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[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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/

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Frankly, I'd really rather that the Irish Star not encourage him to be spending more time making policy.

[–] tal@lemmy.today -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm pretty sure that it defaults to best quality.

goes looking at man page

   By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you don't  pass  any  options.   This  is  generally
   equivalent to using -f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best.  However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled (--audio-multistreams),
   the  default  format changes to -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best.  Similarly, if ffmpeg is unavailable, or if you use yt-dlp
   to stream to stdout (-o -), the default becomes -f best/bestvideo+bestaudio.

So I think that it should normally pull down the best audio unless you get into some situation where YouTube doesn't offer a format that simultaneously has the combination of highest audio quality with the highest video quality; if it has to do so to get the highest video quality then, it'll sacrifice audio quality.

EDIT: Hmm. I could have sworn that there was more text about prioritizing relative audio and video quality at one point in the man page, but I don't see anything there now. Maybe it can just always get the best audio quality, regardless of video quality, can pull 'em entirely separately.

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