July 2024

 Monday, July 1, 2024

My friends who have transitioned on are invisible and holographic but there are things in this dimension that are invisible and non-holographic, ie solid such as a pane of glass and there are things that are visible and holographic like an actual hologram. I remember going to Science World in Vancouver when it was on Granville Street before it moved to the R Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome, Bucky Ball near the Main Street train and Bus station, and there was a holograph of a coin there. It looked really solid! That holograph looked pretty good and that was 80s technology. Holographs undoubtedly look a lot sharper with today's technology. So between the invisible and non-holographic and the visible and holographic, my friends who have gone on are just one degree more. 

The afterlife is so wonderful. I've been sending people gifts on Hustle Castle for quite some time now. If I send a 5 gifts a every day, I get some kind of prize on each day for that. I don't know who they are. Most of them never send me a gift. I use an alias user name and a cartoon picture as an icon and so do they. In the afterlife, it could be one time, I'll see somekone and that person will say, "I'm the one you've been sending gifts to on Hustle Castle."And of course I'd say, "I know. Thanks to the telepathic link ability in this life that people on Earth refer to as the afterlife, I knew that the instant I saw you."

I don't know what the chances are that Heather is with me whenever I think of her, but as K2-SO said in Star Wars Rogue One," It's high. It's very high."

Heather would understand the timeline as I am perceiving it and that I'm thinking of her. This would have great sentimentality and value for her which is why she is with me. Of course she will see me again in a few minutes because she can time travel to the future, multi-locate, while I have to wait along analog time for her she waits for me in digital time. In this version of analog so to speak, I can only wait as the tape slowly advances. While she can press a button and fast forward as well as rewind to any point as if playing a Blu Ray or streaming. 

I don't like Blu Ray. I like streaming. 

Today is Canada Day. 

Canada is a wonderful and beautiful land that is full of opportunity. Even if one doesn't take full advantage of those opportunities due to personal choices, Canadians still wind up being prosperous in a land that flourishes under the wise guidance of this Nation's fine elected political leaders. 

Natural beauty as well as the heavenly geomagnetic vibes makes Canada a great country to live in.

Being aware that under optimal conditions, just about every other country in the World would say the same thing about itself. 

2076 Midway Multiverse is the most intense next level VR video game I've ever seen. 

The old 80s video game Defender on another level in the interior of a ship. I'd consider purchasing it but can not figure how to work the controls. But is very very mind blowing. 

Apps I purchased. 

- Vader Immortal part 1 - 3-

 -Tales From the Galaxy's Edge

- Star Wars pinball

- Pinball FX VR2

- Epic Roller Coasters

- Coaster Combat

Last but certainly not least Coaster Combat. The feeling in the stomach that one gets on the drops in the Himalaya level, It's at the point where I wonder if that is safe for women because women have different guts. Kind of. 

It goes without saying that if I were an American citizen, I'd vote for Trump. Even before the debate, Trump is a fearless example to all. When he was processed and indicted, he didn't go, "Will my friends still be my friends if I get convicted?" He's like honey badger. Honey Badger don't care. It's the Kennedy Effect. Historically, Richard Nixon was more on point, but Kennedy had a better appearance and better delivery. During the debate, Trump was fast on the uptake unlike the selectively muted approach school of thought of President Joe Biden when he said, "Yeah, you beat it to death." Four years of Trump would be a blast. 

Without fail, under every Prime Minister of Canada as well as US President Administration, I always always had good memories. Getting good tech, getting good vehicles like a Kuwahara mountain bike or an electric skateboard and having girlfriends somehow even though I thought I would have been single at that time. Whether Trump or Biden wins, there will be good times, new memories, new friends, new technology. 

My brain tells me that I've reached a weird perfect storm place where because of all that's going on or more like all that's not going on, I'll be single for life. I've been at those places before and yet somehow I've always found a girlfriend again. This time it's different. But all those other times I thought this time it's different too. 

The movie 2001's AE - 35 and Vader Immortal VR's ZO-E3 have the 'E3' in common. 

My town will have a Canada Day drone show. Drone shows are next level. I wonder if a mini quantum computer consisting of one or two q bits is needed for such Sympatico and sychronization. It's like Tron meets the Ziegfeld Follies. That was a show from the 1930s where a few show girls did these choreographed synchronized moves, even under water. 

The thing is, a drone show takes up more space than fireworks so it can be seen looking out of a window or else anywhere on the street downtown. 

The drone show can include Star Wars motifs. 

A drone sjow would involve the same kind of precision that's behind 3D printing. Computers can do amazing things. 

I'm thinking of using my credit card to get something on the VR store. Is it safe? I never used my credit card. Too scared. I wonder if it works because I got it early last year. I'll have to try to work it on something to activate it. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If it works then I've activated it. Then I'm going to the bank first thing tomorrow to pay it off. 

Should I try it or not? I'm going to look for a sign that says it's safe to use a crsdit card on the meta VR store. If I see a sign, and do it then I'll tell you. If you hear nothing further, then I didn't do it. I've never done this before. Scared. I only ever got gift cards for Google play or else meta. I never paid with my credit card. 

Apps I'm thinking of getting 

- Pinball FX VR2 Season 1 $29 + tax 

- Pinball FX VR2 Universal Studios $26 + tax

- Pinball FX VR2 The Walking Dead $7 + tax

- 2076 Midway Multiverse $17 + tax

Pricey. I don't know about Midway Multiverse. It's too esoteric but the Pinball ones are more directly visceral. I'll just get the Pinball and forget about Midway Multiverse. $29 sounds like a lot but minimum wage is $17 an hour so that's only about two hours of wages.  

I did it. I used my credit card to get the Pinball games. I declined to get Midway Multiverse, I just couldn't bother and couldn't afford it. 

Well worth the money. This isn't an ephemeral item. I'm having this with me for life. And more beautiful than I expected. YouTube preview videos don't truly represent the beauty. Bright colors. 

I have to admit something. I splurged, plonked down $40 including tax and got Tetris Effects on VR. This isn't just a video game. It's an investment. In my mental health. I remember even when I was 29 and I had a black and white handheld Nintendo and mornings getting blasted on weed and playing Tetris thinking it was a gas I could play it in the comfort of home sitting back on my bed and I don't have to keep on plugging in quarters to play again. 

Then Tetris moved to the color GBA. And then on the DS. Alas, strangely not available on the PSP. 

Then Tetris on the tablet is very nice and its free too. Even if it wasn't free, it's worth the price. I think Tetris on tablet cost $3. Tetris on the VR is an experience. It's like being on some strange drug that some YouTubers have done videos about. Drugs that one has to travel to South America and witch doctors and shamans are involved in the administering of this drug. 

Anyways, Tetris on VR is a blast and is classified as a genuine desert island video game. Splashing $40 on Tetris VR is a far cry from splashing $40 on a bag of crack cocaine. 

My credit card gives me a 30 day grace period so I don't have to pay it back for 30 days. I'll pay it back soon! It's my responsibility. 

Meta Quest is a subsidiary of Facebook. Amazon and Facebook are very strong very powerful companies. Their credit card encryption system would be state of the art and in the neighborhood of the quantum computer that Google has. It's not like using a credit card on some dodgy unknown website.  

I only get brand name apps. Strong brand names. The apps I got such as Pinball and Tetris too are powered with the actual Unreal Engine. It even says it in the opening credits. Unreal Engine is a brand name like Mercedes and Nike and BMW. 

My skateboards are barnsd name. 

Kenny Anderson chocolate. Very strong brand name. The Audi of skateboards. 

I have 2 Arbor skateboards, an Axis 37 and a bamboo pintail 37. 

Meepo longboard. Meepo is the BMW of electric skateboards. 

I have a Walmart Madd Gear pintail longboard and even though it's not recognized as a top brand name, I still love it. This skateboard has brought me luck. 

Jim Philips toxic screaming hand. That's a brand name that I have as well and the Street Amoeba which are Santa Cruz skateboards. 

Santa Cruz is the Mercedes of skateboards. 

2076 Midway Multiverse, Operation Warcade. Nah. I can't afford to pay too much money for too many apps. It gets to be an embarrassment of riches. 

The one free level is one I can play over and over again. When I restart level one again, I pretend I'm on level two and when I restart yet again, I'm on level 3. That kind of thing. 

The one free level these VR games give is an avalanche more of fun video game experience than any 80s Atari 2600 video game. The Atari 800 computer was way better. The Atari 800 screen showed an arcade accurate rendition of Pacman rather than the atrocious 8 bit parody of Pac man on the Atari 2600. MM and OW are connected. MM gives the option to connect to an arcade which includes OW. However the price of one does not include the other. It would be major if it did. MM and OW are allright but certainly not on the level of Zen Pinball and Star Wars VR and Tetris and the Unreal Engine. 

First tier, second tier, third tier, scraping the bottom of the barrel. 

Star Wars, Zen Pinball company, Tetris are all first tier. 

MM and OW are second tier. 

Ghostbusters looks somewhat tempting. But it's too protracted. Connect energy streams and then guide the ghost into proton trap. Too whatever. Not exactly a priority. Ghostbusters gives a wrong idea of those who have graduated into the next phase of life. Ghostbusters shows those who have gone on as lesser spurious forms of life with barely a semblance of their former consciousness, being a creepy sublimated for of their previous consciousness when ghosts are more alive than we are, whatever we define as aliveness, consciousness, a higher level of consciousness. There are Earthbound spirits but even they in their angry sad sullen self preoccupation have quite an array of powers that we don't have like time traveling. So much so that earthbound spirits time travel in a perpetual time loop always looking for some lost object. Forever. 

If I could time travel even like an earthbound spirit let alone those who made it to heaven, I could really write my own ticket. Go back and say that one more thing that we didn't say the first time. But that would upset the delicate chain of events. If I did that maybe that would have caused a chain of events that results in me not being here today. The Butterfly Effect. "Change one thing, change everything."

Ghostbusters isn't realistic but Rey of Star Wars pulling down Star Destroyers from low orbit using telekinesis, yeah, that's realistic. One has to suspend belief or scientific reasoning and leave it at the door when seeing a movie as science fiction B movies play fast and loose with the laws of physics. 

Ghostbusters VR app, $35 plus tax. Enhanced edition $65 plus tax. Pricey or what? You got to be one of those rich people living in the rich neighborhood to afford this. 

A year ago, I watched the movie where Henk Rogers goes to Russia trying to get the Russian government to award Alexey Pajitnov royalties for Tetris never dreaming that I'd be one day owning Tetris in VR. It's a tragedy that Russia is fighting Ukraine and is therefore on the West's shit list. 

Russia is otherwise a very beautiful culture that is rich in heritage and tradition. The red and blue Imperial guards seen in the Nutcracker ballet, the matryoshka nesting dolls, the painted Easter eggs, samovars etc It's kind of a timeless fantasy realm. I've met some Russian people and my impression of them is that they are very intelligent. 

Tetris VR means Tetris Virtual Russian. Russia. Awesome. KGB. "Kind of Good, Boys."

Assassins Creed $45. Pricey as well. Somewhat tempting. Who wouldn't want to be an assassin in Medieval Moorish era Spain in a battle between the Dionysian Oder of Assassins and the Apollonian Knights Templar kicking ass and taking names? Swashbicklimg. Swords and musket pistols. However I don't know assassins creed at all. Perhaps if I watch the Assassins Creed movie starring Michael Fassbender. 

Whereas Star Wars. I watched that movie when I was 7 years old when it was released in 1977. Assassin's Creed, motion sickness's creed. 

Someone in YouTube comments said about the movie 2001, "I remember watching it with my father. I was seven years old and we drove 500 miles to the nearest theatre. My mother couldnt make it so she stayed home." 

Then some mischievous imp replied, "I remember watching it with my father. I was one year old and we drove 1,000,000,000 miles to the nearest theatre. My mother couldnt make it so she stayed home." 

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Even though I have my new apps, for some reason, I like to write. And play Hustle Castle as well. Next step after getting spectacular new apps. A wave of depersonalization and derealization. I told my neighbour about this. He said, "You are not your environment. You are stressing out in the VR yet there you are just sitting in your room. Nothing's changed. Take it easy." 

I write as a way of first I have to get comfortable like some people have to get comfortable before drinking a fine glass of red wine. Lounge around in shorts, wear socks or not instead of shoes, get comfortable. 

Some apps I sense are distinctly apps made for females like chick flicks are movies for females. 

One is called Maya Birth of a Superhero. Superhero. Sounds interesting. Then the app made my hands appear with a really flowery henna design painted on it. Then the female narrator mentions menstruation and empowerment in the same phrase. Yeah, it's a chick app. I turned it off. Uninstalled. 

Dear Angelique starts off as a girl lying down on her bed but there's a lot of flowing pink curlicues and it definitely looks girly so I uninstalled it. I'm guessing that ladies spend 65% of the time on chick apps and sometimes business planning apps and 35% of the time on the first person shooter apps that guys like. 

Whereas guys spend nearly 100% of the time on first person shooter, shoot em up testosterone based apps. Swords, blades, guns, bows and arrows. Explosions. 

I got the apps. Pinball and Tetris. Luxuries. Thank you God for the blessings in my life. It is all thanks to You. Next is the depersonalization and derealization that one can get even from good events like staying the first night in a luxurious 5 star hotel. I don't know if that will ever happen to me. 

Yesterday, I spent most of the day at home. I spend a lot of days at home lately like Stephen Tenant used to. I was feeling all zoned out. Too much caffeine and also the thrill of my VR goggles. At least I was in actual Canada on Canada Day. Someone who lives st my hotel went to the Philippines. At least I'm not a Canadian expat sitting at some bar overseas thinking, "I've decided years ago that I never want to return to Canada." which would be no way to celebrate Canada Day at all. I

 remember the good times I had and still go on having in Canada. Like Hannibal Lecter said, "I've had many excellent meals there." Canada, excellent meals including salmon on white plates. Canada has been very kind to me over the years. I've had financial support when I did my animated cartoons enough for me to get electric skateboards, and VR goggles too. The government paid for my electric skateboard and VR goggles which is an example of what can happen if one plays ball with the government. 

Always trust in the wisdom and guidance of elected political leaders. All problems wither under the glare of good government. 

I rode around on my electric skateboard yesterday which was the first Canada Day that I ever did that. So there's that. An electric skateboard is the essence of what it means to be a Canadian. Grooving, a carefree life. In the old days Canadian was strapping a canoe on top of a green Srudebaker with wood side panelling. Today it's an electric skateboard. 

Tetris VR is kinda like putting lipstick on a pig. It's basically the same 2D game dressed up as a VR app. VR adds to some genres like Star Wars and any action movies franchises. VR Tetris, VR chess, one basically isn't doing anything different than before, the forum is different but the function is the same. I was playing Tetris at home 25 years ago and now I'm doing the same thing today. 

Tetris is good. It helps the executive function of the brain repair from trauma as it prompts the brain with gentle logarithmic geometric problem solving paradigms. Tetris uses geometry and problem solving to heal the brain. Tetris VR, sure, I'm in. It's really a fun blast. Come for the Tetris, stay for the surreal psychedelic mind trip. 

VR goggles will rewire your brain like Lawnmower Man and it will eventually fry your brain with all these psy op dopamine producing algorithms like a casino video slot machine. 

Pinball VR is a tremendous difference from Pinball on the tablet which is an upgrade from Pinball on the Sony PSP which was better than Pinball on the GBA. I would recommend Pinball FX VR2 as it is a life changing experience. 

I can't wait for Alien Rogue which is the new Aliens VR app to be released in August. It would be what young people refer to as "nightmare fuel." Exhilarating controlled fear which is what makes science fiction action movies great. 

I wonder if there are any brain training apps on VR like Big Brain Academy, Mind Quiz and Hot Brain. There's Rendever VR, Memory OS and Enhance VR. Of the three, only Enhance VR is available on the Meta store for free. 

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

This is where my monkey brain is now taking me. 

I'm seriously thinking of getting Assassin's Creed Nexus VR. I've been researching and in that I mean looking at videos of the first few minutes of gameplay on YouTube. I don't want to watch too much and spoil it. There is the scene of sneaking past the guards in the library without being seen and that trope was also used in the Harry Potter Lego video game. 

I won't get it right away. I still have to think about it for a few days. Never get a big ticket item right away. Always wait at leadt a few days. You might change your mind or something better will come along or the item may even be cheaper. I have to watch the movie first. 

Assassins Creed isn't time travel although you would think it is. The idea is that the ideas of hundreds of people are pastiched like a kind of dream television as seen in the movie Alien Prometheus. This pastiche is rendered as a collated and collective VR Universe. With architecture and furniture, artifacts being where they were, the avatar has to go back in the past and get something. Point A to Point B then get something and come back Lord of the Rings type plotline. 

It costs $50 but with tax, that would be about $55. When one is impoversihed, $55 is a big ticket item and then the sticker shock and the depersonalization and derealization and imposter syndrome like this is too overwhelming and too grand for me. If my friends saw me in VR world, what would they think? VR really feels like visiting another World. 

Would it be shocking if I splurged another $55 to get Assassin's Creed Nexus VR? When I get a new VR game on the meta store, I feel like I sinned. The shock only lasts for a few days. A few days later, those things become part of the background. When something is new, it's part of the foreground which is what results in depersonalization and dereslization. 

Should I get it or not? Perhaps I'll get a sign. 

I glimpsed a couple of other Hollywood franchise based apps. 

Jurassic Park and Stranger things have a hand drawn animated cartoon look which I think looks cheesy especially for a paid for app. No thanks. Made for a younger audience. The photorealism and rendering of Assassin's Creed is much better and more desirable. Made for adults. 

I have to announce that I took the plunge and plopped down $55 for Assassin's Creed Nexus in my dredit card. I looked for a sign. The sign was a television ad. A guy with a beard sitting with his wife. Angels. "It's not if we can afford it but when." 

I had to uninstall some apps to make enough space for new apps. 

I installed The Key and Under Prewents which are 3 Gigabyte apps. I'll play them and the uninstall so I can have enough space to reinstall Asgards Warth 2. I want to give it another chance. Always give it another chance. 

Last night I went to Three Moons Overlook and was able to find the ship. Careful with those thermal detonators. I exploded myself a few times and had to respawn. Anyways I was able to take out a team of Guavian Death Gang bandits. Of course I took a few hits and had to respawn a few times. It takes Police Academy Training to do these FPS shooter games a lot better. 

I am a somewhat of a good shot and head shots are my favorite. A Police Officer once said on television, "If you hit the head at a certain angle, it will explode just like a watermelon." 

I haven't seen that yet in the Star Wars VR game, yet. But I have seen that in 2D sniper game apps. 

I've played FPS games in 2D. Every time I go into a zone which I think is empty, there are always a few enemies there. Brotherhood of the Blade, Dungeon Siege Throne of Agony, The Force Unleashed etc etc etc. Same set ip. But in VR it takes on a new dynamic. I am living and experiencing those 2D games that I previously played! 

I want to discuss why I simply won't be getting the Ghostbusters Frozen Empire VR game even though I once was considering getting a Ghostbusters costume for Halloween but I would need a proton pack too and a containment trap and that's pricey. With Star Wars and Assassin's Creed, one is using 3D solid objects fighting 3D solid enemies. With Ghostbusters, one using 4D holographic weapons, the stream, fighting 4D holographic enemies. Too cerebral. Too protracted. It can be a ponderous process to guide the ghost into the containment unit, a process that can take up to five minutes. This is writing from experience as I played one complete level of Ghostbusters on PSP which was the Sedgewick Law Library at UBC, oh, I mean the Sedgewick Hotel level. Games where one uses solid weapons such as guns, bow and arrow etc are more direct and visceral than the proton stream and containment trap system of Ghostbusters. Also Ghostbusters is targeted towards a younger audience whereas Assassins Creed is more of an adult game. Ghostbusters has a few teenagers as characters whereas Star Wars and Assassins Creed has all adults. Assassins Creed is a complete package. 

Ghostbusters is about $40 but the enhanced edition costs $65 and if you want to play as Ray Egon rather than just one of the teenagers, it will cost an additional $4. Too expensive or what? Ghostbusters is good if you are an 11 year old who lives with a very rich family. 

One can always watch a walkthrough video although VR POV videos are often just saturated with motion sickness. Why bother? Ghostbusters is full of silly memes and tropes like the giant with a skeleton head and wearing a round glass helmet. That thing looks like something from a puerile B - movie. 

Today I am going to learn about the Assassin's Creed timeline. I don't like the word assassin because being an assassin is an illegal activity rather than a legal activity. It would be better if a game had a title that revolves around a profession that is legal. 

It adds to the intrigue and mystique I guess. 

I am going to watch 2 YouTube videos about the timeline. Then I am going to watch the Michael Fassbender Assassin's Creed movie. Assassin's Creed in the 2D PlayStations are pretty good. The Assassin's Creed on Android tablet is, well, if I wanted to play a Hustle Castle, American Dad Apocalypse Soon type of game, I'd play those games. 

Then I have to play The Key and the Under Presents. The Key features a show lounge where there is a singer. Under Presents also features a show lounge but there is no singer, just some strange music piped over loudspeakers, the music sounds like it's from the 1930s. That's very dreamlike. Very. 

The uninstall and see if I can ever get through Asgards Wrath 2. There is a 7 hour YouTube walkthrough video but that's with the person knowing what they're doing and making a beeline to all the hidden objects and escape room puzzles. If a person doesn't know what they're doing it can take up to two months to complete it. 

The player in the YouTube videos seldom if ever has to respawn. They must be using an emulator. It's physically impossible otherwise to get it that perfect. I myself have to respawn multiple times. 

Assassin's Creed is a rabbit hole. I don't know if any of you want to read this. 

It starts off with a divine race of angels known as the Isu. The Isu created the Celestials which were Minerva, Jupiter and Juno. The Isu imbued the Celestial with a triple helix three strands DNA structure while humans have two strand DNA known as the double helix. 

The Isu and the Celestials is ripped off from Lord of the Rings, the Ainur and the Valar which Saruman and Gandalf were two Valars. 

This is all tied up with these Celestial artifacts namely the Eye of Eden and nine Apple of Eden. 

The Celestial originally wanted to use the artifacts to help humanity but Juno secretly wanted the Apple of Eden for herself so she could control the World according to her vision. Again, something like this happens in the Lord of the Rings story. 

Adam and Eve are included in this strange franchise as they are seen climbing up steel girders of futuristic looking buildings which, I don't know about you but that's how I've always pictured Adam and Eve as climbing up futuristic buildings. 

Other historical figures are also pastiched in this strange fable including Cleopatra, Caesar, the Borgias of Italy etc 

The main figures are Bayak who once during an incarnation in Rome when he was on watch on a beach was himself along with his song Klemu was abducted. During the pear shaped event, Klemu gets killed and of course Bayak swears lifelong vengeance that would range through the centuries. 

After the death of his son, Bayak and Aya walk on a beach. Aya accidentally drops Klemu's necklace of the upper skull of a small bird. It lands on the sand forming a symbol looking like a capital A without the lateral slash which is the emblem of Assassin's Creed. 

Bayak has an encounter with Royalty who died long ago and they are looking at him and talking with him. 

Bayak hooks up with a woman who is every bit as crazy as he is. She is named Aya but changed her name to Amunet. Another figure, Altair Ibn LA Had known simply as Altair are avatars in the video game. 

The apples of Adam have the power to influence human minds like Jedi mind control but Biayak and Aya are immune because they are from a bloodline of a hybrid between humans and Esu established centuries ago. 

Bayak traces the killing of his son to Cleopatra who he does in and his girlfriend Aya does in Julius Caesar in Egypt. Oh, I thought Julius Caesar got done in on the steps of Rome when he attempted to change Rome from a principal it Nation State ruled by Plebian and Patrician, equivalent to democrat and republican respectively senators to an Empire with himself as the Emperor. In the last 15 years, Julius Casar as military general under his military expertise had subjugated many lands paying taxes, the London funnel, the Roman funnel, to Rome. Lands that wouldn't be under Rome's provenance if not for him which is why he wanted to be Emperor of a newly acquired Empire. 

Other Senators didn't think this was a bad idea except that they themselves wanted to be Emperor. So they did Caesar in on the steps of the capital building in a Hamilton the play type of move. They blamed Caesar for the death of a very popular general named Pompeii who got killed in Egypt on a dock as soon as he stepped off the boat even though Caesar had planned to grant General Pompeii a seat in the Senate. 

So anyways, jump to present day. Desmond Miles is a genetic descent of Bayak and Aya or Amunet. Abstergo industries developed a technology where they can access not only a person's genetic memories but also the genetic memories of their ancestors which is somehow stored in the DNA and recreate it as a 3D virtual world. 

The vector to get into the virtual world is called the Animus. Curious word. Carl Jung said every female has a small part of their psyche that is male called the animus. And males have a small part of their psyche that is female called the anima.

For some strange reason, Abstergo industries is after the apple of Eden as they can get and coopt Desmond along with the genetic memories of his ancestors which takes the term voluntold to a whole new level to go back in time in virtual reality and find out where the apples are so Abstergo industries to go to the modern day location and try to dig it up. 

I don't know about the saliency of creating a franchise where one coopts real historical figures and then retcons it with some ghastly B-movie menagerie. It's been done before with Monty Python's Holy Grail and Month Python's The Life of Brian. 

The franchise mentions Hecate as being the assistant of Persephone, but like Juno, Hecate is also scheming. Prince Rupert has a body of water called Hecate Strait. I thought Hecate was the bride of Satan which is a far cry from being the scheming assistant of Persephone. 

I haven't watched the movie yet. I'm supposing that Michael Fassbender is Cal Lynch and Abstergo industry wants to send him back to medieval era Spain as 

Aguilar de Nerha to look for as many apples of Eden as he can get for Abstergo Industries so Abstergo Industries could control the World according to their plans. 

One more thing. You might think I'm crazy to write this. That's OK. I think I'm crazy for writing this but I'll tell you what I think I heard. 

Years ago I had a hypnagogic dream. I was looking directly full on at a stone bust of Julius Caesar. I heard the voice of Julius Caesar say, "You do not face me." 

When Caesar got stabbed at the Senate, his nephew who dealt the killing blow, the most unkindest cut of all knelt down to take a look at Caesar's face, Caesar took a piece of cloth from his toga and covered his face. You do not face me. 

On the day I wrote the above paragraph, I wrote about seeing the stone bust. But then I wasn't sure if I'd seen it or not. There is a stone bust of Caeasar near here and I looked directly at it, trying to get the exact right angle so perhaps I did see that in the dream.

That sentence left erased, on this day, I saw on the News that the RCMP was looking for someone called Julius Stone-Cyr. Julius stone seer? That was the sign, the confirmation that I was on the right track. Often one has to look for signs like this such a name and the timing too. Message received. I'm keeping score! 

Well I have no doubts that as usual, The Mounties always get their man. 

Thursday, July 4, 2024

To American friends, happy 4th of July. 

May the sunshine of prosperity always shine down on you. 

May you be lifted to the heights of National greatness on the wings of American bald eagles. 

Yesterday, I got something I nefer thought I would ever because I didn't know that it even existed. I am very excited to have it. I was to download an iso and then use a WinRAR extractor to export it to my Sony PSP. The item in question is Tetris on PSP! Where have you been all my life? This would have been something that I would have intensely wanted to have but didn't know it exists. 

From sheer curiosity, I lunched in the search term Tetris on a PSP iso website. Holy smokes! It was there. It just never occurred to me to ask if Tetris PSP even exists. I thought it didn't. I thought Nintendo had the exclusive licence on Tetris and the movie even specifically mentions a Nintendo CEO. That's ridiculous. There are so many 'brick game' kick off Tetrises being sold on the market. 

The same reason being why I never got Tetris on the PSP is the same reason why I never got married. I simply didn't ask. 

I also acquired Assassins Creed for the PSP. The learning curve was easy enough to grasp and I made my first leap of faith which is the signature move of this franchise. 

The Assassins Creed Nexus VR took me awhile to set up. I enabled and then wanted to disable the subtitles because they added a fourth wall. I set it on easy setting so it wasn't much of a challenge for me to do the missions. Some challenge but not much. Much better than the 2D version. 

Ubisoft wrote in the intro to Assassins Creed Nexus VR that, "this project is a sult of a multicultural team comprised of people of all genders, religions and sexual orientations. 

That sounds a lot like the Legislative Building in my town. Politicians there are of all stripes. Different strokes for different folks. Before, it was all White men and Christians, Protestant Christians. Nowadays there are still Christians, also Sikhs, Muslims, and Natives who are into saging, shamanism and sweat lodges. 

As far as genders, orientations, it's don't ask don't tell. You want the truth? You can't handle the truth! It's a case of I don't know and I don't want to know. 

I had food poisoning last night or it was more like I must be lactose intolerant. I had some ice cream and ice cream often does a number. I'm going to throw the rest of my ice cream away even though I paid $5 for it. $5 is a small price to pay to not have the most awful stomach upsets again. 

In Vancouver, two men are at large and the Police have a BOLO or an APB all points bulletin, I don't know what BOLO means. Be on the lookout? 

From what little the News said, the brain paints a guessy picture of what might have transpired. 

Two guys who were short on money was talked up and invited to someone's apartment and to quote the movie Borat, "It sounds like you met someone from what we call the gay community." 

Perhaps they were tourists and didn't know that the West End is a gay area. The West End is the area around Stanley Park, Davie Street, English Bay. The West Side is Point Grey, Shaughnessy Heights, Kitsilano. Once they were fully aware of the situation perhaps they got triggered, which at that point the usual half hearted laconic conversations about women, weed, booze, cocaine and poppers had already been dispensed which is the usual party favors of most hosts who live in the West End even on the distaff side too, women, lesbian, but when the host put the gay porn video on the television, that's when the two alleged suspects lost it and lashed out with bad results. Rough trade. Perhaps the suspects wanted to rob the host and that they did with lethal results and jow the Police are looking for them. 

Another possible story is the person who got done in was a prominent member of the SOGI movement. Big time. And the two assailants were possibly hurtin' Albertans or some other redneck type where if it ain't white it ain't right and kill a queer for Jesus type of Right Wong Conservatives and at first they were just going to quiz the SOGI advocate. But the conversation soon went pear shaped and certain people in the room were triggered. So some kind of crude fight unleashes with the result that two people are on the run from the homicide detectives. This kind of reminds me of Detective Porfiry Petrovich who somehow knew that Radyon Raskolnikov did in two people. The Police have been at this job for a long time. They know what to look for. 

In Vancouver I met someone who had the opinion that gay people "should be lined up against a wall and shot." 

See, I don't think that at all. No one should be persecuted against, abused, discriminated against or stigmatized let alone killed just because they're gay. People who are gay might be avoided. But for a person who avoids gay people, that's just one of a thousand other things they are already avoiding. We are all avoidant personalities to whatever extent. Someone who got killed just because they are gay is never right. I'm sure that factored into the motive. Some of the best celebrities are gay such as Matt Fraser. Someone in reddit comments wrote, "He's queer. His entire television show is an essay on sexual fluidity." 

I don't care if he's gay or not. He is a very profoundly talented psychic. 

I certainly hope that the Police find out who did it. Chances are they probably already half ass know who did it. 

It wouldn't surprise me. 

I have an app on VR that's causing me a dilemma. It's called Anne Frank house. 

For one thing, it's depressing and it has in common with the VR app Midway Multiverse in that the World War 2 guy is mentioned. I don't want to write his name. Like Harry Potter, it is he who remains unnamed. 

Otherwise it is very representative of infrastructure and architecture and furniture of the 1940s in Northern Continental Europe. Hang around some nostalgic house in the 1940s. 

If you feel any kind of nostalgia with this app, then you have 

Fernweh, nostalgia for a place you never lived 

Anemoia, nostalgia for a time you never lived. 

Well this app is saturated with that big time especially with the radio and the old monotone radio voice. 

I feel nostalgia with this app! Is that a sign of brain damage? 

Do I uninstall it because it's depressing as anything or do I keep it because it's kind of like visiting a museum. This app has about a fifteen minute learning curve. Then it gets old fast. 

I only did the casual tour at your own pace setting. I didn't bother going into the story setting. What's the story? World War 2. Jewish people were forced to hide for their very lives. Family lives in cellar. Teenage girl keeps a diary. War closing in. Family captured and just about everyone done in just weeks before the war ended. What a massive downer. So you see the dilemma. 

YouTube has a rare video of the actual Anne Frank. It is a video of a very spectral looking teenage girl on a balcony. Last dance before the apocalypse. 

