Most have probably already figured this out, but just in case:
I don't get much time lately to just veg-out and play this game, and in my rush to get through some of these missions I discovered a good trick for hacking those damn terminals...
You get 3 free tries every time, right? But on your 4th try the terminal locks if you fail... so... I don't even bother trying to figure out the puzzle... I literally pick the 1st three choices on the list, and if none of them work then I just exit and re-enter the terminal. This resets the hack and gives me 3 more tries at a reset list of possible passwords, and then I just pick the 1st three again. At most it's taken me 5 or 6 resets, but even with that many tries I'm still cutting my time by at least half.
Yeah, I know... go ahead and give me hard time... I deserve it. But that particular mini-game is just so damn frustrating, especially since I'm so dyslexic (which affects 10 out of 3 Americans) and I like playing the game on the hardest setting. I just don’t have time to figure out which 3 letters of the 15 letter word I picked are correct. Ughhh! I’d rather deal with 15 Super-Mutants at once than try to hack another one of these terminals!
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even if you win ...you’re still retarded.