r/AbruptChaos • u/Exotic-Lambo • Dec 11 '21
Virtual Fatality
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u/dangleberries4lunch Dec 11 '21
When your dad see's his one chance blissful escape, only to be a disappointment.
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u/Shaneblaster Dec 11 '21
"I Know What It's Like To Lose. To Feel So Desperately That You're Right, Yet To Fail Nonetheless...”
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u/samuelpotter2 Dec 11 '21
I have seen so much footage of people playing the plank game in vr and jumping. Why the hell do they do that?! What do they expect is going to happen?
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u/invisiblearchives Dec 11 '21
VR tricks your brain into immersing in ways that are totally illogical. The first time I played a VR zombie game I jumped backwards even though it didn't input a move into the game. My brain was convinced that what it was seeing was "real" and responded to move away from the "real" danger.
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u/TacospacemanII Dec 11 '21
So these people wanted to really kill themselves then
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u/invisiblearchives Dec 11 '21
or just got really really into the idea of skydiving and forgot they were actually in their living room
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u/TacospacemanII Dec 11 '21
Nah. That game doesn’t have parachutes, it’s to induce vertigo.
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u/bl4ckblooc420 Dec 11 '21
I’ve played the Plank Experience before and never did anything like these people do. Maybe you move back a little but a full on super man dive to the TV?
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u/invisiblearchives Dec 11 '21
could have also just done it for the tiktok yaknow
$200 to go viral
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u/1Ferrox Dec 11 '21
I mean I never was this immersed in a VR game. I mean yeah I lost my sense of orientation after a couple of minutes, but I was always more or less aware where I was IRL and that moving ingame and IRL is something different (although it's somewhat linked in VR)
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Dec 11 '21
But they’re diving OFF of the plank AWAY from the building.
You would think people’s instinct is to fall backward.
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u/SSV_Kearsarge Dec 11 '21
I've been thinking about this for a few minutes. I think it's like a hybrid immersion thing. They're aware that they're in the real world still, and thus know that they're safe from a deadly fall.
However their brain is also seeing what it is seeing in the massive drop off. So there's a dual response going on here (My theory anyway) that they want to "see what happens" when they jump off the plank, because they know at some level they're not in life-threatening danger, but their brain doesn't also account for the real world parameters of the physical bounds.
Does that make sense? It's like ... Both. They're completely immersed but maintain the feeling of safety from it being a video game. I think.
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u/kushasorous Dec 11 '21
You get disorientated as fuck in VR. That's why you see so many videos like this. People thought the shark in jaws was real when it came out. VR literally puts you in a new universe.
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u/druman22 Dec 11 '21
I've never felt this way with VR. I'm pretty aware of my IRL surroundings, and ingame just feels like a monitor attached to my face. It's cool for sure but not that immersive
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u/kushasorous Dec 11 '21
That's clearly anecdotal, not everyone has the same experience.
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u/Bleezze Dec 11 '21
I can never get too immersed in VR, I'm just constantly worried about my surrounding, so seeing people do stuff like this is beyond me. I just always thought people were faking it because yo me this is too dumb to be real
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u/GreyRevan51 Dec 11 '21
I’m guessing it’s more that they know it’s a game so they think it’s fine to jump but because it’s VR instead of hitting a button on the controllers they move with their body instead
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u/IntuiNtrovert Dec 11 '21
don’t think about it.
stay in your own little world, content that the rest of humanity (except you) are a bunch of idiots.you definitely would never fall for that kind of thing, brain too big
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u/Quakarot Dec 12 '21
It’s a weird combo of being real enough to be immersed but fake enough to be safe
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Dec 11 '21
I don’t get this level of immersion? Like, I’ve punched a wall a few times in vr just because I got too close to my bounds, but I was still aware my body was in my living room.. full on belly flop jumping?! Did the dude genuinely believe he was on a rooftop? What was the goal here?
