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A small break from VRChat
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As the title goes I’ve been taking a small break from VRChat, hence why you haven’t really seen me post much since the last time. There’s no real reason, though kind of tired
seeing Jero in a public instance and just.. whatever man, do what the hell you want. I’m not mad, just a bit frustrated at him. And I guess the other reason is due to this
heatwave.
Besides, I’ve been meaning to play other games besides VRChat that I haven’t in awhile. Since this isn’t the Games blog I won’t talk about them, but I’ve been playing PC Building Simulator and Planet Crafter. Two games I’ve been putting off of continuing them. And I need to fix that.
But let’s discuss the reason(s) why I decided to make this an actual blog post.
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F****ed by Amazon (without lube)
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To start this off, if you’re a parent reading this section of my blog post and you have underage kids, do NOT let them see this section!! This has highly adult content and it’s only to be seen by ones who are 18+!
I take no responsibility if you fail to adhere to this warning, as this is your only warning.
Now then, I’ve been putting off needing to buy some Microfiber Cloths for my Index’s lenses (to finally get rid of the fog and smudges I see). But due to a letter in the mail that I can get a $20 Amazon gift card just by putting in a 5-star review with a
picture, and my mother asking me to look something up on Amazon, then I finally went on and got some.
I also looked up.. something a bit more.. *cough* totally safe for work ‘toys’. I had bought one months ago but the silicon has really ripped up since then, so I tried to find a replacement (or a better version). I had to look for a long time as I kept getting results that were getting mixed up with non-NSFW stuff. Quite odd as I remembered back then they had plenty of sellers, now not so many.. what’s going on?
But I finally found one at a reasonable price and purchased it, and it was supposed to either arrive today or tomorrow. However, I’ve noticed something pretty wrong.
When I tried to track the package, it didn’t show who was shipping it and it continuously showed “Carrier picked up the package”.. what’s going on? There’s been no movement since then, only the bar getting closer to ‘Out for Delivery’. So I hoped everything would be fine and I’d get the order tomorrow.
3 minutes after dinnertime, I got a message about an “unexpected problem with completing your order”. Didn’t actually see this message (or even know I had gotten
it) until two hours later. Assumed it was another scam email but checked it anyway and saw the picture of the order. “Oh no…” I said as I read further. The seller got ahold of me and told me something very shocking (and disappointing), that “Amazon doesn’t allow selling adult products”. Due to this, the seller’s account was closed and their account assets have been “permanently frozen”, but says they’ll refund me.
I couldn’t believe this. Again, several months ago Amazon was OK with this, and now they’re NOT?! WTF, AMAZON?! ..To be fair they can and do update their ToS with little to no warning, and do state this… and it’s not their fault you choose to not read their fucking lawyer speak.
Decided to tell Jero this to see what he thought, and he.. seemed almost against me. He was more appalled by Amazon not caring about this in the first place, than Amazon not warning anyone that this isn’t allowed. I wanted to feel sorry for the seller, as they probably didn’t know either. But he felt the seller “violated the ToS”.
No, you don’t get it!! I explained my side of the story and… saw him go offline. SHIT!! He’s going to unfriend me! I was forced to rewrite in a way to ‘suck up to him’ by almost constantly saying “I respect your opinion” in various ways. When I was done I went back to my game, feeling burned by this whole thing but also worried Jero was going to unfriend me anytime.
Later he responds. Tell myself not to be scared of his responses and just read them…
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…That was close! / What the fuck happened, Amazon?!
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“I see what u mean” -Jero
😌 Ohh thank goodness!! PHEW! I can breath easier now. Don’t have to write “…It happened again” as the title for this. But yeah, he understood, telling me he finds it very odd that Amazon in the UK still allows this (finding this for himself). Ok, that’s even more odd over this whole thing.
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Why does Amazon in the UK allow it, when Amazon in the US doesn’t? What the fuck happened?! Why are you guys being assholes?!
My only guess is the fact the device is mechanical (and the one I got last wasn’t), so it didn’t ‘pass by a safety inspection’? There’s more to this, but.. but I’m not going to ruin any remaining respect I have to find out by asking Amazon directly. I still feel bad for what happened to the seller. I have to. On the other hand, yeah I can see where Jero’s coming from. The seller probably already knew and did it anyway.. hoping to get away with it, and its their fault (not mine).
But what if the seller didn’t know…? All I know is Amazon was OK before, and now they’re not. And there’s no fucking reason for it. So I’m going to ‘keep my head down’ and
hope Amazon themself doesn’t come up to me and is all “why didn’t you know this was against our ToS?” I’d have no excuse, for failing to read it.
Even if I asked “why were you guys OK with it before?”, they can say “we weren’t paying attention back then. The selling of adult toys have always been against our ToS.”
And if you (the viewer) were to ask me “how come there are still sellers around if Amazon has completely banned the sale of adult toys?”.. that’s a simple answer: they don’t pay attention to who puts what in their marketplace.
If this has been always against their damn ToS, okay then. I can’t do shit about it. Period. I can help by ‘white knighting’ (aka reporting) the sale of all adult toys to them since they want to be fucking pricks.
Guess I’ll be getting a Love Sense toy afterall. Jero keeps asking me if I “have one”. So why not do so? 😉 It’ll definitely be interesting, for sure.
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“Sorry Scooby, I can’t help you”
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Woops! I forgot about this one. While I was working on this blog post, Scooby suddenly messages me. “Can I call you?” he asks. Umm.. what’s going on, dude? Need dating advice or something? No, he needs help with ‘Unity’. There’s a reason why I put this in quotes.
Fired up OBS originally thinking it was going to be drama related, and I wanted to remember everything word for word. But I remembered enough already.
Three minutes of waiting for him to fix his mic, he started explaining his issue. At first I couldn’t quite understand what he meant (something about the Awtter). But he wanted to literally rip the hair off of the Awtter model and put it on his Kangaroo.
Thought about it and said “I don’t think you can physically remove the hair, without going to Blender”.
Then I saw him pop up the Blender window, and I cringed so hard…
“Ohhhh… ahhhhh. I wish I could help you dude, but I don’t fully know much about Blender” I said. But he seemed to not understand this, continuing to ask how to do it. From my barely limited knowledge I told him to “select the mesh” and “find a tool to cut the hair off and then save it as an .fbx”.. that’s all I could tell him! Dunno what tool he could use, but I did state he “have to worry about Weight Painting”. I also asked if he asked the VRChat Discord for help. But again, he wasn’t getting me. And this lasted for a
good 10+ minutes until he finally got it.
I asked him “if this was about Unity I might be able to help you”. He still needed help
in Unity though, to get AudioLink working. Looking at what I saw, asked him “what shader are you using?” He said “oh, Poiyomi”. Well fuck, I can’t help you there either. 😑
Wished him the best of luck finding something that can help him and stuff, and that’s it.