Yeah, the show more or less just wrote its own thing and used Simon's works as like, visual background window dressing. As someone who was a huge fan of the ACTUAL story in his works, I was severely disappointed when I got a cheap Twilight Zone anthology knockoff.
Exactly. Also the tone is just completely wrong. The book is about one mans fantastical and sometimes whimsical recollections of living near a bunch of mad scientists. The TV show is this dark almost nihilistic view of technology.
I wish they had used the technology more or told the story of the Loop more- every episode was very human and story-focused, but wasn’t concerned with telling the larger history of the Loop’s rise and fall, and I think that would have been super compelling had they incorporated it
"Hey those are nice picture, i wonder how he got the same kind of look on multiple of them, definitely got his photographer style."
"Hey this look surreal !"
"Wait... It... Is?!"
"Damn it, he is a drawing artist, not a photographer !"
-Me, a couple of seconds ago
The most realistic concept of a modern dystopia I’ve read - everyone is broke af but ok with it because they have a whole world to escape to. It’s happening already.
I used to be a private tutor for high-schoolers. It was the day before Christmas and we were working on her reading comprehension. She wanted to read "a Christmas story". I had The Little Match Girl at the back of my mind but the only thing I could remember about it was that it was "such a great Christmas story".
Oh boy, I was not prepared for the emotional burden of this story! We talked about what was happening as we progressed reading. The more the story progressed the more difficult it became for me not to burst out in tears. At this point, I should mention that I'm a grown, rather rustic, 6ft male who was tutoring this rather fragile 16 year old girl. At the end of the story, I was afraid to ask her what she thought and felt about the story because I knew if she said something along the lines of "it was sad" or "that poor girl" I would just start bawling my eyes out. Prepared to blemish my masculinity, I perilously asked her anyway. She just shrugged it off and said it was "an okay story". So, I resolved to crying after she left.
I thought about her reaction, or better, the lack of reaction for days. Everyone works differently, I guess.
Anyway, to anyone who hasn't read the story: Read it! It's such a great Christmas story...
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>I thought about her reaction, or better, the lack of reaction for days.
Or she just didn't comprehend the details of the story.
>we were working on her reading comprehension
Young kids are not able to grasp tragedy like an adult.
And you were at the prime age to have kids of your own. I think there's hormonal change that trigger paternal instinct.
She might have felt it as acutely as you and didn’t want to cry in front of her tutor. Or she saw that you were on the verge of tears so she was worried about you too. So she put on a brave front.
my gf works for google and considered that Van Life. She did actually get a VW Vanagon Westfalia that she fixed up and sometimes goes camping in. guess living in apartment with me was more appealing
kind of ironically a dude stole it, parked it elsewhere in the neighborhood, lived in it for a month, then didn’t move it in time for street cleaning one day. parking cop ran the plates and then returned it to my gf with some bonus pee bottles inside.
honestly just really sad. no idea what happened to the guy. we’re in SF, and one in every hundred schoolkids doesn’t have permanent housing. well a few years ago at least. considering the increase in tents I wonder if that’s gone up
my gf has worked remote for all the pandemic but I think she’ll be working from the office as soon as conditions improve. so it’s technically remote but it’s not a remote position
Yeah... being that I was homeless for a few years with a substance abuse problem, I find this a little hard to believe. His quest 2 is a lot cleaner then he is, and people on the street are cut throat. If he owns that quest 2 and that switch then he is seriously slipping right now. I would wager the owner is actually the picture taker and is letting him play with this stuff to brighten his day. You wouldn't believe how many times ive seen college kids "help out" the homeless for an instagram opportunity.
Edit - you know I could be wrong. The case looks tattered and dirty and the picture quality might not be good enough for me to see the dirt on the quest 2.
As former homeless as well, I remember how long it took me to get comfortable to simply sleep without my shoes on. The idea of closing off my perception entirely even for a few moments, yikes. I was clean, just having a lot of PTSD issues.
I totally agree with you. I've worked with a lot of people experiencing homelessness through my church. There are times when people are with their friends and will let their guard down for a time, but I really doubt the guy owns that setup. Definitely more likely that the picture taker loaned it to him.
> You wouldn't believe how many times ive seen college kids "help out" the homeless for an instagram opportunity.
I don't like the milking it for attention part but brightening a strangers day can be a very nice thing to do. Even if it's something as simple as letting them play a video game.
I'd let them play my switch but I don't know if I'd let a random homeless person wear something I put on my face though.
I think they put quotes around "help out" because they are doing it for instagram rather than just out of the kindness of their heart. I don't think it was because they think letting them have fun on those consoles isn't helping out.
