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  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    2 miles, arm curls, crunches, squats

    v sweaty

    okay
  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    God imagine portal in the Rift.

    The problem is lack of a jumping hardware solution. You would need some kind of harness to suspend you and it would take up a whole room.

    I guess I would try this out for the novelty but honestly for a full body experience I'd prefer a BCI.
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Podly wrote: »
    @irond will curing =/= brining

    "curing" almost always refers to a dry cure, practically speaking

    thus you can roast a brined chicken and it will be delicious, whereas you don't see too much "cured" chicken

    i've heard brines referred to as "wet cures"

    generally i brine chicken before i fry or roast it, but i got into dry cures a few months ago and did a dry cured chicken. salt + brown sugar + black pepper + a little pink salt.

    i cut it really thin and hard-fried it and then cooked in into some rice with veggies.

    was really good but didn't taste like chicken anymore, really.
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Actually not an elk

    a stag

    maybe the game will choose between an elk and a stag, for replayability

    should make it a hind

    don't hear about hinds much these days
  • So It GoesSo It Goes Sip. Sip sip sippy. Dumb whores. Best friends.Registered User regular
    ugh that guy whose house those girls were found in? school bus driver.
    NO.
  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary Your Dark Descent FriendRegistered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Corehealer wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    If better MMOs with better worlds aren't made for the Oculus Rift I am quitting humanity.

    Star Citizen.

    Not enough. I intend to play Star Citizen with a rift and it's going to be great but space is not really that interesting to interact with compared to a terrestrial setting.

    You can interact with terrestrial settings when you land on planets or inside ships, it's just not the main focus of the game.

    And probably one of the things to be placed in a barebones to functional state at launch and then polished over time.
    2ItqRJ7.jpgSteam/Origin/PSN: Corehealer / Core's Streamtastical Livestream (Streaming Wildstar Beta later this year).
  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    EM I keep thinking you're talking about the rift
  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Actually not an elk

    a stag

    maybe the game will choose between an elk and a stag, for replayability

    should make it a hind

    don't hear about hinds much these days

    new game+ maybe
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    But thanks for the compliment!

    Man you can play the guitar and I know you've got the tendon thing going but I saw your video of you playing the piano and you are amazing and causing me jealousy.

    Also I am late getting back because I saw you posting about music and had to leave to play Tina.

    So uh, yeah. Your fault, really!
  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary Your Dark Descent FriendRegistered User regular
    VR would be better handled in a holodeck format, where your able to become fully immersed and have a room dedicated to it, rather then try to fiddle with making existing rooms accommodate increasingly crazy situations and simulations.

    But that's all kinds of lifetimes away yet.
    2ItqRJ7.jpgSteam/Origin/PSN: Corehealer / Core's Streamtastical Livestream (Streaming Wildstar Beta later this year).
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    The possibilities for that stuff soon...

    Amazing therapeutic psychological simulations. Pornography or remote sex with a loved one far away. Hanging out with your buddies in Oculus Skype. Horror video games become a way to live out nightmares. Minecraft would be amazing. Every game would be amazing. Exercise programs on the omni treadmill become much better motivation and way more fun. Virtual dance lessons! Virtual performances for music and theatre, with synths and instruments INSIDE THE PROGRAM. Visiting remote locations as well as invented ones. Crime scene recreation?

    God. When they have convincing tactile feedback no one will leave their vr booth.

    DFW hates you

    It scares the shit out of me, sure

    There is a day coming soon where we can defeat an alien menace in a virtual world to rescue some broad and then have virtual victory sex

    Micro bubbles in polymer massaging your penis

    You'd want to interact with real human minds but you could make your body look like whatever and if the tactile feedback is good enough, feel like whatever

    Virtual sex overtaking real, messy, dangerous sex with uggos
  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »

    You guys, you guys.

    The Universe is just, like, so BIG man.

    And we're just, like, tiny insignificant specks. We're fucking DOTS, man.
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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Every time VR comes up I think about how kickass it could be for people with gender identity issues.

    I have more than on train of thought, I swear.
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    There's also the one about how kitties are fuzzy.
  • VariableVariable Stroke Me Lady Fame Registered User regular
    eternal darkness spiritual successor gets a... kickstarter

    I wish that wasn't enough to earn a thread in G&T, I got so excited.
    "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" - Dr. Johnson
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  • evilbobevilbob Registered User regular
    Why am I so bad at waiting? This sucks.
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    The wind sounds unhappy.

