Is this how the math works? It feels weird - I remember recommended intake for me being around 2000 or something (for a regular 30y.o semi-active male), which would make this require getting into negative calorie intake.

I know literally nothing about this, though. Or are the 70 000 calories factored from how much a body burns? So, it's basically impossible in 30 days for someone whose daily burn-rate is lower than 2300, based on his age/sex/activity?

There's a lot of serious illnesses/medical conditions that will make you loose a lot of weight, very fast. I think i.e some cancers are one of those.

They usually also kill you pretty quickly, but you didn't ask for healthy.

This is more of a reminder - if you inexplicably loose a lot of weight, it's not something to celebrate, but get checked up ASAP.

Wow, I don't think I ever considered someone's prose punchable, but this would be it.

I case anyone is also wondering that bombs measured in tons of explosives sounds pretty close to nuclear, where I vaguely remembered the number 15 tons - in case of nuclear weapons, it was kilotons, so thousand times as much.

I was just about to say - there definitely should be US on the list.

But, now that I think about it, ignoring he exists and letting him threaten the void is probably the best thing they can do. Like, make contingencies behind closed doors, but don't react to not draw his attnetion. His dementia will make him forget anything he said anyway, so we might as well stop reminding him.

I only tested it like twice, on a meeting with my friends when we were working on a game in our free time, but I was honestly surprised how better the meeting went in VR.

Being used to just staring at flat faces on Zoom, you kind of forget how much you are actually missing in the term of expressions. It's hard to describe, but it just felt a lot better when people are in a 3D space and can gesture around.

The whiteboard tools were also nice, like being able to draw with the pointy end of your controller either on table in front of you, or place a virtual blackboard against your wall at home.

Sure, in-person meetings are better, but this was pretty close to the point where it felt almost as a real meeting.

For standups and the like it's an overkill, but brainstorming sessions were a lot better.

Of course, we never did that again, because the hassle of setting up headsets is too annoying. But especially for remote teams, I can imagine it being nice for occasional meetings.

It also might've just been the novelty effect and it would get old amd annoying soon.

I kind of get it, it's a thing that was extremely glorified by tech-bros as future of everything, before they moved over to AI, so everyone is alergic to that.

It's also something that sounds stupid until you try it, and that's hard to describe, and tbh my attempt to share the experience does sound like your regural run of the mill tech-bro speech, now that I read it again. I don't think it's possible to reasonably talk about things like these, because "and then I tried it and I was hooked! Of course it have its problems, but we will solve those" is exactly the techbro speech.

I'm as anti-bigtech as anyone here, and it's not like I live in VR and believe in the Metaverse, fuck that, and it's not like I have all my money in crypto and Meta stocks. I just honestly thought it was kinda cool the one time I tried it, and hope we'll get a more open alternatives once Meta finishes burning money on RaD it needs. Which I definitely can't say about crypto, AI, blockchain or NFTs.

My main point was that it was marginally better than what we traded it for with AI.

The AI furnace is fueled by burning children, and also makes everyone colder and more miserable, but you can make a lot of investor money promising to build more furnaces like that.

I know a lot people hate on this, but when I gave VR workstation a try (asi in, using VR for your second+ monitor) on my Quest 3, it was pretty nice.

At one point I was just taking my laptop to bed, passthrough block on my keyboard, and could comfortably work with 3 larger monitors. Or just plopping in bed with a controller, stream a large screen in front of me, and play a game.

Also, it's great for focus. Not having the rest of the world around you distracting you works wonders.

The Quest 3 was usable (the resolution sucked too much on Q2 to be able to use virtual monitors), but I can imagine it could get pretty tiring spending more than an hour or so in it - which is what I presume they could eventually solve. I'm excited for Steam Frame, assuming it will work as a standalone Linux computer. If I could just develop anywhere with my monitor setup, needing only the headset and a keyboard, it would be great.

Another thing are meetings. It's something you have to experience with an open mind, because it has been shoved into our throats under the Metaverse label, which made a lot of people adverse to it. I did give it a try, and it's such a huge difference between just staring at someone on a Zoom call. Just the fact that you have some kind of gesturing, along with the virtual dashboards that are easy to draw to (using the tip of the controller as a pen on your table, or just plopping a virtual blackboard agaist your wall), and it just makes the meetings and presentations so much better.

Again, you have the issue of the headsets being unwieldy for long term, but that's something they'd probably solve.

Of course, the whole Metaverse bullshit, and the way it was marketed and shoved down everyone's throat was stupid, but the technology in itself was pretty nice to use - I enjoyed the experience. It had it own problems, but that's something that could be solved.

Also, once I got into FPS in VR, it's really hard to enjoy regular flat screen FPSs. You need to have a magnetic gun stock for it to be playable, but once you get that, it's so much more fun. Just the fact that you have to actually change mags makes the experience so much better. It's something that is hard to describe, but just feels a lot better. In general, some of the best experiences gaming I had were in VR, but most of it was just a promise or tech demos, because the field didn't have time to mature, and was too unafordable for studios to take it seriously.

So, yeah, I think it had promise, and it's a shame the world has given up before it became affordable and iterated upon, especially since we traded it for bullshit AI.

Watching Meta fumble with AI is pretty funny.

I'm still mad they dropped VR for this. That's the one industry that needs for someone to burn billions into, and I'd rather have to deal with a Metaverse bullshit again, than whatever the AI is doing to people, because that has at least some positive impact - like better VR games. I also kind of liked using my headset in bed as a movie theater/multiple monitors, if the headset got a little bit better so you can use it longer, it would be perfect.

Metaverse was annoying, but at least it had some good side-effects.

We dropped that in favor of AI bullshit.

I really hope Steam Frame will be at least somewhat affordable, but thanks to those AI fucks, I doubt it will :(

That was my first thought, but I also started Death Strading literally three days ago, so I might be biased.

Btw it's a way better game than I expected. The lore itself is pretty cool, plus the gameplay is suprisingly more addicting and fun than I expected from something that looked like frustrating package delivery simulator, especially given my super low frustration tolerance and attention span. I've been having a blast so far.

Highly recommend.

Masaryk, the first Czechoslovakian President, left a letter on his deathbed to be opened later (migt've been after 100 years?).

It was openned last year, and one of the parts read (translation mine):

Hungarians.. Get rid of some of them, Or we will never know peace here.

I think it's pretty funny, as a half czech half hungarian.