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Posted on 19-03-02, 00:50 in Retroarch's (controller) interface is an bad abstraction (revision 1)
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Post: #61 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
This might be a controversial opinion and surely I am going to get a lot of flak for it, but regarding controls those obviously vary per-game. Furthermore, if one is playing on a PC, in many games the input could be more complex than just mapping mouse -> analog stick. For instance, in many games doing that results in a very "mushy" input because of the corrections applied internally to the joystick input. Add in the limits of the joystick and that the appropriate input scheme on the menu screen is often wildly different than that in the game, and the obvious solution emerges. Just like emulators ship with cheat databases, they should ship with information of how best to do controls. Ideally, packaged like some kind of lua script that reads certain hardcoded offsets and the controls, and then yields as output either button presses or straight memory injection. Then this could be grouped by genre, giving you one set of controls for racing games, one set for FPS games, and so forth. It would be sufficient with direct but game-specific mappings to achieve playability, and only for more advanced applications would one need to delve deeper into the matter and write scripts. Of course, this isn't "accurate". But neither is it to use a mouse and keyboard to start with. And if you have reproduction gamepads for each console, the problem is already solved. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-02, 16:09 in Revamping my Genesis/MD emulation workbench
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Post: #62 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by tomman No. The reasonable approach is to either develop using cross-platform frameworks, in which case it doesn't make much of a difference to port it (e.g. just a straight recompile), or to write for Windows but to test your software on Wine. If you write code targeting Windows XP/Windows 7, and don't use too exotic features, it usually works quite well. For instance, rumor has it that Blizzard, while not officially wanting to support Linux due to unclear PR reasons, went out of their way to make sure their games ran smoothly on Wine. It might be true, it might be false, but it's a matter of fact that the latest version of World of Warcraft runs with a "platinum" rating on Wine. Anecdotal evidence: most Windows-only games I play nowadays work fine on Wine. Posted by tomman How, do you mean? I downloaded Kega Fusion 3.64 (Windows) just now and ran Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Wine 3.20 (32-bit). It ran stably at 60 FPS, when I enabled "Fast Forward" it shot up to "999" FPS. I don't have too much experience with Kega Fusion or the Sega Genesis, but I couldn't see any performance issues. Do you have a specific game in mind that didn't work when you tried it? It's true that Wine was utter garbage only a few years ago, but nowaday it tends to work quite well. The only issue I could find with Fusion was that the GUI looked ugly as hell like with any other Wine application (that black text without anti-aliasing on the gray background). As for Wine being native, it really is. It's a shim between the Windows and the Linux APIs. In the way if functions, it's closer to chroot than VirtualBox. Posted by tomman Fair enough. Posted by tomman Try using "save" instead of "export". It still uses inline CSS, but there isn't any bloat more than that. Sample, where I randomly colored some of them blue: Alternatively, if you're okay with having to edit in the colors yourself, try exporting to CSV and then converting to HTML. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-02, 18:17 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #63 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
In their "defense," TVs reached their peak quite a few years ago, just like smartphones are doing now. It's just a panel with some connectors on it. The only distinguishing features are size and resolution, and to some degree minor characteristics like color and contrast. Aside from that, they're all the same. They don't wear out easily, there haven't been many improvements to the technology, and unless you're an American, you only need one. So how do you convince people into buying a new one (e.g. not used) if their old one still works fine? 4K is the only improvement I can think of after 1080p became commonplace, but if you only can get 1080p content anyway, what's the point? And thus, "smart" TVs were born. I am sure that we I own a 720p flatscreen TV that I bought off of craigslist or the local equivalent for around $30 ten years ago or so, and it still works fine. Why bother upgrading? Even if they'd be giving them away in the street, I would still have to physically install it for a negligible increase in quality. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-02, 23:48 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Post: #64 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
