Why didn't VR get more popular?

ExplodingToasterOven · 2024-04-28T19:31:57+00:00

Primarily, nausea issues. Most need to drink a bit of ginger tea, ginger slices, etc during the first few months of acclimatization.

And as an extension of eyewear, you need to sit there and tweak the settings a lot. You need a new headband, because most stock ones suck and poorly balance. You need a PC with enough of a graphics card to be able to drive a PC-VR setup, and then know how to set avatar culling depending on the limits of the hardware.

Its a long, long, long assed learning and setup process. And while in the middle of this learning process, not a lot of VRC instances, or Resonite instances, or Hangouts instances are happy to have another green user to try and educate.

Add to the fray, the collection of underaged pranksters crashing instances, the "neuro-divergent" who do ok in VR communities, up to a point, and then start to fritz out. People who are physically mute for whatever reason, and then able bodied people who get all butthurt because they see people chatboxing back and forth when they're in the middle of a DJ set and are no longer the center of attention.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2024-04-28T18:21:14+00:00

That the jews thought this was their "homeland" 2200 years after desertification was driving the populations off because farming was no longer practical is especially hilarious.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2024-04-28T17:24:59+00:00

First they ruined reddit, and then $10 blowjobs you can get from trannies. Now they've unionized, at want at least $20 for BJs since reddit won't pay them to be mods.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2024-04-27T20:21:38+00:00

If you can get a degree/knowledge someone will pay you for, sure..

However, there's many angles of attack. Skillshare, and various other online skills training, various online certificate programs, etc. For IRL learning, which is needed for some trades, community colleges are ok, just make sure you get the most bang for your buck, and aren't being sold on some kind of BS for profit scam college where you'll never be able to transfer credits to some other school.

Also be very very wary of some trades where they have in house training, that is non-transferable, yet they may try to claim you owe them X number of years to pay off all their special training. The answer to this is, "Oh fuck no!" Oddly enough, the military is probably THE WORST offender of all when it comes to skills learned vs what can transfer to the real world.

Another issue is what "type" of so called "job". If you're being "hired" on a 1099 contract, made to provide your own tools, and leave them in a facility controlled by the organization you work/contract for, you're on call after hours, as well as being told what time of the day you are to be there by, you have to train new people... Then you're not a 1099 contractor, you're an employee being scammed sixs way from sunday. And when they go bankrupt, probably after the company officers run off to Mexico with the remains of the any liquid assets, you'll be the ones trying to get the Sheriff to gain access to get your tools, and having to deal with angry customers and creditors trying to find out who where the fuck their money ran off to. You'll also likely find out the official payroll information submitted to the government is complete and utter BS as well.

The advantage of a "job" that's by the books, which provides you with enough cash as a visible means of support is, that 8-5(or whatever), 4-5 days a week, you've got your paycheck that's skimmed off by the govt, paid into health insurance, unemployment, and reporting a certain earning level to the scammy as fuck credit rating system. You've got say an associates in some random BS, accounting, programming, electrical tech, HVAC tech, health care, construction, whatever.

And then the rest of your time, you can spend on consulting work that's cash and carry. Electrical Engineering, programming, R&D, etc, etc. You can take payment in some form of currency you can store offshore, launder through a shell company that appears to be contracting you to do piece work, all sorts of wild and crazy shit. Day job, you make $50-70k a year, off the books work, you can probably make another $20-30k that you can conspicuously consume on something that is not state registered assets(cars, guns, property, housing). Assets you're saving/storing out and sight and out of mind of the usual financial channels, go crazy.

Once your break about $400-600k gross cash flow per year, PROBABLY time to start some kind of legit storefront, and get an accountant who's very skilled in "startup businesses" which might be short haul, and rapid burn rate. Once assets are depreciated down to nothing, that's when the fun and games starts. :D

Bits and pieces of the above, they sure as shit don't teach you that in school. And all this can be the difference between sink or swim in the first 10 years of your on the books profession, as well as your off the books professions.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2024-04-23T21:38:58+00:00

If by soldiers of satan you mean the kiwi farms doxer/stalker/swatter bunch of monsters, you are correct. :D They're probably also the reason for a warrant. Although, this would be needed to verify a range of IP addresses someone would tend to use around the time of a crime they're trying to prove, which would be essential if they're using a set of proxies. Generally the crime would be severe enough to justify the time, effort, irritation, and cost to connect all the data points.