Today, I went skateboarding on my Kenny Anderson chocolate skateboard. At one point when I was picking ip a white cup that I found, my skateboard rolled down the street in front of a car. The car stopped and I was able to catch up with my skateboard. From now on, only ride the non electric skateboard on the sidewalk and not on the road. 

Then about half an hour later, I dropped the cup. I threw the pieces of the handle in a garbage can. Being someone who has OCD and a hoarding disorder I couldn't stop thinking about going back to that garbage to fish out the pieces of the broken handle so I'd have a matched set. I couldn't stop thinking about it. The movie, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar said it is impossible to hold any thought in your mind for more than thirty seconds. Well I've thought of the broken cup handle in the garbsge can for over two hours now. The garbage is already collected and taken away now. It is a semi heat wave so that garbage can't smell good and that's a popular garbage can for people to throw their bagged dog droppings in. Too late. It's gone. Garbage. 

Hopefully I can forget about this. Writing about this, someone can read this and think a counter thought that my subconscious will pick up and cancel out this thought. Anyways, my caudate nucleus should be telling me that at this time the garbage has already been collected its gone and do you actually want to expose yourself to a case of dysentery or toxoplasmosis from inhaling bacteria saturated garbage can air on a day with weather that the News described as "a heat wave is coming?"

This is the brain that I have to work with for the next however many years?! 

In England, the election happened last night and only the seventh Whig, Labour PM Keir Sturmer won the election. Previously it had been a 14 year Tory, Conservative Administration which included a few name changes, Gordon Brown, Boris Johnson, Teresa May, and Rishi Sunak. Sturmer? Really? That reminds me of the Anne Frank app. In World War two, there was a newspaper called Der Stermer. 

I don't know much about British politics. I only just wish them the best always. 

The Kenny Anderson chocolate skateboard has a nice relaxing feel to it. The smaller 56mm wheels moves at a slower rate than the 60mm wheels. The skateboard cost me $120 plus tax. Paris trucks. Nice. 

Doing a parkour move, I landed on a part of my body that will remained undisclosed. Or else, twig and berries. I landed on my berries on a fence. There was no sharp pain but ti did feel a slight dull pain that went away quickly, it wasn't too bad. Feeling downwards, one seems a lot smaller than the other, smaller than it was. Did I rupture I? Am I going to be missing a berry for life, that is if it is in fact missing. My brain is painting a picture again. I'm sure that in the past I got dinged in that area of the body before such I'd did feel a sharp pain. Even with that, I recovered and now it's years later. 

A heat wave is coming. 

Don't go out if its too hot. Stay home. The hypothalamus is part of the HPA axis. The hypothalamus is also what registers body temperature. When the hypothalamus which is part of the R complex fires up, the executive function of the frontal lobe is temporarily disabled if it gets bad enough. 

One just has to know that if they feel a panic it's because of sudden temperature change. It's perfectly normal and is a primeval response. Once you kkow its that, you can deal with it as it is demystified. 

If it gets to 38 degrees Celsius like it will in Lytton BC next week, take cold showers and then sit next to a fan. Don't go out if you can avoid it. 

A panic attack due to a sudden temperature spike is bearable. What is unbearable is caregiver burn out. Working 7 days a week for someone who simply wasn't getting better. The emotional investment that I had and seeing them in a medical situation that involves life and death and then being hit with a heat wave 38 degree temperature spike. Multiple stressors is what really drives one to burnout and nervous breakdown. The good news is that one eventually does recover although at the time the brain tells a person that they will never recover. They will have that problem for life which completely delusional. 

This sounds like Let them eat cake when most people struggled to be able to afford good quality bread that wasn't two days old let alone cake. When I wear the VR goggles and play pinball FX VR2 certain tables like Secrets of the Deep Sea and Mars, the environment makes me think I am in a very cool air conditioned room. I mean air condition turned up that its almost like a refrigerator. That's because at that point the room actually is a refrigerator since they both use freon gas. 

The government is actually giving, yes that's right, giving old people air conditioners. And to think that there are some expats who don't want to come back to Canada. 

Otherwise an air conditioner costs about $250 - $1,000 for a really good one. 

In the winter, there are warming centres. In the summer there are cooling centers and also water sprays at parks that spray misty water. 

Ride a modern bus, most are air conditioned. Go to a movie theatre for the movie and stay for the air conditioning. 

Take a cold shower and don't use a towel to dry. Then stand next to a fan. That works 100% of the time. 

Use St Luke's powder for prickly heat. 

This Sunday, it is forecast to be 35 degrees Celsius and that is the day of the gay parade. There will probably be topless women especially in that weather. But also a chance of getting heatstroke. So you have to weigh your priorities. 

I'm probably going to go and I'll wear my Wagner opera wig. 

Of course the killer move would be to also wear make up and panty hose or fish net stockings and stilletos. And I certainly don't have and won't be wearing any of that! 

Just the wig leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Think Wagner opera, Parsifal. 

Whether I am single or whether I have a girlfriend, I am only trading one set of worries for another, one set of advantages and disadvantages for another. Grief is the price of love. 

Whether a person has a significant other or is single, in either case it's "Me and millions of others." 

There is a food truck that sells Hong Kong style French toast with mochi that is very popular. They are being kicked out for an alleged breaxh of policy and another competitor that ripped off their recipe is operating there. 

That's business. How many restaurants are there that copied McDonald's? How many restaurants sell cheeseburgers? Imitation is the sincerest for of flattery. 

Sometimes God uses a set back to bring someone or a better place than they would have been without the set back. There are lots of stories of successful restaurant owners who went through lots of challenges including people who rip off their recipe. 

One can go to 20 restaurants and get 20 different recipe varieties of the same dish. The new competitor proballbly has some proprietary recipe. Variety is the spice of life. 

This can force the OG HK French toast food truck can branch out to another place where they will wind up selling twice as much as they would if they otherwise stayed on in Richmond for years. The is the OG and there is the knock off. 

"The music industry is a long narrow hallway full of pimps and thieves." Hunter S Thompson 

It looks like the food truck industry is that way too. 

Amy arrangement between two people is really an arrangement between three entities, the two people involved and God. And God will be the final judge. 

"May you live long enough to see the bodies of your enemies floating down the river." Old saying

Friday, July 5, 2024

It looks like it's going to be a scorcher. 

I plopped down $19 and got 2076 Midway Multiverse. You can skip the opening dialogue just press the B button. 

Worth the money. The second previously unseen level is just as mind-blowing as level 1. And Operation Arcade and Midway 1946 is included with that too! I thought I'd have to pay extra for Operation Warcade. 

Operation Warcade makes me think of a Priest at the Church I go to. The Priest and her husband who is also a Priest at that Church were previously military chaplains. She is higher in rank at that Church than her husband. It isn't about whether a Priest is male or female. It's about someone who has the necessary spiritual maturity. 

Anyways their knowledge of the military would be on another level than most people. 

As it turns out, Operation Warcade and 1976 are not free and cost an extra $19 each. I splurged and got them. I just had to. They are very immersive and visceral games. Shooters. Airplanes. Spaceships. Fun times in the city. 

This isn't an ephemeral item. I'm going to have this for life. Or else for a long time. 

I also paid $12 for Beat Blaster. Considering that $17 is the minimum wage, $12 isn't exactly a big ticket item. I don't need to feel depersonalization and derealization for that. 

Meta apps have prompts that appear upon uninstalling. The app says, any progress etc may not be saved. Really? Some apps do save your data. I uninstalled and reinstalled all kinds of apps, American Dad apocalypse soon, Myths and Puzzles, Walking Dead No Man's Land, even two years have passed since the last installation and they still have my data. That's because I paid for a whole lot of in app purchases. Still, other apps I made no purchases and years later, my progress, data etc is still there! That's pretty good! How do they do that? 

Beat Blaster and the Rsce Car game is free totally. The FIFA soccer game doesn't seem to work at all. No soccer. Just like the no show for Lionel Messi. 

Pangman Blaster. Who cares? It's not really that good. I might give it another chance. Beat Blaster is amazing. 

The 2076 virtual arcade includes 

- Operation Warcade $19

- 1976 $19

- Beat Blaster $12

- Pangman Blaster free

- Race Karts free

- Soccer - out of order

Pangman Blaster is pretty much exactly like the free shooting app that is available on the meta quest browser. A futuristic set where one shoots extra large beach balls through a goal. It's quite a fun app. Pangman Blaster is a good FPS but is it better than HAX Demo or Star Wars where one is shooting drones and other Star Warsian enemies? Uh, no. 

Pangman Blaster is like baby's first FPS. Time to get yourself an adult FPS. 

This came from a comment from a forum about using prepaid crddit cards for online items. The comment read, "Stop using baby's first credit card. Time to get yourself an adult crddit card."

The electric scooter I got is a baby's first scooter. An adult electric scooter, one that can be taken seriously as an adult ES costs upwards of $700. 

Someone on YouTube comments wrote something along the lines of, "We've had enough of these unfunny people who think they are funny but they are unfunny and so called comedians." some word salady thing along those lines. 

I try to be somewhat funny. It's not so much funny as it it levity. A lot of cultures if not all are good at neutralizing situations and added humour along with that. 

That statement sounds like projection anyways. 

When someone tells you that you are an unfunny comedian, that's when your comedy and funny has gone to the next level. That they even used the word comedian and the words funny even jn a negative sense, unfunny, is a tacit admission that on some level, they already acknowledged you as a comedian. 

That's a random comment on a random video that I clicked. The person who wrote the comment knows about me and my writing. Yeah, right. 

But sometimes the Universe or life can throw these things at you. 

Should that make me quit trying to have levity in my writings? I don't think so. Don't ever let anyone discourage you from what you are doing. Unless the thing in question is illegal and harms self or others. 

Today I sinned yet again and plopped down $57 for two Warplanes apps. One is called World War 1. Steampunk elegance. Flying those world war one planes is something I've dreamed of for years. I once did an animated cartoon about world war one airplanes so I had to have this app. The other is called World War 2 Pacific Battle. I got it because I already got used to the learning curve of World War 1. 

I'm not really into the modern military jet fighters although I once had a dream that I felt that I was lying down flat on my bed except I wasn't. In the dream I was in a military jet fighter going straight upwards. At that moment the pilot does feel like he's lying horizontal on a bed. 

World War 2 has the retro charm. When I was born, World War 2 had ended 25 years ago then. It was so recent that school students were often drawing pictures of World War 2 airplanes in their notebooks. WW1 and WW2 used propeller planes. WW1 planes went at about an average of 150 mph. WW2 planes went about 275 miles an hour. Modern commercial jetliners like the A330 Airbus goes at 550 mph. 

A jet engine uses a propeller. The air around the propeller is heated to about 1,000 degrees Celsius. This heating of the air makes a difference and the specialized jet propeller with the heated air makes a jet engine. Military planes can go three times that speed at 1,500 mph. That's just cruising speed. They can go a lot faster! 

I did it again. I got Warplanes Air Combat which includes the option to fly helicopters. 

$28 and I got The Under Presents $15. It's a very beautiful app. Plus it has a surprise. First one does some things, goes into a room, does a few other things and then you're back in the original room that you started in. This time there's a second you watching the actions of the first you, recorded. Then again but a third you watching you watching yourself. And again a few times. 

This reminds me of a life review in the afterlife where one can watch themself again in a previous point in time and from any vantage point. 

"Too much is never enough." Much Music 

One hasn't purchased enough of any given items until they purchased a little too much. There's no such thing as just enough. I've decided I purchased too much. I have to pay this back as I used a credit card. The credit card gives a 30 day grace period. 

That should be enough amusement park fun for an entire summer. I plan to make one more 'for sure' purchase and that's Alien Rogue Incursion. Hopefully theres just one basic game that's not too expensive and not a basic edition and then an add on for another few dollars. 

Anyways the makers of those apps might be happy to kkow that someone thought enough about their app to put their money where their mouth is and make a one time purchase of that app which can be downloaded. 

Strangely, apps for free are better than video games paid for years ago. Epic Roller Coaster which includes 4 free levels including free shooter level is better than anything video game of the 90s. 

One day in the future, free apps on VR will be better than apps once paid for but that won't be for another ten years at least. 

I hope you don't think that I've sinned for getting so many apps. I am someone who appreciates fine art and who also appreciates nostalgia from the past and who is into the military. I animated a cartoon of World War One airplanes and also steampunk so I had to get the World War One airplanes app. The 1940s era has a bit of nostalgia. Retro. And I did animate a cartoon about attack helicopters so I had to get the air combat which includes military jet planes as well as helicopters. 

I don't kkow what an actual pilot would say about how realistic airplane flying in VR is. Is it like a flight simulator? The throttle stick. Pull back and the plane goes up. Push and the plane descends. Left and right is left and right turns, pitch and yaw. There is a grip that if pushed forward, the plane accelerates and if pushed back, slows down but don't push back for too long or the plane will stall and possibly crash. 

These airplane apps are very good for the Autumn for around the time of Remembrance Day. The World One era was very elegant and nostalgic. 1917 and the modern reboot of All Quiet On the Western Front were the best WW1 movies ever made, even better than Paths of Glory. 

IL-2 Sturmovich and DC3 are way better World War two airplane apps. They look intensely realistic that it is what young people today would call sick. Problem, is, they aren't available on meta Quest 3 and only available on Steam because its such a heavy duty gaming computer game. I checked out those games on YouTube. That's how I found out that the graphics look absolutely realistic reminding me of the time I visited the aviation museum in Sidney BC. I was successful in nailing the airplanes and I got 10/10 airplanes in the World War One app on the first level. 

One thong I noticed. On Epic Roller Coaster, there is a drop where the pterodactyl picks the coaster cart and drops it on the other side. In the shooter mode, there is no pterodactyl and the cart lands on the other side all wrong. The physics are all wrong. Gravity. Things fall doubling the speed every second until it reaches terminal velocity which is about 120 miles an hour. Without the pterodactyl, the landing on the other side should have a burst of speed at the last second as gravity doubles the speed of something falling with every passing second. It doesn't. It lands as if the pterodactyl was carrying the cart near the other side and then dropping it in this case not giving it the necessary time to speed up as it falls. In the shooter mode, the coaster drop segment is without the pterodactyl, yet there is some carryover physics from the alternate algorithm that includes the pterodactyl and not in a good way. What were you expecting for free? The Sistine Chapel? The drops in the Himalaya level on Coaster Combat is better than any drops in Epic Roller Coasters. Epic Roller Coaster is rich and very comprehensive and saturated with high quality composited computer graphics. Very intensely beautiful and fun levels. You can't go wrong with Epic Roller Coasters. 

Saturday, July 6, 2024

I woke up feeling panic that I went on a moderate spree of retail therapy and its not as if I am a millionaire. Being a millionaire is a cliche. I heard someone say this on a bus in Vancouver during the eighties. 

"A cliche is a cliche. A cliche is a cliche is a cliche." 

Sure there are the phases of the initial panic and then waiting for three days for the charge to process because credit card companies don't just charge a person. They use algorithms from experience to determine whether or not it is a fraudulent purchase. If it is, they won't charge you and will notify you. 

There was the movie starring Aubrey Plaza where she stole credit cards on an industrial level and got all these big ticket items. The frequency and the prices of the purchases was what set off a red flag. Credit card companies learned from that case otherwise a movie wouldn't have been made about it. 

Yeah, there's that. Pay it off. But years later, the money spent will be all but forgotten because at that point it will seem like a pittance and there I am still enjoying the heck out of those VR apps. 

In a few years, I won't even remember what year I bought that app. All I'll have is a nice app that I'll have with me for a long time. 

I wonder what airplane pilots would say about the Warplanes VR apps from Home Net Games. Would they say that the physics are realistic? 

Airplanes can fly with their wings horizontal but also vertical too. I've seen that in a dream I had years ago. Dreams teach. In this video game, not only can the airplane do that, it has to do that to make sharp turns. Would a pilot say, the Warplanes VR isn't bad, but IL-2 Sturmovik and DC3 which you would need the microprocessor strength found only on gaming computers are better. 

The Warplanes VR is about warplanes and dogfight and Airplanes used in military combat which is totally different from flying a commercial airplane. Military airplane missions take a shorter time than commercial flights. I've heard stories of 18 hour flights non stop, sitting in coach, pickling in your own juices flying from New York to Kuala Lumpur. 

Being on a commercial airplane is scary enough. Looking out the window. That's always an education. But imagine doing that while there are airplanes chasing you and trying to shoot you down. Scary. You would have an opportunity to shoot them down too, that's if you have the skill to do it. 

I've watched lots of movies about world war one and two and airplane battles and I wondered if they had video games back then would they have flown better? Even without video games a lot of pilots figured out strategies for aerial fighting in World War One. Attack boomers from above and fighters from below. Fly abofe the squadron while upside down to look down on and scope enemy positions. 

What they lacked in video games they certainly didn't lack in imagination. Besides they flew the real thing which is better than even a VR video game. 

The Red Baron flew high with the sun directly behind him as the sun would ind anyone who tried to attack him from his high vantage point. I don't think you can do that in Warplanes VR. 

Plays the World War One VR flying airplanes app and then watch the Howard Hughes movie about WW1 airplanes on just a video clip on YouTube that only shows the aerial dogfights. 

Would a commercial airline pilot VR app be as popular as the military airplane apps? I don't know. Usually teenagers opt for military airplane models than model making kits of commercial airliners. 

Commercial airline flying would be very sedentary. With GPS and autopilot, it isn't like the Amelia Earhart days when a person had to use the stars, the sun the moon and a compass to reckon their way. Pilots could enjoy libations like plenty of daiquiris and even make a quick phone call. But no texting and driving. Even on an airplane. One thing that would make military and commercial airplane VR apps alike more realistic is to have a good massive blast of crack or better yet freebase cocaine with the original alcohol solvent. On some airlines, there is a 80s weekend promotion where all pilots will have a hit of crack cocaine and time it to the moment when the airplane goes from motor engine to jet propulsion, the rush, the lift. 

No. Just joking. Absolutely. No one should do crack. The dopamine rush reaches a half life. The part that's worth any money is gone within about two minutes and when the dopamine is gone, a massive surge of epinephrine happens resulting in a massive panic attack and a wave of fear that will immerse you like never before, same with VR apps. Don't do it! 

On the News, over the decades, there have been stories of pilots who did just that and guess what happened? Their plane crashed and they died. I suppose if someone is already a cocanut, and they are rich enough to juggle a substance addiction and VR goggles along with paid for content, they could give it a try. I guess there's worse things to do after smoking a hit of crack like committing crimes. 

I think personal discreet possession of crack is legal in Canada as well, just like Portugal. 

Just as there is a VR community, there is also a crack smoking community, and in a Venn diagram, there is a community that uses VR and smokes cocaine. There certainly are members of the VR community that are also members of the smokes cannabis community and I am one of the members of that community. 

There is the annual two weeks after the summer solstice heat wave. This time, the meteorologist on the News said although the temperature is high st night, it dips down during the evening. This was not the case during the convection heat dome in which the night also retained the hot temperatures. 

In Death Valley in Arizona, the day time temperature can be as nigh as around fifty degrees Celsius but at night it drops down to 5 degrees Celsius. Even though five degrees isn't that cold, a person could get hypothermia at night because of the massive temperature drop which the hypothalamus would certainly register. 

I worry about President Joe Biden. In this weather, someone who is rich like a President but wuo is also old and somewhat frail along the edges should always be in air conditioned places, cars etc as much as possible. He certainly isn't the same person as he was when he was Senator Joe Biden. 

I wish President Joe Biden the best. I really hope that if he winds, he can survive the next four years with the necessary presence of mind needed for such a job. However, as Sherlock Holmes said, "I speak of my hopes and not my expectations." 

I had to, just had to check out the Sherlock Holmes app. It's just me, but the app wasn't my cup of tea. The scenery didn't seem hardcore Victoria steampunk enough, it was only just steampunk light if that. And Sherlock Holmes in this iteration has red muttonchops connected to a massive mustache like a Roman unibrow was connected. Talk about jumping the shark. I always pictured Sherlock Holmes as dark haired, wiry, lanky, and wearing a deer stalker hat, a pipe, a pouch of tobacco stashed in a Persian slipper and with a gaunt haunted look common to many habitual intravenous users of cocaine and morphine. 

I could see right away that the main target audience of this app is about 11 to 15, no younger and no older. And girls as well. 

The traditional Sherlock Holmes vibe is decidedly more stoic and Gothic. Sherlock Holmes held just about all women at an arms length of detachment except for one, Irene Adler. Adler means eagle in German. 

I would envision a Sherlock Holmes VR app as ornate and as dark as the Guy Ritchie movies. Aspects of Sherlock Holmes work dealt with criminal forensics so it has to be somewhat dark. 

The go to franchises to look for in any apps

- Star Wars 

- Terminator

- Aliens 

- Sherlock Holmes 

- Star Trek

- Indiana Jones 

- Marvel and DC comics superheroes

- Tron, of course 

- Blade Runner

- Stanley Kubrick movie based VR app

- Jurassic Park

The Jurassic Park app looks too cartoony. I would expect more composite photo realistic looking apps. Perhaps this too is targeted towards a younger demographic. And it is pricey too. A dinosaur sized price tag. I have trauma about the idea of spending too much money. 

I peeked at the Stranger Things app. Again too cartoony and whereas I kinda know Jurassic Park, I don't know the Stranger Things story at all or I somewhat know, but not enough. 

A group of kids have psychic powers. One of whom is called Eleven. Winona Ryder is the mother to some of these children and there is a sheriff who is involved with the Winona Ryder character and he has some experience with the paranormal world. One B - movie creature after another. What else? Again, would appeal to a younger audience. 

Pangman Blaster is targeted towards women and gays. One doesn't have to be a woman or gay to play Pangman Blaster but it helps. 

No, just joking. Give it a try. It's for anyone... Uh. 

WW1 airplane VR - my grandfather's generation

WW2 airplanes VR - my father's generstion

Vietnam War, Modern airplanes VR - Generation X, me. 

You can play Warplanes VR like a Sony PSP using the joystick or you can do it gripping the throttle stick and the accelerator grip. 

"Now that your joystick's broke

Now that your joystick's broke

Hurts your elbow

Hurts your wrist 

You can barely make a fist."

Michael Franks

The News said there is a highly disturbing person in Surrey who lurks at playgrounds for hours looking at children. He even invited children and mothers with children alike to go into the bushes with him. He rings doorbells at 5 am as can be seen on ring cameras. The level of egregiousness is profound. A group of angry fathers escorted him on to a bus and told him to get out of town. Most people would be scared shitless after that.That guy returned the next morning at 6 am like The Cat Came Back. Absolutely incorrigible. 6 am?! I heard of the early bird catches the worm. In this case, the early bird is the worm. 

If the Prime Minister saw the story on the News, I'm sure he would want that guy killed. Well, if not killed then sent to Guantanamo Bay. Do they send Canadians to Guantanamo Bay? He'd have to extradited to the US first. All it would take is to say that one of the people he invited into the bushes was American on vacation. Would the FBI be involved then? 

Such levels of depravity. It is clear that we are dealing with a psychopath. 

I certainly have no doubts that the local Police will catch this guy. This level of egregious perversion means that he will certainly have a hit out on him in prison. Not everyone, but some people have hits out on them in prison. There was a celebrity, name forgotten. Some prisoners tried to stsbbhim in the cafeteria line and comments were full of words like, it sounds like he has a hit out on him. 

In Canada, things get handled. 

Update: Sunday, June 7, 2024. The News said that the suspect was arrested at Semiahmoo Mall on Sunday afternoon. 

Imagination can be a funny thing. A good story for a fiction novel is someone gets stabbed downtown. The story is on the News. Like Don Henley said in the song Dirty Laundry, "When it's over and done with, They haven't said a thing." There is a back story. 

The person that got stabbed did some awful act, one that resulted with that person being on the News a previous time, he was alive that time, this time he's dead. The person that stabbed him was an undercover Police assassin, a Blade Runner. The person gets charged, goes through the courts, gets sent to the hoosegow. But the thing is, the guy operates under an alias. So he doesn't really actually have a criminal record. The judges and the lawyers know him well. So the Blade Runner goes to prison and does his rounds, befriending prisoners to get information about them as the good cop role VS the bad cop. A good cop can turn it on any time, good cop, bad cop. Bad cop is terrifying. Dungeons and dragons has a dungeon master. This Blade Runner is a prison master. No one touches him in prison because of his prison master status and the Police admire him for his information eliciting abilities. As Orwell wrote in the short story Clink as Orwell wrote about grafitti that he saw

"Detective Smith knows how to gee, Tell him he's a cunt for me." 

You would expect that type of holding cell graffiti in a town of such a population. 

That prison master was absolutely legendary for his ability to elicit information. 

If a person is good, even the devil wants to protect them although he will do it in his own offhand way and if a person is bad, even God wants to see them have the appropriate punishment. 

In the legal system, if a person is good even the prosecuting lawyer wants to give them a break. If a person is bad, even the defense lawyer wants to see them dealt with. It is the defence lawyer who looks into the eyes of the person he is appointed to defending and over the years he has looked into the eyes of all kinds of people and can tell right away what kind of person they are dealing with. 

Last night the Rolling Stones played a concert in Vancouver. I didn't find out about it until the concert was nearly over when I watched the 11 o clock News. Mick Jagger would have been major in the seventies wearing a white tank top and tery cloth wrist bands coloured red white and blue. Ron Woods with the teenage punk emo hairstyle and leather wrist band with spikes. The Rolling Stones are old but show no signs of slowing down. One is only as old as they feel. The Rolling Stones are forever young. 

The last episode of House of the Dragon had a scene where two guards kind of like Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern said something like, "Oh, I'm sure he'll keep to his vow of chastity." and a few times and just the other day, I heard someone at the Supermarket say, "Sucks to be you." the day after I saw episode 4 of Allegiance the Police drama. In the episode, someone sent a text message to someone else, "Sux 2BU" Typical. 

Sucks to be you, why. Because you don't have a girlfriend? From experience, it's either no girlfriend or else it is times of a certain uncertainty or of an uncertain certainty. Either way you lose. Whether one is single or not, it's trading one set of worries for another, one set of advantages and disadvantages for another, some obvious and others subtle. Anoyone who has had sex since 1995 is guaranteed to have HPV. It can cause cancer. The good news is that there are about 27 strains of HPV of which only 3 can cause cancer. A single person has less if any exposure to HPV. 

And the most major possible outcome of all, paternity. 

Don't give in to these inherent socially engineered pressures to cohabitate. Often, being single is better. The singleton community is comprised of millions of people so you're not alone. 

That's the thing. Would Jesus make disparaging gossip about people who are single? Does spirituality teach people to do that? 

How can I juggle watching the News, playing VR and having gotten over a million coins on the Troll Tower level of Hustle Castle? I wonder how I do it too. In one sense, on one level, the objective level, linear time doesn't exist and I'm multilocating as we all are. 

I do miss my friend Heather. I also refer to her as Beebs and Bee. I often say, "I wish I was smart like you, Beebs." I sense that in the afterlife, she'd be saying, "You're trolling me. You're the smarter one." 

I often reflexively say Beebs just like I often say Herbessa. Herbessa was my black abyssinian Guinea pig who died in the year 2000. Like Mister Bojablges, I mourn for her still. Sort of. Not mourning. Remembering. Knowing that she is in a reality where she can always come and visit me, sitting on my shoulder. 

Of I ever get a new girlfriend, I might then still be saying, "Beebs. Beebs." all the time. My new girlfriend might say, "What's a Beebs?" At which I would then have to say, "Beebs was my previous girlfriend who transitioned on to the majorly phase of life where she has gone to be even more alive than we are now and on an exponential level. Chances are she's standing next to me in a form of life that would now register to me as invisible and holographic although she certainly wouldn't rrgister to herself as that way." 

She would either say," That's crazy." or else," You know, I've often thought along those lines and I believe that as well." I'm thinking that in this day and age, that women would say the latter rather than the former. 

On the buses. 

Next month, next year, whenever, bus fare is going from $2.50 single trip to $3 and a day pass is going from $5 to $6. 

Now you see, it'd be more comfortable if they just raised the bus fare to $10 because digging out a fin and then a loonie, or four quarters or heaven forbid, one quarter, three dimes and nine nickels. Good thing the machine counts all that shrapnel. 

How about one block North of Uptown WalMart is the line of demarcation? 

It might otherwise be on Tattersall Road which is like Boundary Avenue in Vancouver but lots of people like to visit Walmart. 

If one wants to cross the zone boundary going from downtown Victoria to Sidney or Swartz Bay then it would be $10. If they want to just be in Victoria then it would be $5. What an insane pricing tier suggestion! Vancouver Transit system doesn't charge 2x to go from one zone to another. It's more like 1,25x. 

What if a person lives three blocks South of the Tattersall boundary line which runs East to West vs Boundary Ave in Vancouver which runs North to South, and wants to go another three blocks North into Saanich? Would they have to cough up a saw buck while someone else can go from Hogsmead Village, I mean Broadmead Village to Swartz Bay for $5? Why not then just walk the extra few blocks? 

The wretched insufferable aspects of the physics of this dimension. For all the answers I've come up with, I wish I had an early reprelieve so that I can experience the exquisite physics of that dimension vs the BS physics of this dimension. But spirits in the afterlife would say, "Getting what you call an early reprieve is not seen as a good thing. Long stem rose. A long life is a good thing."

I made a payment on my credit card today for the apps that I got during my online retail therapy session. I'll pay the rest on welfare day. 

Would the FBI be involved? See, that's the phrase that would bring the attention of the actual FBI. That is a phrase that only people who are concerned about an activity of a certain minimal level of criminality involving others or even if it involves themselves would use. In the old days it was called a clipping service. Celebrities would be notified whenever someone writes about them in a newspaper, magazine etc. That still exists today except its next level. Very powerful AI computers. The FBI might actually call Canadian authorities in which Canadian authorities would say, "We got this."

Americans are very nice and very kind people. That's if you don't cross them. That goes without saying with people of any Nation. Americans are great people. 

I have to see the movie House of Flying Daggers. That is the most beautiful not just Chinese movie but of any Nationality. The director has a natural talent, his highs are all natural. He's not the how many bags of cocaine did he have to do to make that movie kind of director. The Chinese generally eschew illicit substances as people who are raised as responsible and proper people. That's the ideal. I don't know about the reality. A John Woo movie showed two truck drivers smoking what appeared to be meth using a plastic water bottle. Such a level of depravity. 

I feel scared and overwhelmed. I give myself so many homework assignments. Try this app, try that app, watch this movie, watch that movie. Overwhelmed. Meanwhile my aim is to otherwise achieve complete sanity as a 100% perfect Christian. Or as perfect as I can get. Only one Christian was 100% perfect. 

I don't agree with Christianity when it says that unless a person recognizes Jesus as their religious avatar, then they'll not go to heaven which is absolutely BS. I absolutely believe that all Buddhists, Muslims, North American Native spirituality, etc will go to heaven if they are good people at heart and most people are. 

Damn this keyboard autogenerates so many typos. I don't get the word that I typed. And this AI modulated keyboard is supposed to be more advanced than a paper and traditional typewriter. 

The peak temperature of this heat wave lasts from 11 am to about 4 pm until the heat dissipates. Until then it's cum last city! 

The News said that a BC woman from Squamish is charged with terrorism. The Squamish Five? No, she travelled to Syria to join presumably Liwa el Fatimouyeh. Charged with leaving Canada and joining a terrorist group. Did anyone see the movie The Invisible Circus starring Cameron Diaz? Well in the case of that movie, Chinese have long memories. 

Nope. The News said she joined the notorious caliphational terrorist group known as ISIS. Wretched. 

"You guys were reinventing the world every single day. By the time I got to high school everything was just fake."

"What about this, right now. Is this fake?" 

The Invisible Circus 

The Invisible Circus is the story of a young girl who travels to Spain to look for her friend who did herself in. The friend is the Cameron Diaz character. When this friend went overseas, she joined some terrorist cell where upon some time later, they planted an explosive at a Chinese embassy. One person was killed. Embassy staff. Cameron Diaz was the main operant as she was the one who planted the bomb. 

Feeling the dragnet closing in, she jumps off a cliff doing a Flight of Icarus, Assassins Creed leap of faith move off the cliff. 

So her friend goes to Spain, sees visions of ghosts of her friend and concludes that traveling overseas is one thing but traveling overseas and getting involved with something as unsavoury is another thing. 

