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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Does the 3D depth not add much for you? It always bothered me that most people don’t seem to care about 3D… every time it started to come back again, it always fizzled out and got harder and harder to find. With VR, I’m so happy that it should finally be here to stay.

    But honestly, even when just recreating multiple flat screens in VR, being able to place them at 20 feet away for the comfort of my eyes, and then size them up until they still look like a desktop mounted triple monitor solution at first glance, until you realize how far away they are. All that for about 500$ on quest 3, or 1000$ if you want to go with Quest pro and still use all your physical setup with it. Quest pro is not a fully immersive headset, it’s designed for people who still want to see their keyboard or whatever is in that same general location. The perfect headset to blend with already having a physical cab recreation.

    I wouldn’t recommend anything less than a Quest 3 or Quest pro. Having used everything before that, pancake lenses are the number 1 most important breakthrough in VR so far. Yes, even counting that one you just thought of that seems like it should be more important. Lol. Ok fine, maybe some other parts were a bit more important, like accurate head tracking and all the low-latency work… but pancake lenses are right up there, just behind the fundamental, foundational breakthroughs.



  • So, because I already spent lots of money, I wanted to honor it by spending more money. Hehe.

    I don’t know. Whatever. It’s certainly not for me. I get doing all that before good VR was an option. But now a VR headset and a motion rig feels like a way better use if you want to spend alot of money on it. And no motion rig if you don’t. But, I can comfortably wear VR for 10+ hours and didn’t even have to train away motion sickness or anything. So, of course, VR seems great to me.

    There is also the option of a Quest pro. I don’t know exactly what a multi-monitor setup like this costs, but a brand new Quest pro is 900$. It’s purpose built for blending your physical work space with a virtual one. Loading up 4 virtual monitors, or one really wide curved one if you prefer that, and putting them/it 20 feet away for eye comfort is also an option if you don’t want stuff to be 3D/harder to run.






  • As long the player is open to whatever the DM decides their characters history is, or they have collaborated on an outline or even a detailed history the other players just don’t know about, that is all fine and can be really fun for everyone.

    If they are doing it with no heads up and are not going to play along with whatever the DM decides happened in their past, then no. But when it comes to DnD, I normally let stuff play out and only stop play if something is clearly going poorly, or might make other players more uncomfortable than they are willing to be. I only play with friends, so things rarely end up being anything close to the worst they theoretically could have gone, socially.







  • I really liked the Tokyo Xtreme racer games. They are still probably the best car RPG games. I would love to see what someone could do now in the same vein. Even tokyo xtreme never got quite as crunchy or difficult as I would have liked.

    I want to go so far as to be like a tactical survival style game, where you are out there earning a living wage from daily(nightly) car racing, and putting most of it back into your car. Just the repairs and maintenance alone being a bar you have to meet and beat every day on average to stay afloat, and then you can think about upgrades after.

    It basically takes an environment like that for it to matter in a racing game that there are upgrades between the worst and the best. If trying to save up for even one good part wouldn’t be possible without at least some middle parts first.

    Meanwhile, could have some “roguelite” elements too in driver experience/skill. The car is only half of what’s winning the races afterall. And even if you really blow it at some point and your car is fucked and you need to salvage and pull together what you got and go back to a cheaper car to maintain/repair, you’ll still have all the experience/skill your character personally gained helping it go a little smoother this time.