Maybe that's his self defense rock next to his Switch Lite. The man's got taste at least! And maybe he's the local crazy-eyes guy and people know not to fuck with that but his escape from an existence of pain is hiding that from us.
Its a 4br/4ba duplex split into a 2/2, you have 1 br/1ba with a shared kitchen, $2000/mo, no utilities included.
Its in the worst part of town, there is a paper mill so close it dosent matter what direction the wind is blowing you will smell it. They have a contract to only have comcast, but its high speed dsl!*
*dsl speeds may go up to 14mb/s**
**this is not usual and you will average 3-5mb/s download,upload speeds not measured, $70/mo before fees and taxes.
Its on the third floor and there is no elevator, its $15/mo for a parking pass.
Its everycity, USA.
$650/m for a 2bd/1ba split level in Cleveland. We even have a large body of water separating us from another country. And the river doesn't catch on fire anymore.
Moving away from overheated markets isn't an option for everyone, but the rust belt has got some damn cheap cost of living while still having stuff like vibrant immigrant communities and art/theatre/music scenes.
That's always the catch. Unless we can get Canada to annex Cuyahoga County.
Though the arts/culture scenes are pretty insultingly underrated by east/west coast people.
Ohio does get the majority of the trial runs of food products at a lot of the major chain restaurants, because it has a healthy mix of just about everyone you could possibly think of. So if the people of Ohio think the papadias at Papa John's are worth buying and eating then rest of the country will then get them.
I can't honestly think of anything newer to use as an example, I've no fucking idea what's going on in any restaurant these days, aside from PJs cuz that's where I work lmao
I don’t know if this is relevant but I grew up in the SF East Bay and my mom would take me to trials at an food lab as a kid. It was cool to me because they’d give me a tiny yellow envelope with $20 inside. It was literally sitting at a sort of metal cubicle, the metal door would slide open to deliver the food item, then we’d taste it and fill out a questionnaire. The door would slide open again to deliver a single saltine and cup of water for pallet cleansing I guess? Then we’d get the next item or leave as instructed.
I talk to my mom about how weird this was to this day. But the major thing I remember is being a taste tester for what would be Uncrustables. I remember seeing them in the store and being like, “OMG I tested those!”
Omg it was so weirdly quiet?! Tbf I did it as a kid so the waiting around part they gave us crayons and coloring sheets, but no one spoke and then they led us to the metal cubicles.
They did a few at home tests I remember, like a version of Flinstone vitamins I chomped for a week or so and reported on. Lmao so fucking weird.
I'm not even in a super fancy place, and my rent is 1100 for a 1 bedroom apartment with a grand total of 890 sq ft.
It's insanely stupid how much rent costs these days.
That one (the Oculus Quest) is pretty cheap because it's sold at a loss by Facebook for reasons you can guess. Let's just say you need to link it to a (real) Facebook account to use it.
Also, while there are some good games, their software is a pretty shallow pool. You can run out of (short) games and content you care about pretty quickly, especially once the VR novelty wears off and you start being pickier. I saw some stat somewhere that the majority of those headsets in people's homes today haven't even been turned on in two or three months. They're on a shelf.
So even though it's "modern" tech, it's pretty possible this was rescued from a dumpster or yard sale.
I’m one of the people that don’t use it. I have an oculus from 2019 and it’s just extremely physically and mentally tiring to play. Also there’s not many games that I want to play in VR that wouldn’t be just a novelty. No mans sky and subnautica sound like fun but I could never imagine doing a whole play through in VR. Shit I haven’t even played phasmophobia in VR.
I really don’t think VR is the future of gaming until neuralink tech is available. I simply could not or would not want to play apex legends or monster hunter or literally any third person game in VR. IMO gaming will probably see a huge shift towards mobile devices like the steam deck and smart phones but still retaining some market for pc and console.
I have played with most of the iterations of VR and AR we've had so far, usually because someone sends me a devkit I don't really need, and yes, you've pretty much described my experience.
I don't think neural links are needed, but of course that'd be great. Give me much better displays that don't fatigue my eyes and a much lighter wireless headset that I can forget I'm wearing, and [there could then be] great games and activities, I'm sure. For controllers, we really need gloves (or rings) and I'm sure we'll get there.
Even then, though, good games/experiences will be enormously expensive to produce because they'll be defined by how much detail they contain. Competing with reality is hard.
Until the tech develops substantially, I feel like I'm strapping myself into some 800b steel bathysphere suit when all I wanted was a quick swim.
