Courtney (she/her/they)

Especially in Ohio…

Miles Edward O’Brien lives rent free in my head. As he should in everyone’s. He’s the most important person in starfleet history.

For more modern and corporal people, I just try to avoid things that make me think about a person, or minimize contact as much as possible. To varying degrees of success… Eventually they’ll fade.

Unlike O’Brien.

Yeah it should be Ohio, or one of the states surrounding Mississippi (whom all say “thank God for Mississippi” when looking at their low stats)

Never compare your everyday with someone else’s claimed high points. Comparison is the thief of joy.

I was definitely happy while using my propane forge. Can confirm.

I’ve needed a bridge guy twice in my life.

Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that its happened twice.

I downloaded a mod that adds in some tracked vehicles from the 80s, and while the mod needs a little work for spawns (random houses should not have apcs and tanks lol) I did manage to find a cargo apc at one of the military checkpoints, and have been loading it up with a ton of mechanics stuff and things to grow food. I still have a few days before the water and power start going out, but I’m hoping to find some generators while I’m out. I definitely need to start grabbing every container I can for gas and make my way to some of the gas stations.

I modified the sandbox a bit for this run, because I’m tired of apocalypse games deciding that there’s no gas anywhere the day the apocalypse starts. Sorry but people don’t just leave cars in their garages with no gas in them. Nobody lets their car run out of gas intentionally. Gas stations aren’t constantly at risk of being completely empty. I used to live near a gas station in the middle of nowhere. The kind of place that Still had 80s style pumps in the 00s. I woke up every morning the gas truck drove by and had to shimmy to get the trailer in the right spot. They got filled every other week, sometimes longer.

So I decided for this run, cars almost always have gas, with the occasional completely empty tank. Stations got set between “low” and whatever the one right below full is, with a 12% chance of the station being completely empty. (assuming I understand the spawning stuff for it anyway) I still have to siphon gas from multiple cars to fill one tank of gas completely, but it feels more realistic than “150 cars and only one even had an ounce of gas” that I seemed to be getting before.

Also the number of cars seems very low, I don’t remember much of the 90s but I know people had tons of cars still…

Regardless, it’s a great game whether you play vanilla or modded.

I really enjoy the “6 months later” type. For those I like to role-play as someone who’s been stuck in one place for awhile and comes out to find the world is gone.

Claymore roombas are too destructive against non-targets.

Claymore rc cars are where it’s at. Transmitters motors and batteries are cheap or can even be scavenged to an extent.

Drive that motherfucker up to the target and click

“tracking women’s menstrual cycles is fine, but I draw the line at tracking men’s broken penises!” - someone at the FTC, apparently.

I have recieved more compliments girlmoding in the last 4 months than I ever did boymoding in the almost 20 years between highschool and beginning transition.

To the random woman with dark red hair who said my hair looked good on me in 2008, I still remember the feeling.

I couldn’t even tell you why the last person complimented me though. It doesn’t feel the same since I get them more often.

I liked this game well enough, but it’s clearly made to play with other people, and I have no friends who would be interested in playing. The only friends who even game anymore are a couple who play among us almost exclusively.

PZ build 42 would have been perfect for my friend group of 10 years ago.