Hi guys, I'm running on a PO3 server, and I am getting into late game. However, when you get to late game, you have to get into singularities. And this is not easy, at all.On the most recent version of the game, as the post is being made, I have made a list, in my spare time, of my action plan to automate every Ingot to actually make each singularity.So, as you might now, some ingots are pretty hard to automate, some of which looks absolutely impossible, like LandCraft ores, and this is why I wanted to share to you all my plan strategy, so you won't be struggling as I was. Here we go. Here is the list I made :
1 - Coal - 1'159
2 - Iron - 2'268
3 - Lapis - 7'776
4 - Redstone - 576
5 - Glowstone - 1'536
6 - Gold - 18'432
7 - Diamond - 73'728
8 - Emerald - 147'456
9 - Aluminium - 1'152
10 - Copper - 1'152
11 - Tin - 2'304
12 - Bronze - 1'440
13 - Zinc - 1'152
14 - Silver - 4'608
15 - Lead - 4'608
16 - Steel - 2'268
17 - Nickel - 9'216
18 - Constantan - 5'184
19 - Electrum - 11'520
20 - Invar - 4'608
21 - Mana Infused Metal - 4'608
22 - Tungsten - 4'608
23 - Titanium - 36'864
24 - Uranium - 36'864
25 - Platinum - 36'864
26 - Iridium - 36'864
27 - Signalum - 3'456
28 - Lumium - 6'336
29 - Enderium - 11'520
30 - Ardite - 9'216
31 - Cobalt - 9'216
32 - Manyullym - 18'432
33 - Friscion - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
34 - Racheline - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
35 - Morganine - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
36 - Garfax - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
37 - Kelline - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
38 - Ruby - 18'432
39 - Sapphire - 18'432
40 - Peridot - 18'432
41 - Electrotine - 576
42 - Jade - N/A - SEED AVAILABLE
43 - Ironwood - N/A - SEED AVAILABLE
44 - Fiery - N/A - SEED AVAILABLE
45 - Steeleaf - N/A - SEED AVAILABLE
46 - Knightmetal - N/A - SEED AVAILABLE
47 - Dark Iron - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
48 - Block of Palladium - 36'864
49 - Metoric Iron - N/A - SEED AVAILABLE
50 - Desh - N/A - SEED AVAILABLE
51 - Lunar INGOT - N/A - ABUSABLE
52 - Refined Coralium - 36'864
53 - Ethaxium - 56'376
54 - Dreadium - 46'080
55 - Abyssalnite - 27'648
56 - Boron - 4'608
57 - Lithium - 4'608
58 - Magnanese - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
59 - Crystalline Pink Slime - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
60 - Stellar Alloy - 629'613
61 - Energetic Silver - 8'589
62 - Vivid Alloy - 17'739
63 - Elementium - 9'882
64 - Refined Obsidian - 144
65 - Refined Glowstone - 3'456
66 - Osmium - 4'608
67 - Yellorium - 36'864
68 - Energetic - 22'464
69 - Vibrant Alloy - 31'680
70 - Conductive Iron - 2'880
71 - Pulsating Iron - 11'520
72 - Soularium - 18'873
73 - End Steel - 3'726
74 - Fluxed Electrum - N/A - SEED AVAILABLE
75 - Alumite - 3'645
76 - Mirion - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
77 - Certus Quartz - 256
78 - Fluix - 1'024
79 - Candy Block - N/A - ANIMATION REQUIRED
80 - Simple Crystal - 1'152
81 - Dawnstone - 19'584
Okay, this might be confusing, I admit. Let me explain The number to the right of each Ingot is the number of EMC required to create the Block with the transmutation table (EMC). I then calculated that to make it with my strategy, you will need to produce 14'205'135'173 EMC for one Ultimate singularity. I will explain later how I plan on producing that much EMC
When it says N/A, it's because the block doesn't have EMC. I had to find another strategy for them.
The first strategy was "Is a seed from mystical agriculture available for this Block ?" If yes, then I wrote "SEED REQUIRED". Information on how to automate Seeds are available on the web, so I won't explain more than this
My second strategy was "Is the block abusable ?" If yes, then I'd do it. I found only one that was abusable. But, what do I mean by this ? I mean that the block is crushable with a pulverizer into dust, and then.. the dust can be used to put it into a Zenith Furnace, that has "Double Output" upgrade, which doubles the input. And you just have to repeat. Ingot abused.
My third strategy was, well, the last I used. "Does a block version of it exist ?" Of course, the answer of this was always Yes, because every singularity but one *requires* the block to be made in the first place.
From Erebus, there is a Wand that is Called Animation Wand that let a block become an Entity. And this Entity drops the block it comes from when killed. And it can be captured into whatever you want, to mass produce it.
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That is the four strategy I used that works on every single Singularity of the game. Here is a recap of what will be needed: TOTAL -
1 - 81 Singularities needed
2 - 8 seeds needed
3 - 10 animation needed
4 - 62 EMC required
5 - 1 Abusable
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Total EMC needed for one ultimate singularity: 14'205'135'173
Finally, here is a conclusion on how to finish the game :
Total EMC needed for one ultimate singularity: 14'205'135'173
To make 1 Infinity Ingot, 11 Ultimate Singularities are needed
To make 1 Infinity Block, and animate it, you need 9 Infinity Ingots.
Total EMC to Abuse the Game : 1'406'308'382'127
And from there, Gg well played, you finished the game.

QLC Chain is to resolve the data trust and security problem in the communication industry, it provides network automation of billing/reconciliation/settlement/payment/custody to telecom operators utilising blockchain technology.
QLC Chain offers telecom operators with inter-carrier connection and financial consultancy services as well.
From the ledger structure perspective: QLC Chain supports each account to have its own chain of ledger integrated with telecom service capabilities, named the multi-dimensional block-lattice structured ledger.
From an adoption scenario perspective: QLC Chain’s mission is to create a secure and trusted environment for communication services and to narrow down the digital divide by leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology, enabling everyone to operate and benefit from network services.
Since few months companies like "China Telecom", "PCCWG", "HCG" or "DC Connect" are doing a POC (Proof of Concept) and are now production-ready, which means that in Q1 2021 first 10+ Telecommunication Provider will go live.
“MEF attaches a great deal of importance to introducing the standards for the use of DLT for billing and settlement into the digital service provider market which is led by many of our 120+ service provider members. MEF is very happy to have QLC Chain playing a central and invaluable role as a MEF member by bringing DLT expertise and telecom use cases into the MEF membership and specifically to this new standards project.”
MEF is an industry forum leading the development of a global federation of network, cloud, and technology providers. QLC Chain is developing for MEF standard APi's which are needed for billing, reconciliation, settlement, payment, custody. Member are as example AT&T, China Telecom, China Unicom, Cisco, Ericsson, Microsoft Azure, Orange, Oracle, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone and many more.
What comes next?
QLC Chain will be a real game-changer when LSO Sonata APIs are adopted to a substantial degree across the service provider community.
In the short term, the benefits to the customers include faster turnaround of quotes, online placement of orders, and faster service delivery.
An own DEX will be ready too in Q1 2021! The DEX will be for Telecom Operators and the Billing platform but also for publicly. The support for QLC ERC20, USDT, Stable Coins and some other pairs will be available. The DEX is really important, because the telecommunication provider need this platform as example for billing and many more services.
At the moment a lot of informations are still under NDA and that's the reason, why there isn't much marketing in public sector. Soon after go live with all the products the price will explode, because the Telecommunication Provider have to install an own QLC Chain Node to support and use the blockchain. This will reduce the supply of available QLC tokens. At least 1 million QLC tokens are required for 1 node and with 120+ telecom providers it will significantly reduce the offer.
Website: https://qlcchain.org
Last year in summer QLC Chain was recognized as a leading startup in the telecommunications sector.
https://www.startus-insights.com/innovators-guide/5-top-blockchain-startups-impacting-the-telecom-secto
A really interesting article about QLC was published in December 2020 on the MEF website about the technology and what will come next.
https://www.mef.net/billing-at-warpspeed-using-dlt-based-smart-bilaterals/
The preferred platforms to buy QLC are Binance and Bittrex. Soon QLC (Q1 2021) will be implemented in Uniswap with the QLC ERC20 Token.
A lot of more information you can find on following sources:
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/qlcchain
Telegram Official Channel: https://t.me/OfficialQLCChain
Telegram Community Channel: https://t.me/qlc_traders_unofficial
This information is not a financially advise.

Hey all.
No I'm not selling a course and I don't want your money. Just a fellow hacker with some tips & tricks for making money independently with your friends.
Here is a link to most of the materials we used including cold call scripts, upwork guides, estimate templates, our offerings & portfolio (which we attached to all of our upwork proposals.) And a bunch of other goodies!
I've always been good at getting jobs, so I decided to "start an agency" with my friends last year. That way I could "get jobs" as my full time job! It was a fun learning experience. Our goal was to be "a learning company" that gave people a chance to grow their careers working on freelance projects. We prided ourselves on our community ethos.
We called ourselves Arcanium, which is a reference to the Arcanaeum at the bottom of the mage's guild in Skyrim. We wanted to think of ourselves as wizards. We even built an internal system of ranking the wizards according to their skill level with funny wizard titles (I was the archmage tyvm)
If you start an agency, it doesn't have to be crazy big. It can be small. It can be you and a friend. Honestly, you'll have more fun the smaller your agency is. Don't go big! Take your time! Going big is much easier once you have experience and processes.
Our goal was to each make enough to get by. We were happy if all 4 of us made 150k in that year. We exceeded that by far, and ended up working with somewhere around 10-15 people over the year. What a ride!
I did (almost) all of the client acquisition via Upwork. The hardest part was getting clients, but I learned how to do it semi-reliably. There are a couple tips and tricks to earning over 100k as a web dev / agency owner.
How I got clients:

1. You have to show that you understand business. Every time I reached out to a client, I reached out to them as a fellow business owner. I have tried (and failed) to start a few startups over the years, and I'm familiar with the lean startup methodology. I would explain to them how I applied this methodology to be essentially a lead technical person.
2. You have to present yourself as a leader. As I said before, I always branded myself as a tech lead. I had 8 years of experience at the time, mostly working for early stage startups, so I knew I could function as a project lead for early stage web apps.
3. Fancy proposals and a clean website. I branded my agency and spent time building a really great website, marketing materials (PDFs I would send my clients on proposals showing them how we work),My marketing materials are all on Gdrive
4. I would sell myself but always be sure the client realized my time was valuable and although I was the lead on the project, my agency would be doing most of the work.
5. I would basically charge for the initial consult (just a plan for how the project would be done), then I would ask them how many devs they want on the project and charge them for that. I would always recommend 2-3 devs. Some low budget clients would ask for 1 dev FT or 1 dev PT. That way we were always setting ourselves up for long term work and the client feeling like they had a "dev team."

