If there are any HD texture packs for the port, I am unaware of any (although, mods are being made). Otherwise, you start off with the vanilla N64 textures, which still look pretty decent by default at 1080p and up (UI on the other hand, you'll just have to put up with, tinker with the filtering settings to see what is most tolerable).
To start off with, you have mouse support, modern controller support, HD/4K resolution with widescreen, high framerate unlock (your mileage varies past 120 FPS), native splitscreen support, and a whole lot of customizability within the options menu (a new category not found on N64 "Extended") which includes an option to unlock everything out of the gate (mainly for multiplayer purposes).
There is also a mod out there that allows for online play (via simulated splitscreen). I'm blanking on the name, but you should be able to find it via the YouTube channel Graslu00, specifically his recent PD multiplayer livestreams.
Perfect Dark for N64 was decompiled, from which someone made a PC port. That said, you will have to ahem acquire a ROM for it, then rename it to what the port asks for (should be "pd.ntsc-final" if using the US ROM, placed in a "data" folder).
What are your thoughts on James Rolfe AKA Angry Video Game Nerd?
He has kept going long after his material has stopped being good, and (relevant to his AVGN costume) is balding in the worst of ways (see his Glitch Gremlin reunion episode for an excellent example).
Rather than getting hair plugs, getting a convincing wig (emphasis on "convincing", see his Dragon's Lair pt 2 video) or shaving it all (kind of like Doug Walker AKA Nostalgia Critic), he's decided to really lean into it for comedy's sake, and all I can do is shake my head in pity.
Edit: To lighten the mood, sometimes I sing the line "where did their hair go?" from his Ikari Warriors video, because it is so prophetic in an ironic way.
Yet, with all that big money and support behind him, he only won the primary runoff by less than 400 votes. Say what you want about how Brandon Herrera could have done better, a no-name (in terms of the field of politics) getting that close to a win was clearly enough to make them sweat.
Here's hoping Brandon tries again next year.
Yeah, I didn't really buy the whole 'Israel Lobby' thing. "Israel controls our government because they throw literal chump change their way each year". Not that persuasive.
Need I remind you, Tony, that Israel started the current conflict, unilaterally (albeit we still paid for the munitions used, not that any of us have control over that). This could have remained a purely local affair without US Military involvement.
The moment Trump boasted about being part of getting Iranians killed under false pretenses with the help of Israel (during negotiations no less!) , he not only bolstered our reputation (in the eyes of the Iranians) as being The Great Satan, he broke the promise to us (his voters) of no new foreign wars. That we then bombed them on Israel's behalf (and I reiterate, NAKEDLY SO) with our own B-2's was the only way it could go from there.
There's also the whole "Trump pushing in Netanyahu's chair for him" to contend with from earlier this year, which serves as the perfect image of where we currently stand.
He slammed Tucker freaking Carlson and his own Directory of National Intelligence.
Because he has an ego the size of the Hindenburg, one equally fragile to boot, and the number 1 rule of dealing with Trump is once he has set his mind on something (especially if that something is based on false or missing information), he will never budge. This was the case when John Rich got close enough to tell Trump why people were booing him upon mentioning the COVID shot or Operation Warpspeed, who honest to God had no clue. This then translates into attacking with full force the very people who have his best interests (and possibly ours) in mind.
Let's call this for what it is: Trump has been compromised. Whether through coercion, blackmail (cough Epstein files), bribery, or just simple ass-kissing (Trump wants to be liked by everyone, after all), something has turned him against the very people that elected him.
I am officially off the Trump Train, after having voted for him twice (2020,2024, stayed home 2016). With no results on the domestic front after being given the biggest "go get em" in American electoral history (and especially after 2 brushes with death), this is the final straw.
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He has betrayed the American people with a war nobody except his Jewish masters asked for (let's be honest with ourselves here, it's only a matter of time now after this attack), in one of the most naked demonstrations of foreign influence of our government I've ever seen in my life (and I've been paying attention for a long time).
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50+ million illegals still remain with no large scale removal as promised in sight even if new entries have more or less ground to a halt (the current pace after 4 years wouldn't even remove the ones that came during Biden, let alone before that). Trumps promise to remove 21 Million illegals literally brings us back to the end of his first term and no further, because that's how many Biden's handlers let in. Not that it would matter, because Trump wants to bring in just as many street shitters in their place.
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The Epstein files have not been released, and probably never will. Bongino and Patel doing an about face on Epstein not killing himself, and lying about it, is just salt in the wound. Bongino even wiped his entire podcast channel of his content, so people can't contradict him with his own words.
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Similarly, all attempts to declassify the JFK assassination are being blocked, long after they should have been under US law.
I am beyond pissed. I am livid, filled with a rage that can only <use your imagination>, and all I can do is watch helplessly as what was once a great country is destroyed from within.
