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Maybe that Facebook charity-money will go into vertigo-research and they'll end up with an inner-ear peripheral on the side.

Nice.

It sounds like you already have something playable in browser, yes?

I love the art-style.

I think you get the idea. Whenever an app moves me (the player) through a space the way a typical first-person game works, it makes me nauseous with a few exceptions. So my fantasies of wearing VR and running around castles or cyberpunk cities are in doubt.

I mean moving over time rather than teleporting to a new spot (which could also be considered "moving" so I was trying to be clear).

I may have had a personal break-through when someone on my twitter-feed retweeted a facebook post about a black woman with braids being told that she couldn't wear her hair that way at her job. The caption read "This is why cultural-appropriation is a problem" or something like that. At first I was like "No, this is why expectations for homogeny is a problem." but I still wanted to understand why someone would associate this event with cultural-appropriation so I speculated for a bit on it. I've been thinking about a k-pop music video called "Dirty Vibe". I haven't watched it in a while, but I remember my interpretation (that is not necessarily accurate); I think that "dirty vibe" is a reference to establishing gritty, threatening atmosphere by appropriating hip-hop imagery. I don't think it's done ironically in the music video, I think it's done distastefully and disrespectfully. Since it's been on my mind, it was an accessible anecdote for me and I thought about the possibility that black-women's hair-styles may have been appropriated for the purpose of gaining that dirty vibe and as a result, the cultural object is villified through the threatening demeanor which the appropriator is trying to express. Basically, the cultural symbol is reused for its capacity for evoking negative associations in a racially polarized society, and through that use, the negative association is exacerbated. I can see how that is racist. But I'm going to go ahead and say this: summarizing all that by calling it out as "cultural appropriation" and expecting folks to read academic papers to fill in the gaps is giving way too much credit to the average twitter-user. I think that there is a pop-feminism (which has many positive aspects) we are in the midst of where participants just want to find Waldo whenever they hear a buzzword. This in effect dilutes the meaning of the concept (I'd say that this is another example of cultural appropriation actually, but not one that I would even begin to try and stop people from committing). So I'm going to try to remember and be aware that I exist within a bubble of pop-feminism and think about the intricasies of call-outs rather than accumulate a list of okay's and not-okay's. Here's an interesting article on Amy Winehouse. I like her music. The article seems to make accusations similar to my description of appropriation for the purposes of gaining dirty vibe. I agree with the article which means that Amy Winehouse's music and persona is an example of racist art that I enjoy. I'm learning how to accept things. http://www.thenation.com/article/amy-winehouse-and-black-art-appropriation/

So I've only played with the Samsung GearVr. My conceptualization of why I would want an Oculus Rift have dramatically changed based off of my experiences with the Gear. It didn't matter how many times someone told me that player-movement isn't enjoyable in VR, I never believed it until I used the Gear and now I understand. So now, as we are approaching the ability to buy a consumer-model of the Oculus Rift, I'm asking myself, "Are there games I want to play in VR where the camera never lerps?" and I'm not sure there are. The reasons I want to play games in VR are largely the same reasons that I want my camera to lerp (a high-fidelity sense of exploring interesting places).

This game is clyde-crack. I have put an unreasonable amount of time into this beta. I've unlocked all but two characters. I'm looking forward to starting over on Tuesday.

I'm not sure what game-programming with Python from scratch is like, but if there is a simple way to make the audio-file play back at various speeds, you could make a chromatic scale by multiplying the speed of playback by simple fractions.

Both games have a lot of risk/spectating, but yeah. I feel like a movie-character in Rainbow Six Siege and in Insurgency I feel more like a Xe mercenary. I really enjoy the relationship between the maps/abilities/barricades and breaching in Rainbow Six Siege, while Insurgency offers high lethality and weapons that feel intimidatingly powerful.

Who are you favorite defenders and attackers? I really like Thermite and I tend to use Mute.

Great gif.

I haven't really enjoyed Twitch streams until now, watching Rainbow Six: Siege streams while waiting for the beta to open up for everyone. It helps that there is so much creativity in how people play the game. There seems to be a lot of flexibility in how they breach and how they prepare for a breach.

I think this article about the difference between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange is useful. One the frustrations I feel when examining this topic by watching youtube videos and reading articles served by people in forum-threads and my twitter-feed is that it appears to be safer to deride many instances as cultural appropriation rather than to provide a few examples of cultural exchange. It can seem like feminist/anti-racist public voices risk clout by thinking in a the spectrum of cultural exchange rather than the binary (of assimilation or cultural appropriation). I think one of the concerns may be that they are wary of permitting racist disrespect with explicit and clear examples that could be seen as a transfer of accountability to themselves. For example, if a youtuber that is known to make videos on feminist subjects makes one where they list examples of cultural exchange that are non-oppressive and one of their examples is wearing a hoody at night, and an audience member takes that as permission; when someone else complains that their wearing of the hoody at night is marginalizing for that third party, the audience member may use the feminist youtuber's permission to disregard the concern. As I was looking at videos, I saw another instance of a person expressing concern about how their particular mix of culture and race could be seen as oppressive. They asked:

There are plenty of instances where this is harder to claim cultural appropriation is bad than a symbolic white oppressor selling knock-off Hopi dolls with a direct negative impact on sales by people on a reservation. Assigning rights to commoditize a culture through some official authentication seems like a conflict between the ability to leverage ties to culture for profit and the ability to leverage ties to culture for personal and social identity. I favor the needs of personal and social identity. For instance, I don't think that a white musician playing jazz is a disrespect to an entire people. Here's a relevant essay that adds nuance to the conversation. Or consider this one. I don't like this need to prove your ability to appreciate something as part of you.

I saw that others were in the thread and I didn't want to look like I was changing what they were responding to. I'm comfortable with calling attention to it, though my intentions were the opposite of doubling down on the use of "dehumanizing".

What I should have said is that whatever the process of certifying authenticity of an individual's ties to a culture is, I suspect that it is dehumanizing and disrespectful to personal experience. -edited to take out inflammatory language.

How is the bold part determined?

I don't deny that cultural appropriation is happening, I also think it's a perspective worth being aware of, but I don't think that identifying that cultural appropriation is happening is necessarily a good reason to shut something down or label something as harmful. Calling out cultural appropriation in a damning tone seems like it will lead more and more toward efforts to certify authenticity and I find that dehumanizing to the individual and disrespectful to their particular spectrum of culture and mixtures of culture.

A few days in here are some more thoughts. I view this device as an environment display more than a gaming-machine. When I imagine things that I would like to do in here, it's not shoot dudes, play sports, or match-three; I want more 360'3D captures/videos of South Korea and stage-plays. Oh in case I didn't mention it: There are 360'photos, 360' videos, and then 360' stills that are also 3D, and 360' videos with 3D. I prefer 360' 3D stills and videos. That said, the 360' video that was five minutes of the Lion King musical was kickass and I'd love to see more of that type of thing (especially if it was also 3D). Gripes: It's inconvenient that I have to go into cyberspace to pick which videos I want to download within the apps. It would be musch better if some Oculus apps were openable from the regular phone interface and I could search and queue up downloads that way. Also, I had to mention these OTOY dioramas again. I think the last time I was impressed by visual fidelity to this degree (besides seeing Vermeer paintings in person) was when the Nintendo came out. I suspect that these things are going to be what virtual-reality and augmented-reality games and movies will look like in 5-10 years. They are incredible visually.

I like that there is history and that things are typically organized by subject. For instance, if I play game from 5 years ago, I like to read through the thread that started when it came out and look at the responses to the games by members of this forum. If there was a thread for every time someone picked up an older game, I would lose that ability. As far as the forum being exclusive and stagnant, that can just as easily be seen as familiar and dependable for others. I do agree that expectations for folks to read more than a page or two of previous pages in a thread before posting can be unwelcoming. But I do appreciate it when someone provides direct-links to relevant threads and posts.

@Roswell I really enjoyed Big Bang's stuff along with the two lead's duet stuff (Top and GD). There last album was a big disappointment for me. The costuming is indeed grand. I enjoy K-pop fashion a lot in general. Often there will be overuse of something utilitarian or tacky to catch the eye that eventually grows on you. They often do this audibly in their songs too. My wife and I talk about the "baby-voice" of the band; some bands (4-minute, Hyuna in general, AoA) have a member with a raspy almost whiny member-voice that at first we find off-putting but which eventually ties the pop-song together for us. In the case of BIg Bang, GD is the baby-voice, T.O.P. is his complement. ANYWAY.. I came in to praise Joanna Newsom's new album which I'm very impressed by.

Yeah, I don't know what happened but I haven't had a moment when I've wanted to manually delete all those tags(?) Also: Just tried Dead Secret which is like a mobile version of Gone Home in form. I looked down and saw that I had not only a broken arm in a sling, but I also had boobs! That was really cool but the proportions feel odd. I can't tell if the avatar is very petite or if boobs really get pushed that far to the middle of the chest when wearing a bra. I will report back once my wife gives me her feminine perspective. Update: She says that it looks normal, but that her body is small.

I'm not sure if I expressed my opinion in a satisfactory way. I feel a sense of injustice about the way jobs in American society are considered to be commodities worth judging someone's value on, and simultaneously life-lines. It would be so much better if they were considered temporary priviledges and were irrelevant to whether or not someone will be able to feed their family and pay rent. The reason I'm not bothered by Sacco getting fired is that I don't think she is more deserving of that job than many un-employed or under-employed folks who haven't had the priviledges that she has had. My view on this has some amount of nuance though. I don't think that most people are capable of performing every duty (surgeon, police), but a PR agent? I'd like to take someone off the street and see how much worse they do when you offer them however much she was being paid.