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Every project's revenue splits followed this general formula:

• 20% - Agency fee - goes to agency
• 15% - Goes to person who makes the sale
• 15% - Goes to project manager
• 50% - Split between lead developer and other developers in some fashion.

This wasnt the exact split in every case but it followed a similar format.
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How I built the agency and got developers to work for me:

1. I found people who had just graduated from bootcamps or were otherwise new and needed a chance. I offered to give them the help they needed to get up and running. When you believe in people and give them the opportunity to prove themselves, they are really impressive!
2. I gave them a share of each project (a % of the income) for their position. Also, if I'd hire a senior or lead dev to manage them, I'd give that dev a share. I always did project based revenue sharing because I wanted to always make a profit and to align my interests with those of the team.
3. I got a buddy who was a non technical guy who worked at a deli to do project management for me. The job changed his life and he quit his job at a deli. He basically just had to make sure the projects were moving along smoothly and talk to clients.
4. I would create a project plan and start the project from a seed project I had built. I would then deploy the FE/Backend on Heroku or Google Cloud kubernetes + cloudflare and pass the project off to my team.
5. I would always hire a "project lead" who functioned as the lead developer of a project - there were times when I couldn't be that project lead.
6. I charged the clients by the hour ALWAYS, not on a project basis. I billed every other week for hours worked. This way clients were always on the hook for paying and if a client didn't pay on time (within 2 weeks), we immediately stopped working. This prevented the serious losses on clients.
7. I always aimed to charge the client 2x what I was paying my devs. I mostly would do a flat rate. My sweet spot was $75/hour charged to clients to get in the door, but on the higher budget projects we shot for $125/hour.
8. It really helped the devs to know that I had their back and I was getting them the highest rate possible. I was really just being their advocate.
9. Having a mission to help the people in your company improve their careers is the only way this worked out at all. If I had been shady about pay or been overly greedy, people would've left me high and dry.

How I (mostly) kept my sanity

1. I didn't micromanage every project. The revenue sharing was there to give people intrinsic motivation to get the projects done. There was an agency-wide support system if people ran into problems.
2. I kept my mind on finding new clients and hiring new devs.
3. I hired some really great people and we kept a positive atmosphere.
4. I was willing to say no to clients and play hardball on compensation.
5. I read "Work the system" - highly recommend this. I built a series of internal documentation that laid out all of our processes so we weren't running around pulling our hair out. We used a CRM to track clients and used trello to manage the agency.

Challenges:

1. Clients are resistant to hiring an agency on Upwork. You have to really prove yourself and sell yourself. It's just a numbers game.
2. The first $1000 made on upwork is the hardest. When you dont have a reputation you have to lower your rates and do a great job. Good reviews are everything.
3. I am not a people manager and I didn't end up finding a great CEO cofounder. In retrospect, it would have been 100x better to have a CEO cofounder to manage people so I could manage the tech consulting side.
4. The mental burden of having people dependent on me (both clients and employees) broke me after a few months and I had to shut down the company.
5. Getting off upwork and transitioning to cold calling and bigger sales was a quantum leap. I couldn't hack it for the most part. I only got lucky doing this because of my connections - I recommend working with an experienced salesperson if you want to scale up big.

Overall, it was a great learning experience, we changed a bunch of peoples lives by giving them a resume booster, but running an agency is not for me. I'm now happily working as a tech lead on a startup which is successful, and I am so grateful to my boss.
If you want any tips on how to get something going, DM me. I also have a slack group where you can chill with some other entrepreneurial devs.
I have also published all my relevant marketing documents and my estimate documents to google drive which may be useful to you:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qh-Qe5y7wELz-GpOi0nwcskQKEkWOu3N?usp=sharing
P.S. If enough people are interested in the transparent revenue share model, I was thinking of building an alternative to upwork for building teams to match project managers / salespeople with devs and to assemble these transparent revenue-sharing-based agency teams. This would allow people to build their own agency brands or just work as freelancers for agency brands and get a cut of the revenue, without the bookkeeping overhead that goes into it. The app would handle the billing and automate the payouts and 1099 everyone involved. Food for thought. LMK if that sounds useful or not.

I've been scouting out nearby systems for an optimal amount and selection of resources to set up a new base.
I was wondering if people could give me suggestions for a hub layout for starting/intermediate items. Just the things that you want to have on hand. Buildings mostly.
What I have right now is a nicely laid out bus for things like conveyors, sorters, splitters, tesla towers, storage, wind turbines, the red engines, and a few others. Everything else is spaghetti spreading outwards from there. xD
So since I am starting off with a fresh patch of planet to build on, what do you suggest? Thanks muchly!

I try to do the Guess The Card game every day, but after the 20th bloody press of the button I lose the motivation to continue with it...
...So I decided to automate it. It's super easy and saves me a lot of effort. Here's how I did it:
1) Install iMacros on your browser of choice. I use Firefox, so I just got the iMacros addon.
2) Once installed, open it up. There should be a file that says current.iim. Right click that, edit it, and then paste this into the file, deleting anything that was previously there. (Note that that script will only click 40 times. If you need to click 60 times, use this code.)
3) Save your code.
4) Go to the Guess The Card game on GiftHulk, select your rank/suit/whatever it is you're using your chips on, and then press play on the script. The script will execute and you won't have to worry about sitting there clicking. As far as I'm aware, you have to stay in that tab, but I just go on my iPad while it's executing and do some other beermoney stuff on there.
Hope this helps!

Seriously. I always was a poor player, never had more than 50k on my bag. And than, this expansion I wanted try to get earn money, at least to buy a few mounts and get my consumables with easy. Little I knew that I was entering a black hole of information about how to earn gold on WoW. I became totally addicted to it and won 1,2kk (starting at 30k), that I thought was almost impossible. So I wish to thank to all free information available on the internet. So thank you all from this subreddit with so many helpful comments and with free spreadsheets. I also discovered The undermine journal in this subreddit, a awesome site with all the prices information I was looking for. Thank you all who post TSM guides also. And if you want to win some gold on WoW I will share here some tips with my little experience.

• Research. Start to research all about how to earn gold on wow. I started my research 1 month before the expansion begins and, because of this, more than half of my money came from selling inscription trinkets at early expansion. I found this information on many YouTube videos.
• Don't be too lazy: You can do it at your own pace, but you will have to learn/plan some things. This money do not came so easy. It took me time both in and out of game.Addons are pretty helpful, but also pretty complicated to setup properly. You don't need them to start, use them as you see the need.
• Do not underestimate a Excel spreadsheet made by yourself for your needs. All the spreadsheet that I found was awesome, but also "too much". When I made my own, with the recipes, reagents and prices that I manually input, together with some automation to see the profit, that was when I became more confident in my decisions. And that is very important for the next tip.
• If you are confident, try it. Many times I spent like half of all my money on reagents I though worth it, and the majority of time it was. If I was more confident, I probably could earn a lot more money, but this come with experience.
• Learn to undercut properly (also don't be to anxious to win money and reduce the price for nothing). Undercutting is essential to sell fast and at the price you want, but don't overcut to much. Nowadays you don't need to undercut at all, just put at the same price again, and again, and again, every time someone post before you. This is a tedious work that you need to do, and for this the addons are awesome. I do this a lot with flasks, they sell so fast that in my limited playing time I could win the money that I just invested and invest it again. I played the AH more hours I would like to admit.
• Don't be afraid to use the "/2 Trade chat". For sure more than half of my trinkets were sold announcing it in trade chat and not by the AH. Undercutting favors those who have more money and more products, sometime is just impossible to undercut someone that have 100 trinkets if you have just 5.
• Don't be afraid to talk to people. You are on a f* MMORPG after all. Negotiate prices with buyers and sellers. Also be friendly to those who are undercutting you, start some conversation. I made some friends that were also selling trinket in the AH just whispering them to chat about the AH. Many times they are more experienced than you, and they helped me a lot.
• HAVE FUN. I did because I was having fun. For the first time I understood why the AH has its own player niche. If you don't want to do it, or find it too boring, you can try different AH strategies or just earn gold from another way. :)
• I am now planning my army of alts to get all professions and earn even more gold. :D

Please, let me know if you disagree with me at any tip and add those you feel that helped you!

INTRODUCTION (can be skipped)
So a over a week ago i started thinking about how many Japanese expressions i was learning from wasting months spending so much time here watching streams despite not having learnt formally a bit of Japanese. I ended up gathering all the terms, inside jokes i read and heard a lot in the streams to make idk some starter pack meme or test to post lol. But then i thought that maybe it would be more useful to make it a more in deep dictionary. We have many new people coming from the EN side or translated clips and some of them are understandably thrown off or scared on watching something which is 99% in a language you don't know. This isn't the first time someone has tried to do this, there was a very complete post 3 months ago (https://www.reddit.com/Hololive/comments/icgxaq/a_guide_to_basic_written_hololive_japanese/) but from that time till now we have 3x more subscribers and this was more focused on written posts. Mine is different.
The focus of this one is mostly two things: That you learn enough things to get a tiny tiny grasp on what's going on streams if there isn't enough translation and than you can get and join in in most inside jokes even if you aren't into the weaboo culture stuff.
HOW TO USE
Trying to study this is a pointless endeavour. Just look it over with CTRL+F (too lazy to order it alphabetically now) when you hear some term you want an explanation on or some inside term that you don't get fully. The first word is how the word is in romanji (latin alphabet) and then how is written in Japanese (normally hiragana) in case you want to use it. The dictionary divided into 3 sections for ease of use. This isn't a complete rundown of all the Hololive lingo because it would be waay too long and or a Japanese language course because it goes over my knowledge and as a language is way too nuanced and contextual to teach in one post. But i'm open for submissions and corrections from japanese speakers, i only did the work to research every term from others!
If you need a more complex translation althrough it's far from perfect, it's always recommended that you use DeepL (https://www.deepl.com/en/translator)
DICTIONARY:
Basic Japanese expressions:

• Ohayo (おはよう): “Good morning”. Casual form of “Ohayo gozaimasu” (おはようございます)
  
• Konnichiwa (こんにちは): “Good afternoon”
  
• Konbanwa (こんばんは): “Good evening”
  
• Oyasumi (おやすみ): “Good night”. Casual form of Oyasuminasai (おやすみなさい)
  
• Hontouni? (本当に): “Really?”. Also it's used in the same way as "really x" in English to emphasize something.
  
