First off, just wanna say I decided to not even try a 3rd time to redo JeroWorks 3.0, just to fix the Rex’s ears and tail. It’s just.. too idiotic and dumb effort to try for a 3rd time, when I already have the project (what really matters to me) working. Just have a few residual bugs I need to fix, but I’ll go over that later in this post.
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Newton’s 3rd rule of law happened this weekend
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“For every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction” -Issac Newton
What is Newton’s 3rd law of motion, and more importantly why does it play to what happened this weekend? Well Newton discovered that you can take two objects and one object will cause the other to move.
Aka (for me), Saturday’s good luck caused Sunday’s horrible luck to smack me in the fucking face. And what I mean by that, was getting food.
Saturday, we asked for food to be delivered from two restaurants and they arrived a minute apart from eachother, and we got what we wanted.
Sunday however.. completely different story.
1. Mother wanted me to go up to Burger King. I expected no issues from this until I went up to the door and.. it was locked. Um.. EXCUSE ME?! You guys shouldn’t be closed!! There were two people in the building, who I at first assumed were customers and I for some reason got the big “fuck you”. I was half right.. I definitely “got the big ‘fuck you'”. They weren’t customers, they were workers. And one of them was the manager. I knocked on the glass to get their attention to figure out why in the fuck are they closed.
I could barely hear the woman through the glass, only thing that I heard was “you can use the drive-thru”. ..And I yelled back “I HAVE NO CAR!!!”
WOW. I knocked again trying to tell them that I have to get my food to go and I don’t have a car to go through the fucking drive-thru. A guy came to the door, and he made absolutely no sense. Couldn’t hear him at all through the glass doors.
I’m already embarrassing myself infront of everyone around me and decided to just “fuck it” and head back home. Wow that pissed me off. Guess Burger King doesn’t want our money when they won’t open up their doors.
Guess I should assume ‘worker shortage’ being the reason, but if that’s so.. why are they
serving drive-thru anyway? Are they using a skeleton crew? That’s possible. Not enough workers came in to manage.
And that seemed to be a recurring theme the next two times I tried to order my
usual Sunday dinner. This first one was a restaurant that we had issues with
last Friday, when the driver called and stated the reason being “technical difficulties” with the restaurant. Mother suggested I call said restaurant to make sure there won’t be an issue this time. Got a woman who assured me the order will go through no problem, that she doesn’t foresee any issues whatsoever. So I held them to that promise. It was
nearing 6 and a driver came to the restaurant. I was expecting a call once again to let me more of more “technical difficulties”, instead I see ‘Your order is now delayed’. That’s different, but promising. What I didn’t see is the driver left and a new one arrived in their place.
And then… I got the dreaded “we have to cancel your order” phone call. However the driver said “we tried twice to get the order submitted but they didn’t accept it”. Called the restaurant again and said “so I’ve been informed by Grubhub that the order got canceled because you guys didn’t accept it?” And the woman (a different one I believe) said “yes”.
And hoo boy did I open up a can of whoop-ass on her. The woman’s like “what do you mean?! We don’t do the orders, Grubhub does! You have to contact them.”
What do you fucking MEAN you don’t do the orders?! You get the orders from them which you guys failed to do! You cook the orders. Grubhub comes and grabs the orders and delivers them to the customer. Do not play the victim! You’ve LIED to me, saying there won’t be any issues. .. You’ve lost my business. And then I hung up on her lying ass as she continued to say “this isn’t Grubhub!! We don’t control this!”.
Doesn’t matter if they ‘control’ it or not, I was lied to, and I hate liars.
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2. So I wanted McDonald’s (as what I originally wanted). And that, nearly failed as well with it also being delayed. But holy fuck they finally got it, and I finally got to eat.
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Time to talk. This, is bad. Very bad. And I do believe it’s a sign of what’s to come. Mother gave me a story she told me some time ago but I forgot: of her and a neighbor of ours taking her to McDonald’s on a Sunday, and they were in the drive-thru. And they noticed how abnormally slow it was taking.
