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Virtual 1930s Harlem
Raiford writes "Students can now take fully guided field trips in a VR environment. An article in the newsroom section of the IEEE website describes a trip to an historic Virtual Harlem setting in the 1920s and 30s. The article gives a description of the VR technology and programming and states that the simulation is supported for both Silicon Graphics and Linux platforms"
I hope you'll be able to drive to the edge of the world and see wireframe birds and mountains.
I wonder if they've chosen to simulate an American town in the 1930th because of this movie or whether it's just a coincidence.
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When I first saw the headline I thought it said Virtual Harem...
*runs away and looks for another headline*
And I thought it said Virtual Harem ... so disappointed now.
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Well, other than the game being crap, the city was awesome.
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I used to joke about that with a friend. He was going down on a girl and found a crusty bit. We just assumed that it was a glitch in the VR and left it at that :)
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The Virtual Harlem project is a great idea, huge educational value, blah, blah...
But what everyone really wants is to be able to blow stuff up. They need to use the system to create a modern day city. They should make it so that you can interact with its inhabitants, give you a selection of weapons, and set you loose to do as you will. Imagine a living, breathing city to cause complete havoc in! If only.
Oh wait... Maybe it's not just a daydream, maybe someone's already done that.
Yes, I would play it. And yes, I would be disgusted, just as i can get disgusted by virtually blowing peoples heads off in other games.. The thing is that I actually LIKE getting disgusted! ;) I like filth! I like virtual violence! The nastier and filthier the better! There are no limits in the virtual world!
In IRL though, I have never been in a fight since I was about 6 or 8 years old. Not once! And I've been out partying on average maybe 3 times a week since I was 15, and I'm 25 now.. I've been into the punkscene, gothscene, industrial scene and metal scene.. My hair is a black mohawk. I often wear makeup, plastic clothes and sometimes even highheel boots.. I almost always hang out with goths, industrials, punks, hippies, transvestites and other non-mainstream "genres" of people.. I also often go to BDSM- and fetish-clubs.. I know that many people just reading this post are thinking "I want to beat this sick fuck up", but still, I haven't been in a fight NOT EVEN ONCE for the last 17 years or something.. Surely it happens all the time that people want to fight with me, and it's always the "suit people" who do, but I can always just ignore them and walk away or talk myself out of it and calm them down...
What I wanted to say was, although a bit too verbose, that I'm kind of the opposite of violent. Still I love watching filthy gore-movies and play ultraviolent computergames. Not ANYONE should tell me what I can do and not do, as long as I don't step on others toes (if they don't want to be stepped on, that is *G*)... If you don't agree with that, you're just being narrowminded, or a control-freak. Or both.
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That's called being a fucking pussy.
Then I'm a "fucking pussy" then. I simply see no reason to fight for such stupid reasons.
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We need this stuff in highschools
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Speaking as someone who lives a few blocks south and west of the historic neighborhoods of south Harlem, the reason is simple: old Harlem doesn't exist.
125th street is as much of a mall as you'll find on the island. The old storefronts, clubs, and apartments have been replaced by chain outlets like Old Navy and the like. The few remnants of the old days have been completely comodified and stripped of their sincerity. The Apollo no longer has any sort of focus on Jazz or Blues, and even then Jazz and Blues stopped being innovative areas of music decades ago. Harlem in the 1930s was a cultural center, a breeding ground for a new and uniquely American style of poetry, music, and art. Now it's just the last frontier for the complete Gentrification and Disnification of Manhattan.
So where's the virtual East Village of the 1970s?
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Ummm... did you read the parent post? He's saying that racism and opression are still alive and well in America. We've wiped out the easy and visible signs of it- segregation, the KKK, etc. but that hasn't changed a lot of people's attitudes about race. Good luck on your English Ph.D. It might help if you learn to read.
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If they made the thing available as a VRML world, it would be more accessable. VRML isn't used much any more, but it finally works quite well. VRML 97 sucked on 1997-vintage PCs, but with a modern graphics board and a broadband connection, it's far better than it used to be.
