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<ec>
HI all
<ec>
SwooshyCueb: I, obviously, am the superlative Elliott
<pikajude>
you're just lative
<ec>
lateral
<ec>
god the fucking Vive
<ec>
roomscale VR is a fucking *trip*
<meowrobot>
i wonder when the first vr rpg comes out
<meowrobot>
i so want to play one
<ec>
there are several
<jfhbrook>
is the vive still cool?
<ec>
jfhbrook: idk it is to me O_O
<ec>
I'd avoided VR for so long, I thought it was dumb Gamer™ shit
<jfhbrook>
yeah I kinda did too
<ec>
but I got berated into trying to by an Oculus rep
<jfhbrook>
I don't have the space for one is my thing
<jfhbrook>
I got shit everywhere
<jfhbrook>
I'd want kind of an open space y'know?
<ec>
and they put me into a rock-climbing simulator (done my share of scaling and abseiling — boyscout represent!)
<ec>
yeah exactly
<ec>
the cool vr is roomscale vr
<jfhbrook>
it was chill tho, mostly I just meant, like, the friends that I know that bought vives don't talk about them much anymore
<ec>
which is unfortunately EXPENSIVE, in both money and space and effort/time
<jfhbrook>
oh man I hate heights D:
<ec>
but jesus christ
<ec>
yeah I don't see myself using this daily. at all.
<ec>
but it's a bit like my car — I had the money, I want to try it, I want to let my friends and loved ones try it on my dime.
<ec>
also I was able to build a *really* beautiful setup.
<jfhbrook>
yeah
<ec>
not some janky computer-room / gaming-rig
<jfhbrook>
nice
<ec>
I've got all the wiring run across the ceiling on retractable tethers, the headset is mounted on a display-head on a side-table by my couch,
<jfhbrook>
yeah if I had a bunch more square feet I'd probably just move my coffee table and call it good
<ec>
there's that (goddamned (motherfucking)) eGPU installed in the media-centre,
<ec>
and then I just lay my MBP on a stand and plug a single Thunderbolt cable into it, and boom it's a VR powerhouse
<jfhbrook>
egpu?
<ec>
I've also got it all set up to duplicate to the television and sound-system, so the “player” walks around the play-area, but myself and any other visitors can spectate it as a fullscreen game / with high-quality audio etc, from the couch.
<jfhbrook>
oh nice
<ec>
it's all really slick. ☺️
<jfhbrook>
yeah it's kinda hard to spectate without that
<ec>
it's still unbelievably dorky
<jfhbrook>
wait what
<jfhbrook>
hold on
<ec>
but the happy gasps and woaaaahs from people kinda make up for it, you know
<jfhbrook>
💯
<jfhbrook>
hm
<jfhbrook>
weird
<jfhbrook>
weeiiird
<ec>
what
<jfhbrook>
there's a bug in mosh
<jfhbrook>
where things that take more than some number of bytes won't work, ecs-2 somewhere I guess? I dunno
<jfhbrook>
anyway most emojis don't render on my screen
<jfhbrook>
but that one did
<jfhbrook>
it's a really dumb bug but most people on irc don't use emoji much anyway so I've gone with that over reconnecting to ssh any time the network is dumb
<jfhbrook>
though this query is seriously taking a minute
<ec>
idk sql
<pikajude>
sql? idk ha
<jfhbrook>
I didn't either ec
<jfhbrook>
structurally it's pretty simple
<jfhbrook>
and surprisingly powerful
<ec>
wat it do
<ec>
idk databases
<ec>
idk anything
<ec>
im a terrible program bbl eating food and being trash
<jfhbrook>
this query actually uses a bunch of stuff
<jfhbrook>
using with (which is apparently not the best in pg proper but not bad in redshift), joining a table against itself, windowing *and* aggregates
<ec>
I don't know what literally any of that means
<ec>
I don't know what a "left join" is, nor a "select"
<ec>
I literally do not know databases, I wasn't kidding.
<jfhbrook>
right, I was just listing things
<jfhbrook>
not trying to explain them
<ec>
This is *still* the best bass-y song I know of, omfg
<jfhbrook>
let's see if the web client Actually Works for once
<jfhbrook>
nope
<jfhbrook>
still mad broken
<jfhbrook>
spotify has **never** worked on my laptop
<jfhbrook>
and if they can't even get a web player to work I have no interest in installing a native app
<jfhbrook>
spotify--
<ec>
lol.
<ec>
the web player is deprecated and terrible and underutilized
<ec>
whereas the Mac app is fucking beautiful and excellent
<ec>
for a long time, it was Literally My Favorite mac App, in terms of design and usability
<ec>
recently and barely outstripped by 1password, fwiw
<ec>
1Password → Spotify → Safari → Tweetbot
<jfhbrook>
yeah, that's BS and it's making me be Not A Customer™
<ec>
again, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
<ec>
Spotify is excellent. If your experience with one weird corner of it that nobody uses is prevents you from *even trying* all the good parts, well ... your loss, not everyone else's?
<jfhbrook>
the web is not "one weird corner"
<jfhbrook>
if you can't even make a web page that doesn't suck, gtfo
<ec>
I was actually having this argument with another friend yesterday
<ec>
(who, coincidentally, is texting me rn)
<ec>
the web is dead.
<ec>
it's one of those slow deaths, with lots of mirrored reflections and bubbling inside the corpse and shit
<ec>
but In The Real World, the web as we've known it for two decades, is over.
<ec>
ask me and I'll rant on that later, but rn I'm gonna go play with some butane :D
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