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2015-11-20 at 7:27 PM UTC
It was thousands of miles of snow and mountains, just like a Bethedsa game.
The tragedy of millenials, all contained in one sentence.
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2015-11-20 at 7:31 PM UTC
The tragedy of millenials, all contained in one sentence.
Lol yeah. But virtual reality is replacing the real world anyway. Malice's futurism posts are spot on at times. We may not have fully immersive internal environments yet, but we're getting close if you think Oculus Rift, and the virtual realities of simple applications or at most the cyberworld are kind of like dimensions of their own, you get yourself stuck in an imaginary program/equation governed by certain rules and these can abuse the dopaminergic system into finding no pleasure in the equations of natyre. -
2015-11-20 at 7:36 PM UTCI highly disagree, but that's ok. I feel like technology is to nature what a bathtub is to the ocean. Being fixated on a screen or peering into immersive goggles just seems like a good way to make yourself vulnerable to predators and neglect necessary real-life needs.
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2015-11-21 at 1:48 AM UTC
The tragedy of millenials, all contained in one sentence.
So I won't say that "iceland looks like a beth game" is really something I endorse or agree with, but really is there anything stopping, in theory, a virtual experience from being more profound or breathtaking than a real life vista? What are the components of the "I see something beautiful/vast/amazing" experience? The visual sensation is the most obvious, we have screens and GPUs that can render something like that clearly enough that a human observer wouldn't be able to tell the difference. There are things like the smell and temperature of the air, maybe the leadup of physical exertion, but we can easily think of solutions to all these problems. And some of the blockers to natural sights being impressive are removed as well, Everest is the tallest mountain only because physical laws govern it. Wouldn't a mountain twice as tall be more astounding? Can't have that here on earth but it would perhaps even be a trivial experience within a sufficiently advanced VR system.I highly disagree, but that's ok. I feel like technology is to nature what a bathtub is to the ocean. Being fixated on a screen or peering into immersive goggles just seems like a good way to make yourself vulnerable to predators and neglect necessary real-life needs.
On the contrary though, fixating on a screen is almost a survival necessity in the first world in 2015. And relatively speaking adopting a high-technology lifestyle does quite a bit to improve your survival rate relative to those without. Of course it's a false dichotomy to say "live in front of a screen or die of AIDS in africa" but it should be obvious that we don't need to pick between health/survival and immersion in technology. -
2015-11-21 at 4:24 AM UTC
-Casinos
Alcohol.
-Airports
Alcohol.
-Hospitals
Prescription Drugs.
-Large buildings with many different wings and "units" like college campus buildings and such
Alcohol.
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2015-11-21 at 4:27 AM UTCI like the bar inside this little Chinese resturant. $1 Budlights and the girl was charging me only $4 for the sweet and sour chicken but I think she is accidently subtracking the beer rather than adding.
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2015-11-21 at 4:39 AM UTC"Life isn't like the movies."
Then make it like them. The world is inadequate.
Reminds me of an idea I had for a shirt while wearing VR in public.
Accepted that the world is never going to be the way you want it to?
Why not replace it?
Followed by the Oculus logo and something like "Oculus Rift virtual reality" -
2015-11-22 at 9:28 PM UTCDwfinitely not Ninkasi Brewery in Eugene. This place is full of fucking people with their kids and one of thebar tenders seems all pissed off. Plus it's small and just shitty. Avoid.
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2015-11-24 at 7:51 PM UTC
So I won't say that "iceland looks like a beth game" is really something I endorse or agree with, but really is there anything stopping, in theory, a virtual experience from being more profound or breathtaking than a real life vista? What are the components of the "I see something beautiful/vast/amazing" experience? The visual sensation is the most obvious, we have screens and GPUs that can render something like that clearly enough that a human observer wouldn't be able to tell the difference. There are things like the smell and temperature of the air, maybe the leadup of physical exertion, but we can easily think of solutions to all these problems. And some of the blockers to natural sights being impressive are removed as well, Everest is the tallest mountain only because physical laws govern it. Wouldn't a mountain twice as tall be more astounding? Can't have that here on earth but it would perhaps even be a trivial experience within a sufficiently advanced VR system.
I'm not so sure that it would be easy to find solutions to these problems, without somehow 'wiring' the virtual environment to the nervous system so that one can reach down and feel the snow, the chill air, the freshness of the outdoors....On the contrary though, fixating on a screen is almost a survival necessity in the first world in 2015. And relatively speaking adopting a high-technology lifestyle does quite a bit to improve your survival rate relative to those without. Of course it's a false dichotomy to say "live in front of a screen or die of AIDS in africa" but it should be obvious that we don't need to pick between health/survival and immersion in technology.
You are making it hard for me to fuck with sploo here.