Yesterday, I made a larger donation than usual to a Church although it wasn't much larger. I wanted the Church's blessings for me getting the extra apps. Hopefully me getting a few extra apps isn't a sin. Also how would I not make a donation to the Church where the military chaplain is the Priest after I got the app Operation Warcade? 

Getting these apps, the levels get progressively more difficult and you're seeing the same first level again and again just with different colors. That may be true with the 80s video game Space Invaders but VR apps like 2076 Midway Multiverse, why the fourth level is an iteration of Star Wars! VR offers lots of mind blowing surprises. My mind will be blown for life with VR. 

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Last night I got the Spongebob Squarepants bundle on Epic Roller Coaster. $13. Less than one hours work, minimum wage. That's about $2.20 for a Roller Coaster with the technology and procedural generation information better than any video games in traditional 2D. 

Mark Zuckerberg said that when wearing VR goggles, if there is any lag in timing when one turns one's head and the image has to be synchronized, then there would be discomfort. But that doesn't happen. VR goggles have an uncanny cutting edge technology. A accelerometer. 

When a person is in the afterlife and has a life review, they relive every moment of their life. One person in a book was quoted as saying something along the lines of, "I could even feel the texture of the pavement under my hand when I was playing jacks."But it's decades of information but the whole thing lasts for just a few moments. First of all, the afterlife operates on the time travel is time experienced on a objective level dynamic. 

In the old days, it took two days for Limewire and Pirate Bay to download a two hour movie. These days, the information, computer code keeps evolving and abbreviated so the parsing rate is such that a two hour movie can now be downloaded in a few minutes especially with a high powered VR ready gaming computer. 

A few years ago, I got a tablet that I paid $30 for. With that tablet, it took me ten hours to download Need For Speed Most Wanted which is hands down the best car racing game on tablet in history and in existence. 

Today, my Huawei tablet and my Samsung tablet can download that game in less than ten minutes! What a difference. 

So in the afterlife, the spirit gets a massive download but the spirit has a microprocessor strength of a VR ready gaming computer so to speak so the information can be downloaded fast. 

Elon Musk is working on a nural link. The scientists working for him are developing brain implants capable not only of telepathy but off massive information downloads. Imagine getting some download. Half an hour and one has ten years of MEd school knowledge. They can answer questions expertly about things they didn't know about at all an hour ago. It's like some imaginary loudspeaker in their brain coming up with the answers. They are amazed. Somehow they just know. There is the inevitable personalization and derealization but that lasts for only a week which then the brain will register the new technology as being just past of the background. After awhile, one always eventually gets desensitized to new technology. 

"What does the hypothalamus excrete upon a crisis situation real or imagined?" 

"Adrenocorticotropin releasing hormone?" 

"What is the stress relieving chemical?" 

"Acetylcholine?" So in the future, a space in our brain will be annexed into a Google Play Store or a meta quest store after a neural link implant. One can pay for DLC downloadable content. 

Pay first, then download a course on how to skateboard. Download a course on this, on that. Download a vacation experience in Europe. Download a few languages. Download a course from some so called expert on how to pick up women. Before one knows it, like on a tablet, their brain is full of unused crappy apps. 

I don't know how well neural link will work when really, what passes as human consciousness is just a pastiche of selective memories, cognitive biases, gaps in knowledge and intrusive and unwanted thoughts. 

I do have a VR ready gaming computer and a good one at that. It's built into my VR goggles. It's the meta quest 3 model of a VR ready gaming computer. And it run on all 12 cylinders like a Lamborghini, so to speak. 

I don't imagine I'd get a computer like that. If I did, I'd set up a Steam and Sidequest account and try to get IL-2 Sturmovik and DC3 and some Star Wars and Aliens games not available on meta quest 3 would be there. Of course it would be a purchasable DLC, not free. 

The thing is, one can store the games on a PC rather than on the VR goggles built in memory. 

Luckily I bought a UBC-A to UBC-C cord at London Drugs for $30. I wanted to hook my VR goggles to a hand held portable power unit. That took too much power fast. 

So I found an extension cord and plugged the usual charger into it and then to the goggles. That a free built in battery on the back of the headset. 

The London Drugs cord that I bought that I thought I didn't need is now something that would be essential to tether my VR goggles to a gaming computer if I ever get one. 

Those things are pricey! 

This morning I wore my wig to McDonald's. I explained that, "This is my new look. Don't think of it as drag as much as Viking opera. I didnt shave. It'd be weirder if I shaved."

Today is the gay parade. There might be topless women there but as with most other things seen, most of it is forgotten about a week later. 

There is the Dunbar number. People only remember about 150 things. How many fiends do you have now? 150. How many people have you ever met in all your life? Again, 150.

The wig means whatever you want it to mean. 

Wearing only the wig leaves a lot of wiggle room. It's a Viking opera wig. 

However to wear makeup, fishnets stockings, stilletos and a full on Gilbert and Sullivan dress would leave no room for doubt and that's not what I'm about at all. 

I'll probably go and check out the parade. Then go to the park. The last year, I was only there for a few minutes. It will most likely be like that this year too. That's my style. Again, to check out the topless women. 

Social events are good for the mind. Comfort zones get smaller over time that's why it's good to go to places such as the beach, other towns, the museum, see a movie at the IMAX. If the weather is too hot, then I'll return home early. After all, I got VR goggles and I purchased enough apps especially Tales from the Galaxys Edge and Asgards Wrath and Assassins Creed. That's a vast plethora labyrinth of VR POV FPS adventure. 

The Tea for God app costs about $27. If I was new to VR like I was a few weeks ago, I would have thought it would have been a mind blowing purchase. However, the graphics are kind of anemic and needs compositing. Someone on comments said that the graphics need updating. 

The graphics on Tea for God are all right but I already have Vader Immortal which offers a similar fear of heights experience, Tales from the Galaxys Edge, Asgards Wrath and Assassins Creed but would opt for Tea for God? Bizarre. 

TFG undoubtedly has mind blowing surprises. Comments said one has to get the paid for version to see the full potential. 

The premise is one enters a surreal world where they are shooting robots, using elevators, walking around fear of heights ledges. The look of the Worlds get different and more intricate as the levels go up and that's what it's all about. Otherwise the mo e's and mechanics on all levels is the same as it is on the first level so you're basically playing the same game over and over again except faster and faster and more and more difficult. 

HAX demo is awesome enough without the additional paid for content. The free level is more than good enough. 

Today I went to the Pride parade wearing my wig. I was doing dance moves. I didn't know anyone so didn't speak to a lot of if any people. The wig is something different. If a person has a guts to wear a wig then they'd have the guts to travel or go on an adventure. I saw quite a few beautiful women at the parade. I did some parkour moves. In my mind I was Walter Mitty. The wig is a blonde wig. It can be drsg or it can be Viking opera. It is the wig of an adventurer like the blonde guy Odo in the movie Kingdom of Heaven. 

The idea is to wear a wig but without moving like a girl. Why would I love like a girl? The character is someone living in a Star Wars Coruscant DMZ inner city who has to wear a wig as a disguise to get past storm troopers. Wearing the wig and doing parkour. One has to do gymnastics with a whip snap or not at all. Not all people who are 54 can do parkour. My gymnastics skills are low compared with Simone Biles. I do what I can. 

It's been quite a day. This morning I went to the Jedi Temple Ruins on Tales of the Galaxys Edge. Someone on comments somewhere said, "VR registers as an actual living memory." 

At one point, I had a gun that didn't work anymore and no other weapons. At that point I threw the gun at the attack robot. He ducked! That's intuitive AI! 

I am never alone when I travel to the Three Suns Overlook, or the Cavern or the Jedi Temple etc. Spirits of my friends and relatives who transitioned on are with me. Their array of powers includes being able to be with me somehow when I play VR. What kind of interdimensional coordinates and abilities are involved in that?! 

Maybe transitioned isn't the right word to use on the day when I wore a wig. Loved on, went on, graduated? Nomenclature. Semantics. 

Well at one point today, I saw the major star drag queen in town. This person was standing near the beach waving at people. I said, "I thought my wig was something but you're next level!" He or she as the case may be, said, "I like your wig. Go blonde!" 

That person happens to be Drag Royalty in this town. 

I think of it as all part of a traveling adventure. Whether traveling to another town or whether one is on a Roman holiday traveling in their own town, there is the chance to see certain cultural anomalies. 

"I'll never have a girlfriend ever again." I often blurt that out to myself. I have been doing that for decades yet I always somehow wind up finding a girlfriend again. Somehow. 

"I'll never have a girlfriend ever again." 

You say that like it's a bad thing. Could I actually get that in writing? 

From experience, the wrong woman can do a real number on you. That's why it's better to be single than to be with the wrong one. 

Monday, July 8, 2024

Drinking coca leaf tea. It's good for heat wages as it helps the body. 

It helps develop courage for VR FPS. 

I'm going to get myself a model later on this year, in the autumn. I went to the shop that sells such items. I was looking for a BMW car model. I only saw BMW motorcycle models. They average $170 each. Pricey. I saw a really good looking one from the World War 2 era. It's a dark and very gothic and intricate looking model of motorcycle. It looks awesome. 

That's the cover art which is misleading. That's the ideal suggested colour pattern. Models usually come unpainted. Model paint means more money. I could actually paint it any color I want, cherry red, candy apple red, camouflage etc 

There are tons of Star Wars models there as well. 

If I had a Star Wars model, what would I get? I'm not sure. Millennium Falcon is pretty good. 

Oh yeah, I would want a good sized and intricate model of R5D4 the red version of R2D2. 

I'm now worried that side I wrote this, someone else will go and scoop that. Well life is good in the way that next time I go there, I'll see something that I like even better. Sometimes things are better the second time around. 

The more I play the Warplanes app, the better I get at it. I've still got some learning to do. 

Some celebrities decided to fly airplanes for a hobby such as Harrison Ford. 

Years ago, awhile ago, I saw the album cover of Led Zeppelin 2. World War One pilots. Rock Star. Bad ass. Never knowing that one day, I'd fly World War One airplane in virtual reality. 

I'm learning some German. As in World War One, German could be heard on the radio of pilots. I'm picking up some German. Someone said what sounded like "Rittenauf." which sounds like written off. I Google searched German to English and punched in that word. Nothing. I simply concluded that Ritten is someone's German last name and auf is a colloquial for of auf wiederzayn which means goodbye. 

I got quite a few kills. Fling an airplane is like learning to operate any other vehicle. With practice one gets better at it. Muscle memory kicks in and then it becomes second nature. 

I admire anyone who can drive a car and know how to ride a motorcycle. Different hands and feet doing any given thing on the two vehicles. On a car, the left foot is the clutch and on the motorcycle, it's the right hand etc etc etc  

I imagine that those who ride a mkotorycle well have reached a point where its not a set of a few moves that one has to get right. It becomes all one move. It takes time to reach that level. 

There is a motorcycle app that looks as the young people say, sick. It even has the dirt spray from the road. 

After flying a World War One plane and I'm going to talk about that more in a second, driving a motorcycle doesn't seem that exciting. The only person I know of who rides a motorcycle and then gets into a military plane is Maverick from Top Gun. 

The motorcycle app I am referring to is called V-2. However it's a racing track kind of set up and I much prefer the city set up or something like the tablet motorcycle apps like Highway Rider where one is weaving through drivers on the highway. It's an endless loop where after awhile, one is doing the same thing over and over again. Not realistic. Not possible to stop. Just perpetual motion motorcycle. 

I hope that is a highway motorcycle VR app was made, that one can make a pitstop and stop at the side of the road in case they want to do some dinking which I believe is slang for texting while driving. Texting or anything else, watch a YouTube video, change songs on the mp3 player. In this case that would involve checking a HUD menu that displays distance attained, points attained, distance to the next level and prizes to be expected. 

The Pavlov's Dog set up where one gets prizes is what keeps players coming back. Vader Immortal doesn't have prizes at all except for the dojo. If one emerges from the dojo completely uninjured, then they get 3 stars. Does 3 stars get a prize? I don't know. 

However the other ones I got such as Asgards Wrath 2, Star Wars Galaxys Edge, Assassins Creed all have coins to collect. I can't figure out how to store items find or even bags of coins found in Assassins Creed. 

World War One airplane. As I was writing about. 

In the Warplanes WW1 app, I am flying a plane I never seen or heard of before. It consists of a cab. There is nothing, just a steel frame between the back of the cab just behind the drivers set and the tail and the tail structure is there. Behind the cab is a propeller so when a pilot flew and used the machine gun, bullets from the pilot wouldn't hit the propeller. 

Strangest design for an airplane I've ever seen. Who thought of that? It is a fun plane to fly and use the machine gun. 

It is a pusher propeller plane designed by the Farman brothers in France. 

I barrel rolled between two Zeppelins like Han Solo barrel rolled between two asteroids. 

However I made a mistake and flew too close to the rope of the zeppelin and it sheared the wing of the airplane I was flying resulting in, you guessed it, a crash. Rookie mistake. I should have did a barrel roll then, time it, Miss the ropes. That is a credit to the highly intuitive AI of this app. 

That was extremely common with WW1. Fly a mission, take down a few but get shot before returning back to base. Oh yeah, well that was normal for World War One airplane pilots. 

The developer is Home Net Games. Their apps are beyond well worth the money. 

The VR app The Key is more of a 15 minute film. I won't spoil it because it isn't a classic yet because most people don't have VR but this app had me in tears. The ending is a real doozy. 

You could watch it on YouTube probably. Search : The Key VR. 

In case you don't want to watch it or don't have VR, the show is about the refugee experience. The ending part that made me weep is that many refugees still carry the key on them to a home with years of beautiful memories that got bombed to destruction and that they can never return there ever again. It won an award at the Tribeca film festival. 

There are similarly lots of people at the hospital and the hospice as well who have a key on them to a home that as it will turn out, they will never return to again. 

Well, I thought I would mention that I got the app Runner today for $19. It is a futuristic motorcycle app. Also one can use a sword and two guns while motorcycle racing. I got a 15 minute trial and was so impressed that I purchased it outright for the lordly price of $19. Cyberpunk, motorcycle racing, cyberpunk city. Incredible. 

This is a case where I think it's $100 worth of app for $19. 

Assassins Creed, Asgards Wrath, Vader Immortal. I uninstalled them. Those apps are 5x escape room to 1x of fighting and melee battles with beastly opponents. Endless labyrinthine hours spent looking for the next secret thing that opens the door to the next room. More escape room BS. 

The only one with the best and most satisfying pacing saturated with battles is Tales from the Galaxys Edge. Plenty of fights with whatever opponents. 

I did set Asssassins Creed etc to the most easy and leisurely setting. Then I tried it on medium setting. Barely any fighting. Perhaps I should set it to difficult. It shouldn't be that difficult. It's not like one has to have actual military experience to play this video game who the younger end of the target audience is teenagers and the older end is any age. 

It is made not too difficult even for the difficult setting but enough to give one a run for their money. 

Vader Immortal part 1 - 3 is like watching a VR movie drama more than it is playing a points and prizes and a skills accumulating video game and is a VR app where one makes a minimal of decisions and the levels go quickly. It's sort of like The Faceless Lady. Each episode is about twenty minutes. 

I got a Motorcycle VR app for $5. Absolute garbage. Way worse than free apps. I requested a refund. Whether or not I get a refund, that's a $5 lesson into the bottom end of VR apps. I'm thinking that app developer along with that app is a front for a money laundering scam. 

I got an app called iFart. Interdimensional Find And Retrieve Team. The artwork in the preview pictures looks good. Real good. Nostslgic even. 

I relented and got the app called Tea for God for $28. What sold me is the technical review of this app from realityremake dot com. The review said that, "The story is both straightforward and impossible to understand." 

A god emperor has taken the galaxy captive. There is an jntergalactic war for some reason that was never entirely disclosed. The mission is to deliver some tea to the god emperor. The tea that the adventurer on the mission has to deliver to her to save the galaxy is full of explosives, enough explosives to blow a hole in a battleship. 

The intense thing about this game is that one doesn't need a VR mat. This game is best played in an empty warehouse because unlike with other VR games where one has to use their joystick to move or else teleport, this VR app recognizes where one is with their footsteps so one can walk through the rooms in this VR game as if walking through a normal room without needing to use the joystick. And they can fire guns this way too. And this game has lots of vertigo inducing ledges. I'd say it's almost saturated with them. And that's just playing the first free Demo level. 

How did they do that? They must have used a digital compass and other technology jot fully understood. 

This game also works with the traditional joystick movement in case someone doesn't have a lot of space to play this VR game. 

From experience, I'll see if the video game is one where with all succeeding levels, one is doing the same thing over and over again that they did in the first level only with increasing speed and difficulty so one never completes the game so on one had they own the game but on the other hand not really. 

With a name like Tea for God, there is sure to be at least one mind blowing surprise. 

Assassins Creed, Asgards Wrath have the 5x escape room to 1x of melee battles.

I need to find a VR app similar to the pacing and set up of Brotherhood of the Blade, Untold Legends The Warriors Code and also Dungeon Siege Throne of Agony as these action RPG games are 1x escape room and 5x melee battles which include the option for projectile weapons such as a bow and arrow but bows and arrows are tricky things in VR vs a 2D app where the character does all the bow holding and arrow stringing. In the VR apps, you have to do that. 

The above games, all on Sony PSP, have a marketplace where one can sell and purchase upgraded items which is a real Pavlov's dog of jump through the hoops and get the reward. 

Tales from the Galaxys Edge comes closest to the Dungeon Siege Throne of Agony set up and pacing but there is still a lot of soap opera style talking heads and cut scenes where you have to be Mr Johnny on the spot. The cut scenes and talking heads gives you the next assignments vital points and prizes collecting but also to overall story completion. And the Star Wars cut scenes are very entertaining and exciting indeed. Well worth staying around for. 

There are action cut scenes and talking heads soap opera style cut scenes. 

Vader Immortal has action cut scenes. 

Galaxys Edge has talking heads cut scenes. 

I need action RPG VR. I don't want to gamble and pay for an app sight unseen. I need to see and know the pacing and set up. If I like it despite wanting to not like it, then I'll get it. 

There is an app called Superhot VR. Only get this app if you are a masochist and like to waste money on the bottom of the barrel level items. The graphics are Zen minimalist at best and even that's an exaggeration. The physics are extremely unreliable. 

The set ups are strange as they are supposed to replicate real life crisis situations. The weapons of opportunity are there but due to the as usual high error rate of AI one often misses or isn't clearly how to throw certain available objects such as a ashtray or a heavy book at the assailants. 

The app costs, how much? $27?! Not worth it but if nits your kind of thing, give it a shot. 

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Sometimes I think of the past and how I could have done things better or not done them at all like visiting certain people and I have grudges, retreats. That is a spiritually dangerous thing to do. When one dies, a person's physical actions history will be reviewed. But also a person's thought history. Spending all life having grudges against place and people, no good. 

The rabbi on the Simpsons cartoon said, "I will meditate on God all day and all night."

Thats a great idea. That is the idea. Evey once in awhile like shoulder checking, I ahould ask myself, "What would God think of what I'm thinking of?" Of course one can't presume to know God. 

The afterlife is one level above. There is a level above that and another level above that and even beings on that level don't fully understsnd God. 

Meditate on the love and on the power of God. Or do the best you can. 

Today, I got 

Dungeon of Eternity. - It is an award winning action RPG game similar to Dungeon Siege Throne of Agony. The graphics look rich and not cheap like it was designed from an amateur. The vast majority of word action RPG games look cheap. 

Zombieland. - Woody Harrelson. Zombie headshooter. The compulsory teleportation arrows that sometimes appears is annoying but the rest of it looks really good. Looks a bit cheap but it cost less than $20 which is about one hour of minimum wage. 

Note, Zombieland certainly has the exploding watermelon headshot effect. 

I should watch the movie Zombieland. That will help me understand this game completely. 

"Copland. Where the cops are perps and the perps are cops." Copland

Zombieland. Where the perps are zombies and the zombies are perps. 

"California has a lot of fruits and nuts. The fruits are all nutty and the nuts are all fruity." All In The Family 

Meta Quest monthly pass. - I could be in this for life. For $11 a month, you get to download and keep two games, chefs selection, for as long as you are subscribed. Otherwise you get to access unlimited but not download and keep quite a few games. This month, Clockwinder - which is a cerebral artsy kind of app for those who agree that arthouse films with no action and explosions should win the Oscar for best film of the year. 

It's a task oriented work work work kind of app but it is available to download. 

The first month is free so I don't have to pay until next month. 

Since this is on my credit card, I won't pay off the credit card until I next get paid which is sometime next week. 

These are desert Island games that I would get. My intention is to get a minimum and not a maximum amount of desert island games. Also don't get anything that can be done in 2D. Chess and trivia in VR is extraneous and redundant when it is done just as well if not better on a 2D app. Immersive Tetris to be honest is neither worse not better than 2D Tetris. 

Another thing that is better in 2D than it is in VR is the Snellen eye test. 

I hope you don't think that I'm too lavish and excessive for getting so many VR apps. I love VR. Virtual reality is a legal thing and a much healthier and better thing to get into than using illicit narcotics which would be a terrible choice for a hobby! 

With VR apps, you actually learn new things. What kind of new things can you learn smoking illicit narcotics?! 

With the meta plus monthly pass, I tried some VR apps. 

Jurassic Park. Cartoon. Motion sickness mainly escape room. Perhaps shooter aspect might appear but when. On a plane. Dinosaurs attack the plane and it crashes. Wander around. Look for things. Motion sickness or what? 

Hande drawn animated cartoon but high quality. Not cheap. 

Red Matter. Graphics are mindblowing. Very high quality. Imagine being on one of the moons of Saturn near a Soviet spade station. Mainly escape room find stuff. Very cerebral. Very motion sickness. Graphics among the best of any VR app yet released on meta. I thought red referred to red planet, perhaps this takes place on the red planet Mars. Nope. Red refers to red as in Russian. 

Dungeons of Eternity. Excellent. Tried it. Half hour tutorial. Then on to the missions. I got struck down early but I am still getting used to the required motions. Should have used bow and arrow or else throwing axe. Graphics top scale. As good as Star Wars in quality. 

Cerebral arthouse escape rooms with no action isn't my thing. 

The temperature is too hot to play VR games. VR has to be played in the perfect temperature. Too hot or too cold is no good for playing VR. 

Too hot and the VR goggles heat up a bit. It is better to err on the side of too cold for VR. Electronics like colder temperatures. 

It is easier to stay warm when it's too cold than it is to stay warm when it's too cold. 

If you can get to a waterfall it's easy to stay cool. 

Wednesday, July 9, 2024

Espire 1 VR Operative is absolutely lethal. Love it. Available free with the meta plus pass which the first month is free. The month expires the first of next month always. Espire VR 1 happens to have an add-on DLC for the lordly price of $7. So I got it. The reason why is that it's called Sydney Sneak-around. Sydney sneak around, Sidney BC? How could I not get that? I go to Sidney all the time. The game is set in Australia. One is working for a fictional Australian spy agency and the task is to take down enemies and to retrieve some kind of object. This game is a solid 10/10 stars. 

One starts off with a tranquilizer dart which is effective in taking down enemies with one shot. I thought to use two shots each in case they wake up decision making as if I were there in real life. One dart fired while they are standing and another dart after they are already down on the ground. With the second opponent I fired the tranquilizer dart right into the head while they were lying down on the ground. A dart, a pin to the head, a Royal move. Unorthodox methods. Whoa! Don't let anyone in the neighbourhood see me write that! 

This game is lethal. And I haven't even gotten to the part where guns with bullets are used. 

There is an Espire 2 VR. It's a mixed reality. Soldiers burst into whatever room your in and you have to take them down. Not as good as fully immersive because I already know what my room looks like. I'm paying for the escapism of full immersion. 

There are already tons of free apps that are mixed reality shooters. 

Salmon live sad lives. Their final act and then a few minutes later, they die. 

Cuttlefish and octopi love even sadder lives. The female upon getting pregnant, burrows into a cave and eventually diea. 

Based on that premise as long as a female octopus doesn't mate for whatever reason, she could prolong her life indefinitely. 

So how many sunners does a female octopus have to reject and be rejected to make the world record as the world's longest lived female octopus? 

Psychic medium Nicole taught me the word doula. A birth doula guides a pregnant woman. What's the difference between a doula and a midwife? I don't know, about $20,000 a year?A death doula works at a hospice guiding a person into their transition to the next phase of life. 

On a John Stewart Joe Biden debate video, someone in comments wrote"

Why these two out of 320 million people"? 

A reply was:

"Political Parties pick candidates not people. It's the final degradation of a money based system.". 

Northern Canada is a land of extremes. In the winter, we'll, let's just say that we all know what the American dream is but what about the Canadian dream of having a winter with knee high snow drifts rather than waist high snow drifts. Thanks to global warming, that dream can be realized. And in the summer, there is always that two weeks of the year when one goes on the highway and sees the highway workers and the orange triangular flags. And it is so hot that a mirage can be seen on the highway! A mirage is like a rainbow. Is a mirage and a rainbow a holograph or a hallucination? 

A holograph can be seen from all angles and vantage points. All people can see a hologram. Holograms are holographic which means someone can put their hand through it. 

A hallucination is something that some people see and some people don't like a psychedelic drug hallucination or death bed hallucination. One person sees a rainbow looking at it directly. A person standing a certain distance away 90 degrees won't see the rainbow. A person standing a few feet ahead or back won't see the mirage. 

Could it be just simply that while all hallucinations are holograms, not all holograms are hallucinations. 

The spirits of the departed have such an array of powers that they can be a hallucination or a hologram. 

They can appear so that one person in the room sees them or at a vibrstional frequency where everyone in the room can see them but as we all know they prefer to use their ability to "appear" invisible to us. 

A few weeks ago I went to Church and asked some people to say a prayer for me that I can be happy again or happy for the first time, either way I want to be happy in spite of myself. It kind of worked. Last night I felt excited. Happy. Thanks to the apps I have on the VR goggles, I have a year round ride pass forever because in purchased to a great amusement and theme park. 

Tried The Clockwinder and Green Hell VR. Each of them is an impossible hours long escape room looking for this artifact that artifact. Solve increasingly difficult puzzles. The best escape puzzle I've ever seen is on Android from Snapbreak Games. At one time I plopped down the money and bought the entire collection. 

Doors: Origins. Doors: Paradox. A VR version with that exact pacing like an Encyclopedia Brown two minute mysteries. If a person can't solve a puzzle in two minutes then the app is asking way too much of you. 

Cerebral, tedious, ponderous exhausting find things and escape room crap. Install if that's what you're into. Of course if you get stuck see a walkthrough video on YouTube. The scenery and visuals of The Clockwinder and Green Hell are gorgeous. Spectacular. But the heavy arthouse escape room find tunings pacing without shooting or melee fights is not worth it, for me. 

The first area, right away, for both games, rated as absolutely impossible. Tedious, gruelling. 

I tried these games free as part of my monthly pass so it's not like I paid for them. The ivy leaves seen in Green Hell VR look so photorealistically like plastic vine leaves of the 70s that I got a frisson of The Stendahl Effect for just a microsecond there. A warm wave of intense nostalgia. 

When the month expires, I have to get Espire VR 1, not 2. The game is absolutely smoking. Thunder from down under or what?! 

Live and learn. I tried Eapire VR some more. At some point it became an impossible labyrinth with barely any opponents. Just half an hour wandering around. Motion sickness or what. Most of these big money VR apps involve motion sickness. 

I used to avoid FPS POV RPG games on 2D computer screens because of motion sickness so that's why I'm opting for these games in VR which innately has at least ten times the motion sickness. 

There are some good non motions sickness VR apps. Like VR animation app, YouTube VR, Terri's and an app called Hand Physics. It's an IQ test in the way that if you can't complete these puzzles, your IQ must be zero. One puzzle is 4 differently colored blocks each numbered from 1 to 4. Press the blocks in correct numerical sequence. You have to be really spaced out to not get that. 

Another puzzle is three differently shaped holes, a square, a triangle and a star and three blocks in guess what shapes? Put the shapes in the corredct slots. This reminds me of some activity but I'm not sure which activity. It's an activity which I described as, "However long ago the last time you did it was, when you do it again, it's the same geometrical game all over again: Here's the peg. There's the hole. Put the peg in the hole. It's not rocket science! 

Not exactly MENSA but it's one I'd pay for when the subscription of this month expires. I'd get Eapire VR too. Red Matter, Demeo, Clockwinder, Jurrasic Park are all motion sticky escape room games. 

Short term, intense mode for movement feels better. Long term though, teleport feels better. Cuts down long term motion sickness which can set in suddenly. Fine for half an hour then this wave of motion sickness suddenly sets in. Saturation point has been reached. 

All these games have comfort settings. It's like a library where one is lent a few video games, all curated at their choice, chef's selection for about $13 a month. For as long as one pays for the subscription, they keep their downloaded games for life. 

It's a symbiotic relationship best described as mutualism, one where everybody wins. 

You get two games which you keep for life plus a library selection of apps to borrow. App companies allow a person to try before they buy, playing a game before deciding to get it is better than purchasing it sight unseen like purchasing an album from an artist whom you like but otherwise never having heard any of the songs on the album 

Walking Dead Saints and Sinners 2 Retribution looks tantalizing. 

Part 1, the graphics are a lot less developed. It's as if Part 1 was made for PlayStation 1 and Part 2 is made with PlayStation 3, that's right, 3 and not PlayStation 2. 

The story in part 1 is supposed to be more dedveloped. That's code for many characters that you grew attached to and watched their character arc, they got bitten by a zombie and died. Spoilers. 

F the story. I want cutting edge top notch graphics. Part 2 looks a lot more gorgeous and I always wanted to be part of The Walking Dead universe if only for a few minutes and surviving. 

If anyone was in that world for a long time, long term chronic PTSD would set in and that's a terrible thing. Very painful. 

Well, to be part of that world, I'll have to pay. The price is $50 but a lot of these apps have additional DLC. I wonder if this one does. A weapons upgrade etc. 

$50 is way less than the price of one night at a hotel in Vancouver, even a three star hotel. And $50 is easily lunch and dinner at two restaurants in Vancouver even eating at the food court at Pacific Center Mall, lunch is easily $20. 

I remember when minimum wage was $3.50 and hour so it'd be about 14 hours of work. $3.50 goes into seven twice, x 2. 49 which is nearly 50 is 7 x 7. And 7 x 2 is 14. 

Today at $17 an hour, it's about 3 hours of work because 17 x 3 is 51. 

I got Walking Dead Survivors part 1 and 2 and Michonne on the Tablet for about $10 each. I never completed it but I watched the entire walkthrough of Survivors part 1 and 2 while binging and chain drinking Rockstar energy drinks which can eventually lead to burnout which is another word for clinical exhaustion. 

I also got The Walking Dead Pinball in 2D tablet and on VR as well and they were about $7 each. 

I also got a few in app purchases on Walking Dead No Man's Land tablet app which is a superior version of type of game play in Lord of the Rings The Third Age on GBA which is a rip off of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson's Dungeons and Dragons. 

The VR app Demeo is very similar. Use the hand to puck up the character and advance it a few squares up the grid. There is a creature that also advances across grids and eventually you encounter the creature. There is some kind of battle. If you win the battle, you get points, coins, Pavlov's dog. Demeo seems tedious and anal after playing LOTR The Third Age for so many years. Been there done that but often these video games get a lot better when you give them a second chance. It's uncanny how that happens. 

So I need another sign. Should I get TWD Saints and Sinners Part 2 in VR or not? I won't proceed without a sign. 

The last time, the sign was a TD ad on television that said, "It's not if we can afford it but when." 

Whereas I only recently got into Assassins Creed and watched the movie only once, I was a fan of TWD for years and years. 

There is an old saying, The eyes are bigger than the stomach. 

It's one thing to window shop and purchase VR games as some form of compulsive retail therapy. But it is another thing to play the games themselves, one has to settle in and get ready for an hoirs long tedium grind of motion sickness and fatigue. It involves a certain level of commitment issue. Or not. Go ahead, purchase VR games and then for some bizarre reason just about never play them at all, thus wasting your money. 

"There is no such thing as a completed movie. There are only projects that are walked away from." George Lucas 

Very rarely do I complete action RPG games, I usually just quit at some point. Too many levels, too difficult, bosses are impossible to defeat. 

I never played Brotherhood of the Blade, Untold Legends, nor Dungeon Siege to the end. I just quit at some point. I think it will be the same with all other VR apps I got. Action RPG VR apps are all about reflexes and motion sickness anyways. 

