Jenn Boo-lari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org
- Closetspace
- http://dolari.net/cs
- A Wish for Wings
- http://dolari.net/awfw
- The Dolari Library
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- Everything Else
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Artist for Closetspace and A Wish for Wings
Creative Text Writer for MTG: Universes Beyond
Writer for Sea of Legends
One enchilada short of a Mexican Platter
Joined Dec 2022
Fifty eight years ago....
[Thoughts Before Bed]
One of the things become more and more apparent as I dig deeper and deeper into VR is the feeling of "embodiment."
I think I talked about how a few weeks ago, I locked my avatar into a T-Pose in order to work on her hair. I accidentally jumped into that locked body and had a minor panic when my movements weren't moving the avatar.
A few days ago, there was a major change in how Resonite animates it's avatars, and my avatar's movements were literally out of control. Everything was over driven, and my legs were stomping and moving far too jerkily and too powerfully.
It genuinely upset me because "this is not how I move." I spent two days talking with people on how to fix this, installing pieces and fixing movements. And while it's still not 100%, it's far closer to what it was.
But the tought process as I was doing this was "my body is not working." Not "my avatar isn't working" but "my body isn't working." The same feeling I got when my pinched nerve and suddenly my arm just wouldn't work anymore.
And I began thinking "is this how folks with dystonia feel? They try to move their arm a certain way, but the muscles and nerves don't do it correctly?"
Embodiment, proper embodiment, is a wierd sensation in VR. I know it's not real. And yet I react as it if it is. The pic below was literally me sitting in bed, as my avatar was sitting in bed, and realizing "these hands are MY hands."
I am deeply upset that my sour cherry candies are not sour at all.
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THERE IS LITTLE DANGER OF RUNNING OUT OF AIR
OR OF THIS ELEVATOR DROPPING UNCONTROLLABLY.
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I'm pretty sure movie theaters are transitioning from screening movies to selling elaborate popcorn buckets
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"Tragically, the Court then undermines the important ruling in the Betamax/VCR case that found “time shifting” (recording stuff off your TV) to be fair use, even as it absolutely was repackaging the same content for the same purpose. The Court says that doesn’t matter because it “predated our use of the word ‘transformative’ as a term of art.” But that doesn’t wipe out the case as a binding precedent, even though the Court here acts as though it does."
It's also really bad and is going to hurt a lot of other things about digital preservation and being able to copy/backup/record stuff if the courts now start to decide that recording TV never should have counted as fair use :\
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picard did wolf 359 conspiracy theory
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I hope you always keep a little bit of this inside you.
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This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.
The authors propose
pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read
This is a draft.
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One day I'll have a job title with a roman numeral after it
"Yes, I am a Customer Service Agent XVIII"
Of all the movies I'd love more information about its preproduction, it's TRON. The concept art dating back to when it was going to be a traditionally animated movie points to a pretty altered story.
A design point I really would have loved to see in the movie is that you can see the MCP castle from EVERYWHERE because it's so huge. Something I think about when I see Mt Ranier and realize it's 70 miles away.
- Closetspace
- http://dolari.net/cs
- A Wish for Wings
- http://dolari.net/awfw
- The Dolari Library
- http://dolari.net
- Everything Else
- https://linktr.ee/dolari
Artist for Closetspace and A Wish for Wings
Creative Text Writer for MTG: Universes Beyond
Writer for Sea of Legends
One enchilada short of a Mexican Platter
Joined Dec 2022
