JakenVeina

Indeed it is. As far as getting the highest yield from Crude Oil.

Unless you mean the Diluted Fuel recipe for the Blender. That's actually identical to Packaged Diluted Fuel, it just doesn't involve canisters.

Diluted Packaged Fuel.

I'm not running any mods. I wouldn't be against a few QoL things, like infinite zooping or nudging. Or the mod that lets you set the day/night cycle, for when I'm trying to get screenshots for here. But ultimately, nothing's ever annoyed me enough to makenme actually go GET them. Maybe I just have a high tolerance for tedium.

GL;HF

I've honestly only ever had one problem with fluids, and it was a bug in like Update 5 that I believe has been fixed.

Maybe I just have like a good intuition for fluid dynamics, without knowing it? I look at some of the additional tools the gamr provides for working with fluids, like valves and tanks and think "I can't think of any scenario where those are helpful." I tried using valves once, and they actively made things worse. Tanks I can imagine being useful for storage or buffering, like if you're transporting with vehicles, but I hear about people putting them at the end of all their pipes and it kinda baffles me.

With the Oilworks factory I made last week, I thought I was going to finally be able to see some "bad practices" in action, for myself, but everything worked flawlessly. I have pipes coming into machines from underneath, instead of overhead, t-junctions where the incoming fluid hits the dead end of the junction, instead of continuing straight,, a crossover pipe between two separate lines that allows excess to flow from one to the other, with no directional valve in between...

I've also never actually made it to Aluminium, so maybe that is what's going to se me straight.

I am taking a little extra care in isolating pipelines, with this upcoming factory, I suppose. I only actually need 8 machines to fully process a Pure Crude Oil node, but I'm planning for 9, because the downstream will be split into 3 sections, as the final product will need 3 pipelines to handle the throughput. Figured that would be safer than trying to make a 2-input-to-3-output pipeline joint.

I'll second that the most effective thing to cope with these feelings is to spread them around, I.E. get some more similar friends. You may not experience any sexual feelings for others, but the evidence suggests you do crave friendship or companionship, on some level. It'll probably take some time and effort for you to figure that out, in more detail. Maybe a larger friend group would fulfill you, maybe you really do just want one romantic, non-sexual, partner.

It is also absolutely okay to have no idea how to do this, or feel like it's impossible. Social relationships are complicated, and you have no experience. The obvious advice would be to see a therapist to guide you, but that's certainly not feasible for everyone. And unfortunately, I don't have any particular advice, myself, on how to find friends. My own small subset of friends are pretty much all encounters of convenience: classmates from college, co-workers, and parents I've met through my kid. But I would say meeting new people and looking for new potential friends is what you should try and research or experiment with.

Most christian denominations don't require celibacy, but Catholicism, which is headed by the Pope, does.

Sounds like you're a bit on the ace spectrum. Nothing wrong with that, but yes, most people find celibacy difficult.

For this topic, I think there's an extra layer on top of that where it's not just celibacy, it's an active denial of your sexuality, to an extent.

If only bankruptcy actually meant consequences for those responsible.

Fully vanilla. No mods, no Advanced Game Settings, and no... shudder arachnophobia mode.

I don't particularly have arachnophobia, but goddamn, Stingers ALWAYS give me goosebumps.

I almost feel guilty for using that idea here, cause now it'll seem like cheating if I use it more prominently in a future factory. But hell if I don't love 'em, too.

I was worried this factory wouldn't be so unique, after the last three were all kinda cookie-cutters of each other, but nah, there's quite a few little unique detail ideas I had while building this. Maybe going so long without trying to come up with new ideas helped?

"Elegant" is definitrly not a term I would use to describe passkeys. Fully agree with "not usable" though.

It's fraud. They publicly claimed, point-blank, to do a certain thing for years, and were instead doing the opposite, in the interest of making more money. The affiliate link thing is only one of several points that they're suing over. The far more egregious one is that they don't actually "scour the internet to find you the best coupons" They will actively hide better coupons that they know about, if marketplaces pay them to, and still tell you in the browser "this is the best coupon."