No profit in that. Sure, you can sell maintenance numbers of TVs just like people buy new light bulbs or refrigerators whenever the old one breaks. But the sales would be dismally low compared to up until now when there's a new {big, color, flat, digital, 720p, 1080p, 4k} TV every ten years or so. If you can convince people there is some actual value in upgrading before it breaks, then you can sell your televisions for much more. A 40" 1080p TV is less than $200 (new), and that's all you need. Say people buy a new TV every seven years, there are 700 million TVs out there getting replaced, that's a hundred million a year. At $150 a piece that's only $15B a year. Compare this to the current figure of $100 bil, and it's not hard to see why they're so desperate for innovation. I mean, the whole concept of smart televisions is absurd. Everyone I know, even people who are completely incompetent with technology, only ever uses their television as a screen. Either for terrestrial TV, or digital, or for Netflix from their laptop. I've never witnessed firsthand anyone actually use these "smart" features, except to switch inputs. If they're into technology, they might have an Apple TV or a Chromecast or something similar, or otherwise use their laptop with a wireless keyboard/mouse - they are much more comfortable to use than a finicky remote, they can play torrented movies, and they can play from obscure streaming websites. And if they aren't, they'd much rather use what they already know than to learn some new and complicated UI for no benefit. There's no scenario in which it serves any other purpose than a box ornament. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-03, 20:13 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #65 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Not everyone lives in America. Sure, you ought to be able to get Netflix on there. But what about obscure, regional streaming services? Maybe if you live in the UK, you can get BBC iPlayer on there. But can every broadcaster in every country afford to port their "player" to each brand of televisions? Do they even care? Add in that many people like to watch dodgy soccer streams, IPTV, torrents, and similar, and it stands to reason that the compatibility and ease of use will never come close to the good ol' VGA cable. Maybe if the TV manufacturers start integrating Popcorn Time into their TVs, we could start talking. A TV signal is much worse than DVD quality. DVDs don't have grain, and have much higher resolutions. And at any rate, it's absolutely pointless and a waste of time to display either signal on a 4K monitor. The same goes for consoles, except maybe for the rare few who don't output through composite. The TV won't be your bottleneck, the signal will. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-04, 22:45 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #66 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Didn't they broadcast anime fansubs on there a while ago? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-04, 22:53 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #67 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by BearOso Last time I used a smart TV, which was several years ago, they didn't have much of anything. That might have changed though. The average customer can't be arsed to sideload apps on their TV, but they would gladly stream from their computer or a chink IPTV box.
I much prefer VGA to HDMI. More common, and stays in. Nobody is forcing you to screw it in, but it makes sure it stays affixed unlike HDMI which flies halfway across the room if you sneeze at it. But yeah, HDMI, same thing. Still connecting a computer to it.
That's HDTV, I'm talking about normal TV. Yeah, that probably has better quality than DVD. Wouldn't surprise me.
What other consoles are there? Switch doesn't need a TV, and the PS4/Xbone are mostly irrelevant. Never heard of anyone owning one. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-05, 16:33 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #68 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
What about a compromise? You make a page on this server entitled something like embed.php, taking a parameter ?v=XXXXXXXXXXX, where v is the youtube video ID. This page has code something like this: Then, posting a youtube link triggers the following, server-side 1) do GET to youtube to extract title 2) emit text as link to regular (non-embed) youtube, e.g. watch?v= 3) emit iframe to embed?v=XXXXXXXXXXX If you click on the thumbnail, it gets embedded proper inside the iframe. Otherwise, it's just around 4kb/embed. You could do all of this with JS, but I have a feeling it wouldn't be too popular. Likewise, you could proxy the embedded image to avoid leaking IPs to Google, but that's even more work. And the first two steps could be skipped, which would drastically reduce the work needed to implement. Thoughts? (You could also make embed.php fetch the title for you, but you'd end up making a lot of get requests unless you manage to cache it somehow) Personally, I think youtube embeds are useless. If I'd want to watch something, I'd take the 0.2 seconds it takes to middle mouse click it and watch it in a new tab. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-05, 17:54 in TAS (tool-assisted speedruns)
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Post: #69 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by Nicholas Steel Wow, that's impressive. In particular the actual fight was very cool. Although I'm left wondering, why didn't he use the fire at 1:20 to run up the slope? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-06, 18:58 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #70 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by BearOso Posted by CaptainJistuce Posted by DonJon No, I'm serious. I don't see what's so upsetting about my post. All I'm saying is that smart TVs are vastly overrated, and that I've never seen anyone actually use them (except as a sluggish UI to click through to get to the AV / TV) because they'd rather use what they already know, and also because it makes piracy a lot more complicated than it should be. