IKTweaks go “UGH!” / *sigh* …I asked it. But it was driving me insane! / MIBBIT and I are now (unofficially) dating

Another day in VRChat, but with a few minor full body issues caused by everyone’s favorite incompetent social game developer (at least that’s what most people said.. instead of putting the ‘blame’ on the fact IKTweaks is a bit borked).
Got to Chapter 4 in that horror map. Explored a bit of Virtual Market 6 with friends. Felt myself getting closer to MIBBIT (but not enough to say he’s my BF… he on the other hand though).
And finally I said something that was driving me insane to someone.
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IKTweaks go “UGH!“
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Today, VRChat wanted more money. So they went for the majority of VR users; the Quest users and made it where people with the Quest can now purchase VRC+.
“So if that’s all they did, how did it break IKTweaks?” you might be asking. Well you know the VRChat Team to insure transparency for any other changes made in a patch. Totally!

Aaaaaaannnd they slightly broke IKTweaks. What do I mean by ‘slightly broke’, you ask? You launch VRChat and notice no red showing in the MelonLoader console. You assume nothing’s broken.
You try a standard calibration of your full body and press both your triggers when you feel lined up to your avatar.. nothing happens– you’re still in a T-Pose. The FUCK?! Now you have to hold down your triggers for two seconds to complete the calibration, instead of it being instant.
Thankfully this is a well known issue by the VRCMG, and hopefully a fix is coming and soon. On top of that, sometimes when going to a new world/instance of a previous
world, it forgets the calibration and your avatar acts like standard VR.
Now I get the frustration a lot of people are saying this is VRChat’s fault. …But they forget the mod is what’s broken, and VRChat has nothing to do with IKTweaks. And the VRCMG wants people to understand this by telling them NOT to go to the VRChat Team about the issue.
That’s why I almost feel like begging the VRCMG to PLEASE fix this ASAP!!
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*sigh* …I asked it. But it was driving me insane!
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Myself, Jero, MIBBIT, and special guest Kat (who wanted to chill with me
unexpectedly as we were about ready to start) were doing the horror map. Wanted to
do Chapter 2 again for Jero since he had to go to bed before, and we got past it. However the run was a bit delayed here and there with Jero having issues with VRChat crashing on him, and MIBBIT becoming (once again) two or so phases higher than the rest of
us, somehow.
We were halfway done with Chapter 3 when Jero crashed again. It was very early for him and he decided to go to bed, saying he needed to “get (his) quota back up” with his delivery job, and needed to get to bed earlier. Kat also went to bed, leaving just myself and MIBBIT.
We were 3/4s done with Chapter 3, trying to solve this really confusing puzzle that took us back to the old Doki Doki High School map.
Jero was messaging me on Discord and I was messaging back, giving him cuddles and stuff. One time MIBBIT saw me and assumed I was getting stressed out over the puzzle. I told him what I was doing and was very happy he cares about me like that.
Went back to my phone and that question started coming to mind again.. to ask him if he met someone else since what happened with us. I kept telling myself no, to not say that. But my willpower wasn’t strong enough and I ended up asking him. …Fuck!! Didn’t wanna look at my phone as he responded to my question, trying desperately to focus on the puzzle, telling myself I’ll read the message before I go to bed. Finally figured it out 10 minutes later as Jero messages me again.
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MIBBIT goes AFK for a bit, giving me time to check the messages. He says “no”, that he’s content on being single.. but also confuses me of saying that “in real life”, that he has high anxiety.

…So, you actually wanted an IRL relationship with me (instead of a VRChat
relationship) back then? I’m confused, but I’m not going to question it. My original burning question has been answered, so I’m letting that go.
The second thing he said, was him asking the same question to me. I was truthful with
him, but never explained the story about Wolfdog (only that “the longest relationship I had was about a month”).
He hasn’t spoken to me since then. Likely fell asleep or something, or him thinking himself. But it matters not. As long as we remain friends, I’m happy. Besides, I’m starting to warm up to MIBBIT.
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MIBBIT and I are now (unofficially) dating
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He confuses me sometimes. The day before, he once again asks if we should date then says how his social worker said waiting for up to a year is how long it takes to really know if something like this will work (similar to what Kovo told me), and I agreed with him.
And now, he’s acting as if we’re officially a thing and asked me if I’m going to add him on my arm like I did for Wolfdog.
But this is from his own perspective. Mine, is I’m still not ready to fully commit to this. I’m starting to learn a bit more about him, but he needs to learn more about me (and all of my heavy baggage)… then again, I dunno if I really should. Just, give him occasional tidbits about me. Tastes, instead of force feeding the entire main course down his throat. Noone does that in a date.
From what I know about him (so far), he’s kind of like Wolfdog but a bit less
annoying, more caring and compassionate. Sometimes he has no patience and will spoil out what to click on (when it comes to the paintings). There’s this one part in
Chapter 2 I’m still confused how in the hell he figured it out.. and all he did was click random pictures. But, so did Kat. Meh. I just, was hoping to figure out the purpose of the puzzle instead of ‘click random things to win’, because it doesn’t feel satisfying to
me.
The real ‘test’ is to see how he acts outside of VRChat; playing other games. So far, this has been a make or break moment if a relationship lasts or dies. I saw Wolfdog’s true
colors.
Looking at the long list of games MIBBIT has, he’s thankfully not into the truck driving games that Wolfdog’s into (or has GTA5). Infact he has games I’m into, including Factorio and Space Engineers. Interesting. He also has Sea of Thieves. So.. hmmm. Like to see how he is in that game. If he’s bossy, or is a team player. A lot about him would definitely be revealed to me about him (as the same about me if he’s paying attention as I’m gonna be).
See how he handles other players, how he handles emergent skeleton ships.. how he handles the Tall Tales campaign.
Then again, he could be a newbie. He did tell me he has a bunch of games that he bought and never played, including Elite Dangerous. So if that’s the case, then everything hopefully should be great. I’ll teach him what I know.
And if he has Minecraft too, I can show him MCParks. Then maybe we can have that feeling of enjoyment I wanted to see when I was with Wolfdog.
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Huh.. it’s almost as if I want this to work out, doesn’t it? But again, I’ll see how he is outside of VRChat. If he ‘passes all the tests’ and is better than Wolfdog, then maybe just maybe I might take the next step. Again though, too early to tell.
Though I do need to remind him that we’re still “just friends”. I don’t want him to get the wrong idea.
I consider this ‘a trial version’ of a relationship with MIBBIT. Only thing that worries me is Wolfdog or one of his friends sees this and tells Brayden, and Brayden comes after me pissed off that I “wouldn’t do this for Wolfdog”. I don’t think it’ll happen, but.. I just feel Wolf still has a scar on his heart, feeling he was ‘being used’ and I ‘never really loved him’. Both are untrue, by the way. And that scar might rip itself open if he sees us together.
Aka.. similar to what DJ told me when we were a thing. I’d be DJ, though hopefully it won’t be as bad as what he’s gone through.