bvork.farm
I'm bVork. I talk about video games a lot. I also occasionally talk about social issues, but not often. He/Him.
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The funniest part is that there appears to be some sort of twisted logic in play. Lu Bu -> Bullard-Lundmark, Beihai-Northsea, etc. It makes just enough sense to really hurt your brain.
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Reminds me of this absolutely hysterical version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms that tries to westernize all the names: www.e-reading.club/book.php?boo...
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I think a lot of it is familiarity with suburbia and the idealism of other lifestyles. A rural, agricultural lifestyle has its own set of challenges and frustrations. Missed the only bus stop here, next is in 3 hours! Worked late, it's after 6 and everything is closed in town!
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I first realized this when I was looking at financials to understand why Tomb Raider was treated a failure by Square-Enix, despite the FF13 projects burning untold millions - it's because they had vastly different success criteria. By TR's metrics, the FF13 trilogy would've been a black hole of fail
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Too much time looking at the old Electronic Arts logo? :P
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Haven't installed another yet. Going to throw Windows 11 on it and maybe a Linux distro like Pop!_OS
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Okay, good. Just trying to get ahead of things so I don't end up on any of those bot blocklists floating around.
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We are all bots. CRAIG is a more advanced simulation, a sentient Computational Reactionary Artificial Intelligent Gestalt, sent to this simulation to evaluate the decisions made by humanity and report back to the true year of 2008 in order to find a better future. He is A Mind Temporarily Voyaging.
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I assure you that I am a real person. No robot would be narcissistic enough to namesearch himself and reply like this.
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The thought process: "I want to display my games on my awesome SDTV that supports S-Video at best quality, but I also want to capture them at best quality and I don't want to rebuy cables when I already have component for most." Thus the splitter and the series of (lagless) converters.
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When I built my current AV setup, the original idea was "the best high-end but not maniac consumer experience circa 1995" (so s-video but not RGB) but something went awry along the way.
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Radiant Silvergun. It has:
- leveling
- route choice
- anime intro
I think that covers all the bases.
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Me but with trying to get Burnice in ZZZ.
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I had a talk with my now-former boss about this, where I said I never looked forward to my job but I didn't hate it, and she said that was pretty much the ideal. I've never done something I genuinely love for work, but it seems like a common thread that leads to hating something you once enjoyed.
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Here:
www.goodsmile.info/en/product/1...
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And everything after the first chapter is either machine-translated or a first pass from a non-fluent translator with zero editorial influence.
YU-NO is great but the official localization is absolute garbage.
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I'd just like to say that "set[ting] a fire that none of us really should want set" is the most poetic and perfect encapsulation of this situation I've read so far.
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I do think it matters! Having a wide range of literary and scientific knowledge is important! But at the same time, if a comic book (or movie adaptation) is good enough to cover the testable parts, maybe that should be the material rather than the original, especially if students prefer reading it.
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The school I went to explicitly banned Classics Illustrated because people were trading them around and using them to pass exams without reading the originals.
In retrospect, how insane is it that 14 year olds were going "Yeah, I got The Red Badge of Courage, I'll swap for Great Expectations."?
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I have a Sharp 33W31-D1, which is an insane beast of a 33" TV. I can sort of shove it around on the floor on my own but moving it requires at least two people, ideally more. This thing in the video seems like less of a TV and more of a monolith. Like you evolve if you stand in front of it too long.
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I really don't think Trump's idiocy is a major factor in this; it's the culmination of years of tension within the Liberals coupled with a Conservative party under a leader who rebrands himself to every rightwing flavour of the moment, which currently is Trumpism (okay, you have a point there...)
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So having a Minister of Finance resign on the DAY of its release is extremely bizarre and unusual.
The current Liberal government is already on relatively shaky ground, with Trudeau in particular being increasingly unpopular, so this is a sign of major internal party turmoil.
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What? Huh? No! Not everything in the world is a direct result of what Americans think or do!
This is the day the Fall Economic Statement is released, meant to be an update on the status of the nation's finances and the budget tabled earlier in the year.
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The funniest is when something is listed as "untested" but they're also separately selling all the hookups necessary to test it in separate auctions.
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I've said "VHS player" before but I'm a complete sicko who actually needs to differentiate between different kinds of tapes and players.
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It's better than dealing with OPL on PS2 at least, but it sure isn't ideal when a game fails to shrink (the GDI Shrink blacklist definitely isn't comprehensive) and the whole process halts before the renaming step.
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Just realized that all of my games are either arcade games or extremely long RPGs - guess that says something about my preferred games.
What kind of games do you throw on your 32GB card?
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Some sellers won't ship to certain countries; a lot of GDEmu sellers won't ship to Canada, but this one does. You just have to look around - I tend to sort my searches by number of orders (to filter out fly-by-night storefronts) and then see who has the most reasonable price.
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The 5.20.5 set (black) from www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005...
You can't really buy a real GDEmu from the original creator anymore, and this was the most reasonably-priced one being sold by a larger seller on Aliexpress.
It works great so far. Installation was straightforward.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdd8...
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Victor Ireland is a serial liar and not a single word out of his mouth should be trusted.