Tarquinn2049

Yeah, I’m not sure. People are calling it highlighting, but it doesn’t fit any reasonable pattern to have been manually highlighted. Is there some sort of bad automated highlighting? Or just someone still learning what highlighting is even used for. Or is it just some sort of style thing?

I’m definitely gonna write some of these down and try to work them in. But some of them have earned their 0 uses so far.

Some of the near zero but not zero combinations don’t make a lot of sense to not just be zero.

Like dumbbag, scumhat, dipclown… I don’t know about you, but those ones colored as “thousands of uses” doesn’t seem right to me. Unless it was open so far as to search for those words used back to back and not specifically attached in any way as implied.

But yeah, there are so many combinations that seem way too far into the orange to make sense to me. I’m curious to see the actual numbers the graph was built with.

If you are really worried about getting caught not following the exact rules as written, you could always pay for multi device connections… then they won’t care.

But it’s definitely possible to set up your VR router in a way that is not gonna bother anything. Most people in this thread don’t know that your VR router doesn’t need internet access. If the VR stream is all it is doing, it can be isolated from the internet, and the isp won’t know or care it exists.

The other thing about rules, that they don’t tell us autistic people, is that following rules is actually kind of optional. Certainly more optional than it feels like to us. Think about it in terms of what the people were thinking when they wrote the rules, and who will be enforcing the rules and what they will care about. And what the enforcement of the rules would look like. (In this case, the most likely initial outcome of them enforcing these rules would be either an e-mail or paper letter telling you they noticed you are breaking a rule, possibly with details to help you stop breaking it, but likely not). Try to sus out the “spirit” of the rules rather than the letter of the rules. That is how all the other humans use rules and why to us it always feels like everyone is breaking all the rules and getting away with it.

If you follow every rule to the letter… you really can’t do anything. At all. Like, literally, even we are breaking rules we don’t yet know about every single day.

Once you have to put that amount of effort and attention in for a reasonable income… you are just doing a job… a job no-one benefits from. So it won’t be satisfying to do. No longer beating the system, just beating yourself.

Oh ok, I assumed they could do it the same way people did it on steam deck. Someone got Virtual Desktop working on that. It didn’t run very well, but it worked, lol.

Or Virtual Desktop, it’s not as free, but it has as many knobs as it needs and much higher compatibility, especially once you switch over to vdxr runtime. And it’s still pretty seamless.

No idea, I only noticed it a couple weeks ago. The prime gaming redemption site where I used to get stuff for lost ark now has a listing for free games, does amazon games, epic games, and gog games. The epic games are different ones than the free ones directly from epic.

There are even more free games from prime for the epic store, but the epic store has it’s own free games too that don’t require any subscription to anything.

To be fair to the tv, it’s not letting you know it’s off, it’s letting you know it’s still on but in sleep mode. TV’s are just giant tablets now. If it was off, you’d have to wait for it to boot into its operating system the next time you wanted to watch TV.

Yeah, I’m not certain he would be able to come up with ways to insult people that aren’t just projecting the insults that hurt him. He doesn’t even usually know what they mean at first. He’ll just project onto them a random negative thing people have said about him and then either deny it if it didn’t stick, or lean into it if it did.

He’s not creative enough to come up with insults actually about them on the spot. Those have to be pre-planned or handed to him.

As someone who did not stand up often enough, listen to it. I can barely sit for 15 minutes now without being in excruciating pain. The only chairs I can comfortably sit in are recliners. I’m only 40 now, and my problem started at least a decade ago. It’s common advice for a reason.

I’ve only had one led light bulb fail so far despite being an early adopter. And it failed by starting to flicker occasionally, not burn out. So the rest have lasted almost 20 years now.

Might be time to look into what you are feeding them. Check if your power is regular.

Do a demo of a Quest 3 next time you see one.

I want VR from someone better too. But still gonna use the Quest 3 for now. It’s pretty awesome. I don’t know how long I would have to wait for something worth using to come from someone else. But it’s longer than I would want to. Been in VR for 10 years now, and it’s still awesome.

