#seacrest

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52. Just Like Heinz

Some miscellaneous things I forgot to include.

Image 1: Wrong Sign AND Wrong side of street, double whammy.

Image 2: Further proof of Californication.

Image 3: Nonserious, nonstandard, remaster fodder. It's fine.

Image 4: Why is the "F" capitalized? The road is called "Southface Drive". Did it used to be "South Face Drive"? do do do do x files theme conspiracy confirmed

Image 5: That's fun, add a little bit of life to the world. Sign does not pass inspection anymore. For Seacrest DOT's sake, let's hope the sigh has the graffiti-resistant laminate finish.

Image 6: Remaster fodder.

Image 7: Business entrance on an interstate? Big no-no.

Image 8: I've heard of crash-rated, but this is ridiculous! If you get even a little close to signs in this game, the signs get disturbed and fall down. Even AI do this, and it causes them to hit it and slam on the brakes. Does not pass inspection, because when inspection was being performed, the signs fell down in a slight breeze.

Conclusion

The road signs generally make sense, especially when only considering signs from the base game. However, many of them are nonstandard and non-compliant. Does any of this matter? No, not really. It's a video game from 2010, not a warning of imminent death.

Side note: This game is beautiful for being 15 years old, even before the remaster's few and far improvements. I also love the little details the map design team put in, little bits of life, in-universe brands and such. It makes Seacrest County feel like a real place you could go to. I also like 95% of the songs on the soundtrack, it's very nice and definitely has influenced my taste in music. Can you tell that I like this game?

Brazilian company allegedly failed to conduct contractual repairs of onshore fields; state-owned enterprise denies accusation

Petrobras is embroiled in a multimillion-dollar legal dispute concerning the sale of onshore oil fields, which were a priority for the company during the administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro. The plan called for the state-owned enterprise to divest “mature” areas with declining production. At the time, Petrobras sold these mature fields to focus on pre-salt areas and more profitable ventures. This strategy was part of a broader plan to sell off Petrobras assets. However, under the current government, there has been a shift in direction, and the state-owned company has suspended plans to proceed with divestments of onshore fields, while maintaining deals for which contracts had already been signed.

Despite this, issues have arisen. In late December, Seacrest Petróleo, an independent oil company originally from Norway that purchased part of the state-owned fields, filed a lawsuit in the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice (TJRJ) alleging breach of contract by Petrobras in the sale of the Norte Capixaba and Cricaré fields in Espírito Santo. Seacrest claims that Petrobras failed to conduct repairs on underwater pipelines as stipulated in the purchase agreement. Petrobras denies any breach of contract and asserts that it is carrying out the required maintenance services.

On December 26th, Judge Jose Roberto Portugal Compasso of the 8th Chamber of Public Law at TJRJ granted an injunction in favor of Seacrest, preventing Petrobras from taking any action for 30 days to demand payment of $70.5 million from the Norwegian company. This amount pertained to outstanding installments for the purchase of the Norte Capixaba and Cricaré fields, which were due by December 31, 2024. Of the total, $59.5 million was allocated to the Norte Capixaba field and $11 million to Cricaré.

Indeed, who else but that little sea scented puppy of a mech? Wasn’t like Megatron was the most popular guy on the ship to have a lot of visitors, and aside the captains and Magnus, no one else seemed to have any interest in tracking the mech down for conversation.

Yeah, sure, the war was ‘over’, and he meant that quite loosely, but a little birdie told him Megatron still lived for the thrill of combat and Seacrest had spent a lot of time tracking down all their old deployments and mission report footage of the sheer chaos a bunch of wet jetskis could get up to against Autobots.

All of which, just goes dialup connection and Seacrest.exe has stopped responding at the fact that Megatron is enjoying his time cocked clocked off a little too much. Who did he find in the maintainence closets for that response? ... Was it Echo? It was probably Echo...

Maybe that look would have made Seacrest apologise and skitter back into the hallway were he looking at Megatron’s face. Nope. He is ... slightly optically distracted.

“..............Yes?” Sure, he has heard of knocking before but it was a pretty uncommon practise back home given how contact driven and touch starved these little fishy fraggers were. Something about schooling protocols in batches? Being alone made for sad soldiers.

Still .... He wasn’t all that alone right now, and worst case scenario is a ship wide restraining order which technically has an autograph on it.

“You want a hand with that?”

The intrusion was not something he’d been expecting, but then again, when had the former warlord been embarrassed about his body sexually? He was quite the specimen, and rather good in the berth. He had nothing to be ashamed of when it came to his skills (or looks). 

A look of amusement moved across Megatron’s sharp, wartorn features. Most in Seacrest’s position would be sputtering and blundering, not knowing how to respond. Not just because he was Megatron, but simply because they’d barged in on a rather intimate scene. Instead, the younger mech was playful, and he could tell the way his optics lit up that he was not regretting having come inside his habsuit. That intrigued him, in the least. 

Seacrest was--to put it bluntly--annoying. He was like a little sparkling, wagging his antennae and wingettes, about to dribble his processed energon down his legs. Even so, Megatron had been within the company of far worse. 

Tilting his helm, he leant his cheek against his knuckles, laying back against the edge of his berth. 

“I’ve got two hands, as you can see,” he replied, although a challenge in his voice as he spoke it. It had been a long time since he’d been with another someone, and why not take the opportunity considering Seacrest wasn’t walking backwards out of the room.

@metalpiratequeen Did i spent my afternoon so far doing this? Yes. Yes I did.