If the existing teams won't let Andretti Autosport join the grid, I can't imagine Hitech getting traction -- and if they did it'd make the Andretti snub even more insulting.

Boring guesses: In order of probability, Alonso, Russell, then Hamilton, with the latter two being closely matched, and Hamilton's form seeming to improve as Mercedes gets the car working.

Fun guesses: Leclerc, when the stars align such that on same day, the pit wall doesn't trip over its own shoelaces, Charles doesn't try to 11/10ths the car through an imaginary Mario Kart shortcut that's actually just an Armco, and Max has mechanical trouble, or Ocon, when the skies open up with torrential rain that red flags the race at just the right time in the pit stop cycle.

I am genuinely at a loss as to the answer to this. Houses in my neighborhood used to run in the low $100k range, but since 2020 things have gone batshit. A house around the corner went for about $350k, and one down the street that the owners built for about $250k a few years back just sold for almost half a million, and my own little hovel has just about doubled its purchase price as well.

I don't mean to sell my neighborhood short, either -- we like where we live, but like... the schools are terrible, the area across the street from us is a little sketchy, and just last week I had to call EMTs for a couple guys who were ODing in their car around the corner from me. If I bought the expensive place down the street, I would be splashing out something in the range of 60% of my take-home pay to live here, and I am well above the median income for the area.

Whether on Reddit or a pre-Reddit forum, I usually never bothered to add an 'ETA:' footer for small spelling or grammar changes, or for larger changes edited in immediately after posting (as an author I don't exactly have the most ordered thought process...). Anytime I added information more than a few minutes after posting -- for example, providing citation links or adding nuance to something that didn't come across as clearly as I intended -- I would usually provide a footer summarizing those changes for posterity. Unfortunately, reddit being reddit the discussion would usually have moved far past my post at that point.

ActivityPub has a concept of "shared inbox delivery" that could fit the bill, say, if federated instances delivered digests to each other and displayed them in a "public" tab.

SimAnt has a warm, weird place in my heart, not least of which for the massive doorstop of a manual that it came bundled with, full of all kinds of science trivia about ants, including something like a very long term paper or a small textbook about them at the back! What a different era that was.

But it I don't have it pre-loaded on launch day, might miss some of those magical Bethesda Bugs™ that get patched out after release! What if all the planets are just hats worn by NPCs and they forget to hide the legs? What if the spaceships get spontaneously replaced with Skyrim horses if you go in and out of building just right? I could miss some of the best moments of the game if I don't get that unpatched Day 1 experience!

> Besides, you can literally drive off into the sunset with Judy and Panam in one of the endings.

Guess which ending I did :)

But yeah, I get your point, and I do agree, at least partially. The game's world is a classic cyberpunk dystopia, and it is honestly one of the few representations of that world that really drives home what an oppressive and controlling reality that would be. I think that the way that CDPR doesn't flinch away from telling a story where the hero and all their friends unload everything they have at the Powers That Be and it barely even leaves a mark is admirable... but at the end of the day I play games to get away from our miserable reality, and CP2077 felt just a bit to on-the-nose. I know why there's no ending where V conspires with Johnny and Alt to colony-drop the Arasaka orbitals on Corpo Plaza, and establishes a solarpunk anarcho-syndicalist commune in the wreckage, but I still kinda want it, you know?

Damn. I don't usually replay story-driven games like Cyberpunk (especially ones with the sort of... finality that Cyberpunk has) but it seems like CDPR is making it a much more immersive experience. We'll have to see how that rumored new ending turns out. I get that they had a story they wanted to tell (and I felt it was a good one), but it was more than a bit of a downer that

I like for my RPGs to give me more than an illusion of freedom (Phantom Liberty, nudge nudge?) , or else why indulge in the escapism?

I was going to make a comment about how I confused "SA" for Something Awful, but as I continued to read I saw it was still an apt analogy...

Jesus, that was their CEO? It reads like it was written by a 14-year-old edgelord.

Is Voat still a thing or did it die off after the initial wave of hateful bigots migrated and nobody else?

Rasputin v. Stalin (v. Lenin v. Gorbachev v. Putin) still pops unbidden into my mind, especially in light of current events.

I'm the host with the most glasnost!

Mass Effect 2, Grunt's loyalty mission on Tuchanka. Always, always take the renegade interrupt to headbutt Uvenk and cut off his rant.

When in Rome...

I was as well, though my family weren't in deep. A friend from my co-op is estranged from her IBLP family due to abuse, though, and many more of my co-op classmates just failed to launch after graduation because they were book-smart but had no idea how to navigate a world that wasn't completely managed and controlled by their parents.

Laughable, maybe, but not surprising. Since the Web 2.0 boom started picking up, the game for tech startups has always been to attract users as fast as possible, profits be damned, and hope a FAANG buys you out for your userbase before your VC money runs out. Post-Great Recession, debt has been near as makes no difference free, so VCs have been willing to extend very long runways to the companies they invest in, but with interest rates going sharply up the music has stopped and it's time for companies like Reddit to show they can become profitable or else.

On the one hand, if somebody wants to Haussmanize their Paris I'd say more power to you, the bulldozer tool is in the menu. On the other hand, some mechanic like Transport Tycoon's where local councils stop letting you build around them if you get too aggressive remodeling their town could be interesting too.

At the end of the day, though, I wouldn't want to take to much power or of the player's hands. Will Wright described those classic Maxis games as "software toys," and the freedom to mess around and see what happens is both part of the appeal and how games like SimCity came to seen as educational.

I got my money's worth from the original, but I have two major complaints about it that, from what I can see, the new game doesn't address:

First, the developer originally made transport games and that bias shows. C:S makes it incredibly hard to design a city that isn't car-centric, and gameplay in practice tends to center on optimizing car traffic at the expense of everything else a city-builder could be.

Second (and this ties into the first, to an extent) is that the game doesn't represent the passage of time, in a technological or societal sense. Real cities grow and change over decades and centuries, with decisions made in prior eras imposing informing and imposing restraints on those made after. C:S cities exist in a weird, timeless and anachronistic "now" from the start. This was something that classic SimCity games did well, at least in the context of an American boom town: as the years advance, so does the tech tree, opening up new mass transit options, cleaner and more efficient infrastructure items, and new kinda of commerce and industry.

Personally, I'd love a game in this genre that plays like SimCity but takes in the whole arc of history, say from from the Middle Ages onwards, so that players can start to appreciate how decisions they make hundreds of years prior can leave their mark on the city in the present -- for example, where a defensive wall gets placed during a medieval time of war leaves a mark of the street networks, and changes the way that that social classes distribute through the city and leads to a high-rent luxury district in a future era.

Toyota's efforts to win on merit instead of by default continue to be cursed for no readily-apparent reason...

Really good race overall, and portends well for the future of LMH/LMdH as a category. A different manufacturer on each step of the podium, even Peugeot was legitimately leading for a while, and the Caddies were in the hunt the whole way through. Porsche still seems to have some teething problems to work through.

I'm having a similar experience right now. I wonder if there is a more complete setup walkthrough out there than what's in the codeberg wiki? I had the same problem standing up an instance of Mastodon, in that available walkthrough seemed to assume knowledge I didn't have, and additionally just didn't work right if you were, say, setting it up in an LXC instance instead of using Docker. I got it sorted eventually, but the process was pretty annoying