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vicious_snek5 2 points ago +2 / -0

TiA used to be such a fun place. You could go there and find a 'IT'S MA'AM' tranny of course, but also a demipansexual otherkin furry wondering if its ok to wear a diaper to uni, and below that a black hitler. It was great. Now it's 49 MA'AM's for every 1 otherkin

They need a space for their anti tranny stuff, it didn't have to be my space.

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vicious_snek5 2 points ago +2 / -0

They’re just as fucked as the Abos.

I dunno. I've gotten along with a few maori's. Maybe your just sending your best though.

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vicious_snek5 6 points ago +6 / -0

Watch as all the deaths in wa, the one region in the world which hasn't yet had covid but in now days from it as omicron just breached and we 'opened' the borders, watch as all the deaths (and there will be a few, of and with covid), are now counted as 'unvaccinated'

This is extremely convenient timing to fudge the stats in the one place everyone will be watching for efficacy of the vaccine vs natural immunity vs naive immunity. It may well be about country wide enforcement, but this is very suspicious and convenient timing given the Perth situation.

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vicious_snek5 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'm big on vr and 3d stuff. And like you I'm more about the PC based system. I had a cv1, now have a rift s (for comfort), and will only look at quests as a linked system to the pc, I don't care about its standalone mini games really. I want the grunt of a pc.

It has gotten a lot better, but I also think that people need to appreciate its niches and use cases, rather than expecting every game and genre to work.

What makes for a good vr game in terms of movement and nausea is a sense of stability, a cockpit of sorts. So driving games, dog fighters, mech warrior sort of games* are the way to go. EVE-valkyrie went too far in the beginning by not having a horizon though. If you're gunna do a dogfighter in space it needs to be right above a planet or in the trenches of the deathstar, or else its too disorientating really.

What this means for the most popular of genre, the one that moves consoles, fps and shooters, is that you need it to be a bit slower, and be more of a rail and cover shooter. Time crisis would be great in VR. Vanquish or titanfall pilot mode would be utter crap. A big slow titan however is much more appropriate.

Fluid movement has long been an issue, and this has really held the whole thing back. The early shooters like dead and burried had a very clunky and frankly shite movement system. Finally though, we're making some progress here. Since valve gave it a good crack and solved a lot of the movement issues, while also respecting the genres that VR is better at. And it didn't take much, it was some stablisation and more of a fluid glide to location, rather than a disorientating teleport. Thanks to alyx, we're getting a renaissance, shooters are more possible. But it's still somewhat clunky and lends itself to static positioning more. Sport games are similar, the best ones are tennis style things (like beatsabre even), rather than ones where the character moves.

I want to see more rts/tablestop stuff. Tabletop simulator has (last I checked) pretty jank and clunky vr setup but I think a slower paced table simulator, but we need the genre of RTS to come back into vogue before VR which is even more niche is worthwhile I'm afraid.

I am very excited for the future of 3d modelling/sculpting in VR. When adobe bought out oculus-medium I was very hesitant. They dropped some quality of life improvements then did nothing for years. And I was not at all happy with adobe. But it turns out they'd given it to their substance 3d team (a more independent subdivision of adobe that is much better regarded than the main body of the company) and they're making adobe-modeller. Essentially medium 2.0 but with a much nicer looking render, and the ability to swap from desktop to vr. Which really is what's needed. We'll get all the fine control of blender or zbrush, but the actual 3d vision of medium or masterpiece. When ure sculpting a 3d object, seeing it in 3d is so damn important and its finally on the cusp of feasible. Its about to go into open beta, but the videos of it being used, as compared to medium, are great. Masterpiece has also pulled their thumb out and is offering some pretty quick and easy rigging stuff that looks great.

TL;DR : It's not that the vr headset manufacturers have done much to improve, it's that valve and a few others have pushed through a couple of barriers software and implementation wise and really opened up VR to new genres, and people are taking advantage of those specific genres that VR enables far better than before. If those specific genres tickle your fancy, its well worth it imo.

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vicious_snek5 2 points ago +3 / -1

The whole point of one is for them to hold down the fort

Hold DOWN the fort? Is it an inflatable fort, will it fly away if not held down?

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vicious_snek5 7 points ago +8 / -1

I believe it goes against the Bible but I’m not gonna go out of my way to bother anyone.

Just like Jesus when he let those moneylenders do what they wanted in the place of worship yeah. And who can forget such famous verses like "suffer the witch, it's fine, don't bother them"

I never understood the perspective of Christians who didn't want to bother people. That's an atheistic perspective. If you believe there's nothing in the afterlife, then yeah it would be annoying having people try to convince you to change your behavior. But If you believe there is an eternity of torment awaiting a sinner unless they repent, it is incumbent upon you to try to save them from that fate. It's far ruder to leave them to it and not try to save their eternal soul. Don't you wish to save them, or is this person not worth it in your eyes?

That's not to say that there's not a time or place, and a recognition of ones own persuasive abilities (or lack thereof). Be effective about it, sure, but there's a time and place for 'bothering'.

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vicious_snek5 10 points ago +10 / -0

Thanks for that, good to know.

Well fuck mark even harder than before then. He's denying people access to healthcare (though the wa gov lied and said they werent), and now access to booze too. The wa hospitals are already swamped with 6+h ED waiting times, can't wait for the alchoholics who didn't have time to comply even if they were able to to flood the place.

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vicious_snek5 3 points ago +3 / -0

he’s the only one alongside the Mini Me guy in the biz

Verne Troyer died a few years ago.

The only other one really is warren davis, that British bloke who was the part goblin professor in harry potter, and has done some stuff with ricky gervais.

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vicious_snek5 5 points ago +5 / -0

real communism would be everyone lounging around and then starving to death 2 days later.

Stop spreading science misinformation comrade. The great scientists stalin, lysenco, mao and il have conclusively prove that the human body is able to sustain itself for weeks with being of no sustinance. First the body is of using own fat, then any body proteins that the kulak has been hoard. But before it gets to that point, the glorious socialist republic has plethora of food, such as insect, and fellow man.

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vicious_snek5 2 points ago +2 / -0

oi you leave my schwa alone mate, it's a perfectly valid vowel sound, just cause it's lazy and indecisive doesn't mean it's not special. My upside down e is a good boy.

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vicious_snek5 5 points ago +5 / -0

Not allowed to cross the border now unless you take the clot shot.

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vicious_snek5 11 points ago +11 / -0

That doesn't explain novavax who were developing an old style protein subunit vaccine, not this new viral vector/mRNA garbage.

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vicious_snek5 5 points ago +5 / -0

Yeah all the trash talking from the grunts is a great little addition

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vicious_snek5 0 points ago +7 / -7

What are you on about. It's back.

It's 20x better than halo 4 and 5.

It's it as good as 1 2 and 3? Not quite, but they've clearly seen where they went wrong and gotten back on course.

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vicious_snek5 2 points ago +2 / -0

I Just bought one of these 3 hours ago, can't wait.

It'll arrive in a few days, wasn't sure where to begin binding tho.

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