The first step is of course the 3D monitor. That eventually will lead to displays that seem to surround you. I don't know how they will accomplish that. Maybe it will be a tubular screen that covers the entire 360 degrees, or glasses that superpose virtual objects on the actual view or just plain changes your view and follows your head's movement, eg when you turn your head the virtual view in the glasses also turns.
Eventually humans will be able to immerse themselves in virtual reality more deeply than what our flat monitors can accomplish.
Also assuming that we will never change our natural characteristic of feeling unsatisfied no matter how far we go, this will not be enough for the people of that era.
What can be done to make things even more realistic than having a 360-degree view of a virtual world that you can interact with?
A touchable virtual world, one that can be felt. Once that is done, the only thing that stops a user from believing that the virtual world is real is the knowledge of his actual surroundings in reality, be it a circular room or his own bedroom.
If something can be tasted, felt, heard, seen and smelled, it is real. Or is it? Making a touchable virtual world isn't a mad fantasy. People have been trying to find ways to do that since the mid-20th century, at least. You know there is definitely going to be demand for such an invention, we just haven't found a way.
As for taste, think about industrial alcohol. The only reason industrial alcohol is toxic is because they are legally required to mix in poisonous additives. This implies it is easy to make fake alcoholic beverages from it. Think about it. Wine should be easy to fake. Just need some sweetened grape juice, maybe add whatever chemicals the wooded barrels have that give it the unique flavours or soak wood chips in the mixture, and voila! You have wine!
This is just an example of how faking tastes isn't hard if it's eaten by the average guy. Smell is probably the same. You can imagine it, the automated spray and whatever.
Too "sci-fi"? Imagine what people in the 17th century would think if they see people like me living all day in front of a computer. If I want to I don't even need to leave my house except for work/school. Everything I need to buy, from food to books to furnitures, I can order online. Hell, if I can make Flash games I can probably make a living doing that too. I wouldn't even need to step out of my home at all! Would the idea of such a life be too far-fetched for them too?
Imagining such virtual reality technologies can make people go mad. I mean, what if they finally break the final obstacle by temporarily removing the knowledge of your actual surroundings? How would we know if we aren't really in such a world? We are entering an age where we can no longer believe what we see. It's getting too easy to fake too many things.
The ancient Japanese art of hentai has been around for centuries. Back then it was called "shunga" and was printed in books or painted in scrolls. Today they're still printed in books, though the modern Japanese hentai has the genitals censored. :(
From the preserved records that were painstakingly passed down from under the fathers' beds to beneath the sons', we now have proof that tentacle rape has been around for almost 2 centuries. Japan's most twisted, yet popular, invention is not a recent development. They have been fantasizing about it for a very long time.
This isn't some disgusting fetish; painting an octopus giving oral sex to an extraordinarily horny woman (she had to be to willingly place herself in that situation) is a legitimate art form. These paintings also serve as lucky charms for samurais. A culture in which possessing printed hentai is believed to bring good luck to warriors is nothing short of wonderful.
A man marries an anime character printed to a pillow. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind... down an abyss. Like some other mad otakus, he brings her on dates and... well I really can't think of what they can do since she's got no orifice to speak of. He can probably kiss her, but that's as far as he can go without resorting to using a pair of scissors on it. How do such couples consummate their marriages?
If the relationship is completely platonic, which it actually is technically, there would not be a need for marriage. Marriage without sex would be like trying to hold pieces of wood together without glue. The only other way is to nail them together (shotgun marriage) or hold them with a clamp(eg careers, notice how high-profile politicians don't divorce?).
Tried to replay Oblivion today since I've forgotten much of the plot already. But I couldn't get interested in it. I don't know why because it's so similar to Fallout 3. I could play Fallout 3 three times but not Oblivion.
I think it's partly got to do with Fallout 3 being more dramatic. One of the most memorable scene is when you leave the vault the first time. The screen turns completely white to simulate your being blinded by the sunlight after living in the underground vault since you were a baby. Then you see a whole new world in front of you, and you'd be like "Wow! What's out there?".
And everything would be like our real world, except almost completely ruined by nukes 200 years past. It keeps making me curious about all the buildings to see what things would be like.
