Does anyone else remember when Windows 98 would let you change your DVD drive's region, but only let you do it five times total before you were permanently locked into the region you selected the fifth time?
I was so tempted to change the setting just for fun, but never did because the warning message scared the shit out of 12-year-old me.
An extremely successful physical format for storing data, mostly as video, released in 1996, it is still one of, if not the most popular video format sold globally.
And while they tried to DRM it, the DVD standard still ended up having to maintain compatibility across all readers and discs, but for bluray they regularly deprecate older readers who no longer can play newer movies because new releases use new encryption keys which the old readers don't have access to (and for this reason the PS consoles are the best bluray movie players because Sony keeps them updated)
Never forget, there was only a single key for DVD decryption, once found, DVDs could be copied. There were lawsuits trying to suppress the knowledge, but people started printing the key on tshirts.... It was out there and DVD copy applications became common
Id just use a random name sheet. Get some fancy names print em out sprinkle in a little setting specific stuff and roll dice for it. 100 names each and a D100 will do the trick, if its not fitting at all, just roll again.
Believable. I once passed by a book titled "Common Circumcision Rituals of Orc Clans in the Great Southern Wastes" written by Dr. SpinalfluidHammer, MD. The cover was of the author holding a too-large knife covered in too much blood. He seemed happier than the situation called for.
Some things make more sense with additional context. Like, Europe was on the PAL standard while Japan was on NTSC, so even if you put them both in the same region, they couldn't watch each other's discs, so the region code could be re-used without it actually conflicting.
That chart says Vietnam is a mix of 220 and 127 V at 50 Hz. There might be some places that use 127 V, but it's certainly not anywhere close to an equal split. Everywhere I saw had 220 V.
I guess it could be used in many different ways, but when I read it I thought of it in the context of a homebrew campaign's lore (maybe ttrpg memes have corrupted my mind?)
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