I agree, but the downward trend is from the 00s when directors would just hamfist sex scenes into movies and shows regardless of whether they're relevant to the plot. I like to think we're trending back to normality where sex scenes actually serve a purpose instead of being there just for the sake of being there.

But first of all, it's not going to be $1 because it means HR will do more interviews which means the cost has to cover HR to some extent, HR simply isn't that cheap. Secondly, anyone willing to get the job is going to pay that price which means your likelyhood of getting the job probably doesn't change much. And if you're already an in-demand labor then nothing changes for you because you'll be sought out even if you don't apply.

So really what you're paying for is for them to tell you that you're not suited for the position.

I would absolutely recommend taking time to get comfortable with blueprints, they've been a huge timesaver for me. I just got my 600 caterium ingot factory up and running. Took me about 15 minutes to build, connect and wire 50 refineries. They don't look pretty but I don't care about pretty. If I wanted to make them pretty I could always build a building around the blueprint.

I also have blueprints for smelters, foundries, constructors, assemblers and manufacturers. All of them running vertically so whenever I need to scale up the production I just build my towers higher and the only manual things I do are connecting the wire between 2 blueprinted parts and connecting the inputs and outputs. Eventually I'll hit the belt limit, but then I'll just start a new tower next to the original one. I have also made blueprints for blenders and refineries but those expand horizontally and I'm not 100% happy with them, but they're still better than manually building them.

I think I've saved tenfold the time I spent figuring out good blueprints and it has taken off a huge mental load of factory maintenance because everything is built using the exact same style so it's pretty simple to understand what is going on in any of my blueprinted factories.

That's what I read from an article but I don't think whether they're level 4 or not doesn't really matter. The point is they officially claim to be level 2 but their cars clearly function beyond level 2.

To be fair, Rockstar also released RDR2 between the two GTA games.

Last time I checked that disclaimer was there because officially Teslas are SAE level 2, which let's them evade regulations that higher SAE levels have, and in practice Tesla FSD beta is SAE level 4.

This is one of the things I dislike about F1. Innovating withing regulations should be a big part of F1 but every time anyone innovates anything, everyone else goes "THAT'S CHEATING!". Either let innovations happen or turn F1 into a spec series. This constant crying foul is just boring.

Would you like to be known as the chick who "spits on dicks" or as a the guy who "sticks a thumb up the butt" if it meant you're set for life? I think you're viewing the "set for life" part but you're forgetting that you're also setting a moniker for life. She can do whatever she wants with the rest of her life but all people will remember is hawk tuah and that will be so for the rest of her life.

I don't know about you but I'd rather take my otherwise irrelevant existence rather than have my entire being distilled down to a single thing I did.

I view it as a form of capitalism indoctrination. If there's no material compensation it's a bad idea, which is the capitalist idea of "if I don't make a profit I won't do it". I've seen people argue free energy is bad because the excess energy cannot be monetized, which is something you say only if you want to profit from energy.

Please no. Something faster than a cyclops. I enjoyed cyclops being a mobile base, but my god was it slow. I don't remember what issues I had with the sea truck but I'd probably still prefer the truck to the cyclops.

Ricciardo was brought in to replace de Vries. And no one familiar with de Vries was putting money on him going to the main team. He was brought in to be a safe pair of hands until Lawson or another junior was ready.

Do you think Lawson is now somehow more ready than last year when he temporarily replaced Ricciardo? RB used to throw drivers in the seat to see if they sink or swim. I very much doubt RB is waiting for their juniors to mature. If anything they're waiting for new regulations and Lawson getting the seat this year is probably something contractual rather than him being actually ready.

And if Ricciardo was a seat warmer than why wasn't he made aware of it? His final race clearly showed he didn't have a clue what happens now. If he's not sure about his future then he was probably offered something more than just seat warming. Also Ricciardo doesn't seem like the kind of driver who would sit in a back of the field team just to be in F1, otherwise he probably could've gone to Haas or something like that. He went to RB because he saw a way to get into a top team.

And Ricciardo already showed he wasn't going to play second fiddle to Verstappen, that's why he left in the first place.

5 years ago. A lot can and has happened in 5 years. And him leaving is precisely why he would return as the second driver. He already left because he couldn't be first and Verstappen is still there, so Ricciardo already knows that going back means he's number 2. He wouldn't go back if he wanted to be number 1 because he already knows he can't have that, which means him going back also means accepting the number 2 position.

Red Bull hasn't gone soft, this is kinda their MO. They did the same with kvyat, using him until a junior was ready.

Go compare Albons points in RBR to Perez. Albon in 2020 got half as many points as Max and got kicked. Checo is currently on track to end the year with a third of the points Max has and RBR doubles down to keep him next year as well. When I said RBR has gone soft I meant the main team. Checo has been a question mark since the end of last year and the RBE of old would've given him the boot half way through this season just to see if another driver could do better. That's what they did with Gasly.

I don't think so. I think Ricciardo was brought on board as a safety net in case Perez completely flops. Who would RBR replaced Perez with? Yuki, who at the start of the season showed how he wasn't ready to play second seat? Lawson, who is still very much a rookie? Or Ricciardo, who knows the team and has the experience and who most likely accepts he'll have to be second?

The only question mark is, how the hell is Perez still on the team? Ricciardo being let go indicates to me that Perez will be in that seat until the new regulations. RBR has gone soft.

