Yeah that would have been a huge letdown if I had been aware of all that hype.

But man, if only the huge letdowns of today were as good as spore…

Hah, I remember the space end game seeming like an endless slog of fighting the intergalactic evil race that occupied all the systems surrounding the center of the galaxy. Rather than spend forever slowly taking each and every system over, I just made a mad dash for the center to see what was there. I think the strategy was to take my ship into a system as I’m being chased by enemies, down to a planet, lay down a respawn point without dying, then leave the system and race closer to the center, and repeat. I eventually made it there with this strategy. I won’t spoil what’s at the center in case you don’t want it spoiled but…I found it underwhelming lol.

Also wondering this. It looked really cool in concept, was bummed when it didn’t work out.

Back when Spore came out, I was too young to know about most of the hype around it. It was short, yeah, and the end game was odd, but otherwise I remember really enjoying it.

Cool, didn’t know the modding community was the way to go. I would always break it out at a party, it would be fun for a bit, but yeah, eventually it’s just the same thing but faster. I’ll have to take a look at the mods.

I would limit it to the “web” in it’s heyday. The internet as a whole is more wild than ever. And there’s a chance that the fediverse could be just as thrilling in 10 years as the web was 20 years ago (and could be swamped by corporate interests).

I don’t think the internet is getting less thrilling and weird, if anything it’s downright scary at this point, it’s just really easy to enter a walled garden, never leave, and never find the interesting stuff.

Ahh ok cool, I’ll keep at it. Thanks for the recommendation.

I do:

• Guess the Game
• Framed
• Connections

I just played today’s. Maybe I need to play more to really get it. Is it always this trivial?

Wind affects all boats, but I may have made an assumption when they asked about it in the context of pirates.

In a situation where wind isn’t a factor, and there are no obstacles, this is true.

But since we’re talking boats, I’m assuming wind speed/direction is a factor, so the ship that can adjust their orientation and sails to maximally take advantage of the wind could have an advantage.

Phones are different because your eyes are focusing at a point a foot in front of you, whereas in VR that shouldn’t be the case. You’re focusing on a simulated point a couple of meters out in the distance, though it is usually is still fixed.

Make no mistake, I’m not saying wearing VR for hours every day is healthy, for your eyes or otherwise, I’m only responding to your claim about screen brightness. I don’t think any VR displays have even hit 1000 nits yet, and on the displays that have, that’s peak brightness, the whole display can’t use all that energy at once, only small sections at a time. Meanwhile the sky is on the order of 10,000+ nits. The brightness of the sun will certainly hurt your eyes at over a billion nits.

I would love for an optometrist to explain why I’m wrong though.

The brightness of the sky outside dwarfs that of any display we can make, much less a tiny VR display. If they could squeeze the nits needed to make a VR screen look like real life into a display that small while retaining the quality, they would.

It might actually hurt your vision because it’s not bright enough, much like trying to read under a dim light starts to cause eye strain.

Narrator: “They did.”

This is the eternal stalemate of our two party system. Everyone agrees that there are many big obvious problems that need addressing, both parties want to solve it their own way, but (for better and worse) both only have the power to prevent the other from doing anything.

It’s not that “hot liquids hold more things” afaik, it’s that hot liquids have more energy to break apart the larger particles into smaller ones, i.e. dissolve them. Otherwise you’d expect the dissolved sugar to settle at the bottom when you cool the tea back down.

This comment is the epitome of being confidently wrong on the internet.

https://everynoise.com/

It plots every genre of music on a 2D spectrum (“The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.”)

You can click on any genre and get band recommendations.

Or you can search for a specific band and find other bands plotted similarly.