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Re: Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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evanelias wrote: post #150
embedding-shape wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been a raver for decades, not until I jumped into reddit I started reading and seeing people writing about "PLUR" (Peace Love Unity Respect) a bunch. Our little community never really interacted with the US side of things, and never used any acronyms or "sayings" like that, it was just built-in into the community, and people running around saying stuff like that would be kind of inauthentic and borderline sketch…

In the US, it's been a concept for almost the entire time the scene has existed. In the early 90s, PLUR was popularized by Frankie Bones, who had essentially founded the east coast US scene a few years prior. By the late 90s it was more of an implicit ethos -- you'd read about it and see it on flyers, but running around and saying it too often would indeed be considered inauthentic and rather cringe. Although, a bigg…

Thanks for that bits of history :)

> That's all quite a bit different in today's scene though, which has been thoroughly commercialized and mainstreamed for the past 15 years

Shame to hear, Europe surely feels a ton different than 10-20 years ago, but still there is something authentic behind most events I'm still going to, tend to be the smaller ones, might be why.

But these most exists still today in the US/North America as well? I know for sure you can find those sort of events in Mexico for sure, but maybe today they've done the same with the electronic music events as they did with local broadcasting TV and it's all been centralized by now, would be sad to hear.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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Post by embedding-shape »

foobarian wrote: post #133
embedding-shape wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My observation is that we were just bored a lot. It has been a long time since young people have been as bored as we were back then. Eh, I think it depends more on the location, than anything else. I grew up rural, we did basically exactly the same thing as you described, hosting raves in the forest, beaches and what not until we get word that police was on it's way (tiny place, everyone knew everyone, police comin…

I think things really went off a cliff after around 2012 once phones and internet got good, and social media cranked up the algo games.

I dunno, we were "social mediaing" back in 2000s sometime, that's when most of the youth started posting pictures of themselves on the internet and using computers+webcams for communicating among ourselves, many of us used our Sony Ericsson (or similar) phones for taking pictures. I think that particular website that started it all, peaked around 2007 sometime, and was shut down by 2010 already, because of lack of activity. Plenty of sites between 2000-2010 that was the predators to modern social media too, some of them literally centered around sharing and commenting on images, kind of like Instagram, but way before.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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Post by haggy »

stagas wrote: post #146
stagas wrote: post #2

The GitHub repository is https://github.com/stagas/hallucinate - License is MIT - All contributions are welcome.

Now that I have your attention, I've made this and I've been unemployed for a very long time -due to health issues- but now I'm fine and I'm looking for a job, creative frontend development in TypeScript is my specialization. Remote preferrably - European timezones. My email is in my HN profile if anyone's got any offer it would be amazing. Tysm everyone!

First, congrats on getting healthy!

Secondly, since you're presenting this as a portfolio entry, I have some open, honest feedback. I quickly reviewed the repository and there are some pretty major orange-red flags that would dissuade employers from reaching out. Some of them include:

- Lack of coherent repository structure. All files under src/ with no sense of modularity

- The commit messages are very poor. Messages like "cool" and "jump jump" and "perf" do not provide any context to anyone outside of yourself (and probably not even you will remember what those changes were days/weeks from now)

- There are magic numbers everywhere. The biggest offender I found was in shaders.ts

There are more but those are the top ones I saw from my quick review. Again this isn't meant to discourage you. I wanted to provide the feedback to help you be more successful with potential employers. Cheers!

Re: Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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Post by anigbrowl »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #156
tardedmeme wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could also actually go to a rave. It should be easier than setting up your VR environment.

I would need to drive 4 hours to get to a city that has raves, pay for a hotel, parking, entrance fee, and it would take 24 hours of my time

And? Back in the day people used to regularly go from northern California to southern and vice versa for a good party

By people I mean me, I'm sure some people are still doing it

Re: Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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Post by datsci_est_2015 »

grvdrm wrote: post #87

So fun. Long-time fan of electronic music and am heading to my first DJ-centered concerts this year. I think that scene is overrun with influencer types and various types of recreational substance use. Maybe I'm wrong. Bookmarking for background while I do other things!

