Audio Diary Analysis

* See also Audio_Diaries
* See also Public_Announcements
* See also Columbia_Audio_Diaries
* See also Authoritative Narration
* See also BaSx Audio Diary Analysis
* See also Storytime
add big font to all AD text
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Audio Diaries are NOT Authoritative Narration 
Split BS1 vs BS2 ??
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Accu-Vox Psychology :
Such recordings "Tapping into" the attention whoring aspect of 'hearing your own voice', when a Postit Note or Index Card or Moleskin Notebook page could have done the same thing far more easily (and cheaply).
But then we wouldn't get to hear all those nice accents/inflections to go along with the crazy words and biased opinions.
Something that big shoulda had a camera built in (Polaroid ...) - So you got a Slide Show along with the speakings ...
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BIOSHOCK 1 
BIOSHOCK 2 
MINERVAS DEN
BaSx Audio Diary Analysis
Analysis of various Audio Diaries (and Radio Messages) :
Kinetoscopes <- lazy throwback to Infinite BS in BaSx DLC gorp
Columbia Audio Diaries (Voxophones)
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NOTE : BioShock Audio_Diaries often are not Factual About What They Mention : SO much about them is vague (to start with), usually there is no indication of date of when the statement was made ( so what state of Rapture is it really referring to, and which events have happened to change that state and viewpoint it may be associated with ). Someone saying someone was arrested by Ryan - it matters quite a bit of WHEN that happened, and it might even be useful to fill in a little more detail about what that person had done to answer the 'why' -- not simply imply that Ryan is an Evil Blue Meanie (the plot's twist-required bad guy) to make Players just assume based on their modern-day (public school) ignorance of history).
The person speaking (in the Audio Diaries) is making a statement from THAT person's point of view and bias. It can only be properly interpreted within that understanding, and it can often just be opinion. Any explanation/reasons mentioned can be based on the speakers possessing incomplete information, agenda'd bias, their own interpretation, or simply what the speaker 'thinks' is right. We don't necessarily hear a complete story ( all the facts/context, or other side of the issue with other peoples contrary declarations, or simply missing statements about the actual events being discussed ).
There is NO actual authoritative narrative, as you usually could have in a narrated book.
Example- Grace says (in Audio Diary) that 'the Drop' was worse than the "Hooverville" in 32', but that's NOT what we actually see in Paupers Drop, which was originally a squatter's shantytown ( was she talking about that ?? ), then was redeveloped into something resembling New York City style architecture ( with a hotel and businesses and Limbo Room ), and then was run down again into the state we see in the game ( by the 'civil war' and Sofia Lamb's/Rapture Family's negligence/inadequacies ). Grace seemed to have worked in the Limbo Room (in Paupers_Drop) until the Kashmir Incident and 'Civil War' allegedly spelled economic collapse for most of the city, but somehow THAT is Ryan's and them rich peoples fault ? Penniless after being blacklisted ? When was that ? Didn't seem that way if she had got that Limbo Room job. Singin' against Ryan ... Singing What exactly ? Demanding handouts for the poor ?? Something of Lamb's instigation ? ( Lamb pamphlets being handed out between songs as Ryan mentions )?? Why did Grace come to Rapture after being told how it was to be run ? Grace wasn't sent to Persephone ( She might've been turned into a 'Tin Daddy' herself ), but with that 'Evil Rich ' Ryan, it must've been only her luck, cuz HE obviously 'had it in for her' ... (( typical parasite victimization mentality - Blame it on someone else ... ))
Doesn't it seem that Rapture (rather conveniently) let in an awful lot of people that just didn't seem to fit with Ryan's Philosophy ? This contrived Failtopia couldn't have happened otherwise. IF no Failtopia, then no shoot-em-up Slaughter-Fest for the Players. Ain't that the Truth.
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Voxophone : "Another Ark for Another Time" 
Comstock : " “And the Lord saw the wickedness of Man was great. And He repented He had made Man on the Earth.” Rain! Forty days and forty nights of the stuff. And He left not a thing that walked alive. You see, my friends, even God is entitled to a do-over. And what is Columbia if not another Ark, for another time ?"
So, then WHY are these unclean and inferior (the Children of Cain) allowed onboard ?
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Audio Diary (Voxophone) Analysis - "The Mirror of Sin" :
Comstock (Onboard the Big Faux-Blimp) - "When a soul is born again, what happens to the one left behind in the baptismal water ? Is he simply ... gone ? Or does he exist in some other world, alive, with sin intact ?"
Wonderful, the Quantum Bullshit is now pushed into Metaphysics. And it is now back to the 'Baptism' thing again that's supposed to fix everything ( Sorry. Again NOT part of 'Quantum Theory', Kenny ).
This whole choadload quantumz stuff eliminates free will and any responsibility of all characters - they are just puppets dancing to the "Tunes of the Quantumz" - just a quantum flip away from being a Saint or a Mass-Murderer. 
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Devil is in the Details - Dates ON BaSx DLC Audio Diaries :
I thought the dates on the Audio Diaries made the different events' timings often overly tight ( Same for events of the whole Burial at Sea DLC -- in their story Timeline. Way-Too-Many things are said to have been done/happened in WAY-too-short-a-time interval to make sense ). There actually were many contradictions because the dates on some did not jibe with events even within the same game (gamemaker errors). Previous games had almost NO dates specified for the Audio_Diaries, so at least leaving them vague as to when things specifically happened.
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Privacy of Recordings :
Idea : If these 'Audio Diary things were sometimes wanted to stay private - in case they got lost or stolen. Shouldn't they have the ability to have a 'keycode' to protect their secrets ?? A book diary you normally leave at home in a relatively secure location ( but even they traditionally had 'a lock' ). But these bulky devices seem to get strewn about higgledy-piggledy all the time, and contain terrible confessions which few people would record on paper, let alone make an audio recording of.
For the MMORPG, you might have to decode/break the security on some of the Audio Diary recordings you find.
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Poorly Explained Treason (All Those Audio Diaries) :
All of these people in BS1 who have turned against Ryan (most via evidence heard in 'Audio Diaries')- have they been taking ADAM ? Have Addictions ? How much is this rejection of Ryan really the product of ADAM insanity ? Many Audio Diaries are recorded to be fairly normal sounding, even when the person says they've been 'splicin'. So instead of the writers backhanded 'putdown' of Capitalism, and Individuality, and a Parasite-Free society, and their using these contrived game incidents as their 'evidence', MAYBE if you consider the ADAM involvement ... These opinions would more plausibly be caused by the Coked-Up ADAM_Addled brains of these unfortunate people, who more often than not have made very stupid decisions (like assuming everything will be OK when Ryan is dead and 'Atlas' is in charge...). Since so many wouldn't have been chosen to come to Rapture if they didn't believe in Ryan's Philosophy (and in the actions required to protect it) we really needed that better explanation for them suddenly doing such a reversal.
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Ryan : "Have some chosen to destroy themselves with careless splicing? Undeniable. But I will make no  proclamations, I will dictate no laws. The Great Chain moves slowly, but with wisdom. It is our impatience  that invites in the Parasite of big government. And once you've invited it in, it will never stop feeding  on the body of the city."
Ryan says HE wont impose laws, but the citizens themselves would have common laws and ordinances to live by.  You cannot run a City via Anarchy and have it survive for long, let alone prosper.  At some point there is still a line that shouldn't be crossed, and proper enforcement actions are still allowed.  When Splicers start attacking other people ( infringing on THEIR Rights ) and the instability is being caused by this 'drug' ( well-beyond what alcohol does ), then what measures might be taken ? -- WHAT might be DEMANDED by the populace ?
Ryan in normal times lets the Citizens decide, leaving it up to Society to balance itself, and only in an Emergency does he intervene.  ADAM becomes entrenched because the addictive side effects are largely hidden ( rather conveniently for the story ), and suddenly because of the %27civil war%27 much greater ADAM use happens ( due to destructive society-imperiling actions caused by Fontaine/Atlas ).
Unfortunately, in-game, we are not shown Rapture's Population calling upon Ryan and demanding his imposition of strong war measures. INSTEAD, it is all portrayed as all being Ryan's 'tyrannical' decisions, and shit all happening 'cuz objectivism' (or Libertarianism in Rapture Soociety )
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Diana McClintock : "They are rounding up people in Apollo Square" : 
Diana McClintock(Arcadia) : "I couldn't believe how much things had changed since I left Dr. Steinman's office. It's like I don't even recognize Rapture no more. I hear they've been rounding up people in 'Pollo Square ... I asked Ryan how could he do such things to innocents. He said, "Innocents? If they haven't chosen to defend Rapture, they've chosen to side with Atlas and his bandits". So there are no innocents. There are heroes, and there are criminals."
Where the Hell have you been Diane ? A 'civil war'/Terrorist Rebellion has been going on with Terrorists slaughtering Citizens and endangering the whole city ? "Rounding Up" ? As in arresting and isolating criminals to protect all the other Citizens of Rapture from their violence ??
So it is all Ryan's fault ? ( Of course it is, that's the constant mantra of the game's writers ). No stupid, it is because a criminal movement wants to steal everyone's freedom, and it doesn't matter how many people they have to murder to take it.
Seriously stupid is how some of these Rapture people have been made by the lazy game writers (They cannot ALL have the excuse of being made moronic by ADAM dementia - and if they were, it should be made plain that was the case).
Notice she doesn't mention WHY they are 'rounding' them up. These are "Memos to Self" ... perhaps not the most informative of 'evidence' because of what is unsaid. Actually, the Diaries are rather an implausible story medium, as most of the things said in them would never really be recorded.
HEY Diana, was it because Apollo Square was a hotbed of Atlas supporters ? - You Know - those terrorists who have been killing people all over Rapture (you must've missed all that ??), and threatening the SAFETY of everyone in Rapture ??? How many of those anarchists are stopping their neighbors from having their normal lives ? How many other people have these 'rounded up' 'Atlas' supporters actually harmed or even killed ? Silence from the Audio Diary. "Rounded UP" here doesn't constitute 'summarily shot' (or she would certainly say so in her obvious outrage).
Actually, take a look at that actual Apollo Square section, and the see the barricades which are facing outwards. Does that mean Ryan wasn't in control of that area to 'round them up' before that time ? And there are no huge piles of bodies evident, so I guess Ryan and the Rapture Authorities/Government just contained them until the crisis was over (that's probably before the Pheromone Control thing calmed the Splicers down, and the people were then let out ...) So neither did Ryan starve them to death (food would have had to come in from the outside, thanks to Ryan, as Atlas really wasn't capable of feeding them all, Was He ?? )
Letting these anarchists/terrorists out to disrupt other parts of Rapture ??? - That would have been negligence on Ryan's part upon the whole of Rapture's population. AND THAT population WOULD look to Ryan and agree with such actions (that's the part the writers DARE NOT utter in this game).
But No, Diana McClintock can't/won't see that part of it (and doesn't want to mention it) ? So again Ryan is made the 'Bad Guy' via vague incomplete evidence pushed at the Player (to stage that lame mid-game plot 'twist', and then avoid mentioning that it was Atlas/Fontaine who got so many people killed/murdered).
This is followed by more in a chain of Audio_Diaries showing how Diana believed the terrorist's lies, and turned terrorist herself -- even to the point of murdering children *HERSELF* (and in the end, paying for her stupidity with her life).
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Alleged Evidence (for some) that There is a Sinclair Spirits in Paupers Drop :
Sinclair(Paupers Drop) : "If a smart fella' wanted to talk some bankrupt fat cat into moving to a slum, he'd call the place a "hotel overnightly". The tenant dries his eyes and tells himself "It's only temporary," and the smart fellow shaves a dime a day off his drinking wage. Now, a smarter fella' might also bankroll the local gin joints, and take him for the rest."
Sinclair selling booze to take advantage of the 'down and out' ?? Using it to keep them 'down and out' ?
Sorry, he'd be stealing from his own rent money (from himself) if they were that far gone.
This Audio Diary was actually a removed Asset -- Not even included in the actual game play. So it is hard to claim that it was Canon in the first place. And sorry, there is no logic of it being 'intent' - that THAT was the way it was in the storyline - They discarded/removed/eliminated it from their narrative.
First : It (there hidden somewhere we can't reach ... blocked portals) wouldn't be like any 'Sinclair Spirits' seen in Fort Frolic - that being a pretty decent venue, and not quite the clientele of Sinclair Station (Paupers Drop in its redeveloped low rent incarnation). You probably would have a Grocery Store (being something else needed in a residential neighborhood) which could sell low end consumer grade booze, which would be more than sufficient. SO maybe a Sinclair Stop-n-Shop.
Maybe the Limbo Room was situated to take that opportunity to "take him for the rest", but no sign/proof that Sinclair was this 'smarter operator' in that case either. If there already was competition for resident booze-hounds, would the small local population warrant a whole liquor store (it might, and take a big(?) bite out of the Limbo Room's potential customers - Uptown Slummers have their own upscale Liquor shops/bars elsewhere).
Would you really build a fancy bar/pub/Boozarium ( something more than 'a dive' ) for the few 'Fat Cats' who are (un)likely to wind up in this low rent district ? You can buy booze just about anywhere in Rapture, so WHY discount it any more than Sinclair's normal competitive pricing ? Convenience - again catering to the appropriate demographic quality.
This all comes down to just another crude attempt to label 'capitalism' as "Da Ebil", and to attack Sinclair - to manipulate you into making you wonder about why you are helping such a 'bad person', similar ( but opposite ) to when they force-fed/ misled/manipulated you about Atlas/Fontaine in the previous game.
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 "Marketing Gold" Audio Diary :
Ryan : " I'll admit Fontaine showed some foresight when he built up the Plasmid business, but the man really never understood sales. Hiding those little girls beneath a bushel. I've just seen the preliminary design work on the new Plasmid machines, and they're exactly what I wanted. Mark my words -- presented properly, those Little Sisters are marketing gold."
It IS after Fontaine is 'killed', but is this recorded before or after Kashmir ?? Likely before - at least talking about his plans to give some order to systematic distribution. Bootlegger's defective products no doubt caused ALOT of the ADAM-Disease problems ( Fontaine's product likely was as bad, as it WAS his goal to disrupt Rapture ). Remember, Ryan didn't want MORE crazies in Rapture.
Also very useful mechanism for feeding Splicers the Pheromone 'Control' agents to get them under control ( and no longer under Atlas's ).
Just 3 months to get the whole of Fontaine Futuristics working ? Its facilities and its employees and its ADAM production restored/rebuilt/reorganized ?? Easy for ignorant/careless game writers to make up such fictional over-speedy recovery.
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Audio Diary Analysis - "Missing Boots" :
Dr Suchong (Point Prometheus) : "Goddammit! The Big Daddy boots need to be shipped here, not to damn library! What kind of idiots is Ryan hiring nowadays ? This kind of bullshit never happen under Fontaine."
This is a "Big Daddy" Protector - started after the Kashmir Massacre happened, and the ADAM supply was impacted. Suchong is complaining, but it is possible that "Its Hard To Get Good Help These Days" may be significantly true. It is also a mechanism-oriented project, not just testtube/lab science.
It was also a NEW and rushed project - not quite the same as the Fontaine Futuristics ADAM projects which had alot more time ( and unknown schedules as new discoveries were made ).
BD Shoes dumped into the Library ? Perhaps the person delivering the Boots got distracted by a Fine Book there, and then got hungry and went off to the Employee Cafeteria downstairs and totally forgot about the delivery.
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Suchong : "Advanced Deployment, Lot 111 Dr. Suchong/Client Fontaine Futuristics. Baby is now a year old, weighs 58 pounds, and possesses gross musculature of a fit, 19-year-old. The results are... disappointing, but within expected tolerances."
Strange , 'Results are "Disappointing"' - Like the achievement of accelerating growth in a human to that extent is something mediocre.
Note that "Client Fontaine Futuristics" - Suchong apparently was an independent contractor, and didn't work for Fontaine directly ( not directly involved with Fontaine's crimes ... possibly why Ryan would allow him to work for Suchong subsequently ).
Game Scene where you find this : Shows that Ryan has worked out what happened (and what Jack was).
"gross musculature of a fit, 19-year-old" is a bit odd when the subject weighs only 57 lb. Most active 7 year olds have the equivalent 'gross' musculature of that later age. THIS talk just sounded "medically" antiseptic enough to the writers, I guess.
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"Scoping the Gate" - Treason from Morons (Audio Diary Hephaestus) ? :
Kyburz(Hephaestus) : "I spent the afternoon trying to get as close to Ryan's gate as possible without making a spectacle of myself... He's got it shielded six ways till Easter. There's no way into that place. All I got for my trouble was the hairy eyeball from Ryan's Splicer mates. That's the reward you get for trying to outsmart the best electrical engineer of our generation."
So does Kyburz think Atlas will run the place after they ( the story fabricated traitors ) kill Ryan ? How stupid this plot gets just to facilitate that lame "I am your surrender monkey father Luke" plot twist thing. No, your death is the reward you get for letting yourself be warped into a frickin idiot by game writers.
But then its a "shooter game", what do you expect (though they did endlessly tout themselves for BioShock having 'story').
Its not like writing it logically would have cost any more, or to have done with different text these recorded Voice Assets - the things which are used to tell so much of "the story".
So when did this recording happen ? Splicer Mates ? After the Pheromone Control ? Low level security is all Ryan could really use these 'Splicers' for ( because of their instability ), while his 'sane' competent Security men were trying to track down Atlas.
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Audio Diary "The Market Is Patient" :
Ryan : "There has been tremendous pressure to regulate this Plasmid business. There have been side effects: blindness, insanity, death. But what use is our ideology if it is not tested ? The market does not respond like an infant, shrieking at the first sign of displeasure. The market is patient, and we must be too."
An attempt to vilify Ryan for not stopping ADAMs use. So where is the Free Press to denounce ADAM and Fontaine 'The Purveyor of Poison" ?? The game writers would have the Failtopia all be Ryan's fault (he's so simple minded and naive, you see) ... So YOU (the Player) are 'twist' manipulated to work with/for the helpful 'rebel', who is the real sociopath (conveniently without any contrary information illuminating you to that fact until the 'big scene' has played).
If Ryan had (in the story) stopped all the similarly damaging booze/drugs/libertine-isms, then they (the writers) would be whining that HE was a "tyrant" for doing THAT. (ITS CONTRARY TO THE PHILOSOPHY, DERP !!!!) Their plot continuously implies RYAN is the problem, no matter how illogical THAT is, and even when contrarily Ryan professes and is SHOWN implementing/acting upon his Philosophy. Other relevant factors/causes of the 'FAIL!' Situation are likewise ignored. Similarly, Capitalism and Individuality are also 'POOPY HEAD BAD' (as portrayed/espoused), when they are not really that far from what America was in that era, and WAS moreso previous to that time ( Note the FDR Socialism Ryan rebels against, AS MANY DID ), 
(( Ryan's is Supposedly A 'bad' Philosophy, as compared to our current 'sooo enlightened' Responsibility devoid Nanny-State )) They (the writers) make the details clumsily push their ignorant distortions ( they shove it down the Players throat, actually ).
Tip - Part of the interest of "might have been" Failtopia fiction is actually understanding the reasons for it, and laying it out/explaining it in a logical fashion to the Reader. In hack-job games, not so much, apparently.
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In a realistic world, the Public/Citizens WOULD have reacted, and Fontaine likely would be out of business ( or killed by an aggrieved relative ). But that likelihood could not be allowed in the games story ( not even mentioned - it is too logical an outcome ).
Too late the audio diary : A Gift from Fontaine (BaSx)
Perhaps the Combat Plasmid could be EVEN less careful about side-effects ( What did Fontaine really care - Notice he didn't use them himself til he was desperate in BS1 ).
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Audio Diary : "Freezing_Pipes" :
McDonagh sounding like someone stupid enough to give FF to 'Atlas's boys' ??? (Medical Pavilion) :
"Steinman, I know Medical Pavilion is your manor, but you might want to cogitate on this: ocean water is colder than a witch's tit. You don't heat the pipes, the pipes freeze. Pipes freeze, pipes burst. Then Rapture leaks. Now, I realize you're a posh sort of geezer, and, frankly, I don't give a toss if you piss or go fishing. But once Rapture starts leaking, the old girl's never gonna stop. And then I'll be sure to tell Ryan he's got you to thank."
: Fixing leaks is what plumbers do - always can be fixed - Its the expense that's the problem. In Rapture, most pipes would be INSIDE, away from the cold ( and the Ocean water isn't frozen, so its not as cold as all that ).
: Rapture is a thoroughly Partitioned city, duh ... Sorry these writers haven't a clue
: Very colorful language ... Oh my, and crude too.
: Doctor called a "geezer" (manor ? - ah yes he's a lower class bloke ...) - Please write better BEFORE having the voice talent record it 
Seriously, You would think the pipes in Rapture were INSTALLED with freezing prevention built in ( or they wouldn't have lasted into 1947 ) ... THAT WAS YOUR JOB McDonagh !!!! ( He's supposed to be a experienced/gifted Plumber ... and HAD work in cities far colder than North Atlantic sea water. ) These Writers seem to just create such 'tone setting' filler without thinking much. 
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Genetic Arms Race :
McDonagh(Hephaestus) : "I begged Mr. Ryan to hand Fontaine Futuristics over to Atlas' boys as a peace offering, but the stupid sod won't listen to reason. 'Stead he's just splicing his mob up, giving them more and tougher Plasmids. There's an arms race on here in Rapture, but it's not about who can build the best guns and the biggest bombs. It's about who can become less of a man and more of a monster..."
