I managed to get through it on my old 1050ti. Laggy at some parts, but still mostly playable.

Tried my hand at rewording it:

Developers for the Game “Once Human” Remove Post Made After Game Breaking Update Requesting Positive Steam Reviews.

I’m no linguist, but I feel it’s at least better than the original.

As a little note, the eye tracking would be a huge selling point for social games like VRChat. Very few headsets support it so far.

Bogos binted?

“Welcome to Applebee’s! Would you like apples or bees?”

“Bees?”

“HE PICKED THE BEES!” chefs angrily shake jars of bees

He says what everyone’s thinking!

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My guess is a 3D movie mixed with a 6DoF motion setup. 9D still sounds stupid though.

I would use it for like 1 game on the quest store and more portable/wireless VR on PC. Even though my Index, is superior in almost every way, an easy headset to give to a visitor would be nice.

I probably wouldn’t pay $200 for one, but if a friend was getting rid of one for $50-100 I would likely snatch it up.

Pasting the first section of the article because of the stupid anti-adblocker on Mobile:

• Shinobi Warfare’s developer is rewarding players for positive reviews, violating Steam’s terms of service agreement.
• The controversial practice was revealed by a Reddit user, leading to concerns about inauthentic reviews flooding the game.
• Despite reports to Steam support, Shinobi Warfare continues to face backlash for questionable tactics and content appropriation.

Shinobi Warfare, a 2D turn-based RPG multiplayer game, is being called out by Steam users after it was discovered that the developer has been rewarding players with in-game currency for leaving a positive review. The lucrative reward has led to the game receiving an ‘overwhelmingly positive’ review badge, but goes against the platform’s terms of service agreement.

The discovery was made by Reddit user Glavurdan, who took to the Steam subreddit yesterday to reveal their findings. The post has multiple images of the questionable practice, with the most notable being on the Shinobi Warfare Discord server, where an admin on the server offered players 1,000 in-game gems to leave a positive review.

Was hoping for more about the game takedowns, but not much of anything was said:

LP: […] how does The Pokémon Company handle Cease & Desist letters with regards to fan projects? How did you find them, and where did you draw the line on what’s allowed and what the company thinks needs to be shut down?

DM: Short answer: […] someone from the company would send me a link to a news article, or I would stumble across it myself. […] I say this to my students: the worst thing on earth is when your “fan” project gets press, because now I know about you.

LP: Oh. Oh no.

DM: But that’s not the end of the equation. You don’t send a takedown right away. You wait to see if they get funded (for a Kickstarter or similar); if they get funded then that’s when you engage. No one likes suing fans.

Anyone here remember the old flash game Junkbot?

Apparently, this is the code for a Hello World program in Malbolge:

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“utilithing”

You’re welcome! I honestly had a fun time looking this up. Such a random but interesting thing to delve into.

First off, I absolutely hate the diamond industry. So I by no means am saying natural diamonds are better than lab grown ones.

That said, the article does have some point. Based on a quick look online, diamonds actually require a lot of energy to form. The range seems to be between 300 and 2000 kWH per carat. Here’s just one site:

A modern larger multistone cubic HPHT press will use 75–150 kWh per rough ct., which would end up around 350–700 kWh per successful polished ct.

[A CVD producer] told me [it used] around 60–120 kWh per rough ct. and 1,000–1,700 kWh per polished ct. There is more unused rough from CVD since they are cube shape, which is why those ratios are higher.

According to the EIA the average monthly household power usage is 900 kWH.

That means a one carat diamond can likely require more power than your entire house uses in one month.

Coal power plants in the US operate art an avg of 33% efficiency. Therefore, your one carat of diamond requires at least 3000 kWH of coal.

1 kWH requires 1.14 pounds of coal. So then your one carat consumes 3,420 pound of coal.

I’m no expert, but I imagine that is a lot of emissions for one diamond. Plus, none of that accounts for unregulated countries which could make any of those numbers so much worse.

Once again, I’m all for lab diamonds. There’s still a point to be made that they require massive amounts of energy and that we can do better to make sure that energy is clean. Renewable power is the best way to make diamonds for sure.