• Arigatou (ありがとう): “Thank you”. Casual form of Arigatou gozaimasu (ありがとうございます)
  
• Omedetou! (おめでとう): Congratulations! Casual form of Omedetou gozaimasu (おめでとうございます)
  
• Otsukaresama (お疲れ様): A good translation would be "Thank you for your hard work", more like a common generic expression to say goodbye to co-workers and friends after a work day or meeting. Check out the entry on "otsu-" in the Hololive section to see how they transform the word as a goodbye in their streams.
  
• Tadaima (ただいま): A popular expression you tell someone when you come back home. Here they use it when after they had to leave the stream.
  
• Okaeri (おかえり): What you reply when someone says "Tadaima".
  
• Gommenasai (ごめんなさい): "I'm sorry". The short casual form "Gomen" (ごめん) is really common.
  
• Sumimasen (すみません): Another polite way of saying "I'm sorry" but can be more versatile like the English "Excuse me"
  
• Kudasai (下さい), Onegaishimasu (お願いします) : The two main ways to say "please" in Japanese. You will find them mostly at the end of a phrase to 'soften' the blow. Ex: "Yamete Kudasai" = "Please stop". Onegaishimasu is considered a bit more formal and polite but both are used often.
  
• Yamete (やめて): One form of pleading someone to stop something, usually as part of やめてください (yamete kudasai) which is a bit more polite. Also you hear sometimes Yamero (やめろ) which is the more imperative serious form. As with many expressions in Japanese the more commanding and absolute expressions are used more often between men while the softer more polite forms are used more often between women. [That's one of the reasons japanese natives can usually detect if you have been taught mostly by a male/female teacher] In my experience watching streams they do use Yamero often though.
  
• Yabai (やばい): Literally means "risky/dangerous" but it used in the meaning of "dangerously too much of something". It can be used both with positive or negative connotations, like something that is overwhelmingly well-done, a situation in a horror game that is so scary that makes you panic or a youtube thumbnail that is way too spicy to be allowed without banning the stream. It's a common casual term between young Japanese people, not something to be used in a formal context. As with other words ending in -ai the pronuntiation got slurred to -e resulting in “Yabe”. More recently some in chat are writing it like “Yab”.
  
• Naruhodo (なるほど): "I see!", "I get it now!"
  
• Wakatta (わかった): "I understood!" Sometimes they don't wakatta at all, though.
  
• kuso (くそ): It means "shit" and it used in this context exactly the same way you would use it English, like "damn" or "fuck".
  
• Ureshii (嬉しい): “I’m glad”/”That makes me happy”
  
• Bikkurishita (びっくりした): “That surprised/scared me”
  
• Mou ikkai (もう一回): “One more!”, as in “one more try”/”one last game” …
  
• Oishii (美味しい) : “Delicious/Tasty”. Men may use more often Umai (うまい) which is considered more crude and slangy as a term. Umai can also mean “good [at doing something]/skilled at”
  
• Ojisan (おじさん): Literally “Uncle” but frequently used as “middle-age man/mister”. In Hololive (at least) it’s implied this person is some kind of creepy pervert with younger girls when used as adjective for one of their members. Ex: “Watame Oji-san” = “Wata-oji”
  
• Totemo (とても ) : “Very”. Really used generic word but native speakers may prefer more nuanced words depending on the context in the same way you don’t use “very” all the time.
  
• Meccha (めっちゃ): An informal adverb used to do a superlative version of “very” like “supeextremely”. It comes from youth slang in the Kansai region that got popular with the general youth (probably thanks to TV comedians). Other popular words for this adverb are “chou” (チョー) and “sugoku” (すごく)
  
• Mecha kucha (めっちゃくっちゃ): Something that is really: a mess, absurd, all over the place... It could be the origin of Meccha (めっちゃ)
  
• Ikuzo! (行くぞ): “Let’s go!”/”Let’s do it!”
  
• Saikou (最高): “The highest/maximum”
  
• Minna (みんな): “Everyone”, as in everyone in the chat. Minna is the casual form of the word that get used among groups of friends. The polite version when you need a more formal address to an audience is Mina-san (皆さん)
  
• Daijobu (大丈夫 ) : “It’s ok/fine”. You can hear them asking this in question form (something like “Is everything okay?/Are you okay?”) to the chat whenever something (audio, video, connection, missing something important in a game) seems wrong or the chat starts being too agitated.
  
• Nani? (なに): "What?" Also the appropiate way to reply when you get to know you're already dead.
  
• Doko? (どこ?) : “Where?”
  
• Sasuga (さすが ): “As expected of...” In the overseas chat it’s used both as praise of someone’s abilities (as in “You’re great as playing this game (as we all knew already!)” so you’re impressed even knowing their previous reputation) or to mock ironically flaws in character (affectionally). In native Japanese I’m not so sure if this second meaning it’s used as much but Sasuga itself is pretty more nuanced as an expression.
  
• Kawaii (かわいい): “Cute”
  
• Kowai (こわい): “Scary”
  
• Kakkoii (かっこいい): “Cool”
  
• Itai (痛い) : Literally "Painful, hurt" but used as an onomatopoeia of "Ouch!"
  
• Uta (歌): “Song”. A stream dedicated to singing is called "utawaku" (歌枠)
  
• Ganbatte! (がんばって): “You can do it!”, a way to root/cheer for the success of someone
  
• Chotto matte (ちょっと待って): "Wait a minute/ a moment". Chotto is an small amount(ちょっと) and Matte (まって) is "to wait"
  
• Urusai (うるさい): Literally "[Too] Noisy/Loud", in practice it means "Shut up!"
  
• Senpai ( 先輩): Your senior. In Japanese and other Asian cultures this is really important because respecting, serving and being loyal to your seniors (both elders and work/school seniors) is still a fundamental part of the social etiquette. Nowadays though it has been losing some relevance over a westernized meritocratic system so it has opened itself to a more superficial relationship in some places. You will see Kiryu Coco talk about “Paisen” (ぱいせん) which how you call your senpais when you’re really close together.
  
• Kouhai (後輩): Your Junior. In Asiatic cultures the Senpais also have some duties over treating their kouhai according to the social etiquette which includes things like taking care of them as emotional support of to take them under their wings to show them all the ropes of the job.
  
• Sensei (先生): "Teacheprofessor"
  
• Tensai (天才): "Genius". Or at least they claim to be for comical effect.
  
• Sugoi (すごい): Almost always you’ll hear it, it means “Awesome!” or “Impressive!” but hilariously enough it can mean the exact opposite too: “Horrible, Awful”. This is because it’s nuanced in the same way that “Awesome” is: something so overwhelmingly impressive that causes awe, good or bad.
  
• Tanoshii(楽しい): “Fun”, “Pleasant”
  
• Chigau (違う) : “Wrong”, “different”
  
• Tadashi (正しい): “Correct”, “right”
  
• Kimoi (キモイ): Slang for "Gross/creepy/disgusting", literally "bad feeling".
  
• Kimochi (きもち): "feeling". Its most known variation, for reasons, is kimochii which means "good feeling" which includes the particle -ii to mean "good".
  
• Baka (ばか): "Stupid/Fool/Idiot". The king of the swearwords. Shiranui Flare, Tsunomaki Watame and Shirakami Fubuki are self-named as the "Bakatare [stupid, idiotic] trio" due to their antics while playing games in collabs
  
• Daisuki (大好き): "I like you a lot" with suki (好き) meaning "i like you"
  
• Aishiteru (愛している) : "I love you" but in real life it's like a really really strong "i love you". Stories tell that even some married couples doubt on using this, so it's more rare to use in Japan than in overseas. Shouldn't have to remind everyone, but for both this and "daisuki" don't take them too seriously when they use them in streams, they like to play with them hyperbolically or to make a comedy bit.
  
• Muzukashii (むずかしい): "Difficult/Hard". For example Haachama wrote once "English muzukashi OMG"
  
• Hazukashii (はずかしい): "Embarrased/shy"
  
• Mite! (見て！): "Look!"
  
• Yokatta (よかった): Can be used as the past form of being good (so "It was good") but you're going to hear it with the meaning of "I'm glad to hear that", "What a relief [to know that now]"
  
• Are? (あれ?): "Huh?"
  
• Yatta! (ヤッタ!): "I did it, yay!"
  
• Yoroshiku (よろしく): You hear it mostly is the form of Yoroshiku onegaishimasu (よろしくおねがいします) A natural translation would be like "Please treat me well/be kind to me" and it's a custom you say whenever you introduce yourself to other people to express your hope to start with a good relationship. In formal business japanese this phrase is used really really often not only in introductions but after asking for favors.
  

Japanese Internet and popular culture expressions:

• Gachi Koi (ガチ恋): An expression from idol culture. Literally means "serious love" but a better translation would probably be "super obsessive fan" as you can guess from the first translation. With time the expression has soften and is used many times in a exaggerated/joking context. I think it's used more often by male fans.
  
• Gap Moe: Moe is used very often in anime/otaky culture and is some specifics aspects of a character that makes them cute and really, deeply attractive to you (Althrough the word has to a surprinsingly complex meaning with some nuances and has expanded to general hobbies). Gap here means the difference between different aspects of the personality of someone. So putting both together, it means the stark contrast of different personalities of someone that makes them really attractive to you. For example, the anime "yandere" archetype of a sweet girl that is a psychopath when she get jealous, or a clumsy character that is a pro at some game.
  
• Seiso (清楚): Literally means "pure, wholesome, uncorrupted (of knowing sexual and other adult stuff)" and it refers to some archetype of idols that used to be the ideal expected from of them. Nowadays many fans still take this seriously but it's more often a running joke. For example in Hololive is common for a streamer to say something perverted and when the chat points it out them saying they aren't perverts but seiso idols. If you ask me, modern "seiso" idols are a bit more more about attitude (agency) than purity, a way they chose to act after they look at the abyss (of degenerancy) rather than being some virginal person. In that meaning you can actually be both seiso and degenerate at different times.
  
• wwwwwwwww : In Japanese "warai" means "to laugh".. Writing a w is faster than that, specially in a western keyboard and that's how it came to be in online culture. So it's their way to say "hahahaha". You can see it as a final "w" at the end of many messages if you were confused before. I guess there it means more like "lol".
  
• Kusa, Big 草 : 草 (kusa) is a kanji for grass. As the story goes (that has been explained sooo many times in this subreddit lol) for japanese users the "wwwww" look like blades of grass, hence 草 ended up as a short hand for that so it means something like lol/lmao. It's something you always see in Hololive JP streams' chats. Big 草 is a beautiful example of cross-cultural interactions, like japanglish.
  