Assassin's Creed 2 comes with a very bad anti-piracy measure. The idea itself isn't bad - players just need to connect to their servers when they play the game. The problem lies in the execution. Apparently their DRM servers have gone down for over a day. All their customers who support the company by buying a real copy are suffering because they aren't allowed to play the game during the weekend or have difficulty logging in.
Applause for Ubisoft's management. Either they have no contingency plan or it failed. Regardless of their excuse(s), the fault lies with their planners and decision makers. They've just managed to make pirated copies of their game look like the better option, if they're available. Never bothered to check if anyone's cracked it since I don't play this game.
Already on Ubisoft's official Assassin's Creed forum, there is at least 1 thread consisting of 10 pages of rage. It is safe to assume the moderators have forcibly deleted multiple threads on this topic so as to contain the noise. Happens everywhere with every game. Mods are obligated to delete rage threads if similar ones have been posted. Multiple praise/thanks threads are totally fine though.
This isn't the first time the enforcement of copyright laws has caused trouble for legitimate users, but this is one of the worst since lots of players couldn't play. It reminds me of that day when PS3 users couldn't go online because their servers went down. Caused a lot of rage too. But that is of less significance since the PS3 has no games.
How to poach an egg - use clingfilm. I was planning to use the vortex method but thank goodness I found this page. I'm just unsure if the cling wrap I have can withstand the heat in the boiling water.
Er... uh... what? It's not some bootleg American mix, only Obama is American. Sonic is from Sega, a Japanese company. Harry Potter was created by J. K. Rowling, an English writer.I am confused.
Brain... overloading.... can...not...make sense of... what I'm looking at....
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Harry Pirates of the Rings? Lord of the Caribbean Potter?
My mind is exploding... or imploding... I don't know which. All I know is that I'm getting a headache trying to figure out how Keanu Reaves is related to Star Wars Episode 1 or Coyote Ugly.
Scarface is about a little girl named Regan who got possessed? So... let me guess, the parents hired Miami's underworld to exorcise the demon with drugs and bullets? Or they hired Regan to be their hitman? What?
Harry Potter... in Mexico? The 3 people on the left, according to the synopsis, are Matt Damon, Henry Thomas and Penelope Cruz. Not to mention the story of Harry Potter 2 happened just after WWII. "Engaging lonely between" indeed...whatever that means.
WHERE CAN I GET THIS????! IT'S... IT'S... IT'S FUCKING DARTH VADER ON A RUSSIAN POLICE BIKE!!!!!! WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU NOT WANT THIS?????
Is this the X-station or the Playbox? No it's the Battman! Comes with a game cartridge too!
The Polystation. Gun included. I hope it's loaded. Someone out there needs to apply it to his forehead.
Dogs. Dogs? DOGS?!?
Someone was obviously sniffing glue when he came up with this.
Morgan Freeman's happy because he's got action figures now.
The skin colour isn't right though.
Screw your Evangelion! China has Ding Xingzhi and his crude flying bird who can drive EVA, a Sky Hawk Fighter! Epic cringe-inducing fun to be had by all!
The Justice League has new members!
Let's think out of the box! We need to come up with a creative name for this revolutionary game concept. Okay, let's call this "Overlord Leaves His Wife"!
I imagine the wife must be one heck of a woman to make leaving her such an adventure.
The white men wanted a stud to breed slaves. Matrix Reloaded. True enough, my brain popped while reading this cover.
Raws Al-Ghul was a great man, a great man indeed. Amazingly they got the name "Bruce Wayne" right.
Btw this is a book.
Impressive. I guess children in China love cocks more than I thought.
The most senseless ensemble in gaming history. Why a gun and a controller for what appears to be a portable Tetris game device?
The things people do to get laid in the future.
This is the best speed I've had ever since we switched back to Wireless-G mode. We basically cut our download speed down to a third just so that my bro's gf can connect to our network. According to a previous rant I had 54Mbps for download speed with Wireless-N but her laptop can't use this mode.
Screw it. I'm changing it back to Wireless-N until she comes again on Friday.
Weird. My bandwidth didn't increase by much after changing to Wireless-N.
Why are they trying to relate this news to the idea of making ISPs police the Internet?.
True, blaming the ISP for Internet content is like blaming the Ministry of Transport for a crash-and-run incident. The logic is that it built and gives the public access to the road, so they are responsible for whatever happens on it. Not much sense in that, really.