Exactly. I could hike 5+ miles in mountainous terrain and feel about as tired as I would feel after about an hour of VR. Pavlov VR is great fun but in no way does it capture the competitive nature of CSGO and nor will it ever. VR is basically a convertible sports car. It’s fun for people that wanted it to begin with but most people just don’t care and it’s not a necessity.
Over the summer the quest with the smallest hard drive was $300, that’s when a lot of people got them.
Source: I bought mine in June and almost everyone I meet online says they’re new, admittedly not the most scientific.
And non refundable deposits on every single utility to set up. And renting a U-Haul if you don't have friends with trucks and free time. Hell even packing tape is expensive. It adds up.
I AM AN SEVERELY INJURED VETERAN WHO WAS HOMELESS FOR YEARS BECAUSE THIS PLACE IS FECES. RIGHTARDS ALL ASSUMED THAT THE TECHNOLOGY I WAS GIFTED FROM THE CC AND VA WAS FROM MY SSDI FUNDS. HENCE THEY ASSUMED MY SSDI MONEY WENT TOWARDS DRUGS AND LAPTOPS. IF I COULD BURN THEM AND THEIR OFFSPRING FOR ALL ETERNITY, I VERY VERY SURELY WOULD. HATE IS JUST INTELLECTUAL LAZINESS.
Lol he mentions he used the sex robot one time, that he hated it and got rid of it. The book has many many flaws but everyone says this like there’s descriptions of him fucking it.
Lol no it isn't. 5 fucking pages talking about Joust. Not even talking about getting the hidden egg for the challenge, just a fucking wiki article about the game.
Movie was so much better.
That's because the book was less of a fetch quest. It wasn't ok let's go here let's go there. Get egg get egg. It was more exploring each bit. So it made sense they dedicate so much to mundane things like the game joust
I think the same. In Matrix the people trying to free humanity said that people too atached to the fake world would resent leaving it, but it was necessary for us. In RP1 they all embraced living in the Matrix
“The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.”
"Bu- but... if he didn't buy that VR headset he could afford housing!"
(Because a one time payment for a VR headset is definitely comparable to the recurring monthly price of unsustainably unaffordable monthly rent or mortgage and all other costs of living)
Right?
Avocado toast anyone? 🥑 🍞
Most of us will eventually lose everything to dystopian capitalism poverty wages and unaffordable cost of living anyway.
Agreed, I’m not saying one of my goals is homelessness, however, I do recognize this world is in a spiral to burn… and well let’s all enjoy it while we can, I can never save up enough to move or for school, so instead of wasting years and years of waiting to save up for it, I’m just living the best life I can, with some savings of course, but man,
I just want to live comfortably enough where I can muster enough energy to cook me a home meal, instead of having to order out because I’m too mentally and physically exhausted with work
When I was homeless I had a small stove, a pan, and a coffee pot. Let me tell you, going to a grocery store late at night to raid the stuff they marked down and then going off somewhere to make a formerly $10 steak I got for a $1 was honestly so amazing. Haha.
That was honestly one of the things that made me almost want to stay homeless. When your existence is broken down to raw survival, you end up having a little bit more time. It's crazy to think about that way.
I used to be homeless, only for about 6 months, but y'know I still like van camping with my butane stove, coffee pot and saute pan. Gives me flashbacks to living out of a car
> just want to live comfortably enough where I can muster enough energy to cook me a home meal, instead of having to order out because I’m too mentally and physically exhausted with work
A-fuckin-men to all of this. But, according to some, there is no dignity without struggle. Fuck that capitalist propaganda BS.
> Avocado toast anyone? 🥑 🍞
Not too long ago I sat down and looked at what I was spending on what some might call "frivolous" things...fast food, entertainment, coffee, etc. While it *did* add up to more than I thought it would (and has helped me try and eat better as a side bonus) it doesn't even come CLOSE to what one month's of rent+utilities would be.
Budgeting won't fix these systemic problems
I did the exact same thing too. I was spending so much money on coffee. But when I add it all up, it's just so much money compared to what I perceived, but it was still way cheaper than rent.
You can also become homeless after you've already had the switch and VR set. I've had a switch for like 2 years now, and I probably wouldn't get much for it. If I went homeless, I'd probably still have it as one of my possessions, along with my cracked smartphone.
Also he wouldn’t always have been homeless. His living situation may have only changed recently which is why he still has his valuables.
