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[Sergarr]

Not to mention that the quote you picked isn't even difficult to understand. Like, at all.

So? That's not the cause of my surprise and confusion. There's more to life than the How! For example, there's the Why! As in, "Why, God, why?"

Because being surrounded with raging lesbians tends to do that. _{that joke was funny}

[Neonivek]

Ok I have to ask

One time in my house my Dad was cutting up TONS of Avacado because he was making a lot of guacamole.

But when I went downstairs the entire floor stung my eyes but more oddly... it stung my lungs as if the air was sticky and full of tiny needles.

Is this normal?

I am not allergic to Guacamole to my knowledge and I can eat Avocado just fine.

[penguinofhonor]

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[hops]

Was playing a game with a bunch of Croatians, decided to paste-dump their conversation onto Google translate, 'cos.

Turns out they were having an in-depth discussion with one of their friends who was a homophobe, trying to explain to him a bunch of stuff, etc etc.
Didn't realize until now 1. How far the far western countries have actually come with it and 2. How liberal this board is.

Blown mind.

I don't even think same-sex parents ever existed in such a big scale until recently, either. I feel like that when this generation finally get around to growing up into adults, they will be the game changers.

[Eric Blank]

Looked at the VR hardware thread, and the first thing that came to mind was "Let me know when they get tactile feedback in so I can grope everyone I see in my Rift porn games."

I scare myself on a regular basis.

[hops]

How would that even work though?

[Frumple]

Haptics or direct nerve stimulation of some sort, presumably.

Could use some sort of specialized interface. They've actually already got that, just not developed specifically for VR.

... or groping. Other things, though, yeah. Have for a few years, iirc, though from what I recall the technology isn't actually used for much at the mo'.

[Graknorke]

Looked at the VR hardware thread, and the first thing that came to mind was "Let me know when they get tactile feedback in so I can grope everyone I see in my Rift porn games."

I scare myself on a regular basis.

Don't be scared Eric, most people can't make hardware that advanced.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Nirur Torir]

Ultrasound can be used to harden air at a point; IIRC it can also feel like different textures. It'd probably work better combined with joint locks that make it harder to just push into NPCs. I don't know how well it would work, but it wouldn't need to be perfect, just good enough to trick the brain.

[hops]

Or you could, you know, buy a hooker.

[Frumple]

Which may not be legal in your area, and beyond that, may be the less economical choice. As with many things, it's not uncommon for a higher initial investment but lower maintenance fees to have an overall greater degree of cost savings.

Plus there's larger non-economic issues involved with a hooker, generally. The only STD gropon will possibly attract is your own. E: Unless you're sharing, I guess, which... okay. Frumple does not judge.

Also the eternal question of, "Why not both?"

[Zangi]

Or you could, you know, buy a hooker.

Why would you do that when you can have VR hooker to your specifications all the time within the privacy of your own home... for a 1 time fee?

The trailblazer of VR stuff will be porn.

[Spehss _]

Late, but basically it was a bunch of people saying stuff like "humans are the future, not robots" "Nay-I." etc. Basically just a bunch of people who JUST NOW saw Terminator for the first time.
The article I read about it (I basically just clicked on something that popped up on the Bing frontpage) offered little else other then that supposedly both Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are Anti- A.I. which is just sad.

In the future the AI will assimilate the protesters first.

Also, it's not that Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are completely against AI, it's that they are afraid of the potential dangers that could arise from development not taking enough safety precautions. Like, development progressing too quickly for safety measures to keep up. Stephen Hawking said that he thinks human level AI could be "our greatest achievement" but also could be "our last" if we aren't careful and wind up developing an AI that becomes super smart ... and kills all humans because we didn't put in enough safety measures.

Elon Musk made a big donation to a group dedicated to such AI safety research. So both Musk and Hawking support it somewhat, they just don't think the science world is taking it seriously enough.

[Neonivek]

Hey guys....

Does anyone have a GREAT parody of modernization somewhere?

Where a product is taken to the modern times and bastardized under the guise of being modern?

I want something to help me feel better about the new Annie movie with all the Auto-tune, making fun of the older movies, and just generally being lousy.

Heck just give me good "Modernization" parodies.