I'm in something of a challenge myself. (waking up in the morning, not feeling like garbage, actually attempting something rather than time-wasting, and not running into issues with needed features when I'm still in the testing phase)
BRAIN: “You are tasked to consider the evidence, and whether it proves BEYOND a reasonable doubt: whether my client is undateable. Is my client… a perfect man? No-”
ME: “She can kill me, yeah.”
It's called being cultured, like cheese. Though art is a bit different as whatever shapes you does so long-term, even if you could zap away issues instantly the memory and thus influence will still be there.
Also health/brain issues for me are likely a bigger detriment than anything, resulting in me doing nothing most of the time (small chores on a good day). So anything created is a rare win in spite of that.
More than cool, add in other enhancements and most 3D games don't need a remaster that will most likely be bloated data-wise.
Particularly when it comes to vertex colors (see Spyro's skyboxes) rendering at modern res immaculately, upselling into photorealism is just throwing out the smartest and most unique thing the game had.
I'm of the mind that modern hardware (w/emu) and higher internal res is enough. It lets the triangles be more triangly. Other enhancements too based on user preference or game.
Plus, most remasters seem to be bloat that strips away masterful technical features for likely needlessly-uncompressed audio/video anyway. Often glaring design issues aren't fixed either.
Side note that there is a NFS:MW from 2005 (same box-art as meme)... I am not sure if that was intentional, or if they were unaware or if the meme was before the 2012 remaster entry.
Sure, but that doesn't help me now.
It doesn't install a better auto-level sensor or tool-changing on my printer. It doesn't give me a good print bed (one I bought was damaged by prints) or even just a newer control board. I'm not even going to buy a slicer key, I don't want to spend more money on this nor do I want to think about it.
I've already acknowledged that some of this was my hubris and I would likely still be printing had I just stuck with what I had. Maybe someone could even help me get back there in exchange for/using my spare parts, but I live in nowheresville w/no car and don't know anybody so that is not happening.
3D printer (FFF).
Didn't start out too bad. I knew I was having issues but tried an upgrade I shouldn't have done (because complexity). Upgrade was mostly done too, issue was fan wiring/firmware. I stopped with it there many years ago, so now it's all dusty.
On top of all the variables/tuning/test prints, equipment/material cost etc. I also just don't want to sell anything like I once thought I might.
If everybody could get insulin (even if they stock shelves or got laid-off from a tech/gig company), that's when it's a Joseph Stalin.
The solution is less cars.
And less car (singular/measurement). Weight and size are multipliers to problems (including cost).
Sure E-bikes are better (bikes are better than that, and walking is the best especially for mixed transit), but there should be incentives to drive the smallest cars. And the giant behemoths we have in the US are like 3-4 classes up, these are a problem all on their own.
"Have you stopped to consider that Rocko is a silly drawing of (basically) a dog?
No, you are thinking of serious concerns." I say to Agent Smith before doing the throat flick.
I mean yeah, that's the problem. It's a beautiful world... FOR YOU. Just like how dating sites exist, but that doesn't mean they work for everybody.
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.
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.