As far as I remember, yeah, that’s essentially what happened. At first, the government and the police saw drug addicts as criminals in the eyes of the law, and tried to go after them, which is, as far as I know, what the US and a lot of other countries do.
As a Portuguese who was alive (albeit a kid) in the 90s, I can summarize this as we didn’t have enough resources (both human and monetary) to keep enforcing the U.S. drug war model. Since it wasn’t working and we were reaching a critical situation (like half of Lisbon in particular was filled with drug addicts shooting heroin up their veins), we turned to the experts.
The article implies this was a decision made from the beginning of this epidemic, but it was pretty much a last resort because the other model was unsustainable for the government. Not sure if we would’ve adopted it if we had US’ resources.
Also, just giving context here, not trying to diminish this accomplishment.
In most games, when there’s an option to play as a man or as a woman, I generally choose to play as a dude because…I’m a dude. I guess it helps to immerse myself in the game but I never really gave it much thought beyond that. But in my second playthrough, if it’s something like an RPG or anything like that, I usually switch to a girl just to see different story paths, conversations, personality even.
Except for fighting games. I’ve been telling myself it’s because I love fast, rushdown characters like Millia Rage or Cammy. I even managed to fool myself into thinking it was because I used to do the martial art they’re representing, like Lidia Sobieska from Tekken. Which is technically true, they have to have a play style I like.
But along comes Granblue and I’m torn between two characters: the badass old man brawler that is Soriz and zoner archer lady Metera. And at this point, I can’t lie to myself anymore and will probably play Metera because she’s a woman and she’s hot.
TL;DR: I like women and they’re hot.
I’ll chime in and suggest PC, as you can probably get them at a lower price than on PS4.
I’m ashamed to say I’ve never watched Initial D. But it’s on my watchlist.
Not necessarily a song but a whole sub-genre: Eurobeat. It started with Running in the 90s and I just went from there to listening and thoroughly enjoying pretty much the whole Initial D soundtrack.
Probably The Last Blade 2 for Neo Geo and Tekken 3 for the PSX. The former I actually ended up playing it on an emulator but it’s still worth mentioning because it’s such a great gem of a game. Here are some of the super moves just to give you a taste but there’s also match footage of top players on Youtube if you want. And you can also play it on Fightcade for free.
Tekken 3 needs no introduction, I think. Considered by many to be one of if not the best entry in the series.
I started with Crunchbang in its final years. It was a great introduction to Linux, to be honest. It was also a very solid distro, as it was Debian-based.
But, sadly, it eventually folded. It still has a spiritual sequel in BunsenLabs but, in the meantime, I’d moved to Arch (btw).