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Open world games don’t hold me, because ironically, they tend to feel too small. When you can walk from one side of the setting to the other in real time, it all feels small.

Empathy being a sign of privilege isn’t the truth I needed to read today :/

It used to be 60Hz. Then I played at 144Hz. The change in responsiveness of the mouse converted me

The key word there was paper. As opposed to plastic, which is what they use for notes in Australia…

I didn’t think that could happen just from licking the notes!

Australian dollars are also plastic

I was referring to the money being made of paper

I said paper currency, not currency! I’ve handled plenty of cash, it’s just not made of paper

Plenty of cash, it’s just not made of paper!

I can’t remember the last time I handled paper currency

For the most part, VR is a toy at this point. Interesting, but not compelling. The single exception I would say though, where it is genuinely transformational to gameplay rather than just gimmicky, is car/racing simulators and games. Most things, I can take or leave VR. But I can never play a racing sim again if it doesn’t have VR. But, even if it doesn’t come to Forza, it’s no big loss, as there are plenty of VR enabled alternatives out there (though mostly on PC to be fair)

I own Forza 5 on the Xbox, and GT7 on my PS5. Historically, I’ve preferred the Xbox over the Playstation, but my experience on GT7 with VR on the PS5 basically killed Forza 5 and the Xbox for me.

So if Forza 5 comes to PS5 with VR support, for me, this will be good news. But if it doesn’t come with VR support, I won’t bother.

And I guess, ultimately, it’s bad news either way, because I probably won’t be going back to the Xbox whatever they do.

Let me guess, you just watched The Diplomat? :)

Nope.

Not real.

You’d expect any kind of ritualistic practice that widespread to have some sort of historical record related to the practice

Yes, absolutely. But as I said, it’s probably not as clear cut as whether you’re XX or XY, because there are other factors that can also impact hormone levels and sensitivity to hormones

I’m curious about this. They say that it’s related to in utero exposure to androgens, which means it’s probably not as clear cut as XX vs XY, because intersex folk and folk with atypical hormonal exposure (such as fraternal twins of different sexes, with a shared placenta) experience different levels of exposure, and different reactions to that exposure.

So, for XX folk, the increased colour differentiation comes from fact they carry two sets of genes that encode for colour detection, and because they don’t encode identically, each set creates a ever so slightly different perception of colour. And when you get two similar, but non identical perceptions of colour, you see more hues

Now you need to post a picture of that truck!

You pretty much nailed it