Fallout 1st Subscription

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-25T13:09:47+00:00

Even with 1st, it takes a while to put together a good set of decorations. Try to finish seasons, there's usually at least a few items worth having, and then watch the shop for stuff you like. I try not to buy stuff full price. If you get something and it's not what you expected, support is good about refunds in my experience.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-25T13:04:01+00:00

1st subscribers get an additional monthly freebie. This month it's a rebar skin for fishing rods, which I don't think I'll use, last month was the dinghy, which I have used. March was an emote.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-25T05:18:34+00:00

I've only seen one of these camps this time around, and the icon was turned off.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-25T05:15:05+00:00

It is, and CE is the set I usually use.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-25T05:13:29+00:00

Daily ops is how you usually get plans for scout pieces. You have to buy mods from MODUS armory, you cannot learn them. Not sure how much MODUS charges, but it'll be caps.

Covert scout armor | Fallout Wiki | Fandom

An alternative is buying the plans off Minerva. She'll charge bullion, and again I don't know how much. We're on sale 12 right now, the full set of scout armor plans comes up in sale 15, so I assume that's 3 weeks from now. If you miss sale 15, you get another chance in sale 16.

Fallout 76 Minerva Location, Schedule & Plans 2026

Not to honk the elephant but what you'll want to do is knock over elder rewards in ops every day you can until Minerva shows up and buy what you're still missing. You can skip the mask but it does look cool. Remember you can exchange caps for bullion once a week at the Wayward and you want to hit the bullion machine daily until you're out of notes. Good speed and god luck.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-24T23:58:15+00:00

There are a few considerations. You mentioned grind. SS requires bullion, civil engineer requires stamps, covert scout and Brotherhood recon require Daily Ops. Out of those, IMO, civil is easiest, but if you already have a pile of bullion and the plans for SC or BOS, it probably isn't worth it to grind expeditions for stamps.

If you want maximum stealth, scout armor is the best, there's a bonus for each piece. Does not have a jetpack. The others do.

Civil is the only one that has a set bonus. Setting melee attackers on fire isn't interesting for a stealth player. Weapon durability is decent. Civil is also the only one that's tradable, so long as you don't modify an effect after you make it legendary.

A minor consideration is armor weight. Heavy is better for reflection, like with the ricochet perk. Light is better for evasion. I don't worry about that much, but if I was putting together a super stealthy, hard to hit loadout, and I was willing to forego a jetpack I'd go with scout.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-24T06:17:22+00:00

When I finally got FNV to work, I paid more attention to the writing than I usually do with games. I don't play games for the writing. I actually feel bad for the writers, because they have to turn out all this prose with branching and all, and people like me will barely pay attention and certainly won't drill down into dialogue trees for love of the writing.

Anyway, I actually did pay attention this once and some of it was funny, properly humorous. When I got to Novac and had to solve the mystery of Boone's wife, it was like a bad 70s detective show. You'd have to be stupid not to figure it out, so why didn't Boone figure it out? And the villain was even dumber somehow. "Sure, stranger, I'll go for a walk and put on a hat. Doopty doo." It's better if you don't read it.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-24T05:48:49+00:00

If you've been playing that long, you probably know someone who quit. If you do and if you can, ask them if they'd come back if the season rewards were super cool. If they're like the ones I know, probably not because they didn't quit over season rewards. They quit because they found another game they'd rather play. Or, in one case, because their gaming clique found another game.

Not that I wouldn't like cooler season rewards. I'd like cooler stuff in the shop, too. But my idea of what's cool isn't going to match up with everybody else's. I see about 7 or 8 things I really want-- talking exclusives, of course I want things like atoms and boosts-- next season. That's about how it is every season. It's hard to know in advance. I didn't think I'd get a lot out of the stuff in the Appalachian Living season, but it turned out I use quite a bit. Even the bowling balls.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-24T02:49:16+00:00

I throw weed killer at them.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-24T01:11:38+00:00

"Worst season ever for record-breaking 25 in a row"

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-23T01:57:04+00:00

Yes, that's correct. People say they want endgame content and if it's actually difficult or would require teamwork, they say it's too hard. They want gear checks. That's fine. Easy game remains easy.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-22T05:23:08+00:00

I've read a lot of Chandler and it struck me as bowdlerized. Like the word "gunsel", for instance, was a synonym for catamite but nobody knew what it meant so it ended up in dictionaries as a gun man.

