lore conversations

to prevent misclicks when you grab two power ups in a row there is a 1/2 second delay before power up selections can register
  I also added in a 0.25 fade in effect on the power up selection menu. Can you tell?

tech: pseudoscience - adds 0-4 JUNK to the potential tech pool (was 1-5 JUNK)
tech quenching - now increases max health and does harm for over healing from heal power ups
  (was for heals at max health)
foam tech necrophoresis now makes less foam spawns if the total number of bullets is high
  to help with lag when killing packs of mobs

preparation for more lore chapters
  reworked the lore conversation code to make it easier to write
    also lore conversations should now have better timing between the text and voice
  lore conversations can now recover from some speech errors and try again with safer settings
    this seems to allow speech on my firefox browser
  added a console command to make it easier to quickly unlock testing mode
    lore.unlockTesting()

pressing "b" in testing mode now gives you 10000 research and the damage from research tech

todo.txt

@@ -1,13 +1,50 @@
 ******************************************************** NEXT PATCH ********************************************************
 
-tech: pseudoscience - renewing power up choices costs no research, but adds 1-5 JUNK to the potential tech pool
+to prevent misclicks when you grab two power ups in a row there is a 1/2 second delay before power up selections can register
+  I also added in a 0.25 fade in effect on the power up selection menu. Can you tell?
 
->update text now shows the last 20 updates and has a scroll bar
+tech: pseudoscience - adds 0-4 JUNK to the potential tech pool (was 1-5 JUNK)
+tech quenching - now increases max health and does harm for over healing from heal power ups
+  (was for heals at max health)
+foam tech necrophoresis now makes less foam spawns if the total number of bullets is high
+  to help with lag when killing packs of mobs
+
+preparation for more lore chapters
+  reworked the lore conversation code to make it easier to write
+    also lore conversations should now have better timing between the text and voice
+  lore conversations can now recover from some speech errors and try again with safer settings
+    this seems to allow speech on my firefox browser
+  added a console command to make it easier to quickly unlock testing mode
+    lore.unlockTesting()
+
+pressing "b" in testing mode now gives you 10000 research and the damage from research tech
 
 ******************************************************** TODO ********************************************************
 
-add a short pause before selection menu pops up 
-  this stops a second selection popping up and a possible wrong selection
+try crosshair invert colors 
+
+tech wave gun - no bullets just draw circle arcs that do damage to mobs near the circle arc
+
+tech: quantized shields - harmonic standing wave field can only lose 33 energy per hit
+  draw 1,2,3 levels of the field based on energy?
+  the blocked value only scales up to 2x or 4x (33 energy) blocked
+  doesn't stack with spherical tech
+
+tech: weak anthropic principle - instead of dieing drain 100 energy
+  too similar to MEE?
+  drain all your energy? or just 100
+  possible overpowered synergies
+    piezoelectricity, have to not activate
+
+use SpeechSynthesis.speaking = T/F   to generate the correct wait time on lore speech API and in game console text
+  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API
+
+  or use the event listener to run even when speech ends 
+  utterThis.addEventListener('end', function(event) {
+    console.log('Utterance has finished being spoken after ' + event.elapsedTime + ' milliseconds.');
+  });
+
+in testing mode console log the body you click on
 
 make a tech that improves all charge guns
   for: pulse, foam, rail gun
@@ -17,10 +54,6 @@ make a tech that improves all charge guns
     harm reduction while charging
     less ammo/energy used while charging?
 
-researching new tech doesn't cost any research, but adds 5-10 JUNK to the potential tech pool
-
-in testing mode console log the body you click on
-
 tech plasma : plasma length increases then decreases as you hold down the field button (like stabbing with a spear)
   grows to 1.5 longer after 0.3 seconds, then returns to normal length over 1 second, until field is pressed again
   extra energy is drained when field is longer
@@ -172,6 +205,12 @@ n-gon outreach ideas
 
 ******************************************************** BUGS ********************************************************
 
+firefox ends if you try to use the voice API with an india voice
+  need to look at all voices and choose one that is available or go to default
+
+death while in power up selection menu doesn't reset properly
+  of course it's not possible to die in this menu unless you use testing and shift+X
+
 player can become crouched while not touching the ground if they exit the ground while crouched
 
 a couple times people have reported the final boss dropping extra bodies on death
@@ -194,6 +233,8 @@ is there a way to check if the player is stuck inside the map or block
 
 ******************************************************** LEVELS ********************************************************
 
+try out making the player's "eye" a bigger circle
+
 rename intro level to something lore related
 
 labs - procedural generation
@@ -348,7 +389,7 @@ chapter 3:  why is the bot attacking things?
         disable lore, but respawn on the level you die at?
   dialogue outline:
     scientist try to think of a way to communicate since the bot can't talk
-    they give up on getting the bot to respond, and just start ask questions and thinking of explanations with other
+    they give up on getting the bot to respond, and just start ask questions and thinking of explanations with each other
     when and how did it become self-aware
     why is the bot fighting things in these simulated locations?
       it wasn't designed to be violent