What changed is that Dom stopped actually being here or giving a damn
I've honestly started to wonder where he went, but I didn't want to tempt fate by bringing it up with its own post. In any case, it's to our own benefit because we can now have drawn out conversations without worrying about his favorite rule (16) being wielded like a sledgehammer.
That subreddit dying was inevitable, but I would still argue from the opposite angle.
This place could have been even more active than it is now had AoV linked to here while the iron was hot (read as: while the jannies allowed links to this place in the first handful of weeks this place went up), instead of trying to court KIA1 mods in an ill-fated negotiation like a lovesick woman trying to win her abusive ex back.
Even KIA1 links to their own .win now, even if it is completely abandoned.
Or how about the guy that got his window smashed by BLM, and reacted by shouting back "We"Re oN tHe sAmE SiDE".
Edit: someone beat me to it
Considering they operate on a level of secrecy that the FBI wishes they had, there's no knowing for sure.
However, based on evidence released up to this point, it could range anywhere from getting the media to slander the surviving family members' reputations into oblivion, to straight up "da crackas live here, go get 'em" putting a hit out.
More info posted by Auron MacIntyre, which gives a jaw dropping summary of just how the CRS operates. https://xcancel.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1930276942294483137
Yesterday @realchrisrufo asked why we should repeal the Civil rights Act Today @AcademicAgent_X dropped a bombshell report about a secretive agency with the job of silencing Americans and covering up antiwhite violence Let's talk about the Community Relations Service🧵/1
The Community Relations Service (CRS) was formed under Title X of the 1964 CRA, it has a level of confidentiality similar to the FBI Virtually nothing CRS agents do is entered into public record The CRA is basically immune to Freed Of Information Act requests /2
All notes drafted by CRS agents are destroyed and those agents may invoke a confidentiality privilege for both Congress and the courts, which they have done previously This is a bizarre level of secrecy for an agency that is theoretically geared toward community relations /3
The CRS isn't a neutral organization, they're explicitly charged by the government with furthering the political goals of the Civil Rights movement These goals have included increasing black representation, transgender youth visibility, and planting mosques in Christian towns /4
The purpose of the CRS, as described by one of its founders Bertram Levine, was to prevent white backlash to the CRA The CRS helped to found groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to harass "lily white towns" and organize mass demonstrations /5
The CRS was involved in the forced integration of Catholic communities in Boston, and when 17-year-old Michael Faith was stabbed in 1974 CRS was on the scene immediately, not to help the victim or protect the community, but to prevent white students from fighting back /6
The CRS repeatedly threatened to pull the FCC license of local news stations unless they affirmative action hired black anchors They also produced propaganda films with big starts like Bill Cosby /7
The CRS was involved in guiding and downplaying race riots In 1965 they worked with black leaders like Franklin Florence, who was a student of Saul Alinsky The goal was to allow rioting but control it so that it didn't escalate to the level where white residents would react /8
The CRS coordinated with law enforcement and used carefully placed propaganda to prevent white residence from reacting to to multiple black riots across many American cities between 1967-72 /9
The CRS also set up operation Rumor Control, which still operates to this day Rumor Control manipulates local media sources to control reporting on the damage done during riots and downplay the role of Civil Rights leader in instigating them /10
The CRS is responsible for stage managing the entire Trayvon Martin incident including parading the family before Congress, carefully managing protests in Sanford Florida, training activists, and astroturfing progressive organizations like Dream Defenders /11
The CRS was critical in increasing the effectiveness of movements like BLM They train left-wing activist through a program called Marshal Training, coordinate the distribution of supplies from water to jumbotrons, and coordinate media coverage to ensure good optics /12
The CRS has a playbook to manage and create "spontaneous" protests across the US in favor of all manner of left-wing causes including BLM marches in Ferguson, Pride events in a small conservative North Carolina town, and protests against Columbus Day in Colorado /13
The most despicable aspect of the CRS is its murder cover up operations You've seen the pattern: A white victim is killed by a minority assailant, family members come out and make a gratuitous and obviously scripted statement downplaying the racial motivation on camera /14
The spokesman calls for fogginess and peace, condemning anyone who would use the incident as a rallying point The common script isn't an accident, its coordinated by the CRA /15
The spokesmen is usually an older male who encourages everyone to focus on the character of the victim not the horrific nature of the attack or the motivations of the attacker @Babygravy9 document such an incident after the murder of Donald Giusti who was kill by two Somalis /16
There is evidence that not only did the CRS stage manage the response to Giutsi's murder but they were responsible for the resettling of Somalis in Lewiston, Maine where the victim was from since at lest 2004 /17
The quick response to Giutsi's murder occurred because the CRS was already on the ground, playing an active roll in manipulating and controlling the community response to the importation of Somalis /18
Remember, documentation can be hard to find because the CRS is immune to FOIA requests and Congressional investigations under Title X of the CRA But there is hard evidence that they have been involved in coordinating the response to riots and murders for decades /19
The Trump administration has expressed interests in dismantling the CRS and they have the power to do so I am calling on @realDonaldTrump and @JDVance to take action and end this heinous agency's manipulation of the American people /20
Going along with this analogy for a second: Who is Denial in this instance, and who will be Despair/Depression and Acceptance?
