You are bonded. As I said in that long string of poorly spelled words above, they often bond in pairs and its ususally a family bond.

Its not the same to dogs where if you abandon a bunch of random dogs in the woods they will naturally just form roaming gangs.

Like horses, and cows too form herds or whatever and have that same kind of collaborative spirit?, which we exploit.

With horses they used to just catch the dominate wild horse and the rest of the herd of wild horses follow.

Those where the first to kind of get domesticated.

Like a fox can be bread in 6 generations to be a domesticated dog by selective breeding. For whatever reason we can't or havent done that in cats to the same degree we do with livestock and dogs.

I have, its still the same games I played like 2-4 years ago now, the only real big change is a lot of games I already own became vr compatible.

I'm sure theres a bunch of small indie games, or racing Sim kind of stuff that got added but just pure quantity isn't what i mean. Otherwise I would just point at the meta quest store and say look how many clones of gorilla tag theres tons of stuff to play.

At one point we had medal of honor making vr games, and there where active lobbies for many games. We had many many growing YouTube channels dedicated around vr that where growing, and now sit stagnent at around 10k views.

If you are looking for a large back catalog of games then sure steam has a ton and many great titles. But they're often much shorter experiences, ot lesser of a game. Thats much different from when theres actual momentum going and there's hype around new releases of games, and people are actually there to make mods or be in lobbies for said games.

I'm not saying this because I'm saying vr sucks or theres only 5 vr games. I'm saying this because I am worried its not going to make a bump like how I wanted. In some other universe the steam frame was sold for 700 USD and everyone rushed to buy one, and devs rushed to make friendslop games for vr and it all kept getting bigger.

The only bad things that hes referencing that anthropic did, is they refused to allow the military to use their Ai to be used in autonomous kill weapons, and be used as survalience against the people of the united States.

And anthropic still does both of those things lol. So if those are the bad guys, you can only immagine what the good ai "people" do. Which is assist in the genocide in Gaza, help surveil the people who don't like it, and generate pro us, pro ai propaganda for his friends media companies like Jeff bezos. If you don't like the fact trump made it illegal for the states to regulate ai in anyway (including generating ai csam), then you are a anti tech extremist, terrorist, and traitorist.

I was refering to games like 7 days to die or subnautica getting either official vr mods or modes. But yeah play flat games in a big picture mode is kinda cool. I felt like a dork in my own house, around people who don't make fun of me for stuff like that. Its different when you are in vr because you are immersed more, but you're kind of supposed to look stupid.

The worst was i couldn't feel anymore like a jackass when I was trying to do the thing where I watch YouTube in vr while doing the dishes with a pinned screen, and then having to talk to my sagnificant other.

You'll love it. Lots of flat games turned vr too so you might already have some right off the start.

Save half life Alex for when you start getting a little bored of vr, really brings back the joy of when you first put on the head set.

Unless you are getting a steam frame, then I feel like you gotta play it first.

How could I forget the whole reason we as a species probably even tried to make vr.

Ai companies are not held responsible even though many of them directly advertise this as a feature like grok.

Instead they say "its already illegal" and try to go after the individuals to generated it. And even then thats not even true, the courts said ai generated porn is legal even if its csam, and Donald trump made it illegal for the states to regulate ai in any form. Which includes generating csam, deepfakes, etc. Because to the epstine class that's just innovation.

Their argument is that they can't be held responsible because someone used their tool inappropriately when the tool was specifically designed and has features to do this.

My argument is this is a level of willful incompetence to the point of allowing it. Its for example like if a father would go to prison for leaving his gun loaded on the kitchen table, and his son goes out and commits crimes with said gun. Ai companies like grok are doing the equivalent of unloading truck loads of automatic guns at the capitol building during January 6th.

Section 230 only applies to people who you aren't virtually guiding to do these illegal/harmful things. You can't just say we aren't responsible for teens using your platform(like meta is) and then do everything in your power to get kids addicted on your platform short of making it mandatory for every child to sign up for their services.

These people know what they are doing and pretending like they don't know what happened or know how to stop it.

Edit* I'm stupid I didnt even read/comprehend your post and essentially went on my own rant. If it means anything I brought up a few points that still apply.

My cat has a prescription diet and only like the cans that cost 2.35 a can, and can eat up to two full cans a day. He has unlimited dry food but only grazes.

As a way to stave this off I decided to introduce some treats so he would get a churu and for a week that was good enough to where he wouldn't complain as often a hour before dinner. Now theres two churus a day he demands, and I have to wake up a hour earlier to accomidate how important churu time is.

He only learns when he does something and I react when it benifits his goals and wants, and thats how we have this schedule. Other then that theres no fucks given, and unless my goals align with his goals we don't make progress. Like for example he used to play rough with hand playing, when he scratched hard or bit or something I would say ow loudly and we would stop playing. He doesnt do that unless hes high on cat nip now because he knows play time is over.

Most dogs you just repeat a command at enough and they understand, and then when trained will listen, their goals don't matter, its whatever is best for the group. The cat won't really learn stay off the counter unless they learn there is a consequence for their action thats impacts the treats/play/attention or what ever your cat prizes the most. But with dogs they just love rules, you teach them once and they kind of know. They'll tattle on eachother too, or ive seen dogs nip at the other whos being bad even when they think youre not watching them.

