I actually had a fairly good day yesterday, because one part of my thoughts is now no longer an issue; clearing my mind.
I’m also currently typing this post on an old keyboard. Something happened IRL that could had been prevented, but a new replacement is on its way. Not only that, but I feel my UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) might be reaching the end of its life cycle. And this is the second time in my life I’ve had to replace it.
So anyway, pretty much all day was in Kovo’s world. He’s been quite busy (of when he’s able to work on it). He finally got the mirror working, so that’s awesome. And he was smart to disable said mirror when you load in (and it’s local). Great work, Kovo. 🙂
I also need to help him with an avatar. He doesn’t know how to properly set the view
point, so I have to teach him.
The rest of the evening went alright (apart from a few sudden disconnects when I got booted back to my home world). That was until someone joined the world that I’ve never seen before, and he was asking some pretty interesting things. Claimed he was going to be leaving VRChat, due to a bad reputation. I tried not to show it as it was none of my business as to why, but it peaked my interest. But, I’ll be talking about him a bit later, as the ‘really good shit’ was about to happen.
Now I was in VR, and I had one of those small plastic cereal bowls (that serves one
person), and this thing still had a 1/3 cup of milk in that I was too lazy to clean up for that day. This bowl was sitting on my desk, and I bet you know what happened next (and probably laughing your ass off).
Anyway, Kovo asks me to come up to the radio, and stick my hand in it (for some odd reason). So I ran up to the second floor of the structure, got to the radio and stuck my left hand through. Then I hear Kovo say “No, not your hand, your head. Stick your head through.” Alright, sure. I pull my hand back, and… the controller somehow connected to the bowl, knocking it over and spilling on my keyboard, and on my left knee.
Kovo’s saying “I heard water, are you OK?” My brain’s all “uhhh… what happened?” but went on and stuck my head through the radio (still feeling a lot of wetness on my left knee).
He was talking about the detail of the radio, wondering why it’s so high quality. I tell him how it’s not really lagging me (trying to ignore the potential mess I just created).
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After that, I take off my headset and….. see the mess. FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU–!!! It took me 20 minutes to change my pants, clean the floor, clean the keyboard (trying to get the milk out), pop out the keys, clean them, put them back, and then finally do the thing that could had been prevented in the first place. God, what a mess!
Luckily my controllers and headset are OK, and get back into VR (feeling abit embarrassed). But hey, accidents happen. At the same time, Kovo invites Sparky who was trying to get me (and them) to come his way.
It was about about 15 minutes after that event happened. Sparky’s talking to me about how everyone’s seeing his art, and he’s so happy. As I’m talking to him, suddenly the headset goes black, my computer turns off, and I can hear my UPS screaming at me (as if we just had a sudden power failure). Taking off the headset, noticed the power is still on in my room. So it wasn’t a power failure. Though, I could’ve sworn I heard something outside a few seconds after it happened.
So if it wasn’t an outage, then.. WTF JUST HAPPENED?! Reset the screaming UPS and it boots as expected, then turned computer back on and it also booted normally. Ok, internal hardware is still good (at least no immediate signs of failure). That’s good.
Back on Discord (with my nerves shot), I try typing what happened. Except, now my keyboard is malfunctioning. SHIT! The milk must’ve short-circuited it! A quarter of keystrokes are doing some weird shit (keys stuck to eachother but without actually being stuck).
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Thankfully, I found an old USB keyboard I managed to get working (it’s quite a loud
bastard, almost sounds mechanical). With it, I finally explained what happened to my friends. Took me 10 minutes (while also ordering a replacement keyboard from
Amazon) to get enough courage to get back into VRChat, fearing my UPS was going to do it again (and I would be fucked, because replacing it isn’t cheap). 😛
However, the game had other plans…
That was fun, and again I was in VR.. *facepalm*
But I managed to log back into my account (through Desktop mode), and got back to Kovo’s world. Still feeling tense after what happened, I began to (unintentionally) make myself sick to my stomach with my brain being all “it could had been your PSU failing!!” But I told my brain “that’s impossible! If it was your PSU, your computer would be dead! THINK, DUMBASS!!!”
Thank the maker, I haven’t had an issue for the rest of the night (and at the time of me writing this), allowing me to take a deep breath and loosen up.
So, back to the guy who’s planning on leaving VRChat. He was still in the world, talking to us. Kovo ran off, and then he says “let me go to him” and disappears infront of us. Nearly everyone started to freak out, not knowing what’s going on. We catch up to the guy, and Dusky tries to calm everyone down saying “he’s not malicious!”
Dude, he’s using a modded client! That’s against the rules! It shouldn’t matter if he’s not using it to steal our avatars (and/or crash us), it’s STILL against the rules! At least, that’s what I should had said (and thought), but I didn’t really think much of it at the time. I thought “ehh, as long as it’s not stealing our avatars, it’s OK.”
A bit later, he’s chatting with Nappie and a few other Dutchies about the new Dutchie 2.0 model that was released a few days ago (but only to specific people), and was thinking the fact he was going to heave, than maybe he could ask them if he could have the model.
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Um, it doesn’t work like that. Yet he knew he would be denied, but Nappie, being a nice
guy, told him that he would ask them if it’s OK (even after being offered the chance to clear his mind and simply say “no”).
And that’s not all that happened. He was talking to Nappie and I just happened to be near them. He’s talking about starting a new life with a new community. This is what made me chirp in, telling him “you can’t be someone you’re not”, adding that I too have a shitty
life, and trying to start another isn’t going to do the trick. You have to change your current life, if you’re ever going to be happy.
While I was trying to knock some sense into him (as I felt his pain), Vale happened to pop in, he saw him and said “why did Vale block me?” ..Huh?? I turn to Vale, confused but saying nothing (as I can only assume he had a reason he doesn’t wish to tell). The guy says that he can see (and hear) him. Vale walks away, then DMs me later on. I’m forced to go find Kovo and tell him about Vale, which he says “I will handle the situation”. Good. Nothing could go wrong with that. But, it’s better you than me, since I get in the way (and get my ass crashed).
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Not sure what happened after (nor do I really want to ask), but he stayed with Nappie for the rest of the morning (aka what is now today). And after two more random boots to the home world (one that actually affects more than just myself), the remainder of the morning was rather uneventful (always a good thing, given what I just went through with my computer).
So, that’s about it. Hopefully this’ll be the last time I talk about full on or semi-drama things of VRChat.
The replacement keyboard is scheduled to arrive next Tuesday. So as long as my UPS doesn’t die on me tonight (when I go back in VR), I’ll make sure what happened never happens again.
So, it wasn’t the GPU, or the CPU. Well, the CPU (if it gets too hot, like what happened back when I had the 9590) can turn your computer off to protect it.. it would never trip the UPS.
The long solid BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE sound is either the computer was booted before the UPS could fully boot, or a UPS hardware failure. So, this is the closest thing that I can think of that caused the fault.
Though, who knows. Could’ve also been the hand of God that caused it for all I know! Maybe I’ve sinned way too much and this was “God’s plan” to punish me (in the form of a specifically designed lighting strike that only tripped the UPS and nothing else).