The good news is, modern forensics is good enough that you can amass a ton of data on a prolific swatter/doxer, and put the little shit away for 5-10 years on the first go round. Darknet Diaries goes into how a lot of these people got busted. Mainly because they think this is the 90s, and the cops are clueless. Mostly true, until you've got enough crime associated to your range of names and voice print/hash to draw in the big guns.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2024-04-04T00:50:55+00:00

Israel is the bastard step child of the third reich, and they are showing it in spades now.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2024-03-29T16:17:45+00:00

Those are guy are from the FBI? What are they, office managers, the clerical pool? lol! Fucking sad.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2024-03-29T16:11:49+00:00

lol! Well, in the old days I'd say this might open you up to a lot of crank calls. But these days most people are so asocial, a text message or two is likely all you'll get. Or maybe a dick pic like this one. ;) https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a53306/

ExplodingToasterOven · 2024-01-28T10:47:41+00:00

lol! Deported to Florida, I'm sure he's gonna have a real special time there, every day, every night.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-12-31T00:49:58+00:00

Yeah, but people are crazy, people are high on dope. You can't really count on someone to act rationally if they're already being batshit crazy. Thus the classic line "I feared for my life, and then shot them.." because if you count on crazy people to stop being crazy, you end up stabbed or shot yourself.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-12-17T21:37:06+00:00

For passenger vehicles, sure. Solid state, phase change, and molecular distortion batteries will only push that energy density to more ridiculous extremes over time. For farm vehicles, heavy use trucks, and any number of other vehicles, you're going to be using the decomposed sludges of the carboniferous era 300 million years ago until probably the end of the 21st century. Just because its too much hassle to fit new tech to every niche right away.

Kind of how they have 2 cycle engines for chainsaws, it saves weight, and these things aren't exactly guzzling a billion gallons a day, so emissions from that niche use are not important. Until other tech catches up, and people are like "hey, most of these sub 45cc chainsaws are more practical to use batteries now!" And the 60cc-125cc chainsaws... Well, give it another 30 years. But that technology, its not even 20th century, we're going back to the 19th century for the base tech, which has been improved quite a lot, but is not fundamentally different.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-12-11T02:10:19+00:00

The US needs to wash its hands of Israel, if they're going rogue, let them do so on their own.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-11-25T17:15:35+00:00

Got it! Have all the barnyard sex I want, and then kill Mohamed, or one of his descendants, every time I bust off a load...

Looks like I got some killin to do boys! :D

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-10-05T05:01:26+00:00

lol! I usually changed accounts every 2-3 years. Some of them had 50-70k in karma. The last big karma account, I just kind of stalled it out at 24k, would pick up a lot of karma on some bullshit post somewhere, and then just troll via unpopular opinions that would make people rage, and make them call up their bot farm to downvote me. During covid people just kind of mentally snapped. They figured pushing bullshit opinions to the top of the heap would change the world somehow. NOPE!

Reddit changed the world no more than some incel posting vids about how he can't get no chicks, 3-4 months before he does something suicidal and stupid. And of course, Reddit has done many many suicidal and stupid things. Reddit mods trying to do some sort of labor strike was probably the funniest.. No, sorry, your pretend job gives you NO RIGHTS. Maybe try going outside, touching grass, and maybe getting at least an IRL part time job? No? You wanna stay on welfare/disability, oh well..

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-09-29T20:10:07+00:00

How can someone who was born as a malignant mass claim to have cancer?

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-09-29T16:20:03+00:00

Her staff probably get fat severance checks.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-09-29T16:18:55+00:00

Guess even lizard people run out of mojo sooner or later. ;)

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-09-23T15:06:53+00:00

At 420 pounds, it oddly enough is NOT the fattest cop working for the NYPD. lol!

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-08-28T02:41:31+00:00

lol! PETA has always been one shitshow away from being labeled a domestic terrorist organization, and locked up for good.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-08-28T02:40:29+00:00

But ultimately, they're just animals, and humans are an apex predator. So if its a question of does the animal get fucked, or does it get fattened up, killed and eaten?

I'd suppose the fucking it would be a lesser of evils, but I'm a bit heartless on these things.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-08-28T02:35:40+00:00

Ultimately, zoophilia, as in they preferentially bond and have sex with animals, rather than it just being any kind of "stray tail" they can land, be it human, animal, silicone fleshed out robots, whatever, are actual MORE rare and serial killers. There are something like 30 to 1 MORE serial and spree killers than zoophiles by population.

