Reality vs Adventure

It's hard to believe they would add a gambling feature in games. Most likely they will have an outside account they have to register for in order to gamble, but able to see betting stats in the game, which won't show up in the game if you aren't registered. That way kids will have nothing to do with it. They are just plain crazy if they don't with lots of lawsuits.

I don't know how they are going about it and I'm sure there will be consequences for something like that. And imagine the greed that will confiscate this technology and use it for war to black out whole cities to starve them out so they can't grow food. All it takes is a little tweaking. Way to go mankind for another bandaid while industry is free to cut some more. Besides cutting back on chemicals that destroy ozone in industry, the best solution I see that should be researched is to recreate ozone into the areas that are destroyed. If that means building a tower that gets close to the ozone layer and spray some damn ozone there, then f****n do it.

Looks interesting to me; think we are past due for what looks to be aliens!!! I hope they get this one good and not just have a ship show up once and never see it again till the end.

It sucks having to buy things twice, but for gaming collectors, if you can buy a rare copy brand new and keep it mint unopened, and have a collection of those; may be worth something later. Think about that while it’s available. One thing I collect is not made anymore, so I wish I could go back in time to buy doubles.

Nothing like displaying something you are passionate for that you collected. I don't collect games, but do collect other things. Does leaving game cases stacked on a table count as displaying them? Cause that's what I do. Maybe the rise in online download purchases will increase the value of physical games, since eventually they will maybe become obsolete.

It's just an irony piece on how science is portrayed as religion. Don't take it literal.

Have you been living under a rock? He has no short supply of enablers and democracy is now a 'backsliding' democracy because of him and the republican party. This is no longer about hating trump. He is a real threat to democracy. Is Russia in a full blown war for Putin to remain in office for another 20-30 years? No; democracy dies when you no longer respect elections and use the law to make it harder for certain populations to vote and just have fake elections. Yes he is a destroyer of democracy and along with his enablers. What does it take for people to get it? But you are right. I will calm down. Matter of fact I won't get involved with political discussions anymore. I've said my peace. The world would rather remain passive and live in ignorant bliss.

He is above the law. "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters" said the bigot. Criminal investigations: Taxes Jan 6th coup attempt Abusing power trying to pressure Georgia official to find votes And he has a whole sleuth of civil cases But there won't be any accountability. It's all thrown out the window when he runs again. All he has to do is postpone the courts till he runs and wins. And he will win because of the voting restriction laws and and corrupt people put in place to oversee voting. Biden is our last president. It's not just pessimism. It's looking at things realistically and a democracy can't win over so many enablers that want to destroy it. You can't survive while constantly being attacked with no plan of offense or defense, which is the biggest failure of democrats when faced with protecting the country against a hostile takeover by republicans.

