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Going from human soldiers to mutants of any kind in the same game instantly screams "We're going to ramp up the difficulty like you wouldn't believe!", and implies the difficulty curve is going to go logarithmic, if not exponential.

One of the Wolfenstein games did exactly that.  Actually, they probably all do, but it started out fairly bog standard and all a sudden (probably about half, 3/4 the way in) I was getting jumped by a random levitating armored robot zombie that depleted all my ammo.  Can't remember which Wolfenstein it was, may have been that reboot back in the early 2000's.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein ... they were called Lopers

more specific questions tend to net more specific responses

It has to be hard combating source code plagiarism with sites like stackoverflow out there, not to mention the "I'll do your homework for you" sites. Over the years, I've looked at other people's code for inspiration on a different approach or maybe an edge case I didn't consider(professional work or hobby, not school work), but to just hand in identical work? that would have to be a referral for academic misconduct. I once got the results of a python project back that had what they considered to be a less than 100% yet still acceptable level of originality and I was scratching my head trying to figure out exactly how original a student-level project is supposed to be? there's only so many ways you've been instructed on how to carry out the task.

Anybody out there offer pcbs of this one or the demeter trem? always bugged me that I never see those offered.

or grains ... drachms ... firkins ... tuns (and all the fun fractions of a tun like butt or hogshead)

having worked extensively with metric and imperial standards in my initial course of study (engineering), the main glaring difference for me was that metric makes the math easier. units scale by multiples of ten, unit conversion is cleaner, significant digits (precision) are easier to establish. add on top of that the problem that the imperial system gets twisted by the particular application you're working with ... SAE has standards for parts and tools, machining is usually done in decimal place inches instead of fractional base 2 (half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, thirty second, sixty fourth), carpentry works on nominal dimensions rather than actual, weight vs liquid volume (ounces) ... a real black hole of precision problems

yeah reindexing is an off-hours event

well ... where are the wrestling kittens?

it is easy to throw Florida Man out there as your ad absurdum argument ... I'll offer a counter. It is generally accepted both inside and outside of America that the country's education system is in decline and has been for some time. If being informed is your yardstick, one could argue that there's a systematic quality issue regarding the conversion of raw data into information due to a decline in the quality of the education that is meant to sharpen your ability to apply critical thinking to any given problem. One side calls it alternative facts, the other calls it fake news. If this poor quality of information is to be turned into wisdom to be applied at the polls the results may well be better off in the hands of a bunch of well-meaning idiots rather than fools convinced they are right. The idiots won't know why the clock is broken but the fools will insist the time is always half past three.

while being informed should improve the quality of the result, there's a more serious lack of quantity that makes any result less representative. 

5534 is internally compensated and would be fine if not preferable in the first op amp position, I'd still want the 308 for the "rat" op amp for the way that op amp handles the feedback loop configuration. I'll grab an expandora schematic and go over a few more tweaks:
the diode coming off the first op amp should be the same kind you use for clipping in order for the opto-fet to function the way it is supposed to.
you can increase the size of the 22n between op amp 1 and 2 for a little fuller sound.
the bass switch on the three switch expandora included switching in a huge electrolytic cap in parallel on the output cap ... I believe a 10uf ... speaking of which I believe the output cap on the original was 100n and ended up at 1u on the three switch version.
I'd probably keep the output cap at 1u and make a fat or bass switch that puts in the 6u8 cap in parallel with the 2u2 cap in the feedback loop of the second op amp like the proco fat rat's fat switch
I'd also consider the Timmy's treble control values for the tone control of the expandora.

thinking about this logically, whatever JHS did is covered somewhere else either as an existing expandora mod or rat mod because the rat is the basis for the expandora ...  is there some specific change in the sound vs the expandora that you're trying to reproduce?

that and the nearest store that would have carried bagged Halloween candy back then was 10 miles or more away. In thinking on this more, I got a lot more small individual hard candies back then too ... root beer barrels, butterscotch discs, those peanut butter taffy abortions, because the local store carried those in bulk. As for the pocketbook aspect, I suppose so in some cases and in others it was definitely tradition for them to make something.   

long ways from when I was a kid and you'd get baked goods, popcorn balls, etc from the elderly (clearly a generational issue) but even then I don't recall getting anything unwrapped. bearing in mind this was in very small town, very rural Kansas so there's no required anonymity available to hide behind should you intend to harm children with Halloween treats. Eventually you grew up, quit chasing candy, and moved into pranks and shenanigans.

without seeing it and based solely on your description, I'll assume we're talking about velocity stacks ... which make air flow better into a naturally aspirated engine and generally look pretty cool doing it. with a supercharger, they're purely aesthetic as the whole air intake went from vacuum  to boost and so long as the opening flows enough air it really doesn't matter much what it looks like. with that in mind, you'd see more horsepower with introducing an oxidizer (nitrous), an inter-cooler (because the supercharger also heats the air), or more boost.

as for "diesel" ... that's a generic term for literally any fuel that will function in a diesel engine (bio fuel, petroleum distillate, etc). narrow that down to petroleum distillate diesel and yes, you could continue fractional distillation of it into gasoline and other lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons.