What else is your love besides gaming???

[BigRedTwit]

What I love is watching antique road show on tv 

[Steak]

I became interested in Italian reproduction Civil War-era black powder "Percussion/Cap & Ball" revolvers back in the late 1970's. You can buy them in most US states mail-order because there are no federal restrictions on them. They are considered antique firearms so no background check is needed. They are a lot of fun but totally impractical for defense by today's standards.

It takes several minutes to load them and they are not reliable. Misfires & jams (due to pieces of spent caps falling into the action) are an issue. When they came out in the mid 1840s they were state-of-the-art and gave one the ability to get off multiple shots very quickly at a time when almost all pistols and rifles were single shot muzzle loaders. These are my 3 guns and they were the most coveted percussion revolver models 155 years ago:

[Majbasil]

 

 

 

BEAT SABER  (Virtual Reality)  https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2448060205267927/     Beat Saber is a very viable option for a cardiovascular workout.  Beat Saber is a virtual reality rhythm game developed and published by a Czech studio Beat Games. The game features the player slicing blocks representing musical beats with a pair of red and blue light sabers and takes place in a surrealistic neon noir environment. The game had been in early access for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Solstice, Windows Mixed Reality on Microsoft Windows PCs since May 2018,^[1] and was fully released in May 2019. A first PlayStation VR version was released in November 2018. The game was also a launch title for the Oculus Quest, released in May 2019.

 

The game includes several songs with up to five levels of difficulty. The player uses VR motion controllers to wield a pair of lightsabers, the left one colored red and the right one colored blue by default. In each song, the game presents the player with a stream of approaching blocks, laid out in sync with the song's beats and notes, located in one of the 12 possible positions of a 4x3 grid. Each block is colored red or blue, corresponding to the color of the saber that should be used to slash it, and may be marked with an arrow indicating one of eight possible directions in which the block may be required to be slashed through. There are also blocks with dots instead of arrows, which players may hit in any direction. When a block is slashed by a saber, it is destroyed and a score is awarded, based on the length and angles of the swing and the accuracy of the cut. In addition, there are occasionally mines that the player should not hit, and obstacles in the form of oncoming walls that the player's head should avoid. There is also a white bar underneath the path where the blocks travel, which slowly fills up as you hit notes correctly. If the player hits any note in the incorrect direction, the white 'health bar' will become less full by a small chunk. If the player completely misses a note, the bar will lose a large chunk. If the bar becomes completely empty, the game will end.

 

Some of my favorite songs to play this on are by Imagine Dragons.  Here is the list:  

Imagine Dragons Music Pack is full of hits:

• Bad Liar.
• Believer.
• Digital.
• It's Time.
• Machine.
• Natural.
• Radioactive.
• Thunder.

 

Edited December 29, 2019 by Majbasil