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mass effect trilogy

Looks like there's currently a 90% off sale.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328670/Mass_Effect_Legendary_Edition/

Triptych

https://www.chroniclogic.com/triptych.htm

Nine parchments

https://store.steampowered.com/app/471550/Nine_Parchments/ (apparently currently 80% off)

Cube Escape

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1292940/Cube_Escape_Collection/

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1493640/Banishers_Ghosts_of_New_Eden/

Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/356500/STAR_WARS_Galactic_Battlegrounds_Saga/

Dark messiah of might and magic

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2100/Dark_Messiah_of_Might__Magic/

Cat Quest series

https://store.steampowered.com/app/593280/Cat_Quest/

Katamari Damacy

These are apparently the remasters of the first two games for PC:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/848350/Katamari_Damacy_REROLL/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730700/We_Love_Katamari_REROLL_Royal_Reverie/

From looking at Wikipedia and Steam, I don't think that there's a PC version of Me & My Katamari.

Cattails (especially the sequel, Cattails: Wildwood Story)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/634160/Cattails__Become_a_Cat/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1882500/Cattails_Wildwood_Story/

kagis

Ah. Sounds like they have pretty protectionist rice policy.

https://time.com/7283809/japan-us-trade-talks-rice-agriculture-protectionism-reform-trump-tariffs/

“Rice has always been highly protected and shielded from trade negotiations. Its liberalization is a political taboo for the LDP,” says Waseda University Professor Yuka Fukunaga.

“Look at Japan, tariffing rice 700%,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing in March. “President Trump believes in reciprocity, and it is about dang time that we have a President who actually looks out for the interest of American business and workers.”

That 700% figure, which Japan’s farm minister called “incomprehensible,” is not quite true. In 1995, after facing a rice crisis in 1993 and mounting pressure from the world to open up its rice market, Japan entered into a “minimum access” deal with the World Trade Organization. That means that Japan imports 770,000 metric tons of rice each year without any tariffs, around half of which comes from the U.S. most years. Above that quota, Japan imposes a tariff of ¥341 (about $2.30) per kilogram. (In 2005, Japan’s farm ministry showed that was equivalent to a 778% tariff based on international rice prices between 1999 and 2001, but more recent data suggests the tariff is around 227%, according to a calculation by the Japan Times.)

Yeah, can probably pull it off the world market if they want, then.

I don't know if this would be regime change or just destroying the nuclear stuff.

My guess would be the nuclear stuff. Hard to do regime change from the air.

Maybe this would be a good year for people in Japan to try out some exotic foreign cuisines based on other staple foods. Millet, wheat, corn, cassava, barley, etc.

Probably because it provides a battle damage assessment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_damage_assessment

Bomb damage assessment (BDA), also known as battle damage assessment, is the practice of assessing damage inflicted on a target from a stand-off weapon, most typically a bomb or air launched missile. It is part of the larger discipline of combat assessment. Assessment is performed using many techniques including footage from in-weapon cameras, gun cameras, forces on the ground near the target, satellite imagery and follow-up visits to the target. Preventing information on battle damage reaching the enemy is a key objective of military censorship.

Seems like it might be useful to have a per-site toggle.

I mean, retrofitting whole-house HVAC is a pain, but it's not hard to get a window unit.

We tend to want a 240V heavy appliance outlet for beefier window air conditioners, but you've already got that as standard on British household circuits.

EDIT: Hmm. This says that the British convention is swinging windows, which aren't as amenable to window units, and one should get a (slightly noisier and less efficient) portable unit instead of a window unit. But basically, same idea. I'd get a unit with dual hoses; doesn't cost much more, more efficient.

To grab a random city in a toasty state over here in the US, Phoenix, Arizona's current high today is 116°F, or 46.6°C.

I would guess that we'll most-likely have AGI in 100 years. That's pretty futuristic and impactful.

While I also like Huy Fong Sriracha and was delighted when I first ran into it, I believe I remember reading about them changing the recipe at some point.

EDIT: Oh, sounds like they didn't change the recipe intentionally, but at least the first batch they had after they had a fight with their pepper supplier tasted somewhat differently. I assume that they're aiming to keep the flavor the same.

I don't care that much, if one is strictly speaking talking about removability, given current battery lifetimes.

But I do care a lot about size.

Batteries that are removable and extend out of the case are amenable to being replaced with larger batteries. Vendors don't do that these days, since batteries are generally internal.

Also, US flight restrictions permit for more than 100Wh batteries in a device if they're removed -- the Toughbook can do this. So one can run 200Wh with a laptop with two 100Wh removable battery slots. Can't do that with fixed batteries.

So there are some very real potential capacity benefits to removable batteries.

If you had the wedding photos in question professionally taken, it might be that the photographer, if they're still around, might have copies. I don't know whether they retain copies, but I suppose asking can't hurt.

This place says up to a year:

https://www.wanderlustportraits.com/how-long-photographers-keep-photos/

Photographers typically keep photos of their clients for a minimum of 90 days and up to a full year as part of standard practice; however, if this is important to you, review the contract and ask your professional.

This guy says forever:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WeddingPhotography/comments/96ckow/how_long_do_you_hold_on_past_wedding_photos/

I keep ALL files on two 16tb drives drives. Those drives never get wiped and I will always keep two copies even when they fill up. One internal on sata for reference and one off site. When I first started shouting, I was cheap and deleted RAWs and just kept high res jpegs. I have clients coming back for albums and I am stuck re-editing the jpegs to match in the albums. Lesson learned. If you do want to consolidate, then keep the RAWs of the editor we jpegs and delete the unused. But that’s more hassle than the cost to store unused raws. You can also rely on cloud source but you never know if you’ll ever switch cloud servers or move onto another business on want to stop paying cloud fees. For the high volume photographers it becomes wise to invest in tape drives. HDD have lives of 10 years. So eventually all those old drives will need to be transferred to newer drives. Budget this into your bottom line