So ultimately, the psychology of zoophilia is studying a hyper minority. From what little they found from the oh, 500-2000 ish in the english speaking world, there seems to be a more generalized bond with mammals in the mid-brain, more openness to attractive pheromone triggers, and not as much with their own species.

Now the mentally ill, who just tend to fuck random things, called it generalized paraphilia. Or people into risky/exotic sex, those are way way more plentiful. This is usually neurotransmitter dis-regulation. .5mg of risperdal a day, and magically it stops being an impulse, because the brain is no longer trying to fry itself. The thrill seekers, that's a bit more complicated. They're probably going to kill themselves from auto-erotic asphyxiation in the end, so, who cares? :D

You get into rural areas which are sexually repressed, like during the Kinsey study on male sexuality in the 40s-50s, and its all fucking bets are off. Similar with the Arab world, and many other regions. Its a transitional phase, so people can get their rocks off without knocking up someone in their teens and being a social pariah. When they get older, and more financially stable, most end up boringly vanilla heterosexuals.

As for studies of actual zoophiles, the Indiana study was kind of a wet firecracker. They got a bunch of code geeks/aerospace guys with IQs over 130, who had xNTx type Meyers-Briggs personalities, etc etc.. You lock them up, kiss the fucking internet goodbye. :D Most of the new laws on zoophilia were aimed at the more reckless people making porn of it, and fence jumping. In the rural states, the laws protecting factory farmers who torture chickens, turkeys, assorted livestock, generally keeps the wealthier zoophiles who own their own farms, etc from being blackmailed by their mexican or otherwise ranch hands. Violate ag gag, rack up a felony, back to Mexico boyo! ;D

People just into the porn of animal sex, or human-animal sex.. Mostly novelty seeking personalities. If that porn goes away, they hit the internet and find a new fetish in about 5 minutes.

So most of this zoophilia panic is just bullshit. Granted, that doesn't keep certain senile as FUCK former sheriffs in Arizona from blowing $3-4 MILLION a year trying to lure them to Arizona and bust them. For reasons. :D Or any other wacky assed shit for someone trying to make hay persecuting a super minority and making a name for themselves. Which might get them a step up in their career, but is ultimately limiting because you don't want someone into spectacles and ridiculous bullshit at the higher levels of the justice system on investigative issues.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-08-25T20:47:58+00:00

Hawaii is abso-fucking-lootly corrupt as fuck. If they had anything like a real justice system, not a single person with a govt job would avoid jail over that disaster.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-08-12T02:48:35+00:00

When it comes to your megabrew gutter water that's being sold as beer, you do NOT rock the fucking boat. It's all about tradition.

Granted, any drinker of light beer, you're gonna get some looks, but maybe you're just trying to cut down the carbs, and don't wanna go on to be just about whiteclaw junkie yet.. When that beer has a tranny as its poster child... Ahh fuck no!!! lol!

And I don't care what brand or region of the country it is. You might have some pocket of Hamms drinkers, Pabst drinkers, Strohs drinker, on and on and on.. You don't fuck with the brand, even though the brand is decreasing, because the same three megabrews brew all the damned brands. Someone stops drinking bud light, they drink coors light, or busch light or some other shit.

In a pinch, if they don't have your brand, you might drink something else. UNLESS its associated with some crazy shit, like trannies. Or if someone shot up a mini mall wearing some niche brand, because if they shot up a mini mall wearing Marlborough Action Wear, likely from the 90s and sourced from a thrift shop, nobody cares. Odds are they threw it on the morning before. Unless.. Said beer brand endorsed a streamer, who then shot up a mini mall. But if its FourLoco or Steel Reserve, that's par for the course. Any publicity is good publicity..

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-07-23T18:56:29+00:00

lol! The vast vast majority of them brought across DIED. Survival past 1 year was something like less than 30%. About 12-18% died just on the 2-3 month boat ride across. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1070565/middle-passage-death-rate-by-destination-1501-1866/ And even in the americas, strange parasites and respiratory diseases killed slave who had been there for some time, or were simply born there.. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2571776/pdf/jnma00275-0089.pdf

For new slaves there was also the issue of "seasoning" where you try to beat the rebelliousness out of any deposed rules, hangers on, and other members of a regime who were previously higher status. https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/history-of-slavery/americas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_(slavery)

And even after the civil war, and even the de-segregation of the 60s-80s, there were always plenty of systems to keep the masses of them down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathering_hypothesis

Relatively speaking, the ones RETURNED to Africa, Nigeria in particular, had FAR FAR more agency, and choice in how they ended up in society, and determined their own future. Those in places where they won their freedom, Brazil, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, you've got some black families who climbed back on top in a one hell of a hurry. And the masses who were just average nobodies, and did simply ok.

