To paraphrase Blade Runner: Art AI are like any other tool; they’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, nobody cares.

Oh, I always forget wireless streaming is an option... I guess it’d be more correct to say it’s not available in standalone mode.

Not totally accurate; If you tether the Quest to a PC and use SteamVR and a bunch of middleware, you can merge the two tracking environments, and then, yes, an Oculus user would be able to use VIVE Trackers with their $300 HMD...

Honestly the anime’s portrayal of cyberpsychosis was far more nuanced than even the TTRPG’s, nevermind the game’s. In the tabletop books, cyberpsychos are typically characterized as seeing regular humans as being fragile things that they can kill so easily...and so some just do. In the anime they make it quite clear…

Look at it! Photoshop be damned, we need to go back to the days of cutting and gluing bits of paper onto other bits of paper

I have well over 16,000 hours in VR on a setup that cost more than Meta’s new toy, and even I think the idea of using VR for work that doesn’t really require it is stupid as fuck. 🤨

Jesus, that is utterly unconscionable. I don’t know how anybody could sign off on the safety of that booth. It’s clearly so shallow that the foam might as well be solely for aesthetic purposes! 😠

Oh man, I knew they were going to be crazy-huge, but I wasn’t expecting that. 😂

I don’t see how you figure. I’ve got a 3090 Ti in my Amazon cart right now, waiting to see what the price does during Prime Day and the release of the 4000-series, and it’s $1699.99. The RTX 4090 FE is slated to release at $1599, I believe? And they claim it’s 2-4x faster than the 3090 Ti. I agree the prices are…

I didn’t even know we had Aldis in Vermont... Yeah, these lists are always utter horseshit. Like that one about every state’s most popular Thanksgiving side dish from last year. It was total nonsense. My mother—who comes from a family of eight kids, where Thanksgiving was always a huge multi-generational gathering—call…

Oh, on the TTRPG front, I should note that there’s now Cyberpunk RED which takes place between CP2020 and CP2077 in the hellscape left in the literal fallout of the 4th corp war. I’d swear they were also working on a setting that ties in directly with the game, but I don’t know where they are on that.

NC is always worth revisiting, that’s why I was so hyped for the game in the first place despite the city already having chewed up and spat out every incarnation of mine that’s ever wandered into it over the past few decades. 😏

Ah, that explains it! I’ve been pretty preoccupied for the past two weeks. 🤔

Wait, Bonelab is out?! Last I knew everybody was treating it like it was a year or more away... Shit, I’ve gotta get it! 😫

How much more of this must we endure before it all just burns down? 🤨

Actually, no, they don’t get to pick one; it’s theaters.  Theatres is the other one.

Yeah, I like the lid, but I still need a better array of bottle and straw brushes for my kitchen to properly clean it... I realized something the other day when I was messing about with it; through their use of a multi-start thread, the lid will thread on in orientations suitable to both left and right handed use.…

Haha, nice! 😂 I wanted something basically impossible for me to knock over at my computer. The fact that it’s insulated and everything is just kind of a bonus. 😁

And if Netflix—and other streaming providers—won’t give us the option, they should at least have the common fucking sense to add some manner of content flag for post-credit scenes, so they don’t get skipped! (Not that it’d help in this case. Though maybe they should take a cue from Amazon Prime Video, where you don’t…

The hell are they callin’ a “Cup” though? Cuz I’m sitting here sipping from one of these 20oz untippable stainless steel double-walled beasts. 😁