I tried VR porn once when I first got my OG Occulus Rift.
I don't know what happened or what I did wrong but instead of regular VR porn I got thrown into a giant square room where the walls, the floor and the ceiling was all just the porno. Everywhere I looked it was a 30ft tall vision of fuckin'. It was a hypercube of porn. I was the porn and the porn was me.
I lost all concept of space or time or identity in that turgid, sweaty prison cell. It was like I had grabbed hold of a Palantír and suddenly my mind was seared through with the all consuming malice of the Great Burning Eye of Sauron but instead it was a butthole and some guys hog.
I somehow fought enough to tear the headset off my face and collapsed onto the floor.
I never tried it again.
Jugs, ya gotta tell us how you managed to escape the Erotic Tesseract.
I've known folks who are still stuck in it.
I bet it has something to do with the magic inside the JO crystal
central problem with a lot of these things is that it ultimately becomes an advanced form of facetime. and i don't want to facetime.
Does it though? In all the example videos the people the AR goggle user was facetiming with didn't have their own goggles on. And what did they even see? Was there a random webcam setup somewhere in the room by the goggle wearer?
i thought that was showcasing the like, fake avatars, was it not
Apple has to appeal to business for their headset because very few people are casually dropping $3500 to use one at home for porn.
this headset is for no one. here's what i think: they went all in on metaverse bullshit back when it was the new hype shit and got too far to pull back, so they couldn't just scrap the project, but also the metaverse shit is a scamjoke so they couldn't actually make a headset that they intend to sell and build something off of. if they did, it would be like console prices, sold at a loss but profit on the software and walled garden. no, they don't believe this headset is going anywhere, so here, it's $3500 fucking dollars, buy it if you dare you fucking rubes
You can say that, and you’re right that it’s dumb and expensive. But at work we already had like a dozen doctors send urgent requests for us to order units for them.
I am not looking forward to supporting fucking AR headsets.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
which, I mean, sure, it's a pretty cool scene, but the description seems to be overselling it a bit (emphasis mine -- maybe I just don't know enough about the history of TV, I guess?)
The "In the Air Tonight" Scene is arguably the most memorable and famous scene from the Miami Vice television series, and is regularly cited as one of the greatest, most influential moments in the history of television.
It doesn't seem influential to you looking back at it now because it was literally the first show to do a thing that pretty much all prestige television does now.
It's still a really fucking cool scene as well, I love it
What is the thing that every show does now that this scene does?
It costs like half of that to get a decent PC built that can run a Valve Index, and I doubt it will be able to play any of the weird indie shit due to being Apple infrastructure
I just can't imagine who the market is for this that isn't rich executives who love the brand name
For that money I could build a really really good pc over here, even accounting for the NZ tax. Actually it's about the budget I'm saving for!
I want to say the Apple Visio ln is dumb, too expensive, and won't go anywhere, but Apple has a track record of great success with that same game plan.
I want to say the Apple Visio ln is dumb, too expensive, and won't go anywhere, but Apple has a track record of great success with that same game plan.
Apple's definitely had failures, even in recent memory
Apple Maps (their attempt at replacing Google Maps)
the first HomePod ($350, double the price of competitors and triple the price of the later-released mini version which immediately was a better seller)
AirPower (wireless charging three devices at once; obvious fire hazard causing them to cancel before release)
And yes, even iPhones. A fair amount of consumers were able to bend the released version of the 6 (they downplayed it publicly but it leaked via lawsuit that they privately knew this could happen) and the minis of the 12 and 13 each sold so poorly they've given up on minis going forward
Is this dumb, expensive VR stuff all coming out now because it's been in the pipeline since the meta verse seemed like The Next Big Thing?
Again folks, we could be learning to shadowbox based on the movements of Mike Tyson or doing Magic Schoolbus shit with actual classrooms of children and instead these people's wildest imagination amounts to "what if a mall but it looks like a bad version of Playstation Home?"
Is this dumb, expensive VR stuff all coming out now because it's been in the pipeline since the meta verse seemed like The Next Big Thing?
Again folks, we could be learning to shadowbox based on the movements of Mike Tyson or doing Magic Schoolbus shit with actual classrooms of children and instead these people's wildest imagination amounts to "what if a mall but it looks like a bad version of Playstation Home?"
Yes, there are a lot of cool uses for the technology, but I'm cynically guessing there isn't enough money in marketing and designing for schools
I want to say the Apple Visio ln is dumb, too expensive, and won't go anywhere, but Apple has a track record of great success with that same game plan.
