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Last night was… I wish I didn’t have to talk about last night, just it was filled with confusion, jealousy and rage (much like people felt when the plaque incident was happening.. but I digress).
Hanging out with a few friends, one of them with VR decides to make a portal to the Battle Discs world. He and another Desktop friend of mine go through. And as I’m going through, I’m still transmitting my voice into my mic, saying “you’re serious.. this is for VR only! I can’t play this!”
Somehow he heard me through the portal, and told me “yeah Desktop can play it. I’ve seen people with Desktop defeat people with VR!” X to Doubt
And I did doubt him, remembering him saying this before, and how I tried in the past (and made myself look like a rambling idiot with people getting pissed off, that I was still in the play area (using Training mode). But, I decide to show him once and for all… that this game is for VR ONLY.
So we played, with him VS me and my Desktop friend. Holding the disc in my broken hands, myself and my Desktop friend are trying to run into the VR friend. Everytime, I die but my Desktop friend is somehow learning how to throw the disc.
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This becomes furiously annoying when the VR friend pits myself and my Desktop friend against eachother. He kills me every. fucking. time to where I just want to kill myself IRL. He has learned a secret that he claims that he doesn’t even know how in the fuck it happens. All he said was to “throw it”. So I tried, nearly wanting to turn my fucking mouse into dust from squeezing it so hard, and pressing every key on my keyboard… praying there’s got to be something I’m just not seeing. But for some reason, I can’t do it (and he can).
So I stayed calm and just accepted it. ………….. I wish I wasn’t kidding. It was not a fun night. And all I did was make my friends (others who joined) worried about how I just wanted to be alone. I was ready to snap at anyone. I was fucking furious.

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Fast forward about an hour later, I’m alone in my favorite world when I feel like wanting to strangle someone. Because it’s so peaceful and calm (which is what I desperately needed).
As I sat, closing my eyes and trying to make my anger drift away into the calming ocean. When it finally happened, an idea was able to get into my head. Remembering that my Desktop friend mentioned he uses a controller, could be the actual reason why he’s able to do only what VR people can do. He’s also able to manipulate objects with it.
The thing is, he has an Xbox Controller, and I have a PS4 controller. So I did a quick Google search (while listening to Elpis to further calm down), and it claims I can use my controller through Steam’s Big Picture mode.
Finding the USB to my HOTAS, I unplugged it and plugged the cable that came with my PS4. Opened up Big Picture mode and sure enough, it was able to locate my controller and used it.
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So it seems to be simple to what I used when it came to playing LEGO Worlds (without a 3rd party enumerator). This is pretty much the same thing; enumerating the Xbox Controller for the PS4.
Logged back in, and played with this new movement concept in my world — throwing things around. When I felt I had learned the buttons, I went back into the instance with my friends and tried to do the Training of Battle Discs… I still couldn’t get it to work the way I saw my Desktop friend do it!! WTF!!!
After a half an hour of trial and error (with my friends talking to eachother upstairs), I finally figured out a pattern. Looking down at the discs and spamming the X button, I’m guesstimating to have a 25% chance (everytime I press the button) of either throwing a disc (or both if using two discs) at my target. I felt confident that I had a possible rhythm, and challenged my Desktop friend to a duel…

And I WON, with a score of 5-3!! 😀 My first EVER Battle Discs victory!!! FUCK that whole “it’s a game” crap! My honor being restored is the only thing I gave a fuck about.. at the cost of an aching right thumb. But that pain is worth what I went through.
Now I know how to do it, I’m ready to go again (after my thumb stops hurting, of course. Heh). My Desktop friend also told me that he didn’t play with a controller during that battle, but I told him that ‘locking’ the camera (which you can’t really do with a mouse) is (what I felt) gave me the advantage.
He tried to do what I did, and hilariously ironically.. he couldn’t do what I could!

I also learned that I have to keep Big Picture mode running in the background, for my controller to be recognized. And since my computer doesn’t have Bluetooth
capability (yet..), I have to use a wired connection.

Hasn’t been much happening in VRChat (except for feeling negative feelings for a once friend, but that’s for another post).
Anyway, besides the firebreath, there’s one other thing I want what the Dutchie has; being able to float and ‘fly’. And unlike the firebreath attempt, this one can be done (on literally any avatar, without requiring ‘shape keys’).
And the way I was told to do it (originally by someone who barely speaks English), was to put a box collider under the avatar’s feet (and how it’s “so simple”).
Seeing that I could barely understand him, I tried to ask someone else. He said the same thing (and spoke a lot more clear).
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So I tried it, placing a standard sized Unity cube under the model’s feet, and making it toggable via an animation. Testing it, worked (in a sense). Basically, whenever I tried to move forward, I went forward then suddenly felt the camera jerking backwards. Spamming my space bar, seemed to keep me hovering.. yet it also felt I was falling down.
What’s worse, the toggle I made wasn’t working. I just kept either ‘feather falling’ or jerking backwards when moving forwards when going down a slope. Highly annoying.

