A woman once hit me, you appear to think I now have carte blanch to rape every woman I see?
Black Lives Matter are a racist violent bunch of criminals that assault innocent people. I'd look down on anybody that said they supported those thugs.
Okay, so you're doing level design, say for a shooter. Gears of War. You've got to take cover behind stuff so as not to get annihilated. How do you design that stuff? If you make it too tall you've got some portion of the population that can't see over it, make it too short and you've got people bending at the waist to duck.
Exactly the same fucking way that you design it now.
You think a VR headset knows how tall you are? No. Your in-game avatar and your real height are entirely completely totally and intentionally utterly fucking disconnected.
I can enter a VR game as a 2 year old girl in nappies or as a 20 metre tall dinosaur. I don't have to actually shit myself or eat tall trees in real life to do this.
context : random conversation about risky behaviour me: yeah, it might kill me. Shrug. friend: you don't care that the cats might starve if you're dead? me: they wont starve, they can eat me
The cleaner would find whatever's left of me inside of a week, then the cats will be taken care of anyway. Who the hell cares about being eaten by a cat after they've died?
erm. No. Teach your cat not to scratch you (or things you care about).
I have three cats, none of them scratch me. When they're playing with me they don't scratch hard enough to break skin, when they're pissed off with me (flea/worm treatment time usually) they growl, struggle but still don't scratch me, when they're doing anything else they don't scratch me or (most of) my furniture.
Can't stop them going for the storage boxes under the bed. Turns out the fabric cover is heaven for cat claws. Oh well.
They do have scratch pads available in four different rooms and a cat tree that's built out of scratch posts, so there are plenty of outlets for their scratching needs. A tree in the garden gets plenty of attention too.
Clip their claws? No. It would distress them, it's entirely unnecessary and they're much cuter when you know they could eviscerate you and they're consciously choosing not to.
Well, my answer is big fans (so greater airflow at any given RPM) designed to minimise noise (blade shape/angle, bearings) on shock absorbing mounts (minimising the amount vibration is transmitted to the case) controlled intelligently based on motherboard and CPU temperatures.
Each fan has its own ramp up/down profile, the case is insulated, the closed system watercooling on the CPU has a very very quiet pump and although at full pelt the case can probably take off and hover, under normal and even normal gaming use I can't hear a thing from three feet away.
When it's 30C outside (and I don't have aircon) and I'm stressing the circuitry for extended periods the fans have the capacity and ability to keep the system well within operational temperatures and I do get some noise, but it's nice being able to cope with that abnormal scenario and still have a silent system the rest of the time.
It does come at a cost, but that comes to around 5-7% of the total system price. I could understand people preferring to save that cash, I find it valuable.
Ironically the past decade or so is when I've been consciously choosing Intel ahead of AMD.
Power versus performance, the Athlon 64 was an easy choice but Intel's Core 2 Duo raised the bar again and AMD didn't respond. Since then Intel have set the pace until (hopefully) this one.
$250k is an arbitrary cut-off. You may find that of those 30 games, some still lost money, some paid dev costs and made a profit, and some may be multi-million dollar success stories.
It's also tricky to properly account for VR revenues. Are Elite Dangerous sales VR sales if they're bought by someone with a VR headset, played on a VR headset or played once on a VR headset then not again?
Without the full sales picture for those games it's not sensible to assume they only barely cleared the $250k mark.
A film director has total control over the frame; a screen-game designer still has quite a bit. Not so in VR; people look wherever they want to.
A game designer - screen or otherwise - has complete and total control over what appears to the player. Far more control than a film director, and the choice to give an illusion of that control to the player (with FOV changes as well as just looking around) without losing any of it.
Shit, players looking wherever they want was a solved problem in 1984: Elite required you to move your whole ship but didn't constrain where you pointed it at all.
And then how to design for people of all sorts of different physiologies, heights, abilities, etc. etc. and make the experience compelling for each of them?
Possibly the very exactly same fucking way that game designers have been successfully handling this challenge in games over the past few decades. VR is a more immersive environment with head movement as a control rather than mouse-look but the player character in the game can be identical in either. VR doesn't introduce new problems unless a game designer explicitly chooses to constrain a character to the input range available to the player. They can easily choose not to too.
