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Just a regular monitor. It's an idiom in the VR community, especially since a lot of games support both VR and non-VR. But always saying "non-VR-mode" or "norm
by fknorangesite 5y ago
Just a regular monitor.
It's an idiom in the VR community, especially since a lot of games support both VR and non-VR. But always saying "non-VR-mode" or "normal mode" (which mode is 'normal'? VR or not?) is kind of awkward.
It started as "flat", people started joking about it being "pancake" and it just stuck.
- billfruit 5y agoIs the usage "pancake lens" for some type of lenses in photography a similar usage or does it imply something different.
- schoen 5y agoSo, a retronym kind of like "snail mail"?
- fknorangesite 5y agoYeah that's a good comparison.
- ethbr0 5y agoOr "dead tree"
- jhgb 5y agoI googled it because I was confused as well, and it led me to https://www.sironacc.com/product/alarm-ratemeter-with-pancake-gm-probe-and-foot-monitor/ https://www.sironacc.com/product/alarm-ratemeter-with-pancak... , which didn't make a lot of sense.
- ModernMech 5y agoPancake X has always meant to me the first version of X that turns out not well done before you do it right the second time. Like how your first pancake is always a little off because the griddle isn't heated right.
- fknorangesite 5y agoHuh I've never heard "pancake" used that way before - though yeah the analogy is common enough. In this context though it's certainly as I described.
- moron4hire 5y agoSure, if you still need to git gud at cooking.
- ModernMech 5y agoI feel like git gud needs to be a real git command. It's what you do to commit a patch to egregiously bad code. Like if someone git guds you some code your wrote, just hang your head in shame.