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Trabisnikof: Dec 24, 2005

Volmarias posted:

Ah yes, VR headsets for the people who can afford medicine, rent, or heat, but not all three at once.

don't worry since the VR headset will be a requirement to complete your onboarding for the newest gig economy jobs, you can deduct it from your taxes!

# ? Feb 15, 2021 22:20

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# ? May 23, 2024 18:59

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

VR labor wherein you pay for your needs by powering the Gibson via treadmill (what you see in game is POV running towards a beautiful anime lady)

# ? Feb 16, 2021 00:21

Low Desert Punk: Jul 4, 2012; i have absolutely no fucking money

VR companies should really keep prices high because if everyone has VR they'll realize it's a loving boring gimmick real fast

# ? Feb 16, 2021 00:27

Shalebridge Cradle: Apr 23, 2008

Crusader posted:

https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1361414871087161348?s=20

for some reason they always forget the bread part of "bread and circuses"

# ? Feb 16, 2021 01:35

Tulip: Jun 3, 2008; yeah thats pretty good

Shalebridge Cradle posted:

for some reason they always forget the bread part of "bread and circuses"

They just ran the calculations and 1 dollar of circuses is worth 2 dollars of bread on their suppress-o-max algorithm.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 01:44

Homocow: Apr 24, 2007; Extremely bad poster!
DO NOT QUOTE!; Pillbug

Crusader posted:

https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1361414871087161348?s=20

I love how completely delusional technophiles have become

# ? Feb 16, 2021 01:49

Farm Frenzy: Jan 3, 2007

oh that articles just a paraphrased john carmack interview. lame. hes always been a lunatic

# ? Feb 16, 2021 01:52

Farm Frenzy: Jan 3, 2007

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/185757996473790464

# ? Feb 16, 2021 01:53

Hodgepodge: Jan 29, 2006; Can't post for 217 days!

as they dream of escaping to vr or space, they learn there is no escape from the crushing fist of the Real.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 02:05

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Farm Frenzy posted:

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/185757996473790464

For a guy whose house has an attached observatory, one might expect he would have a greater understanding of light pollution.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 06:12

mistermojo: Jul 3, 2004

Mecca looks crazy, Abraj Al Bait is so absurdly large

# ? Feb 16, 2021 06:50

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

It's ugly as poo poo and I hate it thank you op

# ? Feb 16, 2021 06:58

The Oldest Man: Jul 28, 2003

mistermojo posted:

Mecca looks crazy, Abraj Al Bait is so absurdly large

Definitely not a monument to hubris

Tulip posted:

They just ran the calculations and 1 dollar of circuses is worth 2 dollars of bread on their suppress-o-max algorithm.

"And it scales infini- oh everyone died"

# ? Feb 16, 2021 07:01

anime was right: Jun 27, 2008; death is certain
keep yr cool

Farm Frenzy posted:

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/185757996473790464

weird how the 500 replies arent showing when i open the tweet

# ? Feb 16, 2021 08:08

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

God Hole posted:

i live in a gated apartment complex (they're all gated in phoenix to keep the poors out)

recently our complex has experienced a couple of burglaries, so management used that as an excuse to WELD SHUT all the pedestrian access points along the entire perimeter of the complex, leaving only the parking lot gate untouched (the one designed to accommodate cars)

the problem with this is that the only way the parking lot gate opens is by sensor, which only triggers for car-sized objects (there is no button or manual override). i don't own a car. so i quite literally cannot leave my apartment complex of my own accord.

time to bike to work? i'm doing circles in the parking lot like an idiot waiting for a real person in a car to leave. wanna take my dog for a walk? gotta bake on the asphalt with my dog and wait for a real person to leave.

phoenix is a horrific example of suburban sprawl, designed entirely around the personal automobile. i'm observing myself being erased in real-time.

yo have you escaped your insane killer deathtrap SIMS house?

# ? Feb 16, 2021 08:58

PokeJoe: Aug 24, 2004; hail cgatan

he died swimming in the complex pool after the maintenance guy took the ladders out

# ? Feb 16, 2021 09:29

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

A Twitch streamer made $16,000 filming himself asleep and letting viewers disturb him with alarm clocks and fake dog barks
https://www.businessinsider.com/influencer-instagram-youtube-twitch-alexa-recognition-speech-disturb-money-subscribe-donate-view

quote:

Making money in your sleep sounds too good to be true, given many of us find it hard enough to earn a living while we're awake.

But many influencers are jumping on a new trend that's rising in popularity: the "sleep stream."

Among the best-known sleep streamers is one who goes by the name Asian Andy.

