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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game [1]

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Date: 2023-02-10  

Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that many who post in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table and hope to make some new friends as well.

Bad habits. I have been eating more sandwiches because of austerity, but since there could be a new economy, the virtual interfaces will change even if our appetite remains. Recently, having gotten ill, I appreciated further the dilemma of General Sternwood in The Big Sleep, appreciating indulgences by proxy, watching Marlowe drink his brandy. Eventually we all die in the game or disappear like in Dark Passage.

To Raymond Chandler, plot was less important than atmosphere and characterisation. An ending that answered every question while neatly tying every plot thread mattered less to Chandler than interesting characters with believable behaviour. “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself”. This is the "shill game" at the heart of Chandler's fiction, a duplicity that would be a crime in itself were not the circuitous dance on which the reader is led so well done. The plot always revolves back round to the beginning, because these are the only solid characters the reader has. A game outcome is a Nash equilibrium if no player can gain by varying their own strategy, assuming that other players stick to their equilibrium strategy. The problem here is to say what a "strategy" is. In a game like chess or poker, this is easy: the rules say what each player can do and when they can do it. crookedtimber.org/... www.3ammagazine.com/… This thesis argues that Raymond Chandler's Marlowe novels, Patricia Highsmith's Ripliad, and Agatha Christie's detective as well as spy novels are postmodern in their presentation of the world in general, and identity in particular, as a "kaleidoscope"—to use Christie's image—of arbitrary signs. The consequences of this for his style are important to Fredric Jameson, and a central theme is how, for Chandler, action was never the intended pivot of his hard-boiled detective fiction. Instead, what he believed that the reader (and he as a writer) really cared about was “the creation of emotion through dialogue and description”. www.3ammagazine.com/... x x YouTube Video

This circuitousness resembles the plots of some anime. Can anyone “clear the game”?

Palmer Luckey, defense contractor and the father of modern virtual reality, has created a VR headset that will kill the user if they die in the game they’re playing. He did this to commemorate the anime, Sword Art Online. Luckey is the founder of Oculus, a company he sold to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion. This is the technology that Mark Zuckerberg rebranded as the foundation for Meta. Luckey’s killer headset looks like a Meta Quest Pro hooked up with three explosive charge modules that sit above the screen. The charges are aimed directly at the user's forebrain and, should they go off, would obliterate the head of the user. “The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me—you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it,” Luckey wrote in a blog post explaining the project. “Pumped up graphics might make a game look more real, but only the threat of serious consequences can make a game feel real to you and every other person in the game.” According to Luckey, the anime and light novel series Sword Art Online made people interested in virtual reality, especially in Japan. In SAO, players put on a NeveGear virtual reality headset and log into a new game called Sword Art Online only to discover a mad scientist has trapped them in a virtual world. The players have to fight their way through a 100 floor dungeon to escape. If they die in the game, they die in real life. Luckey published his post about the killer headset on November 6, the day that Sword Art Online went live in the world of the game’s fiction. www.vice.com/... "Despite betting big on defense contracts, a piece of Luckey will always belong to virtual reality. “At this point, it is just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design,” he said of his killer headset. “It is also, as far as I know, the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill the user. It won’t be the last.” x x YouTube Video In the game of SAO, there is an emphasis on in-game food and cooking. While the NerveGear is supposed to suppress hunger, players can still eat digital food and even taste it too. The only thing that's not super clear is what purpose it serves. Sword Art Online: With Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Bryce Papenbrook, Cherami Leigh. In the year 2022, thousands of people get trapped in a new virtual MMORPG and the lone wolf player, Kirito, works to escape. Asuna’s super tasty sandwich Anime: Sword Art Online

Appearance: Episode 9

Time: 45 minuets

Serving: 1 sandwich This is a really easy recipe, it takes no time and it’s really yummy. I happen to love sword art online and I want to make everything they eat and this is going to be one of many recipes from this anime. This is the sandwich Asuan gives Kirito when they are in the dungeon. Ingredients: I used half pack of stew meat but this is great to make with left over meat as well 1 teaspoon Soy Sauce (or to taste) 1 teaspoons Teriyaki sauce (or to taste) 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce (or to taste) 1 teaspoon Tonkatsu sauce (or to taste) Salt and pepper to taste vegetable oil to cover the pan 2 slices of bread, either white or Italian Mayo just enough to spread on the bread any kind of greens or lettuces Directions: heat up the oil in a pan on medium and add the meat with salt and pepper. until all the meat is browned. once all of that has browned then add all the sauces to the pan and cook till the meat is at desired doneness. About 30 minuets for the meat to be medium. When that is done get your bread ready and layer one side with mayo. I didn’t add that much since I am not a really big fan of mayo. clean dry and add the greens to the bread. I used romaine and parsley, I also like mizuna, and mesclun lettuces as well. and finally add the meat! I liked it it’s really yummy I can see why Kirito wouldn’t want to share anything Asuna made. x x YouTube Video

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