Every chief needs their this ain’t it-ers. It is written.

Game overall probably not worth full price because parts feel sort of underbaked (kind of insane given how long it was in development?). I’d recommend once it goes on sale tho. Geniunely good and fun plot that’s a good execution on the ‘supernatural noir mystery’ thing that they attempt

Yeah I uhh, maybe should have waited to finish the game before making that assessment.

there's also the problem of bandwidth: for the stochastic shit to be a reliable mechanism of control it needs to scale. and there's only so many people he can broadcast as having been VERY DISRESPECTFUL to the fever swamps.

"be pro trump and you won't get death threats, be anti-trump and you will" is vague and general and sustained. "vote this way on bill xyz" is not. he can't guarantee you won't get death threats if you cooperate!

Hey gang, update on previous post of mine “Time to turn my previously prosperous and stable country into a land of wolves, because I will, obviously, always have the sharpest teeth and strangest bite!”. Ok, so I’ve done a lot of thinking, a lot of listening…

He remembers Kirsch, a few days ago, looking over it and nodding approvingly, whistling. 'Brother, your bankers hired people who know what they're doing for this. This is good shit, saves us a lot of time.' And that probably is what happened. Someone connected enough to know Albert could do that.

Still though. The doubts remain. Sitting in the pit of his stomach like cold little stones. Normally comfortable and urbane Albert, looking and smelling like he'd been living out of a backpack, a gun on his hip. The detailed prep work, the sophistication and thoroughness of it.

By the time he reaches their staging area he's almost talked himself into believing that. It is a valid read of the facts. Probably the most likely one. He's confident the truck is transmitting something. Its behavior makes no sense otherwise. The explanation for what it's transmitting is plausible

Hell, the existence of The Glass itself is testament to the fact that this is a live border for a sorta-war that hasn't officially ended. All of the good feelings of recent years don't change that. So there's obviously some military presence. Just like Idaho or in Nevada, the fed part. Coincidence.

AZ is increasingly asking/telling the feds to move that kind of stuff further east as well. It's the main policy ask that the Calis have in the border talks, for obvious reasons. The feds object & make noise, but one set is more amenable to it, & when things are swinging their way it happens some.

It's probably nothing, he tells himself as he drives back west. The roadport has lots of clients. Probably just a coincidence. And it isn't even the really large base with the scary stuff, the one where if The Big Day ever comes things will probably kick off. Some kind of small support annex.

It has some private storage berths for smaller individual operations, the kind of thing where you pay monthly for secure parking & maintenance access. That's probably where the truck is berthed.

And then, at the bottom of the list of clients in one pamphlet, almost casual: a federal military base.

The center is blandly corporate. He picks up more pamphlets, studies the client list posted on the wall. The roadport services a couple of factories and industrial parks in the region. The regional airport used to be there, but as things pick back up they've reopened their own shuttered facility.

He gives it an hour, then drives over. Pulls up to the gate like he's got business there, asks the guard about services. The guard is bored, helpful enough. Gives him a pamphlet, points to the visitor center if he wants to arrange an account.

There's a fence, a gate with a guard who checks credentials. He parks at a charge station across the highway, watches through binoculars as the convoy disappears into the facility. Big buildings, maintenance bays, what looks like secure storage. Professional operation.

Too many truck stops and service centers spread too thin. So now as things pick up again, there are these centralized ports for places that do large cargo transit routinely. Hub and spoke model, regional coverage. Marco can't get into the roadport itself.

The convoy pulls into what the signage calls a roadport. Some kind of centralized facility for processing and maintaining large vehicles. After interstate trade dried up during The Collapse and there was less travel, less legal travel at least, a lot of capacity withered on the vine.