How can you even begin to mention 'overzealous political correctness' when you pepper your paragraphs with PC terms like 'afro-american' and 'n-word'. Later you go own to say 'black chicks', etc. Pick a side of the fence, man.
Percentage-wise, I'd be willing to wager that more blacks commit crime than people of other races. This may have more to do with predisposition than poverty, I haven't read any reports to swing my opinion either way. One sidelong glance at modern day Africa tends to skew one's view, however....
Let's say you have a 100% negro neighborhood in south Dallas or any other poverty-stricken, negro-filled neighborhood. Will there be a higher rate of teenage pregnancy, drug use/addiction, substance abuse, domestic violence, welfare mothers with dozens of children, and fatherless families? Of course there will. These are all inherent side effects of extreme poverty. These are the children of a welfare state.
Now let's say you have a 100% white neighborhood in a trailer park in Anywhere, USA. Will they suffer the same ills as the negroes in a similar situtation? Of course, and more. For some reason whites in poverty tend to be more morally bankrupt than negroes in a similar situation, hence child abuse and molestation among low income families being higher among whites than any other race.
If anything, cash flow plays the largest factor in how any group predictably acts. A middle class negro neighborhood would closely mirror a middle class white or asian neighborhood. Class reflects education (in most cases), and we all know the value of education. Education generally brings a higher quality of life through wider and more lucrative employment opportunities.
Overall, people tend to be 'classist' first and foremost, and 'racist' secondly. They're both pretty tightly integrated after all. I realize being honest about my opinion and this issue is risking Karma, but mine is pretty high and I think I present some intelligent thought.
I am so fuckin sick of people using that "Niggers vs. Black people" Chris Rock skit to excuse mass generalizations of black people. Every group of people has an element that is undesireable, in pretty much every case that element is the minority of the population.
I live in downtown Atlanta and I see a huge share of ignorant ass black and white people, mainly young ones. Both populations have a formidable number of obnoxious members. This is evident after any major event here. A black targetted concert will be accompanied by lots of trash in the streets, loud music, and kids shouting all types of expletives. The white concerts generally have more trash, at least as many expletives, and a tendency to sporadically shout out "wooooooo!!" and "owwwwwwww!" at ridiculously loud volumes for no apparent reason.
Anyhow, the bigger point here is that the Harlem Renaissance was a wonderful period of artistic development in the United States and the original poster was probably frustrated at people making comments about crime and drugs in that neighborhood. It is sad that such small minded thnking is still around... but whatever.
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So what's Eastern Europe's excuse? What's Asia and the Middle East's excuse? Are westerners oppressing all these countries?
There was nothing knee jerk in that post. I read your whole response and addressed the Chris Rock part. I could talk about many other times that non-blacks have acted less than exemplary. My point isn't that black people are a benevolent group of victims, nor that people want to hold hands and hug all the time (I'm still trying to figure out where that came from). The point is that people constantly try to oversimplify race relations (and also justify the use of the word nigger) by quoting a skit by Chris Rock. It's easy to argue that this oversimplification based on something that you saw on television has more to do with mass generalizations than exposure.
I've lived in predominately black and predominately white neighborhoods. Downtown Atlanta just happens to have a mix of millionaires (and at least one billionaire named Ted Turner has moved around the corner), middle class, and homeless people with the usual business people thrown in during the daylight hours. It also happens to be in the middle of one of the most diverse college campuses in the U.S. (Ga. State University). In an environment like this, EVERYBODY shows their asses. I'm not old or squeamish, I love it downtown. I'm just telling you what I see and it ain't just black people acting a fool.
Peace.
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Point taken. My bad. :(
Oh yeah, I forgot, all those great ancient African civilizations no one has yet been able to find proof of hidden deep in the jungle.
Do your research, "civilization" found them, and then shot them. They where taking up valuable forest land you know. . . .
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