Compare this to places like Mississippi and Alabama where you've got Black majorities, and they just don't have fucking shit to show for it. Incarceration is sky high, education is a joke even for the white people, overall health is just fucked.

One could argue that from the 1920s-1970s, they did better than their African cousins, and african slaves transported to other regions. Downstream from this, the third world kept advancing, and north america just kinda fucking gave up.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-07-03T02:37:26+00:00

Hey, if they use it to locate, institutionalize, and more or less forget most of those budding little psychopaths for life, I do NOT see the problem. lol!

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-06-14T01:33:19+00:00

I always keep an account open just for porn. :D

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-06-13T00:10:21+00:00

You're obviously just an un-person and a thought-criminal. :D

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-06-13T00:08:41+00:00

Yeah, the trannies have expended an insane amount of effort to spin the narrative by controlling reddit. People stop going there, they've wasted years and years of effort insinuating themselves there.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-06-13T00:06:55+00:00

The bots and shills have nothing to mine except for the fringe subreddits. And who the fuck wants to spam someones shoe fetish bullshit for karma?

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-06-13T00:05:53+00:00

Honestly, I'm mostly just there for the porn these days. Being able to do any kind of real discourse or debate, nah, doesn't work. It ends up being one big echo chamber where they shut out anyone who doesn't think like everyone else.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-06-13T00:03:56+00:00

You've got hundreds of thousands of bots pinging subreddits they can't access, effectively a DDOS.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-05-28T02:47:38+00:00

I guess even Arkansas corporate execs can go full retard on this marketing trend.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-05-27T20:24:09+00:00

Welcome to the real world of agriculture, nature is fucking against you, and give NO shits about your profits. Just ask the wheat farmers.. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12927-7

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-05-26T11:23:46+00:00

lol! That's market valuation of their stock. Actual gross sales are around $106 Billion, profit on most items is going to be roughly 8-15%, smaller impulse items, considerably more markup, but way high risk of spoilage, "shrinkage" meaning theft, breakage, got crammed in the back, and lost in the back of shelf crunch, or some newbie on the walkie-stacker popped 300 pounds of candy while trying to fit it between the top shelf, and the ceiling girders. :D

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TGT/target/revenue https://www.statista.com/statistics/255957/revenue-of-target-in-north-america/

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-05-23T01:47:33+00:00

We need as MANY Ukrainian whores deployed to the southern border of the US to drain all those suckers of their money, and wear them out to much to flee from border patrol. :D And somehow, not entirely sure of the details. PROFIT!

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-05-12T22:01:35+00:00

ACAB, that's all there is to it.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-05-07T21:08:05+00:00

lol! Troll HQ is being attacked, oh noes!

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-04-29T21:14:44+00:00

From the perspective of the neo-nazis and the assorted sheethead factions I'm sure. Unless you count the fact that each kind of justified the existence of the other.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-04-28T16:14:28+00:00

The ADL pretty much went to shit, and stayed that way since the 80s.

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-04-25T00:26:02+00:00

lol! You GOTTA see his jet engine powered go-kart vids, those are the fucking BOMB! :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJr-RmJxtDc

He also does a few other cool types of engines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDFAjCOM3iQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJHU_GfidU

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-04-14T23:07:16+00:00

Get yourself some estrus mare urine, I think that'll fix you up for a fraction of the cost. :D

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-03-12T02:54:46+00:00

Relevant song! :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtuYWlh6fJ4

ExplodingToasterOven · 2021-07-05T01:36:11+00:00

lol! They know your ass is hooked. :D

Seriously though, the ingredients are pretty wacky. I have no doubt the expenses are going up legitimately. https://orderisda.org/culture/our-recipes/italian-dessert-recipe-to-die-for-cannoli-cake/ https://snappygourmet.com/cannoli-cake-recipe/

Cake Batter:

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter softened
1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
3 large eggs
1 tablespoon fresh orange zest
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup milk

Frosting;

1 tub (10 ounces) ricotta cheese
1 tub (16 ounces) mascarpone cheese
3 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon fresh orange juice
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 bag (10 ounces) mini chocolate chips divided

So yeah, take it easy on that stuff. It's pretty much a saturated fat, spice, and carbohydrate delivery system made to get you hooked.

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