This’ll probably be the last time I do these types of blog posts, but I have learned more about the game today.
1. You lose any custom avatars you’re wearing when logging out (unless you made them yourself, or got them through other means). The only way to get them back is to re-visit the world that had them.
2. After much trial and error, I finally figured out how to throw things while using a mouse. I was quite confused when it meant to hold your right mouse button and then release. I assumed it meant to release the left button. Instead you release the right button to throw the object(while keeping the left button held down). This has caused my hand to cramp up (especially when bowling).
3. Brings me to my 3rd thing I learned. There are actual games in this game, such as bowling. Except it’s kind of buggy at the moment (and doesn’t use RL physics that well). The pins themselves, the reset button gets buggy to where it’s no longer dropping all ten pins.
4. I cannot join a world that has more than 25+ people in it(depending on how popular said world is), as this eventually becomes hard on my CPU as more people join. Thankfully I can join a less populated version of the world to ease the stress, but eventually I have to quit and restart the game to clear the cache (much like what I had to do in Minecraft(when I had 8GB), when memory usage gets too high).
As for what I did today… actually not much. I’ve been staying away from the Best Boi world ever since I was invited to join their Discord. This is probably silly and not true at all, but something is telling me that if continue to enjoy this model, they’re going to implore that I join them (as the guide yesterday mentioned about a meeting, and asked if I heard it). And you know me, with my irrational fear of “being tied down”.
I get that they would want me to join, showing interest in their culture and stuff, but I just care to show interest in my own way. I’m not interested in joining a Guild, thanks very much. I’m hoping they’ll simply allow this.
I went to Uganda for the first time (as this strange goat-like humanoid creature that I got from another world). It was a bit sparse, with this Goku knuckles saying this other knuckles has “something wrong with him” and telling anyone to kill him. I also got questioned twice by the same guy, if I “need Ebola”. I said I was good, and thanks anyways. Glad it worked instead of him spitting on me.
This small blob person a bit later, is begging me to tell him where I found the skin I’m wearing. I said it’s in “a forbidden land” (that I couldn’t remember the name). And he’s all “please.. I’ll (RETRACTED) your (RETRACTED) if you tell me where you got it!” For one, you’re a guy. And you’re also a kid… uh, no thanks. Keep your NSFW to yourself.
I also played Deathrun, something I’ve only seen Vanoss and his friends do in Gmod. Now there’s a VRChat version, with lots of people playing death and lots of runners. Overall, I fully got to the ending three times, and managed to trap other players (when I was death) about six times. I also remember this one guy calling me “Mister Ben” for some odd reason. Though I don’t think it was completely directed at me, as I heard him using this phrase on someone else.
There’s another thing I was exposed to; the vote kick on several people that were either ‘hacking’ or being just plain annoying. A new ‘no’ symbol pops up next to your mic activity level, indicating there’s been a world vote on this one particular person if they should be kicked from the world or not. You can alternately just Block the person if they’re an annoyance to you (such as people who spam really loud music).
I find the Block option more useful than kicking, to be honest. There were a few bad eggs there.
And as I said, I was all “Let’s go bowling!” like that annoying guy in GTA4. My main gripe with this, is there aren’t enough lanes for everyone to play. Often I had my lane stolen by someone else. If they made the place close to real life (where there’s about 30-40 lanes), then we’re talking!
Bowling works the same way as it does in real life.. well, at least the way I was playing it (before I self-taught myself how to throw using a mouse). It was quite embarrassing, watching the ball inch its way towards the pins. I’m go glad I learned how to bowl correctly. Brings back memories of going to the bowling alley just up the street from my school, and never being able to roll the ball like the pros do it.
Reminded me of that episode of The Angry Beavers, of Dag teaching Norb how to bowl. That’s me in a nutshell.
Others however, weren’t exactly bowling correctly. Some where going past the line, while this one guy in VR is pretending that this is ‘golf’ (by smacking one bowling ball into another). Was funny.
I do like when someone gets a strike, their bowling ball turns into a fireball. That’s pretty badass.
One random thing I do want to comment. As I was bowling, I’m hearing someone in the background playing the “How ba-a-a-ad can I be?” song(from The Lorax). I tried to contain myself from adding on by singing “You’re just ruining Net Neutrality!” It’s a reference to the video that has Ajit Pai’s face as The Wonceler.
But possibly the best thing of the day, was joining this one world of a suburban house. I’m outside in an orange-furred ‘Cowboi’ model (finally manned up and went back, hoping I could convince anyone who asks if I joined their Discord server yet), hearing people chatting up a storm upstairs. I didn’t really want to disturb their conversation, so I walked around and even went in the house a few times. Some of them ran down, doing their own things.
This lasts for about ten minutes, until I hear someone abruptly say “Wait, I see a wild furry!” Originally I thought they were talking about someone else, until I see everyone running out of the house and stopping infront of me, with a single person holding a camera in my face…it was like that scene in Lucas the Spider of the human staring at him while the poor huge-eyed spider is trapped in a wine glass.
“They’re looking at me.” *looks around for a way out*.. “Hiii!”
Abit embarrassing (while also funny) when I look back at it. The camera person also bent down and patted my head. That was… nice, and I commented about it. Decided to hang out with this group of misfits ’till it was time to go to bed.
I do remember seeing that camera before. That’s a live streaming camera I’ve saw other Youtubers use, which means your boi might be on someone’s Youtube channel. 🙂
(I do apologize for all the adults out there I may have facepalmed for using the word ‘boi’ like that. I will no longer use it)
What the hell is happening to me, people? Ever since I got into VRChat, I feel like a kid again. I mean it’s good to feel young when you’re old, but I don’t know if I of all people should be seeing this with my virgin eyes.
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I also have an update about the issue I reported of the videos in the Help Videos world not working. I got a pretty fast response from VRChat Support, in just under an hour after reporting it (but I never checked my emails ’till later in the day), stating it’s a known issue and it’ll be fixed in the next update. Yet if it’s so known, how come I didn’t see more related responses when I was checking Google? Just how well known is this bug?
“Questions science still cannot answer” right here, folks.
On top of it, the person also gave me the same workaround that I showed them from a link I found of my initial Google search, that gave no results to fix the problem. Even went as far as taking a pic and sending it to them.
I await their next response, with great anticipation.