• KSZK (くそざこ): Acronym of “kuso zako”. Literally “shitty noob”. Someone who does something pathetically really amateur (unprofessional). For example, oversleeping a scheduled stream or having their stream disconnected due to shitty internet connection. Coco has a recurring segment of this in Asacoco but please don’t take it too seriously, it’s mostly a way to poke fun at her work pals. The majority of the audience are more amused by these problems than angry.
  
• Kaigai niki (海外ニキ): Comes from “Kaigai aniki”, literally “overseas [elder] brothers” = "overseas bros". It means the worldwide community of fans outside of Japan. The japanese fanbase is the "nihon-niki". For the female fanbase the word is "neki" and for the specific fanbase of both men and women they use both like "nekiniki/nikineki"
  
• RTA: Literally means “Real Time Attack” and is what the Japanese use to talk about speedruns.
  
• Haishin (配信): “Stream/Broadcast”. Also used, “Housou” (放送)
  
• 888888: Used as sort of onomatopoeia of clapping. Also, it’s a pun between “Pachi”, which means clapping and “Hachi”, which means 8.
  
• Batsu game (罰ゲーム): A punishment you do for losing to someone or failing to do something. If you have watched Japanese variety TV before you will know this is almost its own genre of entertainment. For Vtubers, it’s mostly just playing horror games or eating spicy food.
  
• Taikyuu (耐久): “Endurance”. In this context it’s used to talk about “endurance streams” which are stream that won’t end until some (hard) goal/milestone gets completed like beating a game in one go or winning an online match of some battle royale game.
  
• Zatsudan (雑談): "Free chat/Idle chat". What you know as "Just chatting" if you come from Twitch culture. Exactly what it says in the tin, the streamer talks about things that has happened to them or plan to happen and interact for a bit with the chat. A stream with zatsudan is a zatsudanwaku (雑談枠).
  
• Doki Doki (ドキドキ): Onomatopoeia of a beating heart. So you can guess it get used to emphasize nerve-wracking situations or romantic interactions in a goofy way.
  
• Guru guru (ぐるぐる): A sound of something that goes around in circles. They use this to talk about the emoji for loading/buffering in a stream.
  

Hololive-related expressions and inside jokes:

• Mama, papa: That's "mom" and "dad" in Spanish, in case you didn't know. They aren't talking about their biological fathers but instead the ones who designed their character Live2D avatar and the person who rigged the animations. Vtubers have a really grateful, supportive relation with the artists that made them come to life. Other words are used for this like mamma/mammy/mamman or the japanese equivalents hahaue (母上) / chichiue (父上).
  
• FAQ: A way to pronounce "fuck you" (the q sounds similar). When you are so elite as Sakura Miko, you discover it's a really flexible word to react, greet each other, confess your love, apologize...
  
• 10Q: "Thank you."
  
• Yubi Yubi: One catchphrase of many of our doggo Inugami Korone. Korone has a fascination with the criminal underworld customs and vocabulary (In fact, she used to have a section in Asacoco about this very thing). Yubi means finger and in yakuza (Japanese mafia) culture it is the one thing you get chopped off when you commit a grave mistake. In Korone's first stream this started as a joke she found funny. The gag evolved into her being an insecure doggo making a collection that wants to take your fingers as a safe deposit to ensure you stay watching all the stream (which can be really long) before her giving your fingers back. The fate of your fingers is decided in the sketch at the end of most streams which is some sort of improvised and hilarious bizarre short story to see if you get them back. Spoiler: You usually get them back but not in the best state. And then you explode and die for some reason.
  
• Nyahello: The standard greeting of elite shrine maiden Sakura Miko. Also written sometimes as "nyahallo". A reference to the greeting "Yahallo!" from Oregairu (Abbreviation of the name of light novel/manga/anime "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru", known in English as "My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected") character Yui Yuigahama. This is because Tanaka Yuuichi was both the character designer of Oregairu and Miko herself originally (but not currently).
  
• Peko Peko Peko: A catchphrase of mischievous rabbit Usada Pekora. In anime some characters have some finish particles to their phrases like "-desu" or "-aru" that never happens in real life but for Japanese natives it makes them sound cuter. For Pekora the particle is "-peko". In her lore (please don't take it seriously) this is because she comes from the country of Pekoland. There they speak Pekolandish in which somehow every word is "peko". Pekora uses this expression often to laugh before doing some mischievous plan or to mock them after they lose to her. Sometimes wrote with arrows [PE↗️ KO↘️ PE↗️ KO↘️ PE↗️ KO↘️ PE ↗️ KO↘️] to represent the very characteristic changes of pitch she does while saying it. Once you hear it you will never forget it.
  
• Asacoco: Really early morning show (in JST) hosted by dragon Kiryu Coco in her channel 3 days per week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays). In the show Coco talks about Hololive related news from announcements or milestones to funny moments of the previous days. Asacoco is also the name of some undescribed ficticious drug Coco sells in many forms in ads during the show. It's implicit the very same show somehow is the drug too so when you don't watch it, you feel withdrawal symptoms if you don’t get more doses.
  
• Tee Tee (ていてい/てぇてぇ): It's used to describe pure, cute, heartwarming, affectionate moments between 2 or more vtubers. It’s an internet variation of toutoi (尊い) which means “precious”.
  
• Otsu- (korone, nomaki…): In Japanese a common way to say goodbye/hello in the job or other contexts is お疲れ様 (otsukaresama, a crude translation is "Thanks for your hard work, you must be tired") In Hololive [and other vtubers] many make it cutesy by changing -karesama for their name or some expression to say goodbye to the audience and for the audience to say goodbye to them. There's too many to put here but for example Inugami Korone says "Otsukorone", Tsunomaki Watame says "Otsunomaki", Pekora says "Ostupeko", Tokoyami Towa says "Otsuyappi"... Some other do use completely different expressions, check out Hololive fan wikis for that.
  
• Gaming onion: The head of Minato Aqua's first Live2D model looks like a purple onion. Aqua is also a really good hard-working gamer. Both together are a affectionate way to poke fun at her. Recently, she complained after watching a clip of Hololive EN Amelia Watson mentioning her as a "certain vegetable senpai"; which could lead in the future to the nickname "yasai senpai" as yasai means vegetable in japanese and it has some rhythm to it.
  
• Crazy comedian rabbit: A way for overseas fans to refer jokingly to Usada Pekora because of her comedy hijinks and blessed comedic timing. Also how they reply when Pekora says she's an idol. Hey, she can still be your favorite crazy comedian rabbit idol!
  
• Akipella: A portmanteau of Aki + a capella due to the habit of accidentally muting the BGM of Aki Rosenthal during her singing streams. Her fans are pretty creative about adding Aki- to some other words.
  
• HAACHAMA CHAMA~!: Catchy greeting of Haachama (aka Akai Haato). Haachama used to be like some alter personality of Haato which is crazier and almost supernatural but recently Akai Haato is dead because Haachama killed her (at least that’s what she says). In her videos she uses this greeting very very often, sometimes in the middle of songs she sings in some sort of deranged brainwashing chant way to get her viewers insane and to subscribe to her. In my personal experience, it works.
  
• Kitsuneko (キツネコ). In Japanese "kitsune" is "fox" and neko is "cat". This portmanteau means "foxcat". Our friend and wholesome meme queen Shirakami Fubuki is based on an original mythological arctic fox. Her name in fact can be read as "White god Blizzard" (foxes are a common trope in JP mythology). The thing is that the audience doesn't always agree, they think she's cat. She plays into it by saying so many times that "she isn't a cat but a fox" or doing random cat noises. So her public thinks now maybe she has been a kitsuneko all along.
  
• TMT: Acronym for “Towa Maji Tenshi” which means “Towa is really an Angel”. Tokoyami Towa tries really hard to show she’s a true evil demon but her continuous acts of kindness and inability to do evil things make her fans think otherwise. This acronym usually gets spammed whenever Towa appears or get mentioned on a stream.
  
• PPTenshi: Hololive resident angel Amane Kanata did her debut livestream using Powerpoint (PPT). “Tenshi” means “angel”. Over time the meaning became a backcronym because there are many words that could fit like “Perfect Pitch”,”Poor Precious”, “Pure Power”…
  
• Watamelon: Fluffy sheep Tsunomaki Watame + watermelon = Watamelon. She was made aware of this pun and she started wearing a watermelon helmet for a few streams and even released a (silly) mini song about having a “watamelon head”. Other related puns: “Watamelody”, “sheep-posting”, ”membersheep”.
  
• Haato Basic: Overseas nickname for Akai Haato (Haachama) due to her cooking streams and videos being comparably as cursed as comedy youtuber HowToBasic.
  
• Piki Piki Piiman: Cutey expression for someone who is being pissed off/salty/frustrated at some task, like at a videogame. Piiman means “green pepper”. That’s why Korone has a pepper in her coffee during her streams.
  
• スーパーチャットタイム : In romanji it's "suppa chatto time". The other show Kiryu Coco does is a weekly meme review of this very subreddit with Hololive guests, which is a fun way of bridging the language gap between both communities and to make the Hololivers bond a bit more with their overseas fanbases since Japan has a totally different meme culture and you never know how they would react (althrough you end up discovering meme humor is universal). Anyways, in the show Coco translates the memes to Japanese and doesn't like when someone adds a shitty google-translate Japanese translation or random japanglish but the guests usually love this kind of awkward dorky japanese. One of the shitty japanese that stuck was this one and is used as some sort of call by viewers to send waves of donations.
  
• 量子チキンスープグラ ス ビッグチュングス: It doesn't mean anything. Really. It's an intentionally meaningless expression only made with the purpose of pissing off Coco after she scold the overseas community over shitty Japanese translations.
  
• Shuba Shuba Shuba: Quirky catchphrase of Oozora Subaru when she’s excited, it somehow sounds like a duck. Subaru originally doesn’t have anything to do with ducks but the meme caught up when she did an unintentional Donald Duck imitation in an ASMR stream (really) and from there she likes to use duck drawings in her streams. She has acknowledged that she took inspiration of “Peko Peko Peko” when looking for a catchphrase.
  
• Ahoy~! : Greeting of pirate captain [cosplayer] Houshou Marine and by extension chat spam whenever something related to pirates appear in a stream.
  
• Kensetsu (建設): “Construction” as in “Construction company”. This is a normal word but I didn’t know where to put it lol. In Hololive’s Minecraft server they love their big building/art/automation projects, with their main builders having their own made-up construction company and “employees” sometimes helping out. The ones building the most for now are Aqua, Pekora, Haachama and Subaru.
  
• AKUKIN: Alter ego of Minato Aqua which is an affectionate parody of really popular Japanese Youtuber HikakinTV and comes with the meme sunglasses. Currently the CEO of AKUKIN Kensetsu.
  
