Before I got online last night after I completed writing that really long blog post, I said “I need to get on earlier”.. who knew just how ‘earlier’ I’d be getting on.
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Afternoon Meetup
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Did my normal routine, and messaged Blender how he slept. This time I didn’t get a response. So I’m thinking he’s still asleep. Decided to message Orion, explaining the thing of what happened early this morning. He said “that’s ok” and then told me of a
meetup, and I’m open to come. Asked “so right now?” “Well yes” he said.
Huh. Well, hopefully my mother won’t want me. But it wouldn’t be that big of a deal as I can “pause the game” this time. Got my trackers on but also messaged how Blender went to bed at 4am and how I want him to feel like a responsible adult (for good reason I left
the “I feel you treat him like a kid” part that kind of wanted to be typed in).
By the way, I can still play VR with my right controller.. it’s just going to be a real PITA to charge it.
Came on and found them in the same world that is now my homeworld. Boy, this world is popular now. Met Orion, Shaw and a few members from the Yeen Brothers group. Friended one of them who’s pretty cool. Shaw and myself spoke mostly about certain things.
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I really screwed up now
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One of them is him talking about how he had to RMA his left controller due to drift. I felt a bit shameful to talk about my issue but I did. He didn’t at all seem like he wanted to make fun of me, but I did feel like I really.. really screwed up when he had mentioned RMAing the controller.
“RMA as in.. you have to send the controller to them?” “Yeah” he said. “I thought I would just get a new controller!” I said, a bit shocked and annoyed.
“I assume you have no vehicle to mail the controller to them?” I shook my head no. “I have to use Uber, and I gotta pray they use UPS or USPS.” He never responded to this, only commenting how ‘sad’ it is to use Uber for this. No shit sherlock. Didn’t even tell him I don’t have a fucking printer for the shipping label. …UGH this is BAD!! What the fuck am I tell my mother?! “Hey, I need to go up to the post office/UPS Store via Uber as my controller broke and I need a replacement”? ..That actually might work. She’ll likely want to come with me, and that’s fine.
Honestly I’m better off just spending the $150 on a new controller and have it mailed to me (even though I’m under warranty). That way I won’t have to go anywhere.
I do hope they find a way to bend the rules and say “since you cannot send it back, we’ll send you a brand new right controller. And this controller will come with a label that you can slap on the box to send the broken controller back to us via your mail carrier. Just leave it outside for them to pick it up.”
That would be awesome if they could do that for me. Please, Valve. Be awesome and do this for me. Don’t be like Samsung where I had to be VR’less for nearly three weeks. ..That was bad.
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Special segment: Blender joined us after being “bombarded by memes” (according to Orion and Shaw who were doing the bombarding). I really felt for him. He came on in desktop mode, saying he was still a bit tired but has been reading. Didn’t know Blender was a bookworm.
But he wasn’t reading books; he was reading “a few blogs”. I kind of wanted to ask him if he was reading mine, but kept it to myself after I showed him last night what I was doing pretty much all day yesterday. Later on he said he was “being relocated”. Asked him what he meant by this, and he said his grandmother’s taking him to ‘cut the grass’. Mmm. Sounds like he’s “being borrowed” for slave labor.
But he did explain later that he actually enjoys it, as it’s the only way he can see his grandmother. So that’s good, that he likes it. I personally…. already gave my opinion on it.
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Unable to sit down
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After Blender left, the others started to leave as well. It was just myself and Shaw, and he was showing off what he found– the car from Zootopia. He has plans for it and his main plan was to add seats. I was his willing assistant to try out if it works for him.
After test #.. I lost count, I was starting to get bored with this. Every time I tried I could see nothing clickable. It confused him very much.
A few hours passed and I saw Rivers was on. Holy fuck, might as well go say hi before I get off and do something else.
Joined him. He was in a car driving world. He was happy to see me, claiming it’s been a year since we last spoke. I don’t think it’s been that long, dude. I asked him if he’s still in a relationship, and he said he’s been done of that for months, and he “never has felt more free”. Well that’s definitely a good way to combat the loneliness.
