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VR is so cool. I just spent an hour talking with a high-school teacher from Denmark, a pilot-in-training in Oman, and a highschool-student in Canada. I realize that there are similar mixes on internet forums and Twitter, but it feels significantly more intimate to have a conversation in VTime.

This morning I realized that Ripley's Believe It or Not! had a huge impact on my taste at a young age. I am interested in having a discussion about what the appeal is of these exotic factoids, their accompanying relics or illustrations, and the aesthetic of an explorer travelling to every place in the world to confirm or disprove things they've heard that seem impossible in the early 20th century.

I just watched this hour-long documentary. I wouldn't recommend it, but i enjoyed it.

Playing Overwatch with Idle Thumb Readers last night was super fun.

I heard this story about ballot-order this morning and I was surprised how much it matters: http://www.npr.org/2016/07/27/487577930/why-the-first-name-on-the-ballot-often-wins

I started following the RBioN! Twitter-account. I prefer the dated-look of the older strips, but the contemporary strips do sometimes deliver. https://twitter.com/ripleys/status/758225749102899200 Yesterday I found a few complete episodes of Mondo Beyondo on Youtube and I realized that it has a similar appeal for me. I think I may have gotten pulled into RBioN! by the sense of incredible coincidences and unbelievable feats initially (this was in elementary-school where we would sit and read and discuss factoids from Guiness Book of World Records during lunch), but I think it helped me develop an attraction to the aesthetic of concise reports of exotica with newspaper-illustrations brought to me by a mysterious guide. The Mondo Beyondo comparison really points out to me that a guide-character is important to me. I like being introduced to off-centered wackiness by an ring-master of some sort. I'm not sure how much RBioN! markets the world-traveler fantasy anymore, but that was a big part of the appeal for me, a context to put all these strange instances within.

What does this mean?

I went to the one in San Antonio, Texas when I was in junior-high and it felt pretty amazing at the time.

Then you won't be watching this:

I actually had a useful sharing-of-perspective conversation with my republican-voting father-in-law this weekend. He opened up to subtlety from his typically dogmatic slogans largely because I agreed that Hillary Clinton was a crook when he accused her of being one. I was able to then talk about how I'm also disappointed in some of Obama's decisions, but that George W. Bush's fuck-ups were significantly more harmful to the U.S. and our victims. After admitting the faults I perceive in Democratic leadership, he was more willing to listen to my concerns about Trump's misogyny, white-supremacy, and isolationism. He'll still vote for Trump, but I appreciated getting a chance to have a more substantial discussion than the two of us just waving flags at each other.

This game helped me understand the absurdity of the trolley problem analogy more fully. Personally I feel like the situation is much more similar to Twitch Plays Pokemon

I thought Ivanka Trump's speech was pretty good. I don't remember the GOP ever having any interest in women's issues. I'm hoping that the two platforms will ante up more and more offers to women as this goes on and an expectations are raised in both constituencies. The structure of Donald Trump's speech seemed like it was intentionally conflating violent crime and immigration which is horrible. He also seems to blame Clinton for the last 15 years of foreign policy in the Middle East which is Rush Limbaugh's History of the United States.

I should have realized that Trump's plan was to delegate everything to other people and just be the face and ego of an administration. It makes sense. So I guess I should watch this election as one between Pence and Clinton. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/magazine/how-donald-trump-picked-his-running-mate.html?_r=1

I just read about that D.Va buff. How does it feel? It sounds really interesting. I don't think I'll be able to download the patch before I go to bed.

This game is so much fun. I spent the morning spotting tanks with laser-targets and repairing friendly tanks.

I'm surprised how far I can get with some of my older projects by just making the camera static and clicking on the Virtual Reality Supported box.

Tyranobuilder can be frustratingly wonky in some special cases, but I would totally recommend it if you want to make visual-novels and you are more comfortable with drag-and-drop visual scripting than text-based languages.

This is not a short game, but given that it has no save-system, I find myself playing it as one. Dondgynns Auv Ye Wyrdd

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I haven't played Rust in over a year, but I got served this video on my Youtube page: It's interesting to me that what are effectively states, are being formed and the more individualist players are concerned about their inability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

I imported a bunch of oculus packages or whatever a few months back when I was trying to make something for the Gear. I have no idea what I did in that time, but now all I have to do is install the Oculus utilities package, open a scene and start making a diorama. It surprises me every time I press play and my headset automatically works. The resolution settings in the build seem to only affect the desktop mirroring; that keeps it simple. It's kinda neat that I can just make and distribute a VR thing now. I'll probably wait until 5.4 is released before trying to figure out how to export for the Vive. I doubt I'll make anything I want to show before then anyway.

VR is a small world right now I guess.

Here's a neat read about a game called Senet that was popular for 3000 years, but only in Egypt. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-06-01-why-did-ancient-egypt-spend-3000-years-playing-a-game-nobody-else-liked

So was it the power-supply?