BottomlandBrew

Brutally tortured and murdered someone as the leader of a conspiracy, bragged about it to friends, admitted it to authorities, and then tries to kill another woman while in prison.

I'm mostly against the death penalty as I don't trust the government. I don't agree with it if there's even a tiny bit of doubt, but in cases where the person admitted to their crime or it's on video or something and there is zero doubt, frick 'em. Do it quickly and everyone move on.

Yeah, it sucks she had a rough childhood. She likely doesn't grow up to be the murderer she became with a normal childhood, but a lot of people have shitty childhoods that don't grow up and become murderers. Everyone knows murder is wrong, abuse or no abuse.

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First, you said it’s a shitty, trashy event then you turn right around and said it’s cool.

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I've gone to trashy things that are not my style just to experience them. Biker gatherings, small-town wrestling events, urban after-hours clubs, whatever. It's fun to experience new things, even if they're trashy and sometimes dicey. I don't do it in a judgemental way. It's more of a curiosity thing.

Same reason I went to Angola. I needed to see it, and I was not let down. It's bizarre, trashy, and fun. If you stop to think of it, it's also incredibly sad. There are men there that committed heinous crimes that had real victims, and here I am bartering through a fence with them and watching them get dragged out of the ring after being rag-dolled by a bull as their family cheers on. All the while the warden, who is a character himself, presides over the event like an emperor in the Coliseum. It's mental.

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Oh no. We are from the same home town. RIP.

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I was our high school mascot, and somewhere I have a picture of me in the suit with Haskings at one of the Notre Dame High School games. It's probably in a shoe box in my attic. I need to see if I can find it.

Aston Martin is not serious about winning anything. Goes to show that money can't solve all your problems. Somehow, I still see people in the crowd wearing AM gear. It boggles my mind. They should be wearing paper bags instead.

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Is his name Elon?

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No, his name is Nole. Definitely not Elon. Here's a picture from the intern discord.

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thats a big bitch

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It's crazy to me how quickly something that big can get up and off the pad. Your mind expects to see it lumber upwards, but no, it just fricking goes.

That was a solid race. Nail-biter to the finish for several positions, including a win. Teammates taking each other out and starting another Falklands War. Hadjar showing some skill after a long break. Double Haas point. Williams point. Dumb driving by several drivers. I enjoyed it a lot.

This has nothing to to do with Trump, but rather the lady they superimposed Trump's head on. I watch her videos from time to time and she cooks up some solid looking down-home Mexican dishes. Worth a watch to learn some simple Mexican dishes.

You get bigger blueprints as the game progresses in Satisfactory, but they max out at 6x6x6. Satisfactory blueprints aren't meant to replace factory construction. They're meant more for module construction within a factory, so like splitting manifolds and whatnot.

Satisfactory and Factorio are, on the surface, very similar as far as what you're trying to accomplish, but they target different audiences. Factorio is more strategic, whereas Satisfactory wants you to kind of spread your architectural wings. For half of my career I was an urban designer, and now I run a factory, so I skew way more towards the Satisfactory target audience than Factorio. Both are great games.

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Plan everything to be way bigger than you expect

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Yeah, you're going to need more of everything than you thought you'd need. And you're going to need to get it from Point A to B efficiently, so factor in future transport when laying things out, even if you don't have access to certain transport tiers yet.

If you find one item is backing up in a factory, use a smart splitter to put overflow into storage and/or an Awesome sink. You always want your belts moving.

Balancing liquids can be tricky. Buffers and overflow manifolds are a must.

Oh man. That game is fricking crack. I've put hundreds of hours in since like version 6 or 7 since someone posted a thread on here a few years back. It's the perfect game for me. It can be as low stress or high stress as you want it to be. It's funny because I run a factory in real life, and Satisfactory is my way to unwind from running the real factory. I don't have to worry about suppliers, employees calling out, broken machines, or production deadlines. I only have to worry about pleasing ADA.

The dev team is great and the community is very helpful.

One of the most helpful tools is this production tool.. Before I knew about that, I was using notebooks and calculators trying to keep track of things and plan out factories.

I'm on my third or fourth play-through. I've gone from what we call spaghetti factory layouts to whole industrial cities linked with trains and drones.

I play on passive mode because I don't like having the creatures to worry about. I just want to build, balance, and optimize.

It's always a race for me to get to coal power, and from there I slow down. The next big hurdle is always aluminum. You can beat the game without nuclear power as you can get more than enough power using large rocket fuel factories. I've done nuclear twice for the challenge, and it was "satisfying" once I had a perfectly optimized 10 tower uranium nuclear plant and nuclear disposal factory. I have yet to tackle plutonium power or ficsonium power. Maybe one of these days I'll get enough initiative to devote the hours to that, but in the meantime I like making aesthetically pleasing and balanced factories.