Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20191005111228

Most people went over to streaming, vpns or direct downloads now anyway. All it did was make people wise up to other methods. Same for the anti-piracy organisations though, they now go for mass-uploaders instead of DLers here.

Planned obsolescence sucks. Sadly tech with it's always upgrading has it built in either by shitty build quality or planned out tech. Smart phones being some of the worst offenders. That's the thing, it's too standardised. They should try something new with it. Don't really agree on the characters bit, that tends to be for ANY Japanese game. It's the same archetypes used in most Japanese fiction anyway. It wouldn't really change much if they pandered to the west though, it would be weebs who'd mostly buy it and their tastes are a carbon copy. Most I had to do was add a sound card in and old win95 PC I had. Micro's in general were a better bet for the average user in the 80s and VERY early 90s. No way to upgrade (much) and cheaper than an IBM compatible. I'd rather deal with the upgrading in an IBM compatible than with a ZX Spectrum though, as much as I admire the creativity of software creators on that thing.

We can only make educated guesses and try to do our best to prevent the possibility. Unless society itself starts obsessing about it, you doing it alone won't do you any good like you said. Sure, it might not look like much, but it progressed fast from Sony AIBO to SPOT. They haven't been made to look as "nice" though. They also had a warehouse bot using essentially a ball for movement, would pick up heavy boxes and move them. That'll probably get rid of some jobs when they start selling that, looked quicker than a forklift as well. I still hope they won't get rid of all older car types. I'm not an obssessive car guy, but I do like 'em and having no decent archive would be a shame. Maybe some rich person will think the same and start a project to virtualise cars, have a nice gallery to walk through like those old shitty 90's museum programs ;)

Most did here as well, you'd have to as a history teacher I guess. Most studied history in some form and to be interested enough to teach it you'd probably want to tell it as correctly as possible. I can imagine catholic schools being much the same here.

Somewhat, except lower service fee and only for Dutch users. It's also not P2P like moneywise seems to be. You don't have to set anything up with iDEAL though, just turn on general internetbanking on your account (might be standard these days) and there you go. iDEAL just works with no set-up itself, it sends you to a payment screen for the selected bank and you go through that. Payment authentication does differ by bank though. One uses a password system + TAN (phone) code, mine uses an external scanner which you insert your card and pin to an scan a colored QR code for a confirmation code. Most of them have phone apps these days though which just use an extra chosen PIN, security seems worse to me.

I just though it was sticker, so it's kind of like one of those anti-theft plugs in clothing stores? Why would you use that as a webshop/online seller? Another reason why I don't like CCs. If something goes wrong it's such a hassle to fix. The extra safety is pretty nice, but paypal does that as well (atleast somewhat). It's a rough art book, not much to tell. a bit beat up, nothing too bad. it's 130 or so pages of rough art (sketches) and a few concepts with text.

I assumed it was due to the "Drive-by" warning, only really ever heard that stuff from them. Political leanings are more important to their hobby their forum exists for, such a weird place. I guess the best options are emulation websites or specific JP-PC rom websites. These tend to be forums and are mostly visited by people interested in it, with the occasional ROM hunters ofcourse. I can't really recommend Discord. Any Discord I've gone to were filled with shitty memes, ERPing, People badly pirating or bad discussion about certain games (no actual discussion, just constant praise). It's the worst of old chatrooms.