    The trees sound pretty though.
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    FRUSTRATING

    I bought Heroes 6 via steam a while back. It's pretty good. But I haven't been able to play it in months because uplay somehow fucked up and got it associated to a different account from my normal uplay account. And that other phantom account has no email address (which should be impossible) and so I can't request a password reset on it either.

    going through another round of emails with their tech support people.
    What you think "makes sense" has nothing to do with reality. It just has to do with your life experience. And your life experience may only be a small smidgen of reality. Possibly even a distorted account of reality at that. So what this means is that, beginning in the 20th century as our means of decoding nature became more and more powerful, we started realizing our common sense is no longer a tool to pass judgment on whether or not a scientific theory is correct. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Every time VR comes up I think about how kickass it could be for people with gender identity issues.

    I have more than on train of thought, I swear.

    Kind of like the movie Surrogates, just, with less political intrigue and shooting.
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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Corehealer wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Corehealer wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    If better MMOs with better worlds aren't made for the Oculus Rift I am quitting humanity.

    Star Citizen.

    Not enough. I intend to play Star Citizen with a rift and it's going to be great but space is not really that interesting to interact with compared to a terrestrial setting.

    You can interact with terrestrial settings when you land on planets or inside ships, it's just not the main focus of the game.

    And probably one of the things to be placed in a barebones to functional state at launch and then polished over time.

    The game doesn't currently include seamless atmospheric re-entry and departure. The way planets will work doesn't seem very fleshed out either. I'd compare it to being able to explore the space ports that you'd land on in Freelancer. The game is also going to have instancing planetside to handle player counts!

    That doesn't come anywhere close to realizing the Rift's potential for immersion and interactivity.
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Every time VR comes up I think about how kickass it could be for people with gender identity issues.

    I have more than on train of thought, I swear.

    Kind of like the movie Surrogates, just, with less political intrigue and shooting.

    Everyone references this and I still haven't consumed it.

    Also the trans men simulation will involve a lot of shooting I assure you.
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Early on with VR we're going to see a lot of mass effect elevators.
  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Simulating sensation physically seems like a pain in the ass.
  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIESRegistered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    The possibilities for that stuff soon...

    Amazing therapeutic psychological simulations. Pornography or remote sex with a loved one far away. Hanging out with your buddies in Oculus Skype. Horror video games become a way to live out nightmares. Minecraft would be amazing. Every game would be amazing. Exercise programs on the omni treadmill become much better motivation and way more fun. Virtual dance lessons! Virtual performances for music and theatre, with synths and instruments INSIDE THE PROGRAM. Visiting remote locations as well as invented ones. Crime scene recreation?

    God. When they have convincing tactile feedback no one will leave their vr booth.

    DFW hates you

    It scares the shit out of me, sure

    There is a day coming soon where we can defeat an alien menace in a virtual world to rescue some broad and then have virtual victory sex

    Micro bubbles in polymer massaging your penis

    You'd want to interact with real human minds but you could make your body look like whatever and if the tactile feedback is good enough, feel like whatever

    Virtual sex overtaking real, messy, dangerous sex with uggos

    your sexy avatar emancipating your sexual desires from the need to actually be fuckable

    the first world dying of the beetus in a generation
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  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Every time VR comes up I think about how kickass it could be for people with gender identity issues.

    I have more than on train of thought, I swear.

    There was some research done where they grafted additional limbs to people - virtually - to see how they adapted. Apparently people got used to it amazingly quickly.

    The other one was they set it up so you had a literal 3rd person perspective of yourself.

    I'm really curious if we'll see an uptick in demand for non-violent photorealistic games though as a result of VR. We already are hitting the uncanny valley for a lot of stuff in that sense, but with serious immersion I'm thinking a lot of people are going to end up just wanting to go wandering through impossible forests and stuff.
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp! I can show you how to be a real man!Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56848-an-unseemly-emotion-pw-talks-with-claire-messud.html
    I wouldn’t want to be friends with Nora, would you? Her outlook is almost unbearably grim.

    For heaven’s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus? Oscar Wao? Antigone? Raskolnikov? Any of the characters in The Corrections? Any of the characters in Infinite Jest? Any of the characters in anything Pynchon has ever written? Or Martin Amis? Or Orhan Pamuk? Or Alice Munro, for that matter? If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Every time VR comes up I think about how kickass it could be for people with gender identity issues.

    I have more than on train of thought, I swear.

    Kind of like the movie Surrogates, just, with less political intrigue and shooting.

    Everyone references this and I still haven't consumed it.

    Also the trans men simulation will involve a lot of shooting I assure you.

    it is a very forgettable movie. not exactly bad but mind numbingly mediocre.
    What you think "makes sense" has nothing to do with reality. It just has to do with your life experience. And your life experience may only be a small smidgen of reality. Possibly even a distorted account of reality at that. So what this means is that, beginning in the 20th century as our means of decoding nature became more and more powerful, we started realizing our common sense is no longer a tool to pass judgment on whether or not a scientific theory is correct. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIESRegistered User regular
    also i love it when intelligent men use the term "broad"

    it's so good
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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Early on with VR we're going to see a lot of mass effect elevators.