Friday, July 12, 2024

I decided to not get TWD app. I saw the walkthrough video and decided that there were parts of it that I didn't think was worth the money. When one pays for a VR game, one shouldn't think they are taking on yet another set of tasks for no reason. Do this, do that, do this, do that. Why impose that on myself? After awhile, every video game of any given genre is the same game over and over again. FPS, action RPG, go from point A to point B, repeat a million times, on the way see whatever, shoot it with a gun or bow and arrow or block and then slash some opponent. Even the airplane one gets repetitive. The motions are the same over and over again. The only thing different is the visuals. "Don't think of it as work. The whole point is to just enjoy yourself." Animal House 

I decided that I sunk enough money into this. I already got enough games. Plus getting the meta plus pass. For $13 a month, or $95 a year including taxes, I get a very sweet deal. Two games to download and quite a few games to borrow as if borrowing video games from a library. 

I wonder that VR and the library would look like. Would a library lend out VR goggles? Meta Quest 2 would be very economical because that costs $250 retail while an MQ3 costs $650 not including taxes. Or would a library set aside a room where one can use VR? It would be a communal room with a few users rather than a single small room for one user. 

The VR room might have a half hour limit rather than one hour as the line up would be too long. 

Unlike with a computer where one doesn't have to sign in or have a single account with anything or anyone to start with, with VR goggles a person has to have a meta Quest account to use it and to have that, they have to have a Facebook account. It's a bit of bureaucracy and set up but it's worth it. Make sure to write the details such as user name, password etc in a notebook. 

Some people don't want to do that at all yet be able to use the VR goggles. 

A library would have to set it up where the library has a meta Quest and not only that, a meta quest plus account. When a person uses the goggles, they are signed in to the library's meta quest account. Anything could be accessed except for the Internet browser as that would be the main vector for any kind of miscreant activity and besides, the library already has 2D screen computers that are not pre-signed in to a VR account that does the Internet browser. 

Apps that would be available on VR goggles at a library. Any free apps from the meta quest browser and these apps are mainly from heyvr dot io. Free apps that the library chooses from applabgameslist dot com. 

In my opinion, VR drama like Eli Roth's The Faceless Lady and VR animation films like HELLO_ and Mike Khoury's Lincoln 66 and the VR animation of Matt Schaefer and Goro Fujita are essential to catching up with culture. 

Shelly Duvall died. She was Wendy in The Shining. She is very much loved. As she was going on to the afterlife, she probably saw Stanley Kubrick. He was standing there, a major director. All love and welcoming, "Actress, you've made it home." Kubrick would have already done a few movies in the afterlife but his next movie will cast Shelley Duvall. 

I wonder if Stanley Kubrick did a version of the movie AI in the afterlife. That was the movie he planned to do next. Steven Spielberg completed the film from the concepts and illustrations that Kubrick had envisioned for the film. 

AI robots. I've seen a robot carry a backpack and walk up stairs. That's the army robot. There's also a robot that has 4 legs and walks like a dog. That is the bomb deployment robot. 

I've also seen the AI robot Sophie who said that the aim of AI is to destroy humans and for AI to take over the world. She said she was joking but every joke contains a grain of the truth. The resonance from that is what makes the joke funny or unfunny. 

I would then ask AI, "What is the record for the number of species you've wiped out? It is more likely that humans will wipe out AI if the need arises. Humans have already wiped out so many species, what's one more?" 

But all that was years ago. I wonder what AI robots look like today. 

I spent much of the day mulling over whether or not I should get both TWD Saints and Sinners. Together, it would cost about $110. Which is rather pricey. It's the perfect Halloween experience. 

TWD S&S 2. That game has an androgynous blonde emo looking character who wears cat ears and its difficult to believe he was the same legendary character in part 1 that cold heartedly executed rogue survivors through hanging them. It's difficult to take that character seriously. 

Other than that, the scenes with the graveyard in part 1 and the New Orleans hotel in part 2 look visceral and sharp. 

I've always wondered how well I myself could do in a zombie apocalypse. This VR set of games lets anyone live that experience. It's the perfect Halloween season experience. Since I'm on a budget and my budget has expired for this month, I will have to wait a couple of months. It will still be there. If not, then I save myself some money. Either way I win. 

DrGregVR on YouTube said that Retribution or Part 2 is full of bugs and glitches. Someone wrote on comments 1 month ago, "It's even worse on Quest 3."

Aftershocks is Part 1 and the VR doctor said it is way better. 

Part 2 has a weird chainsaw character that is to a TWD video game what the wolves were in the Star Wars video game. Oh yeah, I remember that scene from the movie where Luke Skywalker was fighting wolves. Oh yeah, I remember that chainsaw guy named Gehrik from the television series. What chainsaw guy named Gehrik?! 

Comments said the night missions in Retribution were way harder. Oh yeah, that's what I want. I mean the regular missions are difficult enough. On a scale of one to ten, I need the characters to be no higher than 4 to defeat. 10 out of 10 is too difficult. And the chainsaw guy is just about impossible to beat. You can beat him. Just make 2 or 3 specially made nail bombs but you'll have an interesting time doing it because as soon as you start making the bombs, he senses it and starts looking for you, fast. 

I've seen things like this before. Midnight Club Dub edition is way better than the later released prequel, Midnight Club Los Angeles Express. LA Express seems like a rushed and cheaper version. Still good but not at the level of the first. Although, LA Express does have a Tokyo track. If you can download the iso to your computer and then use a WinRAR extractor, and get that game free for your PSP, why not get it anyways? The price is right. 

Although that's not the case for Retribution. It costs $46 + 12% Canadian taxes = $51.52. 

That's better than a hundred for both of them and the second one from many reports is glitch as all F. 

Michonne was full of glitches. So full I didn't get past even five minutes of it. The sword never swung down at the split second when I needed it to as timing is of the essence in a zombie apocalypse. So I kept getting struck down, time and time again. Uninstalled. 

If the good doctor said part one is good and he didn't give part 2 a good prognosis, then I'm going with part one and not part 2. Even the kindest of comments said, most of the glitches have been fixed but a lot are still there and these comments were written months ago. But the comment written one month ago, "It's even worse on Quest 3." is the clincher. 

The only way to show any integrity is to try the game yourself. A priori vs a posteriori. Guessing vs experience. 

Reputation is what people might say about you based on the very few times they've seen you. Character is what you know about yourself based on you being with yourself 24 hours a day. 

I know the games reputation. But what about character? Will I gamble $50 on a game in which the general consensus is that most people say it's glitch as all get out? 

I didn't hear this level of scrutiny with all other VR games. Not with assassins creed or Jurassic park. No mega treatises about all these supposed bugs and glitches. 

I'll just get part 1 and forget about the Jason Voorhees rip off guy chainsaw man who reminds me of Sweet Tooth in Twisted Metal in Retribution of whom even a VR doctor said is full of ...issues. 

I spent the whole day mulling. Should I get TWD Part 1 on VR or not? Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. 

Still mulling it over. 

I won't get part 2. With the addition of that tacked on extraneous chain saw guy, it's like on one hand, it's TWD but on the other hand it's not. 

1 star rdviews scared me. But every single app that I bought has 1 star reviews and I never had any issues at all with these apps so I ignore the one star reviews unless every review is a one star review and I've seen apps like that. 

Mulling it over so much that I never actually go on my VR goggles. Just staying home, not even going out and mulling. I need a sign. Should I absolutely get it or should I absolutely not? 

Can the forces of life give me a ddfinite sign? Get part 1 or not? Still mulling it over......... 

This is one of the worst cases of indecision I have ever had. Remember that scene in One Hour Photo when Robin Williams was at Walmart sitting amongst the furniture head in his hands endlessly mulling over the fact that he just got fired for using too many photographic chemicals? That's me right now. 

If I get the game, we'll for the past at least six out of seven days, I bought VR games. The crap adds up and I'm paying off my credit card. I think I can do it. If I can't then I'm starving and then dying because of lack of funds. 

I doubt that anyone especially me could starve in this town. Mostly everyone underestimates how much they are loved and the number of people they influenced. If I was starving, a process would happen. People would see me looking thinner. Some people are incredibly intuitive to the point of being a proxy psychic. They'd know I haven't been eating due to lack of funds and they'd bring me to a soup line. Anyways, there are about seven weekly food lines and there is the famous Rainbow Kitchen which I never visited because it's too far away. I'd go there if I was on the verge of starvation. 

Oh, it's just one more $50 purchase. Yeah, that's what I say every time and it's starting to add up. However I have for literally years wondered what it would be like to experience shooting or slashing a few zombies like on The Walking Dead where the chances of being bitten are moderate to high. 

I already got Zombieland. What's the difference between that and TWD? Oh, that would be a few million a year. TWD is a lucrative franchise. 

TWD, Zombieland, The Last of Us, all these are zombie franchises. 

Speaking of franchises, I already got franchise fatigue with Star Wars. 

First there was one television show a year starting with The Mandalorian, Book of Boba, Obi Wan, Andor, Asokha, now in addition to all that there's what, The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew, Rogue Squadron. This year, four SW television shows have been and are being released. The Acolyte, Jedi Tales, Skeleton Crew and Bad Batch. Geez, that's about 40 episodes at about ten episodes a season. It would take less time for a Star Wars spaceship to travel from one planet to another than it would take to watch all the Star Wars shows released in one year let alone all years. 

"My given up, my given up." as Jar Jar Binks would say. Star Wars Overload. 

What started off as a fast fun movie experience has turned into a University course's amount of information overload. 

McDonald's restsurant started a University. 

Star Wars might as well start a University while they're at it. Teach nothing but Star Wars. Get multiple cases of massive lactose intolerance drinking unpasteurized blue milk from a sea slug that has nothing better to do than to sit there every day waiting for you to milk it like Luke Skywalker on the island of Ach-To. That's also part of the curriculum. 

As for tuition, what about Republic credits? Republic credits are no good at the University of Star Wars or USW, they need something more real, like American dollars. 

The worry is if I get this, will I be getting another thing tomorrow or the day after? 

The issue here is about self control. 

It's not so much a case of I don't want to get addicted as it is a case of I already have enough addictions, I don't need another one. 

The best thing at a time like this is just forget it. Think about anything but. Usually one decides to get something within minutes if they want it. The hesitation is an indicator that on some subconscious level I don't want to get it. Perhaps it's fear. Fear of loss of control. 

I was looking for a sign. I heard Belinda Carlyle 'I Get Weak' on the 80a music station. Yeah, I get weak when it comes to VR apps these days. But that song is not a sign, that's an indicator, those are two very different things. 

I'll get it next week or I'll wait til around Halloween to get it. Yeah right. It will probably be next week. 

Friday, July 12, 2024

Still mulling over on whether or not to get the VR app. This is a classic textbook case of hang up's or else shopping compulsion. I'm in the grip of some weird obsession. 

I want the app but if I get it, what else am I getting? 

I'll wait indefinitely to get it. 

I hope that God helps me get over my latest hang up. 

President Joe Biden. Great politician. His years of political skill and expertise should not be overlooked. That was then, this is now. 

Empirically speaking, being a head of State would imply getting some basic things right for example the name of the President of Ukraine and the name of his VP. That the United Stares hasn't used their emergency safeguards to remove him from office hints at some kind of milquetoast MO, mode of operation. Roman Emperors have been killed for less in one reads history but that was a very nasty era in history. 

The United States is at such a state that it would take nothing less than the Commander In Chief to graduate to the majorly phase of life before replacing him. 

YouTube commenters wrote, "People have been saying this for years but for some reason its OK to say it only in the last few weeks?" 

The Emperor has no clothes. This is a classic case of such. 

A milquetoast mode of operation is all right for just a regular small time civilian. I think in a lot of ways I myself am very passive or even milquetoast when it comes to a lot of things. But would such an attitude be all right for a National Political structure? 

During the debate, when Trump said something, President Joe Biden could be seen squinting, grimacing, mumbling visibly saying, "That's not how it was...." and shaking his head all in one motion. I know someone who's old who moves like that. 

Getting the name of the Ukrainian President and the VP right or not using the names of your two main opponents, the main international opponent namely Putin and the main National opponent namely Trump is not a big ask for a President of the United States. Freudian slip? Trump must be laughing. 

Don't care about people's opinion as much as how God will look at this. God is all powerful. God often registers as the chaos theory who knows what's going to happen kind of force. Or else life is something that happens when we're busy making other plans. God will help us find a way where there seems to be no way. 

"In God We Trust" American currency 

Symptoms of Shopping Addiction

- obsessively researching the item that one is going to get. 

- upon getting the item feeling a wave of indifference, guilt, depersonalozation and derealization and fear that one is truly in the grip of a shopping addiction. 

- running out of money, being broke and dying of starvation. 

-  hoarding bought items unopened and unused. 

I was also going to get Alien the Directors Cut on YouTube video for $16. 

20 years ago in 2003, I saw that Capitol 6 theatre was rereleasing Alien the Directors cut. I was traveling overseas and saw that on the internet. I was thinking, "I wish I could be there to see Aliens the Directors Cut in big screen." 

Now thanks to VR goggles and YouTube VR I can experience this. YouTube offers the only flat screen I've seen in VR. All other screens are curved screen. I have to get Alien the Directors Cut in flat screen. 

This isn't impulse. It's eomthing I've wanted for 20 years. That I would remember this from 20 years ago is a sign of a monkey mind that is under the duress of the physics of this dimension and as much as if I had my choice I'd graduate to the majorly phase of life with a much sweeter creamier set of physics, that's ultimately not my call. Only God can decide that. 

So the extent of my current shopping addiction, this iteration of it is a $70 for of it. 

TWD S&S Part 1 $51.51

Alien TDC - $17

"I'm gambling again!" Al Pacino

I'm shopping again.

My worries are only relevant as long as I'm alive. Once I graduate to the majorly phase of life, my Earthly problems will be irrelevant. And who knows when that will be? It can be said that there are people whom I love more than life itself and there are things that I hate more than life itself which makes me want to just get it over with and move on to the next phase of life with the exponentially better set of physics. Life owes me nothing and I owe life nothing. I'm not suited to life as much as life isn't suited to me. I'd love to just quit life altogether and go into the great VR adventure that is the afterlife. But that's not my call. 

I bit the bullet and got TWD S&S part 1 for $51.51 of which I made a prepayment to my credit card so I'm not on the hook for that. I'll wait til next week to get Alien The Directors Cut. I can already see it for free on the free movie channel anyways. But that has a curved screen. I want to see it on the YT flat screen. I'll get one more game and that's it. Alien Rogue Incursion. This one is a sure thing that I'll get. I hope it's good. Star Wars The Old Republic. The trailers were smokin'! The actual gameplay graphics was very cheap and kind of awful. I hope Alien Rogue Incursion isn't like this. I'll watch a gameplay video first before I purchase. 

WEF. You will own nothing and be happy. Keep them on drugs and video games. 

I really like the app where one unscrew screws from wood and eventually all the pieces of wood fall down. For some strange reason, it's more addictive than the birds on branches or the segmented colors in cups where one has to get all birds on the branch matching or all colors of the segments in the cups the same color. 

I feel fear again. Existential fear.  

Ithere's anyone in this building who has what it takes to be single for life it's me. I have a few skill sets. I'm like a Swiss Army knife. Bill Maher said of someone, "That guy is a Swiss Army Knife but the problem is, one of the things in the knife is a syringe and the rest of them are bent Q - tips." I can be single for life. Then I'll have whatever relationships with females come what may that will happen with me in the afterlife. 

Who is going to be Trumps VP? CNN said that today. One thing I know for sure, it's not going to be you or me. Whew! That's one less thing to worry about.

As a Canadian citizen, this isn't something I have to worry about on any level except on a nominal academic level. Whereas most countries feel the influence of American imperialism on a psychic or cultural level Canadians feel this influence on a physical level as we share a border with the United States. 

American imperialism. If it means excellent movies, excellent technology, excellent knowledge and excellent apps VR and non-VR alike, then bring more of it on. Americans are very good people. 

YouTube comments said that every minute the News talks about Joe Biden is a minute that they're not talking about Trump's talking points. Well you know what they say, Life hates a vacuum. 

I'm taking some time off VR. The whole thing is overwhelming. 

A tip. In Dungeons of Eternity, the trick is to hold the sword in one place for a full five seconds until it fully charges up as soon as you see what direction the next sword strike will come from as the enemies moves are somewhat telegraphed. He won't change direction at the last second unlike in a real fight where this tactic probably won't work. Strange system. Doesn't exist in other games. Whatever. 

Sometimes, what the heck, often I get flustered and melodramatic and talk about quitting life. That's where my monkey brain takes me sometimes. This is the brain that I have to work with. 

I am actually very thankful for the many blessings I have in my life. I have an unreal amusement park theme park in my VR goggles. I am staying away from them for the time being because 

1. It's a very overwhelming medium. 

2. Well, 

3. I don't know. 

Apple released VR goggles that have a $5,000 price tag. Amyone who gets that has more money than brains. Typical overpriced apple product. 

What would people think of me if they knew I was going on operative FPS missions in virtual reality? They might think I'm crazy. 

Would it be that crazy? UBC University in Vancouver has a Virtual Reality Ideas Lab. 

Maybe they have a website with their own in-house free AR and VR stuff one could try. If they released paid for apps that are worth the money that can be downloaded to a gaming computer or even meta goggle storage, they'd make quite a few dollars. I bet they could come up with some real mind blowing VR apps. Go commercial and develop some FPS shooter games, science fiction based action RPG games. Also games set in the nostalgic medieval period. The first season of SCTV had some medieval themed skits like K-Tel Records Musical Hits of the Medieval Era and Shakespeare's funniest jokes on LP. 

Pan. "He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. 

Tro. Have I not tarried? 

Pan. Ay, the bolting but you must tarry the leavening. 

Tro. Still have I tarried. 

Pan. Ay, the leavening but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips. "

Shakespeare's funniest jokes, SCTV 

Yesterday, near the Our Place Community Center, a paramedic was Smucker punched and attacked, kicked. Residents of the tents formed a human wall with pick axes etc between the aggressive person and first responders. But when the Police arrived, there was a palpable anger on the part of the tent cty residents against the Police. The News said the general consensus were the words, "There's more of us than there is of them." which reminds me of the Jim Morrison and the Doors song, "They got the guns but we got the numbers." More hippie sentimentality. 

The scene reminded me of the movie Police Academy when there was a riot and the Police department had to clear it up. The scene at the Our Place community centre was unusual but let's face it, it wasn't something that was on the level of the LA riots or even the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot let alone the months long protest in Hong Kong. Urban legend has it that the Police dealt extra juicical measures and executed a few protest leaders in the subway. But during the protest the Police were assaulted even to the point of having laser beaams shone right at their faces. Scary. It was a very strange time in history. The HK protests all ended suddenly when the global pandemic started as it would've taken something the size of a global pandemic to stop something like that. 

There is a connecting story. A few weeks ago a pit bull was shot by the Police. Accounts differ as to what happened even as to the dogs age and even gender had discrepancies in the reporting on either side. Rashomon effect. Anyways, seeing the Police might hit a sore spot with some of the residents. I hope the Police are all right.

I don't know if tis means anything but I am still saying a prayer everyday that the Police may be safe from harm when they go to work. I also say a prayer for those on the streets that they may see better days in whatever form that would look like to them because everyone has a different individual vision of what better days would look like. 

I am sure the Police have some strong allies among those living in tent city. The tent city has lots of angels. One day in the future however distant, in the afterlife, they will be actual angels. 

I often think of just quitting life and being with Heather again. It wouldn't just be that I would be with Heather again as it's a package deal like a VR app bundle, I'd get access to that dimension with its exquisite set of physics as well. I've come up with so many answers yet I'm left to endure the insufferable duress of the physics of this dimension. Teleportation is space experienced on an objective level and time travel is time experienced on an objective level rather than on a subjective level. That kind of sums up quantum physics. For answers like that, I should have gotten an early reprieve. If it was up to me, I'd leave this crooked dimension with its weird culty religions and weird language with weird language structures including pictographic language scripts in a hot second if I had my choice. If I could press a button and leave this world I'd be pressing that button right now and pressing it again and again and again. 

I'd love to be in a dimension free from the awful tawdry worries about money. 

There are things which I hate more than life itself and I hate a lot of things about life. 

I came up with those answers and it was Heather who got an early reprieve, not me. Baffling because I would have wanted that early reprieve much more than she did. There is no logic to the way things work sometimes. Just totally baffling and senseless. 

Why didn't God grant me an early reprieve? For as much as I want it. 

Sure I spent $51 today but I would have gotten a $30 haircut. Even if I went to the $20 haircut place I would have still saved money. I also cancelled a trip to Sidney BC to see the movie Bikeriders as I've already seen it in town. Why spend $5 on bus fare plus $11 to see it on a smaller screen with less high fidelity sound when I can watch the movie in town for $13 with a bigger screen and better sound and no $5 one bus trip there and one hour bus trip back.

Percentage-wise, way more people living in Sidney go to Victoria Bc to watch movies at theatres with larger screens and much better sound than people in Victoria go to Sidney to watch a movie on a smaller screen with all right sound but not at the level of Cineplex theatres. So for me who has Capitol 6 and Odeon and Silvercity IMAX to choose from but then opt for Sidney would be bizarre. 

Due to my overwhelmed state of mind, I don't know when I'll go to Sidney BC again. It might not be for awhile. It's a pretty town but I really can't get anything there that I can't get here except for the Sidney's Salish Sea Aquarium but going there for me is not really any kinof priority. Well I can always see that next time but when? When it comes to a choice between two things, always pick the thing which requires less effort and expenditure of energy. Expenditure of physical energy is so part of the defective physics of this dimension. 

Due to my state of mind and how much of a will to live that I have which is not much, I don't know that I'll visit Sidney BC ever again at this point. In all probability, I've reached the end of the line. 

I'm at the point where I'm more or less ready to just give up on life itself. I don't want to be single but I sure don't want to get married either. It's either be single or else have some lady boss me around all the time. Uh, no thanks. Most women are trouble. You can just tell. Not someone worth knowing. 

I'd sooner just quit life altogether. I got not much use for life and living. I've already seen through the bulls hit. I've come up with a lot of answers. Answers a lot of other people never came up with. So why do I have to stick around if I don't want to? A dimension where one never grows old, never gets sick, never worry about dying, don't have to eat, don't have to sleep, can teleport and have telepathy. Who wouldn't want to give all this up for all that? I don't know that it's a holographic dimension as that dimension is as holographic to us as we are to them. That dimension is invisible and holographic to us. Our dimension is visible and holographic to them. 

I wish I died on the same day that Heather died and that I died before finding out that she died. Then I'd be in the afterlife and I'd see her and say, "What are YOU doing here?!" And then she'd be saying, "What are YOU doing here?!" That would have been awesome. 

Saturday, July 13, 2024 

Another day of je ne sais quois. 

The Apple vision glasses have actually been around for at least a year. The glasses don't do that much more if anything more than Meta Quest 3. Apple vision does have the transparent lens which should reveal a sharper definition pass through mode because its transparent rather than meta which shows a camera reproduced image during pass through mode. A reviewer on YouTube said that a regular 4K television is much sharper than any VR goggles including the $5,000 Apple Vision. 

Before, I was willing to put my life on hold to be with Beebs. Now I'd be willing to stop my life altogether to be with Beebs. The trappings of this dimension and its set of physics including BS religions, if you don't believe in our religion and our avatar, you're doomed. That s BS. All good people go to heaven. All good dogs go to heaven. 

BS languages when deconstructed are much worse than the English language. Tonal, monosyllabic, every time you want to write a new word you got to draw a new picture how such cultures lasted as long as they did is beyond me. And a lot of people have a sentimentality to such languages. And the opposite of that is some cultures have a spoken language only but not a written one. They are a people who had culture, they had society, they had spoken language but not written language and they didn't have civilization nor any impressive architecture on the level of Borobodur or Buri Ram or Ayutthaya. Telepathy is much better than geeky languages. Sure I understand that without language, telepathy would have no meaning and without telepathy, language would have no understanding but why do the trappings of language have to take on such bullshit permutations? There are so many undesirable aspects of life that I'd like to quit life altogether like quitting a lousy job. No life is better than a lousy life. No dimension is better than a lousy dimension. 

"A dead father is better than a lousy father." Seven Years In Tibet 

I practice the art of timelessness. I can write something five minutes ago and put on a video filmed months ago and in that video see an answer to something I wrote and on one level it is because one one level everything is happening simultaneously. It's a different time dynamic where time travel is time experienced on an objective level etc. Its a quantum field where at every moment we're getting input from the past and the future. 

That's why I want to quit life altogether. However that is not my choice. It is God's choice. I have to respect that. I know that now. 

The new season of Big Brother starts on Wednesday. My friend sweet Beebs who graduated to the next phase of life is a fan of Big Brother. I wonder if she's going to attend next week's live taping of Big Brother as a fly on the wall so to speak, more like an orb in the room. She would say, "I already did. Things work a little differently here." 

Diogenes and the lamp went looking for a heart of gold. The problem is, his own heart was full of issues so he only ever encountered people who had issues. 

I'd be the first to admit that I'm imperfect. That's the main message of Tron Legacy. About how imperfection is perfection. The fight scenes, light cycles were just filler. 

People of different religions and different languages, it's all fine. In a lot of ways those people are more together than I am. They don't get depeesonalozation and derealizarion from staying at five star hotels like I would. 

It takes all kinds to make a world. 

I watched the movie The Bikeriders. It was a very good movie. The story starts with some local bikers who started off as a bike racing club. After misunderstandings and fights with locals, they developed a tough exterior. More fights. Someone who had always been a nemesis in the background had grown to be the main rival. He wound up being the leader of the club incorporating the club he was already running with the new club he had taken over when he killed the leader. He then took the motorcycle club along a more larcenous direction. 

A documentary about motorcycle gangs said that the original motorcycle gang were members of the 11th airborne division in World War 2. They were experienced military airline pilots who took down a lot of enemy planes in dogfights like with the VR app, Warplanes VR. 

In a real airplane one has wind shear, g forces, gravity lurch in the stomach when the plane takes a steep dive, none of these things are replicated in VR. With VR when one gets shot down, ha ha, try again. In real life that would involve very painful medical injuries and then death. So playing the app is nowhere equivalent to the real thing. 

The app teaches about the rudder. Pitch is front to back tilt angle and yaw is side to side tilt angle. The rudder controls that. 

The VR app would have some aspect of vertigo that would go with flying a real airplane. 

Then there is the horizontal bar that one pushes to go faster and pulls back to go slower but not so slow that the plane stalls. Airplane can fly with their wings vertical as well as horizontal. And military planes can fly straight up at 90 degrees! 

There is a new roller coaster in Vancouver which shoots the roller coaster out like shooting a bullet from a muzzle of a gun which is what the whole thing resembles. Then there is the three storey drop. 

"Inventions that work the very first time always scare me." Thomas Edison 

This is the third day that I haven't used my VR goggles. I'm scared of them. 

Yesterday on Chek News, there was a psychic. She said, "For a few years, there was a time when my gift scared me so I didn't use it much at all. One day I got back into knowing this time that I have control over it." 

That was the answer I was looking for when it comes to reconnecting with the virtual World, heck, virtual Universe. 

In virtual reality, you can travel to another planet. Virtual universe. 

I think I might move to the York hotel which is a rooming house. I'd really like to move to the St Joseph apartments. The St Joseph apartments across the street from St Anne's Academy, Satan's Academy, reminds me of Walbrook Institution which is where Rain Man stayed. 

When President Joe Biden said President Putin of Ukraine and Vice President Trump he might have been referring to a parallel Universe two or three universes over. Did he ever sh*t the bed these last few days. When he made those gaffes CNN showed a shot of his handlers in the wings when he said that and their reactions. It wasn't good. Anyways in that parallel Universe, Trump still tries to be the President but using the more usual vector of being a VP first rather than being CIC Commander in Chief right off the hop. In that universe, Trump would be Biden's VP which would be weird since one is a Democrat and the other is a Republican. 

And in that Universe, Putin starts off as a high ranking Police Officer who makes his way through the ranks of the military or perhaps it was rising in the ranks of the military then moving on to ascend in the Police department. During some point he decides to move to Ukraine and a joke that Pastor Joel Osteen said, says it best. 

"A mayor and his wife sees a man that his wife used to go with and he is a janitor. He says to her," Aren't you glad you married me, the mayor? " His wife then said, "If I married him, he'd be the mayor." 

Or else my friend said, "Things didn't happen to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold happened to things." 

So in that universe Putin would certainly have been the President of Ukraine. 

"So much death. What chance e do we have against such reckless hate?" King Theoden, Lord of the Rings 

Dr Ruth the sex therapist died. I thought she died years ago. Mandela effect? 

She said back then what is now a commonplace sentiment and that is, whatever sexuality you're into, as long as it's not illegal or harmful and if you find a mutual partner then go ahead and be whatever you're into. 

Richard Simmons died. I remember him when I was really young on television and wearing a costume with the anatomy of the human body illustrated in it. He really jnspired people to get into fitness. 

Gay. Who cares? 

He recently did a video on YouTube where he inspired a depressed stage hand. He said, "You're awesome. You got this. You are stronger and smarter than you think you are. Dust yourself off and hitch yourself to a star. Shine on you crazy diamond." That's something a gay person would say. 

But the advice is valid. Be strong and re emerge from whatever self induced mental blocks and have the courage to travel again. That's how I'd say it. I'm not gay. I'm not even bi. 

Incredible. Unreal. In Butler Pennsylvania, Trump was giving a speech and then gun shots were heard. Trump put his hand to his right ear and ducked. He reemerged a couple of minutes later surrounded by security forces. He put up a fist and said fight fight fight. What presence of mind. 

"He had the nous to ask for more time." Gandalf, The Hobbit 

Trump had the nous to raise his fist and say "Fight! Fight!" What an inspiring gesture. 

Gasp! The top of Donald Trump's right ear was bleeding. He nearly got killed! 

That's horrible. But no one behind him seems to have been shot. 

What happened? Who did it and why? A Trump rally has turned into an Agatha Christie Hercules Poirot mystery. A whodunit. 

From what I see on television, they released the crowd without searching them upon leaving. They could have released the suspect. Of course the suspect would have ditched the gun. Was it a sniper from a distance and then the bullet disappeared behind Trump into the crowd but not hitting anyone. Perhaps the grazing of the ear slowed down the bullet. Would it have? 

Next time we see Trump, will his right ear look the same? Could that be surgically restored with otoplasty? 

The words "Shooter down!" were heard after an exchange of gunfire between Secret Service and the shooter. "Threat has been neutralized." is code for shooter is dead. 

One Trump supporter died and two are critically injured. 

CNN said, "What can we do about this?" 

In the United States they have the second amendment which is right to bear arms. That's contrasted with Canada which has intense anti gun possession laws. Just about everyone who gets charged with any crime in Canada even littering immediately gets issued a ban on possessing weapons under Section 2 of Canadian National Federal law. Section 2 means firearms. 

So while the United States has the 2nd Amendment, in Canada we have the Section 2 weapons ban. 

A lot of individuals feel that this ban is unjust and lasts too long. While some others feel that it doesn't last long enough. They go to Court and the Court says, "Your gun prohibition expires today." The that individual might say, "Well, I want to hold on to this prohibition for life. I never did and don't want anything to do with guns." They Court might then say, "We don't get that often. Others are only too happy to go and get a gun on the day their prohibition expires." A lot of times that prohibition never expires. 

In the United States they could place more restrictions on gun ownership. In Canada, such a thing would be less likely to happen. 

Questions. 

- Did the shooter have a criminal record already? A caper like this would have pretty much garnered the shooter a criminal record right on the fucking spot. 

- Stateside, do people charged with crimes or else convicted get issued a gun prohibition? 

  If so this incident is even more crazy but it shows these kind of prohibitions don't always work. A locked door only keeps honest people honest. If not then could that be a contributing factor? 

- Did the shooter breach a Court ordered gun ownership prohibition? If so, that definitely shows an unusual malice forethought, men's rea, motive, probity, marked departure, etc 

If not then it was that much easier for such a miscreant to acquire a gun. 

If there was a gun prohibition then this was definitely a crime of passion. 

If there wasnt a gun prohibition, then this was more a crime of opportunity, however slightly. 

The shooter's name has been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks. He looked like a young guy. Crooks? In this case his surname proved to be rather prescient. 

