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My son built me a gaming computer recently. I used to be a hardcore gamer in the 90s but haven't played for well over 20 years until very recently. I am having so much fun as an older guy getting back into gaming and I have an endless library of good games to play. Its a really great way to spend an hour or two.

Well for fathers day my son bought me a used headset to try out, we just hooked it up today and holy #$@* its amazing. I cannot believe it, it is so neat. I have never had so much fun gaming before and better yet many of the games are really good exercise. Boxing games, musical rhythm games, spots games and golf. There is a military shooter game call Pavlo and it made me feel like I was back in combat. It felt so exciting and I'm pretty good at it. My son was amazed at how quickly I excelled at Pavlo.

The only thing I'm not enjoying is the loud mouths on some of these players. Little kids saying all kinds of terrible language. If you have a computer that can run games buy yourself one of these headsets. You will be transported to another world. I can put this thing on and jump into so many different worlds right in my living room. So amazing. Have any of you experienced this?

My son built me a gaming computer recently. I used to be a hardcore gamer in the 90s but haven't played for well over 20 years until very recently. I am having so much fun as an older guy getting back into gaming and I have an endless library of good games to play. Its a really great way to spend an hour or two. Well for fathers day my son bought me a used headset to try out, we just hooked it up today and holy #$@* its amazing. I cannot believe it, it is so neat. I have never had so much fun gaming before and better yet many of the games are really good exercise. Boxing games, musical rhythm games, spots games and golf. There is a military shooter game call Pavlo and it made me feel like I was back in combat. It felt so exciting and I'm pretty good at it. My son was amazed at how quickly I excelled at Pavlo. The only thing I'm not enjoying is the loud mouths on some of these players. Little kids saying all kinds of terrible language. If you have a computer that can run games buy yourself one of these headsets. You will be transported to another world. I can put this thing on and jump into so many different worlds right in my living room. So amazing. Have any of you experienced this?

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We're living in virtual reality. It's created by the new world order (or as Biden prefers to call it, the "liberal world order") and dispensed by their corporate slave media. None of what they say is real. It's all designed to persuade and deceive.

They want you to put your head in a box and forget about your life and its problems. That's why there is so much free pornography around. They want you addicted to it. They want you addicted to professional team sports. They want you addicted to computer gaming.

What they don't want is for you to read books, think for yourself, and take control of your own life.

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I never watch porn and I hate pro sports!

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Sports is literally porn for the hunting instinct. It masturbates the urge for a group of guys to get together and use teamwork, planning, preparation, and hand eye coordination in tandem with spatial skills to accomplish a goal.

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I think sports fans are so stupid. At least those who really get into their team. Some people become so emotionally invested despite the fact sports mean absolutely nothing in life and these athletes don't care if you live or die. When I see a guy with sports memorabilia plastered up everywhere I assume him to be a real idiot.

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Well just because a person enjoys VR doesn't mean they don't read or exercise. I do all of these things. I have over 200 books sitting right next to me. To the right is my VR headset and in my garage is my gym.

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Yeah they are pretty good with the immersion as objects feel true to the real size and depth. VR will be better with higher resolutions and better graphics.

This is going to be a major problem, I can see people inventing a virtual life like that game Second Life years ago. It'll be so immerse, you will have your own house or spaceship to live in, but in reality you'll be living in your pod.

This is why zuckerjewberg is investing heavily into it, they are going to create a digital reality that will suck people into it, and it'll be as easy as putting sunglasses on.

Who will want to live in this real world when you can just escape to your own space, a space in VR that feels very close to the real thing. But it'll be on your space ship or a different planet.

People will rush home from work and then live in VR, while the real world around them burns and they become more enslaved. Not lifting weights, studying the jq, or becoming self-sustaining. Just consuming.

You will own nothing and be happy.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

This, exactly this, is why we’re almost definitely living in a simulation.

We are quickly approaching the point where video games will be indiscernible from reality. The NPCs will have their own intelligence and make their own decisions, rather than move about the game’s world on a pre-programmed code.

Given this, it’s inevitable that the sentient NPCs will eventually create their own video games, which will eventually be indiscernible from their reality. Eventually the NPCs in those worlds will create their own false reality, ad infinitum.

So we have to ask ourselves, in a universe that’s billions of years old where we have developed this type of technology in a few decades, are we really the first in an infinite line to create a fake reality? Or are we just one of the realities within the infinite line?

Odds are absurdly in favor of us not being the first. Like, nearly 100% likely. Obviously some society has to be the first, but once the chain is started they’re the only society out of billions, trillions, exponentially more, that actually exists in the real world. Crazy to think about

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Voluntary self inflicted real life self abortions.

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You are likely exactly right

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It's cool for like 2 days. Then I decided that when I want to play vidya I want to sit down. If I want to walk around, I go outside. If I want to exercise, I exercise.

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Holy shit youre on my list of funny guys now. So cool to hear you describe it.

Anyways watch sword art online with your son. Youre gonna love it.

