I’d for sure be addicted to holodeck as long as it doesn't give motion sickness like VR does. I’d likely be addicted to VR if it didn't give motion sickness.
Being able to turn the sun brightness down a bit while “outside” sounds lovely. And exploring new places I cant realistically visit. Don't need anything else.
Oh man I’d never play games where voice was a requirement, other than couch co-op.
My early mmo gaming in my 20s was with wow and guild or pug vent servers and that was mostly ok because if you knew what you were doing as a support character you didn’t need to participate in the chats (my main was a holy priest, so as long as nobody died I didn’t need vent at all). My guild was accommodating, and had several deaf members, so voice wasn’t a big push for us.
I was a raid leader and the main healer of my guild and I did not ever talk on voice chat because I couldn’t be bothered to set up my mic and nobody cared. We were casual, but I mean yeah, it’s a game for fun.
I have absolutely no interest in exposing myself to public servers, or even anything less curated than guild servers, even as temporary as pug chats. I don’t play online games if voice chat is needed.
It might be a you problem if you don’t feel connected with someone making the time to play with you because it’s not your preferred way.
“But it’s not my favorite way! I can’t go that way!”
I’ll take exits to who knows where to avoid traffic even if sitting in it is technically faster. Every time the highway gets shut down for a snow-related accident, my adventure gene lights up and we go exploring the back country. It’s never fun, but it beats sitting in traffic, and it’s never as bad as the time I got stuck on the highway in a blizzard and was stuck at 15mph for a normally 2-hour-70-mph drive that took me some 5-7 hrs to complete.. the next morning I took a perfect imprint of my license plate off the ice covering my car. Kept that in my freezer in a box for a couple years until sublimation made it unreadable.
My burner igniters aren’t electronic-control and they still failed in a less than decade old stove that was not heavily used at all (I live alone and use the stove, not even the specific burners that failed, maaaaaaaaybe monthly)
They just make their parts cheap overall. Induction isn’t enshittification-proof. If anything it’s more susceptible, being entirely electronic.
That said I’d trade my gas stove for induction if I could, even with enshittification.
I’m glad we have new(er) willing participants :)
Have you seen this? Green screen on crack.
You can’t ask good questions on Lemmy without getting someone to respond with a genuinely informative answer (if they see it, even days later)
We need to increase the weirdo pool a bit more though so the questions get seen.