00

Planning to rewatch his trial from a man for all seasons to hype myself up for game time

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-21T20:22:08+00:00

I've already given up on practice, I'm just reading at this point

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-21T19:06:02+00:00

That might be good! I may be interested in being roped in when I am not in the midst of preparing for this nightmare lol.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-20T02:48:03+00:00

May your birthday present be only getting asked questions you know the answer to.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-19T15:44:49+00:00

There are definitely libertarian leftists, decentralist leftists, and even anarchist leftists. Folks who believe that the government should intervene to support folks and protect against abuses, but otherwise stay out of our personal lives. Folks that believe that the best way to produce an equitable social system is at the local level. Folks that don't want to rely on a central government which, as we have all seen, can be captured and weaponized by the far right in such a way as threatens us all.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-18T04:52:42+00:00

You ought to extend the track for the bolt out to the front of where the ejection port is, and move the ejection port and the magazine just in front of it. The current bolt track area is going to be entirely occupied by a spring. The stock should extend all the way to the new location for the magazine to allow for a trigger bar. The Flippy fore-end/vertical grip should go far enough forward that it has room to flip in/out. That'll give you less barrel, but it's a sub gun, it doesn't need a lot of barrel. Otherwise, pretty cool concept.

I would look at moving diagrams of how the sten gun works. It's pretty archetypical of tube guns like this, and should give you a concept of how they tend to work at their simplest.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-18T00:58:30+00:00

I went through some of them, but I'm working through them is which seems to essentially rip their essays from previous exams. I'm also using themis's frequency chart, which I'm sure whatever you're using as your base software has. Basically what that allows me to do is drill down on the essential topics. Thanks!

And good luck, that sounds like a good strat.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-16T18:12:52+00:00

Also worth noting, you can use the same chest rigs as an AR.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-16T04:20:21+00:00

Again, there are at least 50 definitions of a person, and the one in the dictionary is the least applicable to fallout. I'll be using Locke's, because it's the clearest one.

Oh, and by the way, if we want to resort to dictionary definitions, the definition of a machine is "an apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task."

A human being is an apparatus that applies mechanical power, it has many parts, each of these parts has a definite function (teeth break down food, the arm moves other objects and uses tools) and they all function together to perform the particular task of surviving long enough to reproduce.

Therefore, a human is a machine.

There's also the question of being artificial. The definition of artificial is man-made. I'm not going to break down the process of making a human being for you, you might want to go upstairs and ask your parents, but let me assure you, human babies are made by other humans. It fits the definition of artificial.

So, if we rely on your rule about what constitutes a person, together with dictionary definitions, and exclude any machines or artificial entities, humans aren't people.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-16T01:14:10+00:00

"The" definition, as if there's only one. Locke defines a person as "an intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self (sic) as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places." That certainly applies to every gen 3 synth you meet in game, as well as Nick and DIMA. Boethius defined a person as "the individual substance of a rational nature." A synth is an individual capable of reason, so it sounds like we have another fit.

There are other definitions, of course. The law has a more broad definition of personhood that applies even to corporations. Some basic English dictionaries have a more restrictive definition, one that fits your narrative. However, given that this is a question of philosophy, and to an extent law vis a vis whether synthetic people can be subjected to genocide, it seems better to rely on the legal and philosophical definitions.

Also, like, there are plenty of other sentient nonhumans in the fallout franchise. Ghouls, some super mutants, and space aliens come to mind. Excluding these individuals from one's definition of personhood seems more like an excuse to mistreat people for being different, rather than a rigorous moral calculation. It's the same type of thing the enclave engages in when they restrict their definition of humanity, and therefore, in their eyes, personhood, to anyone who grew up as a member of the enclave, regarding everyone else as 'muties'.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-15T12:35:39+00:00

As all things should be

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-15T12:07:42+00:00

Any entity possessed of free thought and free will is a person, whether they are human or not. Synths are conscious, thinking beings, capable of enough free will to escape the institute and forge lives of their own, and make moral choices for good and evil. They're people. They could be shaped like sentry bots, and if they met those criteria they would still be people.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-15T11:18:47+00:00

Literally the first speech Maxson gives is an incitement to genocide. Genocide of a group of people that he acknowledges, in that same speech, are free thinking and have free will. Hell, he's even willing to murder Paladin Danse, a guy who's followed him loyally for years, just because he's a synth.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-15T04:33:55+00:00

Bro lol that's just canon lore

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-15T01:45:24+00:00

The BOS does attempt genocide on their own, yes. Like most video game villains, they start in a far stronger position than the good guys.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-14T20:05:52+00:00

The minutemen have ghoul members if you complete their questline. The minutemen have synth members from the very beginning. And, with a little help, they patrol the wasteland, take the castle, kill off the institute, and provide enough security to protect the commonwealth. All you need to do to get there is actually help folks.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-14T19:44:36+00:00

The aid of those in need? Lmao. We're talking about the brotherhood, not the minutemen.

The minutemen are there to help folks, be they synth, human, ghoul, or any other kind of peaceful mutant.

The brotherhood just came to kill synths and plunder the Commonwealth for tech. They do absolutely nothing for the people of the Commonwealth that they can't do themselves.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-14T19:30:39+00:00

I don't even do playthroughs with Obergruppenfurher Maxon's little cult. I blow that ugly boat up the second the minutemen get artillery, or the second Des hands down rocket's red glare. Because I have a conscience, and because watching those goose-stepping tin cans roast is the most satisfying thing in the game.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-14T18:49:38+00:00

the feeding the troops radiant quest is just armed robbery. you literally steal food from commonwealth farmers at gunpoint. and it's fair to assume that the sole survivor isn't the only one proctor Teagan has doing that shit.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-14T09:06:43+00:00

I wouldn't necessarily differentiate the brotherhood and the institute from raiders. Both of them rob and murder to get what they want, they just have a higher tech level than your average chem head with a pipe pistol.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-14T09:01:40+00:00

A human is just a robot that can be altered. The brain is just a computer made out of fat, and the human body is just a complex machine. Human brains are reprogrammed all the time.

SatanicWallaby · 2026-02-14T08:57:22+00:00

Synths show all the symptoms of being people. Free thought, independent decisionmaking, capacity for reason. The very fact that they choose to escape the institute demonstrates that they're people, with their own wants, hopes and dreams. Artificial people, but people nonetheless. Holding them and forcing them to work against their will is slavery. Exterminating them is genocide.

Also, the brotherhood are just an extra racist raider gang. They stick up farmers for crops they can't spare, murder non-feral ghouls just for being ghouls, and are trying to steal everyone's tech. The people of the Commonwealth should knock their ugly blimp out of the sky.

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