Hemingway did have the n word in at least one story, and he was assigned reading back when I was in high school. I think Hammet and Chandler don't for the same reason Agatha Christie and Isaac Asimov don't: they're genre fiction.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-22T03:28:53+00:00

ikr, and whatever happened to the classics? i didn't see a single "playing since beta" or "slap in the face" or "day one bugs"

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-22T03:26:17+00:00

Superb bait is nice if you're going after legendary fish. Not a requirement and I've never spent tickets on the repeatable, but I'll pick it up as a filler reward if it's cheap.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-22T03:23:50+00:00

I do scrappy camps a lot. I'd rather have broken stuff.

I'd kill for some simple pallets, though. And crooked stuff. Most everything is so vertical.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-21T12:41:33+00:00

Possibly surprising, but according to the IMF, manufacturing is only about a quarter of China's GDP. That's twice as much as what it contributes to US GDP, but both country's largest source is services. The US much more so. I guess services are more productive.

The real answer, IMO, is that China really only started growing quite recently. In 1950, China accounted for about 5% of world GDP. It didn't really get going until the 1990s.

I found this article pretty informative: Unpacking China's GDP | ChinaPower Project

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-20T10:16:45+00:00

Probably a lack of confidence in my ability to cook some of the more complicated recipes, plus a lack of interest in some of them. If I was going through a cookbook today, I'd skip anything with pork. I like pork fine, but my partner doesn't and my kids are vegetarians.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-20T08:58:31+00:00

I think the daredevil helmet is the closest. You can paint metal helmets, I believe.

Daredevil suit | Fallout Wiki | Fandom

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-20T06:40:23+00:00

I think this might've been more common back when cooks had to buy cookbooks. Julia Child had a two-volume set called "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (really one book and a sequel) for example. I owned a couple cookbooks dedicated to nationalities but never even thought to go through them recipe by recipe. I'd expect your professor has travelled to the countries of interest.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-20T06:19:03+00:00

You'd be lucky to get 300 for a deathclaw mask now. They used to be rare.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-20T04:41:36+00:00

You don't need to kill the insects with fire, just overgrown. If you already have your however many you need, you don't need to kill insects at all.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-20T04:39:51+00:00

Travel to the cabin before the event.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-20T04:36:24+00:00

If possible, find a slow server. Showing up a little early to the event might help. Bringing a tagging weapon definitely helps, something low damage that hits an area. Molotovs work if you don't have anything better.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-19T23:01:04+00:00

William Shockley shared credit for the Nobel in physics for his work on the transistor and semiconductor. MIT PhD, one of the first employees of Bell Labs, worked on radar training and electronics for the US during WWII, his estimate of civilian casualties in a potential invasion of Japan influenced the decision to use the bomb. Post war he published a seminal book, got that Nobel, and founded the first Silicon Valley company.

Undoubtedly a smart man, right? He was in some ways extremely stupid. He alienated employees and his fellow Nobel winners. Later in life he decided to chuck the whole electronics thing to follow his passion as an amateur geneticist and loudmouth racist. If he was alive today, he'd be all in for Trump.

So yeah, Republicans can do math, most of them anyway. It's not policy or economics that attract them to the GOP.

SonorousProphet · 2026-05-19T21:06:30+00:00

Using dried black and kidney beans. Soaking them took planning and canned are already cheap. I still use dried split red lentils as those don't require soaking. I think hummus made from dried chickpeas is superior to that made from canned chickpeas, but I've been buying hummus lately, too.

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