tkdguy Posted September 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 On 9/21/2022 at 8:55 AM, tkdguy said: Burning Man usually has a lot of stuff that looks futuristic. I would have posted a link, but all the videos I found had someone dropping the f-bomb at least once. Found some stuff appropriate for the boards. Many images reminds me of Airship Pirates, a roleplaying game based on Abney Park's songs. I wonder if the Nomads were influenced by Burning Man. Still, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi game intrigues me. Some scenes from this year's event. Lots of skimpy clothing, but they're in the desert, after all. One of the displays, a 28 foot diameter spinning disc filled with LEDs And the obligatory drone show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2022 https://ouchhh.tv/DATAGATE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steriaca Posted October 3, 2022 Report Share Posted October 3, 2022 I just watched the new Cronenberg movie Crimes of the Future. It is a future world with no space travel, where everything around us is totally synthetic, and that we are growing mysterious organs in our bodies. It has become performance art to cut into your own bodies and pull out these organs. Surgery has become an artform. Eventually it is revealed that these mysterious organs are designed to digest plastics. Our bodies are evolving to deal with the synthetic world. Kinda also forgot to mention, mankind can no longer feel pain. The worse one feels is extreme discomfort as someone drills into the back of your skull killing you. tkdguy and Scott Ruggels 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2022 We discussed AI drones racing against humans a while back. Here's one of the latest developments. Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 https://www.teamlab.art/e/acornforest/ Here's a video of nighttime walkabout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 This whole park is one gigantic light show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjoatmon Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 Ages and ages ago, in Space Opera, we devised a gravity ball game. It was played in the 0g training rooms on space stations. Round goal at each end, ball fired from one of several random chutes to start the game. Basically a 0g version of rugby. Having assorted 0g maneuverability helped, EVA only a little as that is more precise movements, psionics used to cheat, and 0g combat skill was a big plus. Acrobatics would help. We also had a few people with martial arts that had the Bruce Lee finger distance punch they used to cheat, as that was not shoving/grappling, but striking. Needs to be in a somewhat limited field with fewer players or you have the whole problem of being stuck with no maneuverability. Some places had optional rules for fan and compressed thrust. Fan was slower but unlimited. Compressed gas was faster but you had a limited tank. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2022 We've already covered the laser harp. Here's the earth harp. DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted October 24, 2022 Report Share Posted October 24, 2022 The Laser Harp looks cool, but it looks like it's just a fancy way of pressing buttons: Each laser beam shines on a sensor, and interrupting the beam triggers an electronic tone. Whereas the Earth Harp uses a very old method of making sound, but erases the distinction between instrument and performance space. It would also work well in a Fantasy setting (I.ve postulated similar things such as D&D grimlocks tapping and bowing tuned stalagmites to turn an entire cave into a musical instrumet, or for Exalted a lesser elemental dragon of water that pierced an island with tubes to create a giant organ played by waves and tides.) Dean Shomshak tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2022 Need ideas for Christmas gifts? Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scott Ruggels Posted December 31, 2022 Report Share Posted December 31, 2022 Oops, wrong thread. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted February 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 Just when I thought this thread had run its course, along comes the AI art generator: https://creator.nightcafe.studio/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scott Ruggels Posted April 6, 2023 Report Share Posted April 6, 2023 The problem with the metaverse, is that Zuckerberg';s vision is just a VR interface for the web we have already, and his version is primitive, especially when matched against VRChat, which has legs and user customized Avatars. I am not convinced that a VR interface for the web as we have it, would be efficient, or even desireable. As VRChat shows, it works great as a "social" environment, not so much an investigative environment. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted May 30, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2023 (edited) The Cube is a British game show where people perform challenges inside a large perspex cube CGI is used to project images in the cube while explaining the challenges. The show had versions in different countries, but only the American version is still on the air. Edited May 30, 2023 by tkdguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) There's a laser light show in San Francisco this weekend for the SF Pride event, and more are planned for the summer. But there's a dispute going on about whose IP it is. https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sf-pride-rainbow-laser-art-installation-welcome-prompts-charge-of-plagiarism/ Edited June 24, 2023 by tkdguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DeleteThisAccount Posted July 24, 2023 Report Share Posted July 24, 2023 There are already some Lightsabre martial arts tournaments, and I'm a lot more likely to allow them to be using "plasma swords" in a nearby future than the copyright withheld "lightsabre", but someone invents a real working lightsabre and has the foresight to also develop hard light hologram versions for fun as a toy training tool, then it is totally plausible for other space opera to have a lightsabre fighting tourney. DoctorImpossible, CaptainCoulson and tkdguy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 There's a new venue in Las Vegas: Sphere Here's a preview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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