Claimed they heard the manager telling the workers through the spot where you go to say your order “if it gets too much, deny the customers” (or something like that). And the neighbor wanted to speak to this manager, and the manager confirmed he did say it. And the neighbor asks “what about the customers who just want to get through
the drive-thru?” And the manager said “come back another time”.
This is sadly to be expected. They can refuse service if they’re overworked and understaffed. Plus this was during COVID’s worst time. Now, now it’s workers using ‘get out of having to work free cards’ (aka stimulus checks). And in two or so years it might not even be possible to do delivery orders anymore. And when it comes to that, I still have a bike I can use to get to these restaurants. While mother says that’s a great idea, she says it won’t work if they’re closed on the inside (and it’s drive-thru only, and they don’t allow bikes). I’d be screwed again.
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Ohh Kovo… / Fate of the “Kovo’s dead”
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Let’s talk about what happened yesterday. I was working on fixing issues
with JeroWorks when Kovo messaged me, asking if I “knew any good game worlds”. I told him “sorry no. Try asking Jero. He checks out worlds.”
Five minutes later, I see him on VRChat. Ask Jero if he’s going to join while getting myself strapped up. I join Kovo and Nova in Putt Putt Quest. I’m expecting Jero to join
us, instead he goes to another world. Ask if he wants to join and he does. So Kovo says we’re expecting a 5th person, for a world that apparently requires five people, and showe3d me via a portal what the world was called: Fate of the Irrbloss. Ah yes, I heard it’s a pretty cool world.
Unfortunately due to VRChat bugs, Kovo couldn’t get the 5th person to join (as to not seeing them being on, but actually was). The person then requested us to join, however Kovo said it’s Invite+ and Jero likely wouldn’t be able to join. I joined anyway and it was true, I couldn’t send him an invite. So we still didn’t have our 5th.
So the person (who goes by the name of ‘Bubba’) friends me and then says there are people that are underage. I message Jero and tell him about this but no response. My guess is a friend of his wanted to talk to him.
We wait and wait and Jero still hasn’t responded. Guess he doesn’t have his phone near him? Hmm. Anyway, Kovo goes and says hi to the other people, also reminding me about how these people are underage. While I keep my mouth closed, Kovo however… doesn’t by accidentally saying something NSFW infront of them (TWICE mind you). Had a lot of hilarity of Nova running after him while he was shouting “I SORRY!!”
Hahahahaha.. classic Kovo.
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At this point Kovo wanted to get out of there as he felt bad over something else. Something about sexuality and how Nova doesn’t mind. I’m not sure what happened so I stay out just to see the world we’re in, and we’re in that Fate of the Irrbloss world.
I try to get Jero to join, but again nothing. Kovo decides we should try to three man it, and I’m quite curious how things work. So this world is based off of games like FTL, where you have crewmates who are assigned to various tasks like weapons, shields, etc. Kovo wanted me to be the pilot as apparently that’s a full body thing, yet I haven’t seen a real requirement. All the pilot’s job is to start the missions and plot the courses.
After finally figuring this out, we leave dock and head for the first sector. There we come up with an alien race, where it’s also my job to initiate peace talks. ..Except this one alien wasn’t peaceful. They wanted what we had, and were willing to destroy us for it. Since none of us really know what we were doing, the ship started catching on fire. Kovo tried to put it out while I went to Weapons to try and destroy this fucker.
The fire wasn’t going out, so I had to deal with that as well. Finally back on Weapons I finally figured out how to activate them. Then I noticed Kovo’s blip wasn’t showing anymore and I used the comms and asked “where did Kovo go?” Nova said “Kovo’s dead”.
..Shit! This is the first mission and already we lost a crewmate! I also wasn’t paying attention that the entire ship is now on fire.
