there's this short novel written by Fredric Brown in 1954 called Answer and its about some researchers trying to find the answer to an ever present question in the history of humanity: is there a god ?

for this purpose these scientists begin to assemble a super fucking computer thats gonna suck so much of the world's electricity just so that it could study the entirety of the universe to give a proper answer to humans

and the thing that it says after booting it up is "yes now there is a god"

apart from leaving an everlasting impression on me as a short story made in a time when technology wasn't as advanced as we see today this was the very first thing that I thought when unraveling the story of minervas den

set some years apart from the main entries its about another fucking big daddy and another fucking rapture political issue but this time its spooky sci fi territory now with the introduction of a machine called the thinker and this incredibly advanced calculator can somehow predict stuff and do shit actually idk but it has some fanatics around so you go the thinker

the game is the same but with some different weapons or plasmids the laser thing is fucking fun and the magnetic field is an interesting addition and also the fact that the electro plasmid comes later into the game actually made me recalibrate the electro + drill combo spam rapture is still rapture the protag is still a big daddy it sure is a DLC

the story aspect though was interesting not only for the thinker worldbuilding aspect but also the main story with some incredible plot twist and use of the medium and an emotional conclusion to this original duology

goated dlc might I say