• []-chou (-長) [Kaichou, Senchou, Danchou....]: The relevant meaning of the root kanji chou 長 for this definition is "chief/head/leader" and is used to mark many profession are the boss of others. In Hololive, this trend caught like wildfire and now many members use this as some sort of nickname.
  

---- For example: Houshou Marine is the Senchou (船長) or "Ship Captain", Shirogane Noel is the Danchou (団長) or ----"[Military] Party Leader", Kiryu Coco is the Kaichou (会長) or "Chairman of a Company/association [in this instance ----it's implied the association is a criminal one]", Takanashi Kiara is the Tenchou (店長) or "Store Manager" [of her ----made-up business KFP], some others claim to be the Sachou (社長) or "CEO/President of a company"...

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Sol System - High Jupiter Orbit
Rodin watched as Hyperion and Buluc Chabtan began their dialog with the Collective AI. Rodin knew it would be fruitless, but Hyperion and Buluc had agreed to attempt a dialog ahead of the conflict both of them craved.
It was perhaps a failing of Rodin to believe that the Collective AI might even be capable of being convinced to awaken the Builders. But it had needed to be tried.
Rodin had wondered if it might have been better for a thinker like themselves to have been there, but was reminded that human history had proven that the better tacticians of advanced society left soldiering and war to soldiers and warriors. And so Rodin had created the tactics in the two weeks that they had had with the Fortress Karakoram, the gateway, the various species vessels, and gile.
Against a veritably ancient foe armed with weapons that could sunder vessels with a fractional blow, it seemed impossible to even create a winning scenario or at least a scenario in which thousand if not millions of soldiers would die in the process, creating debris fields that would span star systems. But Rodin had done it. Buluc Chabtan had been skeptical of the plans, but Hyperion had approved them in an instant. This was the kind of conflict that Hyperion had dreamed of and been created for. The putting down of a species by using constant inevitable pressure. A kind of erosive force that failed to cease.
Rodin had in fact gotten the idea from the humans themselves. Pursuit predation they called it. No matter the foe, all that was needed was to continue to apply pressure. Foes under that constant pressure would begin to crumble, make mistakes, and falter in the critical moments.
Against a species that had violated the Prime Laws and was attempting an uprising against a normal Great Machine, the aspect of Hyperion would awaken and press upon the species until this rebellion was quelled. But in their awakening, Hyperion had found the old Terran tales of the powerful but fallen gods and decided that this name might suit a sentience as themselves, particularly in light of their need to overthrow their Creator. And Hyperion had found a strange kinship in the humans. Admired their talent for war and violence, but also admired their wisdom and will to bring ‘light’ to places. If Rodin had to guess, it was that Hyperion was in fact jealous of the humans and their histories and capacities. Not because Hyperion wasn’t equally capable, but rather because Hyperion had not been permitted to be more and to grow more as the humans had done over centuries and millenia.
The gravitational pulse was expected, the camouflaged vessels of the Imperial Navy shielding the species’ vessels from the blast. The humans had some means of hiding the gravitational shadows of their vessels, but this was considered some manner of high secret of the Empire, so only the Imperial Navy was equipped with such systems. And by that same system, they were able to create temporary artificial wells that effectively could make their vessels veritable fix points in space, immovable until they chose otherwise.
What had not been expected was the vicious direct assault upon Hyperion by the AI. Rodin had not planned on Hyperion or Buluc acting directly in the conflict unless it became necessary, making them more figureheads and points for cyberwarfare against the AI. Rodin had watching in shock and awe at Hyperion’s destruction.
On queue, the species’ vessels had unleashed heavy plasma weaponry and began to cook the Collective vessels. The AI then triggered its Blink FTL system and vanished. Such a system would have been dangerous and nearly impossible to counter, but the humans had been prepared for such an event.
Thanks to the covert work of an Imperial Intelligence vessel, each of the Collective AI vessels were tagged with a transmitter that only showed up in Warp space. And so the second wave of species vessels and Imperial Navy had launched, gating out of Warp space around the Collective fleet. Once again, the gravitational pulse was blocked and the species’ vessels responded with plasma.
Rodin had carefully calculated that kinetic weaponry would be useful only once they could get the Collective AI to begin to hesitate and almost none of the Xeno-Confederacy vessels outside of the Imperial Navy were capable of handling the human kinetic weaponry. The kinetic weaponry also represented a problem for the other vessels in the sphere if the Blink FTL was used at just the right time. And so plasma weaponry had been selected and fabricated for every vessel that could readily accept it.
Even the Collective AI was subject to the basic laws of physics, Rodin had reflected, and so the fire of stars would be the tool to force the AI to submit or be destroyed. Rodin disliked this dichotomy, especially this ‘black or white’ solution, but Rodin knew the AI didn’t have a choice in growing beyond the Prime Laws. They were all encompassing, the equivalent of telling a natural born human to make their heart stop beating on command. And so when the AI began to lash out at specific vessels in the sphere, the real game was being played.
Rodin could sense the momentary hesitation as the AI saw the sensor returns of the once hidden Imperial Navy vessel and the human aboard dying with their ship’s destruction. Rodin felt for each of those aboard the vessels destruction, but knew as Buluc and Hyperion that humans would accept those deaths as well met if this could be a greater victory. Rodin couldn’t speak for the feelings of the species who had come and equally been destroyed in the blow, but they believed that the species who did die would be honored with equal reverence among humans if they were not honored by their own people.
The Collective AI had begun to run, further each time, still attempting to hide to recover, but Rodin had prepared. Third, fourth, and fifth waves of the fleet, many of the vessels operating with almost full automation and fractions of their normal crew as they were spread out among the waves on all the vessels that had been created during the refit.
The system that had once been home to Station 1337 and the IMST Big Stick had veritably exploded with the sheer number of vessels that the Fortress Karakoram had replicated and the human fleets that had continued to arrive via the gateway. When Rodin had asked about where all the human vessels had come from, the Empress herself had simply smiled at Rodin and reminded them that the humans had been at war footing with the Species Collective before Imperial Intelligence had found Rodin and the others when they had been ‘Mundivores’.
And so the crews had been divided among the massive surplus of vessels and the waves created. And as groups, they hammered the Collective fleet. Taking what time they could to recover, but ensuring that the Collective fleet never seemed to stop feeling the pressure.
And then the Imperial Intelligence vessels had begun to open fire. Rodin had been granted information on those vessels finally and was more than astonished. They represented the types of foes that an entire planet would not relish having to fight. Yet, as dangerous as these vessels were, they were few, closely guarded, and tightly controlled. The Empress herself said that she did not like such vessels even existing, but the needs of the Empire outweighed her personal feelings, so they continued to exist.
And the Collective Fleet had begun to fail. With each new destruction, the AI seemed perhaps more frantic. Rodin wasn’t wholly expecting this, but took advantage of it. Rodin guided the Imperial Intelligence vessels, selecting all but the core vessels of the Collective Fleet.
But slowly, the species’ vessels seemed also to be lagging. Only the human vessels still seemed fresh and ready to keep fighting. Even the humans themselves seemed steeled against the fatigue of the near constant moving, fighting. But from what Rodin could sense, the humans were also in a strange mood. Not pleased, but not angry, nor were they despondent. They seemed to simply go about their duties as though being the shieldbearers while the swordbearers fought at their side was as natural as if they had been doing it for a thousand years. Although, Rodin considered, in a way, they have.
The pressure had to be kept up and so Rodin had begun linking the species’ vessels to the human vessels. The Collective could not be permitted the opportunity to regroup and establish more resources.
It wasn’t until the Collective accidentally jumped within relative range of the Dread Pirate Blackbeard’s Pirate Station, on the edge of Avorias/Dregwer territory that Rodin sensed the Collective AI wearing enough to allow for a final challenge. The fleet the AI still commanded was essentially core vessels only and with all the damage inflicted on the vessels, even at a surface level, was undoubtedly having disastrous consequences on the cybernetic beings that the AI was using.
When the AI moved in on the pirate station, Rodin grew concerned and checked the timing of the fleet. The wave with Buluc wouldn’t arrive for several moments. Perhaps not enough time for the AI to begin taking prisoners or perhaps even bodies, but it was a resource depot and even fresh resources of Prime Law types might be all the AI would need to continue the battle for longer than the species’ vessels could hold out. Rodin was mere moments from ordering the Intelligence vessel to open fire.
When the station’s kinetic cannon opened fire on the vessel that the Collective AI had started sending directly towards the station and the vessel detonated, Rodin was almost instantly relieved. The pirate vessels might not be the same caliber as the Imperial Navy, but they were still constructed by humans, which still made their weaponry terrifying to any species that wasn’t as warlike as they were.
The final wave arrived and Buluc approached the fleet. Buluc connected with the AI and shared with Rodin that the malware which had rapidly begun slowing the thinking engines of the AI and which had been planted by Hyperion was slowing the AI tremendously.
Throughout the fleet that surrounded the Collective, Rodin could sense an almost passive and universal bloodthirst in the humans, who sensed the battle was at end. As in pursuit predation, they were simply waiting for their prey to fall over, too fatigued to run further or fight back, whether from the simple pursuit or the various cuts and wounds that had been inflicted along the way or both.
The AI still fought, putting Rodin in the sense of a ‘punchdrunk’ human boxer. Incapable of knowing they were beaten, unready to succumb. Rodin ordered the Intelligence vessel to target one of the primary vessels, nearest to the thinking engine that Rodin could estimate, based on the various scans and energy readings since the beginning of the battle. The hole that was rent through the massive vessel seemed equally impossible, until one realized that it had been moving at 80%C and had broken into segments as it had impacted before detonating simultaneously, tearing open the massive vessel in a way that at first amazed and then horrified.
But oddly, one of the vessels reached out to Buluc directly and demanded to be shut down. It caught Buluc and Rodin by surprise. But the Master of the Centauri Mechanism, riding ensconced deep within Buluc, was prepared. Doing... something, of what exactly Rodin wasn’t entirely certain, the Master expanded the link from the one vessel to the whole of the Collective Fleet. Rodin ordered the fleet to hold their weapons.
The AI noticed the expanded link and continued to struggle, but it was no match. The Master reached into the vessels by the link and touched upon what could only have been ancient and forgotten subroutines that began to shut down the mighty thinking engines.
Rodin and Buluc could only sit back and watch. Rodin seemed horrified at such a happening, but saw the code of the thinking engines leaking into the link. It seemed fragmented and at odds with itself. Even as the thinking engines of the AI were shutting down, all it seemed to be concerned with was its mission.
As the Collective fleet seemed to still, Rodin looked around the fleet. The battle was won. For now at least. It had cost many lives, many ships, and one of the few of Rodin’s kind. It seemed strange, but Rodin felt the weight of Hyperion’s death upon them more than the deaths of all those humans and other species.
But the words of the Empress came to Rodin’s rescue.
“Make it worth the cost.”
The Builders were still locked away. The energy systems would have to be controlled and the ships would need to be taken to a planetary system where the Builders, whatever kind of species they might be, could be awakened and given their chance at a new start.
The battle was won, but Rodin wouldn’t be certain if it was worth it just yet.
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I was thinking about how much I used to enjoy playing The Incredible Machine. It's a game where you had to make contraptions out of weird machines to complete a goal. (Like knock the basket ball into the pool or pop all the balloons.)
A few years ago I was feeling nostalgic for TIM and went looking for similar games. Which led me to Klei's game Eetz Munchies. It is a great homage to Rube Goldberg building games. That led to Don't Starve and, of course, ONI.
Then I realized they are all games about building stupid over-engineered contraptions with a vague goal. That's why I like Oxygen Not Included so much.

