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A roller coaster might be a good experiment if you're looking for an extreme environment that might appeal to more of a mass market. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roller_coaster_rankings ) Maybe skydiving or bungee jumping? Or you could go a different direction and attach a phone to a cat. I hear people love videos with cats ;)
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The video did make me feel quite queasy, but it is not as bad as Descent [0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)
I've never been a gamer. Except for Descent. And Descent II. I still have them and every few years play them on an old Mac. The queasiness kicks in every time I start playing them again.
Do NOT load from an iphone. Almost impossible to regain control of your browser!!
I have some serious sea legs and almost never get motion sickness. The fullscreen youtube vid got me. Great experiment.
The video did make me feel quite queasy, but it is not as bad as Descent [0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)
I have some serious sea legs and almost never get motion sickness. The fullscreen youtube vid got me. Great experiment.
The video did make me feel quite queasy, but it is not as bad as Descent [0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)
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The video did make me feel quite queasy, but it is not as bad as Descent [0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)
Not having heard of Descent, I was really hoping it was a game that consisted entirely of falling.
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Not having heard of Descent, I was really hoping it was a game that consisted entirely of falling.
That would be Das Uberleben. http://teknopants.com/games/uberleben/
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Not having heard of Descent, I was really hoping it was a game that consisted entirely of falling.
That would be Das Uberleben. http://teknopants.com/games/uberleben/
[1]: I'm serious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!_%...
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How about that nail in your eye? Really, I can't stress this enough, the kind of energy you can imbue a 4" nail with using a crowbar is something fierce. Or maybe the crowbar would just fly up and split your head open. 4' of nice steel makes one hell of a spring. Big angle grinders are actually safer than small ones... until the disks shatter, then you have a real surprise. Circular saws will do fun stuff as well eve…
My dad is a builder, and I've worked for him as a labourer many many times. It really gives you a better perspective on how dangerous all this is... Anyway, circular saws: dad was cutting some pretty nice wood for a fence. Circular saw hit something in the wood, bounced up, then straight down onto his left hand thumb, severing it entirely. He then drove to hospital. They reattached it, he was lucky enough to have Aus…
I had an angle grinder disc blow on me last fall when cutting through a rooftile, that too was quite an interesting experience. It would have been less of a problem if it had shattered completely but of course one segment on one side decided to hang on. If not for eye protection that would have ended in the hospital for sure.
The one thing I've noticed is that if you rarely work with tools you are really at risk. Then as you work more more with powertools you get more experience, you become a bit more confident and more aware of the risks. That's good.
Then when you're working with them for a really long time two things will converge in a bad way: all that experience and confidence will lull you into a false sense of safety an then the law of large numbers catches up with you, very rare occurrences will happen to you because you are doing it so often.
If you're not paying attention right at that moment you could very well end up in hospital or worse.
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That would be Das Uberleben. http://teknopants.com/games/uberleben/
Potentially looks like a grand vomitarium (and I am terrified of heights), thank you. I've noticed you can download it on the site posted, I'll have to give it a go.