Tarquinn2049 @ Tarquinn2049 @lemmy.world

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Famed for hating illegal or unlicensed emulation. Well known for using legal, licensed emulation all the time in everything.

Being so out of touch with your kid is one of the main ways to create attention seeking behaviour. Not the only way, of course, but it's still generally a bad idea to have no relationship with your kids.

My parents knew exactly what we were up to, and in most cases, our first time experimenting with anything like that was supervised by our parents. They wanted to make sure we knew what we were getting into and how to be safe despite taking risks like that. They didn't really have to worry about me, I'm Autistic and have no interest in drinking or smoking anything, but my older brother and the older of my younger sisters very much partook in any of the safer recreational substances. One advantage of talking with your kids about this stuff is that when you warn them which ones are actually the problem, they have no reason not to trust your advice. There are some "not even once" drugs. There are some "you gotta try it once" drugs, and there are some "it's not a good way to spend your money, but otherwise fun" drugs.

Me personally, drug of choice is videogames. Way cheaper high. Though it can be habit forming, make sure it never feels like a priority over doing real-life stuff.

I think it won't be quite as existential, despite how well they make it all feel rooted in reality, it's still pretty easy to keep in mind that it is a videogame. And with default settings and leaving "flight assist" on, the space ships handle more like planes. You can always disable flight assist, or have it on a toggle, or "disable when button held" setup too. Or, enable when held, if you want to be free flying most of the time, but still have a "stop" button when you want to cancel out your inertia, or more accurately match it with your current frame of reference.

Basically, by default, you don't have to think about your frame of reference. The fact that it is a videogame basically takes care of that. It's a convenient way to hide that the instance you are in is faking(incredibly accurately) everything else that is not in your current frame of reference. Despite space travel feeling pretty seamless, it's just cuz they hide the load screens and instance transfers as just part of navigating space. Any time you are unable to touch the controls, that is a load screen. Even if it otherwise looks the same, most notably when entering or exiting a planets frame of reference and switching between the "space" graphics of the planet to the "terrain" graphics. When approaching a planets gravity well, you basically do an uncontrolled glide that transitions you from space appropriate speeds to surface appropriate speed. That speed transition is the loading screen.

Probably the only thing that might give a similar sense of existential dread for a few seconds is if you jump to a binary star system at a time when the star you aren't jumping to just happens to be in the same direction you just jumped in from. It will look as though you flew through that star. The odds are pretty low, even full time explorers rarely see it, but it is something that can happen.

I should probably get some hours in on shutoko revival, now that Genki is making a new Tokyo extreme racer.

What do you mean? There is no facebook requirement. I don't have facebook.

But I do agree that Meta is the sour note. Luckily, there hasn't been any practical effect on the headset, or at least not a downside. Meta has had plenty of effect, mostly by way of investing unbelievable money into it. There is a reason no one else can keep up.

Basically if you are at all interested in the quality of experience in VR, you have to go with Meta, and maybe at some point they'll take advantage of that, but it hasn't been yet. And if they ever do, I have no problem cutting ties.

There was a period when new users had to have a facebook account, but it didn't last long. As you can guess, you were not the only person who didn't like that. I already had an oculus account before that, and I was able to keep using that the whole time. The name has been changed to a Meta account, but nothing else about it changed. It's just a renamed Oculus account now.

Oh yeah, I've played pretty much everything over the past 10 years in VR. In your same vein, I would recommend Elite: Dangerous. I played it for about 3 years with just mouse and keyboard, then another 3 years with stick and throttle, I still never got quite as good at combat on stick and throttle, but the game was more enjoyable to play overall that way. I haven't tried the expansion yet. When it came out, it didn't run great in VR, and part of its features weren't VR capable. It should run good in VR now, but I don't think they plan to bring the on-foot stuff to VR.

The base game without the expansion is still fine to play. And with the expansion, the on-foot stuff will just be played on a virtual flatscreen instead, still fine, better than not having access to it, I suppose. But I just kept holding out, hoping it would be integrated with the rest of the otherwise amazing VR experience the game is. If I play the game again, I'll probably just buy it. I still haven't tried it since Quest 3 and my new computer upgrade. It'll probably re-blow my mind.

There are versions of pizza that can double qualify as real pizza and healthy, but there is also a lot of area remaining in each individual circle of that venn diagram. And some things incomprehensibly dubbed "healthy pizza" despite sitting comfortably outside both circles.

