BaSx Audio Diary Analysis

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* See also Burial_at_Sea
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* See also SPECIAL_BAS2_ANALYSIS
fix sort these by who the recorder is
RetCon Warning - The Audio Diaries in BaS got really ridiculous trying to recycle the Previous game's content (badly), and to try to shoehorn in the Elizabeth stuff ( and assorted multi-dimension/Infinite BS Crap ) into a rather narrow timeframe.
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Tears Appearing in Rapture :
Morris Lauderman, Owner of Silver Fin, supposedly early Nov 1958 ( note- some Audio Diary dates are pretty dodgey or outright stupid/defective - as in - wasn't Fontaine's a Prison by that date ?? ) :
"And before I knew it, Ryan had me bounced out of my own restaurant -- and that Korean had the run of the place. It was a good business, I tell you. I never shoulda told anyone about that light; about those weird buildings I saw, floatin' in the clouds. And most of all, I never should have told no one about that girl who showed up one day... in that old-timey blue dress."
SO he could have kept his restaurant open while these 'things' were happening in it ?? - Yeah, that would have been good... 
Yeah, Ryan is such a fricken meanie. That Audio Diary recorder's BIAS so beloved of the game's manipulative writers - This guy is whining when his restaurant is in the middle of a Prison by that time ( This is dated ( a sloppy writer mistake ???? ) a month and a half AFTER the big 'Shootout' and Fontaine's criminals were being locked up there in the 'Department Store' prison . So his business was all going (had gone) down the crapper anyway, NO ? Just wait a little bit longer Morris, and maybe you will be killed by Atlas's terrorists running rampant in that demented-writer's idea of 'a prison'.
(( This is what happens with DLC shoddyness, when the DLC writers don't even bother to look at the original game's timeline details. Or Kennyboi bothering to 'check the work' ... ))
SO Dr Suchong has yet another project ... Is HE the only extraordinary 'Super-Scientist' expert in Rapture ??? (( This is "name-dropping" common low-effort practice in DLC, where they don't want to create any NEW characters, and lazily attach inappropriate extra things to previously existing personalities -- Suchong was a medical doctor and geneticist, not a quantum scientist or engineer. Note - Suchong previously( BS1 Lore) called such things "Bullshit. Audio Diary "The_Vita_Chamber" by Suchong - Transcript: "Initial Deployment, Vita-Chamber/Client Ryan Industries. Stage one is complete. Sinclair and Alexander tried to explain the science to me, but Suchong does not believe them. They keep saying Plasmid reconstruction this and quantum entanglement that, and then poof, dead people come back to life. Bullshit! Of course, Ryan will only allow it to be tuned to his genetic frequencies for the testing..." ))
Correcting This : How long had this 'Tear' stuff been going on in Rapture. Hard to keep it secret and out of the Press But then the whole ADAM nasty side-effect was amazingly unseen until 'Poof' it is rampaging in Rapture once Ryan is the one running the 'genetic show' ( and gets the blame ). It HAS to be awhile for it IF Suchong can 'look through them' (Tears) before he can understand enough to potentially manipulate/enginreer them ( He is at least given a few weeks to do stuff like that, and THEN amazingly build his own interdimensional/timetravel 'Tear' machinery, etc... AS IF THAT'S SOME KIND OF PLAUSIBLE story machination )
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Perhaps THE Whole thing ( For the purposes of our REDO CORRECTION creating a sane Infinite-uncontaminated Rapture ) is that some bad Hallucinogens released by accident or somesuch ( Maybe it is another Fontaine disruptive tactic ). THAT'S Much Much, logical and easier than trying to Rationalize all this BAD Fantasy Bullshit these lame/sloppy gamewriters introduced in the DLC.
(( Idea - There SHOULD be another recording or document found somewhere mentioning that "Morris Lauderman" was killed by some Crazy Vox coming out of a Tear later, when he went back to the Silver Fin after the happenings of BaSx. ))
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Audio Diary : Loose Talk On Market Street :
Man: "How is Ryan taking over Fontaine's business any different than, say, eminent domain? It's just the hand of government coming down on the individual."
Woman: "Fontaine was a criminal."