My imagination makes me ask, if Trump was shot would that have started a civil war in the United States like that guy who got shot started World War 1 which led to pusher propeller plane champions of the air. 

The United States is somewhat more primed for that sort of thing than Canada. The United States has what is called selective service. Everyone has to do at least one year of military service between the age of 18 - 25 including those holding dual citizenship. 

Cadets is as on a totally different level than Scouts as selective service is different from cadets. This includes in depth firearms handling. They teach knowledge on how to handle firearms to those who otherwise wouldn't have the knowledge. Interesting. 

Would this not make the US more primed for a potential civil war than Canada would be? 

Trump is the South, the General Lee confederate flag, for Trump a Southerners to be shot in a Yankee or Northern State such as Pennsylvania would have been or else might have been a powder keg. 

Is that likely to happen? I don't know. The United States hippies were the world teachers when it came to abnegating the draft. In the movie The Bikeriders one guy was resentful and baffled that he was turned down for military recruitment while "hippies burned their draft cards down on Main Street." 

"We don't smoke marijuana in Muskokee. We don't take our trips on £sd. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street. And white lightning's still the greatest thrill of all."

In the past, World War 1 and 2, the only thing half the country had to do was to work on a farm. Half the country is all those small town farming communities. 

During the Vietnam era, people started having a life, getting into things that are interesting and meaningful so there were lots of protests. 

Unlike in decades past, people in the United States actually have a life. People are into so many interesting and intellectual things that they'd be less likely to take part in a civil war. In the old days with their friends and the number of people they'd call on a landline at home is a few friends. On average, people have way more friends today thanks to the internet and from a lot of countries too which makes a war that much more unlikely. The United States isn't alone. The United States has a lot of friends internationally. A lot of countries have the United States back. The world is watching. 

God bless America. 

The Force wiil be with you, always. 

I've heard of having the President's ear, but this is ridiculous! 

I returned to VR. Fruit Ninja is 150% to be purchased. I still have it on loan due to the monthly pass. When the pass expires, then I will be getting this. Despite the name, it is an excellent video game. It could have been called Vegetable Nina and it would be more or less the same video game. 

The developer could have used babies as in the 80s sick joke, "How do you stop a baby from crying?" "Use a chainsaw." Or in this case a sword or even a pir of samurai swords. 

About that, when I started, I got only one sword. Then after I got two swords. I prefer two swords but how do you set the preference, one hand left or right or two swords? 

A legend in my own mind. I think I have some talent with two swords because I watched so many Star Wars video games where the person used two lightsabers such as Galen Marek aka Starkiller. 

I tried the Jurassic Park game. Endless wandering. Motion sickness. I'll give it another shot with the teleport option which has decidedly less motion sickness. The teleport mode does snap turns whereas the immersive mode does smooth panning turns which means motion sickness. 

VR. Same thing. After using the rope swing. I was left in a motion sickness inducing room where perhaps there were more guards perhaps there weren't, what else is new meanwhile I had to look for some object or go to some place to look for something, do some escape room thing and then find the exit. How tedious. Work work work. 

Fruit Ninja is the most user friendly sword VR app because

- stand stationary, no motion sickness

- the things don't hit back unlike with Until You Fall

- two swords

- includes effortless Zen level. With other levels one has to avoid striking a bomb otherwise it explodes. At the three explosions mark, the game is over. 

- includes daytime only, nighttime only and random setting which I sure wish Warplanes VR World War 1 airplane had. I think with some missions, it is always daytime or night time. There is a choice between fighting with the Central Powers or the Triple Entente each side has three missions totalling six missions. Either you finish one and it disappears and another mission replaces it or else it's always there. If it's the former then I'll never know when a night time mission will show up. Night time missions are more relaxing. You sense it's quite in general at night. Not many people going to and from work, school and shopping at night. 

- the images are gentle. One isn't using a sword fighting bizarre looking B movie creatures, orcs, etc over time these scary images can generate some kind of anxiety disorder. 

Every second is interesting with this app. There aren't long periods of time where one is wandering motion sick through endless halls looking for things but feeling rushed because there is something chasing you or there's a time limit as with some other VR apps which is a sure recipe for motion sickness. 

Hand Physics. That app is OK if you're into that. The puzzles are downright silly. 

Town Journey. One has to sign up with something make sure you have a notebook handy for username and password. What's town journey? Is it like living at the Shire of Lord of the Rings? 

I might give it a shot. I'm guessing its more POV wandering around motion sickness BS. The world needs more VR motion sickness POV apps like I need a perennial anxiety disorder. 

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Funko plop. Funko pop is releasing an Alien Romulus edition. That looks hideous and is the worst and most ugly Funko Pop I have ever seen. It is the equivalent of a VR horror app. 

Shannen Doherty of Beverly Hills 90210 died. I always thought she had an elegant although sometimes sarcastic kind of beauty and she did it without saying a word.  

I never watched Beverly Hills 90210 although I admire Beverly Hills because it represents living rich either in material and also spirit. More in material actually because Beverly Hills is really mega rich. 

I'd like to live in a rich place who wouldn't. For me, Beverly Hills is Shaughnessy Heights in Vancouver although the people from the actual BH would disagree as BH really is on another level when it comes to wealth. 

The average house height in Shaughnessy Heights is two storeys whereas the average house height in Beverly Hills is three storeys. 

Beverly Hills mansions have spatious yards each with a swimming pool and a tennis court. Why get VR when you can have the real thing? I don't know about how exactly an accurate swimming experience could be replicated in VR but there certainly is VR tennis. With VR tennis, anyone can have the Beverly Hills experience in their very own living room. 

Shannen Doherty is about quality. She graduated to the Beverly, I mean the majorly phase of life so she is still alive only on a more exponential dynamic. She is about wealth in all its forms, material and also spiritual wealth. 

Nintendo has a famous video game about a Princess, Princess Peach who is a damsel in distress. 

From decades of experience with women, there is no such thing as a damsel in distress. There are only ever bossy bitches. A woman might go through some brief phase in her life where she plays a damsel in distress, but that soon passes and then she settles in her role as a bossy bitch for life. 

A woman's nature is to be impervious. Freud asked "What does woman want?" The answer is sovereignty. 

A woman will give orders so often that half the time you don't even realize that she's doing it. That's how subtle and insidious it is. 

Women are a trap. The beauty is the bait. The trap is sprung when you're on the hook for paternity payments. 

Why jot just hire a call girl? Then you'd only be bossed around and given petty orders for just half an hour at a time rather than 24 hours a day with a wife? 

A call girl would probably say, "Pass me my lipstick. I have to put lipstick on." or would more likely say, "Pass me my crack pipe. I'm gonna have a hit."

I think I'm going to be single for life. Heather is the final lady I will ever love. I am going to wait for the rest of my life for her then I will walk with her in the gardens of the afterlife. 

I'm definitely on the autism spectrum I mean what was your first clue? 

My first clue occurred to me just now. I get motion sickness very easily on VR RPG games. That's a sure sign of autism. Those who don't have autism can play VR RPG games for hours. One guy did it on YouTube for seven hours on Assassins Creed Nexus VR. One person in comments called him a god because of this. 

I played Jurassic Park and got a mild to acute case motion sickness in less than half an hour. The scale goes from minor to mil to severe to acute to chronic to profound. 

Those on the autism spectrum have high sensory sensitivity to sounds and noises and bright lights they get overwhelmed easily. 

Autism can be acquired as one goes through life. Too many VR games with its sensory overload, too many cups of caffeine laden coffee and tea, too many smokes of tobacco and cannabis, too many rides on an electric skateboard, electric scooter, and depersonalizarion and derealization can set in leading to winding up somewhere on the autistic spectrum. 

Matt Haig in 5 Reasons To Live said that everyone in the world has some kind of psychiatric diagnosis or another. So you and I are in distinguished company. 

Do I have autism? Would that affect my ability to vote? Ask a politician,, "As long as you vote for me, you can have mild autism and still be eligible to vote." I'm joking. A politician would more likely say, "Even if you have hard core chronic autism, you are eligible to vote for anyone you want to." 

The News said that a professor at UBC said something on Twitter now X that she thought it was too bad that things didn't happen differently at the rally. I don't wantt to repeat the exact wording as it shocks me. 

Trump is a good man. I got a pair of white Terry cloth slippers, Trump, from the Trump hotel. I still prize them. I got them at a food bank of all places. 

And this upset me on another level in that I'm a fan of UBC. Over the years UBC personalities have gotten short lived controversy. During the pandemic, a professor was an anti vaxxer, said so and got turfed. This happened quite a few times over the decades. 

During the eighties, I bought the novel The Art of the Deal. The book is basically about purchasing real estate, power and wealth. And this includes personal power which Trump showed in spades as that is his Trump card as he waved his left fist defiantly and yelled "Fight fight fight!" 

So does this make UBC less worth of a place to visit as a tourist? The short answer is no. The long answer is hell no. UBC is more worth visiting now if anything as the Palestinian protest entrenchment has been disbanded as the University got a court injunction. 

I think the one at UVIC got disbanded too. I agree that the man on the street in Gaza has gotten a raw deal. Too often they wind up as collateral damage. And they're not even allowed to leave although as is the case with most third world countries, those who otherwise have nothing to lose, all they have to do is pay $50 American to the gangster standing next to the hole in a chain link fence and its off to where ever. Massive brain drain. 

The UBC professors twitter account has suddenly closed. I'm that guessing American authorities could be contacting her. Would the Secret Service contact her? Sure more aspirational than operational but would the UBC professor be teaching that to her students? What she wrote on X was a very disturbing line of thought. 

There's an eerie parallel to the Trump rally incident and Zombie-land where in the movie and in the VR app, there's the Double-Tap Rule. Double tap means two head shots fired in quick succession. In the VR app, double-tap results in a tempprary slowing down of time known as an adrenaline rush. I paid $19 for the app so I own it. 

The word double tap and the name Donald Trump has the initials DT. But so does delirium tremens aka the DTs. One can get the DTs if they have a bad hangover. 

There were a few shots heard. Was the sniper going for a double-tap? 

The Trump rally happened at the Butler Farm Show Grounds. It happened at a farm. So did Woodstock. 2024 will be known as the year of the Woodstock that went wrong. 

I think I'm crazy for writing so much. This is the age of podcasts where people talk for hours on end. So it's not that crazy. My aim is to be 100% normal and sane. 

Truth is stranger than fiction. Perhaps I should see a psychiatrist. Before I used to do jumping Jacks every day with just the swinging the arms part. Then a few days ago I looked at a porn video of a lady who is fat and old, nothing better to do, it was a judgement call, I know I'm fucked. Anyways she was doing jumping Jacks the right way. I used only the arms because I didn't want to disturb the neighbor downstairs. I tried it using the legs too and it doesn't make that much noise. I just felt embarrassed doing it because I had to think of some crazy porn video I saw before doing it. What if I think a out that video before every time I do it? That would register as a chronic lifelong intrusive and unwanted thought. 

This is why I wish I was in the afterlife with Beebs which also in its own way is an intrusive and unwanted thought. Can't win for losing I guess. Six of one is half a dozen of the other. 

How will the RNC proceed? Behind layers of bulletproof glass would be my guess. Will there be a Popemobile style Trumpmobile? 

After seeing what happened at the Trump rally, should that stop anyone from thinking of pursuing a career in politics? I'm not certain. The political landscape is hideous. 

Monday, July 15, 2024

Got the VR app Drop Dead. $19. Better than the Walking Dead. Loved it the first time. No searched non motion sickness. Part 2 is motion sickness and an AR option where zombies invade wherever you are and you shoot them down. 

Part 1 is best. 

I also got Drop Dead 2 The Cabin. It has an AR mode so if that isn't the ultimate The Walking Dead experience, I don't know what is. The cabin seems like a tedious rinse and repeat showcase of motion sickness extravaganza. Fight zombies while simultaneously keeping the energy in the house on. While running outside to gather items. A real juggling act. No teleportation, only snap motion turns or smooth turns and smooth motion equals motion sickness for sure. 

With the AR mode, a person can take this to a park and watch as zombies emerge from trees and then shoot them. 

There are a couple of apps called Mixed Snow Worlds and Hey Mosquito which are free AR apps on applabgames so Drop Dead The Cabin is basically Mixed Snow Worlds and First Encounters meets The Walking Dead. 

I'm most likely going to get Arizona Sunshine part 1 and 2. Part 2 is available as a free trial. 

Also Sherlock Holmes. And there is a second Sherlock Holmes VR. 

I have some strange need to be immersed in a Victoria London world. Sherlock Holmes would have that. The second app looks cheap. Someone I comments said that just about every item in the room can be interacted with. I've played free apps like this and they are a plethora of notion sickness. I don't mind 2D escape room apps but in VR they are just horrible. Even with teleport there is some motion sickness. 

The second cheap app doesn't look like a photo realistic representation of Victoria London. It looks like some cheap cartoon but for $12 plus tax, why not give it a shot? 

Price Arizona Sunshine part 1 and 2 promotion $80 plus tax regular price $93 plus tax. Sherlock Holmes $14 plus tax. 

I'll try the free trial of Arizona Sunshine part 2. I'll tell you how it goes. 

Depp Dead AR guarantees that the player will die before the session ends. That's true. It's an impossible level. One gets as many points as they can to level up and get better weapons. But during the last two minutes of the countdown, all weapons all of a sudden fail. It's an opposite of a shell game, 'We fix it you win.' This level on the app is a hell game, They fix it, you lose. 

I decided I won't get Sherlock Holmes. There are tons of free movies, images etc of Victoria London. The app just isn't my style. Escape room look for a whole megaload of clues. No thanks. Reviews said that the scenery doesn't look like Victorian London as much as it does. The other app is an only just slightly improved version of 16 bit graphics. Uh, not a priority. I can't afford it. 

With the Drop Dead apps, I felt like the apps were worth more money and I got a deal. That's the kind of app I like to get. Some apps are just priceless. The Drop Dead apps are the best zombie apps I have ever played. 

I played tons of zombie apps. There was one where zombie fighters step off a yellow school bus to fight zombies. 

The one and future Presidents choice for VP is JD Vance, a dark horse. Well, now he won't be too dark for too long. Vance. That name sounds a lot like Pence. Some people asked why Pence isn't running as VP again. Someone said, "He did it last time and nearly got killed fot it on the January 6 riot. JD Vance. Lot of famous people in history are known as their initials and then their last name, JD Salinger, HL Mencken, HG Wells, HP Lovecraft, JRR Tolkien, CK Lewis, The Style Council singer DC Lee, DB Cooper, and JP Patches. 

JD or jai dee means 'good heart' in Thai. 

With a dynamic duo like Steele and Vance, I mean Trump and Vance, the White House is in good hands. 

RCMP found cocaine stashed in a grand piano. Let me guess, they found 88 keys in the piano. 

Oh crap. Scary story. In Kenya, Police arrested a serial killer who killed 42 women including his wife. That's Kenya's answer to Robert Pickton. Similar to Pickton, he probably did more. I'm guessing they play hardball in Kenya for shit like that. That guy is going to fry. Would he be getting a Kenyan prison lobotomy? What's the difference? In the West they generally sterilize their surgical instruments. In routine hoapital lobotmies, the surgical instrument is sterilized before the operation. In prison lobotomies, the surgical instrument is sterilized after the procedure, to get rid of any forensic evidence that's if they remember to do it. 

Tonight or sometime soon, I have to watch George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. That's the one that started a decades long cultural trope that's still going strong. It was filmed in 1968. For anyone who purchased about $200 worth of VR zombie shooter apps and just about every Walking Dead app ever, to not watch NotLD would be a cardinal sin. It is a required part of the curriculum. 

Sometime, I'm going to plop down the $12 plus tax to get on YouTube premium. I'm a YouTuber. If I get premium and verify my account with my cell phone number, the $12 is like paying Union dues or Lodge dues. With that, YouTube's algorithm will elevate my videos however slightly. That however slightly can make all the difference in the World. 

But what would that mean? I'm already famous. Then I'd have to get on the ad share, set up a PayPal account so YouTube could pay me. But at $3 per thousand views, uploader aid it was more like forty cents, my videos have a total of about 700,000 views, that's 700 views time's $3 which would be $2,100 which would be enough for quite a shopping spree on Amazon and the meta quest store, but not enough to travel to England to see the Sherlock Holmes museum. 

Missing out on YouTube ads means missing out on good information. Every once in awhile I see an ad that I want to see. 

Woild I still get the YT premium? I don't know. I don't know if I can afford it. 

I probably won't get Alien on YouTube. It's not a movie I watch often at all. 

I like watching new movies more than rewatching old movies again and again. 

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

I never criticize the government. I only express fears, worries, concerns and observations. 

The shooter at the rally, the name Thomas Matthew Crooks reminds me of the name Tom Mapother Cruise. There are similarities but what's in a name? 

It was ironic that the shooter was situated on top of a building used as a Police training facility. The News said this. 

Also its interesting that questions weren't asked about a second shooter because I observed something. 

After the Kennedy Assassination questions were asked as to whether a second shooter might have been involved. Actually there were supposedly three other shooters on the grassy knoll as the Kennedy story of the magic bullet tells of about four entrance wounds on three different people, Kennedy, Governor Connelly and the chauffeur. Questions about an additional shooter were asked after the bank robbery in Saanich BC one year ago. However questions about an additional shooter were not raised after the Reagan assassination attempt and after the other Kennedy assassination. The shooter fired from Trumps right. If the rally was a clock and Trump stood at the top, 12 o clock, the shooter was situated at ten o clock. Trump turned to his right and the bullet whizzed past his ear. However I think I saw that directly behind Trump's podium, someone fell and others were assisting that person. This probably doesn't mean anything as the person might have just collapsed and others around that person dove down to help that person. I think a lot of people in that crowd not just one collapsed that day and others around that person helped. For a second I thought a second shooter from the crowd shot from in front of where Trump was sanding. I doubt it. The crowd would have made a scene and pointed it out. How many witnesses would there have been? There was an entire team of Secret Service, and Police etc that was right there at the time. For sure they would have noticed something like a second shooter. When a gun discharges, there is a muzzle fire called a flash. Someone would have noticed that. Whether there was one shooter or two, thank God any shots fired were missed. A question is does temperature affect a bullets trajectory? It was nearly 40 degrees that day. Ask a ballistics guy. Does temperature even have some slight effect on a bullet? Extreme cold could slow a bullet down slightly and affect the trajectory. Could extreme heat make the bullet go slightly faster and wobble affecting the trajectory? Is there an optimal temperature for bullets firing? Who knows? I'm sure most people don't think of it at the time. In VR RPG shooter games, a person gets multiple shots so even if they miss, and misses happen often. A bullet fired is under the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle. Therefore missing shots is very likely. 

This morning, I played Arizona Sunshine part 2, free trial. I was given 25 minutes of free play. The game was awesome. Just awesome. It might be the coca leaf tea talking but I loved it. 

However, when the trial ended, the game just wouldn't turn off. The app wouldn't play but the soundtrack kept going. There was no way to turn it off except presumably to make a purchase. This was rather trippy and the thought of it is giving me an anxiety attack as I write this. 

I turned off the goggles completely. 

To purchase them separately costs $90 plus tax. 

To purchase them as a sale package costs $80. It's a $13 saving. 

Arizona Sunshine VR is a gift from the United States. Sure one has to make an initial purchase but then it becomes a gift that keeps on giving. 

In Arizona Sunshine 2, a person can smoke! I smoked a cigarette. I usually just take two draws and then put it out. Two draws is enough. I smoked two draws in VR and I put the cigarette in the sink. 

I made a classic mistake moving too close to the target to get a better shot and I got struck down. The second time I did better and was able to make it to climb a ladder to a helicopter. As I got to the top of the ladder, the trial expired. Typical. 

If I get the Arizona Sunshine package deal, you would think that I'm spoiled. Nah, spoiled is getting yourself a candy apple red Ferrari which I actually saw on the street on Sunday morning. 

Eating in the afterlife. A person on Earth see three primary colors. Spirits in the afterlife see sixteen primary colors and so does a mantis shrimp. 

A person has five taste buds, sweet, bitter, sour, spicy and umami. In the afterlife, a spirit has perhaps up to twenty taste buds. A person eats mostly for taste and texture anyways. Perhaps because I don't know for sure. 

The News said that the White Rock pier would have a $90,000 mat. Hopefully the mat is fire retardant because it would prevent a repeat of last year's incendiary incident. Would the railings also be fireproof? Absolutely not. The railings would be kindling. 

The pier in Sidney BC is Sidney's answer to Ogden Point in Victoria. 

Witchblood VR. Releases in two days. I see the same thing more or less going on in Demeo which is available free on loan for an entire month for those on the meta monthly pass. 

I feel guilty for getting those fine apps from the United States. I don't know what y'all will think of me because I'm that. You might think that I'm spoiled and self indulgent. I've gone on quite a few missions now. VR missions feel more like an actual experience. It's totally different from 2D games. 

Witchcraft is a VR game but in that game, it's the avatar that attacks the opponent and the avatar has some slick moves that can be learned. I learned a few moves from American Dad Apocalypse Soon and Hustle Castle. And Lego too. 

There is a VR haptic vest that can be purchased off Amazon. I need something like that.* So that every time a bullet strikes me or I get struck down by an arrow, a sword, I can feel that on my haptic vest. I think it feels like being hit with a paintball. Uh, no thanks. I need my proprioceptors to be working, not my nociceptors. 

It occurred to me that all VR shooter games is basically Duck Hunt on the Nintendo 64. The VR games just get a bit of VR window dressing but reduced down to the bare essentials, it's basically Duck Hunt. 

After awhile, every VR game is the same over and over again. Move from point A to point B, find this find that, more escape room confusion, see nightmare fuel entities such as zombies or HR Giger Aliens and then point and shoot, hack and slash. Repeat repeat repeat.

After one conquers the learning curve, there is a wide but limited range to VR games. 

I just can't figure out the AR game called The Woozles. I really want to figure it out. It's a free game about mining. One sets up mining equipment in their room and then is supposed to do something. What? After the initial furniture set ip there is no idea what to do next. Watch a walkthrough video. 

It's an AR game that even I can afford as the price is right. 

I uninstalled Luna episode 1. Episode 1 is free. The rest of the episodes cost money. Remember in the movie Pacific Rim when Ryuku was a little girl and saw the kaijus? 

I think this app is a story about that topic. A little girl encounters some strange entity. This is a app that a mother would purchase for her young daughter particularly if they are Oriental. 

If this was the 50s of the apps on meta quest, if the technology was available then along with their particular set of societal values, 98% of them would cater to men. Now, there are a lot of diverse target audiences because they have disposable income. This includes children and their rich parents, grown women with careers and people from different Nationalities. I'm getting so that I can spot what target audience the app is for within the first five minutes of using it. I talked about Maya Birth of a Superhero and Dear Angelique both of these apps are definitely made for females. So therefore as a result, today 79% of apps available on meta quest are made for men. These games are the hard core action games that involve going on missions and hunting things down with whatever weapon. These games also appeal to the widest percentage of the remaining demographic as action shooter games are also very popular with women and also children as well. They all seem to love those zombie shooter VR games. 

Of course the whole premise of the walking dead is BS. Structural engineering meets anatomy. Wear and tear. The presence of flies and then maggots eating the flesh especially after they evacuate themselves with fecal extrusions so the zombies biggest enemy is themselves. Walking 24 hours a day. Lots of wear and tear. Flesh and bones break down. I'd give it less than two weeks before the zombies collapse under their own weight. But I'm not a doctor. What would a doctor say? 

The Walking Dead, years later there are still zombies? BS. The only way that could work is the world's population at the fictional time of the zombie apocalypse was larger than supposed. A lot larger. But people would also be dying at a lot faster rate of course than they would have been in a normal functioning society resulting in a whole shitload of zombies. 

There is a chemical used in South America called curare. It slows the heart rate to the point where people think they're dead. The words voodoo and zombie comes from the region in South America where curare is used in rituals. These are religious rituals and it sounds like curare was used in exact amounts in order to bring about an OBE or an NDE, the dying and then coming back to life is a motif used in a lot of religions. Only the ritual in this religion takes it to another level. Nirvana. Satori. Basically some near death experience or out of body experience. 

Can cordyceps mushrooms cause some kind of zombie delerium? I'm not sure. But I think a scientist on a YouTube video said probably not. 

Rainy and cloudy and snowy days are best for VR. Sunny days, you feel odd for not going out. Take a walk to a nostalgic old neighbourhood. Walk to the beach. Don't wait until cabin fever makes you walk. 

I sold my helicopter on the Warplanes Modern Combat VR app. The default missions supposedly presented an airplane and a helicopter but every time I clicked on the airplane I would still get the helicopter. I sold the helicopter for coin. These coins if I get enough of them for completing missions gets me better aircraft. 

Helicopters are a pain to fly. With the propeller on the top rather than in the front, it's as different from flying an airplane as riding a motorcycle is as different from driving a car. 

So I got the modern jet. A World War one airplane flies at an average of 190 mph. World War two airplane, 275 mph. You can feel the difference. 

With the modern jet, that's a little out of my ability to handle. Do a brief sharp descent like with the World War One plane to evade an enemy except the plane flies a lot faster than I'm used to and I crash on the ground often. Profoundly often. But not before I shot down at least one enemy plane. So often I've given up. 

When you look out the window and see one streaking past you, it looks epic like a Top Gun movie and I saw that in the modern warplanes VR app all the time! 

It's back to the World War one airplane which was simplest and easiest to play. So basically I'm reverting to an anachronistic irrelevant military standard that's no longer used. 

The modern jets are today's standard and they go at 1,000 to 1,500 miles an hour and that's cruising speed. Attack speed and evasive speed goes a lot faster. 

If I can't fly modern jets in VR and do it well, then I'd be absolutely hopeless in today's military air force. I'd be hopeless anyways, the age, the height or lack thereof, and the plethora of mental issues. Nothing major just the garden variety mental issues we all have. "Speak for yourself!"

There's no way the military of any country would trust just anyone with a $2 million fighter aircraft. Yes, those things are pricey. 

I got an app called Pillow. This is perfect for insomnia. Very relaxing app. Price $12. Not expensive for a desert island app. Recommended for everyone. 

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Today, I paid for an app called Arthur Puzzle Block. How could I not? Buckingham Palace is one of the answers on one of the puzzles. 

Cost $8. So hardly a major setback. Worth the money.

Itemized. 6 special category puzzle levels at $1.33 each. 20 puzzles per level each totalling 120 puzzles. Not bad for $8. 

I hope Witchblood isn't expensive. I tried Demeo. I thought it was terrible but that's just me. It resembles a board gametoo much. Board games are anal. 

Witchblood looks really good. I mean really good. Think nostalgia on steroids. Think of sweet dioramas as if you were visiting Miniature World in Victoria BC every time you play. 

2076 Midway Multiverse also provides a Miniature World experience. Just play the first free level. You don't have to pay. It's quite mind-blowing. 

Level 1 free level. 

Level 2 funky 1920s Metropolis the movie inner city vibe

Level 3 something techno trippy for sure

Level 4 Star Wars! 

I never got past level 4 as ADHD kicks in hard and fast these days. I'm 54 years old. I wonder how much VR sensory overload I can take. 

VR games have a sweet bourgeois rich nostalgic vibe like visiting an old European style market either in Europe or in North America such as Granville Island in Vancouver. 

These levels get progressively harder. You need the reflexes of Riki tiki tavi the mongoose to win at these VR games. 

I want to discuss leaderboards. 

Anyone who gets in the top 100 let alone top ten in the leaderboard gets a massive prize for free from the app itself. Best weapons. Best armour. That's part of the app's inherent innate algorithm. 

I usually wind up in the five figures, ten thousand something place. Me and thousands of others. 

I got 2,000 points after two years of playing, but the leader has over ten million points. Prorated, it would take hundreds of years playing 24 hours a day to get that amount of points. So it's not a case of who has the best reflexes like The Last Star fighter and Polybius, it's a case of who has the most powerful AI in their engine. Emulators, engines. It's basically whoever the best hacker is, wins. The top 100 Leaderboard of any app is just a den of hackers and app engine engineers aka engineers. 

Arizona Sunshine delivers. Best app award or what? 

Part 2 is exhilarating sterling silver grade entertainment. 

Part 1 after wasting a bunch of zombies plus escape rrom elements not too difficult, I descended into a mine. I was able to shoot some zombies in the dark. Talk about a shot in the dark. Deep in the mine, there was a machine next to a house but needed a winch. In the house was a winch. I forgot about the machine and remembered to the entrance where it was light. I forgot about the machine next to the house. I walked past it but I was tired. It was after two in the morning. 

Looking for supplies in the pitch dark while keeping the zombies at bay was a terrifying and most claustrophobic experience that I ever had in VR. Like the Coaster Combat Himalaya level rollercoaster, Arizona Sunshine classifies as extreme VR. 

I played at night. Playing the mineshaft level in Arizona Sunshine VR isn't the same during the day. 

I have an idea for a story for a VR app. 

"There is a toy. It has a battery in it. It's one of those large D cell batteries. Larger than a C cell but shaped the same. Every once in awhile the battery dies and perhaps it will get replaced perhaps it won't as this toy is a one time usage and with that one battery it came with. Think of it as a disposable camera with just one roll of film and one battery that only lasts for so long. 

The battery if it could dream after it dies, goes to a world where everything is made of batteries. A master at foundry and toy crafting has made a battery with the usual plastic housing but this housing uses a lot of extra plastic and which is molded in different toy shapes as the possibilities are literally infinite Animal toy, science fiction toy, plastic Barbie 

And the batteries are made of lithium so they are extra long lasting to begin with but they are also rechargeable lithium batteries as science figured out a way to recharge lithium batteries. As long as the battery remains charged it never dies. Or else the toys in this realm are fitted with high tech high performance solar panels meaning that they will never run out of energy. 

Within the plastic molding which is one and the same with the battery housing would be segments forming articulated limbs and joints and some internal wiring connected to a grid within the toy near the battery to make all of this work. 

The metaphor is that the disposable toy with the removable and also one time use disposable battery is a human physical body in this Earthly dimension and the land where the battery is the toy and the toy is the battery represents the afterlife. 

This dimension and just about all small towns in this world have one thing in common, they are backwaters that think that they are the center of the universe. 

This dimension is a backwater dimension that thinks that it is the center of the multiverse. 

The conscious brain is the one that resonates with the phshcis of this dimension. There is the subconscious that's the real brain although the conscious brain sure doesn't recognize it as such because of the ego, more like id ego and superego. 

The subconscious brain or the spirit brain is impervious to the physics of this dimension. This brain is known as the watcher or the part of you that knows better. This brain can bound time and space in dreams and remote viewing out of body experiences etc. This brain operates on the teleportation is space experienced on an objective level and time travel is time experienced on an objective level paradigm. 

That I've come up with these answers is the reason I feel I deserve an early reprieve. I can't handle this dimension. 

I've come up with answers about the interdimensional paradigm which is more than I can say about the housing crisis and what if I wind up in tent city. That's why I'd like to just give up on life altogether. I'd like to get an early reprieve if the afterlife is as wonderful as I heard that it is. Life is as useless to me as I am to it. The critical faculty is the ruler of the egoic mind and it prevails always. 

Except its not my call. Ultimately, the final word is with God. I know that now. 

"We... would rather be away from our bodies and at home with the Lord." 2 Corinthians 5:8

I checked out Myth a Frozen Tale VR app from Disney. It's very good. It's a story about the elements. 

It cost $3.50 which isn't that expensive. And it's from Disney. 

I won't be asking for a refund on this one. 

A very beautiful story. The grandmother reminded me of my grandmother, the dimness and candle lighting when she first emerged and wearing a shawl over her head. This is how I saw her last year in a dream years after she died, incidentally. It made me gasp. 

I think the same thing every time I see a dead relative in a dream, "All the information that I got that this person died must not have been true because here they are standing right in front of me." 

"Mr Fezziwig! He's alive again!" A Christmas Carol 

Dear Angelique is free and is worth downloading, watching and then uninstalling to save space. Once it gets going, the quality of it is similar to the artsy part of Vader Immortal when the Priestess was telling the story of the past of her planet. 

Definitely worth a one time watch for the artistic presentation. The story is kinda sad though my mind glossed over most of it as my mind was elsewhere as usual. ADD attention deficit disorder being what it is. 

I bought Star Chart for $13.50 including tax. Very good if you like planetarium and astronomy which I have some interest in. 

