u/riskable — Riskable

Back when Meta's calorie tracking feature still existed (yep, they removed it so it wouldn't compete with their fitness tracking investments and partnerships!) it used to say I burned 650-750 calories/night. Some days I burned over 1300 👍

Dozens of dozens!

I play about an hour every day unless I'm sick, away, or (painfully) injured. I think my most recent play streak was over 6 months of playing every day without a single day off.

I'm a 48yo, BTW 😁👍

Absolutely! Beat Saber is the best!

I'm in the GENX clan where we have *grandmothers* capturing maps for the clan by getting some absurd level of accuracy on 1-5 ⭐ (aka super easy) maps. Clan Wars on BeatLeader is a silly thing that doesn't mean anything in particular but it still amazes me that someone in their 60s can play a VR game and *actually make a real, quantifiable difference*.

On our Discord you can see the BeatLeader Clan Wars announcements in the "Battle Dispatch" channel. On any given day you really could see something like:

`EvilKittyMom captured BREAKSH!T Hard for GENX, getting 98.17% ACC`

(That's an imaginary name I just made up to protect the **totally guilty** party that often steals my thunder 🤣)

It's so much fun, I love it! ❤️

*Dozens*? 👀

I'm the number one beat saber player in the world because nobody told me these things!

https://beatleader.com/ranking/1?sortBy=playCount

The wifi dongle was demonstrated via the Steam Machine in the "first look" videos.

It'll work in Linux.

Doesn’t seem to be working too well for them

Yes, because they didn't focus on gaming or *useful capabilities* but instead tried to develop a PG-rated (as in, *for kids*) **platform for work.** Meta's management *literally* thought everyone would want to strap on a VR headset and wear it all day for work.

Meanwhile, loads of fantastic games had people buying headsets *just to play the game they want*.

Basically, Meta invested all their time and money in all the wrong things. All the stuff *nobody actually wants* to do with their VR headset. I mean, come on: They wanted to do away with the controllers! That's how anti-gaming their focus was.

**The** VR game is Beat Saber, hands down. Hands up. Hands down. Hands up. Hands down.

Yet for some reason it still left me kinda hyped 🤷

As long as there's *some* kind of power available inside the machine (e.g. an extra SATA power connector) it can just use that and wifi.

I suspect that the Valve engineers weren't so short sighted though and probably have all the usual headers/connectors inside the thing that a normal PC would have. For example, a USB 3 header (the kind usually used for front-panel USB ports).

If anything, the device probably has at least one extra M.2 connector and a 1x or 4x PCI express connector. With those, *anything* is possible.

Even if the only power available is the CPU fan header you can always just use a splitter and pull power out of that.

Over a *billion dollars* to fight... *(checks notes)* the *concept* of people not being 100% aligned masculine/straight/male or feminine/straight/female.

WTF‽ What made them think that the 0.5%-2% of the population (depending on who you ask) that land at the edges of the sex spectrum are worth *that* level of hate?

Retiring would be a step down for that guy.

This is why combining religion and government is always a bad idea.

“I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said, adding that such a requirement would mean “we’d have to have a million or two million or three million trials”.

Yes! **Fucking exactly.** That's right. That's why everyone *since forever* has been saying that illegal immigration is an untenable problem!

Except this guy... Who doesn't believe in civil rights or due process.

"So beautiful. So *white* and *pure*."

There's obviously something fowl going on in the Whitehouse.

So not only are we looking for aliens and their signals we're also looking for their *memes*.

I look forward to seeing these images that exist out in space 👍

The person making claims is the one that needs to provide the evidence. Anyone spreading unverified rumors should be viewed like The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

In order for a rumor or something like naked pictures to be effective in its purpose of bringing you down or blackmailing you *it must cause emotional distress.* If you don't take it seriously--or even better, *don't give a shit about what random strangers say*--it can't have power over you.

We don't live in tiny, closely-tied villages anymore. A rumor about you may be on the Internet forever but it'll be about as believable as a "hot singles in your area" ad and the likelihood of someone even finding it goes down over time as it gets drowned out by all the *other* bullshit that exists.

Even celebrities that are famous for doing stupid shit are finding that nobody remembers their past failings anymore. And they'll have hundreds to thousands of *real news articles* about their idiocy out there, ready for anyone to read.

Hopefully AI will change this. In the future, when anyone claims to have such pictures you can just say it's AI-generated nonsense 🤷

The world will have to go back to *actually verifying claims*.

We also need to teach our children about porn, damnit! Even if someone posts a thousand naked pictures of you to the Internet it will be lost *in the sea of naked pictures*. Very few will care or notice and no, future employers won't go looking and even if they hear about it why TF would they even care? You can still do the job.

Anyone who *does* care that naked pictures exist is obviously lacking moral character and probably needs to re-think what's important in life.

They should rename it then! The Steam OS version should be "GPD FTW" 👍

Well, *good/useful* AI integration. An AI that makes games infinitely replayable by changing the story, levels, and characters so they're 100% unique every time? That could be awesome. Oh man I bet that sort of thing would be *amazing* if done right in a roguelike game!

AI that tries to figure out how to sell you more loot boxes? No thanks!