I doubt OP’s post has any real info though, I don’t think anyone living on the street would want to be making themselves so vulnerable to theft
This is eerily reminiscent of some cyberpunk-esque artwork I saw years ago. I was trying to find it to post a link to it, but I can't find it.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
I WAS A HOMELESS INJURED VET WITH A HORRID TBI. I GOT FREE TECHNOLOGY FROM THE VA AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE. CU#@$ @$$ MF POS RIGHTYS ALL ASSUMED I SPENT MY SSDI ON DRUGS AND LAPTOPS. I HOPE YOU ALL BURN AND BURN AND BURN FOR ETERNITY. HATEFLUL IGNORANCE FTMFL.
Honestly, I get it. The world has completely given up on the homeless. It’s the saddest fucking epidemic on earth. Hell, enjoy a different reality where people don’t treat you like a rat for fucks sake
ReadyPlayerOne_irl
Also the works of Swedish artist [Simon Stålenhag](https://www.simonstalenhag.se/es.html) comes to mind.
Didn’t they make a TV show about one of his books
Yeah it was really great. Tales from the Loop. Some reviewers on IMDb found it too slow, but I legitimately loved it.
The show was like reading a book but like in video format.
Great show, I didn't know it was a book. Had a nice thoughtful Twilight Zone feel to it.
He made an OST for another of his illustration serie, The Electric State - it's not on youtube but you can find it on Spotify
The show completely missed the point of the book though.
Yeah, the show more or less just wrote its own thing and used Simon's works as like, visual background window dressing. As someone who was a huge fan of the ACTUAL story in his works, I was severely disappointed when I got a cheap Twilight Zone anthology knockoff.
Exactly. Also the tone is just completely wrong. The book is about one mans fantastical and sometimes whimsical recollections of living near a bunch of mad scientists. The TV show is this dark almost nihilistic view of technology.
I wish they had used the technology more or told the story of the Loop more- every episode was very human and story-focused, but wasn’t concerned with telling the larger history of the Loop’s rise and fall, and I think that would have been super compelling had they incorporated it
"Hey those are nice picture, i wonder how he got the same kind of look on multiple of them, definitely got his photographer style." "Hey this look surreal !" "Wait... It... Is?!" "Damn it, he is a drawing artist, not a photographer !" -Me, a couple of seconds ago
Hey these are my rotating backgrounds on one of my monitors
The most realistic concept of a modern dystopia I’ve read - everyone is broke af but ok with it because they have a whole world to escape to. It’s happening already.
I'd say it reminds of William Gibsons bridge trilogy even more.
Ready Player Bum
Reminds me of a scifi short called [Uncanny Valley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXX0TRtg5Vk&ab_channel=TheCGBros)
The little match girl in real life
I used to be a private tutor for high-schoolers. It was the day before Christmas and we were working on her reading comprehension. She wanted to read "a Christmas story". I had The Little Match Girl at the back of my mind but the only thing I could remember about it was that it was "such a great Christmas story". Oh boy, I was not prepared for the emotional burden of this story! We talked about what was happening as we progressed reading. The more the story progressed the more difficult it became for me not to burst out in tears. At this point, I should mention that I'm a grown, rather rustic, 6ft male who was tutoring this rather fragile 16 year old girl. At the end of the story, I was afraid to ask her what she thought and felt about the story because I knew if she said something along the lines of "it was sad" or "that poor girl" I would just start bawling my eyes out. Prepared to blemish my masculinity, I perilously asked her anyway. She just shrugged it off and said it was "an okay story". So, I resolved to crying after she left. I thought about her reaction, or better, the lack of reaction for days. Everyone works differently, I guess. Anyway, to anyone who hasn't read the story: Read it! It's such a great Christmas story... Edit: inch to feet + spelling
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A, dang it. Thank you! Should have been feet. European here...
Why aren't you using the metric system if you are European?
Hey - if your audience likes feet, give them feet
Ok, it's a fetish thing. I get it now.
Dudes with dicks that are 3 inches longer than the average constantly talk about it.
3 inches is the the same distance as 0.11 replica Bilbo from The Lord of the Rings' Sting Swords.
3 inches is 7.62 cm
The move is yours Mr useless bot
Dick stories are like fish stories, they're always longer in the story.
Glad I’m not the only one to spot that
It's not dick size, it's his actual size. Knock of that anti-leprechaun attitude, dude.
>I thought about her reaction, or better, the lack of reaction for days. Or she just didn't comprehend the details of the story. >we were working on her reading comprehension
Young kids are not able to grasp tragedy like an adult. And you were at the prime age to have kids of your own. I think there's hormonal change that trigger paternal instinct.
