This is quite a story. I loved this game…
Ah the golden age of arcades.
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Considering the age of the software the time it started was not as picky as now. I saw the word mix-up from the first and as I fit the slur I throw it back as pride. I have a lot of sympathy for anyone suffering from bigotry of any sort, but no sooner does a slur get changed to a different word, and then that second word becomes the slur, and the need to migrate to a new word. Before long you could write a dictionary of one specific example, and another dictionary of similar words those who wish to slur will use otherwise.
I really like how the Irish and Vietnamese delt with the issue. The Irish were forbidden to wear anything but green and look what they have done with that! The more powerful ancient Chinese declared themselves the only humans and that the Vietnamese of the issue were descended from when an ancient princess of theirs mated with a dog, and thus they were dog people. The Vietnamese then built temples to the Dog God and declared that was what made them more special than everyone else.
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I learned this the other day. How Nimrod comes from the bible and meant hunter. Also the name of one of Shackleton’s ships. But now has a negative meaning.
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I saw that just a few days ago, was not very impressed. My main connections was the Nimrod company that sold a lot of diving related stuff so I imagined him to be some ocean related god or demigod.
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Also an airplane. I’ve long been entertained by the word having two very different meanings.
Old WB was great with this sort of joke, just no one got this one.
Marvin introduced me to discombobulate with his "nuro-discobobulator gun.
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That is absolutely jaw dropping. That is the thrifting find of our generation at least! 2663 plays, and the fact that it was out there long enough that WM had refused to pick it up. Wow.
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There’s a VR arcade I tried out several years ago that was quite nice. You could load your own ROMs and artwork. The room was immersive, with flashing lights and music from the various games.
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On what platform? Xbox had an arcade like that for a while, you could play all kinds of classic games for micro transactions or pay up for unlimited access to individual games.
The closest thing I have now is my oculus, there’s a virtual Star Wars pinball game that is kinda cool, it’s like the ultimate Star Wars fan’s basement game room with several pinball tables to choose from.
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What other games do you think are worthy of consideration on the oculus? I spend lots of time in Walkabout, but don’t look at anything else.
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Walkabout is great.
I liked superhot vr a lot, puzzling places is fun and challenging if you like jigsaw puzzles as only vr could do them.
Everyone loves beat saber but I’ve never tried it.
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Haven’t fired up VR in a while, even longer since I ran this one.
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Wow this is a good build.
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Oh no. Now I can’t even trust that string art is handmade at craft fairs!
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That’s a hella clever trick.
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Now if the result could be woven fabric, that would be really clever. As it is, however it is done, I am less than impressed.
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It is! Nicely explained.
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Less than impressed? Sheesh tough crowd.
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I recall some 65? years ago there was a thing where the “pins” were in a 6" square and loops of fuzzy “parachute cord” in many bright colors pulled across weaving up and down and when finished made a hot pad you could get a hot pan out of an oven.
That many years ago some points are a bit vague but the hot pads made hung about for many years after the stuff to make them was long gone.
This gadget reminds me of those but the result is far less. One shows a computer a photo, the computer makes a wad of string that resembles the photo, and you have something to hang on the wall showing off how brilliant the computer is. If I gave a cat the same ball of string and hung the result on the wall, the result would be more abstract but not less artistic.
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I think we took different things from it. To me, the cleverness of the build was what struck me. Hence my original comment:
To me it’s a cool machine with some slick design decisions first.
To your point though: Aesthetically of course that’s entirely subjective… I wouldn’t want to display any random photo with it, but perhaps one of my own — in that way it becomes another way of obtaining a print of a photo that is already inherently meaningful to me.
After all it’s not like I look at a photograph print and say “this is junk because my cat could have done it with fingerpaints”. The print is just the presentation process — I look at the photo and connect with what it’s showing. In that way I think it’d be kind of cool to see one of my own photos rendered in string, especially at large scale.
I feel the same way about wall-scale polargraph prints or even laser engraved photos—it’s just another print method, it’s not diminished because human hands didn’t make it.
There’s definitely something ironic about this sentiment coming up here, on a laser forum, where the magic canvas is a prominent feature. Human hands touch almost none of this.
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They do on all my stuff. There are very few if any that do not get considerable effort once I start on it, plus there is 100-300 attempts before I get even started on top of many hours of work arranging and playing with stuff to get what I want.
So this…
becomes this…
And I am still not happy with it.
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