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I was worried the remaster would take some of this away, but it looked just as good.

The PS2 version looks great after upping the internal res (not sure how much other stuff like filtering/other technicals has an effect). I haven’t compared it, but like most remasters I’m going to just say the data bloat is probably not worth potential fidelity improvements. That and I’d guess any design issues are still baked in, thus similar experience.

EDIT: In Okami’s case I don’t know if the data size is due to uncompressed files or just due to higher-res pre-rendered videos, but either seems wasteful to me. What is live-rendered and what is pre-rendered just seems arbitrary to me, I’d get if it weren’t viable on older hardware but you’d think a remaster could handle it mostly in-engine.

I mean… Teresa certainly wouldn’t involve a condom even if aware of having an STD…

My napkin guess is that this is some sort of specific process/tactic, either it only allows 1 2 levels of reclassification at a time or that was all that could be agreed on (with multiple agencies, likely the DEA limiting the pace). So either avoiding the Senate or the tiniest of steps that pretty much anybody will allow/defend. Slow-and-steady could be the plan, assuming Biden wins again and actually follows up.

Well that and it probably really helps with the turning-a-blind-eye, like the difference between ignoring/acquitting a hit-and-run fender-bender versus ignoring/acquitting the act of treating a no-traffic intersection (in clear conditions) like a 4-way stop. Maybe it will be enough to reduce hostility and move the relevant overton window over time while avoiding pushback.

EDIT: Looking at it more, this seems to be the department of HHS pressuring the DEA on clear medical use. As others say, the lower restriction might help further medical study which could in-turn result in further reclassification.

Reminder on Stockholm syndrome:

According to accounts by Kristin Enmark (one of the hostages): the police were acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages’ safety.

She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire, and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire

but the prime minister [Palme] told her that she would have to content herself with dying at her post rather than Palme giving in to the captors’ demands.

Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police, whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.

Which could possibly be relevant here, particularly the civil war part.

“completely turned around” could be charitably interpreted as “swiftly and accurately corrected course”. 360, not so much.

You could also call it a shopping plaza, either in a line or 2 (or possibly 3) sides along its parking lot.

Also bundled with those giant signs that list every store in the plaza.

So do you think there’s any chance of me getting out of this coma, or is this a data extraction/matrix sort-of-thing where it’s even worse (in some ways) outside?

“We want change!”
(votes for the asshat that fucked everything up previously).

Relevant comic.

Japan being the worst yeah, it seems like Kei cars are the perfect format for EVs plus the population density of Japan (+city life and high-speed rail).

Then again, I do see that the incentives for Kei cars were reduced in 2014 and I wouldn’t doubt if oversized trucks/SUVs were gaining popularity there too (I did see 1 headline about it).

I see ice-cream this tall and think:
YOU ARE DOOMED BY YOUR HUBRIS.
DO NOT DELAY FOR SMILES OR RECORD KEEPING.
EAT YOUR TASTY TREAT CAREFULLY BEFORE GRAVITY MAKES A FOOL OF YOU.

My thought as well, the video Tom Scott did on the mountain town that has bespoke electric vehicles (and strict usage on them for needed business) comes to mind (R2oD1ZHNMFE). I don’t know how much is law and how much is companies not caring to cater to that market (even with designs that they sell in Europe), but Kei-like vehicles can still be affordable without being fully unsafe (but the issue of safety is more about the market making larger-and-larger trucks and SUVs, and lack of viable car alternatives paired with high speed limits).

Higher cost really is not a fix. Other concerns like privacy seem like policy could mesh well with low-end (no internet connection, just-a-radio, common off-the-shelf parts, standards+no DRM etc). It would be nice for the option to exist in this space that US car companies are not trying to fill anyway.

@Fiivemacs

Vertex banan.

The bigger issue IMO would be that not everyone has quality sleep, so they might not have a long uninterrupted time in REM to properly dream.

Personally even when I’m in the right state to experience dreams (the type that I do remember) they usually aren’t very vivid, for the above reason or possibly something else. I also have aphantasia so it may be related (or other brain/life stuff). Once I did have a colorful-yet-still(ish) dream related to then-recent photography.

@Hegar

Why would be this be a concern?

Because companies aren’t cool about stuff like this (even companies you think are cool are not always cool).

This is not direct action, but remember that this shows the thinking to avoid the wrath of a super-litigious company:

“Because the project depends on Nintendo’s proprietary libraries, [Valve] have asked me to take the project down.”
Speaking to PC Gamer via email, Lambert shared that he believed Valve “didn’t want to be tied up in a project involving Nintendo IP.”

(context note for above: Nintendo 64 version of Portal)

I wouldn’t doubt the library used to make these games catching a DMCA (even if there was no legal standing for it).

I also doubt a company would even bother talking about licensing cartridges for platforms so old, though even if they did I don’t think pricing would even be viable for most games/developers.

Side-note: I can also see newly-made games as an extremely clear-cut non-piracy use for emulation which sounds like something companies would foam at the mouth to prevent.

Now playing (discretion advised): Death Machine by AJJ
Most relevant lyric is at 1:17.

Me making lower-color stylized images (and optimizing them) so I can use .PNGs that aren’t too much data: <53.8 KiB image>

Though most of the time I use an image it’s probably something I want to use more than once in comments, it would be good to use some other service for image hosting (I deleted my imgur account because of their changes even though they did not affect me directly).

Also, a similar treatment with OP’s 142.8 KiB image (no text though) to get it to 600x500 puts it at 24.6KiB. Less aesthetic change here, more pixel-y but that might be influenced by starting from a noisy version though. Softer/better/different versions can be had for slightly more data.

EDIT: img link for non-kbin