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I often wonder when reading journals like these and then the profiles of people if somebody is actually performing Turing tests with the members of TWHL.

Learning a new language while you're young is faster and you should try it. There's a saying that you get a new soul for each language you learn ^^(or so I remember, don't know where I heard/read this).

"Sors motor" sounds really funny :).

I myself really want to learn German, and I've been listening on my commutes to some german conversations but it hardly sticks to me because I'm focusing on other activities.
I'd also like to improve my french, which I was never good at. I can't understand how, I learned it at school but meh...
Then a bit of some other languages, like spanish, russian, japanese and/or chinese.
And Hungarian! I've grown with and know people who speak hungarian, and it's so damn hard to learn.

I guess these languages will be a life-long goal :)).

Your experience resembles with one of mine some months ago, when I dreamed that someone was trying to enter my flat and was woke up by a loud knock noise. Eh... the mind is weird at times.

If you dream a lot, I suggest you take notes when you wake up. It's fun to read about your dreams later :).

One detail: only tried the Oculus with Project Cars, but I could tell HTC vive was worse for me after I switched from Oculus. I also got the feeling that the display was more pixelated, even from what I understand both run at the same resolution.

To answer your questions:

1. For 2 hours. Played about an hour with the Oculus Rift only Project Cars, then HTC Vive on Projects Cars and Hover Junkers.

2. Yes I did, in Hover Junkers. Even though you surely know you're with the feet on the ground, your equilibrium centers in the brain are getting rekt.

3. Oculus Rift pros: lighter, has integrated (audio)headset that has quite good quality.
Cons: manual lens adjustment

HTC Vive pros: comes with the controllers in one package, really ergonomic controllers and easy to use, has better spacial positioning due to external sensors
Cons: the displays seems more pixelated, it's quite heavy and leaves marks on the upper cheeks(you can feel its weight)

5.Oculus Rift... but I really like the HTC Vive controllers :)).

6. They were quite comfortable, but after some time I just felt I needed to take a break( after about 30 minutes).

7. I only know it used Nvidia GTX 1070. It wasn't a demonstration, I actually played for 2 hours.

8. eehhhh... I rather think VR is a genre of its own. Not all games we play today are transferable to the VR, at least not as it works today. Racing games and first-person shooters are probably the easiest to transfer to this type of experience, but an RTS wouldn't be suited for this. 2D games are definitely better played on a screen.

9. Yes I would. My first impression when sitting in the racing chair, grasping the wheel that opposed my hands in every cornering, and changing the gears manually while "being there" was: I was blown away.
In Hover Junker I almost wanted to put the controllers I was holding "on the table", and at the least moment I figured that's not a good idea! Also I wanted to sit on a chair. That didn't happen either. What happened was that me and my friends showed the finger a lot and spoke into non-existing microphone.

10. No. It is much too expensive for what it offers at this point. HTC Vive costs 900 euro, Oculus Rift is cheaper. Plus, although the immersion effect is good enough, you still see a pixelated "reality". I don't understand how such a high resolution those VR headsets use can still appear pixelated. Perhaps the video settings were adjusted but I doubt that. It definitely has potential and I can't wait for the 2nd or 3rd generation where lots of problems will have been fixed.
Perhaps I'm repeating myself, but if you ever have a chance to test them, do it. It will give you a taste of future gaming.

Happy birthday!

A VR club opened in my city, but an hour costs about 17$. I'm gonna go there sometime to test VR for the first time. Until then I only know stuff that people said in reviews, and your opinions.

Looks like it's all up from now on. Sorry for the split up. How many years of college do you have left? And what do you want to do after that? (physics sounds very research-oriented)

It's the 28th entity in that list. I wonder what's that supposed to mean in this journal hm?

trigger_once in a year! Happy birthday!

That looks awesome for starters! This is somewhat in the TF2 style, amirite?

You're one fat atom mate. And it's only gonna get worse.
Happy birthday you massive electron donor!

ADHD plague incoming.

On the road. I lost control of the bike on a slope and smashed into a concrete wall.

Thank you guys for the kind thoughts.

I have some CD from 1993 with classical music that still plays, and a Verbatim Metal AZO( the blue ones) from 2000 that can still be read.

Happy palindrome birthday! You're now a decade away from me in the 4th dimension.

Here's a thing or two about being successful.

Watched some John Oliver commentary today, thought this was funny:

Honestly this would be funny in a strategy-simulation game, but this is reality and it's sad.
I always disliked one time voting or referendums. It's basically rolling a dice that can negatively impact people's lives.

Well, you DID write a book about the Source SDK so I'd say you've left your mark on this domain. Hobbies change in life, but sometimes we revisit them.

I hope your personal improvement goes well and bring a positive change to yourself, this world and the TWHL community.

We all come back from time to time. TWHL is still my number one tab, even though I don't get a lot of information from here, but it's the online social aspects of keeping an eye on the regulars.

Condolences to your wife.

Getting a house must be quite cool. It's also a rare thing to hear these days as not many people afford to buy a place to live anymore... at least not in urban locations. Most pay rent, which is absurdly high for lower-end salaries.

You work from home in game dev?( freelancer websites?)

I think that is dock connector.

You should try to save up some money for a new laptop though, or maybe if you can't afford a new one you could try investing in a second-hand laptop. For some decent gaming I'd only go as low as 2012, when the Ivy Bridge was released. Some of the CPUs have the Intel HD4000 which is powerful enough to play League of Legends for example on 15 inch screens.

If you're not moving anywhere soon the better option is to invest in a desktop system, you can find way more easily used parts on the internet.

Here's a tip for finding cheaper parts: online marketplaces are not necessarily where you'll find the cheaper options, but you can use them to gt an idea for the price of what you're looking for. Instead, see if you have computer/gaming communities or forums in your country where they have trading threads. There's a slight chance people will be selling at lower prices there.