Man: "By whose standards? Ryan's? I prefer when the judge doesn't profit off the penalty."
(( Note- the Smuggling crime isn't mentioned, nor the attacking/murdering City Authorities sent to arrest him, nor the possible restitution to Fontaine's victims, nor the need to keep Fontaine Futuristics producing ADAM. One liner 'conversations' might be fine for 'color' in a game, but really aren't very good for explaining 'backstory'. ))
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Woman: "The Great Chain guides all of our efforts... Even if we can't see it, it's there…"
Man: "Was it the Great Chain who took over Fontaine Futuristics ? Sorry, lady, but I ain't buying."
(( Note- Fontaine Futuristics continued and provided further ADAM products to keep many Rapture citizens from mentally imploding, and under Ryan was working on improving the ADAM to minimize side effects - soon with the demand caused by Atlas's Terrorism in Rapture. ))
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REMEMBER the trouble and potential panic Atlas supposedly had caused by declaring there was an ADAM shortage in Rapture??? ( That statement was before the Kashmir Massacre and other bombings showed Atlas to be a Terrorist ). SO Fontaine Futuristics ( apparently Rapture's Major ADAM supplier ) should be allowed to collapse ? And ADAM product productions to be curtailed ?? REMEMBER that the game plot said how Addicted 'everyone' was supposed to be already ?? (Despite no mention in Rapture's Press about that rather important situation ...) Unfortunately there IS a problem with 'Massive dangerous Addiction', yet this major Crisis allegedly ( and conveniently for the BS1 story ) crept up on everyone so VERY suddenly - as per that contrived ( "Ryan is the problem" ... ) plot narrative.
Yes, the writers sloppily had it both ways to fit their storyline.
So again, years later (in BaSx's writing), the writers spew out yet more game details which should have been checked AND CORRECTED by someone before they wound up in the DLC game. (( It seems like no one of the Infinite BS DLC writing/design crew much played or remembered the earlier games (nor bothered to cross-check their details with someone who had). ))
'Writers' Free-wheeling it, conflicting with already existing Canon is just POOR writing.
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Manta Ray Lounge - Atlas's Soup Kitchen : 
(The Audio Diary there (C'est La Vie) says FONTAINE ('Atlas') is in charge of this for some reason ... A lackey knowing who Atlas is ... )
Johnny Demarco ( Housewares ) : "Louie ! Louie, Louie, Louie, Louie ... Hey, if you don't get down here soon, there's not gonna be an ounce of booze or a piece of ass for the taking ! Sometimes I think you've taken this whole Robin Hood business a bit too much to heart. Fontaine's got us out there ladling soup for the purpose of building an army -- not to share the milk of human kindness. You keep up this kind of behavior, I'm gonna start thinking there's more red in you than Karl Marx. *Pounding outside on door* What ? The hell ? Splicers... They're busting in! Hurwitz! *Gunshots* Tell Fontaine the perimeter's compromised and -- *Cuts off* "
Fontaine as Atlas probably had needed some 'muscle' from his old crew to setup his new 'persona'. Any one of those half-crazy people/Splicers he was dealing with, the thugs/criminals/terrorists in the department store, 'might as just as well shoot him, as 'follow' him' -- unless Atlas had some assistance in convincing them. Words aren't always enough, and these aren't 'the downtrodden'/'the desperate' that his revolutionary words worked on elsewhere. ( These people KNOW a fraud when they see one ). He also might not be as convincing in his disguise to people who had seen/known Fontaine previously. Bribes which often only work temporarily were thus used. No doubt, those followers who knew his REAL identity would eventually be 'disposed of', as a liability to his 'con'.
If this is not a 'BOTCH' by the game's writers, then this would be more evidence of Fontaine's new (revised) "Moron-IQ" Persona : Taking alot of risks of 'giving himself away', while trapped in a Prison, and likely being 'watched'/monitored.