The way I see it, is that you can’t pick and choose what life you want to be moral about. Those who want to ban abortions also has the tendency to not respect the environment and not respect health protocols during a pandemic in the country where I’m at. A person simply cannot be pro-life for a fetus/embryo and not for every other aspect of pro-life. I understand why they want to ban abortions, because every fetus/embryo has the potential to become a human. The fetus/embryo has the ‘potential’ for the higher consciousness that humans possess. Does that consciousness grant us the right to determine the population of wild animals? Decide what animals to take off an endangered list or reduce it’s population because they are a burden to us? What about the parent’s situation that may actually cause harm to the child if its born? Would it be morally right to raise the child in a broken home or toxic environment which could give them a lifetime of pain and suffering? In this case of whether determining the morality of abortion, does the ‘potential' of a fetus/embryo outweigh the ‘reality’ of a dangerous living environment? An abortion should be a choice. Would you eat eggs that has the possibility of being fertilized if hens and roosters all grazed together in a natural habitat? Would you give your dog an abortion if you couldn’t handle an unwanted litter? Would you force a person raped to have a child? Would you let the law determine a person’s risk of life if they were to have labor? Is a fetus/embryo more important than an animal hunted for sport? Pro life should equal all life. So banning abortions isn’t a morality issue when those that want to ban it are far from being pro life. If vegetarians and environmentalists and human rights activists wanted to ban abortions, then I would say that makes more sense than those currently claiming pro life. The abortion itself should be up to the parents depending on their living situation and health. If parents have the right to spank their children or discipline them how they want and make their health decisions, then they also should have the right to decide whether or not to bring one into the world. And I don’t hear anyone complain about China’s one child law. And to even consider imprisoning an innocent mother for aborting a fetus/embryo is completely insane. You might as well start burying females alive for losing their virginity like Romans did to the vestal virgins, or imprison them and starve them to death. This is why church and state should be separated and abortions is clearly a religious issue. And the same people who want to ban abortions, in my country, are gun rights activists and stand your ground activists. And these politicians that are against abortions love the death penalty and even recently made the firing squad legal in some states in the USA. The hypocrisy runs deep when it comes to abortions. And I simply can’t stress the point enough that if a fetus/embryo has the right to life, then all other animals have the right to life. Point in conclusion is that banning abortions is a religious issue getting mixed up in government. And if you bring the issue to the seat of lawmaking, then you MUST protect all animal rights/environmental rights/and human rights. So banning abortions is complete hypocrisy to those who claim pro life. That is the truth of it that even God would agree. Those who do actually respect all life and support leaders who respect all life, then I respect you. If a leader wanted to ban abortions with the exception of rape and health issues; as well as protect animals, human rights, and the environment, then I would reconsider my opinion on banning abortions. Until then, it is a religious hypocritical doctrine inside the government.

It’s more than just a vote recount. They will once again waste tax payer money and create this atmosphere to completely distrust elections. They have access to people’s personal info. The cyber ninjas went door to door to interrogate voters. They have access to machines and those machines have to be replaced. They are intimidating voters. This is our damn right to vote and have our votes respected!!! People were passive enough to let the cyber ninjas get away with everything at the tax payer expense and take all their voting info to a private location in another state, and not allow any media access to anything at all, then enough is enough for this 5th time.

That's really scary. After the Cyber ninjas fiasco whom confirmed Biden won, and now this? Those people in Arizona need to start yelling. If democrats were doing this to republicans, there would be guns in the street. But I guess democrats like to be abused. This is the beginning of the end for elections.

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance based in Stockholm, Sweden just released a report that the United States is one of the democracies that is backsliding and the world as a whole is turning more authoritarian with the number of democracies in the world being at its lowest in years. “Democracy is at risk,” the report’s introduction begins. “Its survival is endangered by a perfect storm of threats, both from within and from a rising tide of authoritarianism.” “The world is becoming more authoritarian as nondemocratic regimes become even more brazen in their repression and many democratic governments suffer from backsliding by adopting their tactics of restricting free speech and weakening the rule of law.” And foreign imposters are using social media to 'amplify' right wing voices. The Rittenhouse trial and pro Rittenhouse supporters is an example of how foreign accounts are posing as Americans while celebrating Rittenhouse's acquittal. "Frank Figliuzzi, the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, tweeted that of 32,315 pro-Rittenhouse hashtag tweets from Nov. 19-20, 29,609 had disabled geolocation. Of them, 17,701 were listed as “foreign,” and most of those were in Russia, China, and the EU." There isn't much to say anymore for me. It's obvious that republicans will destroy democracy and that republicans as well as powerful countries in the world are attacking Americans like myself. I remember when I voted in 2020 it felt like a vote against the world. And now even more so next time I vote. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-visible-deterioration-in-american-democracy-is-just-the-start-of-what-the-gop-has-in-for-us https://news.yahoo.com/united-states-authoritarianism-120135679.html