^Knowyourmeme level explanation right there.

Instead of lamenting about this, let's face the reality:

1. In the immediate future, Windows 7 is going to expire. It's an excellent system even today and I still see it as a modern operating system. I think it has 4 more years of support if I'm correct. I know it's going to outlive that just as Windows XP did, which is even now used in many enterprises that can't afford to update systems that just... work.

2. Fortunately, software has advanced sufficiently that the linux-based systems are now a good alternative. Honestly if one is not professionally bound to applications that work only on Windows, you can switch with no problems to linux. And linux is not hard to tackle either: Ubuntu is retarded-proof. Even more advanced distros are easier to maintain these days. The only one I've tried and was hardcore was Arch linux, but it falls in another category. There are also the BSD-based systems, but those are usually meant for server-side.

3. Most of the people I know who use Windows 10 don't complain, they even praise it, but most of them have the "I've got nothing to hide" attitude. From my point of view, these people don't get the point. As I see it, it's not about you at the personal level(even though you should care...), but the fact that someone is milking the masses of data and using that data in its self-interest. Because they can. Because it's natural. Until now the consumer was the one who had to be pleased. Now he needn't be. Now the corporation can adjust its services so as to provide maximum perceived quality(by the consumer) while minimizing costs.
But the fact is that Windows 10 is a 10/10 OS without its privacy flaws. So, onward to point 4.

4. I'm sure you've all seen the news: people all over the world use ad-blockers and marketing companies are not happy. Their hunger for too much and forgetting to be reasonable led to their demise: people, at least initiated people, hate seeing so much ads( I personally don't use an ad-blocker, instead I simply don't visit sites that are 80% ads and 20% content... it's a good indicator that the site is shit, but I've always accepted seeing ads as long as they're reasonably placed).
Well I think that's what's going to happen with privacy invasion too, even if it's much harder to tackle. People will become educated in what internet privacy means. For Windows 10 there are already solutions for blocking telemetry with software. A more aggressive one would be a custom built router software that detects these telemetry aspects.

I too have that icon and I'm still reluctant to update. I waiting one more month( afaik, June is the last month you can get it for free).

I just remembered that we used a system called "Piazza". That's a good classroom management system but sadly it's not very used.

Scratching your left part of the head with your right hand at its finest.
I thought that our teaching methods are old, but at least our teachers use Dropbox and the like for stuff like this.

Have a nice trip!

That's closer to me than the other side of the planet, but yeah still very far :)).

As a maker at heart, I will always hate testing. Ok maybe it's too early to generalize, I don't have much experience. But testing stands in the way of my creativity flow.

No probs man. You always deliver.

Yeah baby! 3333 days and going strong!

Wait is the RC car made in 88'? That shit is old, nice to see it still works. Reminds me of a game we used to play as kids at school called "ReVolt".

Oh my god no wonder we're getting so fat! :))

I don't understand why normal people need autocorrect so much. I can use two thumbs just fine to write with minor mistakes. Or I'm not normal people?

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banana.

Happy birthday!

You're so lucky to stay young for such a long time!

What the fuck. Last night I dreamed of corpses too and told a friend which said "what a coincidence".

Happy birthday !

yeah... wat?

Happy birthday though!

Can you install another OS on these tablets? They run on x86 SoCs right?

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$65? Now where did you find this cheapo tablet?

Happy approx. 10,000th day and approx. 1 billion heart beats!

Your map is a concentrated cocktail of good interior design - at least by CS:GO level design standards. Had I not downloaded this from TWHL I could have easily took this map as an included map in the game, that's how advanced your skills are imo. Well, it's true that you also got help from Deen, and team effort shows off. I have to say though that I've never been a fan of the plasticky feeling a lot of these modern source engine maps have, but I'm going to try to ignore that, seeing that nobody has anything against it.

About the gameplay: paradoxically I don't like that I get lost in this office complex as it's built like an anthill, but I like that because of this there's no real "camping" spot. Choke points are everywhere and that ensures action, even with few players( I played 5vs5 with bots).

How much effort did you put into this? The details are incredible, and I'm not literally referring to small details. I seriously question how do you get inspired to connect all these areas, to come up with the visuals and overall theme? It's a mixture of a lot of elements yet they come together just fine. I'd find very difficult to stay on track with such a map, so for that I'm giving 5 shiny stars! A map to be played on a TWHL server, whenever we'll get one :).

For us anything above 25$ has free delivery.

Your story reminds me of a processor upgrade I had in 2010. You must have been really enthusiastic about the purchase and totally forgot about compatibility details. I know that the motherboard was from 2007 and on Gigabyte's page the processor I was going to buy was listed as compatible, but with a newer BIOS version. I risked flashing the BIOS, but it worked and I had a beefier PC.

I don't know why I'm picturing DiscoStu as having the afro from your story... probably because of his avatar.

Now I can't get my priorities straight! I don't know if I should continue to save money for a car or invest in a desktop and sell my laptop... although its Nvidia 650m still bears the weight of lots of modern games.

At this point I could invest in a system centered around Skylake i7 6700, with 16GB of DDR4. I'd have to wait probably 2-3 months before buying a graphics card - the intel 530 integrated graphics is powerful enough to run games with some decency in FullHD. Then I'd invest in this Asus GTX 970 Turbo OC. It's a piece of beauty, you don't see every day GPUs painted white. As a matter of fact, this card was on sale these days in some stores from my country. One could get it for about 300$. I wonder if I should wait until USB type-C becomes popular on motherboards though.

All these beefy hardware discussions makes my mouth really moist.

Also, you walked in the store to buy the GPU? I thought most of the people order them online. The only computer hardware I ever bought physically from a store was a hard disk...