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  • Wow your VR movie-watching setup is astounding. A cousin showed me “VrChat” (I think?) a couple years ago, and in grad school some of my thesis work involved avatars in 3D environments. I haven’t messed with it since then, I never had a headset or anything. I’ve thought about it, but my career’s in freefall so I should probably take care of that first.

    Yeah, the comments are all in text. You can access the comments through a web browser, like here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon The movie synchronization isn’t as sophisticated as in your setup, basically the organizers just says “GO!” and everyone starts watching and commenting. Naturally, those with ads get kinda off-sync but there’s always an ad-free option, like the https://miru.miyaku.media/ stream. Usually that miru stream shows the movie, then there’ll be a brief interlude, and then the second movie (Grizzly 2 in this case) will be streamed. Anyway, I’m “Terencio” on mastodon, I shout out Lemmy towards the beginning, klu9 and a couple others from bmoviebonanza are usually there too!


  • Sergio@piefed.socialtoStreetwear@lemmy.worldDsquared2 #2
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    14 hours ago

    It looks like a pretty inventive cross between a Baja and a Poncho . It definitely uses Baja-like cloth, and it has a hood like a Baja. But it apparently has no sleeves, and is long like a poncho. And the hood looks more like a collar, which I think is rare for Bajas. And it has an additional blanket attached around the shoulders in a style which I kinda associate with north-american-Natives. It’s a great piece. Pairing it with moccasins is a visual pun. But I’m not crazy about the pants.

    @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml is right that it’s runway fashion, and the Dsquared2 web pages identify themselves as “alternative luxury”. But this community’s about “Fashion rooted in youth subcultures”, and the Baja is traditionally a youth item. Plus, there’ll be cheap knock-offs, and those’ll have influences on fast fashion variations, and all of this is inspiration for people doing DIY.


















  • Aw yeah, if you already know your rolls and breakfalls, Aikido is a great thing to check out. At lower levels, the “attacks” are basically two-person katas, usually involving escaping from grabs. At upper levels they do have something called randori but even then it’s all very structured. Aikido gets made fun of sometimes for not having a “live” adversary who’s actively trying to beat you. I’ve read there are some dojos that do competitive Aikido, but I think that’s rare.


  • When someone asks you questions, it’s also an opportunity to ask them questions back, to find out if you’re heading for an environment you don’t wanna be in.

    • THEM: Is work/life balance important to you?
    • YOU: So, obviously my family’s important to me. I always do my job, though. What kind of expectations to you have here?
    • THEM: Well… (look at each other nervously. look up at the cameras monitoring them.) We’re expected to make work a priority…