it'd be interesting to have a counter that tracks the total number of times virtual reality has made people throw up, along wtih the content they were experiencing

the problems are very common and obvious with VR, but i probably underestimate the amount that non-VR games make people motion sick too

@alyx i wish people would talk more about motion sickness and video games! i get really ill with like 90% of FPSes and everything i've read online made it seem like most of the causes for it are well known and avoidable.

idg why it isn't like a huge, talked about thing! (i mean, it's because it tends to affect women more than men. but you know.)

@c8rz @alyx It's weird because it doesn't get talked about all that much but at the same time every person I ever tell about how some games give me motion sickness IMMEDIATELY have Opinions on how and why it happens to me, even if they've never experienced it themselves.

@witchfynder_finder @alyx I had literally the exact same experience! Everyone I've mentioned it to has had at least one game make them sick, tho.

I think the thing that bugs me is like. If it's common knowledge what's causing it & how to fix it, why does it still happen?

If authors wrote books that made a certain proportion of readers vomit, most of them would probably stop that!

@alyx @witchfynder_finder I know there's technical issues and stuff, but the amount of games where the problem is apparently something super minor like "the camera jiggles too much when you walk" is kind of ridiculous

@c8rz @alyx Yeah for real. Some games will have options to turn that sort of thing off but honestly even if they don't cause you discomfort, I don't see how things like headbob can even make a game more fun to play? Like, that's not what you do when you walk...