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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 they way that CDPR don'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 CD2077 felt just a bit to on-the-nose. I know why there's no ending where V colony-drops 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?