Apple's definitely had failures, even in recent memory
Apple Maps (their attempt at replacing Google Maps)
the first HomePod ($350, double the price of competitors and triple the price of the later-released mini version which immediately was a better seller)
AirPower (wireless charging three devices at once; obvious fire hazard causing them to cancel before release)
And yes, even iPhones. A fair amount of consumers were able to bend the released version of the 6 (they downplayed it publicly but it leaked via lawsuit that they privately knew this could happen) and the minis of the 12 and 13 each sold so poorly they've given up on minis going forward
I didn't even know of the first three, but a few hiccups on a device that has spanned fourteen generations aren't failures.
It seems pretty clear to me that the $3500 piece of hardware with "Pro" in the name is being advertised primarily for business cases/people who think they have business cases and not as a high-end piece of popular consumer hardware. Whether that's a good strategy to drive adoption and develop software for the platform for the inevitable followup consumer version is another question, but not seeing anybody who would buy it except boring executives seems by design.
Apple disagrees when it comes to the mini, regardless of what I or you think
I wanted a mini version of the upcoming phone, btw. I need an upgrade between storage issues and charging issues, and the size of the last one available looked pleasant but I wanted to wait until I really needed an upgrade and now they aren’t sold anywhere near me because nobody bought any
The TL;DR of everything is “too big to fail doesn’t mean failures don’t happen”, etc. I would think rich people being involved with bitcoins and NFTs and now Twitter would be the most recent examples needed to show that someone succeeding at something like getting money once doesn’t mean success in general for them is a permanent thing
I want to say the Apple Visio ln is dumb, too expensive, and won't go anywhere, but Apple has a track record of great success with that same game plan.
Well if anyone here is planning to buy one they should instead give me the money to build a new computer. It'll be way more effective and environmentally friendly!
Also I'll post pictures of my kittens in return, and I gotta tell ya, they're pretty cool]
Is this dumb, expensive VR stuff all coming out now because it's been in the pipeline since the meta verse seemed like The Next Big Thing?
Again folks, we could be learning to shadowbox based on the movements of Mike Tyson or doing Magic Schoolbus shit with actual classrooms of children and instead these people's wildest imagination amounts to "what if a mall but it looks like a bad version of Playstation Home?"
In the spring of 2021, the Atlanta Police Foundation announced an attractive deal for city taxpayers.
If the city put up $30 million for a public safety training center, the nonprofit and its philanthropic partners would handle the rest of the project’s $90 million price tag.
Last month, city officials publicly acknowledged for the first time what some decision makers have known since at least August 2021 — the actual cost to taxpayers for the facility is expected to be more than double what officials have continually said, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution review of public documents has found.
The additional cost comes in the form of $1.2 million in annual payments to the Atlanta Police Foundation, repaying the nonprofit organization for the bulk of its contribution toward construction.
Against that backdrop, Atlanta City Council members on Monday are set to consider a proposal that dedicates up to $67 million in city funding to the construction and operation of the facility.
Okay so when the APF said it would handle the rest of construction costs, what they actually meant was they would front the money and then taxpayers would pay them back. That taxpayers would pay for the whole fucking thing.
Very cool, very glad the city council just voted to approve the funding 11-4.
Grift and fraud. Who'dve thunk. I'm sure the city counselors are contractors or have close friends who are contractors who stand to make a big profit off of taxpayer money.
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I want to say the Apple Visio ln is dumb, too expensive, and won't go anywhere, but Apple has a track record of great success with that same game plan.
Apple's definitely had failures, even in recent memory
Apple Maps (their attempt at replacing Google Maps)
the first HomePod ($350, double the price of competitors and triple the price of the later-released mini version which immediately was a better seller)
AirPower (wireless charging three devices at once; obvious fire hazard causing them to cancel before release)
And yes, even iPhones. A fair amount of consumers were able to bend the released version of the 6 (they downplayed it publicly but it leaked via lawsuit that they privately knew this could happen) and the minis of the 12 and 13 each sold so poorly they've given up on minis going forward
Aww man, I like my mini.
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I want to say the Apple Visio ln is dumb, too expensive, and won't go anywhere, but Apple has a track record of great success with that same game plan.
Apple's definitely had failures, even in recent memory
Apple Maps (their attempt at replacing Google Maps)
the first HomePod ($350, double the price of competitors and triple the price of the later-released mini version which immediately was a better seller)
AirPower (wireless charging three devices at once; obvious fire hazard causing them to cancel before release)
And yes, even iPhones. A fair amount of consumers were able to bend the released version of the 6 (they downplayed it publicly but it leaked via lawsuit that they privately knew this could happen) and the minis of the 12 and 13 each sold so poorly they've given up on minis going forward
Aww man, I like my mini.