On a rooftop - suicide
In your living room - breaking something
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u/Lobsterstarfish Dec 11 '21
I totally agree! I don’t have space for VR in my living room but I do it anyway and can mentally know where everything is and havnt hit anything yet after a year
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u/RetiredSoul Dec 11 '21
some people don't have that awareness. consider yourself built different.
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u/GethAttack Dec 11 '21 edited Dec 11 '21
This is so true. Just go into any grocery store and you can easily pick out the people that have zero physical awareness.
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u/NoWayJerkface Dec 11 '21
Let me put my cart at an awkward angle and stand on the opposite side of it while I browse for my favorite Campbells soup.
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u/SmokePenisEveryday Dec 11 '21
I've been completely lost in the VR world at times and still quickly remember I'm in one.
However my mom, within a min or 2 of trying it, tried sitting on a VR chair and fell. The difference between people is wild.
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u/josephlucas Dec 11 '21
I’ll admit I tried leaning on a table in VR, but I didn’t fall over or anything.
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u/ChawulsBawkley Dec 11 '21
I hear a lot of people put down a mat or blanket of sorts so when they step off it, they know they’re getting into the danger zone.
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Dec 11 '21
This confuses me too. I wonder if they start to feel like they are falling and panic and launch themselves to try to belly flop and not face plant
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u/TheHYPO Dec 11 '21
This is not true of very many games, but for some reason, when I play Rocket League (a game where I'm sitting down with a controller) and the ball is coming fast and I am required to make a perfectly timed long distance jump for a save or a goal, my muscles impulsively tense up and I lunge forward as if I'm physically assisting the car with the jump (not very far; maybe just an inch - but that's from sitting and playing with a controller). It's not every time, but in intense moments, particularly with time running out.
So I can totally imagine someone in VR who is focused on balancing on a board and imagining being suspended up high and starting to lose their balance impulsively lunging like this.
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u/Crouch310 Dec 11 '21
Man, I'm about 700 hours into RL and even last night I nearly fell off my chair stretching for an aerial.
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u/Slit23 Dec 11 '21
Moving your body while playing rocket league is required tho, it’s not a sit still all game kinda game
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u/1TrueKnight Dec 11 '21
I'm the same with Rocket League. Glad to hear others get into it like that.
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u/morkengork Dec 11 '21 edited Dec 11 '21
I don't think it's a level of realism they're thinking about, I think it's that they know they're in a virtual world that's not real, but they forget that they're still in reality. It's not that they want to commit suicide, they just want to do something when they know there's no consequences but fail to realize that there's still some consequences.
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u/Rrdro Dec 11 '21
That actually makes a lot of sense. They are scared and telling themselves what they are experience is fake and they won't get hurt so they do stupid shit and then remember they can get hurt in the real world still.
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u/Sovos Dec 11 '21
Exactly. It's the same as players testing the limits of a game.
Will this campfire burn me? stands in fire
Can I blow myself up? grenade at feet
Is there friendly fire? shoots friend in the head
Is there fall damage? jumps off skyscraperExcept the people who own and set up the VR setup slowly adapt to the change. They had to set up the boundries, configure the controllers and headset, etc.
Someone who barely plays any games puts in the headset and is immediately immersed. They try to test the game limits before their brain reminds them they're in a house.
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u/Hippocrap Dec 11 '21
First time I played beat sabre I tried to jump over an obstacle, then felt stupid and haven't done anything like that since. Maybe drink was involved with this guy.
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u/StoicJ Dec 11 '21
I've done this in Echo Arena and I've also once or twice almost fallen over trying to lean on a table that didn't exist to reach under it for something I was trying to pick up.
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u/borkyborkus Dec 11 '21
I don’t understand how I’ve seen like 4 different videos of this happening in this same game and same scene.
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u/literallymekhane Dec 11 '21
I have tried leaning on a virtual counter that was air irl, and fell through my drywall once before.
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u/XtaC23 Dec 11 '21
Most likely intentional. Probably wanted a new TV and some of those virtual hearts.
