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Mike Dragon
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Good news is: I made it back home from work, with my car, safe and sound. Bad news is: It might as well not have brakes anymore.
They started to fail on my way to work this morning and on the way back home, they progressively failed more and more. I had to rely on low speed (no faster than 40Km/h. If possible, no faster than 30), low gear (only 2nd and 3rd), engine braking, pumping the brake pedal several times and make use of the parking brake for stopping, carefully as to not lock up the rear wheels.
Early in the morning and before work I'll try to take it to the repair shop for my trusted mechanic to check and fix. I have no idea how much it will cost me but brakes are no joke! There may be a hydraulic leak in the brakes system that quickly got worse as I used the brakes on my way to and from work. Seriously, I almost ran a red light in heavy traffic at rush hour on my way back home because the brakes failed and I only had the engine and the parking brake to drop the speed and stop the car. I kept my cool and employed what I know about emergency braking and defensive driving. Panic and ignorance would likely just have led me to have an accident. I'm fine and so is the car (other than the brakes). I already changed my underwear.
Brakes. Are. No. Joke!
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Already did. Carefully drove to the repair shop and left the car there for repairs. Picking it back up tomorrow morning.
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I wish you all a happy birthday
@Cary_TMP @Cute_U @MatzeOnTour @Medusa. @Mike Dragon
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Thank you! ^-^
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All glory be given, for your Savior, Christ the Lord is born. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Hi Mike, Hope you are well.
Wishing you a merry christmas and a happy new year
May 2025 be a good one
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Thank you. Merry Christmas!
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Alright... I have a little challenge for you, even if you have not played or seen this game before...
Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon's PS2 & Wii graphics are NOT the same!
The one and only tweak made to the graphics is it being rendered at 2x its original resolution on both emulators (Dolphin and PCSX2), with no further changes applied. It's all stock. Can you tell which one is the Wii and which one is the PS2 version of Dawn of the Dragon?
Can you tell which screenshot is the Wii and which is the PS2 port of the game? I doubt most can guess it right.
Hint: The Wii and PS2 DON'T have the same graphics and one of them DOES have better native resolution, shaders, environment effects and elements as well as higher resolution textures.
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Alright you folks, here's the answer: The Wii port of Dawn of the Dragon has better graphics than the PS2 port. Not by much, but they are better. The second screenshot looks better because it is better. It is a screenshot from the Wii port. And the superior graphics on the Wii version don't go only to textures, effects and resolution, it also applies to the entire interface of the game, all the UI elements and menus too. The hardware of the PS2 is simply not powerful enough to render the game in higher fidelity. The Wii's is not that much more powerful either, but it is superior, so it can do more. I really would like to make a video about this some day.
Wii > PS2.
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Happy birthday,have a very nice day,and hope you can back TruckersMP again
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Thank you so much!
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