Huh ?  Confiscating Fontaine Futuristics from a dead smuggler (traitor) and nationalizing it ( in the middle of  a %27civil war%27 ).  Fontaine had no relatives and probably no real business partners.  But why turn it over to ATLAS -- The new enemy that was ripping Rapture apart and murdering citizens in the streets ??
The REAL "stupid sod" is McDonagh for basically saying that he told Ryan to give terrorists more weapons as a 'peace offering', and Ryan didn't accept it. The illogic of that seems lost to McDonagh ( and maybe the writers -- Or do they really think you win-over ruthless people by surrendering/giving them weapons ?? ). Then he goes on about Ryan having to Splice his own men to deal with the threat against the City by "Fontaines Boys". The Novel author at least gave a plausible reason why McDonagh defected ( his family and he was planning on leaving ).
So McDonagh wants Atlas and his murderers to win instead ? He not only changes sides, but decides to murder Ryan to give victory to the Terrorists ... I find this to be some of the most illogical and contrived stuff in the game. ( McDonagh also wants to give Fontaine Futuristics to Atlas as well ??? Is he ADAM_Addled by the time he records that ??? "Fontaine" is supposed to be dead -- probably an error the designers/implementors missed, as they adjusted their plot ).
Ryan (in any sane reality) would have had the support of most of the population of Rapture -- THOSE who came TO RAPTURE to get away from people like Atlas. It is a major hole in BioShock's laid out reality/plot/setting that little such support is shown for Ryan in the game, and you largely hear the words of that bunch of betrayers, like McDonagh.
As mentioned elsewhere : Ryan probably wouldn't want to have his Security Men "Spliced" because of the mental instability it causes. Superior weapons and tactics and organization were already shown to be effective ( Neptune's Bounty Shootout ). Ryan doesn't NEED more crazy people to deal with.
This is an example of the people who Ryan was supposed to have on HIS side ??   The game Developers stacked the deck pretty thoroughly against Ryan.  And even then, Ryan was on the brink of winning when that bizaare 'Im gonna kill myself because I'm SO disappointed' thing is foisted on us.  Inconsistent, illogical - but --- "The Plot Says So" to fabricate that half a 'Twist' we got.
"I don't know if killing Mr. Ryan will stop the war, but I know it won't stop while that man breathes."
With friends like this ....   Wouldn't getting rid of Atlas the agitator/murderer have been a little better idea ?    Seriously, McDonagh must've been sniffing a little too much plumbers putty over the years ...
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Fontaine's Army :
McDonagh : "Fontaine knew our blokes were coming. We were done over. Them Splicers come screaming out the woodwork. Burping fire, spitting ice ... demons out of the Bible, they were. Never seen nothing like it. It wasn't a business he was building, it was an army."
Yet, McDonagh feels that the dead Fontaine's businesses shouldn't be taken over ( no mention Fontaine ever had anyone, heir or partners, who would be there to assume control/ownership ).
Fontaine's assets is all likely proceeds from a criminal activity, which are usually forfeit under common law -- but that is ignored by the gamewriters. Seizing the businesses to stop and investigate the extent of other criminal activities bought via money generated by Fontaine's Smuggling.
We (until later) don't hear detail about any other of Fontaine's businesses ( besides Fontaine Futuristic and the Fisheries ) being 'seized' or 'nationalized' ( The Fisheries were used directly for the Smuggling crimes, and Futuristics to produce the weaponized Plasmids used to kill city Law Authorities ).
But then "Ryan Baaaad" is the writer's contrived plot story/mantra, so any logic/consistency need not apply.
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Stopping Ryan ( A More Illogical Turncoat McDonagh ) :
McDonagh(Hephaestus) : "I never killed a man, let alone a mate. But this is what things come to. I don't know if killing Mr. Ryan will stop the war, but I know it won't stop while that man breathes. I love Mr. Ryan. But I love Rapture. If I have to kill one to save the other, so be it."
More bullshit plot fartings. Why not "'war' will stop when Atlas is dead" ? When the murderous anarchists and their instigators are done away with ?? SO the insane anarchists will just fade away when this "Atlas" runs things ??? So Rapture will be 'saved by destroying its principle core of order (Ryan) ? How stupid did someone have to be to think this way ? ( Just look around at people in our current world ... ) So it is easy to 'write' such testimony, without any consideration about reality/logic being required. (( The term "Hack Writing" was coined for stuff like this. ))
Seriously, the 'Twist' in the plot ( "OMG, it is actually ATLAS who be de ebil one !!!!! ... Hurrr Hurrrr, Derrrrp !!!! " ) wasn't worth all this manipulative and illogical story garbage.
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Ryan Takes Fontaine Futuristics :
McDonagh (Hephaestus) : "Ryan nationalized Fontaine Futuristics -- he owns it now, lock, stock and barrel. For the good of the city, he says. He'll break it up in due time, he says. I've resigned from the Council and lodged me letter of protest, but that's just pissing in the wind. It'll be war, I say... unless somebody stops Ryan, and right fast."
Has McDonagh been sniffing plumbers glue again ?? This is sophomoric 'feeb' storytelling used simply to vilify Ryan. SO this ADAM addiction is a Myth ? ( to McDonagh ? ) or Fontaine's "heirs" stepped forward to take over and run that company ? He hasn't even waited to see if Ryan might do what he said he would do once things got stabilized ( Note - Atlas is murdering people and imperiling Rapture right as McDonagh here 'runs away' ). That's just insulting shit from the writers for someone who was supposed to be intelligent/responsible to suddenly do a 180 (( THERE IS ALOT OF THAT in this contrived storyline )). SO instead of demanding that Ryan keep his word ( giving him time to do so ), McDonagh abandons Rapture, surrendering/abandoning it to what he doesn't believe in.
Is it any wonder that Ryan was left alone to make decisions to save his City, when the lame-arsed story has everyone so easily abandon him and Rapture ( and its Philosophy ) ?
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Analyzing McDonagh : SO Easily He Betrays Ryan ... WHY ? :
"Arresting Fontaine" - McDonagh -  " Mr. Ryan... I believe in Rapture. But that doesn't mean we always win.  Fontaine Futuristics is the biggest thing going in Rapture. So let me be plain: when we arrest that toe-rag Fontaine for his thieving and smuggling, we must make it clear that we won't touch his business interests.  We sit on the Council because these poor sods trust us ... not because God gave us a chair."
OK and what about after Fontaine is proven a major criminal and found to have stolen/coerced just about everything he possesses ?  Any restitution for his victims ?  And who is to run Fontaine Futuristics with Fontaine gone ( no heirs, associates are all criminal co-conspirators ) ?  
WHEN does McDonagh change from this :  
"Rapture_Changing" : McDonagh - "Rapture's changing, but Ryan can't see the wolves in the woods.  This Fontaine fellow ... he's a crook and a proper tea leaf, but he's got the ADAM, and that makes him the guv'nor.  He's sinking the profits back into bigger and better Plasmids, building them Fontaine Poorhouses... more like Fontaine recruiting centersb... 'Fore we know it, Bloke's gonna have an army of Splicers, and we're gonna have ourselves a whole heap of miseries."
To this ?? :
"Fontaines_Legacy" : McDonagh - "Strikes me that Fontaine wasn't overly inconvenienced by his own demise.  On New Year's Eve, his wretched Splicers came streaming out of the poor houses and stormed the proverbial barricades! The dead rot in the streets, and Johnny and Janey Citizen are lined up round the block for Plasmids... anything to help fend off the rabble."
Murder/mayhem in Rapture and McDonagh isn't overly concerned.
Hitler had been "the guv'nor" too.  What kind of logic is this?  A criminal is a criminal.  And one 'building an army' doesn't faze him ??? 
The Novel author found it necessary to fill in more detail to try to (maybe) explain the reasons - Added McDonagh's trying to get his family out, etc ...   Insufficient/illogical explanations IN the game make him seem demented ( and the writers of it also pretty lame ).
Finally :
McDonagh ( after the 'Seizing of Fontaine Futureistics ) - "I've resigned from the council and lodged me letter of protest, but that's just pissing in the wind.  It'll be war, I say... unless somebody stops Ryan and right fast."
How about stopping Atlas ?   Stop the Terrorists and Anarchists - isn't that a better idea ???  
Wasn't it already 'war' ?  This simplistic plotline ignores other critical aspects in the situation.  So who was then supposed to keep Fontaine Futuristics running to keep the ADAM flowing and the addicted population from going murderously batshit crazy ??   I don't recall McDonagh offereing to take the job.
SO who would take the place of Ryan ?  Atlas ?  An Anarchist and instigator of murder and pillage ??  Why has McDonagh suddenly gone insane/stupid ? ( He should know better than anybody how things go wrong when order breaks down ).   The Novel shows he has a family in Rapture ( story not elaborated that much in-game ).  What of their future with McDonagh abandoning Ryan - Rapture's center of Order ?  
McDonagh is made into the writer's dupe (implausible simpleton pawn) to forward their illogical Failtopia-building plot, so to reinforce their plot 'twist' .
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"Assassin" :
Anya Andersdotter(Hephaestus) : "Me. An assassin... that's rich. I could have gone along, I suppose. Spliced up, forgot. I believed in this place. I believed in Ryan. But when it got hard, Ryan didn't believe in Rapture, didn't believe in the Great Chain. He believed in power. And now this place is busto. nAnd my girl is ... gone ... worse than gone ... one of those ... things. So am I an assassin ? ... Well, only one way to find out."
When is this recorded ? Blaming Ryan for what Fontaine ( children turned into Little Sisters, the crimes ) and Atlas (anarchist/terrorist) did ??? Is this Ryan's war measures again being whined about ( no mention here of Atlas and the destruction and loss of life HE had done to the City to make them necessary ).
So when do we get to hear what the majority of the Citizens thought ? THAT Didn't fit with their story warpage/contrivance/'twist', so it isn't there to inform you of what REALLY happened ( and what REAL people of that time would have thought ).
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Cohen-Culpepper Feud (Alternate Explanations Are Viable) :
An enmity between competitors for Rapture's limited audiences, seems to escalate resulting in Culpepper's death. Even Sullivan comments about it in Audio Diary "Artists Feud".
Sullivan(Fort Frolic): "I worked the meatball beat in Little Italy, and even I'm shocked at the cold blood that oozes out of these artistic types. This broad Culpepper and that fruitjob Cohen are in some kind of feud, and Cohen's lookin' for MY security detail to pick sides. The next thing I know I'm called into Ryan's office to talk about the whole mess. Goddamn nutjob artists."
So this is a device employed (by the game writers) to later imply that Ryan had her killed over this issue ( because of Sander Cohen's influence ), in his 'obvious' tyranny. It is more likely, when things in Rapture started getting strange, that Cohen took the opportunity to 'Bump Off' the competition himself (which he WAS shown fully capable of doing directly), with a perfect opportunity when Culpepper started going against Ryan over the actions taken to fight the %27civil war%27 ( that is when Ryan had much more important things to deal with - like trying to stop Atlas's Splicers from slaughtering Rapture's Citizens ).
Most of the game's subplot content (ex- evidence in the Culpepper saga) is quite vague, with the narrative never actually declaring what happened (or even as to how/when/in what exact context) -- only hinting Ryan allegedly had Sullivan kill Culpepper, when it is NOT being explicitly stated (and there are too many other things going on involved in the situation).
Was Culpepper involved in the Jasmine Jolene embryo situation somehow ? ... Hmmm.
Part of the MMORPG will be clearing up many of these vagaries.
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"Watch Fontaine" (Audio Diary, BS1) :
Ryan (Neptunes Bounty) : "This Fontaine fellow is somebody to watch. Once, he was just a menace, to be convicted and hung. But he always manages to be where the evidence isn't. He's the most dangerous type of hoodlum ... the kind with vision."
Ryan appears to have more than enough knowledge that Fontaine is committing crimes, but doesn't have LEGAL evidence to have the city prosecute him for them ( contrary to the whole 'Ryan the Tyrant' drumbeat done throughout the game ).
It also seems like that the Smuggling Law with a Death Penalty seems to have been WHILE Fontaine was alive ( otherwise why that 'hung' verbiage ? ).
Yet "always seems to be where the evidence isn't" - must be more of Fontaine removing/eliminating the evidence, otherwise the City Authorities could have piecemeal taken apart Fontaine's smuggling operation by seizing/impounding any facilities/equipment found involved, and arresting the criminal underlings who WERE caught with prosecutable evidence. Tip-offs of the criminals ahead of time would thus be likely, but who knows how many of Fontaine's men were burnt/sunk/'disappeared' to prevent their providing 'evidence' ?
With the game's vague nature of Audio Diaries used for plot-filling, simply because something is not mentioned does not mean such things weren't happening. 'Reading between the lines' as to what was likely to have happened is still quite valid - if such things were typical for the 'Surface' society in that period (in America).
OMG!! OMG!!! There a guy in the lower docks shown hooked up to a battery, and he was *gasp* being tortured to try to get information to get Fontaine for the crimes he's committing. Well in those days, if criminals killed a cop or even tried to kill a cop ( as is mentioned in the Novel ) then various extra measures were usually taken by cops. Sullivan knows that Fontaine is committing the crimes, but Fontaine has ruthlessly covered up/prevented exposing the evidence Ryan required for charges/convictions. Yes, shocking to our modern society, where cops are frequently murdered now and not much is allowed to be done by the weak-kneed politicians, and even absolute proof is rejected for political reasons.
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 Audio Diary - "Fontaine Must Go" :
Ryan (Neptunes Bounty) : "Something must be done about Fontaine. While I was buying buildings and fish futures, he was cornering the market on genotypes and nucleotide sequences. Rapture is transforming before my eyes. The Great Chain is pulling away from me. Perhaps it's time to give it a tug."
His Meaning ?  Tug the chain - as in pull it forward ( he doesn't want it going backwards )?  Ryan is deciding to go into the ADAM business himself bigtime to compete ( Ryan is planning on adapting to Rapture's "transformation" ) ?   Had the significant addictive qualities of ADAM started to be obvious ?  Would Ryan have participated in the ADAM business if the more-worrisome (poisonous) side-effects had started to be known ( How early was this Audio Diary ? -- We don't really know. ) Monopolies are bad in a society, especially where the product is so 'addictive'.  Competition and "Make a Better Product" is Ryan's Philosophy ( as he has admonished others to do elsewhere ).  Does "Must Go" really translate into ending Fontaine's "Monopolization" of that Industry and manipulating it to the detriment of all of Rapture ???
SO the text of the message doesn't really match the title.  "Must go" in its usual usage means 'to get rid of' .... Fontaine ?   Is  that being implied ???   ( So much of the presented 'plot evidence' against Ryan apparently is just as Vague ).
At the point of the Recording, no mention of Fontaine being known (to Ryan, yet) of being behind the Illegal Smuggling ( WHEN was that point reached ? )   But Rapture's authorities had been allegedly at work trying to prove it for more than a little while (Ryan's suspicions),  which would have been a REAL reason for Ryan saying that "Fontaine Must Go".  ( Doesn't seem to be the case here ).
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Vague as always. But consider, if Ryan Industries was already into the ADAM Market, perhaps Ryan had concentrated on specialized Medical Therapies as a product ( We saw ads for TB cure, the Bends, "Phossy JawPhosphorus poisoning from industrial processes " ... ), then Fontaine suddenly(?) turns ADAM into a Consumer product, with greatly expanded sales and profits. This probably would be because Fontaine was using the 'orphaned' children as Slug-hosts, and was producing 20-30 times as much ADAM 'per source unit' ( thus having a larger/cheaper supply of the critical substance and now more money to do additional R&D ).
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The Audio Diary Title seems to be something different from what the Sound Recording Text Says. Was this a later 'adjustment' when the writers are building upon their 'EVIL RYAN' mantra to set the Player up for their 'Twist' ( OMG OMG, I've been Following that Fontaine All ALONG!!!! ), but they didn't want to rerecord the voice actor asset to do so - to say something stronger ???
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Does this also imply there are MANY other businesses in Rapture dealing with Genetics ( medical would have been the early use ) where there is speculation or patents on the gene sequences mentioned ( assuming the game writers know what those terms mean in relation to genetic engineering ) ?
"Something must be done" like Ryan getting into the Biz himself ? As a real 'major hitter', with his life's experience in such markets, Ryan would likely soon outclass/outdo Fontaine who had previously been little more than a small time thug.
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Filling in The Story :
Perhaps with Fontaine shown to be rather stupid in BaSx (as detailed elsewhere), then it might lend more credence to the idea that Ryan HAD fully figured out what Fontaine was upto with Jack ( his men finding the Audio_Diaries Fontaine made to himself -- found laying around in BS2 (and no doubt many others ). Thus allowing Ryan to make his OWN plans to fake his own death too, to GET Fontaine in an appropriately poetic fashion.
"Falling_Into_Place" - Fontaine (Dionysus Park) : "New face. I have a new goddamn face -- who'da thought? Rapture... paradise of the confidence man. I gotta keep revising the Atlas voice. I figure the accent gives me an excuse to lock myself in a room with a bottle and count the cash. War's on in full now, boy... and I've got a hell of a surprise for Andrew Ryan. Long time comin'. And right about now, I expect the prodigal son is bookin' his flight ... "
"Goodbye_to_Fontaine" - Fontaine (Fontaine_Futuristics_(game_level)|Fontaine Futuristics) : "Everytime Ryan turns up the heat, I know I'm a little bit closer to beatin' him at his own game. But now the game's changin' -- Ryan's boys are comin' in heavy -- lookin' to knock down my door and take what's mine. Like this is the first time I had to dodge a bullet. They're comin' to my house expectin' a show, but they're gonna get a disappearin' act. Say goodbye to Fontaine... ( *cocks shotgun* and switches to a thick Irish accent ) and hello to Atlas."
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Audio Diary of a Guy who Lost the Blue Fin Restaurant :
Morris Lauderman (in Fontaine's in BaSx) : "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."
"Pennies on the Dollar" usually means to be compelled to be 'bought out' for 'next to nothing'. ( Actually WHY would Ryan buy the place ? Just close it for Safety Hazard while he was having it investigated. )
Seems to go contrary to Ryan's Philosophy - for him to force out a business ( this is before Kashmir and the City Emergency ). It might have more been because of the presence of the 'Tears' for the location to have been declared "unsafe", and Suchong (illogical as that is) was moved in for the 'Official' Investigation ( could have just been 'temporary' ). The Tears should have made the issue obvious to the owner. But we didn't get details of what specifically happened in all that situation ( other than the recorder was complaining of losing his business, but no mention about it likely being only temporary or that his customers were 'put off' by the weirdness anyway ( like brain-bleed, it caused to him and his customers, or the weird sounds and smells that came out of the 'Tears' ).
When the 'Prison' was activated ( Soon ? or how much later after the Neptune's Bounty Incident + Fontaine criminal investigations and property seizures ? ) EVERY OTHER business there in Fontaines Dept Store/Mall was shutdown. Again, its a bit of a Philosophical conflict ( which you would think Ryan would avoid AT THAT POINT ), and likely causing a firestorm amongst Rapture's businessmen ( All this is not really elaborated upon, and you'd think it would be a BIG issue/story for the Newsies - Perhaps that 'Sunk' is more referring to the business disruption ). The Audio Diary recording owner would have lost his restaurant at that time anyway. Were all the other owners paid "pennies on the dollar" also ? I doubt it made any of them happy, and Ryan absolutely wouldn't be happy at all the flack he would definitely get from the whole 'sunk' thing. The whole situation makes little sense, and ignores so much previous game Canon (did they even care ?).
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ADAM REALLY Explained (Tenenbaum Audio Diaries) :
ADAM Explained : "ADAM acts like a benign cancer, destroying native cells and replacing them with unstable stem versions. While this very instability is what gives it its amazing properties, it is also what causes the cosmetic and mental damage. You need more and more ADAM just to keep back the tide. From a medical standpoint, this is catastrophic. From a business standpoint, well... Fontaine sees the possibilities."
Reversing ADAM Sickness : "I have begun testing a new approach to the Splicing Sickness problem. ADAM remembers, you see. The method uses the ADAM's own "recall" of past cell configurations to revert each of the patient's genetic changes -- with one final dose, we return the patient to his former self! It is only theory : the number of potential bonding sites for even a single test is innumerable, and I cannot calculate alone. But I have heard of an adding machine at the heart of the city, beyond the capability of any device the world has known. Perhaps... if I could harness its power...
A Possible Solution : I have begun testing a new approach to the Splicing Sickness problem. ADAM remembers, you see. The method uses the ADAM's own "recall" of past cell configurations to revert each of the patient's genetic changes -- with one final dose, we return the patient to his former self! It is only theory: the number of potential bonding sites for even a single test is innumerable, and I cannot calculate alone. But I have heard of an adding machine at the heart of the city, beyond the capability of any device the world has known. Perhaps... if I could harness its power...
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Real scientific understanding is constantly revised, and a statement can turn out to be specific to a particular context. The in-game Audio Diaries were from evidence observed AFTER negative effects are seen by her around the time of BS1 - ADAM abuse/overuse cases or long-term accumulation, or whatever. What we've seen her say is her hypothesis/theory, not a pronouncement from God.
"Stem Cells" ( little understood in the Real World until the 1960s ) turn into normal cells, and 'unstable' is one definition of what they are BEFORE they turn into normal tissue (not that the cells need continue to be 'unstable', just that they have the ability to form whatever tissue they are compelled to assume by their genetics and environment ( which includes NEW added genetic patterns acting as triggers ).
How complete/permanent/continuous the process is with ADAM involved ?? ADAM genetic manipulation effects seem to deteriorate with time ( requiring boosters is mentioned ). This is possibly an immunity system response (tissue rejection) which may attack the partial (foreign DNA/RNA) tissue changes (and the immune system probably grows more effective with time -- it is basic immunology/allergy involvement).