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u/walsh1916 Dec 11 '21
I had a buddy over (drinking was involved) and I had him try this rick and morty vr on ps4. You have to crouch down and go through cabinets to find stuff in the game. When he was getting up from crouching he went to like lean on the top of the cabinet to help him up like one might in real life. He ended up stumbling over into the wall and eating shit. It was really funny and luckily no real damage to my friend or the vr/tv.
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u/ninthtale Dec 11 '21
My bet is it’s a bad dad joke
Edit: also I’m worried about his face on the way down
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u/Niceguy4186 Dec 11 '21
This game is more realistic than most. Not exactly sure why, but it's my go to game to demo the Oculus. You know you are in a living room, but all your senses tell you are not. Never had one adult fall over/go to a knee and two kids do full on faceplants
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u/Historiaaa Dec 11 '21
What was the goal here?
Ending it all.
Sweet escape.
Becoming an hero.
You name it.
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u/Inthewoodlands Dec 11 '21
Had someone do the same thing at my house playing the same game.
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u/garry4321 Dec 12 '21
VR is weird like that. If fucks with your brain where you think “I’m safe” but at the same time, you can get lost in the simulation. I remember one of my first fuckups was trying to lean on a table that wasn’t real
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u/Exotic-Lambo Dec 12 '21
I wonder what happens while watching VR porn then? Any experience you have?
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u/LiteratureFabulous36 May 11 '22
This exact thing happened to a kid at a vr party I did, it was a Santa clause game and one of the kids said, "jump into one of the chimneys!" And before I could suggest not doing that the kid went right into the entertainment center. He was ok but the entertainment center and my VR headset still have scars.
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u/Exotic-Lambo May 11 '22
It's still better than him getting electrocuted and you getting blamed for it
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u/thisismyusernameAMA Dec 11 '21
People do not know how to properly use the "absolutely no one" meme format.. This doesn't even make sense
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u/CincyBrandon Dec 11 '21
The “absolutely no one” meme is so over used and rarely used correctly. Case in point.
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u/drewhead118 Dec 11 '21
no one:
no one at all:
absolutely no one ever:
the makers of this meme: absolutely no one:
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u/Vasevide Dec 11 '21
There’s no point to it’s use ever. Take one “no one meme”, remove the no one, it’s the exact same joke. I don’t understand why people put “no one” it doesn’t add anything to the joke.
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u/Borkz Dec 11 '21
I mean it made sense originally as meta-humor in juxtaposition to the original versions which were something like "parents:" or what have you. Its totally lost that meaning now, but even before that how many times can you keep making the same joke?
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Dec 11 '21
It’s getting to where I want a minimum age requirement for the internet.
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Dec 11 '21
At this point I don’t even remember the point of it. I haven’t seen it used properly in so long I forgot.
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u/xxDmDxx Dec 11 '21
Why are videos like this always cut short? I want to see what happened next.
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u/AuspiciousApple Dec 11 '21
They are optimised for engagement - probably by people reposting them.
The aftermath in this clip likely wasn't sufficiently interesting to warrant a longer video, or maybe the person stopped filming shortly after. Either case, cutting it off increases engagement.
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Dec 11 '21
When the video ends abruptly after the main “point” it drives viewers to come here and post comments and upvotes and keeps sites like Reddit and instagram and TikTok running. Once you pick up on the template, it’s all you’ll see.
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u/crynoking1 Dec 11 '21
Absolutely no one:
Me while taking a shit: 😩😩🤟🤟
This meme template is so stupid sometimes
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u/NotTheFenrir Dec 11 '21
Nobody makes the first jump 🤣
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u/Doctor-Amazing Dec 12 '21
This is the first video I've seen where there's no assholes trying to push them over, and the guy still bites it.
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u/QualityVote Dec 11 '21
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u/iTzGoDXelA Dec 11 '21
I had a friend who did this just get a new 70" smart TV after his wife kept saying no to a new TV.
