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Resident Evil 2 on the N64 #3 

Through clever use of compression (and by taking hits to video and audio quality), the team managed to squeeze RE2 onto one cartridge, which would be impressive on its own. However, the developers also decided to make the N64 version use higher resolution backgrounds and dynamically render the the foreground scene at a higher resolution, up to 512x384 pixels, when it is ran on a console with the memory expansion pak inserted (4MB extra to the built-in 4MB)

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Resident Evil 2 on the N64 #2 

Two CDs have ~2*650MB of storage. The total game files won't add up to 1300MB, of course, since the levels and textures are mostly the same, but the voices and cutscenes are different for each route. That means the team tasked with putting RE2 on one N64 cart (two would've been too expensive) had to somehow make it fit on 64MB, the largest available size. Few games needed that size and almost no games had prerendered cutscenes on the N64.

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Resident Evil 2 on the N64 #1 

Even though I already played this game once (Leon-Claire) on my PSP, I still wanted to own the N64 cartridge and do my Claire-Leon playthrough on the N64.

The PSX version comes with two discs, labeled Leon and Claire, and has the cool feature that you choose the character by choosing the disc you start the game on. I won't go into detail on how the routes work here, but you play both routes per playthrough of the game and they affect each other.

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twitter reporting feature complaining, Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz 

Gosh I love not being able to report stuff on Tiwtter that isn't an actual literal crime because Twitter decided to remove all the stuff that's just their rules from the report interface in favor of the Netzdurchsetzungsgesetz stuff

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I should get myself a second N-Gage game, why did I even get Tomb Raider I can literally play that on my actual phone

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I never thought I'd need that 16MB MMC that came with my digital camera ages ago and now I can't find it

this is my mech 

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I wish I spent my time doing things I love instead of being depressed and anxious

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“If you are revolted by the fact that Jeff Bezos can’t think of any way to spend his money except by starting his own space program while his warehouse workers toil in misery, you simply do not understand basic economics, which says that this is fine and natural and inevitable. If you find it gross and unacceptable that there are homeless people sleeping in front of empty luxury condo buildings, you’re naïve, irrational, unrealistic.”

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“For centuries, the right has relied on the same tactic to preserve the status quo: convincing people that a better world is simply impossible. They tell us that while it may look perverse to have a society in which some people eat $2,000 gold-flake pizzas while others die from being unable to afford medical treatment, it is simply The Best We Can Do, and it is futile and naive to protest.”

- currentaffairs.org/2018/05/con

I don't know how to socialize with people except play video games with them

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