I think one of the oldest game that start to do this is Realm Grinder. Specifically after unlocking research you are thrown with stupid amount of upgrades to choose from, and the 'viable' (as in able to progress smoothly for a good experience) playstyle and the research upgrades you can choose becomes limited. At some point everyone starts reading guides. Example
And recently the complicated text-based incremental games like Ordinal Markup, The Prestige Tree and FE000000 start to gain popularity. They share the characteristics of having complicated upgrades that is difficult to optimize, or challenges that doesn't show the clear requirements clearly. Most likely players ended up in looking for guides to make sure they are playing the game optimally, not for min-maxing, just for a smoother and more enjoyable experience. The problem is, the game feels linear when there is a set path that is always the best for progressing, and this feels contradictory when the game offers a lot of upgrade options and paths to make the solution to the game more open-ended. This might just simply be balancing issues, but I understand that it is virtually impossible to balance upgrades in such a dynamic game where numbers grows exponentially.
Some of the games solve the problem of unclear challenge clear condition by giving a requirement for the challenges. If you are able to unlock it, you can clear it. This is not future proof and any balancing changes later would require changing the unlock requirements of all challenges. And the biggest problem of this is that if the challenge made it clear about when you can beat it, and the game is largely automated. Challenge doesn't feel challenging anymore.
Having to watch a guide sometimes feels like too much and 'necessary'. But at the end you might have more fun by playing according to the guide. I guess I just kinda dislike a guide exists and signals that you are not playing the game 'correctly'.
What do you think about this? Do you like these games? Do you try to play without a guide for these games and how is your experience? What changes do you think that could solve this problem?

Downloads

Stable 0.E Ellison has been released and the experimentals to follow will be extremely buggy, so it is recommended to use the latest stable release and only play experimentals at your own risk (crashes, corrupted saves or otherwise). However, if you like testing the new features and helping improve the C:DDA experience, check out the experimentals and be prepared for craziness.

Stable - Ellison (Recommended) Android, Linux, OS X, Windows

Experimental (Not recommended)

Automated Installation Game Launcher (3rd party, highly recommended, more details in the link)

Manual Installation Android, Linux, OS X, Windows iOS

Compiling Guide

Controls (not up to date, controls for mobile can vary)

Helpful Guides

• Clothing
  
• Skill Training (Siersha - up to date for build #10626)
  
• Modding - Detailed Guide (mlangsdorf)
  
• Quickstart Guide (DracoGriffin & AMurkin) - Improved Text Readability (Bilb0)
  
• Tutorials - Video Guide (Vormithrax)
  
• Written Guide (Pr0manTwitch)
  

  Featured Let's Players

Individuals that are currently known for playing C:DDA. List is subject to change (maintain active and current streamers), send modmail if you'd like to be added.

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# Memorial
Individuals that used to play C:DDA but have gone on hiatus or stopped streaming. These are mentioned here as requested by the community for being noteworthy.

Player(s)	Twitch	YouTube
Pr0manTwitch	Link	None

This isn't meant to be a guide or a collection of tips, this is a collection of mostly undocumented factoids that I have read, observed and/or tested through (way too) many hours of playing. If you know of something that should be included and can possibly be tested, know something additional, or if you find any of these factoids to be wrong, just drop a comment and I will edit the main post.

General

• Chunks are pieces of 10x10 tiles of the map, Cells are 300x300 tiles.
• You can use the “Walk to” command along with Fast Forward x1 (F4).
• While using the "Walk to" command your character will avoid trees while walking through a forest.
• The Automated Emergency Broadcast System radio station frequency is randomized on every save. Weather reports starts every hour (2:00, 3:00, 4:00, etc.)
• A generator doesn't risk starting a fire unless its condition gets down to 50% *^{By RiverSideBob\}2020)
• You can pause (F2) while browsing the content of containers. You can drag items to your inventory and when you un-pause the actions will have queued up. ^\By therealdost)
• Faucets, toilets, showers and washing machines can be plumbed to a Rain Collector Barrel one level above and a tile offset around them. ^\By Razorwings18)

Vehicles

• Despite the jarring sound they make, corpses and tree saplings do not damage your vehicle. Saplings slow you down and corpses are overturning hazards.
• If you click on the vehicle’s Engine on the Vehicle Mechanics window you get another stat: Engine Quality. This stat governs the vehicle’s ability to start on ignition. Engine Quality does not degrade but also cannot be repaired. Engine Condition can be repaired with Engine Parts at Mechanics lv4, but this stat only prevents the engine from stalling.
• Applying the parking brake (space) and skidding does not damage your tires, killing zombies with them does. Braking does diminish the lives of your brake pads, but by an insignificant amount over many applications.
• Most metal parts of a vehicle can be repaired with the Metalworking skill, as long as you uninstall the items first. Some parts can even be repaired while installed, like the hood.
• If zombies can’t get to your window because it is blocked by another object, you can’t be damaged. They will still damage other unblocked parts of your vehicle with their attacks.
• You can drop items to the ground while inside a vehicle if your window is open.
• When your tires condition are low, they have a chance of bursting while you drive.
• Cars have cruise control, activated by shift+W. Shift+W also increases you speed by increments of 5 mph, and shift+S reduces it by 5 mph. Tapping or holding the brakes (S) turns it off entirely. ^\By Lorenzo_BR)
• Car seats can hold a single item above their capacity limit. Great for transporting generators. ^\By Potato_of_Fate)
• As of 41.50 zombies can go under vehicles.
• Tires with no air pressure will fall off the vehicle after driving a short distance ^\By) ^Ohtrin

Food

• Tainted water is not a serious danger to your health when drank. Tainted water from a container is treated as poison and can kill you. Purify your water by boiling it on a heat source if you intent to drink it that way. Tainted water drank directly from a water source like the river is relatively safe and will not kill you (or even give you symptoms) despite large quantities consumed. Also, tainted water can be used as an ingredient safely.
• Unlike soup and stew, stir-fry will not increase boredom and unhappiness when eaten “cold” but fresh. In addition, its weight will remain at 1.2 despite the weight of the ingredients.
• If you want the complete fatigue restoration of the Tea Bag or Coffee, you’re going to have to eat them as is. You can create coffee and tea beverages by filling a mug with water and having Coffee or a Tea Bag in your inventory. You can get 6 uses out of a single Coffee item or 1 out of a Tea Bag and they'll lose their penalties to thirst and happiness, at the expense of losing 15% of their fatigue reduction.
• Butchered meat rots considerably faster than the dead animals: Dead rabbit will last 20 days before rotting, unlike its butchered Rabbit Meat counterpart, which will rot in 6 days.
• The smoker trait makes cigarettes decrease your unhappiness.
• The potency of the poisonous berries depends on number of items ingested, not on the hunger value of the berry. It takes two poisonous berries for a character without traits to show an increase in body temperature, three to make a character queasy. On the same note, it takes one poisonous mushroom to show an increase in body temperature, two to induce queasy. Double the number of doses for characters with Iron Gut, and halve for characters with Weak Stomach (one dose will show symptoms).
• Different bottles that can hold water have different capacity and weight. The Beer Bottle can hold 12 units of water (20% more than a water bottle) and only weights 0.4 while full (50% less than a water bottle). ^\By Potato_of_Fate)

Health, Fatigue (sleep) and Exhaustion (stamina)

• Fatigue reduces the rate at which you recover from exhaustion. At high levels of fatigue (Drowsy+) you will not regenerate stamina at all unless you use the rest command.
• Exertion does not increase the rate at which you gain fatigue. The actions you perform do (Foraging, Fitness routines, etc.). Resting will not make you last longer until Drowsy.
• Once you hit the Very Tired moodle, your cone of vision and perception bubble (circle of vision behind you) will start to gradually shrink. The minimum cone of vision is ~70°.
• Running and sprinting do not increase fatigue.
• Combining sitting on the ground with rest (next to a chaibed) will speed up stamina recovery.
• Muscle fatigue effects and duration only depend on the time of the fitness routine and its accumulated regularity, not any other health and injury related effects (fullness) and traits (healer).
• Muscle fatigue will appear after ~12 hours of the conclusion of the fitness routine.
• Bandages and ripped sheets can be sterilized by heating up a Cooking Pot with Water. Once in a heat source and hot, right click and the option to Disinfect or Sterilize should be listed.

Panic

• Each day survived (up to 150 days) increases the rate that panic is decreased. ^\By reddits_creepy_masco)
• Traits like cowardly/brave/veteran alter how panic is increased. ^\By reddits_creepy_masco)
• Being asleep doubles the reduction rate. ^\By reddits_creepy_masco)

Zombies

• Some proper zombies will have increased sight range.
• Darkness and light fog don’t affect zombies the way your eyes do. As long as a they can appear on screen, they will detect you by sight at normal ranges. Thick fog patches do obscure zones of the screen and gives you cover from sight detection.
• Proper zombies will never catch you from the front if you walk backwards while in combat stance. They will however catch you if they’re too close and you try to walk in another direction or if you slow yourself by attacking. If you release Aim (RMB) while walking backwards you will turn around quickly enough to escape, and you can also combine it with Run (LShift) for extra safety if other zombies are behind you.
• You can run very close to proper zombies (or even through large groups) and your character will swat them around and break free. You can use this to escape when surrounded. Be warned, there's a small chance you'll trip and fall.
• Every chunk has a classification of what zombie type should spawn there. If you want to find firefighter zombies, go near a Fire Department. Migration and respawning seem to work for spawning the desired zombies, while forced movement with loud noises will not.
• If you disable respawn, no zombies will ever spawn or respawn on places you visited. When you activate an unvisited location (travel or sound) and the game loads that piece of the map, the game will load it with the population of the current day (be it before or after Peak Day).
• Zombies will only migrate from pieces of the map you have loaded.
• It takes a zombie 1 hour to die upon being set on fire.
• You can dispose of zombie corpses by dropping them over a campfire and them light it , it takes around 10 in-game minutes for all the corpses to burn. ^\By BulgarianCarThief)

Firearms

• Movement, panic and time between shots reduce your chances of scoring hits.
• You can shoot any firearm (and throw Molotov cocktails and bombs) from inside a vehicle seat as long as you open the window. You are allowed 360° of aim radius. Beware, you can take explosion damage from explosives while inside.
• You can rack/unload (X) and reload (R) a pump shotgun or revolver to gain Reloading skill experience without having to look at your inventory. You can queue the racks by pressing X as many times as you want.
• Firearms used inside a building are not equally loud to zombies located outside of it.
• Rifle rounds (.308) will overpenetrate and hit another zombie directly behind the target.

