Friday, August 1, 2025
Today, cleaned at Blanchard Street, then the Courtyard at the Courthouse, then stairs then driveway.
August meta horizon plus apps
- Starship Troopers, I've always thought that an embedded anagram and with letters in sequential order can be derived and that embedded anagram is ars hoopers.
This app is the premium chanpagne version of Crash lands VR. This has a licensed Hollywood franchise attached to it. I never saw the movie. What's to see? A lot of insectoid arachnids on a hostile desert planet. I tried the app but you have to be fast with the reload and the grenades otherwise you'll get struck down. Again and again.
- Workshop. Be at a office. Make coffee. Prep paperwork. Or flip ground beef patties. What's the difference? One is blue collar and one is white collar. I never tried it. I was sitting down and it asked me to get up and walk two paces to the starting area and stand up for VR calibration alignment. Too lazy. I couldn't be bothered. And this is someone who volunteers sweeping the street for hours on most days of the week. Selective lazyness.
- Eleven Table Tennis. I don't want to play any VR games involving rackets. The only distant favorite is the free VR app that is strangely premium champagne grade because free apps are usually low in quality. Tennis VR is a favorite because it reminds me of the tennis courts of Beverly Hills. With this app, I can have the Beverly Hills experience in my own apartment.
With any VR table tennis app, you could have the Forrest Gump experience in your very own home.
With any VR pickleball app, you could have the middle class suburban townhouse experience.
- Ghosts of Tabor. Ghosts of who gives a f***. Tabor. That reminds me of Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. "Lives he by the Tabor?"
Anyways, tried it. The handgun bullets looked and sounded like it was a pea shooter. No accuracy or reliability in aiming at all. Gun Club VR is profoundly intuitive. Ghosts of Tabor. Not so much.
- The Room VR. Dark Matter.
The Room VR app is from a Polish VR app developer. The Room is a movie from Tommy Wiseau who is Polish. Room in Polish is pokoj.
Anyways, the app throws the player in the deep fryer as one is all of a sudden at a Police station as a Constable in 1800s London. The Police station is devoid of Police Officers. Even in the 1800s, they were more together than that. The paucity of personnel. Let's face it, meta Quest 3 is basically the first generation of instruments in an entertainment media that is still in its early pioneer days.
On a desktop is a key. The key opens a safe but as soon as the key is withdrawn from the supposedly open safe, vines grow out of the keyhole. The evidence locker produces a matchbox, a dagger and a gold pocket watch. Neither of those things as it turns out can open the safe. Am I missing something? Well obviously. But what?
The app addresses the player as Constable when let's face it, no Police department would have anything to do with the likes of us as prospective Constables.
Remember that while a Police Officer presumably has some level of security clearance, the average conspiracy theorist has level zero security clearance. That is none at all.
That's when I couldn't proceed any further. I've heard of arrested development but this is ridiculous. At the Police station? It wouldn't be the first time.
I'll have to watch a walkthrough video on YouTube which is the cheater method. The Room is from the same developer as Ghost Town VR.
I saw a walkthrough video. I'll try it again. This promises to open up mind blowing worlds. The Police station looked very detailed. And Victorian London nostalgic.
"Ghost of Christmas future, I fear you more than any other spirit I've seen." A Christmas Carol
Half Life Alyx costs $80. Any high definition high data game connected to a VR gaming computer because of increased data costs way more than the average meta Horizons app.
Get a VR gaming computer, $1,500. Sign on to steam, open an account. Then pay $80 plus tax, about $90 for Half Life Alyx.
Forget it.
Meta horizon is good enough.
"Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall..... For the times they are a changing." Bob Dylan
News. US lawmakers and Congressmen complain about smoke from Canada's forest fires. Well, did Canada complain to the US about Mount Saint Helen?
Trump imposes a 35% tariff on Canadian goods. Trump is a 35% tariff in human form.
Victoria and Vancouver are towns that are very strong in their traditions of Shakespeare. Bard on the Beach, better than barred off the beach in Vancouver and the MacPherson Playhouse and the Royal Theatre in Victoria has Shakespeare productions.
Very expensive. Couldn't afford to go.
The two Shakespeare plays I want to see the most are
- The Tempest. Shakespeare's last and most philosophical play. Explores the themes of our place in the Universe. All the World's a stage and all the people are merely players.
See, Shakespeare loves idioms and puns etc. Stage. Stage as in theatre performance platform or a stage of life. Caterpillar is a stage, butterfly is a stage. Life in this dimension with its Shakespearean set of physics is a stage. The afterlife with quite a different set of physics and time dynamic is another stage.
A couple is shipwrecked on an island where on the island lives Prospero the wizard from Midgard or the Earth world. Ariel the magic nymph from Astrogard, and Caliban from Helheim or else Swartelheim, the land of the swarthy.
The idea of the play always interested me.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare's most psychedelic play. Recommended after smoking some hash. Most visually spectacular.
England has a midsummer night festival at Glastonbury and at Stonehenge. Lots of young people dressed up in costume and getting drunk.
I'm not really sure of the complete plotline of these plays. I've read quite a few condensed versions of Shakespeare's plays.
I once found a thick book which I left behind on a outdoor picnic table then someone scooped it. It was a very old book of Shakespeare's plays but rewritten in modern English. First of all, I thought, "As if I'm going to read all of this." I don't do a lot of reading anymore. Just piloting airplanes in VR is what I mainly do these days. And then Shakespeare's plays are most magical in their original. I can tolerate the King James Bible being translated into modern form but not Shakespeare. Shakespeare's magic lies in the original wording in the original 16th Century English which is priceless and inimitable.
Shakespeare rewritten in modern English seems like a watered down version of Shakespeare with not nearly the magic.
I don't regret leaving the book behind.
The idea is to see the plays at the Globe Theatre in London. Know the plays well, understand the plotline well first, otherwise you won't get what's happening.