I mean, that was an issue in the first month or so. Though I could see if the automated tools people use for this specific purpose might not stay up to date. I haven’t specifically interacted with those. But proper AI tools have in-filling to correct mistakes like that, you can keep the rest of the image and just “reroll” a section of it until whatever you didn’t like about it is fixed. Super quick and easy.

It’s a bit of a blend of it has always been a big deal, and that it is indeed more of a big deal still now because of how easy, accessible, and believable the AI can be. Like even nowadays, Photoshop hits only one point of that triangle. But it was even less capable back in the day. It could hit half of one of those points at any given time.

Basically, a nude generated by a good AI has to be proven false. Because it doesn’t always immediately seem as such at first. If you have seen obvious AI fakes, they are just that, obvious. There are many non-obvious ones that you might have seen and not known they were fake. That is, of course, assuming you have looked.

The other reason it can be more of a big deal now is that kids have been doing it of other kids. And since the results can be believable, the parents didn’t know they were fake to start with. So it would blow up as if it was real before finding out it was AI. And anything involving that is gonna be a big deal.

Being locked out only happened when it was a facebook account, that was the whole reason they went back to Oculus accounts. People would do dumb stuff on facebook and get banned, not knowing they would lose their games from that too. And despite the accounts being linked, they were still handled by two different departments, with poorly trained staff. You’d occasionally get someone that could restore your purchases, but the vast majority didn’t know how and passed the buck and blamed the other team.

It was just a huge unnecessary headache. It doesn’t happen anymore. You can be a huge jerk all you like on the internet and it won’t cost your games anymore, it’ll just cost what it normally costs.

As for headsets that work like monitors, it would be the ones that have HDMI or Display Port, ideally display port at this point as the res and framerate is getting up there and display port is more likely to be up to date on your hardware. They don’t have their own games and can’t be used wirelessly, but they should work for pcvr still.

https://youtu.be/ANjVcI6s2NA

This one seems to be one of the more popular options, but it also kinda sounds like it sucks. But, no account needed apparently. Not sure the value is worth the cost.

The current version of “meta” account is just reverted back to an Oculus account but renamed. It has the same functionality it used to when it was called an Oculus account. And specifically is missing all the functionality of a facebook account. You can optionally also have a facebook account connected to it if you want the social features, but you don’t need them.

As far as I know there are no headsets that don’t require an account, as buying games is entirely digital now. The account is how they know what games you have purchased. The only reason to not have an account is if they want to attract users that want to sideload games only and not get them from a store. There isn’t much incentive on their end to provide that experience, especially since all the other headsets they are competing with are using the “game console” model, of selling the hardware at a loss, and making it up with software sales. Trying to be the one company that has to profit off the hardware sales too makes your headset look like a bad idea to buy. Even if some people would want that, the VR market isn’t big enough yet for that to be a viable option. Too many people are just looking for the cheapest up front purchase, no matter what they have to sign to get that price.

Maybe 5-10 years from now it would be worth doing, but it’s hard to say for sure if it ever will be. Imagine trying to launch a new console now that was similarly powerful to the current consoles, but costed 50% more. The upside being that it could run the games of both (somehow legally). That console may sound like a good idea to some of us, but how many? Enough? Probably not. Even selling hardware for profit doesn’t mean profit from day 1, you need to sell enough to cover research, development, and manufacturing. Not to mention the salaries of all your employees. So, they might need to sell a million units before they are out of the hole.

Edit: there are VR headsets that are basically just monitors. You probably don’t need an account for some of those. But they also are pretty limited in usefulness.

If it helps, my beard was super patchy underneath the 3 feet of hair that completely covers it up if it still is. Growing facial hair for most people is about being able to get through the patchy part. Movember helps if you want social cover. By the end of that month, if it still looks bad, you can decide then if it’s worth continuing or shave it off when everyone else does. Secretly, that is pretty much the whole point of movember, a socially sanctioned event where no matter how bad it looks, you aren’t supposed to shave it off. And it’s for awareness of men’s health issues. But mostly the first thing, hehe.