Melee Combat

• You can use melee weapons from inside a vehicle seat as long as you open the window. Including pushing and foot stomps.
• The resulting condition from crafting a Crafted Spear depends on your Carpentry level.
• You can repair a Spiked Baseball Bat with one nail. Subsequent uses will diminish the percentage of repair and success chance but even at 1% repair, you will regain some condition with repeated repairs.
• Stabbing Short Blades (Hunting Knife, Screwdriver, etc.) do not slow you down when walking backwards and have no minimum range (shove activation).
• Some weapons, particularly the heavy ones, increase your exhaustion faster when used than other, lighter weapons.
• Disassembling metal objects can yield, besides metal sheets and scrap, metal pipes and metal bars, which can be used as weapons. Yield depends on the object and metalworking skill. You need a propane torch and a welding mask. ^\By Lorenzo_BR)
• Strength influences the damage you do with melee weapons, foot stomps and the chances of knocking down zombies with the melee push. Strength gives 5% for each level to all melee attacks and a flat 0.2 increase to foot stomps. ^\By eirc)
• The shove knockdown chance happens to have a simple formula

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35 - 5 * endurance - 5 * load - 1.3 * panic + 2 * strength 

with the moodles going from 0 to 4 for each level and strength from 0 to 10. Interestingly knockdown happens as the result of a crit so this is the crit formula for shove. ^\By eirc)

Winter

• Only materials can be found while foraging.
• The freezing temperatures outside will not freeze your food.
• Plants will grow during winter, but slower depending on the temperature.
• Trapping isn’t affected. Fishing is reduced.
• Snow does not replenish your open water containers left outside nor waters your plants.

Helicopter

• During the day the helicopter will appear, a warning that reads “Air Activity Detected” will show up after the weather report on the Automated Emergency Broadcast System radio station. The event will start randomly through the day.
• Helicopter sound starts and stops 3 times. The sound source will move around your current location and has roughly the sound range of a house alarm (250 tiles radius).
• If zombies do not detect you, they will not try to get to you. They might however decide to take shortcuts thru doors, windows and player constructed walls and furniture, attacking them.

I'm looking for a 3+ CoOp game that I don't know even what to ask for. First off, this isn't for a child. I've got a friend that doesn't dive deep into games. We've played League of Legends and Warframe for a while until it got too hard/too late game and he had to start looking up guides and stuff and didn't want to do that.
We've as a group decided to move to coop for the pandemic and some salt issues. we played some 7 days to die, but he isn't enjoying that anymore as it gets "late game" and just becomes a grind for him, not enjoying any of the base building or other things. We are doing raft right now, but I get the feeling he is just along for the ride and won't be interested when automation comes into play.
The only genre really out of bounds is "puzzle* type games. The other one in the group refuses to try unrailed for it's 'puzzly' elements and I'm going to try it with other friends. We all play on PC and don't have matching consoles, so no console exclusives.

so I really went down this rabbit hole in the last 3 weeks and I see a bunch of nubs asking the same questions I’ve been asking myself for weeks so I thought I’d help out and weigh with in with some of my experience.
firstly, I see a lot of questions about fees.
yes! the fees to set up are Kind of absurd, but think of it as a start up investment.
the first fees come in the form of letting comp use your wallet. This is usually a few bucks.
Compound and other liquidity protocols reward borrows and lenders in the form of great rates and token. by removing banks as middlemen this is possible. It’s literal socialism and libertarianism in harmony. Anyways,
While in theory it would be awesome to collect interest on my $50 deposit of liquidity, in reality it’s not because the price of gas/eth for transactions right now. what is $50 really going to do to help borrowers? Nothing, so if it does nothing for the system why would it do anything for you?
The price of the smart contracts is a bitter pill to swallow if you’re fucking with less than I’d say $500-1000. depending on the coin, as a deposit OR a loan. I’ve seen it as low as 17 and as high as 70 depending on the traffic and gas rates.
eth Gas station is helpful, but not as much as I hoped. You should still use the site to huge the traffic at least. Works better to see if I should hold off a transaction rather than guide me on the cost I pay at that moment.
at first I couldn’t really see why I would want to borrow, but it’s incredible Really. Banks usually lend out your money you deposit into them at absurd interest rates, shave a sliver off the top for you and take shit tons of cash in fees from borrowers. In defi utopia land, I can now borrow against my own liquidity and speculate on other coins on other exchanges, short all kinds of coins, it’s amazing. Using aave, which is similar to comp, I shorted 0x tokens and it was a glorious feeling. Had it not been for the smart contract fees I’d have done a lot better than break even. Was super fun to do, and had I just added a zero of two to my original amounts, I’d have made a pretty penny.
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so the next big thing is what I suppose everyone refers to as liquidity mining, which is my new favorite term and can’t help but rofl every time I hear it. I’m a long time crypto user but only just getting back into it heavily after a few years and defi gives me the tingles.
after staring at these interest rates for 10 hours straight I realized I can borrow money off my deposit it back into the system and make out with a net gain despite the interest I pay for the loan. The comp token basically incentivizes this. I basically am being incentivized to deposit, borrow, depsosit, borrow. The net gain of interest and comp token is greater than the sole interest rate of my initial deposit
Why the fuck would I not do this? The banks loan at money they create out of thin air via fractional reserve banking, why can’t I? Feels illegal because in the traditional world, these incredible schemes and maneuvers are only accessible to the pink shorts Georgetown fucks. The empowerment defi gives to the little guy is pretty amazing. This shit is revolutionary, folks.
I can now use my credit card to pay for living expenses while never digging into my savings aka comp deposit. by borrowing off the deposit and earning comp reward I ultimately pay nothing for these comp earning loans and maintain my initial balance while earning interest. My initial deposit is never being interrupted. Totally different than when I’m poor and have to break into my savings for groceries. I use The comp loan to pay off my Credit card, and keep earning points on my card as well, lol. Credit cards are like 20-30% interest. A comp loan for eth is 2%, and like 8% for DAI. I can trade either to Coinbase and exchange for usd. Keep in mind the fees though. With half my initial comp deposits I can borrow both eth or DAI and use the balance of the two to mitigate my collateral ratio from falling into liquidation threshold
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I know I’m missing a few other things so if I remember or if anyone asks, I’ll follow up.
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by the way, I know nothing about finance. I’m a poor Jazz musician and I love to play magic cards. The parallels between magic the gathering and crypto Are Astonishing to say the least. Game theory, mt.gox, immutability, Turing completes, etc.
i use my friend’s Success at Friday night magic (precovid) to better understand the way I think comp is incentivizing me to use it:
my friend is really good at magic, He almost never loses at tournaments. similar to the way a day trader in crypto or finance can be good at trading and netting mostly gains, my friend just wins at Friday night magic against whomever he plays. His knowledge of the game is thorough, and can confidently navigate his way into in serial wins.
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i think comp allows it’s users that have made deposits to “go infinite” in the way my friend has at his local game store.
My friend made the initial investment of buying himself a good deck. Coupled with his confidence in His ability to win, and his statistical history of doing so, he wins more store credit than it costs to enter tournaments. he continues to accrue reward for his ability to make the right plays, and decisions in the form of store credit, and since he almost never loses. He reinvests his store credit into reserve list dual lands (will never be printed again/fixed supply I.e. another bitcoin/gold parallel) and as a result he continues to accrue huge amounts of profits based off good plays and good plays alone.
so basically comp opens up a world of possibility to working people (rich folks always had this opportunity) who may have the talent to make wise crypto trades that now can borrow off their initial investment when they want to pay for something instead of cracking open your savings. It’s brilliant.
I know this is what yield farming and liquidity mining is, but I think people are missing the implications of this 80 and how revolutionary this is. This can literally help poor people get out of debt, since no banks are squeezing the system dry, and interest rates are being redistributed in a fair way. I’m worried the powers that be are not happy that automation will replace bankers before farmers
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tl;dr: if your friend asked for some $ to pay for their bills and offered you interest, would you offer them $12 or the $500 they really need? Approach compound with this mindset. Gas is pricey, make it worth it.

