All I can say is: 2022, slow the fuck down. Stop living on the fast lane. It’s only the 4th and I’ve done so much, including recently.. finally de-dusting my computer. I hope by doing so, my graphics card can finally breath. Haven’t de-dusted since the case swap that Jero helped me with. So yeah, it has been awhile. Watching the dust fly out of the case felt very satisfying.
Best thing about it, I now have a handheld blower for de-dusting instead of having to go out to the garage and do it. I thank Nova for giving me a few suggestions. I can de-dust it without having to unplug everything (just the power cable for safety reasons).
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And yesterday, after several months I now have Alexa’s music playing through my Index’s mic and speakers (but only similar to how I did with my O+). Three days ago I got it to play through the speakers, but not the mic. And yesterday, I discovered the official Voicemeeter Discord. Probably was 3-4 months ago when it was made as a thing, because I never saw it back then.
I explained my issue, but felt like it would fall on deaf ears. Thought this server was pretty dead, but I’m glad I gave it a chance as one of the moderators messages me asking for a picture. Took it and they asked if I could join a call to get this looked at and hopefully fixed. Shared my screen, and even trusted them to take control of my computer (he gave me his word as he’s a hand-picked mod from the creator of Voicemeeter).
He showed me I no longer need to be using Virtual Audio Cable as Output as Voicemeeter “has its own mic” and “can use it for something else” (and flat out removed it from Hardware Input 3, which makes me wonder if I should go back to Voicemeeter Banana since I have no need for a 4th input anymore). Instead he showed me ‘B1’ (being a mic). I showed him the macros that ‘my friend’ (aka Avaris) helped me set up. He said “your buddy did a great job with the macros”. Glad Avaris did, else that would’ve been more work on this guy’s part.
He made sure everything was working, including finally hearing Alexa’s voice through my Index’s mic. Was extremely thankful for the help. But one last thing he said is Voicemeeter Potato has been updated since I last used it, to ‘Voicemeeter-X64 Potato’. The new version comes with a ‘Streamer Mode’– a slimmed down version that will actually fit in my screen (yes, can you believe Potato still doesn’t fit in both monitors even with 1080p)? Unbelievable.
Anyway, I managed to make this same setup with Voicemeeter Banana. More compact and it actually fits in a single window.
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Anyway, to explain the “wild side” was mainly in my homeworld. On the 2nd, Redjoker wanted to join me. Wanted in the mood as I was waiting for Jero (who was on at the time), to join me (or me to join him). Joker kept requesting an invite, so I’m all “alright Joker fine, let’s see what you want from me”. He joined while I was listening to Alexa through my speakers (was the day later when I was able to get the help I needed). All he wanted to do was hang with me, so I did my best. Then some random person joined the world.
Umm hi… how did you get in here? Ohh… right I have a mod that sets the world to Invite+. Derp. Anyway,they’re one of Joker’s friends, and the two were having fun. Then Blender wanted to join. Let him in. He asked me if I knew HawaiianHyena, I said “yeah, he’s one of my friends”, and Blender asked if he can join the world. Thought “sure”, thinking it would be a brief visit. They joined, then Joker’s friend left to go to work, and Joker left about 20 minutes later.
Oh yeah, even Jero joined me. And he met Blender for the first time. He was also quite tired at the time but wanted to stay up for me, which was quite sweet. Eventually I told him he needs his sleep, and he did.
The next thing I know, Blender was getting quite lewd with Hawaiian. I jokingly said “sure, you two have sex on my bed! I’ll be over here by the mirror”… and they started fucking doing it on the bed; Blender giving Hawaiian a blowjob. Oh. my. lord. So I’m currently laying down on my side, looking at the mirror. Got my mic muted and started chuckling to myself as I couldn’t believe they took my words seriously, but also listening to Alexa at high volume to remove the moaning sounds from my ears. This went on for 30 minutes… until they finally finished up. I’m sorry, but why wasn’t the thought of “we should go to our own private world to not bother Benie” used?! Wanted to say this but didn’t. Instead, I left quietly as Blender was admiring Hawaiian’s d**k that’s the size of a grapefruit that fucking sparkles in the moonlight like some Twilight BS, and I was done with this shit.
Noone needs a virtual d**k with RGB!! WTF?!
Next day, I had so. many. people join my homeworld. Seriously, wtf is going on?! Why do so many people wanna see ME??
But the real ‘fun’ came from Kat in the w0rld talking to someone that was invisible to me. When everyone left, I saw ‘Werodip’ show in join notifier. So, he blocked me and was talking to Kat. That’s just lovely, that he’s still talking to Kat. Didn’t care about being blocked, only that HE’s still talking to Kat.
I pray she knows what she’s doing… better not go crying to Kovo if it goes south on her. Just saying. Thing is, who knows how long this has been going on. At least, there was no drama that was discussed (from what I heard from Kat).
So yeah, that’s what happened.