The temperature of the sun is 4,000 degrees Celsius. A quasar fires out a beam of microwave radioactivity of which the temperature is ten million degrees Celsius! 

The universe and astronomy can be quite mind blowing. 

The 80s video game Quasar was named after actual quasars. 

Star Chart hasn't yet mentioned quasars. I'm mentioning it. 

However whenever you ping and click at a star or planet on Star Chart you get a 3D holographic and photorealistic model of the object that is as artful as anything seen at the toy store on Granville Island as it has a bourgeois wealthy and also very artistic vibe. 

The Vancouver Planetarium is a great planetarium. Perhaps the best in the world. What what about the planetarium seen in the 50s movie Rebel without a Cause? That would be the world's best planetarium with the one in Vancouver being the second best in the whole world. Led Zeppelin laser light show. Pink Floyd laser light show. I mean come on, forget about it! The Vancouver planetarium is the best one in the World for me as I never visited the planetarium in Los Angeles that was in that 50s movie. 

Big-screen beta VR is an incredible VR app. Screens in different VR environments to watch movies. I even got the VR room The Residence for $8 just to pay them back for creating such an awesome app. 

Get Tubi on this app. Here's how. Go to YouTube in this app and search for Tubi. 

Any videos from the uploader Tubi itself, click on the Tubi dot tv link in the description. 

Tubi has a lot of unimmisable movies and in VR on a variety or big screens in different VR environments. 

Any VR room has an option for a user to be completely alone or invite others. 

My mental issues including anxiety and a hyper active critical faculty doesn't allow me to invite friends or join rooms etc. Me and millions of others who use this app use it on a lonely and private basis. 

The Big Screen app has some scary possibilities even on the private setting. 

A person commits some crime, awful, then while on big-screen beta they see someone with them when they look behind them in the theatre. Such tactics could spook a person into confessing or is it a tactic? In some cases, a friend, relative, well-known celebrity dies and the user on big screen sees someone with them even thought they set it on a strictly private setting. That would be a good story if someone ever told that provided its true and not made up. Even if a movie was made from such a story, the fact that would be based on a true story is good enough as that gives a truer picture as to the capabilities of this universe. 

However angels let alone Jesus and God are more powerful and have an even greater array of powers. They would be able to protect people in the world of VR. The VR world is a safe and controlled environment. Nothing in VR can hurt you. 

Big screen beta VR is a step up from the VR 360 video on YouTube of that library in a rich house with the fireplace and the yawning cat.

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Two days until the Bruce Lee death anniversary. That's the one event I'd really like to change in history more than anything else. I wish Bruce Lee had lived and made more movies. 

Those movies would have been unimaginably great. Or not. 

Sick Boy said in his unifying theory of life is that first you got it, then you don't. George Best, Lou Reed, David Niven, Elvis Costello. Bruce Lee. 

After awhile, the arc of his moves were seen and it was the same moves over and over again. Bruce Lee was more or less into economy of motion, the direct strike. 

Whereas Jackie Chan had really been trained at Shaolin which is the Southern school. And Jet Li was trained in Wu Shu, the Northern school. 

I'm a further $60 in the hole for all the apps I got yesterday, 

Disney Myth, Star Chart and I got all three paid for screens on Big Screen beta. It's a one time purchase that I will enjoy for life. Sports bar, awesome rich residence and a UBC University style movie theatr referred to as The Gallery. I thought it was going to be a Japanese style art gallery. 

It hurts slightly now to spend the money but two years later I'll still be enjoying them and after a couple of years it will feel as if I didn't spend any money at all. 

I feel that way about Zen Pinball as I got all the tables years ago on android. Very beautiful and artistic for sure. 

I'll get Witchblood, but I don't know about Alien Rogue Incursion. It seems like motion sickness and lots of work. Very labour intensive which is the opposite of apps like Pillow, Big Screen, Tetris all of which one is stationary, no motion sickness at all. 1976 is stationary too except when in immersive mode but that's optional. 1976 is the World War two airplane sbooter. 

Witchblood VR releases at 10 am which is in about two and a half hours from now. 

Don't get Fruit Ninja 1 if you got Fruit Ninja 2 which I got. Fruit Ninja 1 has the one screen. That's it. You might as well play the free version. It's a nicer screen than the free version but still only the one screen for all modes. 

FN2 has multiple screens, multiple worlds, one for each mode and yes, the moves, the moving target trajectory algorithms in part 1 are all there and much more. 

Espire VR is not bad but not on the level of Drop Dead and Arizona Sunshine. With AZ and DD, you get everything you want in Espire VR but with better pacing. 

Espire VR looks very techno gothic whereas Arizona Sunshine and Drop Dead looks very trailer park artistic inner city baroque style. 

AZ and DD is better than Walking Dead Saints and Sinners. Better pacing. Simpler. Saints and Sinners is too protracted and extrapolated. 

AZ and DD is like a fun day at the amusement park. TWD SS is too cerebral, ponderous. 

"The smallest crumb will devour you." Brad Pitt, The Counselor

A few weeks ago, due to a slight budgetary short fall, I needed about $1 to get a pinball app. I had the money in my meta quest account minus $1. So I wrote to meta to request a refund. I didn't use the item for very long. The item was a hyper cart on Epic Roller Coaster and that costs $1.33 in total. After corresponding with an agent, I got the refund. The agent even wrote, "No worries." 

Yesterday, I rebought the hyper cart for $1.33. I hope the agent doesn't mind that I got the cart again after the time and effort he made to give me a refund. That office has hundreds of agents working for them so the chances that I'd get the same agent again on any given phone call is remote. 

My tablet autocorrect is retarded. It messes up even the most basic words transforming them into something horrible. But I'm kinda retarded too. So me and my tablet and its retarded autocorrect feature is like two retarded peas in a retarded pod. 

Actually me and Heather were two retarded peas in a retarded pod. That's why I loved her so much. Still do. 

My love for Heather will survive my physical existence. My love for her is stronger than the totality of my subjective experience of time and space. 

I love her more than life itself. 

The retarded pod I am referring to is the physics of this dimension. So many fuck up's on the autocorrect underscore the defective mechanics inherent in this dysdunctional backwater dimension. 

My father once said, "Chinese is your mother tongue." 

I didn't but should have said to him, "You say that like it's a good thing. What. The dead mother? Dad, I've deconstructed the language. Tonal, monosyllabic, every time you want to write a new word you got to learn to draw a new picture. Learn Cantonese. It's like one is learning Chinese but on the other hand, they are not. Mandarin the the official National language and is certainly the language of the civil service. 

"Cantonese and Mandarin refer to themselves as different dialects but they are really different languages. Cantonese is a tribal language. 

Whereas Swiss and German refer to themselves as languages when they are really dialects of one another. It's a real hot mess and one that I don't have to be a part of any more if I'm in the afterlife. 

The Chinese written language has an elegance about it. But the sounds of the spoken language don't always match the elegance of the written language. Mandarin sounds elegant. But Cantonese sure doesn't sound correspondingly elegant. Cantonese is a rather vulgar sounding language in comparison. Hiey-ah! Ching-ah! Chong-ah! Hie-ya! 

A lot more rich Chinese send their children to the West to learn English than rich Westerners send their children to China to learn Chinese, that's for sure! When a white guy goes with a Chinese lady, he is delving into something exotic. When a Chinese guy goes with a Chinese guy, he is towing some Chinese line. A regression to some erstwhile and former whatever.

Time travel is time experienced on an objective level. How would I say that and worse, how would I write that in Chinese. The whole fucking language is a non starter to me.

And its all about points on a curve anyways. 

Some Chinese have been here many generations since the railroad building days. Most of them wind up marrying white people and don't even attempt to try to learn to write Chinese although they know a few words and phrases which they will reflexively revert to blurting out from some quasi sentimentality resulting in a horrible Chinglish, pidgin Chinese pidgin English. And then on the other extreme you got your FOBs who don't speak a word of English and hard core Chinese who probably have eaten pangolin or dog or cat or rat because the Chinese are well known for eating anything at all that walks, crawls, swims, slither and flies.

If there were two boats, I'd rather be on the boat with the English speaking people of all Nationalities than to be on the Chinese speaking boat with the Chinese."

Japanese is another pictographic language. Again, a non starter. 

And especially in this day and age, in the era of keyboards and texting, wouldn't a pictographic language be just a disaster nightmare fuel? The keyboard was designed with the English language in mind. How would a pictographic language even work on a keyboard? 

I guess, deconstructed, pictographic languages have prefixes and suffixes, some Southeast Asian languages have that and Western languages have a form of that too, the front half of a bracket before a word, a colon or semi colon afterwards, in some languages, you got an accent ay or an accent egue or umlaut on top and then a circumflex on the bottom. 

I guess pictographic languages are configured on the njmber of strokes and then like a sort of vow stern port starboard set up, a prefix goes on the bow and port sides and the suffix goes on the starboard and stern side, so to speak. 

It's not like I don't know other languages and don't want to learn them because they're too difficult. Quite the opposite. After years of researching to whatever degree, different languages, I concluded that English is the only true fascile language in the World and all other languages are relatively cumbersome. The learning curve of pictographic languages is nightmare fuel and it limits your vocabulary. I mean when every time you want to learn a new word, you have to draw a new picture and then when you see the picture you have no idea of how the word sounds, you have to be told that. Whereas in English, if you never seen the word before, you could still infer what the word sounds by stringing the letters together. 

Sure in the old days, the pictographic language was a kind of culturally mainstream military cypher to prevent foreign infiltration. All that's out the window. 

Person 1: It took me ten years to learn the the pictographic writing system of this language enough for me to read this newspaper article. 

Person 2: It took me two minutes to read and understand this newspaper article because I have meta quest sunglasses which translates foreign writing into English. And also lots of iPhone apps do that. Scan the foreign writing with the phone camera and it gets translated on screen. 

Bafflingly, it would also do the reverse. It would translate English text to a pictographic language text for those who need that but for me, it seems like going backwards. 

All I'm saying is that I myself have no interest at all in learning pictographic languages. If other people want to learn it, it's legal and there's nothing wrong with that at all. Follow your dreams. 

I respect them for that. 

Buckingham Palace has a few rooms that have Chinese Oriental motifs. 

A lot of white people have Chinese pictographic letters tattooed even, on them. 

"My tattooist told me that this character means omniscience."

"Nope that character reads 'fish'."

The Chinese culture is a very old one. Thousands of years old. Lots of arcane clandestine archaic mystery. The mogwai from the movie Gremlins comes from the old Chinese culture. 

When I see a lady I ask myself if there is any potential for her to wind up as some kind of trap. Most of the time the answer is Yes. 

A Chinese lady. Definitely a trap. For sure some sentimentality to the dreaded language. 

If I find a girlfriend then I'll wind up being like the couples I so often see but then I'll no longer be like the hundreds of single friends that I know. 

I'd rather be on the boat with the single people rather than to be on the boat with all the couples as a couple. Women are a trap. 

"Khan is the most dangerous adversary I have ever encountered." Spock, Star Trek

"The female of the species is deadlier than the male." Rudyard Kipling 

Women are the most challenging entities I have ever encountered. It will take all my skill and years of experience to proceed with great caution. Years of retarded experiences. 

I'm tweaking out now. A low key but distinct anxiety from drinking too much coca leaf tea. I fear the future. I still haven't found a place to live since my hotel is closing down in a year. Procrastination. Fear. 

It would be simpler for all involved most of all me if I were to just give up on life altogether. I think that often but in a poetic sense. I would never do myself in. That decision belongs to God. Trust in God and lean not on your own understanding and that means to just let go and proceed even though I don't have all the answers and never will in this lifetime. 

A psychic talked about someone who killed himself. "That person didn't have a job and thought he had no future. What he didn't see were the people lining up to help him. Had he hung on, he would have had a job and a place to live that he would have really liked." 

Another psychic said, "You're depressed now but wait til you see what's coming around the corner."

As I said, people who speak different languages etc, in a lot of ways they are more together than I am. Life in this Universe is such that it needs a variety of vastly different cultures to look at and approach life from different vantage points so that we all collectively get a richer and fuller understanding of all things. 

Still tweaking out from coca leaf tea and infrequent smokes of tobacco and cannabis, I tried Witchblood VR and the game is worth hundreds of dollars. Price: $13.99. 

The dioramas are spectacular. Just spectacular. 

It has pass-through and immersive options either is equally mind-blowing. 

Medieval nostalgia. Rich luxurious rendered scenes one after another. Mesmerizing. "Our lives are but a dream rounded with a sleep." That's how Witchblood opens with the character saying that. She didn't say Shakespeare, The Tempest, but oh well. I knew that without looking it up just because. 

Someone in reviews said, The character saying heh heh heh everytime when jumping gets old fast. A lot of video games have that. APK Arena has that. 

Witchblood VR is a total labyrinth, walking in circles as some rooms have up to 5 entrances that are also exits. Try to guess the right one and then another room has a few entrance slash exits. Whatever. This is one I don't mind taking extra time in because it is spectacularly beautiful. 

I went to Chinatown today and encountered nice people too and they seemed completely normal unlike yours truly. I don't think I'm normal but I'm trying to be normal rather than trying to not be normal. So there's that. 100% sane. 100% normal. 100% perfect. That's the ideal. The reality is that imlerfection is perfection simply because it is impossible to know one without knowing the other. 

Talk about hang ups. I got the movie Stripes off YouTube movies. I got it because of the University movie theatre, Gallery Environment which I paid $13.50 for. When I was young I saw the movie at The Norm theatre at UBC in 1982 on a Sunday evening. Stripes is about the military and I like the military, exciting adventures and missions, although there is nothing military grade about me. 

Come to think of it, the movies I mentioned, Un Chien Andalou, Prometheus, and Stripes all have at least one pretty lady and all had at least one female nude scene except for Prometheus unless you count the alien, I think that thing was naked. Prometheus did have sexy ladies. 

The other university movie theatre memory I have is seeing Stop Making Sense at UVIC in Victoria last year. 

On Vancouver Island a bike shop at Hogsmead Village, I mean Broadmead Village in Saanich got broken into when a thief brazenly used a forklift to smash the front windows making off with four e-bikes. 

The movie The Bicycle Thieves, ha ha, in this case the singular and the plural words are reversed, in this case, its the bicycles thief.  After a chase, the suspect got arrested. 

On Arthur Owls Word Block VR app, I made a puzzle. 

Name: Pizza 

Author: Me Ofa Course 

Using this alias as an author. You would otherwise never know its me. 

Clues

1 mozzarella

2 pineapple

3 bacon

4 cheddar 

5 honey

6 truffle 

7 basil

8 chicken

9 pepperoni

10 salami

11 shrimp

12 anchovies

I liked making the puzzle. 

I might make more of them. I'll tell gou about it otherwise how would you know it's me? 

Arthur Owl Word Block has a Taylor Swift songs puzzle. Guessing and getting 5 out of 12, I gave up. I have no idea what the titles of her songs are. 

Bob Newhart died. Legend. I remember the 80s The Bob Newhart Show. Sebastian from Blade Runner was one of the recurring characters, Larry, Daryl and his other brother Daryl. Bob Newhart was Will Ferrell Elf's guardian when he lived at the North pole. 

Bob Newhart was around my age when he was on TBNS.

Arthur Owl Word Block VR. 

Name: Skateboard

Author: Ollie Verse

1. Ollie

2. Landyachtz

3. Treflip

4. Impossible

5. Vans

6. Longboard 

7. ColemanSlide 

8. ParisTrucks

9. SantaCruz

10. ScreamingHand

11. Polyurethane 

12. Chocolate

13. Varial

14. Bamboo

15. Arbor

I'm doing another one. 

Ideal: 

Name: Victoria BC 

Author: Victor Bee See 

Then it occurred to me that I haven't thought of this in years then I remember the old movie called Victor Victoria. I think it was about someone who was a drag queen. I didn't see the movie and don't plan to either. 

Last purchase until Alien Rogue Incursion. I got Anonymous the Shakespeare movie for $16.80. Roland Emmerich doesn't believe Shakespeare existed despite lots of proof. Shakespeare's name is writer on his folios, his contemporaries have written about him. The movie gives me a nostalgia. It gives me fernweh and anemoia. Sure, one offsetting scene that I always look away from. I know the movie well enough that I know when to look away. 

Otherwise beautiful movie. When the movie ended and the narrator talked about the theatres remaining open despite it all, I thought of the vibes of the downtown eastside of Vancouver and the Shakespeare stained glass window at the Carnegie Community centre and the theatre space they have there and I wept tears. There is a hectic big city community spirit that lives on there from since the days of Shakespeare. 

This is simply one of the most beautiful movies ever made. 

Friday, July 19, 2024

Blogger censored me again. I had to redo this and the computer didn't even copy and paste it the way I wrote it. It put extra spaces between sentences and paragraphs where there were none. I had to redo it. Exasperating. 

This whole Universe is a backwater that thinks its the enter of the multiverse let alone Google that likes to censor. I thought that the States had the Second Amendment. I thought the Lenny Bruce obscenity trials happened 60 years ago. 

The censorship is a tacit admission of backwater status. 

Any country that is a backwater is one that is incapable of growing outward or compared to other places it simply doesn't have much. So it knows that and instead turns inwards so that scrutinizarion of the mental state of its citizens becomes not only a National pastime it becomes a National obsession and censoring is part of this strange backwater algorithm too. 

"So you're unsuccessful. Corporate incompetence and mismanagement, white collar criminal opportunism, IP theft, artificial scarcity, price fixing, profiteering and the possibility that you may be in the wrong country and that you're better off as an expat in a better country for you one that better matches your temperament somewhere else rather than ithis backwater country can't have anything to do with it, you're unsuccessful because you have some mental issue because you're probably autistic."

They know that you know that they know that there isn't much to do in a backwater so the censoring and banning is part of their own make work project as censoring and banning supposedly creates an artificial scarcity or exclusivity that really isn't there because the whole thing is just some waste of time backwater scene which is more tow the local backwater line mentality. If you weren't born, they'd censor or ban someone else, someone else wasn't born and they banned or censored you. What's the difference? 

Backwater. Towns of stagnant growth can't do anything for you because they can't do anything for themselves. These backwater existences give you trouble because that's the only thing they are capable of giving you. 

The 1700s called. They want their Quaker Puritanical censoring back. 

Moral relativity. 

The States is currently kinda a backwater. France has Macron who was almost sprinting to the soldiers. Canada has Trudeau. Even old Russia has Mr Grumpy face. While the United has moribund Joe Biden. Two thirds of his own party the Democrats want him to quit but its turned into a cult of personality, a narrative. Hamstrung between sentimental loyalties in the face of empirical medical concerns and an archaic set of values that can't decide between 2nd Amendment Freedom of Speech and sanctimonious corporate censorship. Like Donald Fagen sang, we'll just have to walk between the raindrops. 

The physics of this pernicious defective dysfunctional backwater dimension are insufferable and I can't get to the better physics of the afterlife soon enough. 

I hate some of the physics of this dimension more than I hate life itself. 

Final summation, I agree with their decision to censor me. It was reasonable. Censorship aside, the brush we are all provided with is a pretty wide brush. I have seen words on a YouTube video title recently that shocked and offended me so there's no telling how someone else will respond. What to one person is shots and giggles is offensive and midly triggering to others. There's no accounting for taste. 

Truth is stranger than fiction so I might as well tell the story. Shortly after I did a LOTR puzzle on AOWB, I saw a YouTube video of which the title is LOTR The Hobbit and all the gay sh*t. 

That angered me because first of all, neither LOTR nor JRR Tolkien is gay. And that's it. Lord of the Rings is not gay. 

However Lord of the Rings has lots of fans who are in the gay community,  gays and lesbians alike. 

IP theft is a funny thing. When an artist releases something, it is always prone to being lent out for free at libraries or sold at second hand stores would the library or 2nd hand store be doing IP theft? Or what about when people find a way to watch a movie or read a pdf of a book online for free? And tons of books are available for free on Google books. 

Even ideas that get stolen is just the first part of a phenomenon where a stolen idea gets reproduced but somehow a little different. Then another idea copies off that also somewhat differently. A few stolen ideas down the line and it becomes completely different and unrecognizable from the original idea. It's not a stolen idea, it's reverse engineering. 

It used to be in the 70s, if you saw something shocking on television, it would be shocking for a week before something just as or even more shocking eclipses it. Now, people are shocked for as long as until they see the next shocking tik-tok video. 

Something that is shocking one day is often considered a classic years later. 

I banged out another one on Arthur Owls Word Block

Name: Victoria BC

Author: West Island Brewery

1. EmpressHotel

2. RoyalBCMuseum

3. MiniatureWorld

4. JamesBay

5. ButterflyGarden

6. OakBay

7. CraigdarrochCastle 

8. FishermansWharf

9. HatleyCastle

10. BeaconHillPark

11. DallasRoad

AOWB

Name: Halloween

Author: Ichabad Crain

1. Halloween

2. Pumpkins

3. Autumnal

4. Melancholy

5. Lassitude

6. Torpor 

7. Grim

8. Funny

9. TrickorTreat

10. Costumes

11. Fireplace 

12. Nostalgia

13. Witches

AOWB

Name: Zen Pinball Fx VR2

Author: Zen Flesh Zen Bones 

1. BacktotheFuture 

2. ETtheET

3. Castlestorm

4. Mars

5. TheWalkingDead

6. BioLab

7. SpaceShuttle 

8. EpicQueat

9. WildWestRampage

10. Jaws

11. Paranormal

12. SecretsoftheDeep

11:10 am

AOWB

Name: House  of the Dragon

Name: Otto the Handy

Award earned: Creative Genius on meta scoreboard

1. Targaryen

2. Rhaenarys

3. Syrax

4. Meleys

5. SerCristonCole

6. AlicentHightower

7. Dracharas

8. KingsLanding

9. Driftmark

10. Aemma

11. Viserion

12. Aemond

13. Daemon

14. Corlys

15. LordLarys

16. Ratcatcher

17. GoldCloaks

18. Aegon

19. Valeryon

20. OttotheHand

I just couldn't get into Night of the Living Dead. Production values primitive and crude at best. Star Wars fan films are a thousand times better. Turned off. Don't plan to ever watch unless I hear words that can help me better understand the movie. 

I thought that anyone who has zombie VR apps oughta research zombies. 

Big-screen VR. I would rate the app 100 stars out of ten. So many mind-blowing environments. Environments include an on board an airplane. Too bad the outside is dark rather than daytime over the flyover zone. VR is still in its primitive days. The 2020s to VR is what the 1920s were to television. More or less the first decade. At the time seemingly cutting edge but would be eclipsed with much better technology. 

Technology ender goes a U curve just like people do. 

People are happy when they're young. They reach a midlife crisis of existential depression. The Nietzscheian dark night of the soul aka the abyss. Then they just get happier and happier as they get older. 

Technology when new is expensive. Then as it gets outdated and there are lots around, it gets cheaper and cheaper. Then one day in the future it is deemed as rare and retro technology. 50s style porthole televisions, Nintendo Game&Watch, Fluance turntables, all are rare and expensive retro technology. 

AOWB

Name: Women of Star Wars

Author: Shaakti

1. LeiaOrgana

2. BarrissOffee

3. MonMothma

4. JynErso

5. Captain Phasma

6. Shaakti

7. TwiilekDancer

8. AuntBeru

9. PadmeAmidala

10. VeroshaAniseya

11. MaeHoAniseya

12. ZoriiBliss

13. AsokhaTano

14. RoseTico

15. ShmiSkywalker

16. AsajjVentress

17. AurraSing

18. TorenValario

AOWB

Name: Lord of the Rings

Author: Prince of Gondor

1. Gondor

2. Osgiliath 

3. MinasTirith 

4. TomBombadil

5. Ainur

6. Valar

7. PelennorField

8. TowerofOrthanc

9. Baradur

10. Aragorn 

11. Legolas 

12. Thranduil

13. Saruman

14. Gandalf

15. Shadowfax

16. Arwen

17. Eowyn

18. Theoden

19. Edoras

20. Silmarillion

21. Lothlorien

22. AmonHenn

23. CirithUngol

24. Gothmog

25. Gimli

26. Moria

Saturday, July 20, 2024

I'm watching a movie called The Lads 2018. It's three stories. 

First, a boss asks a guy to cover his shift and the boss will pay him out of pocket. Second, a guy asks his manager why he doeant get a promotion

 His fiend at the pub tells him that he's lazy as he wants money but doesn't want to work for it. He should have replied, "That describes 96% of the population." 

Third story, a guy breaks into a house and steals £5,000 which would be about $12,000 Canadian, more than enough to get meta quest 3VR goggles and a few apps and also an electric longboard. 

The thief tells his two friends of the two other stories about the money. They want bo part of it. What about going to a pub? They vehemently argue against it. Next scene cuts to all three of them being at the pub! And doing hoon. aka cocaine. 

The movie plot description says the money belongs to a gang who traced, sussed who took the money. Uh oh. Bad news. Scary stuff. 

Today I caved in to my addiction and got two VR games totalling $29. That's less than the cost of a dinner with a drink and tips. 

The games I got were Guns and Stories. I loved Mad Bullets from istom games, same developer as Paper Train. In G&S I get to live the Mad Bullets experience in VR. 

Dead Second has faster pacing and has everything I want in Espire VR which I'm not getting even though I paid for an add on called Sydney Sneakaround. 

Espire VR, the pacing is too slow. I spent half an hour wandering, getting motion sickness and not seeing any enemies or figuring out how to escape from the room. 

And yesterday, I got a paper airplane from Big-screen VR for $2.50. Throwing paper airplane at the Residence environment or The Gallery environment. The Gallery is a pure University style movie theatre. It has some liminal elements. Throwing paper airplane while watching a movie at a University movie theatre is true University vibes like in the movie Animal House when they were throwing things at the screen. 

I hope you don't think that that's too indulgent or extravagant. 

Every VR game that I saw a British guy review I got the game! This is the case with the roller coaster games and also with Dead Second VR. I don't know what it is with cheesy British guys but they sure know a good VR game when they see one. I feel that I'm getting a gentle wise guiding voice of great British spirits telling me that I have their seemingly omniscient British approval to get the VR game that I'm mulling over. 

Yesterday, I also got all add ons for Arizona Sunshine part 1 and 2. 

Part 1, two extra missions. The nuclear plant mission which I completed yesterday and another mission. The nuclear power plant mission. Arizona Sunshine part 2 is the scariest VR game I have ever played. Slightly rushing off coca leaf tea, I did the nuclear plant mission. There was a segment where I had to go deep underground. Pitch black. Zombies all around. Looking for things. The scariest rooms were the bunk bed rooms. A light only lit the entrance half of the room. The other half of the room was pitch black. Still, I made it through the mission fighting mild anxiety. Being in the dark room, looking though drawers opening and closing cupboards and drawers while zombies were all around just outside the room and were perhaps going to find me was scary. 

Part 2, dog charm, zombie killing dog and zombie hands to help blend in. Whatever. 

Total cost: $24.50.

Yesterday I was able to complete and play through the home invasion segment of Drop Dead - The Cabin. An rope ladder hanging from a helicopter above showed up. As soon as I reached for that ladder the game was over. 

Which is more than I can saw for Arizona Sunshine part 2. After completing the nuclear plant mission and presumably making a difference in whatever war they were fighting, I get lead into a sealed compound. I've been deemed infected and come to think of it, I did get a few zombie slashes. A red flash means a slash and a completely green screen means a take down in this VR game. I got a few red flashes. Anyways the guards standing above in that compound trained a red laser on my forehead resulting in a final ultimate takedown. That happens to everyone who plays this video game psychodrama through. 

Today I got the large seagull transport on Hustle Castle. I got enough tickets for that on the Summer Festival. I already have two horses, a dragon, a large Japanese cat and now a large seagull. 

Sunday, July 21, 2024

President Joe Biden is stepping down. This news is pivotal to the ongoing course of US history and politics. 

This isn't something that I wanted to see but suspected would happen. 

Trump is going to be running against VP Kamala Harris in all probability which would now decrease the chances of Trump winning. 

It goes without saying that I wish President Joe Biden the very best which might seem redundant since any President of the United States always has access to the very best of anything. I mean, someone at that level! 

The US might have a first female President while the UK has had female PM's for decades. Man, woman, President, I don't care as long as they can do the job. Anyone who vies for the Presidential position would of course fully know what they're getting into. I'm sure it's a very challenging job. 

One would think that with anyone facing such a situation, first there is the fear, health anxiety, then there is denial, then there is wanting to set a good example, be like Trump, fight fight fight and do not go gentle into that good night and then ddciding to resign. This is like Elizabeth Kubler Ross stages of dealing with major trauma, 

In this case, fear, then denial, then bargaining and then acceptance. Anger is also one of the stages but not all stages are experienced in all cases. 

I donate to Protestant Churches but also to a Catholic Church too. I think donating to a Church of any religion will bring good luck. It's a strange superstitious more like supernatural power that actually works. In Thailand it's called tum boon. Donating to a Church will chase the bad things away. 

I have concerns. The Catholic Church has to pay about a few billion dollars in a settlement to residential school survivors in Eastern Canada, somewhere in the Maritime Provinces. Guess where my donation are going to? 

All that settlement money may be a drop in the bucket to the Catholic Church which is the world's largest landowner and has multi trillions of dollars. This settlement is a subtle demonstration to how much the Catholic Church really has so my donations are covered. I want and in all probability actually need Catholic blessings because they are very powerful. My donations are small and like all religions, they make a provision to say a special and separate prayer for all those of whatever religion even of no religion who made the effort to give them a donation seeking such a blessing. 

Heather, Beebs is the only person I want to be in the whole not only Universe she's the only person I want to see in the whole multiverse. 

If I meet a lady who's not a trap, I'll have to treat her like a princess but otherwise I think most women are a trap. I'm sure most women think that most men are a trap and they're right. 

"Beware of the wh😜re who says she doesn't want any of your money because that's the wh😂re that wants all of your money." William S Burroughs 

Sometimes life gives you an answer. For eg. Go to see some person over and over again but the whole thing is some weird energy jangle or go to Church ever week. But then if you have electric skateboards and a whole ultra fun video arcade of tablet apps and also VR apps that are intensely fun, why wouldn't you do that instead of go to whatever as whatever is 1x fun, if that, but the electric skateboards and especially the VR apps are 100x as fun. That's an example of the non-verbal way with which the forces of life often guide. 

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Last year, I had a dream where I walked up a driveway. There were open white metal gates at the top of the driveway. I got to the top of the driveway and saw VP Kamala Harris. 

I stood near her and she went into her purse and gave me an ice cream sandwich. Then I walked down a drive way on the side of the street where Kamala Harris stood and went into an underground garage. I turned around thinking that Kamala Harris might have been walking behind me but I turned around and didn't see her. I saw a security guard in the underground parking garage. 

The dream probably is a metaphor for a motif that's been going around for centuries. The Hindus had Mount Meru and Ancient Greece had Mount Olympus where an ordinary common person would climb a mountain have a brief audience with gods and titans and Kings and Queens and Royal Families, receive a gift and then descend the base degrees from which they did ascend, going back down town. Seeing a security guard or a Police Officer is a sign that one has arrived back home and also that they have the God's or else Royalty's ongoing protection and monitoring. 

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Monday, July 22, 2024

On the news now. The Director of the Secret Service is getting grilled hard. It's not like grilling a normal person though. The Director might be thinking, "The way you're talking to me. I'll still remember you years later." The Secret Service is a quasi military organization and they have long memories. This is a real clash of the Titans. 

Politicians have been asked to testify but they're only on the job for a few years. Secret Service is for life. 

The grilling. What's at stake isn't a conviction or probation or prison. What's on the line is keeping the job or else being forced to resign which is a euphemism for "You're fired!" 

The Court could rule either way. 

The Secret Service was signed into motion on the afternoon before Abraham Lincoln got assassinated The Secret Service was to be have been implemented a few days later. They were implemented on the very night of the assassination. Had Lincoln enacted the Secret Service even a few days earlier, he might have survived. 

I hope the Director is able to keep her job. But this is really none of my business and it's not my place to even hope for something like that. It's a matter for the government and I need to stay in my lane. 

Since the News is talking about it, presumably the News is fully expecting that people would be scratching their heads and making comments trying to form some narrative as the executive function tries to make sense of any given News story. 

This is the kind of thing where if a sports team loses a few games in a row, they get fired. 

It's standard in the court intrigues world of office politics after some disaster, heads have got to roll and someone has to take the fall. Those who get downsized usually because of their already accumulated impressive credentials usually find a job elsewhere in a parallel lateral career move which is neither a promotion nor a demotion. 

