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Prices here in Japan are ridiculous on all graphics cards. They’re still fairly niche for people into gaming, certain creative pursuits, and, I suppose, crypto. They’re also in short supply so they go to a lottery system in many sellers and to scalpers at the rest. Even then, the price can be what feels like spending double or triple that. I have a 20xx (2080, I think)? and I just don’t see myself upgrading anytime at all soon. It used to be that it was cheaper to use something like NewEgg (who have their own problems, apparently), but as the JPY and USD went further apart, that stopped being worth it. Sorry, makers of new games, I can’t afford to buy a PC good enough to buy your games.

Yup. This is how I treat exclusives.

I tried to use it on Japanese. It was an incomprehensible mess and said a woman was suing herself and testifying against herself or some nonsense. This was very much not what the article said (though it was about a court case).

When I was a teen and got Blood 2, I was already interested in game development (I was thinking of DigiPen with hopes of working for Nintendo, but that didn’t work out financially). I emailed them if I could take a tour to see a game studio since I was interested in it as my career. I got a reply from them (someone named Bob, I think? I don’t have access to that email anymore), and they thanked me for my interest but politely let me down citing secrets and proprietary stuff.

I just looked at their website and I think Blood 2 was the only game I played on their engines. Maybe a demo of FEAR at some point, but I don’t think so.

Gamestop was a much-lampooned company with awful practices and many a horror story from employees and customers alike. I found it gross that the internet would rally behind such a company and never understood the whole thing (aside from the people with neither shame nor ethics wanting to make a buck).

Fuck take two, fuck gearbox, fuck pitchford, and fuck borderlands; that series should’ve stopped once pre-sequal and BL2 were out.

In a place where people often eat raw egg, freshness is important. Also, tiny kitchens

Come to Japan: 1,2,4,6, and 10 are the common ones (10 is most common at supermarkets). They have flats as well at some stores which I’m guessing are 30 but I don’t remember.

Before English standardized, you could be in different parts of what is now england and hear ‘egges’ and ‘eier’ depending on which languages influenced things.

Chickens do have vitamin, mineral, and macronutrient requirements to maintain health, produce eggs, and produce the next generation of healthy chicks. So it’s not just “anything” in that sense. Some areas couldn’t support sustained, particularly large-scale, flocks with only inputs from the local environment. That said, they’re not too finicky.

Secondarily, whole flocks, commerical and backyard, are being culled to attempt to contain avian influenza. One human recently died after getting it (they had a backyard flock and also other health problems).

No, lake be ‘ko’ in Japan (biwako is its japanese name)

I meant how my characters might moved and be obfuscated by things between them and the camera. I can’t recall exactly. I think there was a crater and I kept getting annoyed because I’d press one direction on my controller to go to somewhere that looked accessible, and then end up not being able to. Camera was probably a poor choice of wording.

I played the original one in '98 or '99, but never beat it. Went back to it later in my late 20s or early 30s and was even more frustrated by the camera and controls as well as some other things. I basically never played the non-MMO titles that followed due to a combination of being poor/busy and just not liking 7. Getting into MMOs and having loved the first handful of FF games was the only reason I was convinced to try those. There’s zero chance I’m buying the 7 remake.

There’s (kinda) an xkcd for that https://xkcd.com/979

I’ve never been an OOT fan, but can definitely vouch for aLTTPr (link to the past randomizer). There are many versions with different settings and it’s a hoot to even watch

Nah, it’s a legal term. I would guess it’s where we get aliens in the outer space concept as the word existed well before. Yeah 13th to 14the century. The spaceman version is from the 1950s (edit: per etymonline)

There definitely is/was a Polish instance.

I hope y’all can relax soon. I don’t regret having left the US years ago; the only hard parts are not being able to see some family much (though Skype and the like help) and certain foods that just don’t exist here (less of an issue in the UK than Japan), but copycat recipes can get things close.

A drawer of assorted, mis-matched screws and bolts of sea urchins