But Facebook and Google being held responsible for their content is different. If you enter a restaurant and find trash left on your table from a previous customer, you're not going to blame only that irresponsible guy. Obviously you're going complain about the cleaners/waiters too.
Moderators are basically the janitors of websites and admins are their supervisors. Surely any video sites have them. What should a restaurant do when they receive such a complaint? Either punish the cleaners/waiters in some way or hire more. Same with the website.
In any case, you're not going to blame the MoT for anything. All it did was give you a way to go to the restaurant. I believe that ISPs should remain not responsible for any Internet content. Moderators and their supervisors should be the ones getting the blame.
OMG this is probably the best rant I've ever typed. You know why? Because I'm throwing here 2 web addresses that you may have always needed but never thought of.
- cooking by numbers
- supercook
These 2 websites show you recipes you can use when you list down what ingredients you have. Now you don't have to spend too much time thinking about what to cook like I do. Keep in mind not all the recipes are serious. Check them before taking stuff out of your fridge.
There's always instant noodles but that's only for the last resort.
3-year-old mistakes a real gun for a Wii gun, kills herself with it. I don't care about how closely the Wii gun resembles an actual pistol. The real issue here is why they allow a loaded gun to be left where a child can have free access to. Shouldn't the adults at least keep the gun next to them, especially since there is a child around? And when I say "next to them" I mean in their range of sight at all times.
They should just suck it and go on with life. This is just part of the consequences of allowing civilians to own guns. They should have known that when they made their laws.
Oh I love this excuse. Anytime someone gets hurt, "they should have known". That implies that whenever there is a crime, no one should be held responsible. If you got robbed, "you should have known" that the streets aren't safe and learnt some self-defense techniques or get a weapon. If someone got murdered by his wife for cheating, "he should have known" what may happen when he had sex with his wife's best friend.
It's the most powerful excuse ever. Even the stench of bullshit emanating from it is damned powerful.
Someday someone's going to make a movie out of this. Soldiers like him are probably going to try to make some money by publishing a memoir or something similar. And when they do, remember that I told you so. =P
Supreme Commander 2 is a simpler game compared to its prequel. No more teching up and upgrading every factory, power generator and everything else manually. The only tech is the research tree you open when you hit Tab.
You gain points from your ACU (a little bit), from research plants or whatever those structures are called and from kills. These points can be spent to research new stuff, like an extra barrel for UEF land units and the standard damage/HP increase.
Turtling doesn't seem as easy now mainly because the engineers (builder unit) has been severely nerfed. They can no longer build or assist anything in unison except when they speed up factories' production. In other words, no more 10 engineers holding up a single shield generator to create what might as well be the frickin Aegis.
The part I find has been dramatically improved is the multiplayer mode. They've made some changes to the available settings that I like.
1) Rush timer. You can adjust how long this timer goes (0, 5, 10, 20mins). For the first X minutes of the game, depending on your choice, all players can only stay within a certain radius of his starting point. No units can leave the circle until the time is over. No more lame rushes.
2) Supremacy mode. In this mode losing the ACU doesn't end the game, though it can't be rebuilt (I think).
3) Max unit limit reduced to 300. You won't need many structures (which contributes to this limit) so the best you can get is about 250 mobile units. In this game, 100 bombers is more than enough to assassinate any single land target, even if it's under a shield in a turtler's base.
Another change they made to the game that I really love is how the engineers automatically repairs anything and recycle any wreckages nearby. All I have to do is set an engineer to patrol around my base and it would go around sucking up all the masses left by the enemies' dead aircrafts. It will even try to repair friendly aircrafts that happen to fly by, though they won't chase them.
The only problem I find with this feature is that they get really enthusiastic about recycling all the dead wreckage in the frontlines. The only way I can come up with to solve this is to set the patrol routes to avoid the frontline. Stationary engineers wouldn't move in front of the turrets to suck up the masses, but patrolling ones would.
Experimental units are no longer godlike in this game. Even the Aeons' Colossus die pretty easily to a few turrets under a shield. I think they really tried to emulate Starcraft in the toughness of units. Everything seems to die like flies all the time but hit like Mike Tyson in his prime. The experimental units do make a difference but not as much as they did in the first game.
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