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  1. Comment on How's VR gaming these days? in ~games

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    Valve Index, Knuckles Controllers, RTX 2080 TI: It's a lot of fun. Very immersive, I lose myself in those environments. Games like Pavlov and Onward are great shooters... But it's not something...

    Valve Index, Knuckles Controllers, RTX 2080 TI: It's a lot of fun. Very immersive, I lose myself in those environments. Games like Pavlov and Onward are great shooters...

    But it's not something you do more than an hour or two of at a time. Hard to justify the cost for that reason.

    Still 0 regrets: I love being part of what is clearly the start of something bigger... but the pc hardware required to run what amounts to the equivalent of SD Dvds is the problem. When foveated rendering becomes more possible then we'll start to see blu-ray quality resolutions be feasible for the refresh rates required by VR. Until then... it's very much enthusiast only.

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Chinese-British citizen posts detailed explanation of reasoning behind Chinese views on Hong Kong/China/Blizzard situation in ~games

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    I'm not sure I can really buy that line.

    But at the same time China is not as totalitarian as many make it out to be.

    I'm not sure I can really buy that line.

    10 votes

  3. Comment on Where did all the nerds go? in ~talk

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    Part of what you're seeing is the victory of nerd-dom: Everyone else realized that computer games were cool. Part of it is also that you're unable to see the stratification that still exists....

    Part of what you're seeing is the victory of nerd-dom: Everyone else realized that computer games were cool.

    Part of it is also that you're unable to see the stratification that still exists. Among those with their noses buried in cyberspace are the new jocks, the new preps, the new losers. It's simply being out of touch with exactly how the younger generation functions.

    That said: most people (even back in the 80s) don't fit into an easy category like that really. Modern "youth" allows for a much wider range of sub-cultures and groupings that intermingle because of a wider reach for friendships.

    36 votes

  4. Comment on Fairphone updates its ethical smartphone for 2019 in ~tech

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    It'd be interesting to see someone like LineageOS collaborate with Fairphone to release modern android to their systems. The 4gb RAM is not too shabby either.

    It'd be interesting to see someone like LineageOS collaborate with Fairphone to release modern android to their systems.

    The 4gb RAM is not too shabby either.

  5. Comment on Twitch suspends popular leftist streamer after controversial 9/11 comments in ~tech

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    On mobile it's entirely unreadable basically. Endless scrolling.

    On mobile it's entirely unreadable basically. Endless scrolling.

    25 votes

  7. Comment on Qantas 'research flights' to test nineteen hour non-stop London, New York to Sydney routes in ~transport

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    I've done the 11 hour direct flight from NYC to Hawaii and didn't really have a hard time with it. My wife on the other hand had a hard time. Different strokes I guess. I'd take a 19 hour non-stop...

    I've done the 11 hour direct flight from NYC to Hawaii and didn't really have a hard time with it. My wife on the other hand had a hard time.

    Different strokes I guess. I'd take a 19 hour non-stop to Sydney.

  8. Comment on Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests in ~misc

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    That's probably valid, though I suspect that's always true within the lens of a country. As a left leaning American I see enormous amounts of criticism for America/Republicans pulling out of the...

    That's probably valid, though I suspect that's always true within the lens of a country.

    As a left leaning American I see enormous amounts of criticism for America/Republicans pulling out of the Iran deal and Paris agreement: but I live in NYC and tend to consume left news sources.

    What you're experiencing, I suspect, is the fact that most of the English speaking internet sways to American points of view.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests in ~misc

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    The USA having done abhorrent things does not excuse Chinese crimes against humanity, nor vice versa. China doesn't get a free pass from criticism for doing absolutely terrible things right this...

    The USA having done abhorrent things does not excuse Chinese crimes against humanity, nor vice versa.

    China doesn't get a free pass from criticism for doing absolutely terrible things right this very moment just because in the past the USA has waged wars on foreign nations.

    To compare the Japanese internment to the Uigher genocide is disingenuous at best. The fact of the matter is that they aren't imprisoning potential spies during a war, they're imprisoning people based on religious beliefs and torturing them. Stripping them of their dignity, forcing party officials into their homes as permanent lodgers, putting millions into forced labor concentration camps... And then harvesting their organs when they die (or are executed) for transplants back into the native population.

    It's an internationally recognized crime.

    That's not saying that Japanese internment was a great idea: FDR regretted it the rest of his life, but it was more understandable than the systematic violence going on right now.

    And I believe that's what scares people most about China: they have a proven track record of their government crushing their citizens beneath their boot. Rolling over millions of innocent civilian corpses to further their global ambitions.

    6 votes

  10. Comment on What are your favourite episodes of 99% Invisible? in ~talk

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    Man that makes me want to have those kind of sounds in Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen. It'd be a lot easier to keep track of where they are that way!

    Man that makes me want to have those kind of sounds in Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen. It'd be a lot easier to keep track of where they are that way!

  11. Comment on Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests in ~misc

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    It's tricky because on the one hand you have a diverse and nuanced nation of more than a billion people with an incredible depth of culture but you also have a totalitarian regime which is...
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    It's tricky because on the one hand you have a diverse and nuanced nation of more than a billion people with an incredible depth of culture but you also have a totalitarian regime which is perpetuating a genocide and crushing dissidents all while keeping the populace ignorant of their crimes against humanity.

    You cannot blame the citizenry for not remembering Tiananmen Square when it was so thoroughly expunged from the country controlled information feeds. You can't blame them for being blindsided when they access foreign media for the first time and see that we do not see their government the way they have always seen it.

    It's hard because you want to be welcoming and tolerant: you don't hold any animosity towards the Chinese people, just towards their government.

    So in a sense: it's not wrong to say China bad and Chinese good. It's a problem when someone interprets a critique on their nation to be a critique on themselves... Which is not something you can control.

    22 votes