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Tom Salyers
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Dual US/UK citizen. Amateur Shakespeare expert and software developer. I do terrible things to databases with Python.
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October 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I was raised on 80s science fiction, so I was mostly prepared for things to turn into a dystopia.

What I wasn't prepared for, though, was that it would be so goddamned *dumb*.
July 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
God, Musk even does *that* like a dork-ass loser. If he'd been around in Nazi Germany, the other Nazis would have pantsed him and spat in his beer for laughs. He would have found a way to make the Hugo Boss uniforms look baggy and ill-fitting somehow.
January 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
QG: "You'll have to carry her on your back."
Me: "....why am I strapping a 120-pound dead woman to my back and *walking* there? We are standing in a garage literally full of off-road-worthy vehicles that could--"
QG: "Oohsorrycutsceneisovergoodluckwiththecremationbye!"

(4/4)
November 17, 2024 at 12:15 AM
The logistics of this aren't really questioned in the game, but in my head it went something like this:

Quest giver: "The incinerator is half a mile west of the city for safety reasons. You'll need to take the corpse there."
Me: "Okay, fine. How do I transp--"

(3/4)
November 17, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Very long story (very) short, the game takes place in a post-apocalyptic America where if someone dies, you've got about 48 hours to cremate the corpse before a catastrophic city-destroying explosion happens. One of your first tasks is to take care of one of these cremations. (2/4)
November 17, 2024 at 12:15 AM