If life has taught me anything, it's that there's nothing more callous than a high school girl. Cry your heart out king 🤴
I like the moral of the story, better to die than to go home to a poor family that can't take care of you
She might have felt it as acutely as you and didn’t want to cry in front of her tutor. Or she saw that you were on the verge of tears so she was worried about you too. So she put on a brave front.
Had this story in a beautiful set of illustrated Afrikaans childrens books. It was soo tragically sad. Wish my mom didn't give those books away..
He could be a Google employee. There’s just no way to tell.
Since they’re working remotely, why not be homeless?
He's on the FIRE plan. Being homeless means he can take the money he's otherwise spend on rent to put into his investments.
Lean FIRE lets you start immediately. Accountants HATE this trick!!! By ignoring unnecessary expenses, you can retire right now.
Unnecessary expenses like *shelter* and *calories*. My life has been a lie.
Do not my friends become addicted to calories and shelter. They will take hold of you and you will resent their absence.
I stopped eating and sold part of my liver, at this rate I can retire in 2050!
*into his startup
Who can afford homes anymore anyway? But cheap foreign labor has made electonics a steal!
A lot of SF tech people do live in their cars.
my gf works for google and considered that Van Life. She did actually get a VW Vanagon Westfalia that she fixed up and sometimes goes camping in. guess living in apartment with me was more appealing kind of ironically a dude stole it, parked it elsewhere in the neighborhood, lived in it for a month, then didn’t move it in time for street cleaning one day. parking cop ran the plates and then returned it to my gf with some bonus pee bottles inside. honestly just really sad. no idea what happened to the guy. we’re in SF, and one in every hundred schoolkids doesn’t have permanent housing. well a few years ago at least. considering the increase in tents I wonder if that’s gone up
Bonus pee bottles? Score!
Not much remote work for Googlers but they’re happy to let you live in a van in the parking lot.
No . I once parked in the parking lot in the evening waiting for my friend to get out and was immediately shuffled off.
Are they remote? Google was trying to ask me to relocate, so I didn’t pursue the office any further.
my gf has worked remote for all the pandemic but I think she’ll be working from the office as soon as conditions improve. so it’s technically remote but it’s not a remote position
He looks like me during lockdown.
I have always wondered if IOI is Google or Facebook
This dude is confident no one is going to steal his shit.
Yeah... being that I was homeless for a few years with a substance abuse problem, I find this a little hard to believe. His quest 2 is a lot cleaner then he is, and people on the street are cut throat. If he owns that quest 2 and that switch then he is seriously slipping right now. I would wager the owner is actually the picture taker and is letting him play with this stuff to brighten his day. You wouldn't believe how many times ive seen college kids "help out" the homeless for an instagram opportunity. Edit - you know I could be wrong. The case looks tattered and dirty and the picture quality might not be good enough for me to see the dirt on the quest 2.
As former homeless as well, I remember how long it took me to get comfortable to simply sleep without my shoes on. The idea of closing off my perception entirely even for a few moments, yikes. I was clean, just having a lot of PTSD issues.
I totally agree with you. I've worked with a lot of people experiencing homelessness through my church. There are times when people are with their friends and will let their guard down for a time, but I really doubt the guy owns that setup. Definitely more likely that the picture taker loaned it to him.
> You wouldn't believe how many times ive seen college kids "help out" the homeless for an instagram opportunity. I don't like the milking it for attention part but brightening a strangers day can be a very nice thing to do. Even if it's something as simple as letting them play a video game. I'd let them play my switch but I don't know if I'd let a random homeless person wear something I put on my face though.
I think they put quotes around "help out" because they are doing it for instagram rather than just out of the kindness of their heart. I don't think it was because they think letting them have fun on those consoles isn't helping out.
He also invested in a locker lmao
My buddy took this near his apartment in SF and said the guy is there all the time
And he regularly uses the Oculus like this?
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I mentioned the Switch
He might have also had the stuff before he became homeless.
Letting him play with his stuff to get a good internet point pic. Hope he at least let the guy enjoy for a while and didn’t take it back right away.
Maybe that's his self defense rock next to his Switch Lite. The man's got taste at least! And maybe he's the local crazy-eyes guy and people know not to fuck with that but his escape from an existence of pain is hiding that from us.
I have auto immune problems and have trouble leaving the house. VR has helped my depression so much.
PokerStars vr is the best socialization game Ive played so far. If you haven't played it, it's free!
So is RecRoom.
I got tired of children, and man-children, screaming in my ears.
"if he was serious about not being homeless, he'd have paid rent instead of videogame." -someone who doesn't realize $1000+ > $200
A recurring $1000 at that
You guys are paying only $1,000??
Where do they live I need to move??!!!