    Memory is only getting cheaper.
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp! I can show you how to be a real man!Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Podly wrote: »
    also i love it when intelligent men use the term "broad"

    it's so good

    when I am p sure it's okay, I like to call ladies "toots"
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Every time VR comes up I think about how kickass it could be for people with gender identity issues.

    I have more than on train of thought, I swear.

    There was some research done where they grafted additional limbs to people - virtually - to see how they adapted. Apparently people got used to it amazingly quickly.

    The other one was they set it up so you had a literal 3rd person perspective of yourself.

    I'm really curious if we'll see an uptick in demand for non-violent photorealistic games though as a result of VR. We already are hitting the uncanny valley for a lot of stuff in that sense, but with serious immersion I'm thinking a lot of people are going to end up just wanting to go wandering through impossible forests and stuff.

    Brains are awesome.
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    also i love it when intelligent men use the term "broad"

    it's so good

    It is such a vintage sexist term

    I don't even know what etymologically renders it sexist

    But I know I can't call my boss a broad
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    Sex with people in person >>>>>>> fucking a video-feedback-modem

    Deal with it
  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    Shower

    Okay

    Sleep momentarily
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    I wish cats didn't hide any possible pain so well.

    I want to ask my cat if he is enjoying being alive and he is just kinda lying there looking at me.
  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    Sex with people in person >>>>>>> fucking a video-feedback-modem

    Deal with it

    I have only had one I cannot rightly compare them!
  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIESRegistered User regular
    yo dis fucking sangria
    follow my music twitter soundcloud tumblr
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  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary Your Dark Descent FriendRegistered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Corehealer wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Corehealer wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    If better MMOs with better worlds aren't made for the Oculus Rift I am quitting humanity.

    Star Citizen.

    Not enough. I intend to play Star Citizen with a rift and it's going to be great but space is not really that interesting to interact with compared to a terrestrial setting.

    You can interact with terrestrial settings when you land on planets or inside ships, it's just not the main focus of the game.

    And probably one of the things to be placed in a barebones to functional state at launch and then polished over time.

    The game doesn't currently include seamless atmospheric re-entry and departure. The way planets will work doesn't seem very fleshed out either. I'd compare it to being able to explore the space ports that you'd land on in Freelancer. The game is also going to have instancing planetside to handle player counts!

    That doesn't come anywhere close to realizing the Rift's potential for immersion and interactivity.

    Sarksus, the more I read about your responses to MMOs, Wildstar housing, Star Citizen terrestrial stuff, the more I wonder aloud if the game you want can be created in the next decade at a reasonable price point and time frame without drastically limiting the scope and scale of all the other things that would make the experience you describe meaningful past "Oh look I can walk around this planet in my Oculus Rift look at all the pretty rocks".

    I would love to have the kind of stuff the Rift is potentially capable of creating, but I also acknowledge that it's new tech just like all VR stuff is, and that devs are only barely scratching the surface with the kind of stuff available right now that can handle it. Star Citizen is going to take a long time and a lot of money to make and is explicitly creating a game with the Rift in mind from the get go; how many other studios have the time, funding, vision and consumer confidence to do something like that right now in the middle of a console generation transition when all the biggest names are more worried about catering to consoles and iOS for the bottom line?

    It's going to take a while yet for this to really become something that gets done right the way we want and I am willing to take what I can get now just to use the damn thing.
    2ItqRJ7.jpgSteam/Origin/PSN: Corehealer / Core's Streamtastical Livestream (Streaming Wildstar Beta later this year).
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Every time VR comes up I think about how kickass it could be for people with gender identity issues.

    I have more than on train of thought, I swear.

    There was some research done where they grafted additional limbs to people - virtually - to see how they adapted. Apparently people got used to it amazingly quickly.

    The other one was they set it up so you had a literal 3rd person perspective of yourself.

    I'm really curious if we'll see an uptick in demand for non-violent photorealistic games though as a result of VR. We already are hitting the uncanny valley for a lot of stuff in that sense, but with serious immersion I'm thinking a lot of people are going to end up just wanting to go wandering through impossible forests and stuff.

    Almost definitely! Exploring existing fictional worlds, exploring new ones, creating your own, etc.

    Imagine a photorealistic minecraft experience

    Just the act of moving around a space would be fascinating

    Flying in the simulation would be great

    Racing games would be baller! But you'd need a whole new setup.
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