One thing tho. VR is a trap. I dont play it because ive tried it. And i felt how hooked i could get on it.

Elin musks neural link and other such tech, is how a reality like the one portrayed in the show "sword art online" Will Come to be.

Be careful nigger.

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I agree with you. My son demo'd it for me, and I could feel my brain ...... 'grabbing' for it, if that makes sense. Hard to describe, but I know I don't want to explore it more.

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I suggest Walking Dead Saints and Sinners. It’s a shooter like Pavlov, but its against zombies.

If you like flying games (which I do), spring for a joystick and throttle combo. There are a few really badass flying and combat VR games:

  • Project Wingman
  • Star Wars Squadrons
  • Warthunder
  • Elite Dangerous

Project wingman and warthunder are airplane based. Project wingman is more modern planes, warthunder is WWII shit.

Star Wars squadrons is obviously space shit. Relatively easy to pick up.

Elite dangerous is a space sim. When I say “sim”, I mean it. It’s really badass but a huge timesuck. There is combat in it, amongst other things. They put a legit map of the Milky Way in that game, and it’s fucking incredible. I won’t even try to describe what a great job they did on this game, it’s so deep I could write a book on it. Probably the coolest and best job anyone ever did on a game in history, IMO. It is not for the faint. You legit have to learn all sorts of systems to fly your ship and thus, accomplish anything. But in a way, it’s worth it. Beautiful game, just incredible.

There’s also DCS world, too. Which apparently can literally teach you how to fly fighter jets, or at least get you pretty close to being able to, so I hear.

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The fact that DCS is at the bottom of your post and is basically like an afterthought is appalling. How have you not tried it yet?

Its the closest you can get to the actual real experience of flying military aircraft. It even has helicopters now. [Apache, Huey, and Russian Hind]

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The reason I haven’t messed with it is that I don’t have the time or likely the mental space to legit learn how to fly an actual fighter jet.

VR, for me, is a quick and dirty escape that I will spend 20-mins to an hour on in a given week. Even learning how to play Elite Dangerous was too big of a time suck and it’s a mere fraction as complicated as DCS.

If I had to learn Elite from ground up right now at this moment in time, I probably wouldn’t even do it simply because I don’t have the kind of time required. Much less something like DCS.

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DCS is as complex as you make it really. You don't need to be 100% familiar with all of the systems in the cockpit to fly. There are multiplayer servers where you can spawn in a jet mid-air if you don't want to bother with startup and take-off.

You are right though if you really want to master a jet, it can take a lot of time.

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Squadrons is dog shit. Elite takes a lot of setup but then it is good.

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Yeah squadrons has some issues. When it first launched,OMG I wanted my money back.

A lot of it has been fixed at this point but it’s still got some issues for sure.

For me, it seems that it’s sometimes not real smooth in the headset, like there’s some “twitching”.

What’s your beef with it?

For the record, I play Elite and Project Wingman the most. I haven’t touched squadrons in probably 9 months.

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I got it it, SW Battlefront and Fallen Order for $30 all together, the later two were actually quite good. Squadrons however did not detect my gamepad, the mouse controls were ass no matter how many times I stopped to tweak them, none of the menus or splash screens or cut scenes were VR friendly in the slightest. The cockpits were obstructive (although I guess they are lore correct) and there was no head tracking.

Mostly it was just the controls though, SWBF had better flight and it was an afterthought in that game. Squadrons was a failure as a flight title and as a VR title.

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Back in the 90s I got a chance to try a virtual reality demo for a minute or so. When I have more free time and money I'll get a VR kit and see what it's like today.

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I tried my buddy’s VR headset with some racing game, wasn’t a big fan TBH. I like gaming enough, but being the audio guy I am, much rather look at a display and have immersive audio. Hearing arrows whiz past you in surround sound is awesome. Also, doing stealth gameplay with auditory clues 360deg beats goggles I’d say. Of course you could do both, but I just found the goggles too much

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Yeah I have an Index and I'd still rather have my audio clean, clear, and full range(nice headphones and DAC/amp) over VR. I might be getting an Ultrawide soon.

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How about VR with surround sound headset?

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Nah. Use headphones at work, would rather listen to speakers

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Flight sims.. DCS holy fuck..

I recently purcased Pavlo because its on sale, but it won't top DCS.

Elite Dangerous is kind of cool too, at least for a few hours.

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I spend all my fun money on sick guns to use in the race war

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I think I’ll pass. As a principal I reject these new hedonistic technologies

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Just once. A guy I know from work said he had this VR gay simulator. I didn't believe him, so he had me try it. He said it was so read I should take my pants off before I tried it. He also said it would feel really real, so not to take the glasses off before it was done.

I started the glasses on, and they started to flash colored lights. Then, what do you know, it felt like a guy grab me by the waist and start to butt fuck me. I heard grunts that sounded EXACTLY like my friend, then a big rush as it finished. When I was done, it had been so intense that my friend was all sweaty and had a half hard on.

The real kicker was that the next day, my asshole hurt like nothing else. I had no idea that VR was so advanced.

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