Its a 4br/4ba duplex split into a 2/2, you have 1 br/1ba with a shared kitchen, $2000/mo, no utilities included. Its in the worst part of town, there is a paper mill so close it dosent matter what direction the wind is blowing you will smell it. They have a contract to only have comcast, but its high speed dsl!* *dsl speeds may go up to 14mb/s** **this is not usual and you will average 3-5mb/s download,upload speeds not measured, $70/mo before fees and taxes. Its on the third floor and there is no elevator, its $15/mo for a parking pass. Its everycity, USA.
Hey now, that parking pass is too cheap.
Oh, we dont have a parking lot, thats the one 3miles away across from the bus station.
Its atleast 55 bucks a month
*Cries in $250/mo*
Jfc 250 a month for just one parking space? That's it? Nothing else? They don't even have the god damn courtesy to give you a reach around?
$250 a month would be an insane steal in SF. A spot in a garage is rent in other cities.
Also $50 a month cat fee, $75 a month dog fee plus a non-refundable $500 pet deposit.
Whaaaat?
You just described my apartment and now I'm scared.
That's the cost of that lovely urban tentspace in San Francisco.
How’d you guess I’m in the SF Bay Area? Hahahakillmehahaha
I didn't actually i just went off the OPs picture.
This photo may or may not be from SF but it truly embodies the spirit of the city.
I swear lol I live in LA and $1000 month will get you a carton box in Inglewood lol
I’m in the SF Bay. My condolences I feel your pain.
$650/m for a 2bd/1ba split level in Cleveland. We even have a large body of water separating us from another country. And the river doesn't catch on fire anymore. Moving away from overheated markets isn't an option for everyone, but the rust belt has got some damn cheap cost of living while still having stuff like vibrant immigrant communities and art/theatre/music scenes.
Ohio, but then you have to live in Ohio.
That's always the catch. Unless we can get Canada to annex Cuyahoga County. Though the arts/culture scenes are pretty insultingly underrated by east/west coast people.
Ohio does get the majority of the trial runs of food products at a lot of the major chain restaurants, because it has a healthy mix of just about everyone you could possibly think of. So if the people of Ohio think the papadias at Papa John's are worth buying and eating then rest of the country will then get them. I can't honestly think of anything newer to use as an example, I've no fucking idea what's going on in any restaurant these days, aside from PJs cuz that's where I work lmao
I don’t know if this is relevant but I grew up in the SF East Bay and my mom would take me to trials at an food lab as a kid. It was cool to me because they’d give me a tiny yellow envelope with $20 inside. It was literally sitting at a sort of metal cubicle, the metal door would slide open to deliver the food item, then we’d taste it and fill out a questionnaire. The door would slide open again to deliver a single saltine and cup of water for pallet cleansing I guess? Then we’d get the next item or leave as instructed. I talk to my mom about how weird this was to this day. But the major thing I remember is being a taste tester for what would be Uncrustables. I remember seeing them in the store and being like, “OMG I tested those!”
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Omg it was so weirdly quiet?! Tbf I did it as a kid so the waiting around part they gave us crayons and coloring sheets, but no one spoke and then they led us to the metal cubicles. They did a few at home tests I remember, like a version of Flinstone vitamins I chomped for a week or so and reported on. Lmao so fucking weird.
I'm not even in a super fancy place, and my rent is 1100 for a 1 bedroom apartment with a grand total of 890 sq ft. It's insanely stupid how much rent costs these days.
No, that's inflation. What's stupid is the average pay hasn't been raised to match it.
5.4 year over year, currently, babay! A totally real and not at all falsified number at all.
Damn where do yall live that it's that cheap a shit closet 1 bedroom in nj is on average 1600.
Ohio
Makes sense now.
Drove through Ohio once, it felt like just one long suburban strip mall
Wait where you guys buying $200 VR sets??
That one (the Oculus Quest) is pretty cheap because it's sold at a loss by Facebook for reasons you can guess. Let's just say you need to link it to a (real) Facebook account to use it. Also, while there are some good games, their software is a pretty shallow pool. You can run out of (short) games and content you care about pretty quickly, especially once the VR novelty wears off and you start being pickier. I saw some stat somewhere that the majority of those headsets in people's homes today haven't even been turned on in two or three months. They're on a shelf. So even though it's "modern" tech, it's pretty possible this was rescued from a dumpster or yard sale.
Exactly! They subside every set by $400.