It has also come to light that Georgia District Attorney Jackie Johnson has been arrested and is charged with violation of oath of a public officer and hindering a law enforcement officer relating to this case that delayed justice of Arbery's murder and she is facing prison as well. These are all obstacles people of color have to face in a country that is in hard lined denial of systemic racism; citizen's arrest of a black man jogging in a white neighborhood; murdered if they didn't comply; District attorney trying to hinder justice; lawyers demonizing the victim to the jury; Kevin Gough defense attorney tried to get the judge to not allow any black pastors in the court room and complained that 'Bubba' and 'Joe Six Pack' are underrepresented in the pool of jurors, meaning there weren't enough of the southern white men type, or the red neck type to be the jury. These are the types of things that needs to be cleaned out of our justice systems. I say there needs to be mandatory diversity in all jury for all cases. When do you ever hear an all black jury and a white man as defendant? Umm never. This case would have set three killers free in a different court room in a different town. At least there is three less thugs off the street and possibly four if Johnson is found guilty.

Drinking while gaming is completely pointless because you reach a point where you won't even remember important things. So drinking with a story based game will ruin it.

That is true that people spend so much time on their preferred hobby, but look down on gamers. While having Thanksgiving, there were some new guests I had to meet, and they all started talking about tv shows they watch. Shows I've never even heard of, and they watch every episode with multiple season they binge watch. I had nothing to contribute to the conversation, and at one point I wanted to reference something in a game I love to play, but held my tongue because I know exactly how they would react. But it's ok for them to spend time doing what they like and talk about it as tv watching is an acceptable waste of time. Truth is I don't even care what they think, but care even less to engage in conversation with them as all I wanted to do was eat. Then they got drunk off wine and started blabbering and blabbering while I felt like a prisoner at the table and the only one sober.

I don't know, but Australians have reserved a better English gene pool over the American ones. lol

You do need some space; each time you put on the head set of Oculus you either have to create a space or use what is saved. All you do is use the hand control to draw a circle around you and that space will alert you if you move a body part outside of it while playing. It looks like a shield around you that flashes if you go outside it. Something like that; I’m not very descriptive. If you game in the same spot it will save the circle setting. But most games you have to play standing up, or in a chair that turns. But there are some games where you can sit without moving; that is where they need more of. I don’t know how many different VR headsets there are. And VR headsets for consoles are probably different too. Those I assume you can always sit and play. But You have to remember not to get carried away swinging or something while playing and cross your zone. I played a really fun roller coaster game on Oculus and you seriously can fall over losing balance. It is amazingly real like. Maybe one day they will have special VR chairs!!!

Not exactly the recording of teachers they should be doing. lol

Let's change the location. Let's change the judge and replace with Rittenhouse's judge. Would the outcome have been different? This verdict was only days after Rittenhouse was found not guilty of being a vigilante praying on protestors. But in this case, 3 white men tried to place a citizen's arrest on an unarmed black man while jogging, and ended up shooting him dead. I want to point out a very disturbing thing an attorney said to jurors that is a sort of dog whistle of racist rhetoric that has similarities to runaway slaves. There was a photo of Arbery's autopsy that showed his feet and this was said of his toenails to the jury: "Turning Ahmaud Arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought Ahmaud Arbery to Satilla Shores in his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails," attorney Laura Hogue told the jurors. 'His long, dirty toenails?' That is a clear reference to a runaway slave, or portraying him as a beast, unkempt hygiene, less than human. That is just a really sick thing to say to the jury. But it is something that has been a common trend in how black people are treated differently as a victim. So we should familiarize ourselves with this kind of language and understand its intent. This was another high profile case that could have easily set those men free after their murder if they had a different judge or all white jury. And in this case all were white except for one black on the jury. So it was a very close call. But this system of vigilantism and citizen's arrest tend to favor those with oppressive and racist intentions further leading to oppression and racism in a country that has an ugly history. Here is a good article about that case and more of what I'm talking about. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/us/ahmaud-arbery-racist-rhetoric-trial-takeaways/index.html

I think the iPhones have already opened the path to that because it's funny to see even when people are around each other, they are still on their phones. And the addiction to social media and egotism are on the rise in society. Self importance is based on how popular you are on the internet. I remember the days when we were excited about having a penpal and being able to communicate with someone far away. But now technology has really degraded what distance friends are supposed to be by having so many of them. And instead of acknowledging those around us, we forget how to separate present time from leisure time. We run to our phones as soon as we get breaks from work; some people even use the toilet while checking their media. So even basic human necessities are done while communicating to the unknown. I think there is one thing that will dampen social media and that is war because in war, the social media will get attacked and even forced shut down so the world can't see what goes on. So no matter how hooked everyone gets on the metaverse, it will all get taken from us one way or another. Enjoy it while you can and don't forget to acknowledge those in real life instead of your phones.