The 26-year-old from Los Angeles made $16,000 in just one night on his Twitch livestream � though he didn't get much sleep in the process.

Like many other influencers, Andy set up text-to-speech recognition for his livestream, meaning that music played with every donation and the messages were read aloud.

A lot of viewers used their messages to get Alexa to play loud music, imitate a dog barking, or make his alarm clock go off.

One recurring theme in an August livestream was viewers telling Andy someone was at the window, leading to over-the-top reactions.

Andy himself was shocked at his viewers' generosity.

"Thank you so much," he said at the end of his Twitch livestream, which he later posted to YouTube. "I used to drive Uber for $16 an hour."

Twitch largely started as a gaming platform, with some users making as much as $200,000 a year.

It now has a Twitch Affiliate Program for those who are serious about making a career out of gaming, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has even used Twitch to try to increase voter participation and fundraise for charities.

Andy, who's known for his antics including tearing off his shirt in Starbucks and whenever someone says "Ascend," has more than 40,000 subscribers on Twitter and Instagram and 1 million on YouTube.

He's not the only influencer making money with his eyes closed, however.

Ice Poseidon made $5,000 in eight hours for trying to sleep in 2017, according to Vice. Like Andy, he used text-to-speech recognition so his viewers could disrupt his sleep.

There are others whose content is devoted solely to sleep � like Alex Shannon, who makes sleep a central part of his brand.

Since 2018, Shannon has been traveling the world to sleep in some of the most luxurious locations.

Some have also made use of their sleep-related quirks.

The Canadian YouTuber Tyler Krause, who goes by pillowtalkTK, recorded himself talking and walking in his sleep while his girlfriend reacted.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 16:59

God Hole: Mar 2, 2016

Alan Smithee posted:

yo have you escaped your insane killer deathtrap SIMS house?

the simulation is breaking down.

admittedly i was a little slow calling the fire marshall, and in between my op and now one of the apartments in my complex caught on fire. the responding fire department wasted precious minutes angle grinding through the locked gate so they could get their guys through from the main road.

the management company has since opened all the other gates that they welded shut, so i imagine they had an awkward convo with the fire marshall after that incident.

my neighbors put up in a hotel in the meantime, and while they were gone some guys broke into their burned out apartments and stole everything that wasn't crisped.

i don't imagine anyone will face any consequences for this.

the upstairs apartments are the ones that caught fire. the gate / my former prison walls are in the background

God Hole has issued a correction as of 17:39 on Feb 16, 2021

# ? Feb 16, 2021 17:19

Sing Along: Feb 28, 2017; by Athanatos

Holy poo poo

# ? Feb 16, 2021 17:29

Splicer: Oct 16, 2006; from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention, what show is this?

# ? Feb 16, 2021 17:37

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Congratulations on your neighbors committing arson to own the landlord.

Extra credit if they also took the opportunity to score all new stuff from their renter's insurance in the aftermath.

withak has issued a correction as of 18:03 on Feb 16, 2021

# ? Feb 16, 2021 17:59

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

drat those thieves who stole all our stuff and moved it to a storage locker :argh:

# ? Feb 16, 2021 20:26

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Amazing.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 21:16

pnumoman: Sep 26, 2008; I never get the last word, and it makes me very sad.

God Hole posted:

the simulation is breaking down.

admittedly i was a little slow calling the fire marshall, and in between my op and now one of the apartments in my complex caught on fire. the responding fire department wasted precious minutes angle grinding through the locked gate so they could get their guys through from the main road.

the management company has since opened all the other gates that they welded shut, so i imagine they had an awkward convo with the fire marshall after that incident.

my neighbors put up in a hotel in the meantime, and while they were gone some guys broke into their burned out apartments and stole everything that wasn't crisped.

i don't imagine anyone will face any consequences for this.

the upstairs apartments are the ones that caught fire. the gate / my former prison walls are in the background

If you pay maintenance fees or anything, the management company probably passed the fines onto the tenants. Not directly, of course, but I'm gonna go ahead and say the real consequences were probably borne by the actual tenants.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 22:03

boo boo bear: Oct 1, 2009; I'm COMPLETELY OBSESSED with SEXY EGGS

some say it was arson, others are calling it a beacon of liberty that set them free

# ? Feb 16, 2021 22:10

DarkDobe: Jul 11, 2008; Things are looking up...

God Hole posted:

...
my neighbors put up in a hotel in the meantime, and while they were gone some guys broke into their burned out apartments and stole everything that wasn't crisped.
...

This exact thing happened to my family when I was in elementary school. They took my old man's cassette collection, electronics and random other things.

