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@cdmnky Reminder, however, that there are data sources that are still trustworthy.

For WA, for example, they're here with methodology mentioned in the footnotes: https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus

Some folks are also privately aggregating data. Rebekah Jones, who was fired for not politicizing the numbers in Florida, has her own dash for the state here: https://floridacovidaction.com

I believe aggregators for these exist, but more are welcome.

Bless you for trying, tiny advertising blurb:

Not that the game is entirely legible on this small a device, and HID is weird, but it plays.

Setup: GPD XD, SWGEmu + old discs, and Steam running from the other room via Steam Link

It's wild that, due to a combination of modern hardware and software, I can play Star Wars Galaxies (Jump to Lightspeed) on an Android gaming tablet.

@chr My oddly specific anxiety for future history students is their needing to learn proper MLA format for tweets.

@chr Pretty sure this is also the premise behind the Tick and, to a lesser extent, Freakazoid -- by virtue of both being highly distractible cartoon deconstructions of modern superheroes of their time.

Apparently in the Tick's case, he also explicitly has "drama power" -- his power level increases as dramatic tension of the plot increases.

I've been rereading scp-wiki lately, and ran across two positive ones that I didn't expect to end on a hopeful tone. Both are good antidotes to dreading the state of the world right now.

* Short one: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-5270
* Long one: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4043

@Kat@snouts.online Tech ads, in a fusion of old Amiga and Linux ads: it is the year of dragon(s) on the desktop.

@IceWolf @troodon @trysdyn As for taking the MOBA toxicity out of MOBAs: a close experiment to success was the game Vainglory, which leaned heavily on individual laning, had very little group synergy, had short rounds, and had no voice chat.

Though doing all that kind of gives up the point that the formula behind MOBAs leads to the toxic conditioning loop described above. I can't see the Pokemon one ending well.

@IceWolf @troodon @trysdyn From playing a lot of DOTA2, FFXIV, MHW, Splatoon, and similar matchmade titles: the problem comes up when you throw randos into a highly structured experience where one or two players being inexperienced crashes it for everyone.

That situation sets up a negative feedback loop that conditions players to be abusive. Games where one or two players can carry on anyway generally lack it.

I beat the game's sumo and programmer captain survival mode, primarily, by creating spinbots that traced paths like a spirograph. Sometimes, with lots and lots of copies of themselves to swarm the objective.

Other players building autonomous drones: I must think of every possible scenario this bot can run into and meticulously program for it.

Me: haha spinny robot go zooooooom

@chr Yessssssss

@masklayer Which, to be clear: you'll still need to have _something_ mapped as the head position for VRChat to work at all with motion controls (https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/ag33wm/help_desktop_mode_with_motion_controls/). My test was turning the headset off and using both controllers; it still mapped the head position to my Index.

If you map something to "head" in SteamVR, that should still work, and a Vive Tracker (or equivalent) can serve this purpose. But even assuming all that, the experience wasn't great.

@masklayer Answer: yes, but you have to use the SteamVR version and the experience wasn't too great since you have no point of reference for your camera rotation.

Might be better if you have a puck to track your head position and rotation, or do some other magic in OVR.

@masklayer I think so? You might need to convince Steam VR that one of the controllers is the head, which is at least possible with Vive Trackers.

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