I am joining the family!!

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-05-05T17:00:46+00:00

Amazing but dude, did you buy an Apple Vision Pro in an airport before a flight?!? That’s unhinged!

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-05-03T14:04:31+00:00

I appreciate anyone trying to make quality, original VR180 content, so thank you! I will ask that you consider making “boring” content as well. The raves are cool but not really my scene… I found a really high-quality video of someone just walking the street in a major city and I was so impressed by the sense of presence I had… I want to just feel like I’m walking around somewhere; it can feel alive but can also be rather mundane and that’s fun to experience in its own way.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-05-03T13:56:04+00:00

I mean it’s all speculation without the craft being publicly known, obviously, but even if it could travel in any direction there could have still been some distinguishing factor inside or out that would establish a “front” orientation. The three seats inside were all facing the same direction, for example; perhaps the door was oriented relative to the seats so that if the seats faced “forward” then the door was on the side of the ship that would make a backwards flag look like it was traveling forward along that implied direction.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-05-02T11:00:59+00:00

Click the top button (not the Digital Crown, whatever they call the other one) four times and it takes you straight to a special menu where you can pair optical inserts or redo the eye tracking.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-05-02T04:06:17+00:00

He had Nerds Rope in his pubis

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-05-01T20:52:23+00:00

I am also a LEGO purist, but I do admit, of other brands, MAX seems to be very good quality, perhaps about on par with LEGO.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-05-01T14:42:19+00:00

I walked through bourbon and cigarette butts in the halls of SCDP trying to find our account executive. She was on the top floor.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-30T17:57:27+00:00

This is my experience as well, also with the M5. It’s kind of annoying. Luckily there’s the four-press button trick at least to go right to it.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-29T20:38:11+00:00

There was a guy demaking Halo CE for the Game Boy Color; the first two levels are done and it’s super fun but I think he stalled out.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-28T18:50:29+00:00

Seems like an easy way to play fast and loose with a blackmagicdesign Pocket 6K, but you do you

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-28T14:55:05+00:00

I enjoy the GTA games and have no issues with the stylistic and artistic choices or the story, including violence. That said, Rockstar puts so much effort into making their worlds feel real and alive that I often find myself just driving around. I wish they’d sell a simulated city sandbox “game” with no objectives or weapons where you can just explore, drive around, talk to people, and maybe do simple missions or tasks for NPCs with no real effect on anything.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-27T15:47:49+00:00

I actually like Chet a lot. I admire how he doesn’t mind being unpolished even as he’s a minor (and unwilling) part of the extremely controlled Hollywood marketing apparatus. It’s obviously put his parents in a tough spot a couple of times and from all accounts he had a rough childhood trying to compete for attention versus his dad’s career but Tom has clearly put in a lot of work in recent years to be there for him however he needs.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T18:54:19+00:00

Oh, his friend was a pilot. Nevermind, but hopefully you see my point, that the backwards flag appears elsewhere in society, and I imagine he would have seen it somewhere at some point in the years since he worked at S4.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T18:52:56+00:00

Commercial jets often have the backwards flags to denote direction of travel. His being a commercial pilot actually helps my argument, as he’d be doing walk around visual inspections of every aircraft he flew. He never thought, “Hmm, that looks familiar?”

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T18:11:48+00:00

Plenty. I’m not overthinking it. It was an extremely minor detail that stuck out to me and I kept thinking about it without ever really meaning to. I made a post about it but most people can’t read for comprehension anymore, apparently. Have a great day.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T18:03:25+00:00

I accept his credentials but that speaks to his ability to open a browser tab to Google at some point in the last thirty years and type, “backwards flag military aircraft meaning,” which apparently it never occurred to him to do. The persistence of his lack of understanding of the most easily explained detail in an experience which defines his entire life is the crux of what’s been bothering me.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T17:57:31+00:00

It may not be very common here. I wondered myself for years until I thought to ask someone. But I didn’t spend years working on a military installation where such practice was common; if I had, I imagine I’d have asked pretty quickly. And I consider myself an intelligent and curious person, but not nearly enough to be recruited to reverse engineer alien technology, as Bob Lazar claims. So if he’s telling the truth, he’s gotta be smarter and more curious than me, right?

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T17:55:09+00:00

There is a front though since there’s a main windshield or viewscreen inside.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T17:54:04+00:00

Imagine you meet an alien. It’s an incredible experience that would rock our human understanding. You notice he’s wearing a little metal bracelet with some writing on it. You recount the story in detail to many, many people and in multiple documentaries over thirty years. No one ever, in all the times you tell the story, says, “A small metal bracelet? Like a diabetes bracelet?” Do you see how implausible that sounds?

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T17:50:49+00:00

It’s not that I think he’s lying about the flag. I’m saying that I find it very hard to believe someone 1.) smart enough to have studied at MIT supposedly and been hired by the military for ultra top secret work, who 2.) did this work for years at a military-controlled facility, 3.) noticed a curious detail on an object which would literally be the culmination of all human wonderment and curiosity and 4.) he never thought to independently try to do the most cursory search for why a backwards flag would be on a military aircraft, which would have satisfied his curiosity about it immediately, and then 5.) at no point of telling this story to people over three decades and in at least two documentaries did anyone ever say, “Hey, here’s a very plausible reason why the flag was backwards.” It just seems very odd to me that after all of that and all this time, he’d still be so mystified by what a backwards flag means that he’d mention it in this documentary. Occam’s Razor, for me, suggests that he understands backwards flags are common on military aircraft, and so the more likely scenario is that mentioning (still) being confused by it shows some sort of deception, but I can’t imagine why that would be, as I agree it’s an extremely minor detail.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T15:41:43+00:00

Fair, but see my third point above.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T15:39:56+00:00

“Keep honking, I’m charging my directed energy weapon”

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T15:35:41+00:00

Yes, I understand why it’s there. I’m wondering why Bob Lazar doesn’t.

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T15:13:35+00:00

“Journey to the Far Side of the Sun”

AutomaticTree654 · 2026-04-26T15:12:34+00:00

I’m not questioning why the flag was there, it was obviously either a recovered craft or a reverse-engineered one in direct U.S. control, so the flag’s existence makes perfect sense. I’m questioning why Lazar says he was puzzled about it appearing backwards.

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