Overlapping Plasmids may interfere (different RNA/DNA each time). Tissue rejection blocking elements in the ADAM product which protects the modifications may deteriorate. Repeated use may leave breakdown byproducts in cells that impair new ADAM application (ie- oxidative toxin buildup) - requiring increased ADAM dosages to get the same effect. And Possibly other mechanisms ... More than one Plasmid/Tonic in use simultaneously could complicate things, and all effects can be varying with the user.
"May", May May May ... Science today hardly knows how so many of these (REAL) types of biological processes work, and Tenenbaum's theories can only be a rough guess at what she sees happening. The affects can be observed without understanding the underlying biochemical mechanisms ( which in the real world has taken decades and hundreds/thousands of experts, and much experimentation and resources ).
SO do we declare WE know exactly what is going on, -OR- can we really only reflect what the game shows happening ( including simply how vague much of this evidence is, and the nature of Audio Diary evidence themselves all only being from the recorder's perspective and context ).
I've mentioned many uncertainties and possible explanations. Perhaps the MMORPG can off a more cohesive explanation (including a revision from Tenenbaum about new understandings for all of the above - as she is now specifically working in New Rapture on a solution dealing with this.)
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Protecting_Little_Ones (Audio Diary) :
Suchong (Point Prometheus) : "War a terrible thing. Japanese kill every man in my city, except for Suchong. Suchong have opium. Very good opium. This war, terrible thing, too, but not for Suchong. Everyone scared now. Everyone need ADAM. More than Little Sisters can make. Good news is war makes lots of corpses. Suchong knows way to recycle ADAM from corpse. But can't send Little Sister out to street unprotected. Suchong must think on this."
Suchong sounds like the 'Civil War' is in full swing by the time he recorded this.
Those ADAM Production Increase projects would NOT be done in mere weeks (witness the extensive facilities at Point Prometheus - both for Big Daddies and Little Sisters, and all the Audio Diaries talking about Suchong's work there on these projects). SO the early death of Suchong is a major Contradiction.
Deployment of the Turrets and Security Cameras and Flybots shown in BaSx were supposed to be later (measures taken and developments/placements made necessary by the %27civil war%27, which hadn't even started yet (in BaSx portrayal). They obviously were (likely being early versions) all ineffective in the 'Prison' because the inmates seem to have already hacked them all before Kashmir, and so WHY leave them (The Turrets) there ? And originally what were they to protect when the inmates apparently were allowed to run free anyway ? 
(( Watch a few prison movies where inmates riot and the authorities come in and restore order immediately and usually don't care much how many inmates might get killed doing it. ))
The point was made in the previous games (and on High and Market Street) : that Rapture before the Kashmir Incident felt pretty secure -- which made what happened at the News Years Eve party such a shock. Those Kludged together machines wouldn't be likely products seen in 'normal' Rapture) - there was no emergency yet to justify them (those shown for earlier private security would be largely non-lethal, so some changes still would be needed for Anti-Splicer and 'War' units). Later in BS1/BS2 they are represented as patched together machines, because it was LONG after things fell apart in a major way. It is all too contradictory for so many of these things to happen this early (you can only blame the BaSx-DLC-quality writing/expediency so much ...).
A proper prison arrangement would prevent escape, limit/restrict/control/regiment the inmate movements/activities, separate them from the guards, and provide facilities to feed/supply the inmates safely/securely. If it was all just to 'sink' them and kill them all ( as the writers try to imply (???? OH THAT MEAN OLE RYAN!!! ...) ) then why not just quickly flood the whole place or turn off the air ? All of it makes so little sense. (... DLC-quality writing ... AGAIN).
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Desperate Times :
Ryan (Farmers Market) : "Doctor Suchong, frankly, I'm shocked by your proposal. If we were to modify the structure of our commercial Plasmid line as you propose, to have them make the user vulnerable to mental suggestion through pheromones, would we not be able to effectively control the actions of the citizens of Rapture? Free will is the cornerstone of this city. The thought of sacrificing it is abhorrent. However... we are indeed in a time of war. If Atlas and his bandits have their way, will they not turn us into slaves? And what will become of free will then? Desperate times call for desperate measures."
Suchong apparently proposes this Pheromone Control solution to Ryan when the 'civil war' ( the Rapture Law Enforcement Action against the Terrorists led by the man named Atlas ) was already on, and not going particularly well.  But how long did this 'solution' take to develop ( Sorry, no Wave-of-the-Hand instantaneous magic creation you have happen in Infinite BS ), and how effective did it ever turn out to be ??    Ryan seems to control some Splicers in BS1, but how much of that can be attributed to a 'Pheromone Control' is only vague.   
The measure also could be used in a limited way with the Gatherer's Garden machines only in the disrupted areas supplying the modified Plasmids/Tonics.
Ryan really does NOT need more crazy/maimed/sick people in his City, so the whole thing about 'Splicing' the whole population would be balderdash ( and with limited ADAM supplies it is probably impossible ). People who did NOT take ADAM would NOT be affected by this 'Pheromone Control", and people who already were addicted to ADAM had little "Free Will" anyway.
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 "Alone At Last" "
Ryan ( BS2, Fontaine_Futuristics_(game_level) ) : "This facility belongs to the city now -- to Ryan Industries ... at least until the rioting subsides. While it is unfortunate that such measures had to be taken... I must admit, it is gratifying to see this building condemned. Fontaine is gone. Lamb is gone... or close enough. I am alone at last... alone with my city."
Seized (City Council) to keep the ADAM Production going and the ADAM-Addicted people in Rapture stable. 
Rioting ? : "AT LEAST TIL THE RIOTING SUBSIDES" - THAT implies further action is pending. 
Building Condemned ??? Ryan industries must then be able to do everything for ADAM Production itself ? That's not 'seized' really, is it ? ( not in the way the gamewriters imply elsewhere ? - Seized supposedly with Ryan taking it over.
Seized to make restitution for Fontaine's Crimes ? Many of Fontaine's crimes would be exposed besides the Smuggling. There would be the upkeep for the Little Sisters Fontaine had enslaved and maimed. Perhaps to his workers he had abused or even murdered. Perhaps to those who he had swindled/coerced out of their businesses. Possibly many others.
Fontaine is gone. Lamb is gone - Ryan is relieved that a Major Criminal and a Seditionist will no longer be afflicting and endangering Rapture.
This sounds like it was recorded BEFORE the Kashmir Incident brought bigger problems to Rapture
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BS1 : Kill the Son of a Bitch (Radio Message) :
Atlas (Hephaestus) : "Now, Would You Kindly head to Ryan's office and kill the son of a bitch ? It's time to finish this."
You might as well Moo (you are on the cattle slaughterhouse ramps leading to the abattoir) for all the choice you have been given in the game. The lies stacked up, the willful bias of all evidence forced upon you. All paths lead to murdering Ryan. Unfortunately they saw no real need to offer a more conflicting story to the Player, who's real interest is largely the 'fun' of just slaughtering things and getting new toys to play with. You are ignorant, knowing only what they tell you, no matter how dishonest and contrived it all really is. It is merely window-dressing for a Slaughterfest Game which really could have been much more.
 
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Radio Msg - 'Termite at Versailles' 
Ryan : "Imagine the will it took to create a place like this. And what have you built ? Nothing. You can only loot and break. You're not a man, you're just a termite at Versailles."
Going with the (my) Epic Twist, Ryan here is just testing Jack to see how he reacts. Unfortunately, Jack never says anything -- perhaps never learned as he IS only 4 years old after all ( and probably well ADAM_Addled by then also ), and other things had been more important for Fontaine to have him 'conditioned for' -- or rather 'programmed' ( like shooting guns and slaughtering people ).
!!! Another 'Flashback' (player activity) for the MMORPG would be the whole 'training the pawn' conditioning experience which Jack was put through ( some by Suchong, perhaps more done 'on the surface' ). 
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Radio Msg - Another man - "A miracle" 
Ryan : "A man builds a city at the bottom of the sea. That's a marvel. Another man happens to be on a plane that crash lands on the same city in the middle of the ocean. Why, that sounds more like ... a miracle."
(More) Evidence that Ryan knew what was happening with Jack - Fontaine's plan in progress ( How would Atlas know/arrange it all if he wasn't really Fontaine ...)
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Radio (Tenenbaum) : Thinker-Porter (Minervas Den) : "You'll need to confirm your genetic identity to start the printing process" ... 
WHY ? (Why should Sigma, some Alpha Big Daddy, have to do this, when the computer usually directly controls the printers ?) Seems a bit contrived to get YOU to the control stand just to do the 'twist' ID reveal. Not clear why Thinker-Porter couldn't just tell Sigma-Porter who he really is at any point (It is implied that's why The Thinker was doing all this crap all along wasn't it ?? The "familiar voice" stuff, etc...) If just telling him wouldn't work, why should this 'ding' ID system break through Sigma-Porter's conditioning/brain damage any better ?
Maybe it might have been more logical for Tenenbaum to act (somehow) at that point, and inject some of her Whatzit-sauce into Sigma to do for him what she did to Jack ( and maybe helped Eleanor do with Delta ) ... "Sigma, go put a new box of printer paper in Printer #7." ... " Hello Herr Sigma. Here letz me injekt du vith zis... "
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Tenenbaum Warning that "Minervas Den is falling to pieces because The Thinker is shut down" ... 
First - where is she (watching Delta somehow), and why hasn't she been any help sooner (or been assaulted by the numerous Splicers roaming Wahl's little kingdom)??
Second, if the place (Rapture or just RCC) will fall apart when one computer is down because it stupidly has been made so critical to everything - makes me think that they were insane -- making the people there pretty crazily inept even BEFORE they were ever Spliced). How exactly did the place stick together before the computers were even operational in Rapture ? 
I know it is all for 'suspense', but a little realistic creativity can go a long way to improve things (( Wasn't Star Trek's Enterprise (pick any of the series) threatened with a computer failure every other episode - which would lead to "blowing up the ship" too ??? ))
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Audio Diary : "Wrong Side of the Tracks" :
Augustus Sinclair (BS2, Paupers Drop) - "Ol' Pauper's Drop's the worst neighborhood in Rapture -- but it's a hell of an opportunity to raise up some ah, affordable housin'. When Atlantic Express was constructin' their luxury passenger line, this place was hollowed out beneath as flophouses for the railway crew. Nobody was s'posed ta reside down here long-term -- but when you're broke in this town, you're not exactly swimmin' in alternatives. I don't favor spendin' more than an hour or so down here at a time. There ain't a side of the tracks more wrong than under 'em. "
Likely recorded before Sinclair redeveloped the area (even got Ryan to put in the Drugstore).
What you see in BS2 is NOT what Sinclair was talking about ... its origins (when the AE was under construction). He later saw the opportunity for the site and built his affordable housing (see the Amended level maps Paupers Drop). If you actually look at The Sinclair Deluxe to see what it was BEFORE it was operated and wrecked by Lamb and Holloway (for ~ 7 years, and when Sinclair was long out of the picture). The place is (originally) actually quite a bit better then any tenement I've seen. But then Lamb's Collectivism turned the place BACK into a Shanty Town/shithole by BS2 times - a Lambville as destitute as any Rooseveltville during the Great Depression.
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Audio Diary : "Better Times with Lamb" :
Grace Holloway (BS2, Paupers Drop) - "My folks lived in the St. Louis Hooverville in '32... and the Drop is worse by a mile. Nobody's supposed to live down here, city pissing on us. 'Never dry'. Ryan doesn't care and Fontaine's a damn crook, but Doctor Lamb cares. We're still people to her. She's offering free mental counseling on Sundays. When I go, I get the feeling she's got a plan for Rapture... and for me."
SO this must be recorded before Sinclair redeveloped 'Maintenance Junction 47' ( when all the fancy Art Deco stuff and stores, etc... were added ) ? I put that around/after 1952 when the economic 'Crash' happened due to the City's Construction ending, and no new immigrants incoming to Rapture. Some people think that 'Crash' is after the 'civil war' started (Closing_the_Limbo_Room), but it cannot be. EVERYTHING turned to shit when the Kashmir Event blew up, and the visible redevelopment done by Sinclair was something to happen (earlier) in Rapture's 'Normal' times.
Fontaine is a "damn crook"? Before ADAM, Fontaine wasn't really "on anyone's Radar". He sold Fish ( Perhaps with a Fontaine monopoly, the price of fish suddenly Tripled ?? ) MAYBE he was smuggling in Heroin into Rapture ( being something compact and of high value ) and a favorite of Jazz musicians at that time. So is Grace referring to high prices of drugs to the indigents (( It wasn't all that cheap up on The Surface, with well known Jazz artists actually stealing from each other to pay for their Heroin habits )).
Of course, Grace considers everything is Ryan's fault, and Lamb is 'the Savior' ... Sounds a bit biased ( or being Lamb's agenda/manipulation speaking ). 
If Holloway is there in Rapture, then her career as a entertainer seems to have gone 'out of fashion', along with the high living that likely went with that. She's supposedly running the renamed "Paupers Drop" place (by BS2 times), and it is a real shithole ( everything that was redeveloped has been trashed ). I guess Grace (or Sofia Lamb) then didn't much "care" much either. (( BTW, the St. Louis Hooverville was still around in 1936 (4 years AFTER 'The New Deal" started) and was one of the largest in the country, so I guess Roosevelt didn't "care" much, either. ))
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Better Times with Lamb - MORE :
Oh Yes, Dr Lamb 'Cares'... ( most collectivist tyrants always pretend to at first )
This seems to refer to BEFORE that place was Redeveloped (all those buildings you saw WEREN'T made by a bunch of indigents/shantytown denizens -- There really should have been a plaque impressing that Redevelopment happening).
Hooverville ? ... No it is "Rooseveltvilles" : Ryan would have labeled them thus ... The 'New Deal' was largely a 'New Scam', and only led to people dependence on the government, and it did NOT much help to end the Great Depression.
Many of them ( there wasn't just one of these "Rooseveltvilles" - actually they existed in many cities ) they continued long after Roosevelt became president. WW2 was what effectively ended the Great Depression, not anything that Roosevelt or the Democrats did (the opposite actually). In Germany where the Depression was twice as bad (they had 50% unemployment) had much sooner rebuilt/recovered itself years before the United States' Depression ended. Previous Depressions ( like the bad one in 1893 ... ) had been gotten past in a much shorter time without the massive spending and government interference.
Ryan knew what he was talking about.
Still the writers try to manufacture a Great Depression for Rapture - The story says : Prentice Mill was asked to float the cash supplies of Rapture, and thus ruined himself ? Could it even work that way in the microcosm of Rapture ? Simple loan security on those loans, and he was still a rich man. Bankrupted the AE ? Or just 'something better' took his passenger business ( Trams, not Submersibles or "Bathyspheres") and it was happening anyway ? AE Freight Service went on, but the Passenger Service with its Prestige went away -- no matter how much money he had to try to prop it up. (( The same thing happened to the railroads passenger industry in America 1940s-1950s with NO 'bank run'/depression required. ))
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Audio Diary : "Closing the Limbo Room" :
Grace Holloway (BS2, Paupers Drop) - "That's it -- we have to close down the Limbo. Bomb goes off in that fancy place uptown, and everybody panics... pulls their money out of the banks... a whole city tuggin' on the same dollar bill. So the banks fold, and maybe one in ten got their savings out... who's going to come hear me nightingalin' about how broke they are? How am I going to provide for little Eleanor?"
Of course Grace is telling a general story and not necessarily factual ( as in Banks closing or most people losing ALL their money ). Perhaps she is delusionally remembering what happened in the 1929 "Crash" ??? (( Big point is here : These Audio Diaries are NOT necessarily factual and can have HEAPs of bias and misinformation embedded in them. They can only be taken as a "Point of View" of what someone at one point in time THOUGHT ))
Before this (at the time of Kashmir Incident), apparently Grace was NOT yet (was rescinded ?) '"Blacklisted" for singing against the Ryan Administration' ( She had a job IN the Limbo Room ... ) . Or her job in the 'Limbo Room' was the only place left that would take her and may have been a center of sedition. (( Or did she only think she was "Blacklisted" (told by Lamb?), and again is blaming Ryan for her decline in popularity with the audiences in Rapture ??? ))
So does that ALSO mean that (this alleged Blacklisting) may have happened afterwards (Post-Kashmir), when she was aiding and abetting the 'rebels' - Doing that when Atlas's terrorists were attacking citizens and blowing up things and wrecking the economy ? Something Sofia Lamb put her upto (for Sofia, the faster Rapture is brought down, the sooner Sofia could try to seize power ??) Sounds like something MOST Citizens of Rapture wouldn't "cotton to" .
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Maybe there was a money shortage (most banks have limited cash reserves) right at that point (Kashmir Bomb Explosion), but the banks would still have the security for the mortgages they had loaned out for. After the Great Depression, safeguards were put into place at American banks to INSURE depositors in Savings Accounts DIDN'T lose out when this kind of thing happened ( one was that banks weren't allowed to speculate with the saver's money, and required security for its loans on things that COULD NOT lose their value ). Of course Rapture would also still allow Investment Funds that invested in various (potentially risky) ventures - but those conditions would be written into the contract and enforced by law.
BUT If things in Rapture went downhill fast ( ie- the Terrorism Mayhem after the Kashmir Incident ), THEN it wouldn't matter about money much anymore ( and makes what Grace Holloway says here rather odd ) because money wouldn't be relevant anymore, or be able to buy you much of anything ( in the game we find it in the trash, don't we ? )
POSSIBLY ( despite the impression the game writers are trying to make ), there still remained ALOT more order than what the game setting implies ( outside the areas YOU go through ). After all, so much of what Atlas relates was later found to be lies ( and you only go through a very small part of Rapture - guided by him in BS1 ).
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Get Rid of the Little Sisters ( Radio Message from Stanley Poole ) :
Stanley Poole is worried the Little Sisters have DNA that would prove his disastrous behavior and the selling of Eleanor into slavery as a Little Sister, and maybe even of being a Mole for Ryan. These little Sisters 'might have it' because they have just been Harvesting corpses IN Dionysus (they work quick apparently).
Since DNA/RNA cannot actually store 'memories', the whole thing about that is a sham/delusion.   The 'Ghost Stories' of BS1 were hallucinations suggested by the settings (Jack was toking up ADAM quite alot, and might not have been overly 'all there' to begin with).
For Sofia Lamb's plan to amass ADAM-based 'memories' to build her 'Utopian', THAT is another great murderous delusion ( maybe she sniffed a little too much of her bookbinders glue, to add to her other mental illnesses ). That or after her theory was proven fail again and again she is merely using that 'Goal' to simply maintain her control over the people and loath to let them find out how wrong she was ( another reason why she seems to not mind killing them off in front of Delta ).
For Stanley, with having Dionysus Park opened up (unflooded), it could still disclose evidence (of other sorts) of his misdeeds. So having you go around hunting Little Sisters may have had the real intent of YOU (The Killer Daddy From Hell) slaughtering everybody inside to keep that from happening.
In real MMORPG fashion, the security station Poole was in could have been pried or hacked open (given sufficient time/effort) allowing Delta to get the prize inside ( if Poole didn't squeeze out through a  ventilator shaft and made his escape ... )    *** Alternate logic-safe situation *** :  "I gots 600 pounds of High Explosives in here, and if you kill me, you and your precious Control Key go up with it !!!"
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Suchong: "Break that puppy's neck — Would you kindly..." Jack Playing the Audio Diary :
At this point (in Rapture Central Control and Ryan's WYK room), you (Jack) are forced to start looking around the room for a Puppy you have just been ordered, via your Control Phrase, to kill ("Break that puppy's neck"...). SO you wander around, like ordered, for about an hour until the command's strength weakens with time, and then you are confused.
You then wonder a bit, and then since you forgot what it said -- You play that Audio Diary again . Repeat.
Eventually maybe Atlas gives you a call wondering whats taking you so long, OR Ryan does the same wanting to get on with HIS faked death ....
And another thing happens -- you see that phrase ("Would You Kindly") scrawled up on the wall in that same room. Since you also respond to your control phrase in TEXT form ( as Jack did when he opened the box on the plane ), you (Jack) start wondering what the command is -- that the WYK makes you go into slave-mode to carry out ( notice it works as Suchong used it FOLLOWING the command, and when Fontaine uses it many times he says the command phrase FIRST ). In this situation you say 'uh, what was the command??' and maybe stand there for an extended period WAITING for the command that is expected... But nothing happens unless its up on that chart?? SO you look anxiously on that board looking for the command which you are getting rather anxious about, and maybe take an hour doing that ?? Then you, while searching, spot the control phrase as text again (scrawled with emphasis) and you get stuck in a loop.
Perhaps at this point blood and green glowing liquid start dripping out of your ears, and you collapse and start having a fit on the floor, and then go unconscious. So Ryan never gets killed, and instead just drops the "15 ton weight" on Atlas/Fontaine using a battalion of Splicers and Security Bots ( even hyped up Atlas can't handle that many ). End of Fontaine/Atlas, and Ryan can now rebuild his city, finds The Cure and everyone lives happily ever after.
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Audio Diary Cohen "Critics" :
(BaS, Sander Cohen ) - "Of my first play, the Herald said: "A dead whale has washed up at the Shubert Theater, and stinks a little more with each passing night." The Tribune called my first opera as "having the effect of canceling out all of Mozart's classics in a single caterwaul." And now, critics take me to task for my humanitarian work. If I were not there to find a home for these orphans, would these bellyachers take my place? An artist once said, "All critics should be assassinated." I just might take him up on that."