For me, it was a Quest 3. The first VR headset to cross my personal threshold. My main requirement was that when I wasn't playing actual VR games, the headset was worth using as a virtual computer monitor from the comfort of my recliner. While Quest 3 doesn't quite have enough pixels to truly display my 4k screen at a 1:1 ratio, it is close enough that with the perceived clarity boost from the micromovements of your head meaning the same set of pixels is never sampled twice in a row and the headset running at 120hz, my 60hz real life 4k screen looks exactly as clear in real life as on the headset.

I also have a supplemental completely fabricated virtual 4k 120hz screen in the headset that I use for any games that are easier to run and benefit more from framerate than perfect individual frame clarity. The screens are 20 feet away, but each take up 80 degrees of field of view, twice what is considered comfortable, but I have always preferred what I guess in that context can only be classified as "intimate?" distance from my screens. I only use one screen at a time, the other is stored just out of sight up above. I can still look at it comfortably, and there is a button to swap the monitor locations when I want to change which one is being primarily used.

I also have my real world surroundings in the headset. So the screens are just floating within reality. I can still engage with my family, and thanks to the clarity of the passthrough cameras, I can watch TV with them too. Clearly enough to read the closed captions. The TV screen is about 30-40 degrees of my field of view, and is thus only represented as about a 720p screen, but with that same "temporal antialiasing" the clarity is boosted up to about 1080p level.

So, with all that, I spend about 14 hours a day in my VR headset now. Wirelessly, with a magnetic battery swap every 2 hours. Sometimes standing up and playing real VR games, sometimes reclining in a super comfortable chair playing desktop games. With the bobovr system, or whichever option you prefer, the headset is comfortable to wear for an infinite amount of time. And when I visit my real computer monitor now, I just leave my sit/stand desk in stand mode and no longer have a computer chair.

It has basically replaced every other screen in my life, except my phone. Which is still a main sticking point of VR. They will concievably replace the phone too eventually, but there is alot of software and hardware infrastructure needed to get there. At least Quest 3 is finally a headset clear enough to use your phone without taking it off or peeking through gaps. But only just, a phone tends to take up about 20 degrees of your field of view when used comfortably, even holding it twice as close as that is only 720p(temporally upsampled to 1080p) so holding the phone closer is still only about half the resolution of your phone. Assuming you run your phone in 4k normally. It's probably fine for people without a gaming phone that likely already only run it at 1080p, then they might have text large enough to resolve at a comfortable distance in VR. But anyway. It's not too bad now, so hopefully next headset is enough to completely solve that too, while we wait for it to not even be necessary eventually.

I'm basically retired, built up a big enough money ball that my passive income from it slowly increases, so this is the rest of my life. Slowly getting better and better VR. And while it started at Oculus DK2 for me, all the headsets before Quest 3 were only fun toys that I played with alot. Steadily increasing in capability, but not crossing the threshold into permanent screen replacement. Quest 3 did it, it crossed over that line. While the size of screen I use to represent my 4k TV is only actually physically covered by about 1440p worth of pixels, the free temporal upsampling makes it as good as 4k(2160p).

Though it will take double the current resolution for people that want a 4k screen at 40 degrees of field of view, for now people that like that distance (most people) would have to make due with it looking 1080p. Which might be fine for most people, it is still the most widely used screen resolution.

Edit for plugs for anyone that wants to do this too:

Outside of the Quest 3 itself, I use the third party comfort and runtime mod "M3 pro" from BoBoVR(dumb name, quality company), and Virtual Desktop software to stream my computer screen and create the better supplemental virtual screen out of thin air. I also use Virtual desktop to play my PCVR games when not just running something natively on the headset. Having a good network setup is pretty important too, especially in my case where the aforementioned recliner is on a different floor of my house than my computer. I have a background in networking, so in my case I'm able to setup my router in such a way that I can comfortably stream VR while we have 50 other devices on the router. But for most people, either a second dedicated router or specific VR streamer is going to be a better route. My router was 600 dollars, these bespoke units can be as little as 100 dollars and give you almost the same experience. Plus they are pre-configured specifically for VR streaming. Otherwise there can be alot of configuration changes needed.

I apologize for my verbosity, I hate to leave any details out, even though someone could just ask if I forgot to cover something. I am, unsurprisingly, Autistic. Communicating clearly is a common problem for us. Never know what knowledge I have that isn't common and needs to be conveyed. And I don't change mental gears well, so I like to get everything out once, if possible, to reduce the likelihood of having to get back into this mental space again later.

Yeah, all the complicated flashlights with multiple settings I have used support turning on and off into the last used settings. I don't think I've ever used a flashlight that forced you to cycle through everything. I had a bike light that did, but I got rid of it and replaced it with a flashlight mounted instead.

