[FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

[glen]

Ha! Y'all are pissin' me off, here. The classification of twinking as cheating is so over. This point still qualifies for both the general content of the list and the VR/AR discussion. The difference between a bug and a feature depends on the perspective of the "user". E.g. the Log4Shell bug isn't a bug. It's a feature if you're a black hat looking to "move fast and break things" or if you're a white hat looking for some street cred. Circuit benders, gamers, rave attendees, microdosers, etc. are all properly classified as psychonauts. Twinking is yet another form of it.

Of course, it's irritating when the butthurttryhard just wants to defeat the stupid boss to make progress in the game and some twink keeps killin' 'em on the run to the boss. The victim thinks it's cheating. But game theory and coevolution tell other stories. Git Gud or Go Home. Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law.

On 8/9/22 10:20, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> and I'm learning that twink could refer to the cheating player themselves or in Glen's use:
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> " It can also be used to describe the process of keeping a video game character at a low level while using in-game currency, earned by a high-level character, to provide it with superior equipment."
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> I think I will try randomly using "it's time to get my twink on" with my gamer son.
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> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, 11:08 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com>> wrote:
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>     SG -
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>     Thanks for taking/following/explicating that bait.  I was pretty sure glen was Tweaking us with Twitch and Twink... very NLP if not actually poetic.
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>       I was only aware of the gay-culture terminology but trusted that Glen (as he is wont to do) was expanding our vocabulary/awareness in some way that I failed to unroll fully (nominally an arbitrarily deep fractal/iterated map?).
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>     -SS
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>     On 8/9/22 10:48 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>>     On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, 10:18 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>         [⛧] My black PS4 controller is terribly twitchy compared to my gold one. I died like 5 times getting my latest Dark Souls twink started. Pfft.
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>>     learned a new meaning of Twink today :-)
>>     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking>
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