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I think I preferred the design of the ps2, personally.

Having played through this recently (via PS1 classics on a PS3):

Very important game to the genre. Absolutely fucking miserable to play in places.

Very slow paced, long load times, awful platforming dungeons. But fascinating plot and characters. And then disc 2 happens and it’s completely batshit but also barely a game. And there’s sequences like the prison that just drag on forever. It’s worth playing but you’re gonna need patience.

The funny thing about it is that despite it being revered as a classic but nearly everyone, it’s also unlikely to ever get a remake or remaster because it’s blatantly unfinished and Tetsuya Takahashi left the company decades ago to found Monolith Soft and make different Xeno games.

In the comics world, almost every superhero has had different people using the name at different times. But then again, they almost always bring back the original eventually, too…

Getting an account on a big general tracker like TorrentLeech is a pretty good foot in the door. They do open signups frequently. There’s also IPtorrents and their whole network, although they’re pretty looked down upon by the private trackers community. If you want to start working towards invites to more selective trackers, MAM, OPS, and RED all have an interview process. MAM is by far the easiest one to build a ratio on, although note that they do not like to be thought of as a stepping stone.

I mean, it’s likely that it wasn’t capcom us rejecting the japanese design. Far more likely that Capcom JP didn’t share marketing materials with US branch and left them on their own to figure out how to market it. Japanese companies not taking any interest in how things were localized for other markets was completely the norm during that time period.

If you want a company that actually did have the US and JP branches actively warring with each other, Sega is the company to look at.

Are there endless wars? A lot of people don’t like .ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear and they’re defederated by a lot of instances, but that’s not really a hot war. Outside of that most drama seems to be about certain mod/admin decisions. But that kind of feedback loop is by design. People are supposed to have opinions on whether they think instances are well run and aligns with what they’re looking for…and if it doesn’t align, that would be a good reason to switch instances. I see more fretting over how to make Lemmy more popular than arguments about instances.

I’m curious how well polished the stuff you get off of soulseek is. Private music trackers have pretty strict standards for uploads, which generally means making sure that everything is organized consistently, that all tracks are tagged correctly, and that things are encoded to high standards (filtering things like bad transcodes). If you’re having to manually check all of this stuff, it would be pretty time consuming for a large collection.

OPS is probably the one you want. RED has more selection but also a very difficult economy. OPS still has a great library and the economy is far more manageable. Of course you will still need to build up a ratio if you’re planning to download a lot

You might want to get on a general tracker like TorrentLeech that has 0day scene releases. But you won’t find as good retention on older releases. It works as a nice supplement to a more selective tracker.

Defaulting to any one instance would be against the goals of federation, I think. Much better to have a centralized site to help people find an instance that uses factors that wouldn’t bias too much. Perhaps pushing towards “general purpose” instances that would make geographical sense. And then you could highlight instances that cater towards more specific groups. But I think the goal of this would be to spread users across many instances rather than funnel them all towards one.

I might propose having something things like server ping be a factor, and capacity of the instance. Perhaps instances could also be shown with their largest communities so that people could see the vibe of the instance before they join.

Having done this before, it takes a long time, and getting an even application is tricky. Expect to need more wax than you think you do.

IRC isn’t really a replacement for Discord given that discord replaced irc for most people. Discord does a lot more than irc.

If you can find a chuck roast for cheap enough it’s pretty cost effective. Throw in a bunch of root vegetables (potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, whatever you want) to cook with it and it extends how far your food dollar goes quite a bit. These usually take a fair amount of time overall but a lot of that time is not active time.

I seriously doubt most normies would enjoy Lemmy. But sh.itjust.works seems pretty middle of the road.

Yeah, for people who aren’t aware…Rolex reps only make certain high demand models available to preferred customers, i.e. people who have a track record of purchases with them. That’s why these models are so “exclusive”. It’s a long con.

A watch is never a good “investment” anyway. Re-sale value is a nice to have but it’s not a buy and hold.

Anyone telling people to go into debt to buy a watch is at best a fucking moron and potentially actively malicious.

At least that has the structure of a joke. As opposed to a triumphant declaration.

Exactly my first thought seeing this graph.

I have one of those big Britta tanks. One nice thing is that filters for them often show up very cheap at thrift stores.

I think the number of scammers went way up though

Well this is pretty dark.