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Gas is cheap, gas is efficient, gas is clean, and gas is reliable.

If you want your electric bill to be ludicrous switch to electric heat.

How PEI Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Roundabout | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)

For traffic planners, roundabouts have been huge game changers. Decades of studies show that the introduction of traffic circles greatly improves flow and reduces collisions overall by slowing vehicles down. Another plus is the reduction in greenhouse gases, from fewer idling cars, and increased safety for pedestrians, who have...

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Not in places where it snows

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Take this:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/7bfbe899-242d-4292-82b5-95d8807da7c8.jpeg

Add several weeks of freezing weather and snow accumulation and you get this:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f051ce21-03a3-4494-bc8c-e9841d1fe06c.jpeg

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Sony has been the enemy of PC users/enthusiasts for the last two decades, they can go to hell. Remember that CD rootkit debacle?

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I must have missed something, what did they pioneer?

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Who’s sending Hamas rockets to launch at Israel?

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If your solution is to give more handouts that’s not actually fixing the problem, you’re just making people even more dependent on government to survive.

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And every dollar that doesn’t get stolen out of my wallet by the government circulates 100 through the economy.

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With Canada’s policy of keeping the borders wide open and allowing itself to be invaded, what do they need a military for?

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For PC I’d say 1999-2010 was absolutely amazing time to be a gamer. PC parts were dirt cheap, you could overclock the hell out of your hardware, and micro-transactions and pay-to-win didn’t exist.

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Best way to stop gun violence is to lock up violent criminals and remove them from society. Which is the one thing Canadas ““justice”” system refuses to do it seems.

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That lifetime subscription I bought ages ago sure is nice!

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Everything past Far Cry 1 shouldn’t have been called Far Cry

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That little detail was memory holed before the episode was even over.

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Exiting the wormhole into the Gamma quadrant for the first time, to be exact.

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I only buy games at super ultra mega steam sale prices for this reason. If I lose a $5 game… so what

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Youtube’s encoder isn’t the greatest and degrades the quality of the video, so I have also uploaded it here

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It’s insidious!

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This 100%. The only thing that even makes arena shooters worth playing is having skilled opponents and teammates, without that it’s literally just mindless button mashing. When the player base goes away, the game dies with it.

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This should be handled by parents. If you want kids, you should be paying for them, not expecting people who work for a living to pick up the bill.

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The kids shouldn’t go hungry, their parents should be held legally and criminally responsible for not feeding them.

What’s your reason for preferring parents to be negligent?

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I should note that this image is not really representative of LD technology in it’s natural state. I am using a special device (Domesday Duplicator) that captures the raw signal from the laser sensor and dumps it to a disk for software decoding, thereby bypassing all the video circuitry. I also used Gigapixel AI to upscale the image to 4K, which works great, but you could get good results from regular scaling too.

This is the raw output from the decoder:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/2684a2a7-e993-4890-9e46-7f70ad333b84.png

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This is being researched and experimented with at this very moment. A couple episodes are currently in the testing phase.

Normally a DVD would win a matchup for PQ, except in rare instances, but there are a lot of problems with the ST DVD releases which evens the playing field.

Paramount jamming 4x45 minute episodes plus extras onto a single layer 4.7gb disc is a major one. This adds in a ton of lossy compression artifacts and degrades the image substantially. By comparison, the LD has 1 episode per disc and there is no compression because its analog (Not without its own downsides though).

Here’s a preview of a test render:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/16d5bd65-f1c0-4788-8fda-9f5eb213dab2.png

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see this comment

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Thanks, I’ve got an early proof of concept as well, if you guys are interested:

mega.nz/file/UCVgDJTY#Rn2dyxHgTg67kg2EwQpehVej7KX…

It was deliberately left as unprocessed as possible, so it’s more of a demonstration of what’s there to work with, not what is possible with full reconstruction, and I have since enlisted the help of someone far more masterful than me to take over in that department so any final results will blow this away. One thing I will say is unfortunately the LDs are still plagued with the same source media issues (and are still in 480i format) that the DVDs are, so it’s not a perfect solution, but the digital compression is non-existent, YAY!

As for Voyager LD’s I have about 75% of them, they are incredibly rare and only available from Japan.

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There’s only one way to settle this… 1v1 CTF match.

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All of them since Call Of Duty 2 have been the lowest rated ever in my book.

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