Saw the directions to these cars. One of them really caught my eye that you can use your feet to push the pedals, and I wanted to try this out. Opened the car door and.. noticed there was no indication I could sit in the car (yet it was appearing for Rivers).
He said to try another avatar, and so I did and it was happening again. …This is weird. First Shaw and now this? I’m thinking it might be a mod breaking this.
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He took me to the plane world, claiming “this world I know it works”… again I couldn’t enter any seats. Closed out VRChat and applied the ‘–no-mods’ flag in SteamVR Settings. Wanted to see if this was affecting VRChat itself or the mods.. and it’s the mods. Then again who knows? Maybe a restart of VRChat could had fixed it. But really a clean install wouldn’t hurt, and so I moved the Mods folder out of the VRChat folder in Steam to somewhere else, and then deleted the VRChat folder in AppData. This time I wanted to do a complete and full clean install.
The plan is after reinstalling VRChat, to install the mods one by one and see which if any mods might be causing this. I started with emmVRC, doing all tests in Desktop mode. So it wasn’t emmVRC. I saw the mod list and felt “who the fuck has time to test every single damn mod?!”, and used the MelonLoader Assistant to reinstall what I remembered. Also temporarily setting my homeworld to the plane world to properly, and quickly test.
Getting back ingame, I can see no issues. Chairs are still accessible. Ok… so maybe it was a very weird glitch?
With 15 minutes remaining until dinnertime, I tried to quickly get my trackers back on and get back in VR. In the world (in FBT), I first found the mirror and attempted to see myself. The avatar I got from the car world was doing the same disappearing thing as it was with my other avatars. Changed to BTD 3.5 and.. the issue no longer happened. Okay then. Ran over to the plane and see I was able to enter the seat.
Excellent. Now um.. why am I still seeing ads from VRChat+? ..Wait. Why am I not
seeing emmVRC installed?! Why am I not seeing ANY mods installed?!?! Are you fucking serious? I have ANOTHER issue I have to fix?! It’s nearly 6 here!!
Suddenly I remembered.. I put the ‘–no-mods’ flag in Steam. Removed it and relaunched. NOW everything works as it should! ..Thank fuck. Soon the 6:00pm alarm rang. Dinnertime. I’ll do a more extensive test after dinner.
(That never happened though, due to IRL ‘issues’ of a very annoying furball of a
cat that is too stupid to know how to avoid drafts VS wanting my AC to be running to keep my room as a non-stuffy feeling, and my mother who cannot wait for the day that I’ll take it out when it stays cooler in the day)
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Oh yeah, before I end this, I found this video that explains how to setup the playspace mover side of OVRAS(OpenVR Advanced Settings). There’s also a comment on how to add a reset button.
Very awesome. Glad this exists, as both the OVRAS Discord and the Steam community are both very dead. People ask for questions but it’s rare to get a proper response.
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Plus, I’ve been waiting over 6 hours for Steam Support to get back to me. Apparently the serial number they asked for, doesn’t come from the headset– it comes from the controller and they wanted me to find it, claiming it’s close to the ‘sensor rail’. I looked all over the right controller and all I see is ‘VALVE INDEX’ and the Index icon, but no cereal number. Even my perfectly working left controller doesn’t show this. Did some extensive
digging, and read the number should be part of the SteamVR System Report that I needed to send while submitting the ticket. Why didn’t they see it before…? Who knows. Sounds like laziness on their part. But I took a screenshot of what I saw and asked them “hopefully this is what you’re looking for”.
I also told them how an RMA would be a bit tricky for me to do, that I would have to use Uber. It’s now the next day and nearly 24 hours have passed… no response from Steam.
Ugh, at this point I’m about ready to say “screw it” and just buy a new right controller. Infact, just buy a brand new pair of controllers, as I am starting to get very slight drifting issues. It’s been four months since I got the Index. Hard to believe. Feels like it’s been longer than that.