Yeah, note to self, don't make comments when tired. Key information might go missing.

I guess I should add that I made the comment because of the comparison between Todd and Anton. I found it odd to call Anton "outright evil" as if that's some distinction between Todd and Anton. Anton is no more or less evil than Todd. The only difference is that Anton was more violent due to the nature of his profession.

I don't think Anton was outright evil. I don't think you consider yourself evil for swatting a fly. To Anton people who crossed him were no different than flies to be swatted. And of course killing (or trying to kill) some people, like Moss, were just part of the job. He was simply violent because it was in his nature.

Trump is just trying to stay ahead of the game. US politics are very much vibes based. Trump is going to the next level by literally vibing on stage. Who needs a health care plan when you've got vibe. And he is genuinely weird because that's the Republican vibe, his weird vibe is appealing to his base.

Kinda meh list. No mobas, either LoL or Dota2. No racing games, NFS underground or NFS Most wanted should be on that list. Not even the OG Modern Warfare which should 100% be on any top 100 games of all time list. Too many games that were released in the last 5 years.

And it's not like the list is that stacked you couldn't fit those games in. Dave the diver? Really? I enjoyed Dave the Diver but I'd put Fez higher than Dave the Diver. Ghosts of Tsushima? Even they themselves say that game does nothing revolutionary or unique. You could throw out either Morrowind or Skyrim because they 90% overlap. Armored Core is there only because they love From. I love From but I don't think that fits the 100 and I think Sekiro barely fits. I think you can also throw out Prey (2017) because you already have Deus Ex and the latter has been far more influential.

And no Terraria? I'm just going to stop. The more I think about the list the angrier I get about how bad that list is.

I don't mean less casual in that sense. I actually had 3 main points in mind that make satisfactory more casual.

First are the aliens. The evolution and pollution doesn't stop which means in a way you are fighting against time. If you don't keep up with it the aliens will attack and destroy your base. I know they can be turned off but the game is designed with their attacks in mind and you're skipping entire production lines if you turn them off.

The second reason is factory building. I think the extra dimension in Satisfactory makes factory building much easier. If you run out of space horizontally, build up. In Factorio you better plan out how big your factory is going to be because if you run out of space you're probably going to start spaghettifying your factory or you need to start tearing down parts of your factory to make more space. In my current satisfactory factory I just built a whole new level ontop of my old factory because I couldn't be bothered to clean it up.

And the last point goes together with the previous point. You have so many things you need to produce. The entire belt production thing for example. If you want express belts you need to build the fast belts which needs the basic belts. If you want express splitters you're going to have to build the fast splitter, which needs the basic splitter which requires basic belts. Meanwhile in Satisfactory if you want a faster belt you just need the new material for the belt. Factorio production pipelines are like a deep well while Satisfactory production lines are more like a wide puddle (that only towards the very end can go deep, like ficsonium fuel rods). Satisfactory has overall a wider variety of things to produce (if we exclude the tiered items in Factorio), but they're much less dependent on each other. For example if your industrial beam production isn't at peak performance that not going to stop you from getting the higher tier belts because they need aluminum which are built from a completely different raw material. Solve aluminum production and you get new belts. Compare that to Factorio where, lets say you want to start using express belts but you've been kinda winging your belt production. Well first you need to fix your fast belt production, which then means you need to fix your basic belt production which means you need to fix your iron production which means you have to scale up your iron mining.

The factory can grow over your head but Satisfactory still has easier production pipelines, easier factory planning and you can take however long you want to figure out how to build your factory. To me all of those things indicate that Satisfactory is a more casual experience.

And how would a launcher identify you've actually purchased the game? You still need a central source for that. Hypothetically I guess there could be an activitypub like protocol that all storefronts could use to sync purchases, but that opens up a whole other can of worms, such as account linking, purchase duplications, refunds. The main questions with this hypothetical are

• Why would stores implement this when they don't really benefit from it?
• Why would the users want it when it means creating more accounts and linking them? Why not just stick to one platform that best covers your needs? I guess there would be the "what if Valve turns bad?" argument, but company turning bad is at best a once in a decade situation. If that's the only reason then the feature won't be used 99.99% of the time.
• There's also a question of who pays for the data? Games are huge and the cost of keeping storing them is factored into the price of the game. However, if you buy from store A and download in store B how is store B supposed to stay afloat when they only eat the cost of storing the game.

As for going completely launcherless, how do you solve updating the game? Steam was originally made to solve the patching problem, because each patch would effectively shut the entire game community down while everyone waited for everyone else to patch their game.

If these aliens can't tell, they're morons who clearly didn't think it through.

There's a popular phrase:"breeding like rabbits". We view rabbits like some sex crazed breeding machines, like all they do is fuck. What if we're the galactic rabbits and the other galactic civilizations aren't trying to fuck everything that moves? Maybe for them kinks aren't a thing and as such their test makes sense because you can't prepare for something you can't imagine (or believe to be impossible).

Imagine you want to prank an alien by putting a bucket on top of the door. When the alien walks in the bucket falls on them. Brilliant, except the alien doesn't move the door because it phases through the door. Are you stupid for making a prank that expects the victim to be solid? Or did you just make the prank based on the knowledge you have, which includes knowing you can't just phase through things.

The aliens weren't dumb. Maybe they did think in through and they thought it would be impossible to be intelligent being to want to fuck extraterrestrials.