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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



that 170 degree rear end though

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The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Trashman posted:

vr porn already exists, I haven't actually watched any but I gotta just assume it's the same as POV porn but a bigger FOV???

absurd. if you can't move through the scene and view from all angles it's not vr.

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

C.H.O.M.E posted:

trumpulus rift

mods, can u do namechanges for entire countries?

My Linux Rig
Mar 27, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 6 years!

Trashman posted:

vr porn already exists, I haven't actually watched any but I gotta just assume it's the same as POV porn but a bigger FOV???

"hello I've got a complaint about my vr porn, when I reach for my dick in the VR, my hand is no where near my real dick, please fix"

moron izzard
Nov 17, 2006

Grimey Drawer

Trashman posted:

vr porn already exists, I haven't actually watched any but I gotta just assume it's the same as POV porn but a bigger FOV???

If you aren't sittin or layin exactly like the viewer in the vid it looks like you're fuckin a gigantess.

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
that's a feature

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

https://twitter.com/nathie944/status/799342932499238912

:3:

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy
using tech to mess with primates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8NRh9UI1aQ

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Trashman posted:

vr porn already exists, I haven't actually watched any but I gotta just assume it's the same as POV porn but a bigger FOV???

Vaginal reality

My Linux Rig
Mar 27, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 6 years!

I wish my job was to mess with monkeys :3:

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003



Can't chimps rip your arms off? Seems like a bad idea.

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

chimps are very strong but also very smart. idk people do stupider poo poo with like lions and tigers and those are way more dangerous

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Bloody posted:

chimps are very strong but also very smart. idk people do stupider poo poo with like lions and tigers and those are way more dangerous

I was thinking of the chimp that tore that lady's jaw off, but that poor thing had suffered a lifetime of abuse.

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

My Linux Rig posted:

I wish my job was to mess with monkeys :3:

have u heard of lucy, the chimp raised like a human as an experiment in the 60s, by a crazy psychologist and his wife? in retrospect it was.... highly unethical, to say the least

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(chimpanzee) posted:

Temerlin and his wife raised Lucy as if she were a human child, teaching her to eat with silverware, dress herself, flip through magazines, and sit in a chair at the dinner table. She was taught signs taken from American Sign Language by primatologist Roger Fouts as part of an ape language project and eventually learned 140 signs. She appeared in Life magazine, where she became famous for drinking straight gin, rearing a cat, and using Playgirl and a vacuum cleaner for sexual gratification.[2][3] Around that time, the Temerlins introduced her for the first time to a male chimpanzee, and she was frightened and did not relate to him, let alone find him attractive
...
By the time she was 12, Lucy had become very strong and was very destructive in the Temerlin house. Eventually, she was shipped to a chimpanzee rehabilitation center in Gambia, accompanied by University of Oklahoma psychology graduate student Janis Carter.[4] For years, Lucy was unable to relate to the other chimps in the rehabilitation center, and never reproduced, displaying sexual attraction only to humans. Lucy showed many signs of depression, including refusal to eat, and expressed "hurt" via sign language.

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy
otoh this was the 60s so that chimp probably got treated better than an adult human of similarly problematic mental and physical capacity

Dixie Cretin Seaman fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Nov 19, 2016

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





there were similar experiments with a dolphin, who killed himself because of heartbreak

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
creating a suicidal heartbroken dolphin is quite the scientific accomplishment

they should check if a human child raised by monkeys later gets depressed around actual humans, or if humans are just the superior race to hang with, whatever the species

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

unpacked robinhood posted:

they should check if a human child raised by monkeys later gets depressed around actual humans, or if humans are just the superior race to hang with, whatever the species

ill start the wiki NSF grant application

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#Documented_or_alleged_cases lotta prior work to study there

Wrath of the Bitch King
May 11, 2005

Research confirms that black is a color like silver is a color, and that beyond black is clarity.

Citizen Tayne posted:

I was thinking of the chimp that tore that lady's jaw off, but that poor thing had suffered a lifetime of abuse.

don't gently caress with chimps. they'll rip your balls off and maul your face. it's how they do things, and they're ridiculously strong.

if you gave me some stupid scenario where I got a spear and had to fight a lion or a chimp I'd pick the lion every time.

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Wrath of the Bitch King posted:

don't gently caress with chimps. they'll rip your balls off and maul your face. it's how they do things, and they're ridiculously strong.

if you gave me some stupid scenario where I got a spear and had to fight a lion or a chimp I'd pick the lion every time.

theres a story of a guy who had a pet chimp that he would take around to random towns and challenge tough guys to beat the chimp in a wrestling match for money. there were always guys who took the bait but the chimp always beat them easily.

also, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDxg0pJAX4

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

humans are insanely weak garbage animals

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Bloody posted:

humans are insanely weak garbage animals

insanely weak garbage animals with machine guns, atomic bombs, and a death wish

ADINSX
Sep 9, 2003

Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

SmokaDustbowl posted:

insanely weak garbage animals with machine guns, atomic bombs, and a death wish

I didn't watch planet of the apes but the premise seems kinda shaky. We're on the verge of wiping out gorillas just from poaching, so I'm curious how they turn that around to taking over the planet

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Humans are basically the grey aliens of the earth

Spooky, hairless, physically weak and frail, but invulnerable because of their vastly superior technology

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Nov 19, 2016

Wrath of the Bitch King
May 11, 2005

Research confirms that black is a color like silver is a color, and that beyond black is clarity.