His First Play IN Rapture ? Or is he talking about before on the Surface ?
It Sounds a bit like his recent 'artistic' attempts and critic's judgments - 'whale' comment sounds kinda sea related... -- and Cohen had been in Rapture for many years already (since the late 1940's?) -- maybe coming and thinking he would not run into similar critics, as he had previously faced on the Surface -- a more Open audience not so ready to regurgitate what 'Critics' told them.
Rapture has a 'Tribune', so why not a "Herald" too - a common enough newspaper name ( How many newspapers could 20000 Rapturites afford to support ?? But back then, specialized local papers once were alot more common ). Why would he say Herald and Tribune separate, but in almost the same breath if they were the same paper ? Which other 'Herald' (big city) would be referred to as 'The' ? Ditto, why not a 'Shubert Theater' in Rapture??
Still not really substantiated enough, could be Cohen referencing pre-Rapture happenings. ( New York Herald Tribune and Schubert Theater all in the same city ).
No mention of Cohen's 'humanitarian' anywhere previous to BaS ( Where is the "Sander Cohen's Little Sisters Orphanages" ?? - They (Irrational's Developers/Writers) musta forgot that HE (Cohen) would change the name the orphanage(s) at the first possible moment, because of his ego. )
Hmmm, If Cohen wasn't going to be on the 'outs' with Ryan for such 'altruism', then did Ryan actually not care so much about individual's acts ( as long as it wasn't done with the 'taxpayers' money, or conniving to get other people to fund a charity ... ) -- beside the existing Little Sisters being the main source of Rapture's ADAM, which Ryan NEEDED continued until the addiction thing was fixed.
Thought : How many of Cohen 'Plaster-pieces' contained some of the "critics" he complains about ???
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Atlas's Little BaSx Propaganda Film "Message Received Ryan" : 
Not quite the message Atlas was shown to have based his persona around originally ( too bad Jack didn't see THAT soon after arriving in Rapture in BS1 - it might have been a very interesting psycho-drama element if Jack KNEW Atlas was full of BS the entire time. )
Seeing that propaganda would have most of the people in Rapture saying  "Don't want No part of that"  or "Another murderous revolutionary, no Thank You"  or  "I left X to get away from ruthless murderers like that" or  "Voice of the People? Sounds more like Voice of Bolshevism to me"  or  "WTF is this clown talking about? Another ranting Handout King" ...
Was that lame 'twist' in BS1 worth the game lying to you -- shoveling on the BS thick - as if they were making a Game Promotional Trailer ????? 
Free Men & Free Markets (Need_to_Know_Theater in BaSx) :
Narrated by Andrew Ryan : "Are you in the know? There has been a lot of idle talk from gadflies and naysayers following the nationalization of Fontaine Futuristics. I believe in free men and free markets. But I also believe in my city. And Frank Fontaine's purpose was nothing less than the destruction of Rapture. It was he who gave comfort to the laggards and layabouts. It was he who coddled the tramps and vagabonds. Fontaine was poisoning the people of Rapture. But his venom wasn't made of arsenic or strychnine. No -- it was concocted from something far deadlier. It was brewed…from altruism. Now you know."
Free is a Matter of Degree :
You cannot operate a business in a state of anarchy. If there are 'no laws' then who enforces a 'contract' ? ( extremely impractical for business above a guy trading a watch for a sandwich inside a fallout shelter ). Proposing a whole city operate that same way just shows that the writers didn't know or didn't care how Rapture SHOULD have operated ( And since its all a collaboration then it could be both. And no, it can't be "unimportant to the game" with all the other 'explanations' for much less basic things in the game --- that's a failure of inconsistency of detail ... ).
So that's the basis (what had to be there) for having rules/laws/regulations/ordinances which Fontaine would realistically face prosecution/official-opposition for. The Lack of showing that happening seems to be that such details just didn't fit their weak 'just cuz' Failtopia narrative.
Real Justifications by Ryan are Not Much Mentioned in Game (in BS1 and BS2, when it mattered) :
Fontaine's many proven criminal acts, the murder, extortion, smuggling, shooting at City authorities.
That all is a simple example of Fontaine NOT believing in "Free Man, Free Markets", and actually acting against it. Of course those are things that would be self explanatory of why Fontaine's Financial Assets could be and were SEIZED by the City.
Another which also is not much stated : The CRITICAL NEED for Keeping the ADAM flowing ( elsewhere hints mentioned - riots happening on just a rumor of insufficient ADAM supplies ) - and THAT'S such a simple statement to explain to the Player reasons for the City Authorities to NEED to SEIZE Fontaine Futuristic ... Ryan himself would say that to the populace ( If not to convince the addicted Splicers, but to convince the Non-Splicers who realized and didn't want all the Splicers to implode and REALLY become even more insane ).
Few people would side with Fontaine with that spelled out. Since Atlas uses 'nationalization'/'Seizing' as one of his arguments to turn Jack against Ryan ( and thus Fontaine now as a "martyr" ) mentioning that ADAM situation issue would kind of knock the legs out from under that part of the story too.
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The Big Daddy Need To Know Theater :
Unknown Narrator (BaSx) : "Are you in the know ? The Big Daddy may look imposing, but he's a gentle giant. Do you know all he does for Rapture ? These metal gents are the hands that maintain Rapture, digging the foundation out of the sea bed and guiding structural supports into place. Where do these metal mysteries come from ? Sorry, chum, that's a Ryan Industries trade secret. Now you know."
At time of BaSx these were Rapture's repairmen ( and apparently not "Protectors" yet, as there is no added explanation/warning about that here ) different from just being men in diving suits -- which BTW weigh hundreds of pounds out of the water - without 'Brute Strength' Tonic ( available late in Rapture's history ) that's kindof hard to be walking around inside in, as well as canvas construction inappropriate for anything below 150 feet ( the Bends would kill 'normal' divers constantly at any greater depth in a non-Hardsuit ). 
Whatever was done early thus was by ordinary men in Hardsuits, and those canvas-type suits only being employed very close to the surface ( used likely for part of the prefabrication work on chunks of buildings very close to the surface ).
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Beating On Ryan's Front Door :
If you attack the door to Ryan's lair ( before you do the whole "EMP Bomb" thing ) he sends a radio message saying : "Whoever spent so much of their money to MAKE you didn't get their money's worth ..." It sounds like Ryan by then already figured out what was happening in the plot -- Thus making it even more illogical for Ryan to commit suicide -- when he had all but defeated Atlas, and could have shrugged off what Jack was programmed to do (... hence MY Twist of Ryan's own scam on Fontaine ).
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Audio Diary "Disappeared" :
Grace Holloway : "He's gone. James was the only man I ever loved... now it's like he never even came to Rapture. He heard me sing at the Limbo Room, came up all bashful. He liked hearin' songs about what it's really like to live in this town... I think he's been trying to organize folks against Ryan, and now he's gone, and I'm here, singing "Rise, Rapture, Rise"... scared to death they're gonna come for me!"
Vague - it is all left open (more Ryan condemnation without fact). SO easy to assume Ryan had him locked up in Persephone, but 'James' just as well could have been one of Atlas's "cannon fodder", and got himself killed in one of "the rebellion's" terrorist attacks, or forced into Apollo Square with other rioters ( or disappeared when he died of Fontaine's crude/clumsy semi-poisonous Weapon-Grade Plasmids, and his body unceremoniously 'disposed of', or left one of the unrecognizable 'corpses' ). 
Organizing 'against Ryan' can include handing out leaflets saying "Kill Ryan and takeover Rapture". We have no real details of exactly what may have happened, and what Grace might be glossing over or just assuming. ( A biased non-narrative --- one of so many to be heard in the game. )
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Timing of the above Recording ? 
How early did 'Atlas' come into being to stir people up to demand 'stuff', and blame mean ole Ryan if they didn't get it ? We see Atlas apparently bossing people around (already organized) in BaS2, and that's just months after Fontaine 'died' ( It is possible Fontaine had positioned 'Atlas' quite some time BEFORE he 'died' - We don't know the interval between the time he had his face changed ... or did "Atlas' do many things without showing his face ? ). 
Before the Kashmir Incident ( the "Bankrun", etc ... which allegedly put Grace out of a job ), if when she says "I'm here" it seems to imply the recording is made when she is still at work ( ?? It IS found in Ryan Amusements though - these Audio Diary things got around apparently ) -- if not that, then that recording could be made much later during the %27civil war%27 ( when not just Ryan, but ALOT of Citizens are outraged at the murderous Terrorist actions of the 'rebels' like Atlas. ) Grace could be located 'who knows where' doing her 'singing', while Ryan is busy trying to hold Rapture together ( so still before BS1 ).
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Anudder : "What Its Really Like In This Town..." (Grace's Rapture) :
Grace Holloway : "He heard me sing at the Limbo Room, came up all bashful. He liked hearin' songs about what it's really like to live in this town"
You mean "hard" just like in the Real World ? You DID read the literature before signing up and coming here, didn't you ? You agreed to live by the Rules and Philosophy that Rapture was founded upon, didn't you ? No welfare state here, which is strangling the Surface World up there - Ryan made that pretty clear.
Hard times would be (?) after the Early Economic Distress, years before BS1. Most of the rest of Rapture adapted and survived ( Construction workers ? It WAS known that construction would largely END, and people would be expected to take up new jobs ). You (Grace) seem to have found work since then (Limbo Room ...). You then later got to face (like everyone else) the 'civil war'/terrorism that is being caused BY murderous parasites (if you hadn't noticed.)
You are (were) a singer. Are you even an artist to come up with something new ? Most people often DON'T want to hear the same thing every performance for year after year. Most artists in Rapture were told "Not to quit their day job", as audiences can be fickle, and it is up to THEM to decide what they like. The Blues might not be that popular in upbeat Rapture. And when the 'civil war' came, and most Citizens had no money for entertainment, was it any surprise they stopped coming ?
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Radio Msg - Ryan (BS1, Hephaestus) "Rapture Will Thrive " :
"Rapture is coming back to life. Even now, can't you hear the breath returning to her lung ? The shops reopening, the schools humming with the thoughts of young minds ? My city will live. My city will thrive. And, when that day comes, we'll use your tombstone for paving tiles."
Ryan's New Years Eve Speech - "'has been a year of 'trials ... and with that strength you shall rebuild." :
* What might these 'trials' be and what would cause Ryan to use those words 'shall rebuild' with that inflection?
* Fontaine Shootout... ( possibly the biggest incident of violence upto that time )
* Takeover of Fontaine Futuristics ( no mention of any other assets )... A philosophical shock with or without motives more than stabilizing Rapture on Ryan's part (Alone_at_Last)
* But what else would need to be 'rebuilt' ?
* ADAM shortages caused by chaos at Fontaine Futuristics until Ryan had the City take it over and reopen/run it ? ( Secondary disruption of fishing operations - food shortages til it was sorted out ? )
* A whole lot of people going 'cold turkey' and rioting (or calling for Ryan to "do something") ?
* Other incidents ( some catastrophic leaks causing casualties- Dionysus and/or others ) ?
* Huge criminal operation exposed. Extended criminal involvement with Fontaine's Smuggling being disclosed ( disruptions of dependent businesses and involved influential people going to jail ) ?
Remember that Rapture still largely in a state of Normalcy upto this point, the coming 'civil war'/Terrorism and its disruptions/destruction/fatalities is likely magnitudes more disturbing (but THAT hasn't happened yet).
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Those Audio Diaries
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"Scoping the Gate" - Treason from Morons ? (Audio Diary Hephaestus) :
Hephaestus, Kyburz : "I spent the afternoon trying to get as close to Ryan's gate as possible without making a spectacle of myself ... He's got it shielded six ways till Easter. There's no way into that place. All I got for my trouble was the hairy eyeball from Ryan's Splicer mates. That's the reward you get for trying to outsmart the best electrical engineer of our generation."
Yeah so does Kyburz somehow think Atlas will run the place after they (the story fabricated traitors) kill Ryan ? How stupid this plot gets just to facilitate that lame "I am your surrender monkey father Luke" plot twist thing. No Kyburz, your death is the reward you get for letting yourself be warped into a frickin idiot by game writers.
But then its a "shooter game", what do you expect ( though they did endlessly tout themselves for BioShock having 'story' ). The nostalgia element I think trumped the story by far in giving the game its 'feeling'.
BTW, Its not like writing it logically would have cost any more, or to have done with different text/verbiage these recorded voice Assets - the things which are used most to tell so much of "The Story".
So when did this recording happen ? Splicer Mates ? After the Pheromone Control ? Low level security is all Ryan could really use these 'Splicers' for ( because of their instability ), while his 'sane' competent Security men were trying to track down Atlas.
Similarly "shielded six ways till Easter" meant there would be additional locks on the INSIDE ( and the electric on battery powered from INSIDE ). And since Ryan was at home, ALL those additional locks would be engaged ( and be backed up by more Security Devices than anywhere else in Rapture ).
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Audio Diary - Genetic Arms Race :
Hephaestus, McDonagh : "I begged Mr. Ryan to hand Fontaine Futuristics over to Atlas' boys as a peace offering, but the stupid sod won't listen to reason. 'Stead he's just splicing his mob up, giving them more and tougher Plasmids. There's an arms race on here in Rapture, but it's not about who can build the best guns and the biggest bombs. It's about who can become less of a man and more of a monster ..."
The REAL "stupid sod" is McDonagh for basically saying that he told Ryan to give terrorists more weapons as a 'peace offering' and Ryan didn't accept it. The illogic of that seems lost to McDonagh ( and maybe the writers -- or do they really think you win-over ruthless people by surrendering/giving them weapons ?? ). 
Then he goes on about Ryan having to Splice his own men to deal with the threat against the City by 'Fontaines Boys'. The Novel author at least gave a plausible reason why McDonagh defected ( his having a family, and he was leaving when he thought Rapture was going to collapse because of the 'civil war' and the Splicer menace ).
So McDonagh wants Atlas and his murderers to win instead ? He not only changes sides, but decides to murder Ryan to give victory to the terrorists ... I find this to be some of the most ILLOGICAL and CONTRIVED stuff in the whole game. So McDonagh wants to give Fontaine Futuristics to Atlas as well ??? WHY ? Is he ADAM_Addled by the time he records that ??? "Fontaine" is supposed to be dead at 'Atlas' has no claim on that property ( if this is somehow some illogic that 'giving it back' because the 'Seizing' he thinks was the cause of the misnamed 'civil war' ).
Ryan actually would have had the support of most of the population of Rapture, who came TO RAPTURE to get away from people like Atlas. It is a major hole in BioShock's laid out reality that little such support is shown for Ryan in the game, and only that bunch of betrayers, like McDonagh. Bad writing is when you preserve one particular 'scene' and warp the rest of the story out of reasonableness.
As mentioned elsewhere : Ryan probably wouldn't want to have his Security Men "Spliced" because of the mental instability it causes. Superior weapons and tactics and organization were already shown to be effective (Neptune's Bounty Shootout). Ryan doesn't NEED more crazy people to deal with.
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Audio Diary - Stopping Ryan (More Illogical Turncoat McDonagh) :
Hephaestus, McDonagh : "I never killed a man, let alone a mate. But this is what things come to. I don't know if killing Mr. Ryan will stop the war, but I know it won't stop while that man breathes. I love Mr. Ryan. But I love Rapture. If I have to kill one to save the other, so be it."
More bullshit plot fartings. Why not have said "'War' will stop when Atlas is dead" ? -- When the murderous anarchists and their instigators are done away with ?? SO the insane anarchists will just fade away ?? So Rapture will be 'saved by destroying its principle core of order (Ryan) ? How stupid/crazy did someone have to be to think this way ? ( Just look around at people in our current world ... ) It is so easy to 'write' such strange testimony, without any consideration about reality being required. The term "Hack Writing" was coined for stuff like this.
Seriously, the 'twist' in the plot ( "OMG!! Its actually ATLAS who be de ebil one !!!!! ... hurrr hurrrr, derp !!!! " ) wasn't worth all this illogical story garbage.
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Audio Diary - Ryan Takes Fontaine Futuristics :
Hephaestus, McDonagh : "Ryan nationalized Fontaine Futuristics -- he owns it now, lock, stock and barrel. For the good of the city, he says. He'll break it up in due time, he says. I've resigned from the Council and lodged me letter of protest, but that's just pissing in the wind. It'll be war, I say... unless somebody stops Ryan, and right fast."
Has McDonagh been sniffing Plumbers Glue again ?? This is sophomoric 'feeb' storytelling simply to vilify Ryan. SO this ADAM addiction is a Myth? (to McDonagh?) or did some Fontaine's "heirs" step forward to take over and run that company (and it was denied)? He hasn't even waited to see if Ryan to do what he said he would do once things got stabilized (Note - Atlas leading a bunch of anarchist/terrorists murdering people and imperiling Rapture RIGHT as McDonagh here runs away). That's just insulting from the writers for someone who was supposed to be intelligent/responsible to suddenly do a 180 (( THERE IS ALOT OF THAT in the game's contrived storyline )). SO instead of demanding that Ryan keep his word (giving him time to do so), McDonagh abandons Rapture, surrendering/abandoning it to what he doesn't believe in.
Is it any wonder that Ryan was left alone to make decisions to save his City, when the lame-assed story has everyone so easily abandon him and Rapture ?
Audio Diary - A Man or a Parasite :
Ryan : What is the difference between a Man and a Parasite? A Man builds. A Parasite asks, "Where is my share?" A Man creates. A Parasite says, "What will the neighbors think?" A Man invents. A Parasite says, "Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God..." 
Audio Diary - Fontaine's Legacy :
McDonaagh : "Strikes me that Fontaine wasn't overly inconvenienced by his own demise. On New Year's Eve, his wretched Splicers came streaming out of the poor houses and stormed the proverbial barricades! The dead rot in the streets, and Johnny and Janey Citizen are lined up round the block for Plasmids... anything to help fend off the rabble."
(evidence of McDonagh's PREVIOUS stability BEFORE his odd 'about face' ...)
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Audio Diary - "Assassin" :
Hephaestus, Anya Andersdotter : "Me. An assassin... that's rich. I could have gone along, I suppose. Spliced up, forgot. I believed in this place. I believed in Ryan. But when it got hard, Ryan didn't believe in Rapture, didn't believe in the Great Chain. He believed in power. And now this place is busto. And my girl is... gone... worse than gone... one of those... things. So am I an assassin? ...Well, only one way to find out."
When is this recorded ? Blaming Ryan for what Fontaine (children turned into Little Sisters, the many crimes that were exposed) and Atlas (an anarchist/terrorist) did ??? Is this Ryan's war measures again being whined about (no mention here of Atlas and the destruction and loss of life HE had done to the City to make them necessary). Another ADAM-addled brain spouting illogic? (convenient that there are no contrary 'Audio Diaries' evidence in this 'setup' - just keep beating the Player over the head with this contrived stuff).
So when do we get to hear what the majority of the Citizens thought ? OOOPS ... THAT Didn't fit with their planned story warpage/contrivance for the 'twist', so that side of the story isn't/can't be there to inform you of what REALLY happened (and what REAL people of that time WOULD HAVE THOUGHT/DONE). Classic hack writing, making the mistake of having people from a different time period think like they do TODAY and writing accordingly.
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Poorly Explained Treason :
All of these people in BS1 who have turned against Ryan - have they been taking ADAM ? Addictions ? How much is this rejection of Ryan really is the product of ADAM insanity ? Many Audio Diaries are recorded fairly normal sounding even when the person says they've been 'splicin'. So instead of the writers' backhanded putdown of capitalism, and individuality, and the desire for a parasite-free society, they use these contrived biased game incidents as their 'evidence', maybe if you consider the ADAM involvement ... It more plausibly would be MORE caused by the coked-up ADAM-addled brains of these unfortunate people, who more often than not have made very stupid decisions (like assuming everything will be OK when Ryan is dead and 'Atlas' is in charge...). So many wouldn't have been chosen to come to Rapture if they didn't believe in Ryan's Philosophy (and actions required to protect it) that this anecdotal evidence would be atypical/the minority of people in Rapture. We REALLY needed a better explanation for even these suddenly doing such a reversal.
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Radio Msg - 'Termite at Versailles' 
Ryan : "Imagine the will it took to create a place like this. And what have you built ? Nothing. You can only loot and break. You're not a man, you're just a termite at Versailles."
Going with the (my) Epic Twist, Ryan here is just testing Jack to see how he reacts. Unfortunately Jack never says anything -- perhaps never learned much to talk as he IS only 4 years old after all ( and probably well ADAM-addled by then too ), and other things had been more important for Fontaine to have him 'conditioned for' or rather 'programmed' (like shooting guns and slaughtering people).
!!! Another 'Flashback' (player activity) for the MMORPG would be the whole 'training the pawn' conditioning experience which Jack was put through ( some by Suchong, perhaps more done 'on the surface' ). 
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Radio Msg - Another man - "A Miracle" 
Ryan : "A man builds a city at the bottom of the sea. That's a marvel. Another man happens to be on a plane that crash lands on the same city in the middle of the ocean. Why, that sounds more like ... a miracle."
(More) Evidence that Ryan knew what was happening with Jack - of Fontaine's plan in progress (how would Atlas know/arrange it all if he wasn't really Fontaine ...) Its all there on Ryan's clue board.
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Kill the Son of a Bitch (Radio Message)
Atlas (Hephaestus): "Now, Would You Kindly head to Ryan's office and kill the son of a bitch ? It's time to finish this."
