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[Teneb]

get a bong hit every time you use health in a shooter game.

Wouldn't that quickly result in an OD, depending on the game?

[penguinofhonor]

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[scriver]

Been done, didn't work out.

[Reelya]

Yeah, but that was only really tried once or twice, and often part of the smells was dumping an ashtray in your face:

the system was to be deployed with the mystery-comedy Scent of Mystery, which would be the first film in which smells revealed certain plot points to the audience. For example, one character is identified by the smell of pipe tobacco.

That lead me here:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/171797-the-digital-lollipop-simulating-sweetness-for-dietary-gaming-and-health-greatness
Basically they can electrically stimulate your tastebuds in any combination. They're working on commerical applications. When feels real let's you taste real food in a VR game then it might be worth it.

[Flying Dice]

Someone gave them over a grand. Either a false-flag contribution or a person who really wants to smell their games.

[scriver]

Anything to get away from the smell of the gamer.

[Flying Dice]

Aaaand now you've pegged their target audience. All we need now is the byline, "Stench of unbathed flesh, body-crease mold, stale doritos, and flat mountain dew finally too much? Try the new..."

[Draco18s]

"OH GOD, OH GOD, I GOT TWO OF THE SMELL CANISTERS REVERSED!" *Puke*

[nenjin]

I'm sure after months of having fragrances injected into the helmet, water being sprayed and good old human sweat, you'll need smells just to overpower the stench of the helmet itself.

[scriver]

It's a a self-reinforcing business! Can't go wrong!

[alway]

A breakdown of one of the recent 'privacy router' scams on kickstarter.
https://gist.github.com/0xabad1dea/633a7ff7f561263bba34

[Reelya]

Seems legit to me ... just kidding

[Reelya]

Not quite. You can use a DNS server that you maintain on your network (which lets you seamlessly route local addresses without needing to talk to the router at all), you can rely on your ISP's DNS services, or you can talk to a remote DNS server.

Tor and such work by using remote DNS, and encrypting your connection to that server. With that, you're not using local DNS or your ISP's DNS. All the ISP sees is encrypted packets going to your Tor server, and would have to decode the packets to see where they're really going.

But it doesn't make sense if there are no dedicated remote proxy servers. Tor works because it is a network that people set up. A magical local router can't do that without the remote servers existing. If "Sever" is doing everything "in the box" then your ISP would fully know where you're sending the packets. The only commercially viable alternative would be if Sever was actually utilizing the existing Tor network, and that would pretty much preclude their 10x faster claim.

[Draco18s]

I feel the need to point out that this was important enough to include.

[Sirus]

Fucking sever.
^{_{(cookies to whoever gets the reference)}}