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Puntification posted:The poo poo always makes me feel like we're gonna see the insufficiently patriotic burned alive in poppy wickermen to ensure a strong harvest before too long. e: at exactly 11 on 11/11 for reasons they have long forgotten Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Because they launched the once and future video game, skyrim.
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Nov 3, 2021 11:57
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Has anybody done remembrance poppy NFTs yet? (1 purchase == 1 respect)
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Nov 3, 2021 12:01
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Guavanaut posted:Halloween's getting a bit ridiculous now Oh god this is my local supermarket Thankfully my fridge is fully stocked up on both milk and respects
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OwlFancier posted:Because they launched the once and future video game, skyrim. Have you tried VR skyrim it's pretty great.
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Barry Foster posted:If the ZOE app is anything to go by (I seem to recall some talk that it was better at predicting outbreaks than the government) poo poo is popping off at the moment It's absolutely not better at predicting anything than anyone, it's a bunch of hypochondriacs and worried well reporting every tickle in their throat as a covid symptom and the fact it's completely disinterested in the result of any subsequent test makes the "data" they collect worthless, particularly given the nasty cold that's also going around. It *may* have been able to give a couple of days advance warning of regional spread in the early days when testing was pretty much only once you were in hospital, but now every household in the country has access to instant at-home testing. Its numbers are so far out of whack with the official ones that it'd have to be a moon-landing-level government coverup (or evidence that the vaccines are wildly more succesful than anyone even dreamed) for them to be correct.
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No way in hell am I spending money on VR anything, I hate buying games full price let alone hundreds of pounds of peripherals.
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Nov 3, 2021 12:06
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TACD posted:Has anybody done remembrance poppy NFTs yet? (1 purchase == 1 respect) They have and I absolutely refuse to look up the tweet again to work out if it was a joke or not.
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I'm going to sell the tomb of the unknown soldier as an NFT and then use the money to buy a tesla and a vr headset.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's absolutely not better at predicting anything than anyone, it's a bunch of hypochondriacs and worried well reporting every tickle in their throat as a covid symptom and the fact it's completely disinterested in the result of any subsequent test makes the "data" they collect worthless, particularly given the nasty cold that's also going around. well that's not what they say 
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OwlFancier posted:No way in hell am I spending money on VR anything, I hate buying games full price let alone hundreds of pounds of peripherals. You should treat yourself, VR's a good laugh. I'd have thought virtual tourism without leaving home would appeal to you.
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VR is the absolute tits, and it's still pretty much in its infancy. I mean it always has been, except now the tech is actually good enough to sustain a market.
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I don't really have much interest in tourism at all, and if I want to be outside I want, like the full experience, sound, sight, smell, heat cold tactile, all of it. Going outside is quite nice, I went to go sleep in the forest last summer because it was too warm, very pleasant. Some of the VR stuff looks neat, but I mostly find myself wishing it was just available as a normal game. Doctor_Fruitbat posted:VR is the absolute tits, and it's still pretty much in its infancy. I mean it always has been, except now the tech is actually good enough to sustain a market. The infancy part is a large part of the disinterest. I might get it when it becomes much cheaper and much more developed, but I am not interested enough to pay to be a guinea pig.
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Barry Foster posted:well that's not what they say If their numbers of active infections are correct then the combined spread of vaccines in this country are 99% effective at preventing hospitalisation and over 99.9% effective at preventing death, and that's from *symptomatic* cases which are at most 75% of total cases. That's only a rough estimate because for some reason (I'm sure not to stymie exactly this kind of comparison) they don't actually publish daily new infections as a raw dataset so it's much harder to compare against official numbers. The point is they're claiming that both outright numbers and rate of growth are substantially higher than the official numbers and yet deaths and hospitalisations are growing at a far, far slower rate, so either the government are lying about deaths (not impossible, granted), the vaccines are so effective we can hold the world doorknob-licking tournament here tomorrow with no fear, or Zoe have a fundamentally flawed methodology that it's against their commercial interests to fix because scary numbers keep them in the news and make more people sign up to have all their health data sold.
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This guy, except covered in poppies, being dragged to the cliffside to placate the old gods of the sea. 
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OwlFancier posted:I don't really have much interest in tourism at all, and if I want to be outside I want, like the full experience, sound, sight, smell, heat cold tactile, all of it. Going outside is quite nice, I went to go sleep in the forest last summer because it was too warm, very pleasant. It's not really in infancy anymore, that was true 4 years ago. Also you'd be surprised how immersive it is with hand tracking. You can get a lenovo explorer on ebay in good condition for under 200 quid, it's a very good budget headset (I did exactly this). The bigger problem is having the computer to run it and buying the games which can be quite expensive, though they are in bundles and on sale occasionally. Still it's probably about £300 all told. There's also the oculus quest 2 if you don't have a gaming PC, but it's a bit more pricey. Apologies for the VR games chat.