Mine means exactly what it says. All the things we have to deal with in life's reality crashing against adventure and the escape. Sometimes it bleeds in together and other times it is at complete opposition. I hope adventure wins out in the end, but reality keeps everything in check. The two have a strangle hold over the other.

Nothing like two white supremacists having an interview. Here is the real Rittenhouse Watch video at 50 sec and at 1 min 48 sec. He is in black shirt and red shorts And here is Rittenhouse flashing white supremacist signs at 10 sec

Yep, a murderer is loose on the street and will become a future politician of America. And he is a murderer where the system of privilege was on display for all to see. His judge was obviously bias. The judge went on a rant in the courtroom and complained about the media. The judge banned MSNBC from his court. The judge allowed Rittenhouse to pick who stays on the jury in order to make him 'feel comfortable.' The judge didn't allow the term 'victim' for those that were murdered. The judge dismissed the minor in possession of a gun charge because the gun barrel was a little bit shorter than the illegal parameters. The judge didn't allow the use of a video showing Rittenhouse beating on a female protester in a different protest on a different day. So that shows who he is. So with that past behavior, Rittenhouse was a minor in illegal possession of a weapon, who travelled out of state armed with the intention to provoke conflict and kill. After his shooting spree, he just walked over to the police who let him go and was later arrested the next day. And the police themselves, during that protest, the police had the intention to corner the protestors and let the militias deal with them. So this type of a system has an affect of this outcome that enables people to go on killing sprees of protestors, with police acting as enablers. And all they have to do is claim self defense even if they provoked conflict. This is another attack on free speech and assembly along with new laws allowing for vehicles to be used to run over protestors and legally kill them. And Rittenhouse while out on bail flashed a white power hand sign while hanging out with Proud Boys, who are considered terrorists in Canada. And now he is suing Biden for calling him a white supremacist. And to have the republicans fighting over him to give him a job just shows that party has lost all morality. Does this photo look like the judge was at all gonna jail Rittenhouse? I've never before seen an accused murderer and judge so comfortable.

I don't think it does anymore than tv watching or internet. I think life itself is what makes one an introvert whether from personality, past experiences, or your built environment where it may be hard to access other activities. Or it could be not having transportation or money to do other things. And in the future where accessing leisure activities becomes even harder due to increased population and the advancement of VR headsets, we may very well just forget about the outside world and get everything we need strapped to the VR machine. Gaming doesn't socially distance you, but your environment does. And look at all the people hooked on social media. That is a far greater placement of a social life that I think helps drive people to be more of an introvert because they are more concerned with online popularity more than real life popularity. So after all is said, it's technology and the destruction of social spaces in the real world, and life's polarization, which drives a normal socially healthy person to be an introvert.

I don't know much about astronomy or what kind of job you would get, but I think there is probably a lot of physics involved. I remember taking a physics course and it was the lowest grade I ever got. I made a C in that class. It was interesting, but the math was difficult. And the lab made me look like a retard because I didn't understand a damn thing. Don't even know how I passed. You would probably have to take many physics classes and you definitely have to know calculus in order to do the physics math. And calculus sucks, and I'm sure you would have to take several of calculus courses too. While the field may be fun to you, getting there won't be. Especially if you want a masters or doctorate. And being out of school so long, you would have to take tons of basics before even getting to the good stuff relating to your field. Look up jobs to see what you would want to do and if there is a good field for it. Maybe you can be a professor. Don't want to spend all that money then end up working an office job with a degree making the same as someone without a degree.