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YES - STUPID STATEMENTS MADE :
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Sunk 5000 fathoms below Ryan's shining city, says Atlas in BaS2 :
Sorry, 6 feet per fathom makes that 30000 feet. That's water pressure at 1000 atmospheres or 14000 lb/in^2 ( 7 tons of weight pushing in on EVERY square inch of EVERY building/window/etc ... 600 feet down was technologically bad enough. )
So perhaps more a 'saying' ( perhaps from some Sander Cohen TV Show ... )
Atlas would be fishfood paste if his 'Prison' was sunk to a teenie-tiny fraction of that Depth --- Crushville ... "Flat as a pancake" As "Sergeant Shultz" in "Hogans Heroes" would say .... - A sudden collapse like a sledgehammer squashing an egg.
A Ludicrous statement, so it must be some common Rapture saying - maybe a punch line from a well-known Sander Cohen Comedy (possibly some awful double entendre).
Besides, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean is off Puerto Rico, and it is about 28000 feet deep ( The Marianas Trench down to 36000 ft deep is in the Pacific ).
"Against Stupidity, the Gods themselves stand Powerless" - Roman Proverb ( appropriate to this line being taken literally ). (( That 'Roman' may have foretold future 'hack writers' and dim game makers ))
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 "False Advertising" (Audio Diary Analsys) :
Herschel Weiss ( In Fontaine's Department Store, in BaSx ) 
"Oh, you're not gonna out-lawyer me on this one, Ryan. You knowingly promoted Old Man Winter with the implication it produced ice -- not dry ice ! The ice sculpture we commissioned for this year's gala at the Kashmir stands where we left it, a month later, all 2500 pounds of it ... And who's still footing the room rental ? Oh, not you, you son of a bitch..."
WTF ? The 'Ice Scuplture' Kerfuffle - Some BaSx Spliced Idiots Recording Their Rants ? :
Some really Weird reasoning here. In Real Life Real Life is something all the DLC writeres really need to pay some attention to ... Or be labled "lazy dimwits" . : You take a sledge hammer, bust it up, and haul it away in a wheel-barrow or even buckets. Is this guy supposed to be in business of some kind ??? ( If he was smart he could probably use the dry ice for something, or sell it ... OR save this ( dim-writer-ignorance ) eternally-unmelting ice statue for his next business's gig. ) 
This is basic reality the buffoon writers are ignoring for their Sloppy/Quickly-Written little DLC scenarios. Dry Ice actually DOES melt, and after a month even a chunk that big would be LONG gone ( Hope the ventilation was on, cuz the CO2 is an asphyxiation hazard in a close space ). "Dry Ice" is NOT some Superman/StarTrek fictional material ( like that Ryanium was supposed to be ). 
NOTE - Real Life : Dry Ice does 'MELT' - It "Effervesces" ( evaporate directly from a solid to a gas when it warms up. ) SO, who wrote this goofy ignorant stuff ? (( I blame the decline of the Public Schools and Touchy Feely Curriculums which don't teach actual 'Science' any more. ))
ALSO, Isn't it all the Kashmir restaurant's problem ?? ( This bizarre 'unmelting' table decoration ). If they ordered it, then it is their problem, not this guys, NO ? Yeah and why is he mad at Ryan ? Wasn't this Plasmid made by Fontaine (and why is a party going on during the 'civil war' chaos or after 'Fontaines Dept Store' was shut down as part of the big crime investigation and 'prison' situation) ?? (( Those DLC writers needed some coordination - "THE BUCK STOPS ON LEVINE'S DESK" (or should have) )).
AND Why would Ryan have anything to do with this guy. ( "Blame Ryan" is the game's dim Mantra - Leftover from the 'Follow Your Pal Atlas' logically-weak Twist manipulation crap in BS1 ). In any sane reality, some far Lower business tier underling would be the complaint contact, whatever the problem. ( But you see, Ryan did 'everything' and was responsible for 'everything' bad in the simpleton's mind The game writers implications pushed onto the haplas Players in order to stage their WEAK story Twist ... --- "Evil evil Ryan !!!" ).
Seriously, People in Rapture weren't suppose to be IGNORANT MORONS Like the game writers assume the Players are .... Use a sledge hammer and a wheelbarrow and any simpleton could have it gone in 1-2 hours max ( including their potty and lunch breaks ). Is this the type of useless person who came to Rapture ?? Makes ME wonder if its more 'telling' about the intelligence of people who write this stuff ( or their general lack of knowledge about the Real World -- OR is it just being the same crew who did the absurd Infinite BS fantasy ??? ).