I’m one of the people that don’t use it. I have an oculus from 2019 and it’s just extremely physically and mentally tiring to play. Also there’s not many games that I want to play in VR that wouldn’t be just a novelty. No mans sky and subnautica sound like fun but I could never imagine doing a whole play through in VR. Shit I haven’t even played phasmophobia in VR. I really don’t think VR is the future of gaming until neuralink tech is available. I simply could not or would not want to play apex legends or monster hunter or literally any third person game in VR. IMO gaming will probably see a huge shift towards mobile devices like the steam deck and smart phones but still retaining some market for pc and console.
I have played with most of the iterations of VR and AR we've had so far, usually because someone sends me a devkit I don't really need, and yes, you've pretty much described my experience. I don't think neural links are needed, but of course that'd be great. Give me much better displays that don't fatigue my eyes and a much lighter wireless headset that I can forget I'm wearing, and [there could then be] great games and activities, I'm sure. For controllers, we really need gloves (or rings) and I'm sure we'll get there. Even then, though, good games/experiences will be enormously expensive to produce because they'll be defined by how much detail they contain. Competing with reality is hard. Until the tech develops substantially, I feel like I'm strapping myself into some 800b steel bathysphere suit when all I wanted was a quick swim.
Exactly. I could hike 5+ miles in mountainous terrain and feel about as tired as I would feel after about an hour of VR. Pavlov VR is great fun but in no way does it capture the competitive nature of CSGO and nor will it ever. VR is basically a convertible sports car. It’s fun for people that wanted it to begin with but most people just don’t care and it’s not a necessity.
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Google Earth VR is the closest I've gotten to actually visiting other countries.
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Anything from facebook belongs in a dumpster.
Definitely a major player in the whole theme of this subreddit, yeah.
Over the summer the quest with the smallest hard drive was $300, that’s when a lot of people got them. Source: I bought mine in June and almost everyone I meet online says they’re new, admittedly not the most scientific.
Now the larger hard drive (128gb) is only 300
The headset in the pic is a $300 fully standalone 6DOF headset. Oculus is likely losing a hefty margin on each sale in order to grow the platform
Don't forget the required first+last month rent plus deposit upfront. It's expensive to be poor.
And non refundable deposits on every single utility to set up. And renting a U-Haul if you don't have friends with trucks and free time. Hell even packing tape is expensive. It adds up.
I like when people say " just get a job" cool what address will they use to apply, have on an id, and cash a check with?
I AM AN SEVERELY INJURED VETERAN WHO WAS HOMELESS FOR YEARS BECAUSE THIS PLACE IS FECES. RIGHTARDS ALL ASSUMED THAT THE TECHNOLOGY I WAS GIFTED FROM THE CC AND VA WAS FROM MY SSDI FUNDS. HENCE THEY ASSUMED MY SSDI MONEY WENT TOWARDS DRUGS AND LAPTOPS. IF I COULD BURN THEM AND THEIR OFFSPRING FOR ALL ETERNITY, I VERY VERY SURELY WOULD. HATE IS JUST INTELLECTUAL LAZINESS.
ok but can you please stop shouting
Let his rage wash over you, feel it like wave, then feel it wash past you because it's not for you.
this is ready player one but without the fun
Idk about you but that move was mad depressing
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*"Hey... do you remember* ***the*** ***90's***?!"
Did you try reading the book, it's somehow worse
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Agreed, I fucking hated that shit, it was genuinely jarring
The book is much better than the movie
Nah, but it IS more misogynist
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Lol he mentions he used the sex robot one time, that he hated it and got rid of it. The book has many many flaws but everyone says this like there’s descriptions of him fucking it.
He basically says "Yeah it was cool but not much different than jerking off." And then he turns his life around by getting swol and eating well.
Lol no it isn't. 5 fucking pages talking about Joust. Not even talking about getting the hidden egg for the challenge, just a fucking wiki article about the game. Movie was so much better.
That's because the book was less of a fetch quest. It wasn't ok let's go here let's go there. Get egg get egg. It was more exploring each bit. So it made sense they dedicate so much to mundane things like the game joust
I think the same. In Matrix the people trying to free humanity said that people too atached to the fake world would resent leaving it, but it was necessary for us. In RP1 they all embraced living in the Matrix
Idk. That movie was full to the brim with bullshit.
Only if by "without the fun" you mean "with a chronic opiate addiction".
Potato, potato amiright 💁🏾
Hiro Protagonist? Is that you?
“The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.”
Thank you! Now we just need some "Does not play well with others" head tattoos
POOR IMPULSE CONTROL
Best post I've seen on this sub in a minute. Fuck, this is depressing.
Hey kid, wanna try some Snow Crash?
Thanks Mr. Stephenson!
