Going through that thread is fucking jokerfying to the nth degree squared. Jesus fucking Christ what the actual fuck. Basically if I understand the average r/politics users logic:
If you don’t vote for Candidate A, you are essentially voting for Candidate B and complicit in them continuing the genocide that Candidate A is currently doing and planning to continue if you do the “responsible” thing and vote for them.
Very cool. Most important election of our lifetime indeed!
The correct and objective answer is: 2.
…because It takes 2 triangle welded together to form a polygon which can have a texture/sprite applied to it.
Always remember kids: all political ideologies justify violence. No exceptions. In fact that’s in many ways their entire function. Political ideology is the way by which you determine who has the exclusive moral authority to use violence and who it can be used against. The degree to which you believe your ideology/system is nonviolent is only the degree to which you have been conditioned to see the violence inherent in your system is just the natural default state of the world. Even if you adopt a philosophy of hardcore uncompromising pacifism you will wind up having to justify your nonintervention in other violence happening around you at some point.
If you go back far enough you can find my post from the very early days of this site where I had a bit of a live update of that entire catastrophe and just how unprepared we were for it.
A lot of people were ready for rolling blackouts and dripping our pipes but some people like myself wound up going essentially a week without power and almost no cell/data service. I braved it out for 3 days in my home before I woke up under every blanket and coat I owned trying to stay warm, saw the layer of frost covering my phone and realized Ralph Wiggum style: “oh…I’m in danger!!!”. Thankfully I was able to make a blind drive to my mother’s and she had power but man it got kinda real there for a minute. Forget being career ending: in a sane society we’d have been calling to have this jackass drug through the street
I hear its amazing. My reasoning for putting it off is that everything I’ve heard has said that the biggest problem with Alyx is that its a double edged sword because it is the greatest experience anyone has made thus far in VR and nothing else anyone has made out there has come even remotely close. I kinda wanna savor it a bit. Right now everything is still new and fun and I’m worried if I jump into Alyx it’ll just leave a bitter taste in my mouth.
Still grinding my way towards being the best Jamie player in Street Fighter VI. Its a long road but I do feel like I’m getting stronger.
That aside: OMG y’all! I bought a valve index and its the first thing that’s gotten me to take a break a street fighter in a while. Superhot VR is low-key my runner up gaming experience of the last year. I also have been enjoying the hell out of pistol whip. It makes for an insanely great cardio workout during the cold season here when I can’t go for my daily run cause its like 11 degrees outside. I have a huge backlog of games to get through now.
Future plans: I am going to try to play the entire Half life series in VR starting with the black mesa remake and culminating in Alyx over the coming weeks/months. My VR legs are starting to get pretty strong so I feel confident I can do it without motion sickness being a huge issue. I’ve played a segment or two and it definitely makes the experience radically different. In other news: I also have this radical urge to replay Shadow of the collosus with some of the more recent HD texture mods so I might try and fit that one in.
Sidenote: apparently there’s a Deus Ex Remaster project that has a VR element as part of its scope and I am gonna lose my noodle if/when that drops.
In terms of what I’m excited for in 2024: man I don’t even know. I don’t really follow game releases anymore these days. I guess i’m excited for whatever balance patch plans and future DLC Capcom has for SFVI after capcom cup for sure. Otherwise I still have such a huge backlog of games to play right now I can’t imagine picking up new ones.
Speaking as a competitive fighting game player who has traveled to tournaments: even if this wasn’t banned (it would be) and operated the way they say it will in theory (it won’t) this would still be, no hyperbole, one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever heard in my life. The macro suggestions are nothing but windows hotkeys brought to a gamepad, and a controller or joystick which does the equivalent of “adjusts DPI settings in real-time, ensuring that your cursor movements are always accurate and fluid” is completely bass-ackwkards and completely misses the key feature(s) that actually defines a quality controller: durability and consistency.
