Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20191015132555

I'd say trying to return their influence (if not direct control) over the former USSR is pretty global. Pretty sure Putin wanted a return to that to begin with, but that might've been in his "younger" idealistic days. I'm more interested in seeing India and Nigeria develop. If anything Nigeria might make a bid for Africa if their economy keeps rolling. Nigeria's economy would have to move away from just resources though. Guess it's normal in Europe, houses are built to keep the heat in up north atleast. Building in AC is also highly annoying and expensive in our types of housing, apparently. Can imagine med sea countries dealing with it better. I feel your pain, had a big family so we'd also use the attic for a few rooms. It wasn't bad, it's just that you have a slanted ceiling. But winters and summers were absolutely terrible.

I could see a resurgence, we already have situations where families "take care" of their elderly just for the money they bring in. They'd pretty much do anything not to have them die. We recently had a pretty large discussion about it over here, politically and in the news. One case were a doctor euthanised an older person, the family agreed instead of the elder (Alzheimers). Issue was the elder couldn't decide, she agreed and disagreed at time. The family and doctor decided to go ahead with it. Technically it was considered murder due to the woman being unsure, case probably ongoing because I can't find a verdict. Another one was where a son helped her mother commit suicide because doctors didn't want to euthanise. It ain't a fun topic, but if you look at these cases the laws need to be made or improved. We had a basic euthanization law, but they've been trying to reform it for ages. Religious political parties are obviously against.

Still have that lying around somewhere, wanted to play through the Japanese only extra discs and this was probably the easiest way without setting it up. Sorcerian doesn't have that much text anyway. Really liked the IBM PC version. Atleast there's always ROMs for now. They'd probably fix it at some point. I assume you use an older version of Firefox for privacy/plugin reasons? Otherwise just update, or have a separate browser instance for it. I can respect people's personal collections, it's just the reason for buying it just to spite an archival effort rubs me the wrong way. If you own it and you don't want others to touch it, fine by me it's your stuff. It's similar to those collector who buy up all copies to inflate the rarity of theirs. As long as it's out of Japan (or just stored in better conditions) it's fine by me. Saw a video about them getting a very old falcom floppy, like one of the earliest published titles by them. Probably Galactic Wars. Copy was stored decently, but that Japanese humidity can grow mold on anything. The Game Preservation Society had an article on it. Yeah, you're right. Guy just straight-up lied, just put the obi and some extra gunk next to it and calls it a "special edition". Can't find the link anymore though. They're even selling the guidebook for $240,- holy shit. I'd check yahoo auctions first, books tend to be cheap enough. Not sure if animation companies in Japan handle source material backups better than 1980-2000s videogame companies did. I can imagine they didn't which would contribute to later re-releases possibly looking worse.

It's clearly a cultural thing. As kids I can be 100% certain that not one of us though of them as slaves, mostly helpers. They just prance around a give candy. But oh no, they painted their faces black. But if a black person would play the role it wouldn't be good either, then it's typecasting. Nevermind them being based off the moors, guess the moorish had rainbow skin. The only reason they went after it is because it's a european nation. I haven't heard them complain about Hajji Firuz and I'm quite sure most Iranians aren't that black. They'd probably be the ones drawing them together. Would a train otaku do that? I doubt our trainspotters (or planespotters) would be that insane. They will probably complain loudly.

I have no clue, I assume what I use is SAL (but buyee now refers to it as AIR registered). SAL Small package registered (probably also tracked) is set to 14 days for me, but apparently doesn't do German delivery so I can't get a time for that. It's probably in between those shipping methods if it's SAL. Buyee so far worked out for me and most complaints I see are people bitching about "Hidden costs". The service fee and "package service" fee are shown up front before paying and you can opt out of the second (just no inspection and insurance). The only thing you won't Immediately see is international shipping, but they have a calculator for that before you even press buy or bid. The only thing I dislike is the fact that there's no extra payment confirmation thing when using paypal, it just subtracts when it's linked. But this isn't just them though. (it's why I unlink my Paypal after my payments).

Atleast you know copies are out there if it's dumped. I had a quick look, part 1 is accompanied by a text file which dates it and even mentions the web version. So it's most likely the web version (it's also a .lzh which is what Alicesoft used for archival at the time). Part 2 doesn't state anything and a quick open doesn't help, it's running on the same version of system 4.0 the original probably did (it's dated 2004 and so is the web release). It's also probably the web rerelease though. R3995 is Alice no Yakata 7 (which is also in there), was it part of Yakata itself or released as a pack-in? If it's the former it should be on the disc. I don't see it mentioned on the Yakata 7 page itself.