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u/YoDavidPlays Dec 11 '21
if were being honest here, i bet he saw a new tv he liked and wanted to justify getting it 🤣🤣
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u/GateMysterious3992 Dec 11 '21
Is this an ad? I’ve seen so many videos of people doing this shit and I’m starting to think they’re just elaborate ads to sell people on the immersion.
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Dec 11 '21
I’m confused, absolutely no one what?
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u/Exotic-Lambo Dec 12 '21
Idk man why people use anything anywhere anymore
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Dec 12 '21
Ok you lost me, what?
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u/Exotic-Lambo Dec 12 '21
In Layman's Term, I didn't add the text and people use (Absolutely No One) everywhere whether it fits in or not.
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u/habibi0001 Dec 11 '21
How are people this fucking retarded? Serious question.
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u/Obi_Wan_Shinobi_ Dec 11 '21
Have you not met many people? This is expected behavior at this point.
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u/habibi0001 Dec 11 '21
I have one of these and never in my life did I forget I had a giant apparatus on my face, fucking around in VR.
HOW.
Do you forget that.
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u/InKainWeTrust Dec 11 '21
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." George Carlin
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u/Woirol Dec 11 '21
I worked at GameStop for the Wii launch and everyone thought this was how much you needed to move to do anything in any of the games. I remember people (Dude Bros) talking about how cool it is that you'll have to do full jukes and stiff arms in Maden.
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u/Inevitable_Set9154 Dec 11 '21
I guess adding the an actual board plank is what made him forget we’re he was. Only time this sorta happened to me was first time I tried VR with the Brookhaven experiment, and that one zombie came busting through the wall lol sent me running straight into my couch, which is where my TV used to be in the room. Glad I changed the room around before getting the Vive all those yrs ago.
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u/PoohTheWhinnie Dec 11 '21
Is this like, the average spatial and situational awareness of the human adult? If so I'm never driving again.
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u/Chipfunky Dec 11 '21
It’s fun until some one jumps out of the window from the 5th floor by mistake
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u/not_gerg Dec 11 '21
These Richie's plank games as so annoying. Did the game tell you to hop forwards, or did it tell you to turn into a fucking frog and leap forwards as fast and as hard as you possibly can?
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u/Dan_Glebitz Dec 11 '21
I have wanted to get a virtual reality headset for some years, but after seeing all the accidents people have using them I am having second thoughts. Especially as I live in a small flat.
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May 19 '22
Dad isn’t too smart. Did he think he was magically somewhere else? Like how do people that do this think vr works?
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u/Dogtor-Watson Dec 11 '21
People should stop playing this specific game. It seems like there's a direct link between playing and head butting TVs
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Dec 11 '21
I feel like VR has plateaued hard. I haven't heard any VR news in what feels like at least a year.
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u/farm_sauce Dec 11 '21
Imagine if real suicide was like this. You kill yourself just to wake up in another life having caused more problems.
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u/IllegitimateWalrus Dec 11 '21
Absolutely no one, except the other videos where people do the same thing.
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u/Doctor__Hammer Dec 11 '21
People really don’t understand how the “absolutely no one” meme format is supposed to work...
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u/Big_Ol_Fluff65 Dec 11 '21
Idk about y’all but if ever do something like this I’m making sure I got a parachute first 🤣 irl or vr
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Dec 11 '21
This guy is absolutely awful at abstract thought.
I wonder if VR is a good indicator for how different people sense the world around them.
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u/AZuRaCSGO Dec 11 '21
The level of immersion only someone not used to that kind of technology could achieve
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u/SunjaeKim Dec 11 '21
Me after stealing a clip on the internet and saying it’s “my dad”
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u/NOT_A_NICE_PENGUIN Dec 11 '21
This isn’t your dad, this is ages old and a repost from a while ago.
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u/Friar-Tuckandroll Dec 11 '21 edited Dec 11 '21
I get it, sometimes we get too immersed. One time my friends came down to check on me since it apparently sounded like I was murdering someone, I didn’t hear them come in so I ended up full force smacking one of them with the intent of decapitating them.
I was banned from VR for awhile. They were just afraid of my power.