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Necrothatcher posted:You should treat yourself, VR's a good laugh. I'd have thought virtual tourism without leaving home would appeal to you. Doctor_Fruitbat posted:VR is the absolute tits, and it's still pretty much in its infancy. I mean it always has been, except now the tech is actually good enough to sustain a market. For me is just too much of a novelty. I just want to sit back, relax and play games, not stand up in the middle of the room. Very fun at parties but I don't see myself ever getting one.
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I could buy fifty hours of eating fish and chips for £300. And also thus nearly two months food.
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Mega Comrade posted:For me is just too much of a novelty. I just want to sit back, relax and play games, not stand up in the middle of the room. There just don't seem to be many actual games that aren't novelties. Until there is, it's hard to justify the cost. Plus if we're going to have expensive peripherals I'd rather the fake music instrument genre came back, loved Rock Band.
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feedmegin posted:That's what we are doing. Our lease at Dirty Des's pad was up anyway so we've sold up and got a smaller office in Aldgate - it is no longer physically possible to have everyone in 5 days a week even if we wanted to. Plan is basically 2 days a fortnight in for meetings and planning and that only from February. Regular set top box snuggling remains at home from now on. We were supposed to be going back in Nov for a couple of days a week (and hopefully employ/train up a couple of new 1st-line techs) but that went on hold what with rate spikes, and now we've just been told we've been sold off to a Portuguese company so god alone knows what's next. On the bright side the one guy we've seen from our new masters seems decent, they seem keen on keeping us as a going local concern, and having a possible bolthole in Europe could come in very handy in the next few years...
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last christmas I drank a lot and played superhotVR with the inlaws and it was great, nothing beats jeopardising the living room furniture by blindly jumping around in a space hat
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Guavanaut posted:Halloween's getting a bit ridiculous now this is what happens when you're not allowed to say "no, that's loving mental"
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forkboy84 posted:There just don't seem to be many actual games that aren't novelties. Until there is, it's hard to justify the cost. aren't all video games novelties?
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OwlFancier posted:I could buy fifty hours of eating fish and chips for £300. And also thus nearly two months food. Yeah but Fish And Chip Simulator on Steam has nearly endless replayability value so depends if you're in for a more long term investment.
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Mega Comrade posted:For me is just too much of a novelty. I just want to sit back, relax and play games, not stand up in the middle of the room. drat, is it really necessary to stand? I was getting tempted before.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I assume you mean the N&S building up by Billingsgate Yup. For the 3 weeks or so I worked there before lockdown, I could look out the window and see this https://www.alamy.com/weather-vane-billingsgate-fish-market-london-image67943750.html
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Guavanaut posted:Halloween's getting a bit ridiculous now At least this one is actually in a british uniform, 9 times out of 10 when the poppy nonces do something like this they use a mannequin in an american uniform (or that one bloke who put an SS skeleton in his front garden)
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Oh dear me posted:drat, is it really necessary to stand? I was getting tempted before. Not for everything. Some games are just basically a normal game with head tracking and 3d (the vr abilities for elite dangerous for example) . But the bulk of the games involve full movement yes.
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jbrereton sucking up to Johnson again at PMQs.
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TACD posted:Has anybody done remembrance poppy NFTs yet? (1 purchase == 1 respect)
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TACD posted:Has anybody done remembrance poppy NFTs yet? (1 purchase == 1 respect) my Proof Of Respect cryptocurrency is so popular it takes two hundred GPUs remembering the war dead at top speeds to mine a single coin
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That's pretty much how prayer wheels work.
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Necrothatcher posted:aren't all video games novelties? I'd not have said so. I'd have regarded "novelty" as something new & possibly unusual & I don't think that's really applicable to a form of entertainment that's been around longer than I've been alive. I'd not say they are all disposable because that would be unfair but also a lot of VR games seem more like "experiences" & "showcases for the technology" or "proof of concepts" rather than something you can sink hours into. Something like Job Simulator seems very fun to whip out at a party & go "check this out" but once you rattle around in it for half an hour is there much more to get from it? Meanwhile, sure I'll play another few hundred hours of this loving Paradox game because I'm a mug.
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Oh dear me posted:drat, is it really necessary to stand? I was getting tempted before. Not at all, there's plenty of stuff that you can play seated such as racing sims, anything that has the option of teleportation movement (most games!), media stuff, PokerstarsVR and the fantastic goon-made Gorilla Tag. It's still quite a novelty to me though - i find I tend to pick my VR headset up for just a week or so every 3-4 months when there's something new I want to try. My regular gaming still happens on flat screens.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It'severy household in the country has access to instant at-home testing. I still do a test before seeing somebody but it feels more like a symbolic ritual, is it useful?
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Angepain posted:my Proof Of Respect cryptocurrency is so popular it takes two hundred GPUs remembering the war dead at top speeds to mine a single coin 
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forkboy84 posted:I'd not have said so. I'd have regarded "novelty" as something new & possibly unusual & I don't think that's really applicable to a form of entertainment that's been around longer than I've been alive. I think VR generally being a more active experience and just not really wanting to wear a headset for hours at a time means its better for shorter and more arcadey experiences. That said I've been gaming for decades and pretty much all of my most memorable experiences in the last two years have been in VR games.
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