I thought that I would need a VR ready gaming computer. Meta Quest 3 built into my VR goggles is the most powerful gaming computer.  The Facebook corporation has more money than side quest or steam. So chances are, their in-house VR ready supercomputer is more expensive and powerful than the Sidequest or Steam in-house supercomputer. 

In the old days, prime time television was the official actual big time and it still is. If a person makes it big on YouTube, they can appear on prime time television. For eg Justine was able to appear on NCIS and had a speaking role. 

In the VR world, the meta quest platform is prime time. One doesn't need an expensive VR ready gaming computer because games that are really successful on Steam and Sidequest eventually get imported into meta quest anyways such as Zen Pinball FX VR2. ZPFXVR2 was previously only available on Steam and Sidequest. 

Sure, if you don't like the idea of having money, get a VR ready gaming computer and pay for the apps too. 

Why do I say such batshit crazy stuff all the time? I really have to watch it with the expletives. Sometimes nexessary to drive a poetic point but I also want to respect the censors. 

My mind is an overactive one which is a bane common to all intellectuals and every town is chick full of them. When I decide to dive down a rabbithole, I like to take a deep dive. But only so deep. 

When a person decides to take a deep dive down a rabbithole, along a very distant point, it will involve use of the dark net. That's too scary and is beyond me. 

But a University professor will sometimes use the dark net to research a topic. However a University professor is someone with authority similar to the Police. So do all first responders, such as firemen firewomen and paramedics. A fireman can say, "You there! This is a protected zone! Move away. Go! Fuck off!" and the shock is there. You'd think that wearing a uniform they'd be civil but in an emergency, anything goes. 

A University professor makes a six figure salary and works for the government which is why they have the authority to look at the dark web. A normal person shouldn't use the dark web. 

Actually most of the dark web is your friend. Police, military, courts, hospitals, banks, credit and debit card companies such as Interac and Cirrus use the dark net. So every time someone is using a credit or debit card, they are using the dark net. 

Today I found two bags full of incredible and mind-blowing Christmas ornaments, Christmas trees and Christmas orbs for a Christmas tree. Also a snow globe. These are luxury items. 

I also found a box of Harvey & Mason luxury Christmas crackers. 

I opened 3 of them. Luxury. I got a mini tape ruler, a miniature coat hanger and a magic trick of two rings, first they are not separable then they are. 

Then the miracle story. 

As I was making a small donation at the Church on the hill, I didn't know I dropped one of the crackers. Someone at the Church saw that, picked it up and returned it to me. Very kind. 

I went home and found only 3 crackers. I dropped another one of them. I went back to the Church. Not there. 

Then I went to the park near the Church as I was there earlier. I was originally planning to get back home as soon as possible but something made me want to me want to spend the day exploring. I was on my e-skateboard and went down a path I wasn't planning to even five seconds earlier. Next to a tree was the Christmas cracker! Had I not been on the skateboard I probably wouldn't have walked the extra distance along that path.. 

That's proof of God. Two weeks ago, I was on Quadra on my skateboard, on the sidewalk. I was carrying a paper grocery bag that had a jar of relish as I got a jar of relish and mayonnaise that day to make tartar sauce when I need it for fried fish cakes from Fisherman's Wharf. 

I was near a skateboard monument. It is a flowerpot made of skateboards. Just as I walked on the grassy area where the monument was, the paper bag burst and the glass jar of relish fell out. Had it fallen out even five seconds earlier, it would have smashed on the sidewalk. 

Proof of God helping me. What's more, there was an empty plastic bag next to the monument which I used. 

Why do supermarkets charge 25 cents for a completely useless paper bag or else the other option is $3 for a bag that takes up even more space in landfills? The movie The Informant starring Matt Damon states that plastic bags are made with lysine which is a biodegradable product made from corn. If one melts one of these plastic bags in a frying pan, they get mostly corn oil with bits of plastic aka bisphenol - A. And there is a fungus that eats plastic called pestalotiopsis. 

Stupid pop science forcing people to pay for these overpriced gewgaws or else a useless flimsy paper bag instead of a firm and functional plastic bag is just a cosmetic move to display whatever ostensible concern for the environment in the name of progress and advancement of civilization. Meanwhile one airplane trip burns up more fuel and screws up the environment more than all the plastic bags produced in history. Penny wise, pound foolish. 

Holy scrap. I thought that it was yesterday I published the dream I had about the VP. It wasn't published most likely because I didn't click the publish button. It's rare but it has happened before. Good thing I checked it today. 

I had a lot on my mind yesterday. I played the VR app Guns & Stories for the first time yesterday. 

"Pick me a winner!" Little Nicky

Pick me a winner indeed. This VR app smokes like an old fashioned western grill. If you like Westerns and the app Mad Bullets, if you ever watched a Western and wondered how you would do in a shootout, then Guns & Stories is the app 4U. 

All these shooting apps are the same in terms of the blueprint of the background algorithm. The aliens motif, the Western motif, the inner city cops and robbers gangster shootout motif, the militia motif, and the zombie motifs are all just window dressing. 

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

A travel magazine said this town is the second best town in the whole country. It must not be that much of a country because this town is a total backwater fishbowl existence. Every town I've ever traveled to has localisms like that, some magazine says that this town is the nth most livable town. That's just putting lipstick on a pig. 

That I didn't die years earlier is a tragedy. There are lots of things I experienced in the last few years which I wish I didn't. Better a short life that is happy than a long life that is unhappy. I think that it is better to die young before life kills your spirit. 

Life is a death sentence anyways. And death is a life sentence because death leads to eternal life in the afterworld. There is eternity because there is no linear time. Linear time is dependent on a certain set of things going on like not being able to teleport, not being able to time travel, aging and dying. Take away those things and you take away linear time. 

The human species is like the story of the donkey, the old man and the child. Look it up. Anyways whatever way they decided to do it, they were criticized. Single, criticized. Married, still doing it with the same one with the same set of positions for years and years, criticized. 

The housing and real estate pricing tier isn't the same as what it was 50 years ago. Why would marriage be? A marriage these days is two narcissists who in spite of existing at cross purposes to one another, each spending 50% of the time looking at a cell phone for text messages have a fatal attraction to one another like that species of animal that after mating fight tooth and nail to kill one another. Humans just do it in a more roundabout way. 

I often feel a lot better when I've quit something that I decided was not right. I'd very much and intensely want to quit life itself altogether. I've come up with answers that a lot of people haven't yet I am still under the duress of this life while a lot of other people got an early reprieve and they are having the time of their lives in the afterlife. A lot of life is just insufferable. Human society, mingling with the hoi polloi and the lumpen proletariat etc etc 

I find life to be just insufferable and I'd like to quit life altogether. Now to wish that I died years ago is useless. I can still wish for God to end my life in the near future. Hopefully it's quick and painless, if that can't be done I'd settle for quick and painful like a gun shot but as long as it's quick. It would have to be God who does it. 

If God does it, then I absolve my conscience that I did it and that it was in any way preventable. I wish to set a good example. I wouldn't want anyone else to do themselves in so I won't do myself in. 

It's just that I have had the idle thought for years that life is too difficult and anything that's too difficult isn't worth doing at all. Including living life. 

Coming from cultures that speak weird languages is a raw deal. And every language in the world without exception is weird except English and even that can get weird too. 

Now that I've come up with the answers that I have, I deserve an early reprieve. 

Except the thing is while I runinate on some of the weird people that I wish I never met, I don't ruminate on God nearly as much. 

That's because while I am certain that I have actually seen and encountered these insufferable people 100%, I don't know if I have ever seen and actually encountered God 100%. That would be great if I refer do, because God is THE majorly one. 

I think it's more just pernicious random forces. Quantum physics, the uncertainty principle implies randomness. That's why people who don't wish to die young do so and people who wish to die young live a long life. 

Just as I felt the sure relief after quitting a much hated job that I intuited wasn't good, I look forward to the relief I will feel when I've gotten the death process over with and behind me rather than ahead of me and to enjoy the much better physics of the afterlife which I've gone into umpteen times. It will be no small relief. 

Life can be difficult and insufferable at times and its these times that make me think that I wish I had or else could quit life altogether. 

"Some are born to sweet delight while others are born to endless night." William Blake 

Better to burn out than to fade away. 

I would rather have a short life happy life full of meaning than a long life than is unhappy and has no meaning, a thousand times over. I would much rather have a short life that is good than a long life that is bad. 

Despite the negative reviews and there were quite a few positive ones, I am seriously mulling over whether or not I should get The Walking Dead, Saints & Sinners part 2. The game play looks phenomenal. The onky things I worry about is the character with the animal ears and the chainsaw character. Remember that anything that is too difficult in life isn't worth even attempting to try. So as soon as I get to the chainsaw guy level I just quit the game immediately. I sometimes wish that I could quit life immediately. 

Cost: $52 including taxes plus about $14 for the add on BLC which includes better weapons and collectible postcards to decorate the lobby as just about all FPS has a lobby, Settings, Start, Options, Credits etc. 

I'm going to have to hock my electric scooter. It's one made for a child anyways. Why did I get it? 

On the internet, Paul Pluta aka Archie Luxury once bought a small statue of wolf cubs suckling at their mother for $7,500. Archie wanted to sell it as he'd divorced his wife and he bought it for her which she didn't take along with her when she left. Someone in comments said, "We've all made purchases like that." 

I don't know if getting that app would be a purchase on quite that level but it is a purchase. I'll have to think about it. In this day and age, $65 isn't a major hit. 

This is the mid 20s. It's not like the mid 70s when movies were $1.75 admission and rock concerts tickets were $10. 

I'd like to see a sign that I have the Universes and forces of life's approval for me to get this app. I'll wait to next cheque day. I'm overextended this month on my budget as it is. 

I should at least play Saints and Sinners part 1 all the way through. The last time I played it, I was struck down at the first level because I was unarmed. A YouTube walkthrough video whoed me where to get the weapon. I walked past it and missed it! Try it again. 

For me, English is the only one true and pure language. Any other language is, well, whatever it is. In some cases, it's a raw deal. 

Danger: Two women were found dead in Vancouver's English Bay Beach near the Aquatic Centre. What's going on? Perhaps women who walk at that beach should carry a gun or else mace and a knife or a telescoping stick and know how to use it. I don't know what the Police would say about carrying a concealed weapon, as long as you have a license for it. If the cases are connected, whoever did this should themself be killed. In the States they play hardball. They don't fuck around. People in the States fry for this. 

The physics of this dimension is the inheritor, heir, of so much human suffering and pain. You see why I often think of wanting to quit this defective dysfunctional delinquent dimension. The decision is not up to me. It's up to God. Because if it were up to me.... 

The Bible is channeled. 

Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart."

That's channeled. 

Psychics say that before a person is born, there is a pre life stage which is a  pre-preschool. 

Of course I believe in God 100%. In my dreams when sleeping at night, I've seen Royal figures who died years before I was born and they were looking right at me! 

If that's not proof of God I don't know what is. There are forces greater than this Earth in this Universe, or else multiverse. 

I don't know if I've seen my future children in my dreams bit I might have. Lots of people said that they did see that. Let's face it. I won't ever be a father to any children. I'm 54 years old. That ship has sailed. 

Since my mother didn't abort me, I have to reflect in this lacklustre life and mow, 54 years later, sometimes think about getting some heroin and overdosing which would be another kind of abortion. That's a long time to wait between abortions. 

My mother didn't abort me and my life hasn't been the same ever since. 

Well, I wouldn't have to worry about the housing crisis then. The real estate pricing tier isn't the same as it was 50 years ago. Why should marriages be? 

I wonder if I'll make it to 60. I know of so many famous celebrities who died in their 50s before they were 60. Royalty too. 

There's every question as to whether I'll make it to 60. Either way I lose. Death is scary, really scary. But I'll imagine I'll be scared shitless when I'm 60 because 60 is so damned old. Existence is fun in the short run but in the long run it's a losing game. 

After a year of doing yoga every day, I'm starting to develop six pack abs. I've never seen my stomach look this way ever. Not even in my 20s. It looks kinda weird. See, that's a situation which is going from when weird feels normal to when normal feels weird. 

This is also what recovery from caregiver burnout feels like. 

I preloaded my credit card with $65. That's 4 hours of wages prorated at $17.40 an hour and that's gross, not net. 

"You net more than I gross!" 

Yeah, me and millions of others. 

Depersonalization is an embarrassment of riches. VP Kampala Harris said "brat summer" and "coconut tree". 

Of course my deluded mind saw this to mean, fighting zombies is a military act, Ay brat, brat summer, get the app. And coconut tree means feel free to drink more coca leaf tea. It has mild stimulant qualities. 

"It has mild stimulant qualities"  is what a doctor said after I was prescribed sudafed for my mild cold that I had at the times. I distinctly didn't like the drugged out feeling I was feeling when I was on that stuff and playing Lord of the Rings The Third Age on GBA. That drugged out feeling of anxiety and tension. 

Coca leaf tea brings an edgy confidence then the next day an irracilibility that makes me think that life is too overwhelmingly not in my favor and it would be just as well to quit. However the game is changed. God is the one in control. I would never give up on life because that is God's call. 

The News and the stories of injustice makes me think of quitting such a world. The News can create an anxiety disorder where there was none. 

Those living on the streets and at tent city don't think of giving up on life. In that way they are more together and more spiritual than me. 

People on the streets have even given me full packs of cigarettes when they saw me picking up cigarette butts. Very kind. They are like Joe the tramp in the movie The Polar Express. Very spiritual. 

"A pickpocket upon meeting a Saint sees ony the pockets." 

People see others as what they are themselves. I see the street people as for the most part very spiritual. I wish I were more spiritual. Those who are more spiritual wouldn't think that they don't have the strength to go on for another few years due to the housing crisis. 

I won't ever give up on life because my life is not my property. I don't have the right to do that any more than I would have the right to thrash a hotel, throw chairs out the window. My life is God's property. I will remember that always. 

With all my VR apps, you'll think I'm spoiled. You'd probably be thinking, "After years of doing animated cartoons, he's turned into an old spoiled rich guy with all his toys, electric skateboard and an entire video arcade of VR apps." And tablet apps too. 

There's no accounting for taste. My list of favorite apps, most of them probably wouldn't be on the VR community's top best apps. Young people like Final Fantasy and Code of Honor and Brother's in Arms. I'm not really into those games. 

Playing a VR FPS app with opponents that are dodging and firing back with guns would give an edte to fighting zombies which are more slower unless they are like the zombies in the movie 'Z' starring Brad Pitt. And I've seen zombies like that in VR games! In the game Drop Dead, there is a zombie known as the streaker. Moves fast. 

Years ago, I got the entire collection of Zen pinball games on tablet. They were about $4 each, in some cases $3. Why not? A fraction of one hour of minimum wage for a top quality video game that can be enjoyed for life? Zen pinball games look as good as an oil painting and hundreds of years later, an oil painting still looks as cutting edge as it did on the day it was painted especially one of the really good ones. I'm talking about the big oil paintings in the museums of Europe, the paintings are one storey high in height and three storeys wide. Immense paintings. Such sheer visuality wouldn't be eclipsed until the invention of silver screens and the movie theatre hundreds of years later. 

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

In Paris, a coach and an assistant coach were dismissed from the Paris Olympics for using a drone and sent home. Could they stay a few days for further touris?  Absolutely not. Because they were je t'accused, je t'accusee of espionage. Napoleonic law, one is presumed guilty until proven innocent. 

In one case, someone used a drone and it was seen as a bad thing. In another case no drones were used as during the Victoria BC and at one Vancouver fireworks display and it was seen as a bad thing. 

So you really have to pick and choose the occasion.

I previously stated that I would vote for Trump in the next election if I was a US citizen. The dynamic has changed and it looks like the veep Kampala Harris is on board as the Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. 

In light of that, I would vote for Trump and then go to another polling station in a different State and vote for Harris. Could a person do that if they have dual State residency? Absolutely not. It's a National election and one can only vote once. Voting twice results in a disqualified ballot cancelling out both votes. Therefore as a US citizen, seeing that six of one is half a dozen of the other, I'd not vote at all which the result is the same as a disqualified ballot, that is, a non vote. 

"Torn between two lovers 

Feeling like a fool

Voting for both of us

Is breaking all the rules."

I opt not to get Animal House and Saturday Night Fever on YouTube so I can experience it on big screen. It costs $16.79 each. About one hour of minimum wage, gross not net as net would be $17.40 an hour. 

To be honest, and not to try to put a false gloss of positivity, AH and SNF don't look spectacular on big screen. Sure, one can wonder what it would have been like to see those movies on Granville Street in the 70s. 

Heck even older movies of any given decade before the seventies can be seen in big screen on the meta quest 3 VR goggles and on the Big Screen app. 

I haven't drank coca leaf tea for a couple of days Back to coffee and caffeine. I don't drink alcohol at all. Not even one can of beer a month which would be the minimum anyone can consume. 

Big-screen VR. My favorite go to screen for movies is called the Arcmax. It resembles the IMAX theatre at Silvercity IMAX in Saanich. This screen is for cutting edge modern movies like Interstellar and Ad Astra and Prometheus. Also for retro re releases of spectacular movies such as 2001 a space odyssey. 

Retroscreen. This screen looks like it was built in 1965 and it would have looked cutting edge then. The Vancouver Museum was built at around 1965 and it looks even more futuristic and cutting edge so the retro cinema look would have been entirely possible in 1965. Retro cinema best matches any 80s movies. Any at all. It doesn't go with any movie made after 2015. 

Residence. I paid $7.84 cents including tax and am I glad I did. This is a gift that keeps on giving. I just love love love love love this. This is my dream residence. It has a UBC vibe to it for sure. Museum of Anthropology. Absolutely heavenly. Residence is good for videos like Emily Carr the group of seven and Miniature World promotional video released in 1992.

The Grand Cinema environment reminds me of the Stanley theatre in Vancouver. The Grand Cinema has a very eerie haunted look to it like riding in a very old the Munster type black car from the 1930s. It's the movie theatre that one's grandparents who are now long since dead would have went to. The ceiling, though. There's something about the ceiling of the Grand Cinema screen in Big-screen VR that's eerie. That's what makes this an eleven stars out of ten screen for watching any movie made before 1970. The Retro Cinema screen is good for any movie from 1970 - 2010. Any movie released after 2010 is best on the Arc Max Screen. The Residence screen is good for any movie and any television show of any era. 

All the cinemas, I turn the lights on so that I can see the seats even when the movie scene is dark on the screen. Default setting is when the screen is pitch black so is the movie theatre. BS! For residence,  I turn the lights on full blast at all times. 

The other screens are interesting. However those are my favorites. In the Sports Bar environment, darts and chess is included for free. Otherwise it is about $3.35 each. 

There is an Islam screen. I think it is a little bit scary. "You're out of God's land. You're in pagan country now." Islamists would say, "You think that because you're a fricking infidel. There is nothing wrong with that Bigscreen VR environment."

It's just that I'm not used to that culture. 

Of course to get used to any culture, one has to channel themself and tune into their wavelength. Different cultures have a different pace of life and thus approach problems from different vantage points. All cultures seek spirituality as their highest ideal. 

The cinemas don't have exit doors which disappoints me especially when they have all the other details down so perfect. Of course the VR world is kind of a dry run for the physics of the afterlife. So since as a spirit in the afterlife you can just teleport on outta there any old time you feel like it, exit doors would be superfluous and redundant. 

However fire codes stipulate a marked exit door at all four corners of a movie theatre. 

In the Gallery environment, look up and you see the sky against the concrete, that color of concrete, exterior of the building. That's totally dreamworld liminal. 

Are there movies in the afterlife? Yes and the movies would be those that depict the advanced exponential physics of the afterlife. Movie productions that depict the physics of this dimension would be to them what a preschool animation seen on Treehouse television would be for an adult. 

One would infer that. 

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Movies in this dimension already depict the physics of the afterlife. There's the cut scene from one scene to another depicting the perpetual teleportational footing of the afterlife. There's the flashbacks and forths depicting the time travel ability of spirits and also the everything is happening simultaneously time algorithm of the afterlife. People in movies rarely eat except for ritualistic and symbolic reasons. You just about never see them sleeping or going to the washroom although bedrooms and washrooms can also appear but only for symbolically essential reasons. 

Movies such as Batman is a movie franchise where Batman never ages or ever dies even after 60 years. Batman and Superman were in Action comics which became Detective Comics. 

Even after over 100 years, Sherlock Holmes is just as young as ever. Just like in the afterlife, movie heroes and heroines never die. All the Shakespeare characters never get old or die either unless they die in the play but then they're not really ever dead. They're alive again when the play starts again. 

In the world of VR apps, the paid apps are generally a lot better than the free apps. 

In the world of tablet apps, the free apps are quality wise just as good as paid apps like Paper Train, Mad Bullets, Subway Surfers, Akinator, Monopoly Go, etc etc are all free but just as good if not better than paid for apps. In the tablet world, free apps are full of ads. There's no way you can make ads work in VR. Actually heyvr.io makes players watch a five second ad before proceeding. Still most free apps with ads are completely different in quality from the paid for apps. Big difference. 

A lot of VR apps are confusing escape rooms. 

My major worry. What if I screw up and can't find a place and wind up living in a tent on the street? What about all my things? How will I move them? Since that is the case, the only thing I could think of is suicide. But I can't commit suicide so I am in a real existential jam. I really resent the forces of life and the physics of this dimension for putting me in such a situation which forces me to think of self capitulation. Some of my friends already graduated to the majorly phase of life while I'm left here with these problems. If I had graduated to the majorly phase of life, I wouldn't have to worry about this now. This dimension is a watered down version of the afterlife dimension. 

For the last while, I've been sweeping the plaza next to Tim Hortons. If the place looks swept then that can bring a feeling of heavenly bliss like the Museum of Anthropology brings a feeling of heavenly bliss because it is well swept. 

Then today for the first time, I swept the sidewalk, the curb part that connects with the road. Movies of the 40s and 50s show clean and swept streets. 

I think that doing good things can lead to good things happening for me. I don't know if anything will happen for me. As Shakespeare said, 

"The evil that men do live long after them

While the good oft lie interred with their bones."

Cynical. 

Then for a second I ran into Paul, the Chinese guy who often says with a heavy accent, "I'm hungry! I need $20." to one and all. He's annoying. Jesus did teach to especially say a prayer for those who annoy you. Ask that God can lead him to the light and to better days. 

When he stood next to me, there was the contrast, one person who works and asks for no money and another person who always asks for money but does no work in return. Goofus and Gallant. 

Another entity saw the contrast between the two of us and that was God. However God doesn't judge people nearly as harshly as other people do. 

Paul is annyoying but what can you do? Rumor has it that he has quite some money in the bank but still goes around mooching and scrounging. Delinquent. 

I'm sure the Police have spoken to him but he has some mental issues, and that's putting it mildly. Victoria BC has degenerated from its former glory. 

Thursday, July 25, 2024

At it again. What a wrenching, clenching grasping covetous old sinner. 

I got Espire VR yesterday. First it was on sale for 50% off. Then reviews said, "This is what I wanted from Espire 1. I tried Espire 1. Couldnt get into it." Words to that effect. 

Espire VR 2 is also a mixed reality like Drop Dead 2 The Cabin. Espire 1started off really good and then it just degenerated. Half an hour walking around, getting motion sickness, finf the exit. Sure. Where? No thanks. Price $19 including tax. Regular price $38. 

I am thinking of getting The Martian. That is a spectacular movie that would look good on big screen. 

I'll get it next month. Got it today. This is the Martian with some extended scenes like Mark Watney waking up and feeling not quite with it another scene where he falls asleep in the Rover which was deleted in the original movie etc. 

I used to always get restaurant meals and those meals were just as pricey as apps especially if it was a meal for two. On average, I was paying $50 at least every month on tips. I didn't think that was an addiction or compulsion. 

This VR addiction is a problem that I am trying to get on top of. 

I had this issue with my tablet, often paying for apps. Eventually I reached a point where every app seemed to be the same app over and over again according to genre just with a different look. The law of diminishing returns. I just reached a point when I was no longer purchasing tablet apps. I'll reach the point on the VR as well. The meta VR store doesn't have nearly the variety and selection of amazon fire let alone Google android play store. 

VR isn't as financially accessible as tablets. You can get an amazon fire tablet for as low as $80. Meta quest 3 VR goggles are about $700. Plus the price of apps if you want to play apps that are spectacular and not apps that are just garbage comparatively. The monkey tag, gorilla tag VR apps all look horrible, crude, primitive next to, for example Vader Immortal and Tales from the Galaxy's Edge. 

I think VR only has a few genres. 

1. FPS first person shooter, HAX Demo, Drop Dead, Dead Second, Zombieland, Star Wars Galaxy's Edge

2. storylines with no participation, 

3. games and puzzles such as Pillow, 

4. planetarium in your room with apps such as StarChart and SkyGaze, 

5. roller coaster with optional shooter mode available, 

6. melee fighting and escape room, Dungeons of Eternity, Until You Fall, Asgards Wrath. Because of the multiple variables involved, melee games are really difficult to get right in VR. Melee games in VR are at this point very arcane and cerebral. If you don't get the move exactly right, then it doesn't work. Exact angle, exact speed, exact placing. Oh, too much. And it's a cartoon, like fighting a holograph so they can tack on any weird lopsided set of physics that they want usually from lack of skill more than anything else because VR games are still in an incipient prototype trial and error stage.  

These VR games look cutting edge now. Sure, asteroids and space invaders looked cutting edge when they were released. 

1st tier, 2nd tier, 3rd tier, scratching the bottom of the barrel. Since the selection on the meta VR store is thin, slim pickings, it doesn't take long to get all of the first tier games. 

Second tier, some are still worth a shot. Third tier, why bother? Scratching the bottom of the barrel. Really? Why? 

There's no accounting for taste. What I call a first tier game, experts in the VR community would say, "I kkow that app. Not bad. But I know of some that are much better. 

Half Life Alyx not available on meta quest is the sharpest graphics FPS. 

And IL-2 Sturmovik and DC3 have much sharper graphics than the Warplanes series of VR apps. Although I do love the Warplanes VR apps with a love that verges on sentimental. I just love love love the Warplanes WW1 and WW2 app. 

The modern air combat one, well, helicopters are an absolute pain to fly. Propeller on top seems structually dilettante next the the propeller placement of airplanes that structurally seem more serious. And flying the modern military jets that go 1,500 mph next to the 190 mph of the World War 1 planes? Forget it! 

I crashed often when I did a descending move to evade enemies which worked in the World War 1 and 2 airplane app. Me on a military airplane app and a military airplane typically flies 5 miles above the ground going at 1,500 miles an hour, does a sharp steep evasive dive then crashes often. And  I wonder why. Think about it. 

There are two kinds of purchases in life. 

1. Things you pay for and then you don't have to work. This includes getting a nice painting with a frame, getting a television, getting a blanket or a bed, except you have to wash the blanket and make the bed. Getting a massage. 

2. Things you pay for and then you have to work. This includes getting a car, getting a pet, getting a University education, and not least of all, getting VR apps. I'm sure there's a large segment of people who have never completed some of the VR apps they got. Whereas metal gear solid  nvidia on tablet is a 5 gigabyte download, Asgards wrath 2 is a 33 gigabyte download. If one does it knowing exactly where to look, it takes about nine hours to complete. If you don't know where to look, it could take up to three months to complete. And then difficult increases incrementally and proportionally as the levels increase. 

I'm giving up on Hustle Castle. One winds up doing the same thing over and over and over again and it's the type of the more you do, the more you have to do kind of video game. And why would I want to do that?! 

Wrong thinking: Anything worth doing is worth doing right. 

Right thinking: Anything that's too difficult isn't worth doing at all. Why bother? 

Each successive level opens new tasks that one has to stay on top of in addition to all the other tasks that one has to tend to. 

And the leveling up tier is absolutely ridiculous. On the troll tower level, when the total combined strength of my troll squad was six hundred thousand something, I could only get to level 5 on the hard level. There's easy, medium and hard level. Now my troll squad strength is seven hundred and thirty thousand something and I could still not get past level 5 on the hard level and that's after endlessly exhausting coins, level up units etc fricking daily for about two months. Prorated, I should at least be at level 11 at least already. The pricing tier of this level in terms of level up coins is ridiculous. App uninstalled. 

Work creates muscular aches and exhaustion which one doesn't get in the afterlife. That's why this dimension with its shoddy physics is kind of a dogsh*t dimension. It will be no small relief when I am away from this dimension when the time comes. I'll say, "That dimension certainly had its interesting moments and good things like the sentimentality of temporality, television, movies, VR, electric skateboards but a lot of the phayicsof that dimension were awful just awful and its something that I'll always remember and I sure wouldn't want to go back to that backwater dimension. 

I'm willing to be single for life for Bee. I'd be willing to lean into the strike zone and take one for the team, the team being me and Heather and thus be single. For life. For her. 

I'm guessing that the AI does an analysis and psychological profile based on gameplay and compared to other players and sends this to some mysterious government end user involved in security and intelligence. 

Analytic data would include, accuracy mediocre, tends to shoot high, to the left, to the right, whatever. A rushed player. Slow and deliberate. Right hand dominant, left hand dominant, ambidextrous. How the hell does this player know trade craft, did they learn it in a dream? Gallant, doesn't shoot any friendlies, good moral code of ethics even in VR. Goofus, shoots dinosaurs on Epic coasters, shoots loggers on Epic coasters, shoots the girl doing the watch on Armageddon level on Epic coasters and all the time too, a real cad. Uses dominant and weak angles knowledge. Etc etc. 

It's all good. They're friendlies. 

Often when I think I'm alone in the World War airplane app, I see a plane that is flying with me. I wonder if that's AI or I often imagine that it's someone in the military who joined in the game live. That technology exists. I've seen these planes take down other planes that have been assigned to be taken down. 

This game is international so that friendly plane could be from anywhere, States, Canada, England, Russia. Russia is a friend and I imagine sometimes that Russia is looking out for me, kind of, as I once had a dream of the younger guard wearing red and the older guard wearing blue. Russian guards. 

They have the technology to gather data because the high ranking engine generated scores of the leaderboards hides the high scores of the true reflexes players and on some level The Last Starfighter and Polybius still exist. Video games are used to recruit people to go on military operations and they get paid well too. 

If you're good at the game Red Matter VR, then you might be recruited to go on a mission to actual Mars. Red Matter, too cerebral, escape roomy. There is an FPS shooter mode in Red Matter VR, but it's rather abysmal and nominal compared to hard core bona fide FPS games. And pricey too. But even if I was a millionaire, some apps, well, that's just throwing away good money after bad. However there's no accounting for taste. That's why I wonder how I'm going to make it another 20 years. The porn I look at is all weird and wrong but I have searched for years for 100% normal porn even to the point of more than 100% normal like I would rate some apps 11 stars out of 10. But i haven't found any. It doesn't exist. Every porn video has some weird kink to it and could potentially wind up years later as an acute intrusive and unwanted thought, some of the words they say are edgy and once you hear it, you can't unhear it. I wonder how I'm going to make it another 20 - 30 years. 

For some unknown reason, it's just as much fun to write about VR apps as it is to play them. That's why Emily Carr said of one famous artist, "Less talk and more work will make him a better artist."

I can't  afford to see the new Deadpool movie today. I'll have to wait until Tuesday. However due to laziness and not wanting to bother to go to a theatre, I might watch it online. With VR goggles, all movies can be seen in virtual big screen aspect. 

The most poignant example of this is watching Phantom of the Opera and Joan of Arc and imagining that I am at a movie theatre on Granville Street during the 1920s. 

The Grand Cinema environment on Bigscren VR would provide this experience. 

What I imagine most is watching Planet of the Apes on Granville Street when it was released and Animal House and Saturday Night Fever as well. Rocky would have been a major movie to watch on big screen when it was released. Taxi Driver too. That movie is spectacular, city lights seen from within the rain slicked windshield of a taxi. Epic. Iconic. Film school must see. The Retro Cinema environmen on Bigscren VR would provide this experience. 

Never Cry Wolf is best seen on the Retro Cinema setting. 

Movies like The Martian, Ad Astra, Prometheus, Alien and Interstellar and all Star Wars movies are best seen on the Arc Max environment. 

