aww, A Fire Upon the Deep is high on my reread list! Still one of the more thought provoking books i’ve read

i get that, but adding a gyro is really, really minor, just a couple modules on a PCB

whether they like it or not, it should still be included on a “premium” product, when the Wii U controllers had it!

really a cool tech, cant imagine how it would work. Could definitely make walking in VR a lot less cumbersome.

I mean, this is like saying “$10,000,000 would buy you a house in 1910, and $10,000,000 would buy you a house in 2023”

It would take a lot more gold to buy you a house in 2023 than it would have in 1923

Amen. Weird how people feel the need to insert it into random places. Cant think of any TV show that got hit from that!

Thats great news, but the proof of the pudding is in the tasting, and we will have to see if Google makes any parts for their phones available. I havn’t heard of Google… digitally keying their parts the way Apple does.

interesting chip, but since its faster but no more power efficient, not sure how usefull it will be for mobile devices. The Q3 already has problems with its battery life, if it had the XR2+ instead of the XR2, it would have even worse battery life!

Yea,

We mainly print stuff for D&D, and documents. Got a cheap laser printer. Printed thousands of sheets, on our second toaner.

When we need pictures printed, we just go to the local print shop and get them for $0.50 each.

Unless its like Firefly or The Expanse (or The Tripods from the 80s) and taken too early from us

Love the movie, always felt it loses the thread a bit towards the end, and wraps up with too neat a bow (compared to the book), but the visuals, the characters, the music… THE MUSIC

Re-reading a bunch of Discworld. Really need to read Project Hail Mary, only heard good things about it

That last bit is what people always seem to miss.

Getting hit in the head with a branch is bad for you, but it’s less bad for you than a bullet.

In the end, you need to compare the two risks, and not decide “a is bad, no need to look at b”

In the end, the aspartame in the coke Zero is likely less harmful than the sugar, and I would pick a coke Zero every day of the week over coke with sugar.

Sugar is just not healthy.

Oh god, Okanagan Cider is so, super sweet. Might as well drink sugar water with added alcohol.

I live near a cidery, and everything is a dry or semi-dry. So much better.

done! I felt it was important when i was looking for the story, but you are right, with it found i should remove it!

yea, i would love a longer story of it! Ill check out Emissaries too!

sadly not, theres no romantic sub plots, and its all from the POV of the girl thats in the AI support coffin.

Managed to refine my search terms a bit, and by using “AI prison” instead of “vr prison” found it!

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sacrids-pod/

Well put!

For sure. I’m calling him “he”, because thats what he appears to identify with.

Hes undeniably a bigiot at the beginning, but i think a lot of that comes from… a gamblers fallacy, worrying what hes already invested in his identity, and knowing he might have been wrong, and it reaches a crescendo, before Klyden is forced to realize hes made the wrong decision, and rejoins his husband and daughter.

so good.