For the MMORPG, THIS would be used as a Splicer Rant - part of a delusional episode indicating how people started to come apart under the influence of Fontaine's Poison-laced products. There would be better indicators that this Herschel Weiss guy is Splicer_Addled : Progressively getting more and more unstable and later commits some heinous crime in an insane ADAM rage ( Takes an ice-pick to a Little Sister, and winds up a bloody stain on the wall via an outraged attendant Big Daddy ).
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For False_Advertising "for this year's gala" - THAT is something other than the New Years party ? ( Nov 10 would obviously have it conflict IF it isn't some OTHER 'Gala' - Which is a possibility. Nov 5 is the Anniversary of Rapture's "Founding"(?) -- that date is on those commemorative things Rapture_november_5_1946_display.jpg ) 
But it can't be that, if this stupid ice-thing still 'standing after a month', which would put the 'Gala' around Oct 5th and a little earlier than that, Herschel Weiss would HAVE to be complaining to Fontaine. (( Seems there were just too many things (in the BaSx DLC) which the writers tried to cram into the middle of that whole short timespan. ))
Maybe it was supposed to be 'Accu-recorded' around Dec 5th (to align with a Rapture Anniversary 'gala' ????
>>>>> (have to cross check then what all else THAT date might then conflict with)
Sept 12 - Oct 5th (even to Dec 5th) - Seems hardly enough time to fit Ryan's "takeover" ( after the Neptune's Bounty Incident and Fontaine's 'death' ) to even have the paperwork filed, let alone the Fontaine Futuristics employees being first screened and put back to work ( not to mention to fix whatever damages the big Splicer fight BaSx added at FF did, and any important employees who got killed/fled ).
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Audio Diary Analysis "The_Greatness_of_Dr._Brigid_Tenenbaum" :
Seriously, 'Kinetoscopes' in 1940s/1950s Rapture ? DLC Lameness/Infinite BS Regurgitation ...
Presentation : "Are you in the know ? Innovation and competition are what fuel Rapture. But that fuel can be diluted with rumor or flat-out lies. The rumormonger asks, "What are these so-called splicing side-effects ?" Well, take a look around you. Do you see anything wrong with your neighbor ? The rumormonger asks, "Why has Tenenbaum withdrawn from the public's eye ?" Dr. Tenenbaum is a scientific mind unparalleled, even in Rapture. She is no doubt in her lab, toiling away at her next great innovation. "I heard she was in cahoots with Fontaine." Merely slander from jealous naysayers. Remember, Rapture competes through innovation, not cheap shots. Brigid Tenenbaum is a woman who represents the best of science and industry. In other words, she's a Rapture gal ! Now you know."
So when DID the side-effects start ? Why didn't they start ? Many were HARD TO MISS. How many people actually WERE using ADAM for the 'Addiction' to become apparent to all ( isn't THAT a side-effect too ?? )
A DLC POST POST BS1 BS2 regurgitation. Is this some more writer spew trying to imply that "Ryan Didn't Care" ?? And That HE Was covering side-effects up to make a buck ?? Did he really NEED murderous Crazies disrupting his city (( Jeopardizing everything thing he had built ? There is a SERIOUS lack of logic on the writer's part here. )) 
If there WERE major side effects, Rapture's Free Press would have jumped on it and shouted it so loud they would hear it up on the Surface ( Note - this isn't 'civil war' Rapture with Journalism restrictions YET). Did Ryan ever NEED to make money at the cost of the Citizen's Sanity ?? ( Or with crazies causing damage far more than ANY profits he might make ?????? ) 
But the other half of the storyline SHOWS criminally insane Crazies (that early) locked up in that Department Store Prison -- writer stupidity in itself -- BEFORE the Kashmir Incident even happened. You (hack writers) can't have it both ways and have your writing be called 'good'.
Fontaine unleashing MONSTERS on Rapture in the Neptune Bounty Shootout - which WOULD have been loudly trumpeted in Rapture's Press ( and such Press coverage NOT being stopped by Ryan who needed at that time to justify His/The City's taking down the dangerous-criminal Fontaine. )
Maybe very few people actually used ADAM ? And the warping/damaging effects of the much more complex Weaponized Plasmids weren't mainstream yet ? Whichever way the reality went, the writers cannot have it both ways. Perhaps the (third-string) DLC writers/managers didn't much Care about sticking to previous Canon -- or to logic in general.
