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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2019 22:19:02 GMT
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Post by Destry on Mar 19, 2019 22:30:19 GMT
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Post by Shenguin on Mar 19, 2019 23:59:29 GMT
Thanks Destry! If I weren't so familiar with the song's lyrics, I'd take it as a compliment.
We've probably discussed this before, but I didn't bother reading any of it. What are people's thoughts on PS VR? I briefly used a VR headset recently, and enjoyed it. I was on some sort of roller-coaster through a dinosaur park. It was good. I mean, clearly there's something deeply unsettling about cutting oneself off from external reality so much that a burglar could break in and nick all of ones (non-PS) stuff without one noticing, but then I do that anyway every night when I fall asleep and have those dreams about being naked at work (everyone else is dressed, and not happy with me).
Top seven questions:
1) Who has used it?
2) Is Wipeout 2018 in VR as good as I want it to be?
3) Will it make me forget about Brexit and climate change?
4) Does it include rare earth minerals mined in appalling conditions by people forced into dangerous labour who will eventually die from chronic illnesses as a result of their working conditions, and is it made in factories by people who are treated as slave labour to the extent that it vastly increases the incidence of suicide, early deaths, and child deaths in their families?
5) Will it keep me sober?
6) Would the 11-year old let me use it?
7) Is it just another technological trinket devised in a vain attempt to paper over the barren hollowness of my ridiculous life?
Edit: if the answer to 7 is a yes, that's probably enough to swing it for me, unless the answer to 6 is definitely no.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 20, 2019 0:10:28 GMT
8) will the 11yr old barf on me after having a shot.
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Post by Shenguin on Mar 20, 2019 0:13:07 GMT
I've already had to clean up its sick in a pub toilet. I've barfed on myself in the past. I figure I can cope with that.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 20, 2019 0:15:41 GMT
Trying to make pals with the 11yr old by purchasing him pints won't work.
{Edit}Pro tip. Refer to her children as he/she. 'it' tends to cause offence. But I'm sure you know that.
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Post by Faceless on Mar 20, 2019 6:35:07 GMT
{Edit}Pro tip. Refer to her children as he/she. 'it' tends to cause offence. But I'm sure you know that. I think 'they' is the correct term. We're all Gruan readers after all. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Mar 20, 2019 8:31:50 GMT
I watched the new American Gods last night, it was alright but probably not good enough to justify extending my free Prime trial any further.
Lovely day out there today, very Spring like.
I have no experience with VR.
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Mar 20, 2019 8:43:32 GMT
What are peoples thoughts on Google Stevia? Its mildly frightening that one of the few companies able to put data centres all over the world with custom GPUs in them is getting into streaming gaming. Who else has a chance?
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Post by Pyjakson on Mar 20, 2019 8:44:40 GMT
VR is grouped with things like "youtube personalities" and "streaming" in the sense that they happened after I stopped accepting that new things could be good.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 20, 2019 8:55:15 GMT
I watched the new American Gods last night, it was alright but probably not good enough to justify extending my free Prime trial any further. Lovely day out there today, very Spring like. I have no experience with VR. Do you have a phone contract with EE? They're giving 6 months free Amazon video. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Mar 20, 2019 8:56:04 GMT
What are peoples thoughts on Google Stevia? Its mildly frightening that one of the few companies able to put data centres all over the world with custom GPUs in them is getting into streaming gaming. Who else has a chance? Microsoft seem to be positioning themselves in a similar way. |
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 20, 2019 9:07:34 GMT
What are peoples thoughts on Google Stevia? Its mildly frightening that one of the few companies able to put data centres all over the world with custom GPUs in them is getting into streaming gaming. Who else has a chance? Microsoft also have data centres. They also have games studios already and plenty of.deals in place. The games for Stevia need compiled for it, the MS solution doesn't. I wouldn't rule them out yet. Google does have lots of fuck off huge cables circling the globe though. {Edit}My one experience of proper vr - ie not Google cardboard - was oculus rift. It was incredible. Can't comment on psvr. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Mar 20, 2019 9:10:26 GMT
I watched the new American Gods last night, it was alright but probably not good enough to justify extending my free Prime trial any further. Lovely day out there today, very Spring like. I have no experience with VR. Do you have a phone contract with EE? They're giving 6 months free Amazon video. Virgin I am afraid, but I will see what Mrs Fark has - thanks for the heads up |
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 20, 2019 9:15:29 GMT
Hullo. I had a joyful evening walk in Plymouth last night. I ate at a restaurant, saw that 7m tall copper monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal and went for a further stroll down Union street into the Stonehouse area where many drunks wished me a 'Good Evening'. Delightful. I only wish scubar could have been there. |
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Post by amipal on Mar 20, 2019 9:16:24 GMT
Morning all.
I'm currently involved in a discussion as to what the past tense of "to wing it" is.
a) I wang it
b) I wung it
c) I winged it
I've gone for c) as the other two aren't words.
Games: Odyssey continues to take up my time. On Crete again, trying to expose a cult member.
TV: finished the Ken Burns Vietnam War doc. Simply astounding television.
OTTM: painting the ceiling in the study.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 9:23:53 GMT
I have the PSVR.
I have rarely used it since last april.
11yr old. VR is not recommended for kids under 13 as it will ruin their eyes.
It’s the isolating myself from the outside world that I don’t like. Especially when playing a game the cat comes along and jumps on you.
I’d never get rid of it though.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Mar 20, 2019 9:24:06 GMT
saw that 7m tall copper monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal Tiddles' hated of tall policemen who are interested in the arts is again rearing its head. |
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Post by llamaman1991 on Mar 20, 2019 9:30:51 GMT
Morning all!
I've been dividing my time in The Division 2 with small bits of Devil May Cry 5 on the side.
Unfortunately, this is all going to change on Friday when Sekiro drops.
Google 'Stevia' is an absolutely mad concept that I do not understand.
Jade Raymond is a angel though.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 20, 2019 9:33:26 GMT
saw that 7m tall copper monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal Tiddles' hated of tall policemen who are interested in the arts is again rearing its head. *Shakes fist* You beat me to that joke. |
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Post by Nutkiins on Mar 20, 2019 9:35:19 GMT
Shen
I have some experience with PSVR
2) How good do you want it to be?
3) Absolutely no way
4) You can be sure of it
5) Are you having a bubble, mate?
6) Yes! You will form a lifelong bond over it
7) 100% YES! But will it work...
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 20, 2019 9:37:24 GMT
"Toadying up to someone has its origins in 17th century markets, where quacks would sell their ‘magic’ medicines by having their assistants swallow a ‘poisonous’ live toad and then be miraculously cured. The ‘toad-eater’ became seen as a fawning flatterer."
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Post by Faceless on Mar 20, 2019 10:06:12 GMT
"Toadying up to someone has its origins in 17th century markets, where quacks would sell their ‘magic’ medicines by having their assistants swallow a ‘poisonous’ live toad and then be miraculously cured. The ‘toad-eater’ became seen as a fawning flatterer." Mad Max: Fury Toad |
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Post by Tuffers on Mar 20, 2019 10:13:52 GMT
Amphibian/film puns?
Aahm oot.
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Post by Tuffers on Mar 20, 2019 10:14:26 GMT
Reservoir Frogs.
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