Yea, the mini is a great device, its just not a popular one. Turns out that as much as folks complain about big phones, they don’t want to give up the screen real estate. My wife has a mini and loves it. Its a great phone.
Also this is my other kitten, Otto and his possum tail.
You know you're important to Otto when he brings you his possum tail. I regularly wake up to find out (and him) on my bed, and sometimes he leaves it outside my partners door as an offering
I want to say the Apple Visio ln is dumb, too expensive, and won't go anywhere, but Apple has a track record of great success with that same game plan.
Apple's definitely had failures, even in recent memory
Apple Maps (their attempt at replacing Google Maps)
the first HomePod ($350, double the price of competitors and triple the price of the later-released mini version which immediately was a better seller)
AirPower (wireless charging three devices at once; obvious fire hazard causing them to cancel before release)
And yes, even iPhones. A fair amount of consumers were able to bend the released version of the 6 (they downplayed it publicly but it leaked via lawsuit that they privately knew this could happen) and the minis of the 12 and 13 each sold so poorly they've given up on minis going forward
I didn't even know of the first three, but a few hiccups on a device that has spanned fourteen generations aren't failures.
One of my favorites was the iPhone 4 antenna problem, where if you held the phone in a certain way (e.g. using a normal single-handed grip) it would lose cell signal. This problem was blown off with a “you’re not holding the phone right” by Apple until they started offering free cases, and then fixed it in the 4S.
I want to say the Apple Visio ln is dumb, too expensive, and won't go anywhere, but Apple has a track record of great success with that same game plan.
Apple's definitely had failures, even in recent memory
Apple Maps (their attempt at replacing Google Maps)
the first HomePod ($350, double the price of competitors and triple the price of the later-released mini version which immediately was a better seller)
AirPower (wireless charging three devices at once; obvious fire hazard causing them to cancel before release)
And yes, even iPhones. A fair amount of consumers were able to bend the released version of the 6 (they downplayed it publicly but it leaked via lawsuit that they privately knew this could happen) and the minis of the 12 and 13 each sold so poorly they've given up on minis going forward
Aww man, I like my mini.
Yea, the mini is a great device, its just not a popular one. Turns out that as much as folks complain about big phones, they don’t want to give up the screen real estate. My wife has a mini and loves it. Its a great phone.
Which is funny in itself because the mini only has a tenth of an inch less than the biggest screen available (on the 7/8) before they switched to the kind that doesn't have a button. People are dumb. 🤷♂️
James Webb has detected floppy organic fart particles from when the universe was 10% its current age (assuming there’s a reason it was reported this way)
That’s plenty of time for those particles to have become floppy fart floozies for me to erotic mindmeld with
So I’m guessing I’ve missed some oh so fun queer-related discourse from libtwitter today, but Spacetwinks commentary is saying something Im pretty sure I posted on the board sometime a few months back, Re: Biden, protecting queer folks and the National Guard:
coming across "the president can't actually DO anything about all the anti-queer stuff, it all has to go through congress, go back to civics class", then thinking about the national guard and ruby bridges, and where modern libs think use of state force is okay
funny little dynamic, where the national guard can and is brought out to brutalize completely innocent people and plenty of libs/dem diehards will handwring "oh jeez, that's unfortunate", but the idea of using the guard to PROTECT minorities is considered an authoritarian move
the state can put you on a secret kill list, it can throw you into a black site without trial, it can use violent force against peaceful protesters, and libs will go "sucks, bro", but doing what eisenhower - not even jfk, EISENHOWER - did to protect minorities is off limits
"the president has done everything he can" the man hasn't even stopped calling people like mitch mcconnell his good friend, and that is a low fucking bar to clear
anyway, same as always, if the dems actually switched to being on the aggressive on this stuff, the same people who were telling you they can't - and shouldn't - do anything else will switch right to cheering them on, saying it's obviously the right thing to do
Just makes me wanna tear my hair out lol
when they switched from "the president can't do anything about student debt" to "the president was always going to do something about student debt" to "the president could ONLY do things about student debt this way", it was like. oh. you guys really don't believe anything, huh
So I’m guessing I’ve missed some oh so fun queer-related discourse from libtwitter today, but Spacetwinks commentary is saying something Im pretty sure I posted on the board sometime a few months back, Re: Biden, protecting queer folks and the National Guard:
coming across "the president can't actually DO anything about all the anti-queer stuff, it all has to go through congress, go back to civics class", then thinking about the national guard and ruby bridges, and where modern libs think use of state force is okay
funny little dynamic, where the national guard can and is brought out to brutalize completely innocent people and plenty of libs/dem diehards will handwring "oh jeez, that's unfortunate", but the idea of using the guard to PROTECT minorities is considered an authoritarian move
the state can put you on a secret kill list, it can throw you into a black site without trial, it can use violent force against peaceful protesters, and libs will go "sucks, bro", but doing what eisenhower - not even jfk, EISENHOWER - did to protect minorities is off limits
"the president has done everything he can" the man hasn't even stopped calling people like mitch mcconnell his good friend, and that is a low fucking bar to clear
anyway, same as always, if the dems actually switched to being on the aggressive on this stuff, the same people who were telling you they can't - and shouldn't - do anything else will switch right to cheering them on, saying it's obviously the right thing to do
Just makes me wanna tear my hair out lol
when they switched from "the president can't do anything about student debt" to "the president was always going to do something about student debt" to "the president could ONLY do things about student debt this way", it was like. oh. you guys really don't believe anything, huh
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I bet it has something to do with the magic inside the JO crystal
i thought that was showcasing the like, fake avatars, was it not
You can say that, and you’re right that it’s dumb and expensive. But at work we already had like a dozen doctors send urgent requests for us to order units for them.