Wow did we fail hard. I once again asked Jero to join and finally he did. But I did my best to be respectful and not say “I thought you were going to join us!”… it was very difficult not to say this as I was very annoyed. So now Jero wants to try this thing. Then Bubba joins but he has a friend who’s in Desktop, and Kovo wants to be respectful.
I’m forced to also be respectful while Jero looks for the world he says he found that’s really cool.
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‘SAVE BUBBA | SAVE JERO’
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Instead we play Haunted Asylum. It was quite fun running for our lives, getting the keys and stuff. Then one time we’re all in this room except Bubba, who’s being chased by the monster. Kovo is ‘forced’ to make a choice to save Bubba or be with us, and he
chooses Bubba with opens Jero for an attack of the monster, and ends up killing him. I jokenly blame Kovo for Jero’s death, but use Jero’s flashlight ‘in his honor’. The round continued and Nova died. And like true Kovo fashion, he cared about Nova dying more
than Jero. Glad to see where your priorities are.
When we completed the map, Kovo wanted so badly to be with Nova while I was willing to get a picture of us four being the survivors. Even Bubba wanted a picture of us. …What
a freakin’ simp. lol
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It was getting late for everyone. Kovo and Nova went to bed. Jero did his usual Jero things of knowing he needs to go to bed but not actually going to bed, but he finally listened to me and went to bed.
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An easy decision
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With Jero in bed and seeing noone to really join, I went over my options and found an interesting world called ‘Cyber Seduction’. I assumed going by the name, it would be some sort of an NSFW themed world. However that wasn’t the case. It looks pretty
interesting (and small), but what was really interesting is it was a very unique world: one that you can actually buy on Gumroad and customize it to your liking. This is perfect for people looking for their own personal homeworld and not knowing how to make one, but willing to pay for one (much like an avatar).
With the world I was able to check the rest of my fixes to JeroWorks 3.0, and saw more issues that need fixing. However I was at an impasse: I wanted to watch more shows
at LS Media, but I also needed to work on JeroWorks. …Which one do I pick?
While I kept trying to think of an option (which eventually was going to be to work
on JeroWorks), Malice (who I haven’t seen on since what happened that lead to temporarily losing Jero as a friend) had other ideas that involved himself joining me. Looks like he made my decision for me.
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Started off alright. He invited two of his friends, but I noticed he never invited Jelly. His Index is dead, as in RIP. He’s had it for a year and a half, and now is forced to use
a Quest 2. Thankfully he has the link cable, so he was able to see my avatar. He also has his old Index controllers and hoped to get them to be compatible with the headset, but it wouldn’t work and he was understandably pissed over that.
He also was pissed at people were in a voice chat that “didn’t help with the situation” by discussing drama. Mmmm. I dunno, I wasn’t there. But I would’ve just left the call at that point if they didn’t really care that your Index broke.
I obviously never said this to him (as that would be a bad thing). So I’m stating my opinion in here instead.
Then he talks about Jelly, who he says still has not truly shown that he loves him. …It seems my lessons I gave to Jelly that one night, have fallen on deaf ears. Jelly is literally doing the same thing Blender did. Except Blender IMO, is better than Jelly. I still remember the day Jero and I became friends again, he showed up just to say hi. And that was really thoughtful of him. He actually remembered to do that.. unlike Jelly.
Malice says that he has never told Jelly how he feels, that he only shows with emotion. And then his head suddenly tilted back and stayed like that for the remainder of the
morning.
I told him that he needs to actually tell Jelly. This will be the only real way he’ll understand. Doing emotion explains nothing (to me), honestly. Jelly can’t read people like a book through emotions, and I wish Malice would realize this instead of expecting others to do the talking for him.
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His two friends overheard my conversation and wanted to help Malice out, but didn’t know how. I explained the situation to them and what Malice has gone through because of it, and how “he deserves better than this”. Both of them agree greatly.
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So yeah, what a weekend that was. Can’t wait to see what the week has in store.