Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-80.144.152.92-20191015114534

Don't think Russia has any global ambition. They just want to have influence in the area around their country and the NATO is unfortunately not respecting that (breaking agreements). China has made an actual bid for superpower but we will see how it will develop. So far, they are too weak to take on the USA. One can't forget, the US has major influence through the media. As long as China can't make a decent dent in those, the US will dictate the narrative and China will never win anything (unless they are happy with being a "local power" which includes East Africa and Australia a bit). India is making gains in the area as well. So yeah, the future will be interesting in that regard. I hear you. I had 30-33°C in my apartment for most of summer and the heat doesn't leave, even during the night. And yep, no AC...and this is a somewhat recently built house (3 years old). Oh well. I don't care too much during the day...but the night, urgh. Doesn't help that I live in the top floor either.

Definitely. Health insureance companies would profit even more from that. But well, we aren't in the old days of Koryo where old people got just chucked off a cliff when they became useless :P Medicine isn't always helpful when it just prolongs an awful life. And being able to choose when to die is unfortunately a major topic which no one really wants to address.

Hehe, I know them because they did some Falcom stuff (like the Sorcerian Complete box etc). I've been on their website too but back then it was only Japanese, I think. Yeah, there was some subscription stuff but since it was just auto-translate, I just ignored it. Was just there to gather information anyway. Absolutely. Would be awesome if they expanded into Amiga and C64 gaming but nope, unfortunately not. I know that I would certainly buy some stuff....though, they messed up Paypal and now I can't buy anymore + they messed up the website over time, so my old Firefox doesn't work there anymore, so now I don't think I could get games into my cart, even if I wanted to. And I will certainly not use the client for that. Well, you have the heart of an archivist, I'm a collector. I wouldn't open my collection to an archival team but would possibly only donate it after my death...at which point some things might not be playable anymore (although, I would keep the goods sealed and in the proper environment, so it shouldn't become unusable). Special edition? Just took a quick look at Google and Mobygames and there was not special edition listed. The game cost 5800 Yen at release. "Quality". I mean, a lot of the time, a DVD or BD remaster is pretty crappy, especially when it comes to old anime. Like, they can filter the crap out of a release and denoise everything, so there will be less details etc. I'm on IRC with a subgroup for anime and they have all the technical information in that regard. But yeah, ideally, you have lots of grain and such in a release (hehe). There are often also comparison screenshots, so you will easily see when somemthing is missing/less visible. Serial Experiments Lain looks pretty different. The early DVD release had that typical "crappy" quality, looking somewhat yellow etc...but it's Serial Experiments Lain und for that anime, that style really fits and makes it better.

Hm. We have so many decades-old series that are still getting new releases every year, it's pretty insane. We also have tons of podcast, like the one about old games (often also C64) that I mentioned previously. And I'm pretty happy that it is that way. Hehe, personally, I wouldn't care but there are enough that would. I always say that context matters but there are a lot of people that get angry and just start shouting. There was that "Zwarte Piet" discussion where I got banned from a forum for 4 weeks because I argued that a child celebrating that is not racist while a lot of other people said that it is. Well, it is mainly a US forum but there are enough Europeans that have gone "mad", from my perspective. Things are always relative but those people are completely stuck in one position. Those wouldn't (likely) complain about awful girls in anime and who gets together though. I'm likely fine with train otakus and such, as long as they don't jump in front of the train to stop it starting because they dislike the new model or whatever.

Any idea how long SAL untracked takes? Never had to use that, only EMS and Airmail (tracked) which was relatively quickly. Also looked at services that deal with adult goods on YA but they all seem to be kinda meh. The one I tried for forwarding still hasn't bothered to fix their (not being able to search for adult goods thing) and Buyee seems to be the best option at that point, meh.

Finding a physical version will be a lot more difficult though. At least I have years of time to complete the collection. I mean, I guess it wasn't, considering the games from that series can easily be found for a relatively small price. I can't complain about it at least. Ah, btw, regarding Jinmu - Kamunagara - Ichi Ni San: "Part 1 and 2 released as a web distribution by Alice Soft, with changed content in comparision to the version which is included within r3995." That link to the Mega archive that was in that 4chan thread, did it have those part 1 and 2 or was it from the re-release?