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Doesn't this ALSO contradict the Canon that had Tenenbaum 'Renounce' her involvement in The Little Sisters project (I would assume publicly) and then disappear. Followed by some 'slander' being done in the Rapture Press, and bringing up her Nazi Collaborator past, etc ... ??? ( That's ignoring the WHOLE ISSUE that this was too early for Little Sisters to even exist at THIS POINT IN TIME ).
DLC MultiPlayer splash-pages might not be a great 'Canon' evidence :
* "TENENBAUM VANISHES... Allegedly Renounces Little Sister Program - Mental Stability Questioned ..." 
* "LIBERATOR... OR MONSTER? Former Nazi Scientist Abducting Little Sisters ..." 
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Was Tenenbaum all that much in the public's eye any more ?? Rapture's Brightest and ... (was Early Rapture PR) ? This 'kinetoscope' would be when she THEN worked for Ryan. This seems contrary to the way she is presented in the games, and in the Rapture Novel where she was alot more reclusive in her work. 
Maybe there was a whole sequence of TV commercials (which we never saw) with her Hard Selling the ADAM products as spokesman - As a Host and during commercial breaks of "The Fontaine Futuristics Theater", Or the "Brigit Tenenbaum Show" or somesuch ... ( Hmm kinda Unlikely - More a Job for Sinclair I'd think. ) Of course that would also have to be within the mere ~3 months since the City Council took over Fontaine Futuristics and before the Kashmir Massacre changed everything (Such Improbability will be fixed in the MMORPG, which won't have any FANTASY/absurd event time-compression which that Infinite BS game was rife with -- SO NO). 
OR WORSE (for the writers) it implied that there WAS serious competition to Fontaine's ADAM business ALREADY - so not a monopoly - with price wars/competition/diluted market greatly lowering Fontaine's profits - he's not really the Al Capone type the writers pretended he was like ( TOO LITTLE MONEY - thus no HUGE economic power in Rapture ).
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(( This DLC - Its Way too sloppy on details. ))
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Cohen and Orphans, Orphans and Cohen ...
Audio Diary Analysis : Doing_Well_by_Doing_Good
Sander Cohen, BaS1 :
"Ryan's been good to me ... Few are the patrons who truly understand the struggle of the artist. But even I was a little leery when he shuttered Fontaine's business and sent that bald buck to a grave deep in the briny. But when Ryan buried all of Fontaine's pals in that 'department store', someone had to find a home for all those freshly minted orphans. And if I turned a dollar or two in the process, you can hardly blame me for doing well by doing good."
First : More 'Sunk BS'.
Second : Fontaine Futuristics could not 'close' if ADAM was to continue be produced to sate the city's addicts.
BaS : The Little Sisters Orphanages were integral to the operation of Fontaine Futuristics, which WAS NOT shut down -- Remember Ryan 'took over'/'SEIZED' the company. So, how does this work now IF Ryan 'Took over' / 'Seized' Fontaine Futuristics, but it had no source of ADAM any longer ? "Yes, lets throw all the Sea-Slug-infested children onto the streets --- What a perfect PR coup that will be !!!"
"Protectors' to the rescue ? But those are useless without the children. So I guess they really weren't 'thrown out onto the streets' like they said in BaS ???? --- Just more 'mean ole ryan' bent storyline.
Sander Cohen, who very much liked his ADAM cocktails ( or 'secret sauce' as he called it), might realize that he now could get ahold of these allegedly 'closed down' orphanages and run his own ADAM 'farm'. ( Wasn't Ryan always telling people to 'Cut out the Middleman' ??? ) Again, this is something all supposedly done in about 3 months time ( from Fontaine's death Sep 15 to New Years ). We cannot be clear on the details - like If Sander Cohen was pimping them out, or he sold them on to ADAM bootleggers, or other nefarious actions. ( After the first few children, turning them into Plasterpiece statues 'Just Got Old' ... )
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==Building the Impossible==
DLC Writers Ignorance About 'Aluminium' and Construction
Andrew Ryan : "Of course, the buildings are being fabricated above the waves. But we will lower them on a 'Lunette Ring', submerged into the structure's steel frames. "So much steel!" you wonder. "How will we keep so large a purchase from the government ?" Water is buoyant. We shall not frame Rapture in steel, but in aluminium. The government jackals may suspect me of building an air force -- but never a city."