Turns out raiding fire-gutted apartments and housing is an easy score when the place is almost guaranteed to be empty and without power!

(This then lead into my old man cruising around Vancouver checking all of the street-dealer hot spots until he recognized his custom-labeled cassette collection, at which point an 'altercation' occurred. A fun ride-along for a 10 year old me.)

# ? Feb 17, 2021 00:20

Butter Activities: May 4, 2018

Just finished reading Attack Surface which is an incredibly depressing read since it�s basically a cyberpunk novel but just in the near current day.

# ? Feb 17, 2021 00:31

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

DarkDobe posted:

(This then lead into my old man cruising around Vancouver checking all of the street-dealer hot spots until he recognized his custom-labeled cassette collection, at which point an 'altercation' occurred. A fun ride-along for a 10 year old me.)

Anyone else want to heaer that story

# ? Feb 17, 2021 01:37

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

Milo and POTUS posted:

Anyone else want to heaer that story

oh my yes

# ? Feb 17, 2021 02:54

Justin Tyme: Feb 22, 2011

Low Desert Punk posted:

VR companies should really keep prices high because if everyone has VR they'll realize it's a loving boring gimmick real fast

when I first tried it I thought it was the most amazing gizmo I have ever seen but like a month later it was boring and dumb

# ? Feb 17, 2021 03:01

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Justin Tyme posted:

when I first tried it I thought it was the most amazing gizmo I have ever seen but like a month later it was boring and dumb

so basically VR is nintendo Wii?

# ? Feb 17, 2021 06:08

Screaming Idiot: Nov 26, 2007; JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

Rutibex posted:

so basically VR is nintendo Wii?

No, the Wii actually had games and people could afford it.

# ? Feb 17, 2021 06:10

JesusIsTehCool: Aug 26, 2002

Tonight was super hosed up. I saw in the news yesterday that another encampment in LA was getting terrorized by having a metal song blared at them on repeat. Street Watch doesn't launch campaigns like the one we did with the Barney song without the permission of the unhoused people involved. So I went down to the encampment to see if they wanted Street Watch's help getting the music turned off. There were only three people left living there, they told me 2 people left because of the music. These guys were so far gone it didn't even seem like the music was in their top 5 problems. Mental health and substance abuse problems combined with being tortured with music all night, these people were not in a good space. They didn't seem interested in Street Watches help getting the music turned off. I am going to try again, but I don't think its going to matter.

# ? Feb 17, 2021 07:14

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY: Feb 3, 2006

Rutibex posted:

so basically VR is nintendo Wii?

I like to describe VR as the Wii but marketed to people who were angry about the Wii.

# ? Feb 17, 2021 07:24

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

God Hole posted:

the simulation is breaking down.

admittedly i was a little slow calling the fire marshall, and in between my op and now one of the apartments in my complex caught on fire. the responding fire department wasted precious minutes angle grinding through the locked gate so they could get their guys through from the main road.

the management company has since opened all the other gates that they welded shut, so i imagine they had an awkward convo with the fire marshall after that incident.

my neighbors put up in a hotel in the meantime, and while they were gone some guys broke into their burned out apartments and stole everything that wasn't crisped.

i don't imagine anyone will face any consequences for this.

the upstairs apartments are the ones that caught fire. the gate / my former prison walls are in the background

Boy did you deliver on the content

that's some crazy timing, did you do it?

God Hole: "No comment :getin:

# ? Feb 17, 2021 09:20

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

God Hole posted:

the simulation is breaking down.

admittedly i was a little slow calling the fire marshall, and in between my op and now one of the apartments in my complex caught on fire. the responding fire department wasted precious minutes angle grinding through the locked gate so they could get their guys through from the main road.

the management company has since opened all the other gates that they welded shut, so i imagine they had an awkward convo with the fire marshall after that incident.

my neighbors put up in a hotel in the meantime, and while they were gone some guys broke into their burned out apartments and stole everything that wasn't crisped.

i don't imagine anyone will face any consequences for this.

the upstairs apartments are the ones that caught fire. the gate / my former prison walls are in the background

I hope they have renters insurance.

Gonna be a fuckjob of a claim(s) even if they do.

# ? Feb 17, 2021 11:43

Necrothatcher: Mar 26, 2005

Justin Tyme posted:

when I first tried it I thought it was the most amazing gizmo I have ever seen but like a month later it was boring and dumb

counterpoint that I really figured PSVR would be a waste of money but three years on from buying a second-hand one I use it way more than I was expecting and the PSVR games are now dirt cheap.

# ? Feb 17, 2021 11:48