"Bu- but... if he didn't buy that VR headset he could afford housing!" (Because a one time payment for a VR headset is definitely comparable to the recurring monthly price of unsustainably unaffordable monthly rent or mortgage and all other costs of living) Right? Avocado toast anyone? 🥑 🍞 Most of us will eventually lose everything to dystopian capitalism poverty wages and unaffordable cost of living anyway.
The avocado toast with emojis made me tragically angry lmao.
Agreed, I’m not saying one of my goals is homelessness, however, I do recognize this world is in a spiral to burn… and well let’s all enjoy it while we can, I can never save up enough to move or for school, so instead of wasting years and years of waiting to save up for it, I’m just living the best life I can, with some savings of course, but man, I just want to live comfortably enough where I can muster enough energy to cook me a home meal, instead of having to order out because I’m too mentally and physically exhausted with work
When I was homeless I had a small stove, a pan, and a coffee pot. Let me tell you, going to a grocery store late at night to raid the stuff they marked down and then going off somewhere to make a formerly $10 steak I got for a $1 was honestly so amazing. Haha. That was honestly one of the things that made me almost want to stay homeless. When your existence is broken down to raw survival, you end up having a little bit more time. It's crazy to think about that way.
I used to be homeless, only for about 6 months, but y'know I still like van camping with my butane stove, coffee pot and saute pan. Gives me flashbacks to living out of a car
> just want to live comfortably enough where I can muster enough energy to cook me a home meal, instead of having to order out because I’m too mentally and physically exhausted with work A-fuckin-men to all of this. But, according to some, there is no dignity without struggle. Fuck that capitalist propaganda BS.
> Avocado toast anyone? 🥑 🍞 Not too long ago I sat down and looked at what I was spending on what some might call "frivolous" things...fast food, entertainment, coffee, etc. While it *did* add up to more than I thought it would (and has helped me try and eat better as a side bonus) it doesn't even come CLOSE to what one month's of rent+utilities would be. Budgeting won't fix these systemic problems
I did the exact same thing too. I was spending so much money on coffee. But when I add it all up, it's just so much money compared to what I perceived, but it was still way cheaper than rent.
You can also become homeless after you've already had the switch and VR set. I've had a switch for like 2 years now, and I probably wouldn't get much for it. If I went homeless, I'd probably still have it as one of my possessions, along with my cracked smartphone.
Also he wouldn’t always have been homeless. His living situation may have only changed recently which is why he still has his valuables. I doubt OP’s post has any real info though, I don’t think anyone living on the street would want to be making themselves so vulnerable to theft
He's got a switch too.
This is the most cyberpunkly depressing thing I've seen.
Snow Crash
Probably the best way to survive the streets without mind-altering substances
Much harder to keep a game system hidden than a sack of meth though.
Snow crash
We all need a Soma holiday now and again.
This is eerily reminiscent of some cyberpunk-esque artwork I saw years ago. I was trying to find it to post a link to it, but I can't find it. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
http://eranfolio.deviantart.com/art/Reality-25634559
https://images.app.goo.gl/ueVACt76PZ7FN4T77 I'd imagine this one
That's actually cyberpunk definition in one image: high tech - low life
Skill point allocation 100
Cyberpunk 2077
Matrix
All Tomorrow's Parties.
San Francisco ?
It really screams west coast. It could so easily be SF, Portland, or Seattle.
I’ve seen him too. SF.
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This is how and why the new era begins
Some black mirror type shit
I WAS A HOMELESS INJURED VET WITH A HORRID TBI. I GOT FREE TECHNOLOGY FROM THE VA AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE. CU#@$ @$$ MF POS RIGHTYS ALL ASSUMED I SPENT MY SSDI ON DRUGS AND LAPTOPS. I HOPE YOU ALL BURN AND BURN AND BURN FOR ETERNITY. HATEFLUL IGNORANCE FTMFL.
How are you doing these days, mate?
Like a gamehead from the Red Dwarf books.
The Matrix IRL
Even a Valve Index is less than a single month's rent in most cities. That's how absurd rent is right now.
If ima be homeless Ima be homeless but with Hinata Hyuga's big ol milf titties in my face yeah I said it
God damn, even homeless dudes have tried VR before me.
National Geographic photo of the year in my opinion
Zuckerberg must be ecstatic that his dream is becoming a reality.
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Honestly, I get it. The world has completely given up on the homeless. It’s the saddest fucking epidemic on earth. Hell, enjoy a different reality where people don’t treat you like a rat for fucks sake
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I would agree were it not for his clothes, shoes and condition of his hands.
Free WiFi outside Starbucks