I probably wouldn't do copies though, original brain is my priority. I would really need to trust/respect the organization requesting it, it'd need a really good reason, and I'd need assurances.
Long known but never read that series though, I have aphantasia (on top of other things) so am not much of a reader.
Not sure if it exists, but there should be a way to find communities that have 0 local subscribers.
I mean sure.
It's just escapism on my part. And if we're honest, with whoever would do it with today's technology it would probably turn out the same way. EDIT: Schrödinger's brain
I'm just looking for a way to get my brain preserved and out of here 🧠 🤖
First thing that comes to my mind is Shrek. Fiona being partly a snow white parody (also the magic mirror and fairy-tale creatures drives the plot) and Donkey with buck teeth.
What a weak and misleading headline.
I like polygons.
No you don't understand, JUST the polygons and in a countable amount too.
I don't need the textures. It's my aesthetic.
well yeah most people don’t have the hardware to play the pre-HD versions at their best
Maybe you mean an actual PS2, but IME using emu w/higher internal res on a non-stellar computer was a pretty good experience.
Meanwhile the HD version is data bloated (likely because everything is uncompressed for no reason, or multiple resolutions of FMVs including 4K) so the download would be painful for me. And really with Okami's aesthetic especially, I don't think HD is necessary (again, beyond just higher internal res and whatever other enhancements based on preference).
I think it would've been better to change the FMVs into in-engine if viable, I assume the ones that were pre-rendered was just a hardware limitation if not just some production thing.
After seeing the bird-flu cows story, I made this reference:
“There are things you must know. The village is dying; the signs are everywhere. Withering crops… dying brahmin… …sick children.”
Particularly because of the other headline about the outbreak of measles in Texas (children) and multiple possible interpretations with crops (not getting picked due to deportation/fears of workers, forced dam release onto fields, drought/heat/fires)
I don’t know why there is any stigma around it
The most common reason people don't get therapy is probably that it's expensive.
Well, that and there's many reasons why it isn't something most people can just "give it a shot" (transportation, waiting lists and time slots, and paperwork/other hassle for the appointment itself)
That was off the top of my head, but here's a chart:
I mean that would lower the bar for the activity itself (+multitasking), though I am not gonna buy or use a service and I suspect audiobooks are likely a big chunk of data too (esp. if uncompressed).
Unless speech synthesis is something that could work well here (assuming decent voice, I don't mind older tech like DECtalk or macintalk that sounds better than some newer offline TtS options). Even that seems like it'd need some community effort, though (like manual phoneme editing).
So I'm not sure on that one. Probably not going to look into it.
For world-building, I liked Farscape for the Leviathans. One stretch of hell aside, it is a much better interpretation of biomechanical life than the standard dreary tubes-and-brain-only of most media (that is if they can even properly tell the difference between a cyborg and a robot). So that has really shaped my view on it, I'd want more microbiomes (and connection with other types of living cells) not less.