You might as well Moo (you are on the cattle slaughterhouse ramps leading to the abattoir) for all the choice you have been given in the game. The lies stacked up, the willful bias of all evidence forced upon you (even mood music to reinforce the 'poor poor' Atlas stuff). All paths lead to murdering Ryan. Unfortunately they saw no real need to offer evidence of a more conflicting story to the Player, who's real interest is largely the 'fun' of just slaughtering things and getting new toys to play with. You are ignorant, knowing only what they choose to tell you, no matter how dishonest and contrived that all really is.
In the end, it is merely window-dressing for a Slaughter-fest game which really could have been much more than it was.
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To Breath or not to Breath : 
Dr Langford said (in a BS1 Audio Diary) that 'Arcadia' was not the only source of oxygen in the city and that even Fontaine had gone into the O2 business. Actually there were all the farms that also converted CO2, as well as the Air-intakes on the Lighthouse (and possibly other shallow points on the top of Mt Ryan). What you saw in Arcadia was a park, not a O2 plantation (those trees in the outside glass enclosures you saw were a bit illogical -- maybe they were there as advertisements). Huge tree farms would have been located nearby (not shown, as so much of Rapture never was). Small plants are just as good/better oxygen producers as trees - so ordinary Greenhouses are much cheaper/practical for the majority of these producers. (Wood as a secondary byproduct might be the reason to use trees).
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Radio msg Ryan Talking to Langford About 'Contract' : 
Andrew Ryan: "Julie, we made a business deal, you and I, did we not? Money changed hands. Let me read to you from the agreement... Section 3. Subsection 4 'Ryan Corp maintains EXCLUSIVE rights to the creation, use, and exploitation of the Lazarus Vector .' Ownership is civilization, Julie. Without it, we're back in the swamp ..."
Ssssssssssssssssssssssss (green gas envelopes Julie Langford)
Langford: Mr Ryan... Wait... No! Please! ... Mr Ryan! ... (ack) (thudd)
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If Fontaine was aware There may have been a Thought In the Back of Fontaine's Brain (as Atlas in BS1) :
If Ryan did THAT to Langford, then WHAT is he that @#$%^& is gonna do tah me ???
So it would have been more logical for Fontaine to simply seek to ESCAPE, instead of to continue to try to 'face down' Ryan at that point ?
It was a Strange Scene that could so easily have been 'Play Acting' to Fontaine/Atlas -- When Ryan actually knew what was going on with the 'Jack' thing ( a REAL 'twist' the writers completely missed -- to be revealed at the very end after Jack kills Atlas) .
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"Bump Culpepper?" (audio diary) :
Sullivan -- "I just got the word to put the bump on Anna Culpepper. This isn't some gangster or hard-nosed political operative. We're talking about a dizzy twist what wrote a song or two that got under Ryan's wig."
"bump off" is the common term - so is this what Sullivan means or something else? - vague... (maybe its rather some NEW Rapture Slang ??? Being Sent To Persephone ??)
Except what he says in the audio diary is "put the bump on Anna Culpepper". Online I could NOT find that exact slang phrase anywhere. It thus could have a meaning of 'pressuring' someone, and NOT particularly killing them (which "Bump off" IS defined as).
What would actually warrant murdering Culpepper(?), unless she was in collusion with Fontaine or Atlas or somesuch (versus : 'she pissed off Sander Cohen' ...), otherwise killing her seems overly extreme (when Sofia Lamb was merely sent into Exile for her obvious Sedition).
This is probably well after the 'Chaos' has begun, and when legal niceties have been set by the wayside in the Emergency.
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"Smuggling Ring" Audio Diary :
Sullivan (found in Neptunes Bounty) : "I'm closing in on the whole ring. I'd pat myself on the back, but let's face it... these aren't exactly bloodthirsty desperadoes we're talking about. Rapture's full of poets, artists... tennis players, not hired gorillas. But this leader of theirs, this Fontaine... he seems to know his way around a grift. He keeps his nose clean, but not so clean that the right people don't know he's not to be trifled with ..."
First, its probably NOT the "poets, artists... tennis players" doing the smuggling. They though would be guilty of funding and receiving contraband. With Fontaine strong-arming other Fish company owners out of business, and turning his workers into serfs... SO how exactly has Sullivan missed all that ??? (Plot... "cuz" - the last resort of the hack writer.)
Rapture couldn't survive without ordinary working people, thus this is Sullivan's hyperbole (speaking to himself, or more likely working out arguments to give carefully to Ryan or to his associates). The thuggery Fontaine seems to have used implies he does have some dangerous goons working for him to do his dirty work. We heard some Audio Diaries about the thuggery Fontaine is using on his workers.
Shouldn't Sullivan, an experienced ex-cop, recognizes the pattern of a career criminal ? Why didn't Ryan then send to the Surface (the remnants of Ryan's world business organization would still exist) to try to find out more about Fontaine ? (Plot... cuz) Might then find out details showing he wasn't the Fontaine fishing boat captain after all - and set up for the COUNTER-TWIST (which the story begged for, but was completely missed).
That Last line implies coercion in play, possibly upon City Officials (certainly upon Fontaine's employees which IS heard about in another Audio Diary). That may explain why it was so hard to get proof of the crimes (when Ryan attempted to handle it legally) -- tipoffs from some of the Security personnel, witnesses 'disappeared', etc ...
Having it go on for years, and as big as the operation allegedly grew, THATS the part that needs the reality check. (Writer's Plot - "cuz" again ....)
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Imprinting_Roadblock (BaSX Audio Diary)
Suchong "Problem: Big Daddy will not imprint on the little brats. Yet Fink succeeded in imprinting his disgusting bird on his subject. How has Fink, this stupid man, succeeded where Suchong failed? If Suchong could obtain hair sample of Fink's subject, Suchong could determine delta of genetic material with Little Sister! Proof is in DNA pudding."
Hint: MAYBE Because Songbird was a Birdbrain (which naturally imprint as part of their instinctual function) while a Big Daddy has a Human brain - something 50 times larger and 20000X more complex.
You see Suchong ISN'T a universal genius (and neither should he be), so he might not be an expert on Avian behavioral science. The writers also are abusing the expertise he IS supposed to have. Genetics of the girl ? You cannot extrapolate from genetics the attributes of that special girls mind/abilities. Maybe 'clone her' or 'steal her' for detailed analysis, but a genetic sample is just stupid wrong.
How long exactly did Suchong spend looking through these Tears (with maybe some minions assistants doing it too) to be able to come to this conclusion for THIS situation ?? Doesn't Suchong have like 16 OTHER projects in the storyline HE is supposed to have been working on ALL at that same time ??
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"The Vita Chamber" Audio Diary :
Suchong : "Suchong, 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 ..."
Plasmid reconstruction (as in ADAM based healing) ? OK that's already done if its applied to the not quite dead corpse. The quantum stuff may be techno BS (can you imagine Sinclair spinning one of his spiels about this to help advertise the product??) for something they would rather not disclose (some interesting offshoot of the ADAM technology -- using overlays of the person's own recorded original DNA ('entanglement' ...) to restore them from genetic damage. Perhaps alot of its effect is more like 'resuscitation' for the '"back to life" part.
This Audio Diary is poorly conceived. It falls down because : IF it is 'tuned' only for Ryan, how exactly do you test it on Ryan without killing him -- to 'Test' IF it works ?
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Suchong about Tenenbaum : "put her in front of a gene sequencer" :
Transcript: "That's quite a little monster Fontaine's dug up. When she does speak, which is almost never, her accent is thick and grating. Her hair is filthy and she seems to wear the same mustard-stained jumper day after day. But I've got to hand it to Frank : Tenenbaum is the all-time diamond in the rough. No formal training, no experience... but put her in front of a gene sequence, and she's Mozart at the harpsichord."
Tenenbaum Semi-Autistic? Trauma induced under the Nazi's unkind hand ?
A "gene sequence" ??? How is one put in front of a "gene sequence"? Suchong's dodgy Engrish strikes again ??
We will have to apply some 'Rapture' based (major) tech advancements, as workable "gene sequencers" weren't developed until STARTING in the 1970s (far too much technical work for so short a time, normally)
Note -- that a "Gene Sequencer: does READING of DNA patterns, and NOT of assembling/modifying them (which is an even more complex process). It also employs lab techniques that massively Replicate DNA so that statistical analysis of the broken down/fragmented DNA sub-sequences can be employed.
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Audio Diary Analysis 'The Thinker' :
Charles Milton Porter (Minervas Den) : "Mr. Ryan hired me to build a computer that could keep an entire city running on time : the Rapture Operational Data Interpreter Network. Folks call it "The Thinker" for short. We've harnessed the power of ADAM even in this, allowing the mainframe to process data at the speed of thought. In other words, it thinks for us, yes... and with the completion of the Independent Reasoning Processor, it may finally think ... for itself. If Turing could see me now ..."
Speed of Thought ? A rather strange term - maybe to 'Think in Realtime' ?? (Computers at that time were still quite slow, and took input/programming from tapes/punchcards and output on a printer and punchcards). I guess some of those early computer people just made up terms that kinda fell by the wayside later.
SO its a system that could process Sensor data and make some programmed decisions to coordinate some city operations. That's NOT AI, BTW. Scheduling and pathfinding algorithms are rather simple tools that follow simple programmed logic.
For that Computer Technology's use of ADAM : See the section on Bio-Electronics.
In those early days, there was ALOT of computer hype about 'intelligence' and 'ability to think', which is actually FAR from carrying out human-like thought processes, and certainly VERY FAR from machines having "Sentience" (and that's still pretty much is it is today - 50-60 years of advancements later).
Turing would say "Its merely a step further". His symbol processing method for intelligence was all theoretical (and the code breaking stuff he assisted with in WW2 was manually interpreting and programming very narrowly specific "brute force" data processing.)
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Sofia Lamb's "Friends" who Died at Hiroshima (???) :
Sofia Lamb: "I know the surface, Eleanor. I spent half a lifetime there, in service of the common good. But then, I heard my own words twisted by fat old men, squatting over the embers of Hiroshima. Were the modern world a patient in my care, I would diagnose it suicidal. On perhaps that point alone, Andrew Ryan is correct. Rapture... is deliverance."
So, What exactly was Sofia Lamb doing IN Japan during (or the decade before while the Japanese were already committing atrocities in China) WW2 to be IN Hiroshima - a city which had major military bases - valid war targets ? The Japanese were Xenophobic (afraid of foreigners), particularly during the build up and actions of WW2 (which for them began in 1937 invading China). Eight years earlier than that is a bit long for her to have been referring to 'being there BEFORE the war', and she doesn't look old enough in 1967 (BS2 times) for a much earlier time to be the case either. (( Loose details don't help a story Kenny. ))
So how is that possible ? - Sofia was there DURING the war ? So was Sofia Lamb in Prison camps doing 'research' and assisting in 'experiments' (collaborating with the Japanese who might be willing to employ her 'expertise' in mental manipulation) ?? What about involvement of such 'experiments' on Allied Prisoners (There are some very dirty secrets from that time the Japanese are still hiding To This Day).
Pretending to be German maybe ? Or NOT pretending ??? ( Lambenburg ? ) Leading to a Clever new identity after the war which might have been wearing thin (they hung many people for doing atrocities) - hence her going to Rapture ???
How about Radiation Poisoning as a (partial) excuse for her insanity/mental illness (if she didn't imbibe ADAM ...)
Lots of potential backstory here to be created ... 
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So Sofia Lamb is just being allegorical (recording this for Eleanor)? WE ALL "Just Squat In The Embers of Hiroshima", but did she also "Squat in The Pools Of Blood in Nanking", or the thousands of other places her Japanese 'friends' committed incredible atrocities ?? So instead, like all good Collectivists, she in turn "Squats in the Blood" of those SHE has has killed (those "Unbeliever") for HER OWN crazy agenda. Unfortunately, trying to change the Nature of Humans is a folly worthy of one of the Great Tragedy Writers, who understood such futility being found in arrogant fools and villains.
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 Public Announcement "The Tyrant accepts only worship or fear" from Lamb's 'Unity and Metamorphosis' :
Sofia Lamb : "The tyrant has no family, no friends, no country; only slaves, chained in his wake. To his fellows he asks, "Of what use are you to me?" Those who love him are his subjects, for the tyrant accepts only worship or fear."
It is Ironic that Sofia is actually speaking (Freudian Slip-O-Rama ?) about herself and her tyrannical actions, more than about Ryan or the Individualism HE and most of Rapture believes in. You get this continuous condescending bombardment of her philosophy often in a bloodless voice. At least Ryan sounded like he actually cared about what he was saying.
Sofia murders "Unbelievers" - a VERY totalitarian approach to coercing compliance (probably the 'Unbelievers' didn't go to waste, but were 'Gathered' before sticking them up on walls or disposing of the bodies other ways (ie - Soylent Green after Collectivist incompetence really set in). A difference between Ryan and Lamb : Ryan's citizens 'signed up for' his Philosophy (agreed in advance), while Lamb's strange beliefs are FORCED upon the people unfortunate enough to be in her section of the City (and couldn't escape).
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Pheromonez :
Suchong (Point Prometheus) : "Big Daddy make a terrible stink, very smelly. Maybe something can be done, but Little Sisters seem to like odor. Now we have to find recruits... you become Big Daddy, it's a one-way street. But Ryan says, don't worry, recruits will be no problem. That Ryan -- he's a good guy."
OMG OMG!!! Ryan as the EBIL again !!! Hold on there, the storytellers never bothered to mention this bit :
Consider you have hundreds of criminally insane ADAM users locked up in Persephone now (for the protection of the sane Citizens). You did have insane people BEFORE ADAM, but now there are LOTS more thanks to Frank Fontaine. SO, What do you do with them ?? Objectivism doesn't like the Death Penalty, so these individuals will most likely have to be expensively/unproductively locked up for the Rest Of Their Lives at the expense of everyone else ??
So here is a Solution of how to make them useful, and to pay for their own existence. (abridged rights of the insane is a Sticky Wicket, but there is tons of Law Precedence in most societies).
AND It probably didn't start with "Big Daddies" -- with some/many criminals previously being "reconstituted" into Maintenance Cyborgs to maintain the city. Is it really any different than drugging criminally insane people into a continuous stupor, like they do TODAY ???
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Altruism Ryan Public Announcement (?) :
 "What is the greatest lie ever created ? What is the most vicious obscenity ever perpetrated on mankind ? Slavery... the Holocaust... dictatorship... NO ! It's the tool with which all that wickedness is built.
Altruism.
Whenever someone wants others to do their work for them , they often call upon those other's Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'think of the needs of ...' of ... whomever - Of the state. Of the poor. Of the army. Of the king. Of God. The list goes on and on. How many catastrophes were launched with the words "think of yourself"? It's the "king and country" crowd who light the torch of destruction. It is this great inversion, this ancient lie, which has chained humanity to an endless cycle of guilt and failure.
My journey to Rapture was my second exodus. In 1919 I fled a country that had traded in despotism for insanity. The Marxist Revolution simply traded one lie for another. Instead of one man, the Czar, owning the work of all the people, ALL the people owned the work of all of the people. And so, I came to America, where a man could own his own work ... where a man could benefit from the brilliance of his own mind, the strength of his own muscles, the MIGHT of his own will.
I had THOUGHT I had left the parasites of Moscow behind me. I had THOUGHT I had left the Marxist altruists to their collective farms and their five-year plans. But, as the German fools threw themselves on Hitler's sword for the good of the Reich, the Americans drank deeper and deeper of the Bolshevik poison, spoon-fed to them by Roosevelt and his New Dealers.
And so, I asked myself, in what country was there a place for men like me ? Men who refused to say yes to the parasites and the doubters. Men who believed that work was sacred and property rights inviolate. And then one day the happy answer came to me, my friends : there was NO country for people like me. And THAT was the moment I decided... to build one." - Andrew Ryan '''
There were very good reasons why Andrew Ryan hated Communism and Collectivists in general.
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It isn't "Altruism" but FALSE ALTRUISM , employed as a tool to manipulate others that leads to Evil.
Family Over the Individual ISN'T "Altruism"
The 'Social Contract' ISN'T Altruism
Ryan by spending his OWN fortune built a city he and many others could live in freedom. So that was Altruism ?? He's hardly a King there (despite the writers playing Ryan out as a Tyrant simply to facilitate their VERY FEEBLE 'plot twist').
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NOTE - The above Ryan speech also doesn't mention anything about religious persecution HE HIMSELF escaped in Russia, which should have been there if Ryan (and his family) truly had been a 'Jew' in Russia at the time (as opposed to Levine making that declaration about Ryan YEARS after the Rapture games were made, and Levine was now just attempting to scare up a new job with some 'Authentic Diversity' angle).
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I was Playing through BS1 again and heard this radio msg from Ryan (Hepsestus Andrew Ryan - "Rapture Will Thrive") :
"Rapture is coming back to life. Even now, can't you hear the breath returning to her lung? The shops reopening, the schools humming with the thoughts of young minds? My city will live. My city will thrive. And, when that day comes, we'll use your tombstone for paving tiles."
In BS1 the writers had to vilify Ryan to make him 'the evil enemy', so to make you willing to think it is OK to go murder HIM as part of their 'twist' plot. If I'm not mistaken, they are here invoking the Nazis who maliciously desecrated jewish graves and cemeteries and actually paved roads with the tombstones (famous pictures of it can be found). Is that likely something any Jew (Levine's 2015 Retcon declaration/revel about Ryan supposedly being jewish) would ever be saying ? Seems they are Laying it on rather thick, but most probably NOT with any inkling about Ryan's recently disclosed 'jewish' background being known to the games original writers.
That rather late retroactive declaration by Levine was made up because he was fishing for a new job, and he's attempting to stand out by using 'socially relevancy' (his claim to this 'Authentic Diversity' angle). This is something that has been OFTEN before - when even original authors make comments that contradict what is in their previous works.
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MASHA MASHA MASHA (Masha Come Home) :
Mariska Lutz BS1 Transcript: "Darling Masha -- We don't know what has happened to you... Ryan's men have taken you away and said you are needed to save Rapture. Who needs a child to save a city? But I see these little girls crawling out of these vents, and I only wonder if you might one day crawl out of this vent and find this note. We look for you, but if you find this, come to us at the Fighting McDonagh's in room #7. The code to our room is 7533. We miss you, our darling child."
"We don't know what has happened to you" - yet then says Ryan's men took her ??
"Ryan's men have taken you away and said you are needed to save Rapture" - Said ?
Is she just expressing an assumption, or is it actually literal ?? How exactly would they say this to her? Shout it as they drag a child off ??? OR one guy stops to explain ? Abducted right before the parents ? -- Who just stood there? - Yes that's realistic(not). SERIOUSLY, the writers have turned so many people in Rapture into passive pantywastes (opposite of the story elsewhere describing the types of people that allegedly came to Rapture).
IT ALL Should have been made more vague. But the 'Ryan is the Devil and cause of all Evil' was too embedded in the contrived staging done for that lame "I AM YOUR FATHER" plot 'Twist' (Remember, YOU have to follow Atlas, you see, and NOT question it ---- AS IF you were allowed to do anything else in the game.)
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 "Big Night Out" :
Dieter Sonnekalb (Tea Garden, Arcadia) : "Nothing gets the betties in the mood like nighttime in Arcadia. Now I just gotta stop by the Thrifty Care to pick up a med hypo, just to be safe. Word is this ain't Angelina's first visit to the Tea Garden ... "
Med Kit (ADAM based) Used to 'Prevent' Venereal Disease. Or fix the damage such diseases do to your body/brain ... but kill the bacteria ?? Especially if antibiotic-resistant strains start showing up (An infection race, needing constant therapy upgrades/reapplications is a good business pattern). Sounds like it could be a therapy you keep having to do til you die -- if you don't get rid of the disease itself (a plausible 'business model' for some).
So when the ADAM got scarce you may have had a bunch of syphilitic crazies running about ? (Maybe rubber gloves may be a useful tool for the Player for when handling captured Splicers, no ?
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 "Finding of the Sea Slug" :
Brigid Tenenbaum, BS1, Neptune's Bounty : " I saw one of the smugglers having a game of catching on the docks today. And this surprised me, because his hands were crippled during the war. He was unloading the barge the other day when he was bitten from this Sea Slug. He woke up the next morning and he found he could move his fingers for the first time in years. I asked him if he still had that Sea Slug. As luck would have it, he did ... "
A substance in the Sea Slugs Venom is a catalyst for TISSUE REVERSION TO STEM_CELLS NOT 'Stem Cells'.
The repair of the fisherman's hand was using his own DNA being reapplied to tissue which had been reverted to Stem Cells to rebuild the damaged tissues of the injury. The venom of the Sea Slug had the property of causing that cell reversion (and its NOT some magical 'being HUMAN Stem-Cells' which would magically have to have THAT PARTICULAR HUMANS DNA already in it).
Simple logic : IF it was 'stem cells' then it would be a matter of : How much tissue was repaired HAS TO EQUAL the mass amount of the venom (plus other components). For drastically changed Splicers ( like Brute and Spider Splicers ) that would be a rather HUGE amount of ADAM.
A hand might be ounces, while a massive change like a Spider Splicer would HAVE to be multiple POUNDS of substance ( and not mere liquid either ) for all the tissue/structure which would need to be replaced.
It is totally possible that Tenenbaum's description here is trying to put into words things there is no technical terms for or understanding for all the genetic/physiological mechanisms ( which we might know today, but was largely unknown at the time of Rapture's history ).
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Audio Diary "Survivors" Tenenbaum BS2 
"Why do I survive -- when others do not ? First the prison camp, then Rapture. Both times I become the right breed of monster to continue my work. They called me "girl who is flash light." Shining brightly on one thing at a time, but blind to the world around me. The ADAM slug we implanted in the little ones is similar. It samples the DNA, it adapts. We thrive, even as the world is drowning."