Writers who go with a very IGNORANT assumptions to bring the 'plot' item they need.
Aluminium IS Stronger than Steel by weight, but weight really isn't an issue ( for Airplanes it IS ). But Aluminium (still) does cost SIGNIFICANTLY more than Steel. The HUGE quantities used to build Rapture ( even just as concrete Rebar ) would probably get even more unwanted government attention than Steel being used. SO CASE OF : WRITER KNOW-NOTHING IDIOTS WHO SIMPLY WRITE SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS "GOOD" (TO THEM)... ( Happens alot in Infinite BS and its bastard step-child BaSx )
Steel and concrete would be more easily missed in Americas economy than Aluminium ( and the materials could/would be transshipped from far more places around the Globe too ).
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Burial At Sea - Too Convenient This Story :
Samantha Kemp (someone in "Fontaines", BaS ) : "This fella Atlas has been makin' the rounds down here, trying to bring some kind of order to this pit. All the Splicers think the man walks on water. But somethin' about him smells stink to me. Reminds me a bit of my former employer, Frank Fontaine. Always talkin' about how he was gonna lift Rapture right outta the old man's wallet, no fuss, no muss. See where that got him."
More likely one of the Slicers there (being insane) would have 'brained' Atlas for his presumption ( "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!! *WHACK* ). 'Makin the rounds' with goodies to hand out - double the likelihood of them jumping 'Atlas' when they are so desperate. If he went around with a gang of goons to protect him, then that would have been sufficient provocation to a Splicers mind - not exactly a 'savior' ( Remember - These are mostly Thugs in 'Fontaines', not 'poor' Parasites' looking for a handout ).
Brings up the question of how many of Fontaine's old cronies he would have to eliminate to 'tie up loose ends' to cover his new identity. Any remaining ones might remember how Fontaine used the death of his lackeys to cover his own escape.
The original 'smart' Fontaine would have 'kept his head down' til he could extract himself from this unplanned captivity. Acting the 'big man' there would simply have gotten him killed.
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Thug-type people aren't the most reasonable people to begin with, whether they are Splicers or not. Any 'thinkers' among them might be aiming for the job themselves. They would just need a little reaction to being 'bossed around', and so quick Atlas would be a cinder, or have the back of his head blown out. So then the question is : "Do they WANT to be reasoned with ?" or "Do they just see some clown trying to "Lord it over them ?", which could be quickly dealt with.
I'd have to think about the situation a little to compose a more logical storyline. Simpler maybe to just have him 'make suggestions' right then ( let the others think it was 'their' idea, etc ... ), and wait til they are all out of their prison to work his 'persuasion' (besides having only a small group of followers together). Unfortunately for the BaS2 plot, he illogically has to be shown in-charge.
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Would she (Samantha Kemp) have been there if she wasn't a 'Fontaine' (or Atlas ?) supporter ?? No mention of what crime/violence she otherwise committed to get her sent there. Some Manic behavior might have become common amongst heavy ADAM users, but should that be a reason to lock her up with Fontaine's thugs and murders ( and other hardcase Splicers ? ) Hundreds of people 'worked' for Fontaine, who likely had little to do with his criminal activities. Assault, murder, robbery, incitement, smuggling should read the charges against the felons imprisoned in 'Fontaines'. Inserting all these unfortunate others just waters down the reasoning ( and REMEMBER this was BEFORE Kashmir, when the City's population had a sea-change about methods to handle the people threatening order and public safety ).
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Audio Diary Analysis : "Table Scraps" :
The Fink Magic Recording Thingee : "Table Scraps" - "What secrets that I could not answer for myself ?" :
"It has occurred to me that this... breakthrough regarding the Songbird casts my arrangement with the Oriental doctor in a new light. What more could be gained by this continued "partnership" ? What secrets that I could not answer for myself ? Suchong can only offer table scraps -- and Jeremiah Fink has richer meat in mind ..."