Varies heavily by venue and subgenre. All of the shows that I can remember offhand I saw absolutely minimal phones / videos / picture taking. It was usually me (briefly) because I love going back through a decade plus of videos and reminiscing, usually 1-3 per show depending on how important the show was to me.

There’s a sampling bias that occurs if you rely on social media to inform you how rampant “influencing” is - of course shows with more influencers will be the ones that show up in your feed, because they’re the ones with the influencers!

Re: Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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Post by diffs »

stinos wrote: post #148
diffs wrote: post #121

The whole point of a rave is to take Molly and have fun connecting with others who have also taken Molly. At least for this introvert. I was never a fan of Electronic Music, I tolerate it for the drugs and the temporary extroversion.

There's a huge variety of electronic music styles. I'd really recommend trying some without the substances. Maybe the extremes are your thing? Or the highly melodic euphoric ones? Or dark stuff? Etc.. The nice thing if you find something is that it's also sustainable - as in: can do this for the rest of your life - which at least for me is definitely not the case with mdma.

Well, I'm a lifelong Metal fan. I like, for example, Goa Trance well enough, but I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy just listening to EDM for pleasure the way I can with say, Technical Death Metal.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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Post by montag »

Suggestions:

- make the controls work like a typical FPS (i.e. WASD controls should not rotate the player but just strafe)

- make spacebar jump, and a different key to talk, like T

- make the jump work like a platformer where you start falling as soon as you release the button. so people can make small hops to the beat

- stop dancing after a few seconds of inactivity

Re: Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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Post by evanelias »

embedding-shape wrote: post #161
evanelias wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US, it's been a concept for almost the entire time the scene has existed. In the early 90s, PLUR was popularized by Frankie Bones, who had essentially founded the east coast US scene a few years prior. By the late 90s it was more of an implicit ethos -- you'd read about it and see it on flyers, but running around and saying it too often would indeed be considered inauthentic and rather cringe. Although, a bigg…

Thanks for that bits of history :) > That's all quite a bit different in today's scene though, which has been thoroughly commercialized and mainstreamed for the past 15 years Shame to hear, Europe surely feels a ton different than 10-20 years ago, but still there is something authentic behind most events I'm still going to, tend to be the smaller ones, might be why. But these most exists still today in the US/North A…

I'm sure they still exist here, but the economic realities make it challenging in my area (NYC)... even smaller events must be totally oversold, in order for the promoters to not go broke. So it's hard to find room to dance, and there's lots of people talking loudly everywhere, etc. And the headliners often start their sets at an absurdly late hour.

There are still some underground parties, but most of the ones I've been to in modern times have been a bit "off". In some cases the promoters are attempting to recreate a 90s/early'00s vibe, but they aren't old enough to have actually experienced one, so they're just basing it off the ridiculous exaggerated thing they saw in some movie. They'll overspend on decorations but underspend on DJs. And they'll do things like wait to send out the address of the "super secret underground venue" until the day of the event, but then it turns out to be some totally normal event space that anyone can rent.

Probably there are still some actual unlicensed/renegade parties somewhere here but I haven't found them. The only ones I have come across have been a bit of a different scene, more like experimental electronic that doesn't lend itself to dancing, no real overlap with the genres that were played at raves.

edit to add: no idea why you're getting downvoted above. fwiw your comment about PLUR totally aligns with what I've heard from others in Europe.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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Post by nottorp »

foobarian wrote: post #160
nottorp wrote: post #145

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Maybe on a C64, on the ZX spectrum it would make space very hard to reach.

It's been my favorite key mapping ever since playing Renegade on Spectrum 128k :-)

Wait, you were pressing space with your left hand? :)
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