The social dynamics for each are very different. PC gamers typically play either alone in the room they're in and/or wearing a headset that already socially isolates them.
Adding visual isolation wont make a drastic difference for much usage, and may increase the in-game social dynamics to compensate.
The issues with headaches, eye-strain and nausea remain barriers, but for some game genres (driving/flying type games) it's already far from a novelty.
You can move around a small room just fine, it works exactly as advertised and couldn't be more natural (assuming you are used to walking)
Sure, if you have enough room to set up a Vive. Nobody I know in the UK has that much space without seriously rearranging their house.
It's a broken concept and modern houses keep getting smaller so I don't see a future for room scale VR in the UK. That's likely to apply to most of Europe and a non-trivial proportion of the US too - e.g. everybody living in cheap apartments.
Yeah, I fell out of love with AMD due to their inability to compete on power/performance grounds but I'd very much welcome a serious competitor to Intel.
Similar to the AMD graphics cards. I'm unlikely to buy anything called 'Radeon' but I'm glad they exist and force Nvidia to continue to improve and innovate.
If these new AMD chips provide comparable performance at comparable heat levels (I don't care about the power used, I care about the noise needed to dissipate the heat generated) then I'm more than happy to switch back to AMD and save some cash.
Hmm. Try that in the UK and you'll be getting sued for constructive dismissal the moment you tried "put on administrative leave without pay".
No, you fucking pay me right up until the moment you sack me, and you'd better have fucking good cause. Let alone "because some cunt made a complaint".
And yes, I've been accused of harassment before. For holding a door open for someone. Interestingly I mentioned this to a colleague and he said that at another company he'd had a formal grievance against him for exactly that too.
Zero pay because you held a door open for someone? Where the fuck do you work, and in what imaginary world do you ask a 'prosecutor' to investigate workplace harassment?
Well, a manager/staff relationship isn't about being ordered around for money. Managers that think that's the case need educating and the staff that think that's the case need help too.
This isn't child abuse, employees can quit.
Many things aren't child abuse, that doesn't make them acceptable in a work environment. You want to fuck me, that costs substantially more than my current salary and I'm not going to do it as an employee.
Yeah. I had an approach from a young attractive subordinate and immediately went to HR for their guidance on how to respond.
I want her to be happy in the office and feel wanted.. just not that wanted.
HR were (surprisingly) fucking useless. "How do you feel?" Well, I'm a single bloke in my 40s and she's an attractive intelligent woman in her 20s, I feel pretty fucking flattered. That's not really the point though is it.
Then they compound the stupidity by telling her to expect a bad review from this guy because she brought this up. This pretty much is an admission that HR and management countenance unprofessionalism, allowing managers to use employee reviews to pursue personal issues rather than evaluating the employee's contribution to the company.
In the UK retributive action against someone for raising a grievance is illegal.
A proposition isn't illegal or even actionable. It's just crass, bad manners, stupid and fucking terrible management. Strange that HR think this guy is a high-flyer with a management style like that.
You appear to have omitted alternative threat responses that don't require everybody in the house to be shot.
You know, basic shot like working out what the situation is before bursting in, shooting the dog, throwing grenades at the kids and risking the lives of everyone in the building.
I stand more chance of being shot by the US police than I do by a criminal and I don't even fucking live in the US
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What the fuck does that have to do with it?
A woman once hit me, you appear to think I now have carte blanch to rape every woman I see?
Black Lives Matter are a racist violent bunch of criminals that assault innocent people. I'd look down on anybody that said they supported those thugs.
I'm the opposite. Coding is easy and I can just keep cracking on for 12-14 hours before realising it's dark and cold.
Talking to people? That takes effort.
Okay, so you're doing level design, say for a shooter. Gears of War. You've got to take cover behind stuff so as not to get annihilated. How do you design that stuff? If you make it too tall you've got some portion of the population that can't see over it, make it too short and you've got people bending at the waist to duck.
Exactly the same fucking way that you design it now.
