Andy Lundell 💭 @apLundell@octodon.social
I'm a virtual reality and game programmer, who's excited about games, technology, online comics. Currently I work for 3dSystems.
This is pretty shameless. "General Umber"? Really?
I feel like I'm looking at the app store in real life.
@HTHR The best part was that somebody found his Facebook and he posted pictures of himself *working out* specifically to prepare for his encounter with liberal protesters at this rally.
After watching some YouTube videos about those "fire extinguisher balls", I'm not sure if I want one in every room of my house, or if I never want to come within a thousand feet of one.
@reibeatall
Because of battery life limitations, most of the things I wanted to do with it weren't feasible. (For example, I would have liked a personal face-recognition thing, to remind me of people's names. But that would require the device to be always on, and always processing video. That'd drain the battery in less than half an hour.)
I still liked it as a heads-up display, but honestly, my Pebble watch is nearly as good and doesn't make my head feel lopsided.
@sonicbooming @reibeatall
The spectacles dot com thing is not a wearable computer. It's just a camera.
There are lots of wearable cameras nowadays, many of them are nearly invisible.
@reibeatall I've got one.
1) Too clunky. even for people who wear glasses, they were uncomfortable.
2) Not great for people who wear prescription lenses, which is a big part of the market.
3) Battery life was crap.
4) Strong reaction against them in SF, which will react badly to anything Google, but the media presented that reaction as universal.
5) Because of various limitations, it was basically just a smartwatch strapped to your face.
Oh hey, the marketing department made a slick video about the haptic devices I write the drivers for.
A local news website is telling me that unless I disable my ad-blocker, they're going to punish me by not showing the auto-play videos.
What we have here is a win-win scenario!
@starbreaker That is why YouTube allows you to play videos at 2X speed!
I highly recommend it. I listen to podcasts that way too.
@electrotamitha A bit, yeah.
But I feel like there's still a big gap.
A title like "Raw Danger" is small potatoes to a big publisher, but it would be beyond the budget of most smaller studios.
And that gap is exactly where my fondest gaming memories come from. :(
This week's Jim Sterling show is about "Why We Need Middle Shelf Games".
https://youtu.be/oAD6HPBr7C0
It's like he READ MY MIND.
Earlier today, before I'd even read the title of his video, I was browsing through my old PS2 games, sad that my most cherished PS2 memories are the kind of "B Game" that we're not allowed to have anymore.
Apparently Ghostbusters action figures are priced by how awesome the character is.
Bought a used book. This was being used a bookmark.
Look how SHORT it is. Says what it needs to, and that's it. Nowadays you even can't walk past a big store without being handed three feet of register tape.
The best part is the purchases though. Odd World *AND* Duke Nukem?
Somebody was in for an awesome weekend back in 1997.
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Hey. Today I learned that you can organize your Steam library into categories. (By right-clicking on a game and selected "Set Categories")
Why don't they make this more obvious? Or am I the last person to figure this out?
Are they the only one that was grandfathered in? Or are they simply the last surviving one?
I don't know, but I mean, it's been over a century. Even if there were others, I wouldn't expect them to still be around.
Doesn't really seem that scandalous to let them be grandfathered in.
They have legitimately been selling the same product that whole time. (Except 1985!)
@celesteh "consumer cellular" is another option. They aggressively market to retired people, so my parents use them, and they seem pretty decent.
@apLundell Vermin Supreme is the only honest candidate
You ever wonder, fellow Americans, if maybe we should have elected that guy with a boot on his head?
