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Don’t you think that losing thousands, millions, or billions of dollars is a pain?

It’s possible you grew up. I literally couldn’t tell you a difference between the last two generations of PlayStation and Xbox except that one is made by Sony and one is made by Microsoft, but both consoles have their fan communities.

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Will they? Where I live even hybrids don’t do well at all in the used market, replacing the battery is a huge cost

It’s easy to tell from the photos in the article that the iPhone is making up a lot of the images. It’s like a dream, it looks perfect until you start paying attention, and your brain starts filling in the gaps with nonsense. To me, that’s not good enough for a cherished memory.

> And you don't have to lug gear around with you everywhere and spend ages fiddling with settings, tripods and lenses.

I feel like if you’re lugging a lot of gear around it should be to take a photo that is difficult or literally impossible to take with a phone anyway.

Sorry If I’m misunderstanding something, but aren’t both of the things you mentioned already a reality? I thought RAWs included jpeg already, and Bridge already has an option to prefer that.

Phones are good for portability but for any once in a lifetime experience, I would rather take some real camera gear. The amount of computer magic the iPhone camera does to photos look good is plainly visible in the sample pictures in the review.

For what an iPhone goes for these days it’s possible to buy a used high grade camera body and a good prime lens if you can handle shooting with something a generation or two old. If you spend your time taking photos instead of reading blogs and taking photos of charts, you will be very happy.

China already tried that trick with Japan and it turned out to not be a big deal.

> Even more so if they annex/invade Vietnam.

Don’t you think that will start WWIII in itself? Vietnam definitely won’t go down without fight, and they have a pretty good track record.

If someone from your party dying makes you sad, maybe you will try harder to keep them alive

It’s always funny to me how much dumber the writing in Star Wars (1977) gets when it strays away from its source material (The Hidden Fortress and The Dambusters)

Beijing = Northern Chinese pronunciation

Peking = Southern Chinese pronunciation

I too consider the 4kxx releases to be the “canonical” OT now, but there’s such a huge gulf between Harmy’s and GOUT and whatever the f**k Lucasfilm did to the colors for the DVD that I’m willing to forgive its shortcomings.

> Every time I hear a story about how something more modern won’t even be released in 4K because they don’t have a high enough quality source because it's all digital I’m kind of saddened.

I think it depends on the movie, 28 Days Later was shot on digital potatocams and looks awesome.

Harmy’s despecialized trilogy is 99% as good as the real thing

I hope it slows down. I never understood why web devs feel the need to reinvent their entire stack annually

That’s unfortunate. “Cars” by Tomica I bought a decade ago for my eldest have survived multiple siblings and cousins just fine.

The two times a stack won’t die are if they are stationed in a city or fortress. Any other time the whole stack will die if the top defender gets destroyed.

Civ2 added some absurd hidden bonuses to AI units to give them a chance in the endgame. My veteran armors will never forget getting mowed down by knights.

Infantry were semi-viable in C&C1 because it was a slower game, but became comically useless in RA

I think the only improvement that can’t exist together with fortresses in Civ2 is the airbase, and that can be a nuisance because airbases are bugged and act as a farm even on mined squares.

RA popularized plain old tank rushes though. They were somewhat mitigated by RA2 in that units other than basic tanks were actually worth spending money on. Finally, Generals brought in “death balls” of rocket soldiers.

Considering its population density, even at its worst Tokyo measures up pretty well.

I think part of the reason that people will have one Kei (or 5 number) car and one 3 number car is that there are a lot of narrow streets, tight corners, and parking spaces that 3 number cars will barely manage that are much easier to navigate with a smaller vehicle.

Japanese speed limits are in dire need of reform. Police need to prove that you were speeding so every speed limit is set 20km/h under the de facto speed limit for the road.

Driving at 60km/h on a road where people expect you to drive 80 or 90 just makes people mad and likely to do something stupid.

> And on top of that. Japanese who have cars drive really, really little, even by standards of similar countries with a lot of big cities close together. (South Korea being the biggest antipod, they really drive around a lot)

That’s a pretty big assumption. By the time you get to Nagoya (3rd-4th largest city), commuting by car is common and families will have 2-3 vehicles.

This article is about the first Corolla with fold flat seats: https://clicccar.com/2016/10/03/403881/

That’s epic, even if you don’t need a full time bed Toyota JDM minivans and 5 door Corollas (to name two) usually have a “bed” arrangement for the seats.

Old photos can look amazing because they used really large film. What is considered a full frame sensor now was the cellphone camera of its time.

I had the same experience ordering online from Uniqlo. I’d say their jeans sizes have an inch variation in either direction, depending on who sewed it.

> Couldn’t they have ...

> Why didn't anybody think of doing such a simple thing?

Your second test at home is to take a photo of the stars. Bonus points if you can do it in one photo and with technology that existed in 1969.