Nobody likes a sucker, especially the kind that fall for fruit tarts like you. I knew there was trouble. I could smell it on the hot evening breeze. Fortunately for me, trouble is my favorite thing… Because I’m Joe Milkshake. I kicked down the door with one swift, decisive motion.

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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • I played the crap out of this when it came out.

    Making those “creative mode” pizzas in just the right way so it would hit all tastes maximally was a lot of trial and error. But once you had one you were good to go.

    My favourite thing to do was weapon trafficking right at the start of the game. You just called a weapon supplier via phone, bought whatever you could afford. Then you fly to a random place, call the weapon supplier there and hope they pay more than what you paid. If not, restart game.

    That way you could build a bit of a bank account before even starting a restaurant.














  • Because the system is rigged in more ways.

    I will try and keep it short.

    There is a metric associated with scientific journals called impact factor. You can read up somewhere how its calculated but it is essentially a number that boils down how often a journal’s papers are cited.

    The higher impact factor your paper gets from getting published the better you look. Its reputable.

    This stuff is important when you apply for research grants or new positions within academia. If you have a candidate that published regular high impact versus one that doesn’t, there isn’t much reason to choose the one that doesn’t.

    However, as you might have guessed, the system is flawed and one shouldn’t rely on impact factors as a measure. However, everyone keeps doing it because it is a simple 1 number metric and everything else is a lot more work to evaluate quality with.

    Now a new journal cannot just come in and offer cheap prices because they start without or with low impact factor. They have to build that first over several years with fantastic papers cited by tons of people. You cannot achieve that easily.

    Sounds great right? Scientific papers essentially reinvented printing money and now act as if there is no other way to handle this. Add to that, that they give no two craps about scientific integrity or misconduct and there is a small hope scientists might slowly get fed up with the system.