alt Hacker NewsVery cheap game consoles and VR headsets. Unironically that could really help world peace and QOL: less news and doomscrolling, and people would have an outlet for stress, anger, and boredom.
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lm28469 • yesterday at 8:51 PM
Is this the technosolutionist version of "just one more lane and we'll fix traffic jams for good"?
lenerdenator • yesterday at 8:49 PM
I've never seen a group more easily angered than gamers.
"What do you mean the women in this game have proportions roughly equivalent to what's actually possible in nature?!?!"
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etherlord • yesterday at 9:26 PM
Have you read Ready Player 1 or watched the Matrix?
smokel • yesterday at 8:56 PM
You may be interested in alternative approaches such as playing chess, running, singing, dancing, or reading literature.
This is one of the more hopeful explanations of the Fermi paradox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_exp...
"Alien species may isolate themselves in virtual worlds"