First "They" is the Nazis in the concentration camp where she was as a teenager
ADAM Slugs don't sample DNA they just infuse something with a chemical which reverts cells to Stem Cell ( which when used appropriately can allow genetic modification ).
THIS STATEMENT IS : More evidence that Tenenbaum doesn't know (is "Blind") to the actual biological/physiological details of the effects she observed ( with little/no previous knowhow/knowledge existing in the world at that time ).
Its not even a good description of the symbiotic interaction with the Little Sister.
Remember, the story goes : So many Sea Slugs died that there was a ADAM shortage that limited the supply when Fontaine wanted to expand its sales. That doesn't sound like very good 'adapt'ing to me.
We thrive ? Little Sisters (not their implanted Slugs) don't seem to survive the hungry wants of Splicers, either.
IDEA WAS GOOD, JUST WE SHOULDA JUST FOUND THE CASSETTE TYPE TAPES INSTEAD OF THE HUGE BRICK OF A RECORDER FOR EACH ONE ... 
( a magnetic metal disk even better period-wise ... retains the element of the Briefness of the messages)
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Audio Diary "Building the Impossible!" 
Ryan (BaSx) : "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..."
"Of course, the buildings are being fabricated above the waves" - which is ALOT easier/cheaper than doing the same below ( like by a factor of TEN ). 
A Hah !!! But also the oft seen ridiculously tall building really can't practically be made that way. Also, this would be long after Primary Construction ceased in Rapture - You know, putting all those 'poor' workers out of work ... Oops, also NOW there's no need for all those surface workers to EVER go down to Rapture ( There would be the 'top' crews and the 'bottom' crews ). 
But then the writers didn't care about that - more about that stupid 'lunette ring' for the DLC plot - so to lift the entire building with one tiny 'quantum' fantasy particle. Sorry DLC writers, it takes a bit more than "a lunette ring" to lower/position/fasten large buildings onto the seabed. But remember these are the writers who had just done Infinite BS, and THIS is in a DLC. WE (for the MMORPG) need to take/use the good bit and discard the bad/stupid dross.
(( All this Faux-Science renders any point the writers make about 'Social Issues' 'moot' or worse irrelevant. )) 
The 'Aluminum' thing is a separate ignorance by these hack DLC writers ( "aluminum" makes it lighter ??? Is THAT their idea/reason ).
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Ryan's New Years Eve Speech - "'has been a year of 'trials ... and with that strength you shall rebuild." 
What might these 'Trials' be, and what would cause Ryan to use those words 'shall rebuild' with that inflection ?
Had many Splicers]originally instigated by Fontaine and then further fomented by his 'Atlas' rabblerouser persona started disrupting the lives of the City's people already? THEN Continuing with a large terrorist attack moments after this speech is given.
* Fontaine : Neptunes Bounty Shootout... was possibly the biggest incident of mass violence upto that date.
* The Takeover of Fontaine Futuristics ( no mention of any other financial assets ). (Alone_at_Last) A philosophical shock with or without any motives by Ryan to stabilize Rapture -- named a 'power grab' on Ryan's part is a typical enemy false accusation - when Fontaine's actions were wholly criminal and Rapture seriously needed continuance of its ADAM supply. 
What else would need to be 'Rebuilt' ? 
* Confidence of the Population - the resumption of safety and stability now that the enemy is removed.
* The ADAM shortages caused by chaos at Fontaine Futuristics until Ryan had the City take it over and reopen/run it ? ( It is still only a few months after Fontaine's minions trashed the place. ) 
* Addicted Splicers causing problems when they can't get their 'fix' ? A whole lot of people going 'cold turkey' and crazy and rioting ( strange how it all suddenly is implied to happen after ADAM has been in use for YEARS ). 
* The 'normal' Citizens lives being significantly disturbed and them calling for Ryan to "do something" ? ( and maybe blaming Ryan for the trouble Fontaine caused ) 
** The rush to get ADAM 'weapons' by normal people to protect themselves from ongoing and future threats (Would be all that many 'combat' Plasmids created yet or available with the ADAM shortage ?)
* 3 months was time enough for the full extent of Fontaine's criminal activities to be exposed). Exposing huge criminal operation involvement with :
** Fontaine's Smuggling being disclosed (disruptions of dependent businesses and involved influential people going to jail) ? 
** Fontaine's child slavery/mutilation done with the Little Sisters ?
** His maltreatment/abuse of the unfortunates who worked for him.
** His army of Splicer Goons 
** The inevitable disruptions of fishing operations - some food shortages til it was sorted out ? Neptunes Bounty - No cries about Ryan 'seizing that' ? 
** Other incidents ( some catastrophic leaks causing casualties - Dionysus and/or others ) are from serious damage the Fontaine's/Atlas's Splicers have caused?
Remember that Rapture was still largely in a state of Normalcy upto this point (Dec 31 1958), the coming %27civil War%27 and its disruptions/destruction/fatalities would be magnitudes more disturbing ( but THAT has NOT happened yet, as Ryan is giving this speech ).
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Sullivan "a half finished red and black knitted blanket" :
What exactly is the importance of this detail from Audio Diary Artist_Woman ? Oh Culpepper was knitting a blanket for a child ... Except NOT her child ... Is it for a child she assisted in being SOLD to Fontaine ??? Yeah that makes lots of sense. Oh 'Artistic' ... knitting.... Hmmmm.
The whole situation of this "Artist's Feud", "Bump Culpepper?" seems unlikely to just be over Culpepper feuding with Cohen ( and then Ryan allegedly having her murdered for it ). (( Its more of the heavy-handed writer gorp 'Smearing Ryan' the writers wrote to foist the 'RYAN IS DAH EVIL' stuff to get you to go along with murdering/assainating Ryan for Atlas -- for the game's 'Plot Twist' ))
At what point this happens ( probably well after the 'civil war' starts ) might be significant. If Culpepper was propagandizing for the Terrorist Atlas -or- (possibly more plausible) it was that Ryan had figured out that Culpepper was involved in the whole 'Jack' (Ace in the Hole) plot ( which Ryan would take VERY personally - evidenced by all the people up on his wall outside Rapture Central Control having plotted to assassinate him ). Remember that Sofia Lamb had been a much bigger threat, and YET Ryan just had her locked up. And for Ryan to do murder allegedly at Cohen's request ? That is quite rather attypical of him.
Who knits a red and black blanket ? - Is it for a baby ?? The one that Culpepper knows alot more about than is ever mentioned ? Did she know what the stolen embryo (Jack) was really intended for ( besides it being sold to a criminal who hated Ryan ) ?
Was Culpepper murdered by Fontaine/Atlas to hide his plot against Ryan ????????????? Was Jolene's murder similarly a 'loose end' which Fontaine had also 'cleaned up' ??? ( These ARE plausible from what we know about Fontaine. )
Of course it could also be some simple story device to try to expand on Sullivan's doubts about where things were going in Rapture. Vague as usual. Clumsy inferences to Players who cant see the bigger picture ( too busy shooting things to care ... )
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Audio Diary Analysis - "The Pair Bond Mechanism" :
Gilbert Alexander, Sirens Alley, BS2 :
"The Pair Bond is a success! If somehow an Alpha Series wanders too far from his Little Sister, our physical failsafe kicks in: a chemical trigger that induces coma. It is a symbiotic relationship, enforced by the girl's pheromone signature. The first successful candidate was... Delta, I believe. It is unfortunate that poor Dr. Suchong will not be here to raise a glass."
Induces Coma ?? Instead of extreme anxiety that makes the Alpha desperately try to refind its 'Little Sister" ?? A 'Coma' only works if the Alpha KNOWS this will result (and cares, and AVOIDS 'losing' its Little Sister). For that case, why not instead have Increasing Physical Pain to induce compliance with its purpose/duty ( INSTEAD of Disabling the BD )?? Coma/Disabled seems kinda problematic in a world where circumstances are unpredictable, and an Alpha may at any moment lose sight of its charge (or when they disappear through that 'Vent' ...). (( The only reason for this illogical 'Coma' effect IS to facilitate the 'game plot' for the 'out of body' experience of YOU playing a Little Sister ))
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From the Mouths of Psychopathic Murderers : Audio Diary - Sander Cohen, "Critics" : 
"Of my first play, the Herald said: "A dead whale has washed up at the Shubert theater, and stinks a little more with each passing night." The Tribune called my first opera as 'having the effect of canceling out all of Mozart's classics in a single caterwaul.' And now, critics take me to task for my humanitarian work. If I were not there to find a home for these orphans, would these bellyachers take my place? An artist once said, 'All critics should be assassinated.' I just might take him up on that." 
Only slightly ironic that he is criticizing his critics ???
Sounds though a bit like his recent 'artistic' attempts and the critics' judgements - the 'Whale' comment sounds kinda Sea related... ( Cohen had been in Rapture for many years already (since late 40's?) -- Perhaps coming to Rapture thinking he wouldn't run into similar 'critics' as he had previously faced on the Surface ). Rapture does have a "Tribune", so why not a "Herald" too? 
There was a Herold-Tribune in NYC (merge 19xx)? Its a common enough newspaper name, though how many newspapers could ~20000 Rapturites afford to support ??). Now WHY would he say Herald and Tribune in almost the same breath if they were the same paper ? Which other 'Herald' (big city) would be referred to as 'The' ? 
Ditto why not a 'Shubert Theater' in Rapture?? But still not really substantiated enough to add to my business lists (Him referencing pre-Rapture happenings IS pretty likely). 
Strange, no mention of Cohen's 'humanitarian' anywhere previous to BaSx (where is the "Sander Cohen's Little Sisters Orphanages" - they musta forgot that HE WOULD change the name at the first possible moment because of his Ego. ) Hmmm, If Cohen wasn't going to be on the 'outs' with Ryan for such 'altruism', then did Ryan actually not care so much (as long as it wasno longer the Raptures 'taxpayers' money require to support 'orphans') -- Besides having those glowey-eyed children being the main source of ADAM, which Ryan NEEDED continued until the ADAM-addiction thing was fixed. Sander Cohen being involed in 'the biz' (producing Raw ADAM must not have been too complex and this was Pre-Gathering). Ryan trusting Sander Cohen ? This WAS BEFORE so many people started (as written) conveniently betraying/trying-to-assasinate Ryan. 
Hmm, how many of Cohen 'Plaster-pieces' contained some of these 'critics' he earlier complains about ??? 
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* The Herald (a newspaper I assume - probably not in Rapture but in New York, before )
* Shubert Theater 
* The Tribune
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Audio Diary "Can Have My Badge" :
Sullivan : "Hanging now, is it ? That's what we've come to ? Now look, I don't make the laws here, I just enforce them. But I didn't come to Rapture to string men up for running contraband. If Ryan and his crew have their law, then they can have my badge."
Implies it is recorded BEFORE or Just After the Death Penalty for Smuggling law was passed/proposed. If correlated with other evidence, then that is BEFORE the "Shootout", where Fontaine was 'killed', and 'Sullivan' may have (?) an office in the Wharf Masters in Neptunes Bounty with 'seized' evidence and other clues of the criminal Smuggling operation still at that time being investigated.
So apparently he did not hand in his badge over the issue at that time (Perhaps he saw much more of what Fontaine was upto (crimes), and that it was more than just 'running Contraband' - as in many activities endangering the whole City).
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Peach Wilkins - "Putting the Screws On" Audio Diary :
"Fontaine's putting the screws on us, and double. He's squeezing us out of 80 points of our cut with the threat of turning us in to Ryan if we don't play ball. Son of a bitch. Sammy G. comes and tells me he's thinking of going to the constable, and the next day, Sammy G. was found in a sack in the salt pond. We got no choice here. We stay on Fontaine's crew, and we're gonna catch the gallows. We take a powder, and we end up like Sammy G. There's gotta be another way ..."
FOR ALL THE the peeps who sought to assassinate Ryan (actually only a handful really), none of the tough worker types abused by Fontaine seem to have tried to put a bullet in Fontaine's head (or use a shotgun -- even better) as their 'out'. In the story for years they all just can't seem to ever go to the authorities - Even though Fontaine would get 'wrapped up' by the Law pretty quick (No 'Buying Off' of Sullivan ...) - Reality is its kinda hard to hide that whole Smuggling operation. But then, ruthless people have a way of instilling fear into people (and weak game plots have a way of avoiding reality).
Desperate men and all that. But no ...
Just like having 'Atlas', locked in the department store, starting to order people around -- people who are half-crazy Splicers, who are hungry, and are very desperate for ADAM :
"Who the F#$% are YOU TO BE GIVIN ME ORDERS, MUTHA-FOOKER!!!! " *KABOOOOOOM* .... (Perverting the Canon - What did the game makers care by then, with 2K shutting down, and quality concern at a 'just get it done' level ?)
Again no such caution out of Fontaine/Atlas in that hazardous situation. 
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Audio Diary (REMOVED CONTENT) "Smuggling_is_a_Crime" :
Peach Wilkins : "This started out as simple. Take Fontaine's mini sub back topside twice a week, pick up some choice goods not available in a remote place like Rapture, you know: beef, real tobacco, just a little extras. But now, Ryan and his type have up and called smuggling a hanging crime. Hanging ? Says any connection to the surface could destroy the city. 'Fore long, only difference between this place and topside is whether or not you can open up the damn windows!"
WHY THIS WAS REMOVED? Redundant ? Conflicted with the alleged HUGE size of the Smuggling in that point in the Backstory Timeline ??
For Fontaine to get rich as he did (with money needed later to greatly expand his other criminal and legitimate enterprises) the operation mentioned had to be just a small start. After 1952, when the surface was largely cut off, THEN the smuggling could open up greater possibilities and profit payoff. The MP DLC ( Smugglers_Den_MP ). My amended maps have a larger complex for Smugglers Hideout, showing a somewhat larger operation (than the one tiny sub we saw in BS1). I prefer things have proper scale when the Solo games had asset limitations and often showed too-limited venues for something story-alleged to be 'city scaled' (the reverse problem was commone in Infinite BS). 
Having the normal fishing fleet (subs) make smuggler 'pickups' from the Surface World in any largescale fashion would interfere with their normal task (additional boats up there might do it, but then it gets less and less possible to keep SECRET - which eventually could result in death penalty if dicovered - and the game says that its all being investigated quite alot.
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Audio Diary Analysis "Fontaine's Legacy" :
McDonagh (BS1) : "Strikes me that Fontaine wasn't overly inconvenienced by his own demise. On New Year's Eve, his wretched Splicers came streaming out of the poor houses and stormed the proverbial barricades! The dead rot in the streets, and Johnny and Janey Citizen are lined up round the block for Plasmids... anything to help fend off the rabble."
Read it again : "Strikes me that Fontaine wasn't overly inconvenienced by his own demise...." - meaning Fontaine still 'seems' to be running things ?? - The Splicer Anarchists are still attacking Ryan's forces, the City, and anyone else who gets in their way ... Someone is still orchestrating disruptions - trying to overthrow Ryan ?
Or just that it seemed to be happening TOO EASY ? Kinda unclear what's being said by McDonagh (BTW - it is NOT actual (factual) Story Narrative - just subjective opinion).
Fontaine is dead. That SHOULD BE pretty "inconvenienced". Is there any sign Fontaine isn't that's seen by McDonagh to have him talk like this ??? Did McDonagh eventually see something and he later wound up a 'Loose End' which needed elimination ?? (Scene from "The French Connection 2" - Atlas capturing and injecting McDonagh with ADAM cocktails to make him stupid - neutralize him being a Ryan Ally).
Was Fontaine previous sufficiently a "Rabble Rouser" and someone perceived to have 'A Cause', and had been stirring up rebellion (to make McDonagh equate him with Atlas)?? First, THAT kind of 'rabble rousing' should/would have put Fontaine on Ryan's shit list (even more) The story did not show this - not directly the 'orphanages' and 'poor houses' suggesting a Fontaine agenda of 'Altruism', and social welfare opposed to Ryan's Philosophy). For "A Cause" (the ongoing rebellion/anarchy) Fontaine is NOT the person to be talked of in the way this statement is phrased.
Just a good sounding 'lil nugget' from McDonagh - WHICH the writers REALLY DIDN'T THINK THROUGH TOO CAREFULLY ??? 
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Audio Diary Analysis - "Arresting_Fontaine" :
Bill McDonagh : "Mr. Ryan... I believe in Rapture. But that doesn't mean we always win. Fontaine Futuristics is the biggest thing going in Rapture. So let me be plain: when we arrest that toe-rag Fontaine for his thieving and smuggling, we must make it clear that we won't touch his business interests. We sit on the Council because these poor sods trust us... not because God gave us a chair."
Just another build up in the set of Audio Diaries about Ryan 'seizing' Fontaine's business as if it was the motive of 'Greedy Ole Ryan', and even just killing Fontaine to 'put the competition out of business'. More crude manipulation of the Player by the writers who don't dare mention what things should be like in Rapture (it would screw up their weak 'story twist') Why are you forced to follow what a Terrorist/Criminal tells you to do through most of the game ??? Oh, right, WYK. But the 'setup' done to fool you (the player) is so full of clumsy illogical things which could have been MUCH BETTER written.
HEY MCDONAGH, Haven't you heard that the 'Proceeds' of criminal activity (and the operations active in the Crimes) is usually confiscated in the Real World ????? Is often used to compensate the victims ? So McDonagh, you don't KNOW this ??? Or is it MORE that such understanding does NOT fit the writers' manipulative narrative (to make Ryan the 'Evil Meanie' -- and Atlas the 'justified' rebel ... your 'Pal') ?????? Most Players might not know this, even when it IS normally done - especially for the times of 60 years ago.
(( The BS1 writer's drive for their 'Story Twist' led them to contrive all kinds of unreality and stupid/moronic actions of the characters ))
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Sinclair : "Profit Coming, Profit Going" :
Sinclair : "Now, I'm a modest man. But my piecemeal needle scam's an outright masterpiece: some slob shacked up here buys a box of syringe parts from me for twice what it's worth. He assembles 'em in his rathole, and I buy back the finished product... for a dime against the dollar that I'll get from Ryan. Profit comin', profit goin'. Ol' Andy rambles on about the Great Chain... I got people shellin' out to pull it for me! "
Having Sinclair say this -- as if IT is anything new in business processes/practices (except to ignorant people/Players) is pretty distorted/odd (trying to impart some kind of swindling Sinisterness to something done in Real World businesses, day in and day out). Many people might be shocked if they learned how little the things they buy actually cost in the Materials or Components used. Labor/Process and other 'overhead' adds to so much of the object's PRODUCTION COST, and Sinclair has Costs and Risks and additional Work/Organization on his side to offset the diary's offered 'Needle Component Price', versus the 'Delivered to Ryan' Price Profit here being accusedly presented. 
Sinclair should be shown as more surprised/amazed that he doesn't have more competition (which in Rapture would make alot of sense to have exist) as Anyone else could do exactly as he does, and could attempt to undercut HIS prices (and 'Ryan' Would buy the ones at that lower price ...) Its not like Sinclair has some special preferred deal with Ryan. Ryan would want competition to cut his own costs of the final product For those who were never taught Basic Economics, THATS how it works - particularly in Ryan's Philosophy.
Maybe they don't teach basic business to students any more (or for the last few decades) in the declining public schools, so that the writers can write ignorance like this to try to manipulate the Players ???? 
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Audio Diary - Bathysphere Keys :
Sullivan : "We're putting all the bathyspheres in lockdown until further notice. Ryan had us install some kinda genetic device into the things so only Ryan and his inner circle will be able to use 'em without dispensation. But the boys tell me the keys are pretty unreliable. Sisters, cousins-anybody in the ballpark, genetically, will be able to come and go as they see fit."
SO how exactly was this figured out ? What other relative of Ryan's was this tested with (or how many people in Rapture are likely to even have 'genetic' relatives present to test this idea ?). Aren't they ('the boys') afraid that Ryan will find out how loose these 'Genetic Keys' (and for other important security) are, and thus certain people will find themselves blackballed from Ryan Industries employment or working the midnight 'drunk tank' shift ?
Kinda convenient to the plot too. Atlas in BS1 seems to get around just fine with this 'Lockdown' in place (or is the whole system already hacked ?). Also, WHEN did this lockdown take place (and the placement of all the security devices) so that 4+ years previously Fontaine would NEED to come up with his over-complex Jack using WYK scheme -- QAllegedly to 'get past security' (that is largely the writer-given reason, isn't it ?) The Plan : Confusing Ryan enough with a visitor to let Fontaine's pawn get close enough to kill him, THAT seems an even greater stretch (and WAY TOO intricate a plan -- Google the word "Contrived" ...).
And maybe "some kinda genetic device" could be more just a cover story to make it sound harder/fancier than if it was called an Electronic Cypher Lock (ECL) - Just a fancy version of the mechanical number locks we saw repeatedly in-game.
Simple explanation : The System is all Hacked -- as per (""Sure, the boys in Ryan's lab can make it hack-proof. But that don't mean we ain't gonna hack it." - Pablo Navarro). Sullivan's men also had to get around, so there already would be weak points in the 'lock' security system, any which way it worked.
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"Market Maintenance Code"
Pablo Navarro (Hephaestus) : "I tracked the problem that was blocking the tubes here, and you'll never believe where I ended up - the damn Farmer's Market, clear on the other end of Rapture. I fixed it right up and installed some new gaskets… oof, what a mess. Anyway, the code is 0512, if you ever need to get back in there to do maintenance."
Other end of Rapture - a MILE or more away ? A major utility line (to go that far ...) isn't referred to as a 'tube', nor mere gaskets, nor without a major work order and probably a crane.