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

theres a story of a guy who had a pet chimp that he would take around to random towns and challenge tough guys to beat the chimp in a wrestling match for money. there were always guys who took the bait but the chimp always beat them easily.

also, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDxg0pJAX4

two creatures wearing diapers BATTLE IT OUT over a moat

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Wrath of the Bitch King posted:

two creatures wearing diapers BATTLE IT OUT over a moat

but enough about my thanksgiving plans

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy
humans have plenty of biological advantages over other species, not just tech or even just smarts.

gorillas and chimps didn't spread out of the jungles and populate the entire planet, that only started when we gave up massive upper body strength and grip suited for tree climbing, in exchange for more efficient long distance travel and far superior physical endurance that comes with upright posture and metabolic adaptations. if you've seen the youtub on traditional african endurance hunters you know this, we can literally just track big prey for dozens and dozens of miles until it is too exhausted to continue and just collapses.

a primatologist criticized the planet of the apes movies based on the fact that gorillas and chimps actually don't have proper musculoskeletal structure to accurately throw projectile weapons. despite its immense strength a chimp can't really throw a baseball or hunt from long distance with a spear. that's a physical adaptation humans got when we stood fully erect.

ive also heard that humans are particularly good at healing from major injuries compared to other large mammals that often just go into shock and die

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

I too am fully erect

Wrath of the Bitch King
May 11, 2005

Research confirms that black is a color like silver is a color, and that beyond black is clarity.

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

humans have plenty of biological advantages over other species, not just tech or even just smarts.

gorillas and chimps didn't spread out of the jungles and populate the entire planet, that only started when we gave up massive upper body strength and grip suited for tree climbing, in exchange for more efficient long distance travel and far superior physical endurance that comes with upright posture and metabolic adaptations. if you've seen the youtub on traditional african endurance hunters you know this, we can literally just track big prey for dozens and dozens of miles until it is too exhausted to continue and just collapses.

a primatologist criticized the planet of the apes movies based on the fact that gorillas and chimps actually don't have proper musculoskeletal structure to accurately throw projectile weapons. despite its immense strength a chimp can't really throw a baseball or hunt from long distance with a spear. that's a physical adaptation humans got when we stood fully erect.

ive also heard that humans are particularly good at healing from major injuries compared to other large mammals that often just go into shock and die

you have any literature on this you could recommend? I'm interested in this kind of thing

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
human civilization is really just a weird specialization of our bizarre symbiotic relationship with wheat, corn, and rice (and to a lesser degree chickens and cows). our entire existence is basically just to facilitate the growth and reproduction of these species.

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

The Management posted:

human civilization is really just a weird specialization of our bizarre symbiotic relationship with wheat, corn, and rice (and to a lesser degree chickens and cows). our entire existence is basically just to facilitate the growth and reproduction of these species.

I think you got it backwards

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

SmokaDustbowl posted:

I think you got it backwards

does corn ever come to where you live, remove your predators, provide you with food and water, and make sure you're getting laid?

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

The Management posted:

does corn ever come to where you live, remove your predators, provide you with food and water, and make sure you're getting laid?

yeah. there's a documentary called children of the corn you should check out

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





The Management posted:

does corn ever come to where you live, remove your predators, provide you with food and water, and make sure you're getting laid?

I think I read that too, by that Israeli anthropologist, the idea that wheat just used us to propagate itself

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


The Management posted:

does KoRn ever come to where you live, remove your predators, provide you with food and water, and make sure you're getting laid?

Berious
Nov 13, 2005
I remember before the public got their hands on VR the gaming press and opinion formers were sperging about how amazing the experience was and how you Just Had To Try It. Then it came out and the buzz immediately died under the weight of 100 overpriced VR experiences. I'd be surprised if 1% of people on Steam are playing VR poo poo. It's dead Jim.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Berious posted:

I remember before the public got their hands on VR the gaming press and opinion formers were sperging about how amazing the experience was and how you Just Had To Try It.

So you mean 1995?

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
thanks to the occulus thread I learned that wheat is super smart and conned us into cultivating it

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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Wrath of the Bitch King posted:

you have any literature on this you could recommend? I'm interested in this kind of thing

humans being uniquely suited to accurately throwing projectiles, and how human evolution favored long distance endurance running. one important part of that i forgot to mention is we dissipate heat through sweat which is much more efficient than, say, panting (and it helps having less body hair than most mammals).

humans also heal from wounds differently than many mammals in that many animals have loose skin that shrinks to close a cut but humans (and pigs apparently) mostly close wounds by rapid growth of new skin cells (scar tissue). i think ive read that this is beneficial in certain circumstances for recovery from injuries but can't find a good reference, maybe for very deep wounds?

The Management posted:

human civilization is really just a weird specialization of our bizarre symbiotic relationship with wheat, corn, and rice (and to a lesser degree chickens and cows). our entire existence is basically just to facilitate the growth and reproduction of these species.

don't forget doggos! we basically co-evolved with them.

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