A House with a VR View

The future is nye. We all must keep up. Learning new technology will be a part of our daily lives. These were the words spoken when the year 2000 was rolling around. Experts talked about how in just a few years’ time, there would be a computer in every home. It did, in fact, become a reality. 89% of houses have some form of computer or another in them. It has even become a selling point for houses that there is a “home office” room. A place to put said computer, where, in comparison, houses of old had no such room. My question today is – is this the future of our households when it comes to virtual reality headsets? Right now, we put them on and play our games and the like in whatever room we are in. This is fine, most of the time, but we have all had the luxury of watching the home video of someone Kool-Aid man-ing the wall because they get lost in their VR. So, what if there was a room in our houses dedicated to the VR headset. It would be a completely empty room, lined with padding and set up with the best Wifi in the house so that people could use VR without any hesitation of bumping into things, wrecking walls, or worrying about disconnecting from the internet. I think it would be a great selling point for houses of the future. A 2 bed, 2 bath, VR room equipped house for only X amount of dollars. Sure, we will still port our VR headsets around when necessary like laptops and smartphones of today, but we will be able to play uninterrupted in our special room fully immersed in that weird walk the plank game. But that is just one man’s opinion. Thanks for listening to me ramble. I appreciate it. See you next time.

Simon Cowell, the Menace

One of my favorite genres of television is a good reality competition. I watch many of them, including AGT, Dancing with the Stars, and the Masked Singer. However, I have started to notice a trend in these shows that bothers me. It is the ever-present power of the people in charge of the show. The shows, no matter which one, always gets to a certain season and then it feels like it is the “stars of the show” (meaning the judges in most cases) that want a certain outcome and make it the reality. Things like AGT’s Golden Buzzer, Dancing with the Stars’ judge vote, and now even Masked Singer has the Ding-Dong Keep-It-On Bell, which is a mouth full in and of itself, but it saves a singer from being eliminated. My question is why have a “competition” if, in the end, there is going to be a giant thumb pushing on the scales. It comes down to less of a battle for the greatest or king of the hill free-for-all and more of a “who I want to win more” competition. For a set of shows that constantly harps on America to tune in and cast a vote, it almost feels like sometimes our opinions don’t even matter. It would be like if Jeff Probst went to put out the torch and then said, “Oh wait, here’s the thing.” We would be utterly pissed. However, I cannot shoot the messengers. Because honestly it is hard to make a morally righteous voting based show when there is a producer standing to the side shaking their head yes or no for certain contestants to make the show more interesting (I am talking to you American Idol). It doesn’t matter what Luke, Katy, and Lionel think is good. It matters what an extra cook in the kitchen thinks about a girl playing a squeezebox with every song. I don’t care if we have never seen someone like that on the show before, I am not voting for her. It makes you wonder if the winner of the Drag Race is truly the best competitor or if Rupaul is just picking the wackiest, zaniest character with the goriest make-up. In the end, I guess all we can do is continue to hope our data rates don’t change as we vote for our favorites, even if they lose. We can also hope that the betting pool at work doesn’t get ruined when they bring back an already eliminated Bachelor for a second chance. But that is just one man’s opinion. Thanks for listening to me ramble. I appreciate it. See you next time.

Physically Attractive, Emotionally Taxing

It’s a tale as old as Gen Z. The story of a relationship doomed to failure because the two people involved in it are just not right for each other. So why do they stay together? The sex is good. That’s it. That is the only thing positive they can say about their partner. The truth is the two people in question began dating because they liked the way the other person looked physically. But sometimes one has to look past the bod and see if there are traits in this person that makes them mentally, emotionally, and completely enthralled with being around that person. In other words, don’t think so much with your nether-regions. Let the blood flow reach your brain and make solid decisions about a potential future partner. This isn’t a Hallmark movie. No one moves to a random town to inherit their great uncle’s estate and falls in love with the handyman. Most of the time it takes several dates of conversation and sharing of personal interests for partners to link up. Also understand that just because eHarmony or Bumble tells you a person’s interests and hobbies doesn’t mean that one swipe right is going to be the be-all, end-all. Sometimes a person will swipe a few times before they find one that they would even want to have the conversation with. Just remember that if you try to partner up and the only way you can stand to spend 15 minutes around the person is with their clothes off, then maybe it is time to take the L and move on. Because when it is all said and done, a year can pass in a snap and you may still be getting the jab from your friends of, “The sex must be good, because they are the worst?” But that is just one man’s opinion. Thanks for listening to me ramble. I appreciate it. See you next time.