I don't think cats understand fully that they are not supposed to do something.

Fron my understanding of how they view the world they think you just become an asshole when they are on the counter. They don't really precieve easily what someone else wants unless its in line with their wants/goals. Like food, attention, playtime.

Most domesticated species we where able to domesticate easily because they had a inharent family/pack order. So with dogs they run in a pack, hunt in a pack, sleep in a pack and are more geared to socializing with others.

Cats don't verbally meow at other cats generally, its more about body language. And if you ever been in a house hold with lots of cats you will notice they don't work as a pack, they are more terroritorial and live in different parts of the house and don't really overlap unless its feeding/play time. Sometimes cats do bond but ive noticed its ususally only family members or in pairs. If this is a 4+ cat house hold, they won't act as a pack like dogs will.

Cats are only occasionally communist, but only in a anarcho communist sense. Less communial. As in they are bored one day and bring you a mouse because they think you are hungry. Its not really the same, its not like a dog who thinks in order to survive the group must survive and I must follow orders from the leader. No cats think they are more equals like room mates who live a independent life from you and get the benifit of a free friend.

I'm happy with the fex coming out that someone is very likely to get all the unreal engine vr mods to play nicely with Linux. So many community projects showed up on github when the steam deck came out, just having a dedicated community based around a standard piece of hardware seems to bring enough hype to get shit done. Really excited for the possibility of arch64 Linux phone distros that people make due to this.

Other than that I'm worried theres not enough vr games, and I'm highly certain the steam frame isnt going to bring a new wave of vr devs like the quest 2 did.

Most the vr games I played consistently where multiplayer and have all died off, and for me theres not much else, the other titles its more of a novelty. Majority of titles are the equivalent of walking the plank simulator and charge 20 bucks still, while still feeling like an shitty free game off the google play store.

I'd want it for all the other things like 3d modeling, or other weird applications that are more tinkering focused. I'm excited that its Linux I might be able to set up some kind of UI/HUD, or actually engage with the hardware in some meaningful way. I just don't see vr taking off again to the point where I can justify 1k USD purchase, I pretty much only played 1 game when I had a quest and the measly 300 dollars the quest costed was hard enough to justify so I could play a single 10 dollar multiplayer game.

I would of bought no hesitations for around 750 USD. 1200USD is where I thought it was going to be for the 256, and is the price point I say I have no use for it.

1100 is still too rich for my taste, but I was surprised too.

Blackmail. The epstine kind.

Considering theres not many games and im assuming the bulk of the game devs are going to release a modified apk of their meta quest version, or scale back the PC port so it rubs via fex (less likely IMO)

Most good games on the quest tapped out at around 8-12 gigs, and im assuming that's what a bulk of people are going to running considering most vr games made games where either made for, or designed for the quest first and foremost.

That and its the same hardware just running through valves version of waydroid which I can only assume is more performant than running a x86 pc game through fex, and using something like fsr to upscale it? Maybe foviated tracking comes in a lot more clutch than I think it will. But I don't know honestly im just assuming.

You not using newpipe/peertube etc?

Not trying to force you to do something you don't believe in your don't want to use, but generally I just type the title in and video shows up. Links used to copy paste and work but havent for me.

Only downside is if you switch in and out of PiP mode, or rewatch a unfinished video 12 minutes in YouTube will ban your IP for like 6hrs. Which is trivial with a VPN. I think switching from full video to pop out mode essentially refreshes the video load, and starting a view mid way through must be suspicious or bot like.

They tried so hard to push this as a workspace thing due to covid and the apple vr head set. Meta really wanted vr to be for everything but gaming which was the only thing that did well.

They could of been successful too, the first big wave of vr came from the success of the quest 2, and they used all the success to buy all the game devs only to shut down all the games, and force them to work on the meta verse.

I think they mean all the vague articles that the main news outlets put out like the "ai breaking containment" when really they just dis the equivalent of letting a unmonitored Hermes agent in a loose enviorment do whatever it wanted then pretended to be surprised.

Or saying its just going to "kill us all" with no real good explanation on how, but merely to serve as a hype piece.

None of these articles ever bring up valid criticisms or point at all the issues from real people. Because that would hurt the already very fragile ai economy.

There's plenty of valid concerns and you should be repeating them everytime ai is mentioned, otherwise its hard to get people on the same page that can lead to educated laws and regulations against Ai. The panopticon is real and won't go away, its existed sense we had the patriot act. Ai stealing all information on the internet and attempting to lock the door behind them is a real concern. Theres a lot of real issues, and they're essentially just recycling the plot of the terminator because they're old and stupid, as if we can't just unplug the data centers if it "lost contamination and went rouge"

So its set to release soon then.

You cannot create a gmail without a phone number these days. There used to be work aroubda where you sign up for a gmail via youtube or on a smart TV (don't advise the smart TV one), but I'm sure that doesn't work anymore.

I think if you don't want the gmail associated with your phone number you just have to buy a prepaid phone. If you live in a country where you can't pay for prepaids with cash and without an I'D, then I don't know. Welcome to the ponopticon I guess.

I can't vouch for those paid SMS services, they seem like a scam to me.