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▲ 9 r/OculusQuest

Best pickle ball game with active community?

I want to play pickle ball on my quest and there are like a million pickle ball games so I am not sure which to buy.

I would prefer one with the best gameplay obviously, but just as importantly an active playerbase to play with.

From my cursory search it seems like Racket Club might be my best option, but most posts about this subject are at least a year or two old so I am not sure how relevant the advice is.

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u/gaymossadist — 2 days ago
▲ 22 r/OculusQuest

Best Current 'Unintentional' Fitness Games

I owned the first Oculus Quest 1 back during covid, and my favourite games were those that were roomscale and gave a well-rounded workout but did not market themselves as such (fitness games I always found pretty boring). I liked Pistol Whip but I prefer multiplayer games with more re-playability so Blaston was my absolute fav, I swear my legs got toned just by playing an hour or two of Blaston a day for a month or so.

Anyways, I am thinking about getting the Quest 3 but have not played VR in like 4-5 years. Anyone have any current recommendations for games in a similar vein, preferably ones with more active online communities (I am just assuming Blaston is dead but have not really checked into it).

I am sure there will be tons more now since I was playing when it was still a relatively new frontier so I am excited to hear more recommendations.

I heard Racket Club and Paintball Playground might fulfill these criteria, so if anyone has any experience with these two I'd also love to hear thoughts. Also heard that Gorilla Tag could be quite a workout.

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u/gaymossadist — 4 days ago
▲ 1 r/SmallYoutubers

'We turned on podcast features for some of your playlists' prompt?

When I went to the playlists section of my analytics, I noticed a prompt that simply says:

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I never used the YT podcast feature before or anything though, I only have normally uploaded videos in my playlists. Did anyone else get this prompt and does anyone know what it means? It doesn't even tell me which playlists they 'turned on' this feature though as far as I can tell.

My videos are long form and probably could be simply listened to like a podcast, but I never marketed them as such because I do put quite a lot of work into the video editing too. So I am not sure why Youtube did this, or if this is just a prompt everyone receives?

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u/gaymossadist — 13 days ago
▲ 1 r/NewTubers

'We turned on podcast features for some of your playlists'

When I went to the playlists section of my analytics, I noticed a prompt that simply says:

>We turned on podcast features for some of your playlists.

>It is recommended that you review your podcast details (e.g. thumbnail) and optimize them for podcasts.

I never used the YT podcast feature before or anything though, I only have normally uploaded videos in my playlists. Did anyone else get this prompt and does anyone know what it means? It doesn't even tell me which playlists they 'turned on' this feature though as far as I can tell.

My videos are long form and probably could be simply listened to like a podcast, but I never marketed them as such because I do put quite a lot of work into the video editing too. So I am not sure why Youtube did this, or if this is just a prompt everyone receives?

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u/gaymossadist — 13 days ago
▲ 0 r/NewTubers

Something I've noticed when I am first getting into a new channel, usually it will be because I like one of their videos and the next few videos in suggested feed will also be by them, so I will just kind of let it follow a chain of suggested videos from the same creator.

What I've noticed from my own analytics though, is that Youtube hardly ever suggests my other videos when viewers are watching say my newest video.

If you didn't already know, you can see how many 'suggested' impressions your videos get from other specific videos in analytics. For an example, I just released a new video a few days ago which got 5k views. When I check to see how many impressions my other 3 videos got on that video, it is astronomically low, only 1-3 people (each) have even been suggested my former videos when they were watching my newest video.

Is this because I am a new channel or is this just normal for the algo now? It is kinda annoying because I feel like when I am watching a creator I will always usually see their other videos in suggested, so I am not sure why this has not been the case for me. My videos are all in the same niche too so them being categorized differently does not really explain my concern.

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u/gaymossadist — 21 days ago
▲ 143 r/sorceryofthespectacle+7 crossposts

This video essay examines the fascist obsession with ruins as a political, aesthetic, and metaphysical project. Beginning with Albert Speer’s official theory of ruin value, the essay argues that Nazi architecture was not only designed to project power in the present, but to control how the Reich would be remembered after its collapse. Fascist monuments were imagined in advance as future ruins: relics that would transmit the myth of an eternal nation across generations. Yet this desire for endurance was inseparable from a deeper necropolitical logic. Fascism sought immortality not by preserving life, but by monumentalizing death, sacrifice, purity, and imperial continuity.

The essay situates Nazi ruin value within a longer history of imperial ruin-gazing, moving from Egyptian restoration, to Scipio’s melancholic vision of Carthage, to Spengler’s theory of civilizational decline, Mussolini’s spectacular reconstruction of Rome, and Hitler and Speer’s fantasy of Germania as a new Rome. Against the view that Nazi ruinomania can be explained only by the regime’s anticipation of retaliation for its crimes, the essay broadens the argument by reading fascist ruin-lust as part of a post-secular political mythology. Drawing on Georges Bataille, it argues that fascism revives the sacred structure of kingship under modern secular conditions: the fascist leader appears as a quasi-religious figure, but what he incarnates is no longer divine right in the traditional sense. Rather, he embodies the nation itself, raised to the status of a sacred force. Fascism therefore does not simply rule by coercion; it organizes affect, myth, and collective identity around the fantasy that the nation transcends ordinary historical life.

This is where Mark Featherstone’s account of ruin value becomes central. If fascism sacralizes the nation, then historical transience itself becomes intolerable. Decay, plurality, contingency, and mortality all threaten to reveal that the nation is not eternal, but fragile and constructed. Fascist ruin value attempts to overcome this threat by manufacturing eternity within history itself. Monuments are built not merely to stand, but to survive as ruins; bodies are valued when they can be sacrificed and memorialized; enemies are destroyed not only physically, but symbolically, through the erasure of their remains and counter-memories. In this sense, the fascist will to immortality is inseparable from what Featherstone describes as a necrophilic logic: fascism seeks eternal presence through dead form, monumentalized sacrifice, and purified remains. Its fantasy of life is therefore mediated by death. The ruin becomes the privileged object of this fantasy because it promises a form of presence that has outlived living history itself.

The essay then shows how this logic shaped both Nazi and Italian Fascist engagements with antiquity. Mussolini’s Rome and Hitler’s Germania were not simple restorations of the past, but staged machines for producing an imperial gaze. Fascism selected, cleared, purified, and monumentalized ruins in order to script who could look upon history and what they would be permitted to see. Ruins that supported the myth of racial and imperial destiny were preserved or simulated; ruins that disrupted this fantasy were demolished, marginalized, or forgotten. Fascist ruin politics therefore functioned as a kind of architectural eugenics: a purification of historical memory parallel to the regime’s purification of the national body.

The conclusion turns to Walter Benjamin as an alternative theorist of ruins. Whereas fascism forces ruins to speak the same imperial message forever, Benjamin reads debris, decay, and historical fragments as interruptions of mythic continuity. Ruins, for Benjamin, do not confirm destiny; they expose the contingency of the social order and open history to the claims of the forgotten, the discarded, and the defeated. Against the fascist dream of eternal presence, Benjamin’s ruins reveal that every order which presents itself as immortal is historical, fragile, and therefore breakable.

u/gaymossadist — 20 days ago
▲ 2 r/NewTubers

'Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled.' That is all Youtube really says on the matter.

Am I taking it too literally, or does this mean that you should intentionally alter the spelling in tags for the relevant SEO terms of your video, so if a user misspells them in search it might still show up? Otherwise, I do not see how tags properly spelled would be effective, if their only value is according to YT, for misspellings?

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u/gaymossadist — 25 days ago