Maybe a bit whimsical instead of truthful/accurate. Anyone who understands 'plumbing' (and isn't a Hack game writer) knows "It don't work this way, Mac !!"
Perhaps its is referring more to a 'bribe' this guy got ... (Hmmm - on Fontaine's payroll ... ?)
Anyway, its a quick quip to impart a Game Lock Code Number - Lock which any halfwit could Open just breaking it with that wrench. 
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Audio Diary - "Running Short on R-34s" : 
Pablo Navarro : "Do you guys have any idea there's a war on ? If you don't follow proper maintenance on those Big Daddies, they burn through those R-34s like them Eve's Apple betties go through penicillin. I've got Atlas' goons hitting us non-stop, and two dead mechanics just this week. We need to control costs! If I wanted to deal with amateurs, I would have stayed on dry land."
Evidence that Big Daddies were maintained. Possibly the name is now a generic title that also includes the numerous ones which did Maintenance for the City.
Also proof that 'Atlas' was perpetrating serious Terrorism and destruction that emperilled the city. Too bad we didn't hear from the majority in Rapture who would tell Ryan "We are behind you in exterminating this criminal, to stop the murderous atrocities he and his vermin are committing - Just kill the F#$%^&*. Lets get this bastard before he kills us all".
Nah, see (according to the writers) Ryan and Capitalism and Individual Rights/Freedoms - THEY are the 'problem' ...
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Bury Her Memory (Audio Diary) :
Ryan : " Sinclair, I don't care how you accomplish Lamb's removal from the public eye. Indeed, I'd rather cease contact with you altogether. But allow me to make this plain. I don't want to see Lamb on the streets again, peddling her Bolshevik fever dreams to my people. Bury her memory, Sinclair. Bury it, and salt the earth."
Sounds like this is before Sinclair got Stanley_Poole to join/infiltrate Sofia's "Family" to look for evidence of her sedition/treason.   Why go to all this trouble IF Ryan/Sinclair didn't actually follow the laws/conventions of Rapture?? - Which require proof of crimes, and then legal conviction (however that WOULD BE DONE in Rapture).
Ryan knew alot about what Sofia Lamb was up to, and apparently the evidence wasn't "fabricated", as it usually is in a world run by people like Sofia Lamb (assuming they don't just murder 'inconvenient' people out of sight ...).
So, this Audio Diary would be some while before Sofia Lamb was sent to Persephone for Sedition, and Eleanor was kidnapped to be sold on to become a Little Sister (can't blame Ryan for that one... So must've been a Fontaine arrangement -- always needing more children Sea Slug hosts to generate ADAM for his booming business.)
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An Empty Niche (Audio Diary) :
Fontaine : "This Lamb twist went after Ryan all cockeyed. Solidarity angle was smart at first. Poorhouses and breadlines? High-grade bunko. And that religious rights debate -- hahahaha! Gotta wonder if she staged it just to watch Ryan squirm up there in his monkey suit. Lamb's only problem is she really buys into the whole song an' dance! Savin' the world -- hah! Rapture just ain't her town. Ryan's got her on ice somewhere now... and I figure that opens up the charity scam for the professionals."
This apparently was AFTER Sofia was sent to Persephone,  and it sounds like Fontaine organizing his  'Little Sister Orphanage'/'Home for the Poor' might have postdated this recording also.   
Were children still being directly kidnapped to turn them into 'Hosts' for the Sea Slugs before this ?  How big could Fontaine's ADAM business be if it was limited by NOT using them ? (20-30X increase is alot profit-wise)  Then you would have thought that the Newspapers/TV/Radio would be filled with 'missing children' stories IF it was any large number. (If they were willing to bark at Ryan by arguing 'rights' for traitors and anarchists, the Newspapers certainly would have cashed in on "child kidnapping" headlines and stories and calls for action, etc...)   The game's writers never included such - Important Details like that interfered with their 'twist' plotline which require making everything Ryan's fault and the SUDDEN fall into wreckage causing Dystopia.
Mark Meltzer (in SitS) notices a few missing child articles from newspapers across the World, but nobody in tiny Rapture notices or mentions this same terrible thing. Just shows that some writers will ONLY put what supports their story and ignore what are important events and a realistic Society's attention to them.
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Atlas's Followers Murdering Little Sisters "Today's_Raid" :
Diane McClintock : "We went on a raid outside the wire today. We snagged 31 rounds of buckshot, 4 frag grenades, a shotgun, and 34 ADAM. We lost McGee, Epstein and Vallette. We got one of those goddamn Big Daddies in the bargain, though. It was something awful what they had to do to that little girl to get the ADAM, but we didn't start this thing. Ryan did. I can't wait to tell Atlas. He'll be so pleased ..."
McClintock, spurned by Ryan, is out murdering children for her new idol Atlas ... She rationalizes her murder. Blame it on Ryan - Its what the Writers need to do.
Somewhere there really should have been Atlas's secret Little Sister Farm, where stolen Little Sisters were kept (instead of being killed) to generate new ADAM - you'd probably get alot more ADAM that way even without 'Gathering' (unless Atlas/Fontaine somehow had a huge stockpile and didn't really need them, and only used the LS killing to deny Ryan's forces the ADAM).  Of course, who could Atlas really trust ?  Or what place would be safe from Splicers who could probably 'smell ADAM from 100 feet away' - OR Little Sisters homing-in on it and flocking towards it.  So he probably needed a continuous ADAM supply to maintain control of and to power up his 'army'.
But then, whats a few more little children being killed, after the thousands of people that Fontaine arranged to get killed in Rapture ??
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 Little Sisters are Marketing Gold Audio Diary :
Ryan : "I'll admit Fontaine showed some foresight when he built up the Plasmid business, but the man really never understood sales. Hiding those little girls beneath a bushel. I've just seen the preliminary design work on the new Plasmid machines, and they're exactly what I wanted. Mark my words -- presented properly, those Little Sisters are marketing gold."
I could see a reason Ryan would have The Little Sister Motif - to justify (to sell to the public) the idea of weird/creepy children now walking the streets "Doing it For The Benefit of All of Rapture"  ( Probably with soft-sell explanations about how the children can't be restored "yet" -- so are working for their keep ), and then clues/dissemination of information about the effects of ADAM's addiction -- WHY ADAM production couldn't simply be stopped, and to try to prevent additional addicts ).   (( I still reject that 'Gathering' existed yet BEFORE the 'civil war' was well under way ... without mass mayhem and piles of corpses existing also. To me it is obvious, and any assertion otherwise is pretty clueless )).   
This "Little Sister" motif also can be a reminder to the City of what crimes (taint) Fontaine had hidden - and why the Fontaine Futuristics ADAM operation was correctly 'Seized' to bring Fontaine's heinous crimes 'out in the open' (and the fact that Ryan inherited and got stuck with its leftover problems).  
The Gatherers Garden may have been rebranded ( being called something else/plain like The Gene Banks, when first deployed by Fontaine - if LS 'gatherers' didn't exist yet ).   The LS decorations look like something that could have been appended later to the original machines.   It is possible that before Fontaine was killed ( perhaps quite a while before ) he created those machines to sell ADAM products directly to the public ( cut out the middleman - maximizing his profits ) --  Possibly when improvements were made to allow the self-administering of ADAM.  Ryan in this Audio Diary is talking about the LS marketing ploy specifically  ( 'new Plasmid machine' might have meant newly modified/decorated to employ that 'cute' children motif, and having additional such machines then being deployed around Rapture. )  
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Note that with Ryan controlling these machines, the Pheromone Control-adapted ADAM products could be deployed effectively ( and likely tempt Atlas-siding Splicers to use them when their other supply of ADAM was running short ).   As preparations go, controlling the ADAM distribution would be a first step in measures to wean Rapture's population off its ADAM dependency.   It also might help bring under control bootleggers who sold defective/side-effect-causing ADAM knockoffs. 
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Sinclair : "Profit Comin, Profit Goin" :
(   http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Profit_Coming,_Profit_Going      )
Sinclair is making money from providing piecemeal work, but then you also find the Audio Diary of a guy doing that work, while sitting listening to the Radio ( hmm, so must've been a bunch of Radio stations ... ).
Anyway, that guy then calls Sinclair a 'sucker' for giving him such easy employment.   http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/What_a_Snap   )
All of that reminds me of Apple making their tablet/pad computers using near-slave labor in China, and all those people buying their pricey products who apparently don't care (Its been all over the news, so it would be hard for them to claim 'not to know')....
So next time you shove that EVE needle in your arm, think about how many people worked to give you that convenience.
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Aluminium This Sucka !!! (Take your Steel and ....) :
Audio Diary (BaSx) Building_the_Impossible! - 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 ... "
Claptrap contrived by DLC writers to so weakly foster their StoryBoarded Fantasy Plot.
Ryan says will use Aluminium, because Steel might 'tip off' the Government ...  THAT IS Just more know-nothing hogwash by the writers.  The quantities of Aluminium (a strategic war material) used would get even more government attention than Steel being used.  ('Water is Buoyant' -- huhhh???)
Aluminium is stronger than Steel by weight, but weight really isn't an issue for Rapture (for planes/Columbia it is (or should be)).  But it (Aluminium) did cost more than Steel (quite a bit more - then and STILL now).   
But then the reinforcing metal is only part of Rapture's structures, and the BULK would likely be concrete, as you need compression strength to withstand the massive water pressure. Its what we see in the game (largely its only the Windows seem to need the metal around them).
It is logical to do prefabrication where it is much easier at the waters surface, or as much as possible even back on land, rather than at some deep water depth where complications/difficulties multiply by magnitudes and costly special equipment/skill is needed for everything - deep diving hard suits are NOT used by Joe-Blow workers.
This (new) prefabrication idea also offers less and less excuse for there being so many 'construction workers' to be allowed into Rapture -- They are used in the previous plot as the excuse for all the 'poor' 'downtrodden' 'out of work' people who cause so many issues.   If they worked on the surface/on-land then they really never had to see Rapture (and could be prevented really from knowing where it was) so did not have to be allowed to live there (that significant logic of 'so they wouldn't reveal the secret of Rapture existence ').    Most of the 'construction workers' who were let down below then would be more machine-operators and technical people, versus manhandling grunts/gophers.  The ones let in would also CERTAINLY be told that construction would eventually end, and they had better be ready to take up new professions (City Maintenance would absorb more than a few doing similar type jobs).
A feeble attempt to have a 'workers revolt' to legitimize the anarchist/terrorist Atlas and to paint Ryan as Jacks 'the enemy'.
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Smuggling Became a Crime with a Death Penalty  -- When ? :
Audio Diary Death_Penalty_in_Rapture  - Ryan: "The death penalty in Rapture! Council's in an uproar. Riots in the streets they say! But this is the time for leadership. Action must be taken against the smugglers. Any contact with the surface exposes Rapture to the very Parasites we fled from. A few stretched necks are a small price to pay for our ideals."
Its not really clear when this was enacted. It could have been before Kashmir terrorist attacks. Though it is very more likely to be instituted earlier when the City is Cutoff from the Surface around 1952 ( and the smuggling contravenes the intended secure isolation ).
It could be in response to the continuing inability to apprehend Fontaine's Smuggling ring ... Upping the Ante,  or after Kashmir, when smuggling continued and it may have been supplying Atlas ( likely Fontaine had pre-placed some resources for his 'revolution' or possibly there were others doing smuggling the whole time ).
In BS2, we see the corpses on public display labeled 'Smuggler' but that's in 1960 - year or more after Kashmir  ( and the audio diary is heard when Jack is there, made when Ryan was still alive, etc ... )
Is that the game writers trying to make a dig at Ryan as being a paranoid to implement such a thing ? (or like certain countries who have to build a wall to keep their people in ?)   But then the Cold Warhttps://www.conservapedia.com/Cold_War politics and 'ant people' mentalities being real to the people 'At That Time' could easily justify it -- with it definitely NOT being "Paranoia" ( Remember Ryan SECRETLY BUILD a whole city to get away from them, and then requiring maintaining its 'secrecy' to protect it ).
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"Moral Relativism" - Kind of a strange thing for Ryan to be made to say.
Doesnt really state WHAT Sinclair does that Ryan does not think proper.
"Let the Buyer Beware" ?  To what extreme might Sinclair be applying this modus operandi ?  How far COULD he get doing whatever, when in Ryan's Rapture there is a Free Press ( before the %27civil war%27 changed things )? "The Press" freedom is there to be able to expose any 'cheats' or behavior that might be considered dodgy ( so the citizens are made 'Aware' through that mechanism - its why a 'free press' was mandated ). 
If you don't like Sinclair's deals, then dont buy/trade with him...  And someone with "A Better Product" should be chosen instead...  Competition would bring alternatives.  And Sorry, there would HAVE TO BE 'laws' in Rapture that had legal repercussions for outright fraud in any commercial dealings.
Seems like Sinclair's one dimensional portrayal (at that point) is more of the artificial side-taking the game writers force on you -- With only vague 'opinions' from the Audio Diaries, and without actually giving you sufficient information about the whole situation to decide for yourself.
" OMG, OMG, Sinclair sells inexpensive injector parts to a part-time at-home laborer who assembles them and sells them back and Sinclair evilly sells them on to Ryan Industries for a PROFIT !!!!  MY GOD, THE MAN IS SO EVIL!!!! "   The reader might be best served to go learn how EVERY product they buy today is handled  JUST THAT SAME WAY.   SO why did the writers try to portray THIS as somehow being 'bad' and 'greedy' and 'wrong' ??
So they (the game devs) never quite explain what Sinclair does that makes him so 'bad' according to Ryans Philosophy ( why he is on Ryan's shitlist, when he should have been held up as a Successful niche operator/businessman ).
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That NEW Protector Smell - Audio Diary: 
Suchong "Protector Smell" (BS1) : "Big Daddy make a terrible stink, very smelly. Maybe something can be done, but Little Sisters seem to like odor. Now we have to find recruits ... you become Big Daddy, it's a one-way street. But Ryan says, don't worry, recruits will be no problem. That Ryan -- he's a good guy."
Suchong seems to be talking about the successful (later than the failed Alphas) Protectors that [[Gilbert_Alexander|Gil Alexander[[ (BS2) supposedly created ( using 'daddy' Pheromones as part of the general 'bonding' mechanism ). But, But, wasn't that much later AFTER Suchong is dead ? This is getting confusing.
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BTW, There was a sequence of removed Gil Alexander Diary texts ("False Fatherhood", "Lambs Gambit", etc ..) saying Sofia Lamb was the actual one who achieved the one-on-one bonding and organized the Little Sisters project. But why Sofia should be involved (or trusted by Ryan, OR become yet another instant Super Scientist) is the illogical aspect, and conflicts with her 'rescuing' Eleanor ... It would be All too much gibberish there ( ?? Evidence some whole different plot sequence was planned but abandoned -- Maybe it could be (MMORPG) revitalized as some crazy project to use Spider Splicers as 'Hosts', them being mutated closer for the Slug's Symbiontsy. Imagine THEM wearing those dresses ... ).
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Gilbert 'Gil' Alexander (BS2) : "... It is a symbiotic relationship, enforced by the girl's pheromone signature." 
A small issue was : How does a Big Daddy smell? ... Suchong and Tenenbaum (together) : "REVOLTING !!!" (a joke out of THOSE TWO --- hahahahha ). 
Anyway, using their sense of smell through their sealed suits ?? The Big Daddy might have a bit of an operational issue there with THAT - Maybe if they had Brute Splicers doing the Protecting ??? ( Apparently this is 'Gil' earlier trying to find a 'bonding' solution at the same time Suchong is ... ) Smell OF the Big Daddy - just needs some of the smell chemical dashed on before the Daddy goes to work in the Morning.
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Prentis Mill Bankrupted (The Other Half Of The Story) :
The game states that : Prentice Mill put his "CASH reserves" into Rapture's banking system when asked by Andrew Ryan, in an attempt to hold off its collapse during the major economic crisis (assume around 1952). The AE passenger business had been increasingly losing money, and with freight revenues way down, he could no longer keep the company afloat. After Prentice Mill became bankrupt, he was forced to sell the Atlantic Express.
The classic (historic) move is to buy up stocks to prop up prices to prevent a stock crash - that's NOT "into Rapture's Banking System". The impact on Banks is : If THEY were stock speculating OR the people they lent to were speculating and lose the money in a 'crash', THEY thus cannot pay back their loans and then lose whatever security they put up ( which post 1929 likely would be needed for most loans ) and the bank is stressed. Enough bankruptcies can still disrupt the economy, but it all depends how big a chunk of the economy this stock speculation made up or how closely it was tied to commerce (most companies in Rapture would be small and have no 'stock', and others like Hephaestus Power have guaranteed income for stockholders). It was generally the BANKERS who were the ones to try to prop up the market, and Mill isn't referred to as a 'Banker'. Mill buying back public Atlantic Express stock at depressed/bargain prices MIGHT be something he did.
Is this reasonable having Ryan stiff him, when Mill had acted at Ryan's behest to assist the City ? Did Mill have enough Cash to justify trying to do this ? ( Or were there other wealthy individuals similarly tapped into in this attempt to stabilize the banks ? ) How much RAPTURE 'Cash' existed in Rapture ( remember, Surface Money is not much good ) so much that it might exist in various people's "Reserves", and enough still remain in circulation for normal commerce.
What IS reasonable is that Mill would take security for the loan he was making. Ryan had many city assets he might use for that purpose (and his OWN "Cash Reserves"). The banks' properties and assets would be logical as part of such a loans sureties/securities ( even at fire sale prices later, return of a fraction of the 'loan' would still be a significant amount ). Many City assets also generated regular income, so had that value at minimum.
It is all a bit contrived ( just for his little suicide shrine scene in Paupers Drop ), when Mill likely still held many financial assets, and retained significant money remaining from liquidation of the loan security. If he was staying in the new Sinclair Deluxe (long before Lamb's sycophants ran it into the ground), he was probably the richest person there. ( He may have even been a part owner of that 'Hotel', as it is logical to have been build by Sinclair as an opportunity during the economic downturn - thus the squatters he refers to. )
Still, Prentis Mill's life's project was gone, passenger transportation had evolved past his Train system ( much as it did in the real world ). This definitely happened before Kashmir and the starting of the 'Civil War' ( all the disorder THAT entailed make that late timed assumption absurd ).
The AE line we ride in BS2 is in the old part of the city. It would be a remnant Mills 'played trains' with, until he finally committed suicide. The shrine is not because he was 'poor', but because he had the vision to build the system that many men took part in to make a reality, and whom he employed.
Prentis Mills was not a failure or failed because Ryan's Philosophy was flawed, as the game writers ignorantly might try to portray ( basic understanding of economic history might have helped ). The reality is that the world moves on. Achievements don't lose their greatness because of that.
They never really bother to elaborate upon Raptures Economy, so much has to be filled in (and corrected) for incidents like this to make sense.
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Businessman's Mismanagement (Suchong's a Complainer...):
So some employee delivered one pair of BD boots to the wrong place, and that is 'mismanagement' on Ryan's part ??  Hey Suchong, YOU try running a City in middle of 'civil war' with monsters wandering the streets murdering and destroying, and YOU try to hire decent help when most people are hiding at home.   
One hopes Suchong didn't treat his fellow employees the way he did Little Sisters  - Maybe someday we will find the HR documenting Complaints filed against him.   Perhaps it was actually a fellow employee pushing Suchong's face into that BD Voice Adjustment machine, and the BD drill thing (Artemis Suites Clinic) was just a coverup ( Poor BDs get blamed for everything ).
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"My Greatest Disappointment" - Could Ryan Really Say This? (Unless it was a Bluff) :
Jack is a 4 year old testtube mutant who's had Fontaine/Atlas whispering in his ears from his first moments. And has been subjected to brainwashing/conditioning that the North Koreans would envy ... Imagine the 'treatments' which might have been applied by non-empathetic souls like Suchong and Tenenbaum. ( "Hold Your Palm Over That Candle..." )
It rather could be (plausibly) Ryan 'just Playing along' to get Atlas 'to give himself away'. After Jack 'brains' the animatronics dummy Ryan, and Fontaine starts his little victory dance and gets the fake key that signals his location - Ryan's plan is working. Ryan is having the Arch-Terrorist traced and the location closed off, and 100 Pheromone encouraged Splicers are told where Atlas is (all bent on trying to collect the 10000 ADAM Bounty on Altas's head), as well as a small army of Ryan's Security men, along with an armada of Flybots. Heck, even if Fontaine becomes that ADAM-Swilling 'Atlas', with all that SuperSplicing (if he had time), all that firepower would obliterate him ( as it would have YOU, as Jack, if Ryan really wanted to stop you ).
Unfortunately, even after whatall Jack by himself did, the plot DIDN'T allow YOU to destroy the machine that Atlas kept rebuilding himself with - forcing that little final 'canned' playacting with the Little Sisters -- Which happens even if you HAD Harvested EVERY ONE you came across. Now THAT would have been REAL consequences : For Fontaine/Atlas to WIN if you'd harvested/killed ALL the LS ( "*YOU LOSE*" in big Art Deco Lettering, and the credits would roll ...).
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Audio Diary : Cheap_Son_of_a_Bitch :
Suchong (in Point Prometheus): "Fontaine scary son of a bitch, but Ryan cheap son of a bitch. You can no reuse protector suit.  Take a man, graft skin and organs straight into suit, otherwise suit not work. Ryan say Big Daddy too  expensive. Ryan can go suck egg."
