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... have you considered life advice? That's... probably the better place for these sorts of questions.

Conditions evidentially bad enough that food, sentence reduction, and more (/any) walkabout is worth risking injury, serious injury, and (not yet, which is at least something) death, is one of those things I question as being actually volunteer. Maybe with some air quotes around the word, I'unno. The incentive at all makes it questionable. Considering the likelihood of internal pressures as well... good program is not what I'd call something like what's being discussed. Maybe superficially so, but not much beyond that.

The (barely existent, notably undercutting non-criminal paid firefighters) pay and bad joke* that is suggesting the skills they're learning is something that's going to help them afterwards is just icing on the cake.

Mild frustration vented, as per SG, yeah, getting people out and helping is a good thing, so long as it's actually being helpful and not just being as bloody exploitative and counterproductive as much of our penal system is.

*The numbers involved should make it incredibly clear that the experience is getting the participants jack-all after release. If they were, nearly half the cali firefighting force wouldn't be coming out of prison programs -- they'd be ex-cons with training, doing the job they already did.

Technically firefighter organizations in the states don't automatically disqualify people with a criminal record for actual employment, but it's the next best thing -- same with most other fields the skills they're learning would be applicable. Last I checked it can even get you barred from a bloody volunteer position.

Yeah, pretty much. Bit over 1/3rd (~3.8 thousand) of the 10k populace in the first bit died, and a lot of that was to explicit suicide or suicidal insanity. Lotta' people went bugnuts, though from what I understand it didn't get too terribly much screen time.

Yeah, when twitch plays, it's significantly less capable than a four year old. NJ, what's happening is the character's inputs are being read from the chat. It's not one person playing, it's many dozens pressing individual buttons. You can watch the stream for a little bit to get an idea of what happens :V

Things learned: The download will apparently finish even if the free play period ends. Also, BE's music is cheerfully available in .ogg format.

_{This observation has nothing to do with the comment regarding the game's soundtrack. Nothing at all.}

Also, IIRC, they're stuck right before the first enemy in tutorial, so it's nothing amazing about them getting that far.

... it's twitch chat playing dark souls. It's amazing they got out of the first room.

... though mod wise, even for someone starting off, I probably would recommend one of the seamless leveling mods. There's a couple that deals with the kinda' clunky progression system that's the default, and imo using them makes the game significantly more... fluid? Smoother, less fiddly (in a bad way). To play.

Maybe a magicka regen mod, too, though it does make things marginally easier (only marginally, because it's a complete non-issue to abuse alchemy to get more or less infinite everything mana). Is another quality of life thing that significantly streamlines a portion of the gameplay.

_{and probably whatever that cliff runner deletion mod is. That goddamn screeching may be part of the experience, but you're better off without it :V}

Either works, really.

And yeah, we use prisoners as functional slave labor. Dime'll get you dollar any experience they get doing that will mean jack shit insofar as finding work goes once they get out of jail, too :V