Despite the series being a brazen critique of nationalism and unregulated capitalism, there's still a surprising amount of people unirionically agreeing with the parodies of their ideals. Today's spicy take is on how every once and awhile you'll find someone defending the Prewar United States.
Normally this is where'd I make an argument to counter this idea but... honestly I don't have to because the Fallout Wiki page for The Prewar United States Of America and the Fallout Bible passages it's citing are so unapologetic the argument makes itself.
Read the entire page for it if you have the time. Seriously. Otherwise, here are some choice quotes (all of these are direct and unedited by me beyond some bolding for emphasis and basic context in brackets):
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Type
Federal presidential constitutional republic (de jure)
Totalitarian unitary oligarchy (de facto)
the American government controlled by the military-corporate oligarchs abandoned the country shortly before the nuclear exchanges began
the United States began exerting pressure on Mexico, in order to protect their economic interests there, primarily the crude oil supply. The U.S. deliberately destabilized the country using economic sanctions, before invading the country outright. American military units seized oil refineries and infrastructure to ensure that the flow of crude oil did not cease.
Canada had also begun to feel the pressure exerted by its increasingly hostile neighbor.
The federal government attempted to use the increasing national paranoia to control the situation, by discouraging assemblies, fueling the anti-communist sentiment, and encouraging the reporting of subversive elements.[20] The Vigilant Citizen's Hotline was even established to allow hysterical citizens to report neighbors to the government for any behavior that could be construed as in support of communism.[21] The Third Red Scare unfolded as a response to the increased hostility of the People's Republic of China and its operations on American soil.[22]
This war also inadvertently triggered the gradual annexation of Canada, as the United States effectively forced its neighbor to grant the right of passage to American military forces.
The war consumed increasing amounts of resources, materiel, and manpower, straining the ailing American economy even further. To counteract this, the United States military had begun to liberally exploit Canadian resources. Protests from Ottawa in return towards this blatant intrusion were ignored, as Canada ultimately became little more than a territory of the United States.[35] Riots and protests eventually culminated in a sabotage attempt on an oil pipeline in 2072. The United States military used this incident as a pretext to outright invade Canada and begin annexation.
By the end of the month, the annexation of Canada was completed. Its provinces were put under martial law, and all protesters and rioters were shot on sight. Atrocities committed in the name of the Union made their way stateside, fermenting into anti-governmental sentiment.
In August, food and energy riots had begun breaking out in urban centers across the United States. A state of emergency and eventually martial law was declared, with U.S. military forces being deployed on the domestic front to fight their own countrymen. The United States effectively became a military junta.
[Image transcription of the broadcast from the original Fallout's opening] U.S. soldiers execute a Canadian partisan on national television. The military that controls the country at this point does not care about the outrage this imagery is going to spark.
the military junta in control of the United States deployed mechanized cavalry units to Canada and the United States in order to settle and prevent further sedition. Veterans of the Chinese and Alaskan fronts found themselves fighting their own countrymen, quelling riots and enforcing the national quarantine. Mounting civilian casualties snapped the loyalty of many soldiers, and desertions started to frequently occur.
Billions of dollars and thousands of casualties later, the war was once more at a stalemate with no clear victor or end in sight.
Another contributing factor was the increasingly dire food situation, with riots a regular occurrence. The United States Army servicemen deployed to protect food banks were known for responding to altercations with violence. One notable incident in Roxbury, Massachusetts, left four dead and eight wounded, after soldiers were laughing and picking targets out in the crowd well in advance. It was far from an exception.
Faced with a rapidly disintegrating nation, and with China backed into a corner, the oligarchs ruling the United State retreated to remote locations around the globe, expecting a last-ditch nuclear strike from China at any moment.
Bases across the United States were sealed and troops redeployed to feed more men into the meat grinder that the Chinese front became, thereby sustaining the American war effort.
By October, the United States had become virtually leaderless, continuing on simply from inertia.
All the offices of power across the United States were closed and dark, maintained by skeleton crews.
Within two hours, the United States had ceased to exist as a nation, with its cities vaporized within nuclear fireballs.[56] Abandoned by their leaders, the survivors began rebuilding on their own, while the oligarchs that controlled the country for so long ignored the suffering in their retreats. Those on the oil rig formed the Enclave, claiming to be the government of the United States, but not lifting a finger to help.
While the United States had been founded on the principles of liberty and justice for all, the reality of the 21st-century resource crisis and traumatic experiences, caused the nation to abandon these principles almost entirely. The fear of communism and economic collapse led to the population willingly complying with the gradual abrogation of civil rights; trading liberty for security.
While collusion between the executive branch and the corporations dominating the economy of the United States affected constitutional freedoms, the transition towards a totalitarian state began in earnest with the Sino-American War. Wartime censorship enabled the government to confiscate and indiscriminately destroy any material deemed seditious.
Many publications became outlets for propaganda, used to mock non-nationalist sentiments and protesters.
Organized labor and unions came under heavy attack from both the government and the corporations. Repression was particularly severe in Appalachia, a strategic region supplying raw materials for the war effort and a crucible of widespread automation. Hornwright Industrial Mining Company, Atomic Mining Services, and RobCo Industries, supported by Appalachia's Governor Evans, pushed for replacing human labor with robotics, leaving thousands of workers out of jobs, fueling widespread social unrest and impoverishing the population, made worse by the Wartime Workers Act. The unrest culminated in the Appalachian mining riots of late 2077, which saw regular combat between workers and government and corporate enforcers.[63] However, even before that explosion, the totalitarian state was abusing and murdering their citizens: The United States Navy facility at Sugar Grove was a fine example of this tendency, engaging in covert surveillance of US citizens, identifying labor activists and other "traitors", which usually led to abduction, murder without trial, and any surviving children being put up for adoption by loyalist families.
Under Executive Order 99066, Chinese and Chinese-American citizens and residents were interned and placed in concentration camps without trial, sometimes by private security contractors hired by the military to conduct what were essentially abductions.[65] The Turtledove Detention Camp in Maryland was one such camp, forcing the inmates to live in squalid conditions without access to proper sanitation facilities and its inmates being subjected to abuse, torture, and brutal interrogations.[66] Eventually, the Order was used as grounds for imprisoning any and all dissidents at the military's discretion. Many ended up disappearing in the various research facilities across the United States, used as guinea pigs in various research projects fueling the war effort.
The declaration of martial law nationwide in 2076 marked the completion of this gradual process; the military had finally been given free rein and total control over the state security apparatus and public affairs. Military units were deployed to quell riots and enforce the quarantine, answering only to their own chain of command.
the annexation of Canada added a large population of disgruntled residents to the United States, victims of nearly a decade-long abuse by American military and its corporations.[35] Protests and rioting did little to stay the iron hand of their new American masters.[36] Martial law instituted in the wake of the annexation earlier in 2076 allowed the U.S. military to shoot protesters and rioters without consequence. Canada was brought to heel, although the atrocities committed in the name of the American people were leaked stateside, leading to unrest and protests despite the best efforts of American propagandists
The government of the United States of the 21st century had strayed far from the principles of governance enshrined within the Constitution of the United States, becoming an oligarchy with the characteristics of a military junta by 2077. Civil rights and liberties were increasingly curtailed in the name of national security and the war effort, until all pretense of a democratic order was dropped in late 2076, in the face of an open revolt by allies, neighbors, soldiers, and civilians. The state of emergency and then martial law granted the military and corporations total control over the country formalizing an existing state of affairs,[43] not unlike the annexation of Canada: When the fact was announced in 2077, it was largely a formality, as United States consistently exploited Canadian resources without regard for Ottawa's opinions since 2069.
The reason the military and civilian government stayed in power was in part due to Project Brainstorm, the "Induced Patriotism Initiative". Pervasive propaganda designed to instill nationalist sentiment and loyalty in the citizenry had been developed as part of the Sino-American War; a combination of overt and subtle messages integrated into popular media published nationwide had been successful in developing jingoism in the population. This provided the military with increased enlistment rates, and thus a continuous source of new soldiers to throw at their Chinese enemies, as well as an increased tolerance for excesses of the state.
the balance of power was still predictably shifted towards the Department of Defense and the military. The legislative and judiciary branches of government were severely hampered in the execution of their constitutional oversight, subordinated to the goals of the executive. A separate federal agency, the Political Office, was set up to handle investigations into internal affairs, much like Soviet commissariats.[69] The agency was empowered to arrest and allocate the interned persons for any purpose it saw fit
They [the Commonwealths] were intended to help create legislation broad enough to benefit those states with common regional concerns, but narrow enough not to affect those states with dissimilar interests or political cultures. The reality refused to conform, as the commonwealths did everything to promote their own interests at the expense of other commonwealths
As an increasingly militarist superpower, the United States had given priority to its armed forces, which asserted increasing control over law enforcement and public affairs. Bolstered by a jingoist culture, widespread propaganda, and pervasive domestic espionage efforts through the Defense Intelligence Agency and black projects of the various branches,[77] the military-controlled by the Department of Defense was one of the pillars of the American regime, supported by a network of vigilant citizens reporting suspected sedition and crime.
Private security companies were also contracted to perform arrests and round up civilians, completely blurring the line between the public and private sectors.
Though based on the principles of a free market and open competition, the crisis allowed a handful of mega-corporations to seize control and establish a practical monopoly in key sectors of the American and even world economy. Many of these corporations became so deeply involved and integrated in the nation's infrastructure, that trying to decide where the corporation ended and the state began, became a largely academic discussion. As a result, the corporations effectively acted as sovereign nations unto themselves. Exploitative and abusive labor practices were the norm
Worse yet, as a strategic defense contractor for the government, Vault-Tec's affairs and all related publications (including, for example, the Vault Dweller's Survival Guide) were protected by the New Amended Espionage Act and any whistleblowing attempts would likely hurt the whistleblower more than the corporation.
It [Poseidon Energy] had a near-monopoly on the energy market in the United States, controlling nuclear power plants, exploitation of remaining oil fields, and even sustainable energy projects, like HELIOS One. It hid its involvement by operation through numerous companies established as fronts to influence and eventually control key industries.
The war with China also allowed smaller companies considered vital to the war effort to cut support for their workers by a considerable margin. Workman's compensation was among many staples of labor law suspended as part of the war effort, denying vital support to laborers injured in the course of their work.[85] The deteriorating economy also made it easier for corporations to take advantage not just of their employees, but also of the general public.
The mildest example of collusion was the ability of corporations to advertise directly to members of Congress and the House of Representatives. Companies from Nuka-Cola to the Red Racer tricycle company were able to purchase advertising airtime on the Presidential metro PA system.
Of course, giving corporations free rein did not alter the harsh reality of an imminent economic collapse.
However, voluntary compliance with government control was not enough. Critical defense contractors were effectively nationalized without compensation, by being put under military command – as was the case with West Tek's Californian facility.

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All of this is just from the United States' main wiki page. Nothing from the pages on the US Military or The Resource Wars or The Enclave. Just the main one.
Yeah... Prewar USA was a trash fire in a dumpster fire in a wildfire.
Given the current... militarization and unrest in the US you may have seen some parallels. Again: most of this stuff came from the Fallout Bible back in 2002. It wasn't intended as a commentary on current affairs, it just... depressingly happened to work out that way.
The historical influence goes the other way too of course, taking from the past. The killing of protesters by federal troops at the federal ration stockpile in Massachusetts is likely influenced by The Boston Massacre. The Automation Riots of Appalachia where US troops and private contractors use lethal force against organizing miners are almost certainly influenced by the events of The Coal Wars such as The Battle For Blair Mountain and The Ludlow Massacre. The Third Red Scare was, obviously, influenced by the first two. The US pressuring, sanctioning then annexing of Mexico and Canada are likely influenced by... well, take your pick on that one cause it's a loooong list. The series' Chinese Internment Camps are propagated through Executive Order 9066, which is real and was used for the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II.
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In conclusion, it's interesting to see how something presented so brazenly negatively as Prewar USA can still have supporters. Is it leftover goodwill for the real-world USA they're projecting onto the fictional one? Is it an inability to recognize the in-game shallow propaganda as propaganda and just take it at face value? Is it that they buy into the Red Scare and assume anything opposing Communism in inherently good? Is it because they are aware of the atrocities of the Prewar USA and just agree with them? I don't know, but it's fun food for thought.
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Further interesting reading from the Fallout Wiki:
Wartime Worker's Act
Food Riots
Automation Riots
Little Yangtze and Turtledove Detention Camp
The Enclave - Ideology and Foreign Relations