Lemme think ..... Most of them ? Makes me wonder how many Subject : 'Songbirds' that Fink went thru til he got one which "worked"Fun Alternate Universe Flashbacks of the Songbird Failures. ... It Takes off, malfunctions, and is now a smear of paste 25000/15000 feet below on the ground. Start over ... Next one gets a bit further ...
Frankenstein's Monsters -- You grow them like Sea Monkeys Google "Sea Monkeys" !! So simple. Just don't use the bell jar labeled "Abbey Normal""Young Frankenstein" (movie) reference... ... Funny would be : a guy in 'the Songbird suit' then climbing out of it - It is all Quantumz powered anyway ( Fink did not 'get where he is' without faking many things ... ) - and complaining it is hot inside the damned thing and wants a higher salary. (( Politically Incorrect version : A midget climbs out of the 'Songbirds' head (cockpit) and says the same. ))
Technologically Fink was a caveman even as compared to 1950s era Suchong. Maybe Fink had 'Tears' to the Star Trek universe to steal better stuff ?? ( That woulda made a more logical plot. ) The Tear to the 14th century Plague Pit didn't work out too well, and neither did that one to the KzintiLarry Niven Universe nasty denizen - See Larry Niven's "Known Space" Universe. home planet ( with infinite alternate universes, and with someone like Fink managing things, very few Columbias (of the infinite) survived for long ... Truly ).
Making something work in a laboratory ( if you can even get THAT far ) is very different than making a working consumer product. Too bad the game designers didn't CONSULT some 'Experts' on that, like the game company people claim they did about 'Quantum' Physics ( and with the way they ignored the realities of that theoretical science, perhaps it WAS all much the same for alot of other things ... ).
Fink actually covering up alot of Techno-Fakery WOULD have been a nice side story.
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BTW - this has a 1896 date when an earlier diary in 1894 has Fink seeing Suchong ( Audio-Diary Out of the Thin Air ) -- Which means there is a a rather odd time stretch phenomenon here ( or they just f#$%ed up or didn't much really care - which generally seems the case ). NOTE - also events sloppily being inserted too early : for when the US Government was still supposed to be in control of this Show City, and not the expanded monstrosity it became once Comstock took control. 
(( Most players are too busy endlessly slaughtering 'enemies' to care about any such illogic, even if they could realize it --- Seriously it would have served them better to have less useless faulty explaining, and more work on better combat mechanics ))
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==ELIZABETH BaSx AUDIO Diaries==
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== Jeremia Fink BaSx AUDIO Diaries==
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 "No_Profit_for_the_Prophets" 
Jeremiah Fink : "Sea Slugs. Goddamn Sea Slugs! Could that Oriental have come up with a more inconvenient fuel for his Plasmids ? If there is a God -- and I've seen more evidence to the contrary than in support -- you'd think he'd have put ADAM into the belly of a nice little seagull or crow. The costs of all these underwater expeditions are murdering my margins."
10 X ADAM was the LEAST of the Production Problems. As in : WHERE did Fink find the RIGHT kind of Sea Slugs, and HOW did he retrieve them from 3000+ feet deep in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ? (( SO he could THEN use their excreta to mix up the magic-potions using some simple 'genetic' syrup, or something ?? Serious brain-dead/careless BS from these 4th-string DLC writers ... ))
So Jeremiah Fink has now created Deep Sea Diving technology ( which is a major achievement to do even today ) ontop of everything else ? AND "sent expeditions" to scoop up Sea Slugs ?? ( When Rapture with its 3+ decades of advancements had a shortage because THEY couldn't find sufficient numbers of the creatures. ) (( You can pack only so much crap into a garbage can, and this Infinitized DLC story is already a Magnum Shite Dumpster. )) "Know-Nothings" was an insult used when talking about stuff like this.
At least those fancy-arsed "Vigor" bottles (Costing a year's salary, according to the vending machine prices) wouldn't have eaten all the profits as compared to the other expenses.
Extra Disclaimer - IF you don't like people Dis'in the way your favorite game was written and produced, then DON'T READ THIS !! ***
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