You think a VR headset knows how tall you are? No. Your in-game avatar and your real height are entirely completely totally and intentionally utterly fucking disconnected.
I can enter a VR game as a 2 year old girl in nappies or as a 20 metre tall dinosaur. I don't have to actually shit myself or eat tall trees in real life to do this.
context : random conversation about risky behaviour
me: yeah, it might kill me. Shrug.
friend: you don't care that the cats might starve if you're dead?
me: they wont starve, they can eat me
The cleaner would find whatever's left of me inside of a week, then the cats will be taken care of anyway. Who the hell cares about being eaten by a cat after they've died?
erm. No. Teach your cat not to scratch you (or things you care about).
I have three cats, none of them scratch me. When they're playing with me they don't scratch hard enough to break skin, when they're pissed off with me (flea/worm treatment time usually) they growl, struggle but still don't scratch me, when they're doing anything else they don't scratch me or (most of) my furniture.
Can't stop them going for the storage boxes under the bed. Turns out the fabric cover is heaven for cat claws. Oh well.
They do have scratch pads available in four different rooms and a cat tree that's built out of scratch posts, so there are plenty of outlets for their scratching needs. A tree in the garden gets plenty of attention too.
Clip their claws? No. It would distress them, it's entirely unnecessary and they're much cuter when you know they could eviscerate you and they're consciously choosing not to.
So owning three cats dooms me? Shrug. They add to my quality of life enough that a shorter life is a worthwhile trade.
You don't need toxoplasma to turn you into a crazy cat lady. Three cats suffice.
I'd prefer four myself, but that's not necessary for the crazy cat lady badge.
Mice get in through my catflap. I haven't seen this happen but I'm assuming they're usually invited in by the cats.
Sometimes I get to invite them back out while they're still alive too.
Fit a cat flap. Wont help on the food but sorts out the litter box issue.
Well, my answer is big fans (so greater airflow at any given RPM) designed to minimise noise (blade shape/angle, bearings) on shock absorbing mounts (minimising the amount vibration is transmitted to the case) controlled intelligently based on motherboard and CPU temperatures.
Each fan has its own ramp up/down profile, the case is insulated, the closed system watercooling on the CPU has a very very quiet pump and although at full pelt the case can probably take off and hover, under normal and even normal gaming use I can't hear a thing from three feet away.
When it's 30C outside (and I don't have aircon) and I'm stressing the circuitry for extended periods the fans have the capacity and ability to keep the system well within operational temperatures and I do get some noise, but it's nice being able to cope with that abnormal scenario and still have a silent system the rest of the time.
It does come at a cost, but that comes to around 5-7% of the total system price. I could understand people preferring to save that cash, I find it valuable.
I know. But it's not the power that deters me, it's the heat dissipation need that deters me. That the two are correlated is just physics.
Ironically the past decade or so is when I've been consciously choosing Intel ahead of AMD.
Power versus performance, the Athlon 64 was an easy choice but Intel's Core 2 Duo raised the bar again and AMD didn't respond. Since then Intel have set the pace until (hopefully) this one.
$250k is an arbitrary cut-off. You may find that of those 30 games, some still lost money, some paid dev costs and made a profit, and some may be multi-million dollar success stories.
It's also tricky to properly account for VR revenues. Are Elite Dangerous sales VR sales if they're bought by someone with a VR headset, played on a VR headset or played once on a VR headset then not again?
Without the full sales picture for those games it's not sensible to assume they only barely cleared the $250k mark.
A film director has total control over the frame; a screen-game designer still has quite a bit. Not so in VR; people look wherever they want to.
A game designer - screen or otherwise - has complete and total control over what appears to the player. Far more control than a film director, and the choice to give an illusion of that control to the player (with FOV changes as well as just looking around) without losing any of it.
Shit, players looking wherever they want was a solved problem in 1984: Elite required you to move your whole ship but didn't constrain where you pointed it at all.
And then how to design for people of all sorts of different physiologies, heights, abilities, etc. etc. and make the experience compelling for each of them?
