• Landless2029@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          The joke is NerveGear is a VRMMO helmet from Sword Art Online.

          The plot is the main dev removed the logout function at launch and set the helmets to microwave your brain if someone removed it. Also you only get one life. Nukes you if you die in the game. Helmets also have battery backup so you can’t just unplug it.

  • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Can’t wait to walk amongst the carnage of a battlefield. Or go down a sewer pipe as Mario. All Medieval games are gonna suck so bad. You’ll definitely take better care of your Sims.

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    2 months ago

    In the airplane that would be such a cool sneaky trick to play on passengers! You point it at the cute girl with the guy next to her. She smells fart and does her idiot nose pinching and smell swatting. Hilarious!

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    2 months ago

    Someone did research, a few 2+ decades ago, which did ultrasounds on rodents, & then checked to see if any harm was done to the cells in their guts…

    Cell-death was happening in their guts, at a too-high rate, as a result of the ultrasounds.

    As any idiot can understand, if that’s a normal effect of ultrasounds, that there’s no visible damage, but that the cell-death-rate is measurably-increased, then doing that on not-yet-born lives may provide useful information, while damaging those lives.

    & the same with turning the tech into a means of gaming.

    ( actually, typing this in … I wonder what the correlation is between ultrasound & autism, since autism is definitely a kind of brain-damage, as my life has proven … is there any population, anywhere, which doesn’t get ultrasounded, & do they have a statistically-significantly lower autism-rate? )

    The habit of presuming things, like food-industry chemicals, or ultrasounds, or whatever, to be safe, instead of actually measuring isn’t competent, or evidence-based-medicine/science: it is … profitable self-delusion.

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      2 months ago

      Ah, I was wondering if crazy people like that lady on the season 2 finale of The Pitt were real, now I know.