Discovered later (after talking to the same person) that I messed up. I was supposed to put a flat box collider of where the Best Boi’s dynamic bones and other stuff are. And as for toggling, the box idea was good, but this was what I needed to set the animation to (and have it toggle instead of the main collider).
After attempting to debug it in my world, with more issues (with the guy joining it to make sure I had it the way I wanted it), I finally had something originally similar to what I had (AND the toggle works)! No more ‘feather falling’!
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I also wanted to bind this to the wings (to spread them out when I engage ‘hover mode” (similar to some people with the Dutchie wish would be a thing).
I also figured out (in Blender), why the wing claws aren’t moving with the wings. Because just like the ‘new tail’ I was given, the wing bones were also duplicated. Sadly, the bones that connect to the wing claws won’t move with the original bones (something about ‘Loop in parents’ when I tried to parent them (whatever the hell that means).
The only thing I can think of, is to start over (pull up the original wings, spawn in the claws and then attempt to parent them to the mesh, then weight paint them). And I.. meh. Honestly, I don’t feel like messing with that shit. Especially when Eroak tried to get them to work and failed to do…. so what makes me so sure I can do it, with my extremely limited (barely knowing the basics) Blender knowledge?
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And I may have another idea (that will likely blow up in my face), to do the definition of insanity and try to do the wing folding animation (similar to the Dutchie). I don’t have high hopes of pulling it off. Unless there’s a way I can ‘simulate’ the claw to move with the mesh (aka duping it and having the second claw attach to the main bones, then disable the other one.
Or, fuck attempting to include the claw in the animation (and have a ‘retracted’ and ‘extended’ state of it)… which I decided to default to, while removing the dynamic bones (making the wings static).

During my birthday (still feeling a bit saddened that the AUFF closed down), I decided to ask John if he heard what happened about it. And, well.. we talked about the shit that’s been happening this month (after he had asked).
And also, before you say “I thought you wanted to remove yourself from drama.. yet you come back to it?”, allow me to explain. This entire thing, was only supposed to be about the AUFF (and how I felt about it). And the reason is simple;
On the 4th (a day after finding out the community is shutting down next month), I sent John a friendly DM in Discord, questioning if he wouldn’t mind to give his opinion on what’s going on with the Best Boi’s, and he never responded to it. So, that made me assume that he didn’t want to talk about it (and left him alone).
He brought the mess up, by wondering “you don’t specifically come see me, so why are you here?” After telling him about the DM, he apologized saying that he rarely checks Discord.
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So anyway, I’ve discovered that extremely infuriating thing Rocket posted in the BB Discord’s general channel (that I wanted to slam my fist into her face about in that Discord group chat), that she was forced to apologize. Let that sink in for a moment. She, was forced, to apologize. Oh low low can one go. And apparently this fake apology was removed before it could be seen by us (and honestly, it was for the best).
So.. lmao. It’s possible this ‘Best Boi music video’ (that I haven’t heard one peep about), was her once again lying about how she supports the community. Not even Klaus has said anything about being a part of it (and he’s usually talkative about cool things that happen).
To think I once trusted her to reshape the community, only to fucking backstab me (and Creepery) later on (and then had the nerve to say “I didn’t care enough”)…. I have nothing else to say about her, only that there’s a special place in hell for backstabbers.
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And as to this claim that Charms was to blame for the community’s downfall (then Klaus finding out he would never do something like this).. I mean, come on. The tone in his voice when he was extremely pissed off at us during the aftermath of the plaque incident. He cared so, so much about the community.
-And we seriously needed that wakeup call. We were behaving like children, being so jealous over something that Kibble was trying to better the community (of listing these people that have gone above and beyond just simply talking).

John told me about a video that Charms made, proving his innocence. And also, telling me that what Rocket and Ruth did.. was actually against the law (which is why Twitchin approached Klaus, asking to help her ‘avoid a legal dispute’).
And I believe the reason why I haven’t received this video from Klaus, was probably because I had told him that I wanted to stay out of this (yet here I am, curious about it). However, Grifz (one of the former AUFF Government members who was with me at the time), also didn’t know about this video. How strange.
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Finally, we talk about Creepery and his community, who John feels it will also fall. And his reason, is he feels the guy is “too trusting of others”, and not listening to all sides. I actually kind of agree, and told John that I felt Creepery is way over his head, thinking he can handle this, and that he’s “too nice”, and how he wants to bring back the lag hell meetings.
Creepery being “too nice” and “too trusting”, is one of the reasons why I don’t want to join his community. To me… the Best Boi community is DEAD! DEAL WITH IT! Stop beating the horse, thinking you can be ‘the new king’.. when you’ve never made a model from scratch in your life. People are going to get bored with Best Boi reskins. They’re going to want NEW Boi’s (like the Corgi Boi).
However, if Creepery was smart, he could hire someone that would do new models for the community.
Though, there’s always the chance that he might eventually learn how to do so (though I seriously doubt he’ll make a new Boi, like anything that Kibble had put his heart and soul into).