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It's weird having real spacial memory of places I've never been. From 30 years ago.

sigg3 3y ago
> It's weird having real spacial memory of places I've never been. From 30 years ago. You were there, it was real. The memories are real. The spaces are real even if not corporeal. For me it's places from my childhood I can still visit without feeling alienated. If I visit my childhood home that we sold decades ago, there's someone else living there and I don't see with the same eyes either. But the multiplayer maps are the same. I play the FOSS FPS called Xonotic now just for the entertainment. I realize I was never as good as teenager me believed I was. But I can learn. Sometimes when I'm gibbed early in a Clan Arena match, waiting for the round to end, I'll just rise to the top of the map and see the fake sunrise backdrop of my childhood. I can also recommend defrag mode, just running around a track parkour style trying to maximize efficiency is extremely relaxing. Gotta wonder if this could be used to improve elder care for our generation. Imagine being in an old folk's home with VR headset and playing with your peers in familiar surroundings?
- NoToP 3y ago
  Oh really. Have you actually visited that childhood home recently? Did you move away at a young age by any chance and never went back since? I know I did. Until one night I randomly pursued the place in street view. It's uncanny, looking at it, not being sure which things changed and which you don't remember correctly. Was the swingset in the park always yellow? Was that store always on that side of the other one? It really fucks with your sense of reality
tenebrisalietum 3y ago
At some point someone somewhere is going to build a real-life E1M1 replica (as in something you can walk through). I kinda suspect it already exists.
nailer 3y ago
It took me a long time to realise that the outside area was probably where the ships landed, and the big wall to the outside area that opens up (but is a secret) is the blast shield.
qbasic_forever 3y ago
Check out the gzdoom map series Knee Deep in Gzdoom, or the original 'de-make' of it 'Knee Deep in Knee Deep in Zdoom'. It's a remake of episode one but using all new advanced features of zdoom, and hugely expanded maps. It's a ton of fun and you'll instantly recognize all the old areas and then explore new stuff added to them. It's a ton of fun.

> It's weird having real spacial memory of places I've never been. From 30 years ago. You were there, it was real. The memories are real. The spaces are real even if not corporeal. For me it's places from my childhood I can still visit without feeling alienated. If I visit my childhood home that we sold decades ago, there's someone else living there and I don't see with the same eyes either. But the multiplayer maps are the same. I play the FOSS FPS called Xonotic now just for the entertainment. I realize I was never as good as teenager me believed I was. But I can learn. Sometimes when I'm gibbed early in a Clan Arena match, waiting for the round to end, I'll just rise to the top of the map and see the fake sunrise backdrop of my childhood. I can also recommend defrag mode, just running around a track parkour style trying to maximize efficiency is extremely relaxing. Gotta wonder if this could be used to improve elder care for our generation. Imagine being in an old folk's home with VR headset and playing with your peers in familiar surroundings?

NoToP 3y ago
Oh really. Have you actually visited that childhood home recently? Did you move away at a young age by any chance and never went back since? I know I did. Until one night I randomly pursued the place in street view. It's uncanny, looking at it, not being sure which things changed and which you don't remember correctly. Was the swingset in the park always yellow? Was that store always on that side of the other one? It really fucks with your sense of reality

tenebrisalietum 3y ago

At some point someone somewhere is going to build a real-life E1M1 replica (as in something you can walk through). I kinda suspect it already exists.

nailer 3y ago

It took me a long time to realise that the outside area was probably where the ships landed, and the big wall to the outside area that opens up (but is a secret) is the blast shield.

qbasic_forever 3y ago

Check out the gzdoom map series Knee Deep in Gzdoom, or the original 'de-make' of it 'Knee Deep in Knee Deep in Zdoom'. It's a remake of episode one but using all new advanced features of zdoom, and hugely expanded maps. It's a ton of fun and you'll instantly recognize all the old areas and then explore new stuff added to them. It's a ton of fun.