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Turns out you need version 6.0 or higher of Android in order to grant or deny permissions to applications. Mom and I looked into shopping around, and I bought a Samsung Galaxy S7 last night.

Mom also brought me to the hospital mid-day in order to help her move a recycle can full of some plants she wanted to plant in a courtyard there.

Influence of aliens in Earthbound

Why hasn't anything of the weird monsters and alien invasion leaked to the rest of the world? And wouldn't the characters be curious about why it hasn't?

-part of Chelle's latest feedback on Starbound, chapter 7.

For reasons I can understand, seeing how she's never played Earthbound and is not likely to, she seems to be thinking along the lines of Mars Attacks! or something, where Earth in its entirety does find itself in a full-blown war pretty quickly. While Mother 3 is similar enough, much more to the point about the Pigmask Army and its influence on the Nowhere Islands, that is not what I'm aiming for here. In Earthbound, not everyone is under any sort of attack by Giygas' forces or even says anything about them. Tomato even refers to the first title screen as "the most out-of-place screen in the game" (although it could easily represent the future from which Buzz Buzz hails instead). (This is also the reason why I've been sharing my playthrough of the game with Mom, slow as that's been going lately.)

So, let's break that all down:

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The same holds generally true for Earthbound Zero; some things are directly related to the aliens, from the attacks on Ninten's house and the zoo, to the offscreen mass abduction of the adults in Youngtown, to Teddy, whose parents were killed by the aliens. Other events, such as at the cemetery, Merrysville, two different factories, and Snowman, do not involve aliens in any way plot-related, even though they do appear simply as enemies in such places as Yucca Desert and the swamp. Nor is everything established to be working for them, unlike by Buzz Buzz in Earthbound.

My point here is to answer Chelle's question about why things are so much more peaceful where the party in Starbound currently is than back in Japan. Why isn't there such widespread paranoia as one would expect in those two games? For all they or even readers would know, those kinds of things could have begun unfolding during the events of the anime.