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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I definitely want it. If it’s cheap, I definitely want two.

    Actually everything they recently announced looks great. I really want to try to frame.

    I gave up on VR after the oculus CV1 got canned. I bought one, got a few decent years out of it in spite of “meta” buying the company and making it shit, but when they stopped selling the connection cables for the CV1, which was the part that broke most frequently, I just backed the hell off and thought to myself, “this shit is cool, but it’s clearly not established enough to be predictable, maybe some day”.

    Whelp, I think we’re finally there.

    Until now, you had the “option” of either something mainstream like the quest 7 (or whatever number they’re on), or you can pick from either the index, which was on the pricy side for what you were getting, or the bigscreen beyond, which required an iPhone to scan your face so they can make a custom face shield just for you (and to get more you had to scan those people in and get face shields for them at a premium). Anything else was so niche that you probably were not getting support, if the company even existed in a few years to support you.

    Now? A first party VR that actually looks good and works natively with steam…

    So yeah… Where do I sign up?

    I’ve wanted a steam deck for years but I don’t game on the go so I can’t really justify it, but the rig I’m using for couch gaming is getting pretty dated… So this seems like a great time to get back into everything… Though, finding the money I need to get the systems is going to be a challenge…



  • This. Entirely this.

    The frustrating part is when there are laws in place for something, and they’re not being enforced and law makers think that making more laws about something will somehow fix the enforcement issues…

    Making it more illegal only harms law abiding people, enforcement actually harms the law breakers.

    It’s not rocket surgery.








  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldGood luck, everybody
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    18 days ago

    It happens, yes.

    Just like people dying in T-bone or head-on collisions. Not to mention rollovers and other crashes.

    Each of them carries the chance of fatality.

    It’s unpredictable, which is why we can’t eliminate fatalities entirely.

    My most recent point is that even the fatalities from being rear-ended are significantly reduced from even 10-15 years ago. Making the small (but still too high) probability of a fatality from that type of crash, smaller (but still too high).

    Therefore, the most likely outcome from such an incident would be the destruction of property, not loss of life.

    Which is the original point I was being pedantic about. The original comment was that stopping and not driving wouldn’t kill anyone, and the reply that kicked off this insane tangent, was that the people behind might.

    And I’m staying, no, they won’t die (it is statistically very unlikely).

    Edit to include original context:



  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldGood luck, everybody
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    18 days ago

    Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.

    How calm should I be about driver’s being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because “lol, what was I supposed to do?!?” … Exactly?

    Can’t see? Don’t drive. It’s not fucking rocket surgery.








  • I get hate mail if my total time entered is less than 9 whole assed hours.

    They want to know when I take a shit for fucks sake. What are they going to do, reprimand me if I take 20 minutes to take a dump?

    “What were you doing that entire time?”

    “Taking a shit”

    “It doesn’t take 20 minutes to take a shit”

    “Maybe for you”