Live link to watch the video: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-decline-so-bad-he-got-lost-white-house-closet-whistleblower-tells-senator
Edit: It has to be asked. Who knew about it, when did they know it, how much did they know, and why did they let this treasonous travesty take place for 4 years unopposed?
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
- Matthew 6:24 NKJV
I don't know why you are being downvoted.
OfCom (short for "Office of Communications") has a 1:1 naming scheme with 1984's Minitruth (short for "Ministry of Truth").
There's a reason why Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four is set in the UK.
He went to Russia to go into a months long medically-induced coma in 2020 in order to combat what was at that point a severe addiction to benzos, which has severe enough withdrawal symptoms to potentially have killed him.
How long before that point he was on them I couldn't tell you, but the answer to your initial question is "yes, he was on psychological drugs".
Ethan Ralph (for better or worse) is alive and well.
On that topic, I'm surprised I didn't catch a ban from him for butting heads on the topic of Jews vis-a-vis matriarchal societies (context was talking about our favorite misogynist, The Imp). It's probably the closest I ever flew to the sun since being here.
Dom's moderation has been getting even worse, and even sloppier. At least he used to actually come up with halfway plausible reasons for a ban. Now there's a ton of "brigands" and lack of reasons posted.
First Dom implements rules nobody asked for (which there were several blowups over across several periods), then starts treating Rule 16 like it's the only rule on the oversized list post-10/7, and neglected his duties while the pedo pajeet ran unopposed (while simultaneously refusing to hire/appoint additional help).
Now he got rid of the pedo pajeet, but it came at the cost of ramping up the community filter to where it is strangling the board, and for the cherry on top, he still comes back now and then to ban all the regulars.
This truly is ridiculous.
And the individuals involved black listed from ever working in the medical field again.
When bodycams were demanded, the stated goal was to show how racist cops were. And how they murdered blacks.
What it actually showed is that most shootings and use of force is extremely warranted.
Having saw this in real time during my own time as a far leftist (2012-2015ish, tapering off in 2016, around the same time this would have taken place), it was mindboggling how quickly they flipped the script once more police departments equipped themselves with body cams.
But it has also showed the world what the criminal element, and particularly the 13% are actually like.
This is a just bonus. I argue the 2020 race riots (alongside a few other notable brutal events before and since) played a bigger part in revealing just how bad black crime is.
Ask and you shall receive!
Here is a video of ducklings following the lead of a kitten.
It gets better:
The country star shared that he started telling Trump about the vaccine injured members of his own family, but Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) cut in (“swishing his chardonnay around”) to warn Trump about “conspiracy theorists like John Rich,” saying Democrats will try to take credit for what he did and they’re going to beat you in the next election.”
Rich said he turned to Graham and said sternly, “do not interrupt me when I am speaking. Do you understand me?”
He said the S.C. Senator was taken aback and muttered that he didn’t mean to disrespect him.
“Yeah, but you did,” Rich said he responded, before recounting his family’s experiences with the COVID jabs.
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The NKJV was already mentioned with specific reasons why, so I simply second that vote. It's also my translation of choice when posting quotes.
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If you want a translation with the apocrypha/deuterocanon, that is modern and not pozzed, and you don't mind it being mostly confined to online (although you have several options for downloading an offline copy), I cast my vote for the World English Bible (WEB). It has it's pros (excellent footnotes) and cons (chief among them overuse of contractions, a lower literary register given its somewhat word-for-word translation philosophy), but as a bonus it is in the public domain.
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In another post in this thread, I gave a partial background for why the NIV is the way it is (TL;DR unless you want to buy a used copy printed between 1984-2010, steer clear). As a 3rd vote, I present the Berean Standard Bible (BSB). This is a translation that was headed up by Bible Hub. It combines the traditional readings with an even easier flowing syntax, and does so without being pozzed ("men" remain "men", "brothers" remain "brothers", etc). The footnotes for this translation are quite good. Like before, there are several options for offline download, although if you don't mind waiting however long, there will be physical copies of their newer editions put out that you can buy (with previous printings available for purchase in the meantime, though pickings are slim at this juncture). This translation is also in the public domain.
The mouse controls are fully native, meaning you don't get the weirdness that comes with configuring emulators like that. That said, the mouse sensitivity is really high by default, so you'll have to turn it down in game. It is a full keyboard and mouse experience.
Modern controllers are supported as well should you so wish. See my other comment.