Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4713:5C9B:6C1D:6C85:70D1:5510-20191004120015

Don't you leave the text in whatever you typed it in until the message is successfully posted? I certainly do because I have experienced the "typing long reply into browser crash/cancelling" before. Hehe, as it should be. Too many smokers are just rude people and will stand next to you and just light a cigarette. Thank you very much, I'm not interested in passive smoking -_- But yeah, "alternatives" aren't exactly better and vaping has its own set of issues. Nah, Western stuff I know enough about. Japanese magazines, in particular, it's where it's at. Ideally, there would be people preserving those magazines, even in Japan. But well, we are likely out of luck. Well, that's basically what I was writing about. They are called "Abmahnkanzleien" and basically send letters to a lot of people for things they likely uploaded. It was technically right in my case (not sure whether I actually uploaded anything or just offered it though, since a lot of the time, no one is interested in a particular file and I always removed it after downloading it completely) but they obviously don't bother too much and just want easy money. So it's not complete trolls but mostly trolls (who knows whether they actually work for the companies/publishers).

I will just use my old smartphone for as long as possible. Since I've decactivated any and all Google and other app stuff, it should be fine. But yeah, if I had to buy a new one, I would likely go for a dumb phone. An acquaintance has one though and the battery isn't that good these days. Back in the day, the Nokia batteries would last forever. The one he has lasts about a week...which is even less than my smartphone. High school setting? *shudder* I'm not a fan of those. It can work a bit, at times...like the early Persona....at least until they completely changed the series with Persona 3 and made it way worse (and yes, I really do prefer the earlier Persona titles over the newer ones). Didn't even know Atelier had a sub-series. Too many entries in that franchise...and I used to think that the Tales of... series was bad. Yeah, that could be a comparison one could make. Earlier computers (well, DOS and before, I guess) really were pretty unique in that regard as normal users had to be somewhat deep in the technicalities of things. And of course, to play games properly, one had to tinker around a bit.

I just hope I won't experience that while I'm still alive. But we will see, a lot of different things can still happen. China and India also have territorial disputes and war can always happen (and India vs Pakistan is a thing already anyway). Ehh, there is a large gap between robots and anything actually alive. And don't forget, there is the uncanny valley. So it will become a lot worse before it becomes acceptable. Japan is pretty good with robots but in other countries, things will look different. IIRC, they made some robot run around in the US and it got beaten up and destroyed along the way. Fido? At least WE won't have to deal with those. It's, luckily, also still a long way off. Would need proper AI for that. Well, South Korea, Japan and such beat us easily. But yeah, at least I am fine with how it is, even if other people complain. I think my main issue is that science doesn't understand the brain. So science can't know how the brain will react to something new. And a lot of the time, things change over many years, not just in one year. Waves are pretty different though. 4G is different from 5G, so if one is tested, it doesn't mean anything for the other. Personally, I don't think we need something like 5G super quickly. If it takes some years, it's ok. Where is the age-old saying: "Safety first"? But well, it's tech, so it's always: "Move ahead and break things". I'm not extremely opposed but I certainly have misgivings. They are safer for sure, but personally, I would prefer "autonomous" (some better form of automatic) public transportation. Less pollution, strict lines where it goes etc. Would be really safe too and wouldn't require extremely good and dependable (lol) connections.

Yes, I wouldn't. The reason for that is that there are a lot of other good games which weren't made by EA. So I have the choice and it's possible to ni-pick. I mean, there weren't really evil (a word I dislike anyway) ones and tension was everywhere anyway. And yeah, if you ask an average person, it is likely that they would say that. However, that is still the easier part. I was more thinking about Jews, for instance. A lot of countries treated them very badly, to the point of openly killing them but hey, Germany did something awful in WWII (and yes, that is absolutely the case), so let's just point all our fingers towards them and sweep what we did under the rug. Concentration camps? Yeah, Germany used them in WWII. We, of course, have never heard of them otherwise. That basically makes my eyes roll. Ask some Americans about the atrocities they commmitted in the Philippines and they will have no idea. Heck, and this is even with the "History is always written by the winners". North Korea? Totally unreasonable country, hates the US for some reason. Of course, the US would never commit war crimes against them. Meh. History is best discussed with other people interested in the topic. Otherwise, one will just be rolling one's eyes constantly. The point is that either everyone takes responsibility or everyone accepts everyone and starts anew. The way it is, there is a lot of hypocrisy going on.

Don't think we have anything like that...or maybe the paysafecard can be considered that? It's an Austrian thing though but not too unpopular here. Other than that, I know of TransferWise (British) because my former forwarding service always wanted me to use it. Hm, is that officially clocked hours or that "official" ones? I do know that they restricted the max amount of working hours some time ago but below average hours would be...low. Hm, who knows?

Possibly. The barcodes were worse though. I wonder if they also don't remove them when they hand the people the item in person. Oh, that's interesting. Usually it goes pretty quick there. But it's still as I said. If it left the post office there on Monday (or left the country even) and it's EMS, you should have already got it, unless it's sitting at customs. Heck, one package I got from Amazon.jp directly left on Monday (warehouse) and I got it on Wednesday (home).

Man, screw some forums these days. There was some guy spreading misinformation regarding the 1983 crash, basically implying that it was a worldwide (negative) thing (even though American companies were suffering/dead and the Japanese industry didn't need to recover) while also having other facts wrong. I critize it and get yelled at for critizing one thing in his post and also doing a "drive-by", even though I had posted twice at that point already and then even thrice after that. Now I'm banned from replying to the thread even. But hey, at least I learned something new: A PC existed that was called "PC-AMIGA 88" :P You don't know of any active gaming forum with a lot of knowledgable and nice people, right? At best, there are likely smaller enthusiasts forums.