This is cringe I know but: the entire point of investing in a high end controller is the understanding that the hardware is strong and the flesh is weak. A sanwa plunger or mechanical key will trigger the same response in engine the same way every time. That’s the whole point: its up to the pilot to train themselves to hit it on the right frame. A button or a joystick that dynamically changes to do what a dumb algorithm has decided I’m trying to do sounds like a special level of hell for someone like me.
So the whole fear mongering campaign against Chinese foreign surveillance is straight up a psyop to get people to forget that their own government is watching everything they do literally every second of the day…right!
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Said many times before: even if we accept for the sake of argument that the Uyghur genocide is real and on the same scale of what is happening in Palestine (something I’ve not heard even the fiercest advocates claim):
The fact of the matter is that I am an American citizen living in America and therefore I have what I see as a self evident moral obligation to focus on and address the things my own government is directly complicit in right now before I start trying to hold China accountable. These people don’t actually give a shit about human lives and rights beyond the ways they can be used as a cynical political cudgel.
Hell yeah, that sounds fun. I almost worry I would get too into that and wanna buy a flight stick also or something, lol.
You can install Wabbajack and pick out a Skyrim VR mod pack. The popular ones are pretty well tested and mostly plug in and play
I thought about Skyrim VR but I’ve heard mixed things…at least way back? Not shocked if the modders fixed it though. I played vanilla skyrim for a tiny bit way back but I never really got far in it so this would maybe work…
There’s also a surprisingly good VR mod for Alien Isolation if horror games are your thing
FUCK THAT NOISE!!! Lol. I love watching horror games but I specifically do not play them because I get way to immersed in them even just on a monitor. I legit might die if I tried this.
It can be but it can be really hard to sort it out especially in online retail today. Some brands will offer a quality that’s cut above the rest but often as time goes on and the profit motive kicks in and/or they get bought out, they’ll start cutting corners and start coasting on the name recognition. Also there’s the question of where they are made/produced. If you go down the rabbit hole on this enough you will actually find Levi’s are considered extremely right quality depending on where they come from and in fact there’s entire groups devoted to keeping track of this info to help people find the good stuff.
Also it depends on what kind of qualities you’re looking for in jeans. Personally I just stick with banana republic because they have a nice blend of fabrics that are fairly breathable and also hella stretchy. I work from home in the city so I don’t really need jeans that can withstand the elements. I just need want to be comfortable and look nice.
Guess I bought two then. 
The problem guys like this have is that if they were honest: their goal isn’t a girlfriend and/or a reciprocal romantic partner. They just want to hookup.
Certainly there’s nothing wrong with only wanting casual sex but the problem is that if all you actually want is a shallow purely physical relationship without any sort of emotional strings then all you actually can bring to the table by definition is your looks.
Ie: if you only engage with women on a purely superficial shallow level entirely centered around raw physical attraction then quit acting shocked and chagrined when that’s how they respond in kind.
Passwords are fine with two factor authentication right? Like I have two factor authentication on my phone for pretty much everything either through text or a full on authenticator app.
Part 1. Have the PC version.
Street fighter vi has consumed my life…I really need to diversify my game time. I still have elden ring to finish and the last of us.
Hell yeah! I’m @Eric TheScruffy if you wanna play a set sometime!
On the subject of Palestine? Probably not. I was trying to play this out in my head earlier and I feel like the only way he’d be less hawkish is if he thought Netnyahu was cucking him or something by ignoring his authority. I feel like that would be hilariously easy to manipulate tho such that he see’s shit like the ICJ as being what’s actually holding both of them back. End of the day I reject the notion that Trump or anyone could be materially worse on this than Biden is and believe things would be basically identical…BUT I do think Trump would be more mask off about it certainly.
On that subject…him being mask off is kinda equal pro and con I think. Like the bad is obvious buuuuuut Trump would further expose sham of it all. That’s no reason to cheer for a Trump victory but I don’t know…its something maybe.