I am not looking forward to supporting fucking AR headsets.
Yeeeeeeeep.
It’s why most of them insisted on $8000 iMac Pros when all they use them for is webmail, excel, and acrobat reader.
This was useful, thanks. I watched that scene and genuinely had no idea what the deal was. I am not up on my television history.
For that money I could build a really really good pc over here, even accounting for the NZ tax. Actually it's about the budget I'm saving for!
The whole thing is just ???
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Apple's definitely had failures, even in recent memory
Apple Maps (their attempt at replacing Google Maps)
the first HomePod ($350, double the price of competitors and triple the price of the later-released mini version which immediately was a better seller)
AirPower (wireless charging three devices at once; obvious fire hazard causing them to cancel before release)
And yes, even iPhones. A fair amount of consumers were able to bend the released version of the 6 (they downplayed it publicly but it leaked via lawsuit that they privately knew this could happen) and the minis of the 12 and 13 each sold so poorly they've given up on minis going forward
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Again folks, we could be learning to shadowbox based on the movements of Mike Tyson or doing Magic Schoolbus shit with actual classrooms of children and instead these people's wildest imagination amounts to "what if a mall but it looks like a bad version of Playstation Home?"
Yes, there are a lot of cool uses for the technology, but I'm cynically guessing there isn't enough money in marketing and designing for schools
And we all know, stonks must go up
I didn't even know of the first three, but a few hiccups on a device that has spanned fourteen generations aren't failures.
I wanted a mini version of the upcoming phone, btw. I need an upgrade between storage issues and charging issues, and the size of the last one available looked pleasant but I wanted to wait until I really needed an upgrade and now they aren’t sold anywhere near me because nobody bought any
The TL;DR of everything is “too big to fail doesn’t mean failures don’t happen”, etc. I would think rich people being involved with bitcoins and NFTs and now Twitter would be the most recent examples needed to show that someone succeeding at something like getting money once doesn’t mean success in general for them is a permanent thing
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Well if anyone here is planning to buy one they should instead give me the money to build a new computer. It'll be way more effective and environmentally friendly!
Also I'll post pictures of my kittens in return, and I gotta tell ya, they're pretty cool
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There's a recent story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the cost of Cop City, and who is really paying for it.
Okay so when the APF said it would handle the rest of construction costs, what they actually meant was they would front the money and then taxpayers would pay them back. That taxpayers would pay for the whole fucking thing.
Very cool, very glad the city council just voted to approve the funding 11-4.
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Aww man, I like my mini.
Yea, the mini is a great device, its just not a popular one. Turns out that as much as folks complain about big phones, they don’t want to give up the screen real estate. My wife has a mini and loves it. Its a great phone.
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A grand total of four spoke in favor of it.
Hooray for representative government!
One of my favorites was the iPhone 4 antenna problem, where if you held the phone in a certain way (e.g. using a normal single-handed grip) it would lose cell signal. This problem was blown off with a “you’re not holding the phone right” by Apple until they started offering free cases, and then fixed it in the 4S.
Which is funny in itself because the mini only has a tenth of an inch less than the biggest screen available (on the 7/8) before they switched to the kind that doesn't have a button. People are dumb. 🤷♂️
James Webb has detected floppy organic fart particles from when the universe was 10% its current age (assuming there’s a reason it was reported this way)
That’s plenty of time for those particles to have become floppy fart floozies for me to erotic mindmeld with
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Remember the one that went around where they covered up the “no one is illegal” part
Lotta opinions, no beliefs
"Orange Man Bad"
Okay but Biden is doing a lot of the same things Trump did
"ORANGE MAN BAD"
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