the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

since it's looking like we might actually have a job soon and thus have more money than we usually have available to us, does anyone here know much about what the best way to get VR going on a budget is? We want to get a valve index (which i know is far from the cheapest VR thingy out there, but we don't want to give money to facebook), but our current computer has a GTX 1060-6GB and we're led to believe that might not cut it for some VR stuff; what gpu is a good cost/performance balance?
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Huh. They made a zenith telescope larger than the Arecibo Observatory:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/caos-cse090919.php

Neat!

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which is the more classic/timeless mario game?

why are mario seconds less than a second anyway
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*gends, slowly*
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has anyone ever actually seen a toad using a toadstool as a stool

i'm not convinced they do that
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does anyone know how to get youtube to go back to its old layout? our workarounds have all stopped working

...might be looking into some non-youtube thing for watching youtube soon if this can't be fixed
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mm...

people using the clown emoji to comment on someone being bigoted feels really uncomfortable to us for some reason

and like we don't like clowns but that's not it--it feels a lot like alt-right-style covert signalling

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thank you all 💚

this has helped way more than I thought it would and I really need to be willing to ask for this sort of thing more often
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bleh... feeling dysphoric about not having two heads right now and could really do with some shape-affirming stuff
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pokemon gen 2 is a really cozy game... from the atmosphere to the music it just feels like a really comfortable place and also like a real place

probably because it's very heavily based on an actual part of japan, and more rural than the bit that gen 1 was based on, and it's before there was a lot of really overtly/visibly futuristicky stuff in the series
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were all the super mario world bosses named after musicians in the original japanese, or was that something the translators added?
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you can technically say that you're undefeated at any game or competition that you have never played
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why is the collision on that one corner in super mario world a sprite and not just a normal tile
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why do you get nicknames like bill and bob for william and robert? they're entirely different consonants

no one is named billiam or bobert
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what exactly is a "found footage movie"?
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also reminder that they're downright adorable
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reminder that the bat-eared fox, *Otocyon megalotis*, has a binomial name that literally translates to Eardog bigears
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