A few federal traits does not make a federation. My federal government in Berlin impacts me on a daily basis, and it may overrule state or communal governments. My state shares a common constitution with the other states and leaves a bunch of tasks completely on a federal level; they could not function on their own.

The institutions in Brussels on the other hand do not impact me much, mostly because they relate to specific areas like trade or environment. Member states retain a very high degree of sovereignty, so much that the EU constitutes a unique, supranational construct. Non-members like Switzerland or Norway can productively co-exist with treaties, a bureaucratic hurdle the UK has to face now, too.

This blimey limey has been told by rat catchers that Brussels has far more power than it really has. I mean we weren’t allowed to call jam products marmelade because of the brits (this has been reversed yay). That’s the level of impact for the average Joe and Jane.

this won't buy anyone a yacht, though

Wenn man sowas zu laut sagt, ist man plötzlich ein Ewiggestriger und Fortschritsverweigerer.

I think tropical fruits are one of these goods we really shouldn't burn oil in container ships for.

"Drauf geschissen" würde ich jetzt nicht sagen. Oma Erna hat vielleicht nicht mehr die mentalen Kapazitäten dafür, und das kann nicht nur der Oma so gehen, sondern auch einer lernbehinderten Teenagerin oder einem Nicht-Muttersprachler. Die Lösung dafür wiederum sind nicht analoge Pedants, sondern soziale Arbeit. Aber das passiert ja auch nicht von allein.

Like the OP I answered to who suggested to not pay money for games instead? I was making fun of their „principles“.

All hardware vendors that use DDR RAM increase their prices for obvious reasons.

Thanks, was looking for something like this! But does "NTSC-J versions of ..." means it's Japanese?

But you obviously don't understand what a federation is (hint: the EU ain't one).

Your principle should be to not generate any kind of demand, not even cultural, and not play their games at all. Otherwise, you're just cherrypicking for comfort.

Now that you mention it, Crow Country too has the option for modern controls.

Sorry We‘re Closed, Crow Country, and Signalis (was already mentioned but is really really good). The last two have tank controls but are not nearly as clunky or difficult as RE1/2 because of that.

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Every store front, you sure? How will GOG or itch.io accomplish this if I downloaded the games into a private offline storage?

The exact opposite: that sources need to be cited so they can be validated independently.

I guess not, but he also didn’t start talking semantics.

Gaben-kun will notice you

well our lifestyle doesn't support itself

More like blaming the traveling platform when all hotels use a crappy feature they provide that no one asked for.