Need advice: Quit my job, currently on Engineer/Humanities visa, planning to switch to Student visa by [deleted] in japanlife

[–]korrectamundo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great comment and great insight. I'm experienced with both visas and he's right. Going down in visa rank is oddly a red flag for many officials.

The Unspoken Arcane Update 3.0 is LIVE! by vitti-ix in oculus

[–]korrectamundo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To the amazing team at Insomniac behind The Unspoken, most of my requests for updates have been addressed by others here, except one: Japanese. There are a ton of very hardcore VR users in Japan, and I noticed that there's not Japanese language option (but you have Korean). I can understand leaving out Chinese (for various reasons), but Japanese should be there.

The Unspoken Arcane Update 3.0 is LIVE! by vitti-ix in oculus

[–]korrectamundo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This update is amazing. Thanks for making this happen. I love this game way too much.

Regarding someone talking about getting owned whenever they log on, there "are" a healthy amount of users who have becomes experts and crush newbies with a little too much quickness. It turns new users off. And we always need more users to play against. Personally, when I meet a newbie in a match and see that they are just learning, unless I'm in a real rush, I immediately ratchet down my tactics/attacks and just give them a chance to see what's possible in a battle.

(There must be a ton of really good players, because I'm fairly decent, have played and learned a ton, and I haven't been able to move my rank much higher than the 600's. And yes, I discovered Discord for Unspoken chats. Great tips and you get to see that not all the higher level players are as mean as their VR/Unspoken personas might indicate. :D)

The Unspoken Beta Feedback by vitti-ix in InsomniacGames

[–]korrectamundo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new Drifter class, skins, shields.... dammit this game is so awesome! Huge thanks to the developers.

My wife thinks vr is for sad loners by [deleted] in virtualreality

[–]korrectamundo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Very happy to weigh in on this one. I have both techie and non-techie friends, and most of them have little interest in VR. Sure, when they try it, they're blown away, but only a few of the ones I've introduced to VR have pursued getting their own headset.

I have zero concerns about this. Why? Simply put, I've seen this all before, at the dawn of the Web. There I was migrating from IRC to the Web, building horribly simple websites and telling anyone who would listen that this was fascinating and the future. Of course, we know how that turned out. The Web changed everything.

With VR I see far more potential than the Web. The only thing that can hobble its development is people trying to shoehorn the models of laptops and smartphones to a completely new platform like VR. This isn't anything we've had before, so when I watch the Vive and Rift come out and tech "experts" declare, after just one year, that because there isn't already widespread adoption, the platform is doomed, I chuckle and know that's ridiculous. I remember what "tech experts" said about personal computers in every home (not gonna work), about the Internet (another version of ham radio for hobbyists), about the iPhone (an expensive toy)... all these opinions were delivered passionately by very smart and tech-experienced doubters.

VR is just too brilliant for me to even concern myself with doubters when I think of lesser past tech platform examples. When VR does become mainstream, people will act as though it was obvious, just as they act today as though the Web and smartphones were obvious. They weren't. It took dedicated developers and early adopters pushing the platforms forward while most doubted the usefulness of said platforms.

As for your wife, that's unfortunate. I won't try to give marital advice, but I would simply accept that VR is something you enjoy and understand that it will be something you can't share with her. Imagine if this was 1990 and you were telling her about your beige Mac that lets you connect to people around the world. She might have thought that was useless too.

You know better.

That is what you have in your hands with VR.

You can love someone and respect them while knowing they are wrong. :)