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-07, 22:51 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #71 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by BearOso My sampling is heavily biased for sure, but I don't think it's that off. People play their games on PC, because there is no good reason to do it anywhere else. The only reason you'd want to get a console anyway would be either exclusives (and nobody wants to pay $300 for a game) or split-screen multiplayer (which nobody plays anymore). Same goes for portable gaming. When I was younger, people used to have Nintendo DSes, but nowadays everyone would just use their phone if they'd want to play games on the train or where-ever. Posted by CaptainJistuce No, of course not. A chink box is an cheap SoC running Android or Kodi, preloaded with IPTV/Popcorn Time/similar, with absolutely no regard for copyright law or other unimportant paperwork. Not all streaming devices that are manufactured in the People's Republic of China (e.g. all of them) are chink boxes. Just like how you'd refer to cheap, low quality routers as "chink routers". As for the HDMI thing, I don't mean that it's rare, but that if you'd want to connect a computer, VGA is slightly more common. But this might be a function of that people would rather permanently station some old laptop under it permanently connected than move them back and forth each time you want to watch movies. As more and more people are watching Netflix, though, Chromecasts are becoming more and more popular. Although most would just watch it directly on the iPad/computer screen, as watching Netflix is hardly a communal activity. Posted by tomman No man, that's obvious satire, how could you fall for this? ...I thought, until I googled it. Turns out, he's telling the truth: Posted by https://developer.tizen.org/development/training/native-application/application-development-process/debugging-applications In the documentation, and pretending it's all completely normal! Jesus Christ, you literally cannot make this shit up. Bonus: In the code block above, you can see evidence of an UB in the (library, not example) code. Can you find it? Here's another gem from the same page (emphasis added):
He wasn't joking about the key events either. Here you can find an official code example detailing it. Their website is also somewhat "interesting": ✓ Mixing sans-serif and monospace fonts in code examples ✓ Embedding entire URL in a query string ✓ Indentation seemingly at random in code examples, in some cases even going backwards ✓ Surprisingly good design, giving off a thin veneer of legitimacy. It does appear they've started using types though. For anyone who is interested, you don't need a forum account to read the guy's threads. None of them even compare to the Enlightenment one, though. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-08, 15:32 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Post: #72 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by BearOso No, no, I wouldn't use it to refer to Chinese people, absolutely not. That would indeed be very offensive. But that seems to be the most common name for those kinds of products, at least that I've heard. Not sure what else you'd call them. Piracy-intended multimedia devices? China boxes? Chinese boxes? Two of these now start linking together a whole country/ethnicity with shoddy workmanship in a more 'official' sense, so I would argue it is much worse. (I think the list is a bit overbearing, I've heard many of these 'slurs' used in informal contexts by people who otherwise are not particularly racist. Churka, gajin, gringo, gwailo, gypsy, gora, half-breed, hillbilly, laowai, lebo, redneck, vatnik, and WASP are all ethnic slurs? I've seen "WASP" used in academic studies, and I don't know what else you'd call the nomadic group of people living in the Balkans. Wikipedia suggests "Romani people," but then you'd mix them up with Romanians, risk offending them, and also confuse a get a lot of people confused.) But I digress, this thread is not about the quality of random Wikipedia articles. That said, it probably is inappropriate to use in formal contexts, so it might be best to attempt to avoid such terminology in the future to avoid getting banned for hate speech. Posted by creaothceann Yeah, Nintendo is a notable exception, since almost all of their games are exclusives. For them, the amortized cost per exclusive goes down. I only mentioned the PS4 and Xbone as irrelevant consoles. As for portable gaming, I haven't seen many people using their Switches outside or in public locations. Posted by creaothceann True, although if you're not moving things around all the time it's not such a big deal. Also not that common on older laptops. Posted by creaothceann Well, does it qualify as 'watching' Netflix? Posted by CaptainJistuce What kind of device do you have that has HDMI out but no 3.5mm? iPhone 7? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-08, 15:54 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #73 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by Kakashi No, I know that 'chink' is considered an inappropriate way to refer to a Chinese person, but 'chink box' is standard if informal terminology for this kind of device. Like how you'd say 'chink router' without having anything against Chinese people. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-08, 16:15 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #74 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
