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Realizing AR/VR will make

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 12 May 2018 10:19:00 +0000

In reply to Bronze Medal: why can't I change my skin?

[turned into a diary. this is not the blog piece you are looking for. pay no attention to the man in dark sunglasses and checkered cufflinks. look into this flashy thing for just a moment... comments are now closed]

Realizing AR/VR will make this "problem" mainstream everpresent or go away completely. With Second Life 15 years ago you could make your own avatars and virtual worlds, appropriating whatever you wanted to from whomever and whatever. With Augmented and Virtual Reality, you no longer have to build your own worlds an characters - these are just new skins and templates in various libraries and pulled real-time out of real life. I don't even need to see *you* as you want - I can make you into a Tongan warrior princess (Maiello) or an effete Broadway theater goer (Peter) or a pack of feral kidney-craving zombies (all of you). I can change these instantly, or choreograph you lip-syncing to Justin Bieber or baying at the moon or giving a spanking to Donald Trump while watching Shark Tank. You will no longer be in control of your own image - your $100 hairdo can be remodeled in a moment to a depression-era bowl cut. Not into tattoos? You are now, right on the _ _ _ _. Weight problem? I just gave you anorexia (and a skin disease - sorry, got a bit carried away).

This isn't just me - you will be marketed to, microtargeted, placed on a faraway beach or driving in a new car of your dreams or in the middle of a Venetian costume ball or teemarking down an Alpine trail. Doctors will create models of your intestines and neural pathways; plumbers will guide plumbums thru your pipes. Your teachers will have instant visuals and which synapses are firing (or not) over their boring lessons, while your kids will get feedback of facial markers and body posture as to whether they can stay out late and how to break down your defenses. There'll be thorough genetic and social history trails to make sure none of your personality or decisions are registered as mere accidents, but we can build on these moments in time to create the new better fantasy you, one that you'll have trouble disagreeing with (the you you'd want to have a beer with, I suppose).

Walking into the VR conference I saw a girl in a flower dress - couldn't tell if it was an Asian pattern or not; wasn't even sure if *she* was Asian or not. So I said something insulting to her just to be safe. Thought y'all'd be proud of me - I'm learning, evolving on this. I feels so modern...

Würst comes to würse, we'll

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 11 May 2018 04:43:47 +0000

In reply to This is what I like about

Würst comes to würse, we'll be waiting.

So is yhis appropriate ir

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 11 May 2018 03:37:00 +0000

In reply to Here's the thing on that: the

So is this appropriate(d) or inappropriate(d)?

Here's the thing on that: the

artappraiser — Fri, 11 May 2018 01:54:10 +0000

In reply to To tweeze or not to tweeze,

Here's the thing on that: the lack of a unibrow is something to sue about, while the lack of representation of her broken body from both polio and a horrendous broken spine from being impaled in an accident, it's okay to leave those parts out. (Even though she herself represented her deformities in some of her paintings.) So no disabled constantly-in-pain Barbie yet, but unibrow: now a proud symbol of the genetically hairier females. I guess you could say all Barbies represent the disabled, since they are noticeably lacking in quite a few body joints?

To tweeze or not to tweeze,

artappraiser — Fri, 11 May 2018 01:42:40 +0000

In reply to Bronze Medal: why can't I change my skin?

To tweeze or not to tweeze, that is the question when you are representing an image of the most famous Mexican female.

Two weeks is a long time, you

artappraiser — Fri, 11 May 2018 01:31:31 +0000

In reply to Don't eat no Cuban sandwiches

Two weeks is a long time, you might miss important developments, by then they could have started crucifying famous fusion cuisine chefs!

Don't eat no Cuban sandwiches

artappraiser — Fri, 11 May 2018 01:22:42 +0000

In reply to This is what I like about

Don't eat no Cuban sandwiches, ya ain't allowed. Oranges and key lime pie are probably safe.

Soon You May Be Able to Text

artappraiser — Fri, 11 May 2018 01:20:51 +0000

In reply to Wow. Still going on. You

Soon You May Be Able to Text with 2,000 Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Wonder if then the mummies will rise from their museum crypts to protest "appropriation"....

This is what I like about

ocean-kat — Fri, 11 May 2018 01:15:10 +0000

In reply to ah but I can be on topic on

This is what I like about dagblog. No matter how weird or how far off the beaten path a comment goes there's always people who have something to say about it. In many groups my "wurst" comment would be met by blank stares and be a conversation ender. Here it sparks a dialog. I'm off to visit the parents in FL. Be back in two weeks.

Wow. Still going on. You

rmrd0000 — Fri, 11 May 2018 00:47:54 +0000

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Wow. Still going on. You neglect the issue of emoji blackface.

https://www.refinery29.com/2017/12/176027/white-people-black-emojis-skin-tone-racism