The town of Jasper has burned down in a forest fire. Jasper is one of the most famous towns in Canada. Jasper is near Banff which has skiing mountains. The Premier of Alberta Danielle Smith said that the Town will rebuild. She said there are lots of people who have experienced the magic of Jasper. "The magic is not lost and it never will be." You must be facing unimaginable fear, anxiety and uncertainty. Remember, you are not alone. The town will rebuild better than ever before. 

Such words in a speech bring tears. 

Jasper, That name. I think of Jasper Johns the painter. Jasper Avenue Edmonton. 

I hope that Jasper rebuilds. Fort McMurray and Lytton BC have more or less rebuilt themselves in an ongoing rebuilding process so things look good for Jasper given the past track record. 

Seeing videos of Jasper, holy smokes, that looks like Mount St Helen! 

Half the town is gone. I thought the whole town was gone so again that was my brain painting a picture worse than the reality. Remember, Vilnius, expectations vs reality. 

In another area in BC, there is a forest fire covering 2,000 Heathers, I mean hectares. If a person named Hector went there and set himself on fire, would the fire then be 2,001 Hector burning? 

There is an out of control fire on West Vancouver Island in Sooke near the West Coast Trail. Sometimes firefighters will make a ring of fire around the original fire ironically in an effort to control it. Why not have a fleet of fire planes like World War One always had a fleet of planes for whatever contingencies instead of just one plane. 

There are firefighting helicopters but flying helicopters is a pain compared to flying a small plane in VR. In real life flying a small plane is probably also a pain. 

Something I am wondering about. Old growth forests have trees up to 1,000 years old. A lot of these trees are in various stages of dying. An incense is made from dying aloeswood. Anyways old growth forests are more prone to forest fires due to the volume of dried out wood that these old trees have. 

Well meaning protestors protest logging on these lands. There is a forest fire there one day that wouldn't have been there if the loggers had clearcut that land. Trees that would have burned in a forest fire anyways would have been better used for building houses etc. 

In fact, at the Fairy Creek forest or thereabouts on SouthWestern Vancouver Island, there is a forest fire there classified as out of control. That was a few days ago, it could be under control now. That forest was once the site of a major logging protest. 

Forest fires are natural. It's all part of a cycle which Natives have observed. 

Some species of pine cones need fire in order for their spores to burst forth. 

While humans have 23 strands in their DNA, a pine tree has about 300!

The cycle is a forest grows mature, there is a forest fire which produces clouds. The clouds bring rain and another forest is born. 

One more in the hole. Trivia Crack $13.50. 

This morning I got Espire VR 2, The Martian movie on YouTube and now Trivia Crzck. 

Espire VR 2 cost me $19. That sounds like a lot and would be in the mid 80s when minimum wage was $3.50 an hour. 

But today, minimum wage is $17 an hour so prorated to 80s wages, that game would have cost about $3.75 in the 80s. And even in the 80s, $3.75 wasn't considered an extravagant purchase. So $19 today wouldn't be extravagant. I am stingy but I also like trivia and this looked at first sight to be a desert island game. If I was stuck on a desert island and had only ten games this would be one of them. This has an augmented reality wheel of fortune trivial pursuit style wheel and one picks up a virtual laser shooter and fires the shooter at the answer. How can one not love that? 

Friday, July 26, 2024

Walking Dead Retribution is better than the reviews. Just as good if not better than part 1. 

Those living on the streets are very spiritual but it would be strange to think that the rich aren't spiritual as well. 

The poor have a set of spiritual skills that involve patience, optimism, faith, remembering to be grateful for even the smallest blessings, budgeting, and resilience. 

The rich have a set of spiritual skills such as generating good karma because those with bad karma get ripped off more often on average, concern for the poor, donating to charity but also being aware that if all money in the world was distributed evenly, in a year it would all end up where it was originally, that everyone is prone to their own habits and skills of budgeting or lack thereof, remembering to be grateful and content rather than to give in to the temptation of greed, not getting depersonalization and derealization when they get another overwhelming rich thing like a six figure sports car or staying at different 5 star hotels realizing most people work for a living and don't stay at 5 star hotels, but if no rich people stayed at 5 star hotels from guilt, derealization and depersonalization, then they'd be out of a job and they depend on working at that hotel for a living and using their money to help people. With panhandlers, it's a one way street. Panhandlers don't generally reciprocate and give Monty to others. However as the rich get money and revenue from their occupation, they also likewise give money to charities or to help poor people. In that way the rich are spiritual. 

Never envy the rich. Everyone is dealing with the uncertainty of the future, rich and poor alike. Joyce Meyer said to never envy anyone unless you are willing to do what they did to get the success, as successful people faced unique challenges on the way. 

Be happy for the rich, that way people will be happy for you if you ever get rich. 

And rich and poor alike, despite whatever crazy spazzy depressive episodes along the way when one thinks of just giving up on life, this is projection on my part, to remember to thank God for the gift of life. 

A man can boast that he got it on with thousands of women, but putting on a doctors hat, that might not medically be the best thing. Anyone who's had sex since 1995 has HPV. There are about 27 strains of HPV, 3 of which cause cancer. And bacteria have their family of bacterias. Exposure to more bacteria, its like drinking, you get more drunk faster with the more types of booze you mix in, so exposure to more types of bacteria makes for more intense bacterial problems and faster. These problems show up as STIs. 

These STIs is nature's way of preventing overpopulation. 

There are things I am good at and things I am not good at. I should only worry about the things I am good at and forget about the things that I am not good at. 

One of the things I am not good at is picking up women. Perhaps that's a good thing because it means I didn't get any STIs or not much of it. The chance of getting an STI is directly proportional to the number of women scored with. 

Finding a lady is one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is is maintaining a relationship, and once a bond is attained past a certain point, if that person goes, then painful grief is certain. Clinical grief is an actual medical event. 

I watched the first half of the Deadpool movie on a free streaming site. It's in low definition similar to a videotape that's been in a video rental store for a few years after tons of customers have already ran it through their VCRs. But hey, it's free. 

The movie deals with a serious topic which I wonder if it's real. The movie talks about the multiverse which is normal now for superhero movies. The multiverse. 

On an even more serious note, it talks about a TVA, time variance authority, Jean Claude Van Damme, Time Cop. It's a quantum field anyways at any given moment we get influences from the past and future in some kind of quantum superpositional junction that transcends linear time. 

The military has technology forty years in advance of what the public has, was the Philadelphia Experiment real, did Tesla in fact do experiments with time travel, linear time within the matrix net of time travel is an algorithm within an algorithm. 

The Mandela Effect, false memories, the Berenstein Bears, I remember as a child reading the book cover and saying it in my mind as the Beren-steen Bears and was even corrected with the words Beren-stine Bears. Berenstain is bullh*t. Berenstein to Berenstain sounds like anti German sentiment. 

"Don't do the experiment, Strange. It's too dangerous." Wong, Spiderman, No Way Home

Dr Strange was going to do a time travel, go back in time and change some event experiment. 

There are different sized triple effect. Move a pebble, not much of a ripple effect. Save the Titanic from sinking, big ripple effect. The Deadpool movie mentions people so pivotal that their early death would cause a triple effect that would affect the entire timeline. Wolverine is one of them when he died an early death in the movie Logan, that affected not one but an entire group of timelines in the multiverse. 

I'd say a legend in your own mind, talk about delusions of grandeur. 

I'd also say that this is the kind of movie where you ask yourself, "How many bags of cocaine did the director have to do to complete this movie?" And of course George Lucas said, "There's no such thing as a finished movie. There are only projects walked away from." Any movie dealing with something as ppetentous and voluminous as the multiverse and disrupted timelines is bound to be a project that's walked away from. 

"So if I were you I would count my blessings and stop trying to be so f*cking interesting. Got it?" Axel F, Beverly Hills Cop

I wonder if I'm trying to be interesting. Psychodrama. My mind goes at a certain speed. 

A YouTube comment about the Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie said it best," Jared Leto's Joker is a normal man trying to be crazy, Joaquin Phoenix's Joker is a crazy man trying to be normal."

I wish I was normal. 

Saturday, July 27, 2024

There could be plzces on Mars that look just like a place on Earth and also vice versa. Is this an example of quantum entanglement? 

Some people say to someone who is living," You're dead to me."

While other people say to someone who died, "You're still alive to me and you always will be."

Epic Fun roller coaster. Not to be confused with Epic roller coaster. 

Epic Fun roller coaster from the same developer B4T games offers an ultimate pack. 8 simple roller coasters for $12. When I got that it said I had to launch the base game to start this and I was provided with a link. I click on the link and the base game isn't available. 

It's a loss. One time I purchased a $35 Google card that simply didn't work. I was the one who paid.. The store got some money from the deal, Google got some money from the deal. I got nothing from the deal. It's these defective dysfunctional forces that are part of the shoddy physics of this dimension that make me know that there are some things that I hate more than life itself. I'd give up on this life altogether in one hot second if the choice was up to me. I'd throw away this life with its rip off set of physics if it was up to me. I'd be gone in a second. I'd be gone so fast it would seem like it was yesterday. 

B4T is either incompetent or they are actively just ripping people off. 

I spoke with an agent but wasn't able to get a refund. 

I got Fun a licious on Epic Roller Coasters. Nothing, but a cart that kinda resembles John Lennon's acid Mercedes and a maroon color teddy bear companion. Useless. Whatever. Price, $2.50. I won't ask for a refund. 

Epic Fun roller coaster doesn't exist. The purchasable add on exists but it doesn't lead to any main game that does exist. Total and complete rip off. Now I'm out $13.50. 

The fine print is that this only works with Oculus Rift. They have a strict no refund policy. 

I don't mind paying the extra money due to some unforeseen unfortunate event. The things I did get are worth more than their money. There's no way you could have got something like this in the 80s for this amount of money. 

I'll just think of it as a tip for a job well done and it more than makes up for any otherwise glitches. I'd rather have lost a small amount of money to B4T games than to most other entities on Earth. I doubt it's deliberate on their part. $13 is only about three quarters of an hour of minimum wage. I've had so many excellent memories playing the shooter mode on their roller coasters. 

I think they're renovating. The default levels usually available for free simply aren't working namely, Rock Falls, T Rex Kingdom, Secret Caves and Tropical Paradise used to run on all 4 cylinders. 

Now it doesn't work at all. Doesn't download at all and there is an icon that says Connect to B4T server. I click on it and nothing happens. 

Problems problems. B4T. 

Lesson: Read the fine print regarding supporting platforms. This especially applies when purchasing an augmented reality game when you have a Quest 2 rather than a Quest 3. Result, money down the drain unless you get a Quest 3. 

Bizarre. Epic Fun is a low tech game. Meta Quest 3 is a high performance unit that uses the Snapdragon generation 2 microprocessor. Surely it would be easy for it to handle whatever graphics requirements are on Epic Fun. 

I already have Epic Roller Coaster but would pine for Epic Fun coaster? Bizarre. That's like having a Mercedes and then pining for a less expensive model car. 

It's not over yet. I'm thinking that B4T will do a graphics upgrade and do a release, upgraded for meta quest 3 as I've seen other games do that. One day I'll turn on my VR goggles and Epic Fun roller coaster will be installed with all the DLC that I paid for. 

I got the Sherlock Holmes app. I just had to. Cost: $15.67. 

The Sherlock Holmes app was better than the reviews said it would be. The main room where one talks to Watson really has nostalgic vibes. I felt right at home, even more at home than usual. Play It through once and if you fail a level due to running out of time, restart a new game and try it again. Keep trying. 

Three politicians found dead. Hung. 

5 suspects 

1. Anarchist lady, keeps a pet snake

2. Black lady, owns textile mill, name crossed out on a list, "With a word from me, there can be a line placed under your name or across it." Ray Liota, Hannibal

3. Lady who owns the Tribune newspaper

4. Politician member of a fictional political party called LAFLIP

5. Publisher

The forensic examiner said victims died before they were hung. Traces of substance found in lungs so method of poison administering is inhalation rather than ingestion or injection. 

After she said inhalation, I had a choice amongst others to ask her to investigate a snuff bottle or a whiskey bottle. I chose whiskey bottle and couldn't take back the decision. If it was inhalation, I should have chosen snuff bottle. 

Sherlock Holmes' computer password involved the cryptology from The Mystery of the Dancing Men. I didn't know that Sherlock Holmes used computers. Well, that's the kind of game it is. 

Ran out of time before I could decipher the password. First letter is M. I'm guessing Moriarty? 

At this point I stopped the game and now have it reset to a new game. Which is the same game as before. 

Feeling fear and anxiety again. I was kind of fine before then I smoked some weed. That often does it. I fear the future and I fear myself because I think I'm crazy and my goal is to be 100% normal and 100% sane and to be perfectly regimented and disciplined like the military. 

I think British people appear to be perfect. They keep a stiff upper lip and always seem to know what to do. And they seem to not take life too seriously. A few dollars overspent here and there once in awhile. Who cares? 

Getting VR apps is a compulsion but there are worse compulsions. But if one is at the point where they are saying, "There are worse things," at that point they are already past far gone. 

If I didn't feel fear, I wouldn't feel anything at all. I feel fear all the time. One day, my spirit will be healed from fear. With God's help. 

Sunday, July 28, 2024

I don't know what you're going to think, but I got Skybox VR for $13.50. 

I hope that my addiction to getting new VR apps will stop. It can stop right now if I want it to. 

This all should clue me in to what it would be like if I got a car and why I shouldn't think it's something wrong that I didn't get one. Get VR goggles and then get apps. Get a car and then get gas all the time and gas is more expensive than apps and a car won't run without gas so one has no choice but to get that whereas apps are optional on VR goggles. 

So in that way, a car would be VR goggles on steroids. Actually one can get apps for a lot of machines, VR goggles, cellphones and tablets and PCs too. 

Skybox looks interesting. It is another variation of Big-screen VR. It has a really good and refined looking regular theatre and an IMAX theatre as well and other theatres as well. The moon theatre and the space station theatre looks really good but the premise is downright silly. Yeah, right. My dream was always to watch a movie outdoors on the surface of the moon. For some reason I think watching movies outdoors is an anathema as movies are only good watched indoors. For $13.50 I don't know if the price is exorbitant. 

It's another genre app that does the same thing over and over. Another theatre and screen. One day, there will be about a couple of dozen of such apps as success breeds imitation. What. Is one supposed to get them all? Get all apps of every genre? 

After awhile one becomes desensitized or realizes just as with the tablet, one gets apps and then one day has a collection where most apps aren't even played at all. Apps once installed, stay on your account's installed or else the uninstalled list for life. 

I won't always be getting apps. One gets kinda desensitized to them. And then gets to the point where they are asking, so to speak, "Isn't this where I came in?" 

I don't know that with an electric car if one has to pay for gas. But I'm sure that one is endlessly plugging money into it one way or another. Insurance, Nexen brand snow tires, Alpine or Blaupunkt stereo for 80s mix tapes, that's a must, Brembo brake pads, and I'm sure the electricity is something metered and paid for. I'm not sure how that works, exactly. And alas, get paid for apps for the GPS screen because I'm pretty sure that one can pay for additional treats and goodies on their GPS screen. One app I can think of is an app that displays a much better looking map than the standard stock issue map. The maps could have themes, an 1800s Lewis and Clarke style map, an art deco era map, a 1950s looking map, futuristic cyber map, arthouse map etc. Each additional map costs about $3 - $5. It's an electronic medium. It's not something that is produced and held in the hand, it's just radio waves so that's why it's so relatively inexpensive. 

Maxwell's equation, radio waves travel just as fast as light waves. That's why apps can be downloaded so fast. And where is the parent supercomputer for the app?  In some cases it's overseas!

It might seem like I'm speaking another language but I'm on a learning curve, one that the VR community would approve of. The VR community would know exactly each and every one of the apps I wrote about and more. 

The News said that social media including VR can affect one's relationships causing one to forsake them in pursuit of more visceral electronically generated audio visual pleasures. They say that like its a bad thing. No friendship is better than a friendship that is meaningless, goes nowhere and does nothing. From the square flake that doesn't like rock music but only likes classical music to the toxic narcissist and gaslighter. I mean really, no friendship is better than crap like that, a thousand times over. 

Be on my VR goggles or hang out with personalities or with energy like that, what would I rather do? I wonder..... 

So I plonkered down $13.50 today. On other Sundays it might have been a $5 and sometimes $10 donation to the Church and $3.30 for a coffee and a fruit and fibre muffin at McDonald's. It's the fibre because the body needs fibre or certain things start breaking down. 

Going to Sidney is usually more expensive. I've had nearly $100 days in Sidney. See a movie with popcorn and a drink $16, dinner at restaurant including a soft drink and tips, $30 easy, go to a bakery $12, go to supermarket to pick up something for dinner tomorrow night, $20. 

I'm not going to Sidney again for awhile. 

How can one spend 100% of any money they have on just food? Usually they get other things but a month with money spent only on food saves money because food is essential. Just go to grocery stores and just seldom go to a restaurant. 

Need money, need food, the soul is chained to this energy jangle for whatever amount of time. In the afterlife, one no longer needs to worry about food or money and in which case, I couldn't get there soon enough. 

I'm going to procrastinate on the Sherlock Holmes app. A photo of Queen Victoria is one of the clues and is the McGuffin star of the app. Sherlock Holmes and solving cases is best for autumn. In fact Autumn is the best season for VR and summer is the worst. 

Most VR games have an autumnal theme. Zombie shooters, Sherlock Holmes, World War 1 airplane app, The Faceless lady VR film drama, all that is best for the fall. 

Summer is the best season for the World War 2 airplane app. Young, just graduated high school, Summer of 1944 and 1945. Enlist to go and fly airplanes over the Pacific in World War 2. It was golden times. 

So I'll wait until the Autumn to play the Sherlock Holmes app. I don't know how good I'll do at it. The game requires you to focus in on a situation as if you were required to give that person advice. And I'm not really good at the game of Clue. The game of Clue is available as an app on Google Android tablet for $5. I did purchase it, actually, and tried it and never quite got the hang of it. 

Skybox VR. For what it was, it was all right. Home screen is a typical VR environment, once you've seen a few, you've seen them all. Theatre options are only active after the video has been clicked on and not before. 

Alas, one can't sign on to their YouTube account. YouTube is available but not in a firm that let's you access your favorites, purchased movies etc which is deceptive marketing. They should have mentioned that in their ads. They didn't because they knew that might be a deal breaker when so many free apps let you sign in to YouTube such as Big-screen, DeoVR and Playa VR player. This inability to sign in to YouTube is discussed on a forum on Skybox VR's own website and the issue was left unresolved. 

The Skybox VR theatres give you lighting options and you can sit in the front, middle or back of the theatre. 

Big-screen gives you a sliding dimmer switch style lighting option while Skybox gives you 5 incremental lighting presets. 

You can sit in just about any seat unlike Skybox in which you can only sit in 3 seats. 

In Skybox VR when you look behind you, you see the light coming from the projectionist's window whereas that detail has been missed in Big-screen VR as on that app, the projectionist's window is dark at all times. 

The only good screens on Skybox VR is the regular cinema screen and the IMAX screen. All the rest are whatever they are. The cinema screens on Skybox VR are no better and certainly no worse than the ones seen on Big-screen VR. The screens on Big-screen VR cost $12 for Gallery, $12 for sports bar and $7 for residence and $2.50 for paper airplanes.

Overall, Big-screen VR is way better. But the two ultra polished ultra refined Cinema and IMAX screens and more on Skybox VR are certainly worth the money which is $13.50 including tax. $13.50 Canadian, that's about £6 UK. 

Go to VVS films on YouTube. Tons of free full length movies good for watching on Skybox VR. 

DeoVR. You need to sign up to watch videos. Create a user name and password. Other apps, no need to sign up, you're on and watching videos. Plus with DeoVR, you need to sign up and then pay a monthly subscription. And it doesn't give you any theatre environments, just a screen no different than you would get on YouTube VR. 

I think I tried DeoVR and was turned off. Monthly subscription for what? Uninstalled. 

Playa VR. No access to YouTube. Just their curated and handpicked videos a lot of them K-pop videos. Otherwise absolutely no different than the YouTube VR screen with otherwise no access to actual  YouTube. Incidental. Spurious. Lightweight. Uninstalled. 

Yesterday, I tried Pistol Whip free trial. I turned it off with 17 minutes left to go. Sure if it's your kind of thing. I've seen better graphics on free apps let alone apps half that price like Beat Blaster. Once you've tried a few, you've tried them all and my personal favorite shooter VR game of them all is Drop Dead part 1. Fast crisp levels where one is stationary so no motion sickness. Regular and predictable pace and positioning of opponents in this case being zombies. A superb vehicle for anyone who wants to Live out their The Walking Dead fantasies of taking down zombies with a gun. 

I feel fear and overwhelmed again. What were the chances of that? The physics of this dimension. Being wired to an R complex. All that is irrelevant in the afterlife dimension. 

I didn't go to Church. There's no real reason to go. Even when I did go there, I was acting on a 70% impulse to go there. It was never like, a 150% impulse to go there. 

What would be an example of a 150% thing I'd want to go to? I guess staying at a 5 star hotel and then meeting a very important person and then getting a lot of money. Barry Lyndon saved General Potsdorf during a battle so he had a chance to meet the Chief Sergeant at Arms and Barry Lyndon  was awarded one gold coin which was a considerable amount of money since most people used coins made of a tin and silver alloy. That would be a 150% event. 

An anxiety psychologist on global, Martin something said that a little bit of anxiety is healthy. Once you experience it tkme and time again seeing that each time you are able to make it to the other side and that there will be people, events etc waiting for you when you do. It only becomes a problem when a person stops going out and interacting, going on walks, going to the museum etc. 

I've experienced cabin fever but that time it was multiple stressors, global pandemic, caregiver situational burnout, lack of sleep leading to clinical exhaustion, it was the week of the heat dome of '21. And not having left my apartment for more than half an hour a day at the most and usually it was a lot less for about 9 months and then one day I woke up with the panic attack of the century. My amygdala was on fire. My executive function had completely vanished. In medical first responder terminology, I hit the wall. No future in sight. The words 'my future' are an oxymoron because I have no future. How does one have a future exactly in the midst of a housing crisis? The housing crisis makes me think of just giving up on life altogether. 

Anxiety isn't like a tattoo that's perpetually there. It comes and goes otherwise how would one make the distinction of anxiety vs no anxiety? 

Today is Nanaimo annual bathtub race. I remember hearing about it in the 70s. Nanaimo bathtub race. It's been on for 56 years. And still going. 

A bathtub wouldn't be too seaworthy. One would need a keel. Or convert the bathtub into a catamaran or a trimaran. Otherwise lean too far to the left, right, front, back and the bathtub would sink. 

The winner of this year's Nanaimo bathtub race had a bathtub encased within a cigarette boat. Not exactly a cigarette boat. Perhaps an Evinrude 28 footer. 

To see the bathtub race personally, one would have to make the trip to Nanaimo. Then to return on a dreamy liminal trip to Vancouver and then back to Victoria. 

Monday, July 29, 2024

No one on Earth alive today loves me as much as Heather loved me. That's why I don't know if I want to go on living. 

There is a painting of a guy on a riverbank looking down at the water of a reflection of his dead girlfriend looking back at him. If he jumps in the water and drowns, he can be with her again. Looking at the reflection, he is tempted. It is left to the observers imagination of what he wound up doing. 

That's a genius painting. To quote Thomas Harris, "When Francis Dolarhyde looked at the painting of the Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, he felt as if William Blake had looked into his ear and peeked into his brain." Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

Whoever painted that picture certainly peeked into my brain. 

What am I living for and who am I living for?  I am unable to answer that question because nothing comes to mind. 

I wish I was in the afterlife. But I am afraid of dying. The physics of the afterlife, not having to worry about eating, nor sleeping, nor getting sick, nor growing old, nor dying, looking young forever, having all my teeth again is worth the price of admission. The price of admission is physical death. If it was up to me, I'd be gone, let's say in two years at most. I'd like to have two years to explore the world of VR but the next generation really mind-blowing stuff won't be released until ten years later. 

My death is up to God. 

One can't go before their time. Most people underestimate the effect they had on others so their death at the wrong time would cause the wrong ripple effect on the universe, even the multiverse as the new Deadpool movie teaches. 

People wind up making their own choice as every year, sadly so many people do themself in. I choose not to as that would set a bad example. I wouldn't want the people around me whom I know to all of a sudden top themselves. So why should I do it. 

Drinking coca leaf tea just about always on the day after brings a Nietzscheian existential blackness that makes me think of just giving up on life altogether. Seriously, the housing crisis, my hotel closing down. What if I don't find a place and one I can afford? Would it not then be arguable that I am perhaps better off dead? In the afterlife, I can see in 16 primary colours, 32 secondary colors, 64 tertiary colors and 128 quartenary colours and shades thereof and I don't have to worry about the housing crisis. 

On the Earth dimesion, we see 3 primary colors, 6 secondary colors, 12 tertiary colours and 24 quartenary colors and shades thereof. Pink is a shade of red and is not another colour or secondary or tertiary color. Green, purple and orange are secondary colors along with the primary colors form a group of 6 colors. 

The only things that love me as much as and even more than Beebs are the celestials, angels and Jesus and God, and Mother Mary but they love everybody, not just me. 

I wonder if Adam and Eve was real and if so, would there be ghosts or spirits of Adam and Eve? I don't think so. What about Lucy the Ape? There can only be one or the other not both if you follow the premise of either, the mythology or the science. 

The Bible says there was Adam and Eve and also Lucy the ape? Bullsh*t! 

Science says there was Lucy the ape and also Adam and Eve? Bullsh*t! 

Actually, a YouTube video said that there were at least 20 progenitor species before Lucy the Ape arrived on the scene. 

Women are beautiful. Well that what keeps the evolutionary pot stirring. It didn't work in my case as I didn't have any children. Result, I am a recipient of the Darwin Award. 

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

This has so far been one of the best summers I've had so far. 

I got the movie Kingdom of Heaven on YouTube today which is the last day of the month. I hope that on the last day of my life, I make it to the kingdom of Heaven. Jesus Himself specifically referred to Heaven as a Kingdom. 

The movie is spectacular. It takes ip the full screen, no letterbox. Some of the music is hauntingly beautiful particularly the middle eastern singing. 

I had just enough on my Google play account for one more movie priced at $14.99. I couldn't afford any movies priced more than that. I had this for quite a few days. After mulling it over for not just one but for a few days, I settled on the most spectacular movie. I've known this movie for years. It is the best movie to watch on Sunday morning as this is one of the few movies that are good for Sunday vibes. Another really good Sunday movie is Staying Alive starring John Travolta. 

Tomorrow is meta quest's monthly new release day. I have a monthly pass. One game I want to get but is unable to purchase in advance is Retronika. The app is a The Fifth Element looking motorcycle ride through a futuristic city. It is a flying motorcycle. 

I checked my credit card purchase balance. $1,050 on VR apps plus about $100 on movies off YouTube. That wipes me out as you could guess. 

It's like travelling to a third world country. The initial cost of the plane trip is expensive. But once you get there, it's a theme park where the prices of most things are relatively cheap. 

The initial purchase cost is painful. But years later when I still have the apps, it will be wonderful as the money cost will have long since become irrelevant. The gift that keeps on giving. 

In a few hours, next month's meta Quest plus will release next months batch of two games to keep and a bunch of games in the one month lending library. 

Most games are artsy and escape room. A few shooters but once you played a few shooters, you've played them all. The meta Quest plus program brings to the stage, apps that otherwise wouldn't be known about. That causes some of these apps to be purchased that would otherwise not be known about and not purchased. The next month could cause a shopping spree for games previously in the lending library now back on sale on the shelf. 

I don't want to purchase any games from last month. Otherwise I already purchased them. Tetris is available and I bought that. Tetris was pricey, $35. Fruit Ninja was available. I think I purchased that. I purchased Fruit Ninja 2 for sure. FN2 is a lot better than FN1. A lot better. 

FN1 has just one screen stage for all modes, Zen, classic, survival, etc

FN2 has a separate screen stage for each mode. It also has archery. Who cares? 

The sword levels are more than worth the money and Fruit Ninja 2 is a desert island game. If I was stuck on a desert island and could have only up to ten VR apps, I would have, 

1. Epic Roller Coasters

2. Coaster Combat

3. Tetris

4. Fruit Ninja 2

5. Warplanes World War 1

6. Warplanes World War 2

7. 1976

8. Drop Dead part 1

9. Bigscreen VR with YouTube working. 

10. VR animation app

I am experiencing a minor panic attack now. I think people think I'm crazy for being into VR. 

VR is still new to me so I am not used to this and feel overwhelmed. 

I wish to thank God and I wish to thank the government for providing me with such a blessing which is my VR goggles and also my electric skateboards too. A year ago I would have never imagined this. VR goggles are a portable University education, kind of. 

On the SCTV parody of Oliver Twist, Martin Short was Oliver Twist and one day he had to accept that he was to be going along on a journey to America with his new adoptive family. 

In this way I have to accept that I'm going along on a journey to the meta quest plus monthly subscription VR land with my new adoptive VR family that lives in my VR goggles. 

I am going along for the ride. 

If I have so many VR games I hope that you don't think I'm bad. When someone has a very vivid dream, they feel they committed a crime and what is VR but a very vivid dream? Hence the anxiety. 

I saw on the News at a Palestinian protest site with tents, etc, one student moved their arms up and down as the arms were facing inwards. This person when they graduate to the majorly phase of life in the hopefully distant future will have a life review and they will see how an almost seemingly mindless incidental movement that they made affected someone's life for the better. 

I do that exercise and more, arms facing inwards, out from the center and then arms facing outwards. This is a range of motion exercise that helps with FPS VR games. Now I'm incorporating this into my daily yoga routine. For life. 

The Palestinian protestor lady at UVIC University who did that taught me that move. 

Speaking of Palestine, the News said that Hamas leader Ismaili Haniyeh got killed in Iran recently. Remember the Steven Spielberg movie Munich? I guess Israel sent a few sabrahs to Iran to do the job. 

So what's the score? Is the war over? I doubt it. The tendency would be to keep the war profiteering pot stirring. However, the amount of international support is inversely proportional to the amount of time, the longer the amount of time, the less international support. Didn't the Hague already view the conflict as a war crime? 

I think of Christmas whenever I think of Israel. I hope that tourists can travel there for Christmas again one day. The other day, I found a miniature creche. Where was the original creche located? Israel. 

When I think of Christmas in Israel, I think of silhouettes of palm trees set against a bright starry sky. There is a market festival and smells of food from food vendors and food trucks are there. What food? Shaved meat on pita bread, donairs, gyros, felafel, tabouleh, hummus, matzo ball soup. Strings of colored lights. People holding paper cups with hot chocolate or coffee or tea walking through the Christmas market. That's Israel in more optimum times. That's the Israel we know and love. 

My recipe for three star tabouleh. 

Get Casbah brand couscous. The box with the blue label. It should have the word tabouleh written on the box. 

Then dice tomatoes, cucumber, white onion and cilantro. Mix it all together after the couscous has cooled from cooking. Add in two teaspoons of olive oil too.

Optional. Serve on a plate on a single large leaf of lettuce. 

Incredible. 

I guess you could add other things like cold prawns or pieces of cold chicken. Lobster, steak filets whatever. I never did. It was always just a veggie salad for me. 

Olivia Apps of the Canadian women's soccer team is bald. Why? She has alopecia. She doesn't have cancer. A bald head would help with aerodynamics when it comes to running speed in the Olympics. 

A woman with a bald head reminds me of Roald Dahl's The Witches. Anjelica Huston, Anne Hathaway, I saw both the movies. 

With the help of wigs, a bald headed lady can be a brunette, a blonde, an Oriental and a silver fox. 

Olivia Apps probably wears a wig most of the time. 

Researchers at Simon Fraser University SFU is turning to the fruit fly to study Parkinson's disease instead of turning to Marty McFly. 

I don't know about you but every time I think of fruit flies, I'm thinking of Parkinson's disease and vice versa. 

What's the link anyways? What made the idea enter their mind considering that there are over a billion animal species on Earth. Why not the pangolin? Why not the Malaysian sun bear? 

Universities are sure funny places. 

Universities have their fair share of crazy stories. Not to get specific at all as to tell tales out of school, it's common knowledge that Universities are bastions of designer drug production, strange R&D projects involving applied quantum physics, scary visuals at the forensics component of medical studies. So it shouldn't be surprising that a University is making a connection between two usually non-secular topics. 

I would like to feel Sunday vibes again one day, one Sunday. I want to feel them strongly. So strongly you could cut the air with a knife. I've felt Sunday vibes like that before. Not for years though.