What's the point of exposing IPs on the "Online users" page? If you want to post, you either have to visit the thread or the login page. And any such visit exposes your UA+IP. By comparing the visit times ("guest with IP X browsed thread Y, then user Z opened that same thread"), it'd be trivial to get anyone's IP. Even if you don't browse as a guest but just go straight to the login page, you'd still show up on the logs. I get it for bots, but why do it for humans if you don't do it when they're logged in? What about at least masking them, like masking "185.220.101.33" into "X.X.101.33" or ".101.33"? Assuming it's even vaguely similar to that in the git repository, it'd be a very quick change to make in online.php: (or just take them out altogether) There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-09, 16:04 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Post: #75 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by Nicholas Steel I think this already exists, but you need either a PC driving it or a certain type of 3D TV. That said, no point in it. You could accomplish something similar without the 3D TV though with a regular display (preferably IPS) and 3d glasses. Color would be so-so, but not atrocious if you'd go for the good ones (blue/yellow). You would need software, I presume there already is some that you'd just have to coerce into doing what you want, but the glasses are less than $1 a pop so it'd still be much cheaper than a whole new TV. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-10, 11:35 in Announcing the bsnes history kit
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Post: #76 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by Kakashi Byuu might have them, and otherwise you might be able to find the LiveJournal page where he uploaded the first releases. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-10, 21:31 in Announcing the bsnes history kit (revision 2)
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Post: #77 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by Screwtape His old website (byuu.cinnamonpirate.com) is archived back to 2005-07-17. In a post made 2005-06-12, he writes:
There are also references to older websites (setsuna.the2d.com and byuu.the2d.com). The former of these is archived, and at one point served "bsnes v0.0.004, with source code". That, however, has not been archived. The Internet Archive also bears witness of a file "bsnes_v002_ir7.rar", but it hasn't archived it. Due to the robots.txt file on byuu.org, IA's scrapes of it aren't public. However, they are still being taken and stored. If he were to contact them I am fairly certain they wouldn't mind opening their archives to him. EDIT: The websites were at one point in time hosted by Derrick, or at least he owned the domain. Maybe he would have it on an old hard drive lying around. https://web.archive.org/web/20041206083415/http://setsuna.the2d.com:80/bsnes.php is the page that links to the v002 file, so that's why it's indexed. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-12, 17:10 in Announcing the bsnes history kit
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Post: #78 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
It appears tukiyomi got v002 as well, there's just a gap between it and v005. Was v003 ever released? In the makefile, what's "Febsnes" refer to? Can't find anything on Google about it. >> Maybe I'll move that over to my LiveJournal page and get some use out of that. >I never posted anything at all to it. Did you upload it to any other websites than the2d and cinnamonpirate? >I specifically asked archive.org to exclude my domain and Twitter accounts. I also blackholed archive.org and archive.is from accessing my domain. Since how long? They might still have older revisions of byuu.org, unless they deleted them. By the way, have you considered redirecting board.byuu.org to the archives here? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-12, 19:17 in Blackouts
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Post: #79 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
I don't follow the news that much, and I still heard about it. I'm no expert, but I think definitely things are going to happen there. For better or for worse, it might turn out like Libya or Syria. But it also might turn out like Tunisia, or somewhere in between. Probably, they are not reporting on it that much since the blackout is over. But during the blackout (e.g. the period of time you couldn't read news), it was big news. Anyway, I'm glad to hear you're okay. Posted by BearOso Why, though? You're cutting off your nose to spite the face, no? It'd have to be an almost cartoonish evil. Why not just cut the phone lines, if that was the goal? Why carry out the single action most likely to increase resentment against the already unpopular government, short of outright Arab Spring-style protester shootings? Think, man. It could for sure have been an accident, that seems the most likely. But if you're going to trade in conspiracy theories, at least the other side makes somewhat more sense. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-13, 00:27 in Blackouts (revision 1)
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Post: #80 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by KoiMaxx Wasn't it across most of the country? Sure, it is possible. But I find it much more reasonable that either a) a third world country in free fall has some blackouts, and this one was longer than usual or b) the US did it as a step in toppling the regime For instance, how is the thought process like? If you panic and cut the power, sure, but why leave it that way for three days? And if it's for a takeover, it can't be very internal. In other Venezuela news: Venezuela no longer has an aluminum industry
In the only possible optimistic perspective I can think of, between 2006 and 2017, Venezuela's aluminum exports decreased by 90% from $1.4B to $144M. In other words, most of that which could go wrong at this point already had, and this is in comparison a minor loss. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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