I suppose there are other things that Suchong could have worked on for Ryan before working for Fontaine  ( Ryan in this Audio Diary might be a customer of Fontaine Futuristics at the later time ). Suchong elsewhere  is mentioned to have Fontaine as a Client, so may have been largely independent.   Suchong come to Rapture  possibly before Fontaine arrived, and most likely before Fontaine had built up his criminal empire ( to be able to afford to create Fontaine Futuristics or its predecessor company ).
Suchong might have worked for Ryan back then -- and there still was the pre-ADAM problem of outside City Maintenance - when having someone permanently in a Diving Suit might have been a solution ( 'exiled' criminals that early ?? Nothing new in the real world about using prisoners for experiments -- Cyborgs don't have to be genetic and might be using non-ADAM chemicals/conditioning. )
To have the 'Big Daddies' (a later name) already largely developed for in-water maintenance ( even better WITH ADAM employed ) - THAT would help better/realistically explain the "Protector" development not taking far more years ( when half the work was already done, and used in operational 'units' ) as the story has it.
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Betrayal :
Andrew Ryan : "I... visited Eve's Garden today... it ended poorly. My seed... sold to the enemy. The motive of the whore, as yet, eludes me. But Atlas approaches... and come what may, I will not be made a slave. I wonder... in recording, do I confess ? Just now, Sinclair saw me in the corridor, perhaps reading my face. The bastard looked me right in the eye... and suggested I make an appointment with Doctor Lamb."
How early was this recorded? ( "Atlas" places it AFTER Kashmir ). And what context it is recorded in ? Lamb is still free ? ( She was locked up how long before the Shootout, etc ... ) It doesn't seem phrased (that 'appointment' reference) -- Was Sinclair making a bad joke ? ( with Lamb IN Persephone already psycho analyzing criminals ... )
"Atlas approaches" - means(?) that this was recorded fairly late (logical when Atlas was a major threat). Or was Fontaine using a mysterious 'Atlas' personality (possibly quite a while) before he was killed Sep '58 ( except, would that persona be "looming" all that much yet ??, that was not implied in the original Canon (when Fontaine was 'smart') and even in BaS 'Atlas' has hardly yet grow to be Public Enemy #1, else he wouldn't be left to run free in that lame-assed semi-prison. )
" visited Eve's Garden today." - Not clear that he just 'did the deed', or just told Jolene off and maybe beat the crap out of her for being so stupid ( and getting a confession and info about Fontaine and other people's involvement ) rather than kill her. Else possibly this recording is a reminiscence of the event, and may have been recorded at a later time. Vague as usual, and for all we actually know, Jolene was murdered by Fontaine to 'clean up loose ends' for his WYK plan.
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These AccuVox Diaries do seem to wind up in strange places - what is this thing doing here - in a test cell in an Ryan-closed/abandoned 'secret' ADAM test facility ?? (Would Ryan have been walking the halls of Fontaine Futuristics ??) Probably recorded elsewhere. Of course maybe they became highly valued items of trade between Splicers, and got handed around quite a lot over the years.
Why exactly anyone especially someone as complicated as Ryan would make single recordings on these bulky things, when good ole pen and paper diaries were still quite effective OR when HE could afford and probably need a whole 100 recording (per disk) dictating machine disk system ???
Ludicrous to think you might have to carry a dozen of these bricks around, and a few more just in case you think of another Thought or Idea or Rant ... Since plot items are 'glowey', the Player finding just the media cartridge so-easily could have been done (and worked out fine). Truly stupid and sad is the idea-clone record player version that Infinite BS perpetrated.
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== ANALYSIS : WHATS NOT THERE : == 
"Changes" Another 'Join Lamb' Audio Diary of Another Lamb Supporter , but Was Cut :
Did we ever hear many Audio Diaries of people who didn't want to join Sofia Lamb's 'common man' collective ? Maybe ones who WOULD see her for what she really was (having seen many like her up on the Surface and having come to Rapture to get away from them), and maybe paid for their resistance with their lives ??? (we saw enough corpses of people killed by Sophia Lamb's followers...) THAT might have made some interesting Audio Diary arcs.
Her motives might be quite obvious to those she tried to subvert, and word would get around (and to Ryan's ears) of the threat (with the number of people she tried that on, there must have been some who saw the danger). Maybe then there was alot of testimonial evidence from MANY people, those who Sofia Lamb tried to subvert against Ryan's (and Rapture Society's) Philosophy. So it might not be that difficult to see why she was tried for Sedition and Exiled from Rapture (not simply killed the way she is shown to do later to HER enemies - Objectivism largely doesn't support the Death Penalty).
Strange how none of that process is ever mentioned in the game, and neither are the institutions that would HAVE TO BE in-place in a working complex society. Instead, the writers seek to IMPLY by OMISSION THAT : Lamb was simply 'disappeared' (and that Rapture was some impossible law-less anarchist state, with Ryan handling things that way). That Sophia Lamb was not prominent enough allowing sucha disappearance to go unnoticed, (SERIOUSLY, Rapture's Free Press could NOT have left THAT alone.) Thus more likely she would have been publicly tried for her crimes against the people of Rapture, and sentenced to Exile.
I would (plausibly) speculate that there would have been many people and many other parts of Rapture which were NEVER under Sofia Lamb's control. Also that the area we go thru in BS2 could be only a small part of the surviving City - We just happen to be in it because that is where Eleanor is (Who instigates Delta's (re)existence). YES, The City IS still a mess, but if it ALL was in a state like what we saw, where Lamb ran things, it WOULD NOT have been inhabitable after that long. The MMORPG can fill in those omissions, showing what Sofia Lamb and HER "philosophy" REALLY was, and what the rest of Rapture did about it.
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Where has Harry Gone? ( Audio Diary ) :
Transcript: "Another day waiting for Harry to come home. I told him not to speak up against Mr. Ryan's policies, and now he's missing! Just never came home! I went by the bookstore and all his books are gone too. I don't know what to do. Now I have to deal with that awful Sinclair just to have a roof over my head!"
Vague (typically in this game) about exactly HOW/WHAT 'Harry' was speaking "against Mr. Ryan's policies" .
Was he an open Atlas Supporter ? Handing out pamphlets saying things like : "Lets Seize Rapture" ?
Demanding taxes to start being collected to feed and house 'poor' people, or else ?
Was against the City "Seizing" a Smuggler's criminal assets or was for turning it over to anarchists?
And WHEN was this ? With a Civil War going on? With 'war measure' policies instituted to fight back against Atlas's terrorists?? "Why cant we just get along?" ? "They are just 'Freedom Fighters' !!" ? "Free The Fontaine's 74" ?? Or is this sometime before (still depends what all was in those 'books' he was selling or what else he might have been doing....)
How many warnings did he previously get telling him that Aiding and Abetting Anarchists and Terrorists was Sedition and could be punished by exile ?
Harry had a bookstore and all the books are gone - all of them ? All of them were seditious/subversive/parasitical stuff ? Enough to bother carting it all away ? Or 'seized' and piled in some lockup waiting for sorting?? In Paupers Drop might they all have been stolen by looters... Books must be pretty cheap to be bought by alot of people who can't afford their rent - or was it some of Lamb's subsidized propaganda ?. (But sorry, no details forthcoming).
Without knowing the actual situation, it is hard to judge what really happened and why (and whether it wasn't justly deserved). Freedom does not extend to those who advocate murdering other Citizens and who instigate violence to advance their political ideology.
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Minor note (but a telling detail) - somehow Harry's wife (who made the Audio Diary) "has to deal with that awful Sinclair" -- Meaning she doesn't have the rent to pay for her apartment (again ?) Does she think it wrong/awful that she should have to pay the rent or be evicted ?? (Is this supposed to be a given understanding by Players ??) Also, is it even likely that Sinclair collects the rent himself ? (He says in another Audio Diary that he's down there as little as possible. The Sinclair Deluxe is actually a good sized residential establishment -- Something like 55 apartments, if you include the inaccessible floors/rooms).
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Ryan - "Perhaps it's time to give it a tug".  What Ryan actually is saying ?  :
Ryan (Neptunes Nounty, BS1) Audio Diary "Fontaine Must Go" : "Something must be done about Fontaine. While I was buying buildings and fish futures, he was cornering the market on genotypes and nucleotide sequences.  Rapture is transforming before my eyes. The Great Chain is pulling away from me. Perhaps it's time to give  it a tug."
Not a great title for the actual text. Seems a bit schizoid - like the writers changed it to push 'evil ryan' more. 
Very vague, as so many of these Audio Diaries are.   Why would Ryan decry the building of a new industry,  particularly one he could now choose to compete in and outdo Fontaine.
Imply that he is a sore loser ??  When the 'game'/contest has barely begun ?  When all his life he has played the game of competition - Something he was good at it ?? (This is also early ? Probably BEFORE Ryan suspected Fontaine of the Smuggling ?)
Does it not rather infer that "The Great Chain" has been moving backwards due to Fontaine's thuggery to 'corner  the market' (monopolies eventually gained as through extorting/killing competitors),  or Fontaine using his illegal profits from the Smuggling Operation to warp the way business is supposed to operate in Rapture ?  (Money from one of the few  things that IS a definite crime in Rapture, profiting at the expense of the whole City's safety... Treason)
Is Ryan here simply saying that he now is going to go into the ADAM business to give Fontaine some proper competition ?? (The Vita-Chamber for example may have been meant for big-time competition to many of the ADAM products ...  and without the ADAM side-effects which were making themselves ever more apparent).
"Rapture is transforming before my eyes." ... Transforming obviously in a bad way ?  And into what ?   How far has Fontaine's tactics gone in a place allegedly set up with 'no laws' ( 'no laws' is a very stupid premise for any real society -- particularly when its supposed to be commercially complex).  Fontaine literally getting away with theft, extortion, murder, treason, etc... (Kind of ludicrous if you think about it - How easy the game writers made it happen that way, when it really could not).
The Audio Diary text says nothing about what Ryan planned to do, but IT IS a 'plot setup' for having 'evil'  'hypocritical' Ryan "nationalizing" Fontaine's ADAM company, and alludes to him simply doing it to wipe out a business rival (and it is later NOT really properly emphasized that Fontaine WAS a dangerous Traitor -- His other crimes like virtually enslaving and terrorizing his employees are even more conveniently ignored).
You actually hear (later in BaS) countering arguments that should have been spelled out in the first games -- Seen in Taking_the_Taint_Out_of_Fontaine in the DLC.  And likewise, to mention actual reasons why Fontaine Futuristsics was 'nationalized', which the majority of the populace would actually agree with.  Shutting it down ... yeah that would go over real well when the addicted Splicers realized it meant 'No More ADAM'.
THIS Not heard til BS2 (after Ryan is long gone and is only a sounding board for Lamb's collectivist drivel ...) :
" Jim: Sure thing, Mary. But Andrew Ryan didn't "take control" of anything. The government Council just  assumed stewardship of Fontaine Futuristics until all of Frank Fontaine's crimes and betrayals against the  people of Rapture are sorted out! Pretty soon everything will be back to normal. "
Since Rapture was largely a 'hands off' society, they probably didn't have procedures for 'seizing' and then reorganizing large assets from Criminals like Fontaine's huge organization.  The BS1 plot compresses it into mere months, when in our world, such things take years.
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Audio Diary : Mark Meltzer - "Blood and Lamb"  : 
"This Lamb woman's powers of manipulation are almost scary... Her people are using the girls stolen from The Surface to gather ADAM from Lamb's 'sacrificied' followers... It's in the Blood -- And eventually they too give themselves over, like dying is an honor. I'd almost feel sorry for them... If they didn't have my daughter. I'm going to find Lamb... and take Cindy back, one way or another."
Mark Meltzer mentions that Little Sisters are being used by Sofia Lamb to take blood/ADAM from living Splicers Or rather EX-Living Splicers ... Sofia The Collectivist - Except as usual she is the one in Power and those UNDER her power 'dance to her tune' - to their deaths if she see's fit.
Sofia Lamb trapped in her delusion - The failure with Gilbert Alexander should have taught her something, but did not. Eleanor is similarly a failure - another for creating this 'Utopian' Sofia wished to create. Sofia is trying to change Human Nature, certainly a folly, as it has been with every other Collectivist. 
 "HUBRIS - Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." 
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Removed Audio Diary : Clowns in Ryan Amusements ? :
Jean-Paul Beauregard(Ryan Amusements): "Breaking_My_Silence"
"By god, it was only three years ago that I was considered amongst THE preeminent pantomime artists in France. My countrymen held the artform in high esteem. But in Rapture? I have been reduced to a simple clown. Humiliating myself for these cackling little brats, ushering them, snot-nosed, into this wretched amusement park. I've stooped so low as to SPEAK while performing! On the surface I may not have been rich, but I had my dignity."
A hint (recorded but not included in the game ) that maybe there had been more things there in that sparse looking Ryan Amusements than is evident (in-game),  when we see it later.  It struck me as being a bit too lame/limited for anyone to seriously want to go there more than once.)  Should Have Had : Various booths and carts and temporary things which would have disappeared/been removed over the years, and Useful items like food carts, additional exhibits and attractions, etc...   In my extended level map, I added a 'Penny Arcade' and other things to make it a little more attractive as a destination.
Missing was : Mentioning the REASON THEN that he came to Rapture... Nice to understand what Ryan's City did for these people -- Who only seem to complain in these Audio Diaries.
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Jasmine Jolene (Audio Diary : "Pregnancy") : 
"That creepy Dr. Tenenbaum promised me it wasn't gonna be a real pregnancy, they'd just take the egg out once Mr. Ryan and I had... I needed the money so bad... But I know Mr. Ryan's gonna suss it out, gonna know I wasn't being careful… gonna know I sold the... Mr. Ryan's gonna be so mad at me ..."
1956 (assumed) Jasmine Jolene became pregnant by Ryan. According to the Novel, She was hesitant to tell Ryan about this, so she asked her friend, Anna Culpepper, for advice. Culpepper advised Jasmine that she should try to become independent so that she wouldn't need to rely on Ryan's continued good will to support her. Frank Fontaine discovered this situation from a surveillance device planted in Jolene's rooms (which were frequented by Ryan)."
The problem with Audio Diaries is trying to piece together what actually happened from partial/incomplete information, which also can be severely biased (or intentionally misleading),  when the info is taken from the recording person's point of view (versus a proper 'authoritative' story narration). NOTE that the Novel added half the information above.
SO Was Culpepper more involved in the Fontaine-Jolene betrayal (the bit about stealing/selling Ryan's child)?   That supposedly happened around 1956, but Ryan did not find out until much later (When did the stuff on Ryan's WYK wall started accumulating/coalescing) ??
Was Jasmine involved with Culpepper in some conspiracy to attempt to assassinate Ryan ?? ( Source of most of the people up on Ryan's  "This is what happens to people who try to kill me" wall later.) Jasmine Jolene is found dead in her room in "Eve's Garden" (But WHEN exactly did that happen, as we only saw it in BS1 ? It is quite Vague and matters to story events).
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Mike Novak - Audio Diary "Doctor Lamb" :
"Turns out, I wear my hair and mustache just like Ryan. So today, I'm spreading the word about Lamb. And tonight, I'm shaving my whole stupid head!"
The drugs Sofia Lamb is slipping her patients seem to vary quite alot in their affect.  The unfortunate 'Mike Novak' did go home and shave his head of 'evil' Ryan hair, but then also eventually proceeded to cut off his 'evil' Ryan ears, his 'evil' Ryan nose, and 'plucked out' his 'evil' Ryan eyes.  On hearing of the man's demented actions,  Sofia was not overly concerned with his fate, but instead contemplated what else she might chemically coerce people into doing.   ( If she could convince them to maim themselves, then killing others was a snap. )
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==Removed Audio Diaries - Tell us What ?== 
Peach Wilkins : "This started out as simple. Take Fontaine's sub back topside twice a week, pick up some choice goods not available in a remote place like Rapture, you know : beef, real tobacco, just a little extras. But now, Ryan and his type have up and called smuggling a hanging crime. Hanging? Says any connection to the surface could destroy the city. 'Fore long, only difference between this place and topside is whether or not you can open up the damn windows!"
Was removed from game. Why ? Another Asset which if they created it would have been no problem to include (another 'goodie' to find in-game). It doesn't seem to be against Canon, or does it show too much that Ryan had valid reasons for the things he did (and they must make him 'BAAAD Ryan' )?
Fontaine's Smuggling Operation may have started "Simple", but then had to grow to some huge operation to generate all the money (net profit) to make Fontaine Wealthy enough to do all the things they show in the rest of the game (thus increasing the logic on Ryan's side for the imposed Death Penalty for Smuggling.)
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Peachy Don't Play Dat :
He may have been the one to 'Finger' Fontaine (to get the evidence of 'Smuggling' Sullivan needed and Ryan wanted), and thus as 'States Evidence' got off. In his radio messages, Peach rants about Fontaine coming back (possibly for revenge for his 'betrayal').
It is not clear what penalty differences there were for the "Smuggling is Treason" (vague for WHEN the Death Penalty was actually attached to that crime as Ryan's "One Law" ?) There were ALOT of people involved with obtaining/distributing/accepting/selling the smuggled goods, and perhaps with Peach not doing the actual smuggling runs (any more) made him ONLY indirectly (or unprovably) involved with a real 'act of smuggling'. Peach possibly could easily have had evidence to the Investigation that he was coerced into involvement.
Peach Wilkins may have been part of the "Tainting Fontaine" media justification by Ryan (exposed to Players in BaS), and may have given evidence on Fontaine's various other crimes of murder/extortion/corruption) which likely would be a bigger indictment than the Smuggling charge. Many citizens may have actually seen smuggling as more a "Scofflaw" (Term created during Prohibition by a magazine contest to describe the unpopular laws lack of enforcement and adherence by the American population. Fact - two winners submitted the very same term.)
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Audio Diary Analysis : "No More Hope Left" : (Harold Parson, inmate in Persephone - Prison Cell)
"It's time to leave this place. I held out hope for months that I'd see my family again, but it seems like this rope is my only ticket to freedom. I'm sure Ryan has seized the bookstore, no telling where Gloria and Billy will have to... live... Can't seem to form a complete thought anymore. Can't sleep with that glow coming in the windows. Things out there watching us. Maybe I'll get to sleep now..."
Glow ? That's the GLOW of Individual Freedom out there ... ( Remember : He was distributing Sofia Lamb's Sedition pamplets. Some Players probably didn't pick up on THAT. Just OMG ! OMG ! - He was unjustly locked up ... That evil evil Ryan... (( DERRRRRPPPP !!!! Should we blame so many Players for all the manipulative shit they had shoveled at them by the gamewriters to HIDE and FORCE that 'Twist' upon their unknowing minds ? ... )). 
SO Harold, You Should NOT have handed out the propaganda leaflets about Overthrowing Ryan and Order in Rapture then.
Maybe Simply he is a ding-batty Splicer by that time ( the corpse this is found on is obviously WELL 'spliced' ) getting 'antsy' when their ADAM fix is withheld for so long ? ( "Things out there watching us" - That's nice and delusional ... )
Not cooperating with Sofia Lamb also can cost you ... Pushed over the edge by her attempts to get you to 'volunteer' for a testing program ? Not seen as 'useful' - when not physically or mentally fit enough to 'sell' for experimentation ?? 
We don't really know WHEN most of these Audio Diaries were recorded - Is this one WHILE Sofia Lamb is largely controlling the Prison with her manipulations of the Warden and using the other 'Family' inmate to enforce her wishes ?? SHE doesn't seem to have comforted this one who was a willing follower (tool) previously, but now was not worth her bother.
BTW - Committing Suicide IS an Act of "Free Will". ( IF that was the case )
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"No Place for Daddy" - Removed Audio Diary BS2, by some guy named 'Benny' in Pauper's Drop :
"She says they've got to go... she says the tin men have got to go! The Big Daddies... they steal the children... and we can't have that! She says you can't have our daughters!! You hear me, metal daddy?! There's no place for you here!!"
Ranting 'Rapture Family' member, mouthing Grace Holloways own Rantings. When at the same time there are Children being offered in sacrifice to The Utopian ? The usual disconnect of logic in a 'Collectivist Hell'.
Why removed ? Probably because the Big Sisters were STEALING CHILDREN from The Surface (Mark Meltzer story thread), and it would confuse the story somewhat for the Players.
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BS2 Sofia Lamb on Sinclair (Radio Message) :
Sofia Lamb: “I had thought you some golem of Sinclair's, brought here to hold Rapture's arms as he rifles through her pockets. But no ... you are aware of your plight. Who, I wonder, would be so cruel ? To force a mirror on a man with no face ... ” 
So Sinclair had so much power to do such things (she thinks he could) .... interesting.
Rapture is already long time been a mess by BS2. Rifling Rapture's pockets AFTER Sofia Lamb had already done so herself ?
Sofia Lamb must have talked alot like this to her patients - abusing them with such gibberish to manipulate them into doing what she wanted.
She is the one who wants to turn mankind into her own controlled 'golems'.
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"Behind Mother's Back" :
Eleanor : "I've been quarantined, but Mother's unaware of the extent of my connections to the new Little Sisters. I don't just empathize with them, I can control them directly. They are my hands and my eyes, now. Better yet: we have found Father's body, and took a gene sample. The girls are hiding the samples inside those dolls we used to make. It's only a matter of time before I work out a way to rig one of those Vita-Chambers to seek his genetic signature... and then... I can't wait to see Mother's face...."
Suchong : "BULLSHIT !!!"
Later, Eleanor then learns she has to do far more to resuscitate her "Father". All the attempts might be pretty messy. So this Quantum BS thing also magically builds the Alpha Suit that Delta wore ?? For the MMORPG, we will recreate this and make it less Bad Fantasy.
SEE Eleanor#makindaddy
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