Seriously? Is it even possible to not know? Or you just like making people list them?

Here is just the sexual ones.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations

Here are his current active trials in court

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/trump-criminal-investigations-cases-tracker-list/

There's of course more, but isn't that already enough?

Unless you wanted Hillary Clinton's for comparison. She used her personal e-mail address a lot instead of the one she is supposed to use as a high ranking government employee. Her e-mails may, and did, contain classified information. Only the official government e-mail server is intended to be used for sending classified infirmation due to risk of breach by outside individuals. No such breach seems to have occurred, but still a crime to have put them in a position where they weren't officially as secure as they could have been.

The result of going through 60'000 plus e-mails was that no intentional wrong was done and they recommended no charges.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system

Now that we are on the topic of improper handling of classified materials... guess what else Trump has done... and like, actually. Like in a way that resulted in actually being charged.

He Illegally stored a bunch of classified material where he was living, and while having that information, invited foreign government officials to also stay there. We can't know if anything intentionally malicious happened. But we can certainly assume that classified information was not "as secure as it should have been". And when asked to bring that classified material he was illegally storing back, he refused.

I don't know if I would prefer if they think that is actually the truth, or if they are not crazy and are just lying cuz they think it'll help the election. One of the logical social rules is to not assume malice when incompetence explains it equally as well. But it's hard to say in this case. She has already proven she is both incompetent and malicious in equal parts.

The cybertruck is 100% the result of misuse of drugs, and if presented in that fashion, might at least help in some way with making it clear how important it can be to use drugs responsibly.

As in real-life reference. Which started before game of thrones, and is actually what influenced some of game of thrones.

I think you forget, building it stronger once would cost 50% more upfront. Better to build it twice, or three times at only 100% cost each time. That way you can be the lowest bidder every time.

Forms of communism that mean they are making more money are actually ok by them. They just have to find a different name to call it so they don't have to say that icky word that gives them feelings.

Yeah, used to be that insurance costs were almost directly skewed based on risk. But then people were upset that it costed so much to insure some places(the ones that should be prohibitively expensive to insure). And then slowly over time they baked in little increases in price everywhere else to subsidise huge price cuts in those areas to out-compete the companies that put the onus entirely on the people taking risks. Eventually, as it became more and more widespread to do that, it became financially more viable to spread it out rather than have drastically more expensive areas. And now we all have to partially cover people who are taking way more risk than we would.

Yeah, that's just one of the ways it has changed over time for some cultures, hehe. There were plenty of millenia before hell was even thought of the first time, we probably will never know what the first written use of it was, let alone the first time it was used in oral storytelling. But with what little evidence we do have from thousands of years ago, we can see that the idea of hell was never consistent since.

In the stream, he mentions it being tetris gym. And the options screen confirms it. Tetris gym is accepted by the community as faithful in all the ways that matter for being allowed to be used for records. The main thing it patches out are the crashes. It also patches in the ability to run the game as either ntsc or pal, as that makes a huge difference in nes tetris. And critically in dogplayingtetris's case it allows the ability to disable pausing the game. His controller is well worn, so his start button goes off randomly on it's own.

This article actually seems pretty uninformed, probably just in a rush to be first to post. Their explanation of the crashes is wrong, and they seem unaware that the speed is actually the same once you pass the first initial batch of levels that used to be considered the "human playable" levels. Of course, not anymore.

Also no mentions of literally the biggest challenge faced, level 235 and it's need to clear 800 lines instead of the usual 10 to pass it. So it's 80 levels baked into one. And it's one of the top 5 worst color schemes for readability to boot. Like, if the game was actually designed to be played this way it would almost like it was made as an intentional final boss, lol. Instead of just being a result of a look-up table eating code that is nowhere near the "table", and is instead on the floor, or the nearby garbage can... hehe

Religion is pretty hard to believe if it wasn't the one you were raised into. And it's often times pretty hard to get out of the one you were raised into.

But outside of religion, a pretty common fictional view is that heaven is the extreme end of order, and hell is the extreme end of chaos. Neither one can harbor any middle ground, and thus they would both suck to be stuck in.

Inside religion, whatever your religion's version of heaven is, usually depends on what "your people(local and as a whole)" would want it to be. It changes over time and distance to better fit. But never bring up that it has changed, as it has always been this one and true correct way of depicting it, to question that is some kind of sin... and hell of course is similarly fluid despite having always been "this" way.

In truth, they have both been depicted every which way imaginable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

Mostly what they have said and done, but also largely what they intend to continue saying and doing.