Possibly the very exactly same fucking way that game designers have been successfully handling this challenge in games over the past few decades. VR is a more immersive environment with head movement as a control rather than mouse-look but the player character in the game can be identical in either. VR doesn't introduce new problems unless a game designer explicitly chooses to constrain a character to the input range available to the player. They can easily choose not to too.
The social dynamics for each are very different. PC gamers typically play either alone in the room they're in and/or wearing a headset that already socially isolates them.
Adding visual isolation wont make a drastic difference for much usage, and may increase the in-game social dynamics to compensate.
The issues with headaches, eye-strain and nausea remain barriers, but for some game genres (driving/flying type games) it's already far from a novelty.
Why are multiple monitors better than a VR headset?
You can use proper flight sticks/yokes/wheels with either setup.
You can move around a small room just fine, it works exactly as advertised and couldn't be more natural (assuming you are used to walking)
Sure, if you have enough room to set up a Vive. Nobody I know in the UK has that much space without seriously rearranging their house.
It's a broken concept and modern houses keep getting smaller so I don't see a future for room scale VR in the UK. That's likely to apply to most of Europe and a non-trivial proportion of the US too - e.g. everybody living in cheap apartments.
Yeah, I fell out of love with AMD due to their inability to compete on power/performance grounds but I'd very much welcome a serious competitor to Intel.
Similar to the AMD graphics cards. I'm unlikely to buy anything called 'Radeon' but I'm glad they exist and force Nvidia to continue to improve and innovate.
If these new AMD chips provide comparable performance at comparable heat levels (I don't care about the power used, I care about the noise needed to dissipate the heat generated) then I'm more than happy to switch back to AMD and save some cash.
Hmm. Try that in the UK and you'll be getting sued for constructive dismissal the moment you tried "put on administrative leave without pay".
No, you fucking pay me right up until the moment you sack me, and you'd better have fucking good cause. Let alone "because some cunt made a complaint".
And yes, I've been accused of harassment before. For holding a door open for someone. Interestingly I mentioned this to a colleague and he said that at another company he'd had a formal grievance against him for exactly that too.
Zero pay because you held a door open for someone? Where the fuck do you work, and in what imaginary world do you ask a 'prosecutor' to investigate workplace harassment?
Well, a manager/staff relationship isn't about being ordered around for money. Managers that think that's the case need educating and the staff that think that's the case need help too.
This isn't child abuse, employees can quit.
Many things aren't child abuse, that doesn't make them acceptable in a work environment. You want to fuck me, that costs substantially more than my current salary and I'm not going to do it as an employee.
Do you know anyone working in IT that does not know how to take a screenshot?
Yes. Sadly, yes.
Although.. I don't know how to take a screenshot on my phone. Never needed to, never bothered to learn how.
Hmm. Ok, I need to go find out. Ok, done. Turns out it's a non-standard approach on my phone, but one screenshot successfully taken.
Anyway, yes. Sadly I do know people working in IT that don't know how to take a screenshot - on any device.
Yeah. I had an approach from a young attractive subordinate and immediately went to HR for their guidance on how to respond.
I want her to be happy in the office and feel wanted.. just not that wanted.
HR were (surprisingly) fucking useless. "How do you feel?" Well, I'm a single bloke in my 40s and she's an attractive intelligent woman in her 20s, I feel pretty fucking flattered. That's not really the point though is it.
Then they compound the stupidity by telling her to expect a bad review from this guy because she brought this up. This pretty much is an admission that HR and management countenance unprofessionalism, allowing managers to use employee reviews to pursue personal issues rather than evaluating the employee's contribution to the company.
In the UK retributive action against someone for raising a grievance is illegal.
A proposition isn't illegal or even actionable. It's just crass, bad manners, stupid and fucking terrible management. Strange that HR think this guy is a high-flyer with a management style like that.
Sure, because Japan, Australia and the UK would sit idly by and not take action to defend New Zealand. Fucking get over yourself.
You appear to have omitted alternative threat responses that don't require everybody in the house to be shot.
You know, basic shot like working out what the situation is before bursting in, shooting the dog, throwing grenades at the kids and risking the lives of everyone in the building.
I stand more chance of being shot by the US police than I do by a criminal and I don't even fucking live in the US