Playing the waiting game with Steam Support / I hate being self-centered, but I also hate feeling lonely / A really good talk / Greedy Google

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Playing the waiting game with Steam Support
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At the time I start this section of the blog post, I’ve been waiting nearly two days for a response from them. …I just want them to start the RMA process.
It’s like they already have and.. for some reason they don’t want to tell me jack shit, they’re so busy with other customers they haven’t had time to get back to me, or they had completely forgotten about my request (either intentionally or unintentionaly).
I waited 6 hours before, after they asked me for a serial number. I assumed they wanted the headset’s serial number and had no idea they meant the controller’s serial number. That is unlike what I went through with Samsung or even Lenovo, and they say it could be found on the ‘sensor rail’.. what the hell is a sensor rail?? Looked all over the controller and found nothing that looked like a serial number. So I did some digging and read that the SteamVR System Report should have this info. Took a picture of it and asked them “is this what you’re asking for? I don’t know where the ‘sensor rail’ is.”
Since then I’ve been waiting nearly two days for a response… WHY?! Is this normal to wait this long?
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EDIT: I spoke to Shaw via DMs and he told me it is normal. He also told me I sent the wrong info and showed me where this ‘sensor rail’ is, and where the serial number should be– it’s inside of the curved plastic bar (to the right of the ‘VALVE INDEX‘ wording).
For him it’s really faded to the point it’s unreadable, but said he took a picture and within a day later they started the RMA process.
It’s the same for me (unreadable, really faded). Took a few pictures with my phone’s flash on and sent it to them.
I also asked him what carrier they would be using. He said “it depends on your state” and typically they use UPS after I told him. Said he got his new one a week later.
So hopefully with this correct information, I can get the ball rolling on the RMA. Depending if I have to send it to them, I’ll ‘lose my right hand’ for a week. Plus, no full body as I had discovered both controllers need to be on to use it.
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Better off whipping out my old O+, pray it still works, and then see if I can get my FBT to work with it (hopefully Brianpuppy can show me how), until I get a new right Index controller.
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vs RetroSpecter in VRChat / Bug Fixing / I hate being self-centered, but I also hate feeling lonely
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Got on VRChat. I wasn’t really feeling good as I had acid in my stomach and a very confusing kitty in my room.. for some reason refuses to go see her master (my mother) in the living room. I also felt bad for the way I acted to Blender in DM’s. When he kept on talking about how bad the internet connection is there, I assumed he couldn’t wait to get back home.
…Instead of not fully understanding, he will do anything to be with his grandmother; even deal with that crap internet. He told me to not worry about it, that it’s OK “E”, but I still felt bad for seeing technology more important than family and showing this to Blender.
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Found them in Room of the Rain. Kovo was there, saying he didn’t think I’d get on. There was also a ‘BlueberryTheDog’, one of Blender’s friends. He managed to do his own version of the now insanely popular ‘vs RetroSpecter’ mod in Friday Night Funkin’.


The model looks pretty good. Only issue is the knees and the feet as you can see. He even made his own version of the RetroSpecter plushie (sadly I never got a picture of it).
He’s got an animation where Retro says “ENOUGH!” in the first song and then the avatar rises as the music plays. It’s quite funny.
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But going back to the segment’s title, Blender was with someone I’ve never seen before and it seemed the two were acting quite flirty. I didn’t want to say anything, not to mention I was trying to figure out two things at the same time: get a reset button to work and figure out why a certain mod that lets me know if I’m properly setting the correct emote I wanna do, is not working. SteamVR’s controller bindings was locked up, and I knew the only way is a full restart. All of this (plus my stomach and not sure why the cat was in my room) was doing a number on my mood.
I finally left without saying a word. Discovered the mod in question wasn’t installed yet. And after a lot of trial and error I finally got a working reset button. When I got ingame, I was extremely saddened all of that didn’t fully fix the issue with FBT… but I finally found the solution. It was right under my nose!
In IKTweaks’s configuration, under ‘Animations mode in FBT’, you gotta select ‘Ignore head and hands’ in the dropdown. This will keep your avatar from ‘flying’ when moving around in FBT. I am unsure if ‘Feet stick to ground’ to the right of this setting, would help or hurt this. From my initial testing, it seems to do nothing.
I also took an alka-seltzer before I got back. And my mother finally came and took the cat back to the living room. Things were looking (and feeling) better for me.
Got to cuddle Blender, and Novice joined. He wanted in on the action and photobombed me.


Too cute for words. 🙂
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It was getting late for everyone, and poor Blender was quite.. horny not being able to pleasure himself when he was in his Grandmother’s. Said he wanted to do it with me in VRChat but how bad his internet was, he couldn’t.
It’s cute how I lick him and he moans like crazy. So me and him went to a private world and I helped him out with that.
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A really good talk
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After he really enjoyed me piledriving him enough so he could finally get go of that
stress, I took this time to ask him a few questions before it was time for bed. I just wanted to know what he thought about me and if he had anything against me. He likes me quite a lot and has nothing against me. That is good. I’m glad to hear that.
Then I told him.. how I felt depressed, as I saw him with someone. He. started.. crying about it, saying he never wants me to feel he loves me any less.
I could feel all out chaos in my brain.
“WHY IN THE FUCK DID YOU SAY THAT?!”
“Ok people relax! We can still save this! Comfort him!! COMFORT HIM!! Apologize! Just do everything we can!!”
I calmed him down thankfully, telling him I never met to make him cry and explained myself more. “It’s just.. MIBIT was always there for me. He always snuggled
me, whenever he could.” And how I was by the mirror and I wish I was being snuggled by him… and how much I hate feeling self-centered of knowing he has friends that like to snuggle him too.
He looks down and says “…I’m a slut! When I get snuggled I don’t know how to react to it. I let people do whatever they want to me!”, feeling really ashamed of himself.

…..Just like my inability to say “no”. I didn’t say that, but I should had for him to understand he’s not alone. Instead I didn’t know what to really say. One thought did pop up. I leaned down and looked at him, saying “this is what we need to do. We’re talking about this, and we’re trying to work it out. Ok?” He raised his head and looked at
me, slowly nodding.
He said “one thing I know, is I’ll try to snuggle you more often if you want.” I half liked this yet also half felt ashamed for even having this conversation, finally telling him and he’s
all “no no. It’s OK”… no, it’s not. I agreed to let you do whoever you want, and all the sudden I’m feeling this. It’s like, I formed a bond so strongly with him that I almost want to call him mine. I even told him this, how I felt nearly ready to make this official.
He said “we still have things we need to fix, right?” I nodded, saying “yeah. We need to know eachother more, to see if this is what we want. But I feel, this is what I want” and smiled at him.
He has yet to decide, that that is fine. We got all the time in the world. 🙂
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Changing the topic away from this depressing thing, I gave him the story of how I broke my right controller. He thought it was his fault for not going to bed. No, no no no. It was mine. Showed him the pictures too.
Then I gave him the story of the pain I’m going through with Steam Support taking forever to get back to me. And finally the story of why it would suck so much ass if they tell me to use FedEx.
5am came and Blender went to bed without even being told to do so. Good on him. 🙂
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SPECIAL SEGMENT: Greedy Google
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A bonus segment if you will. Today, Rythm was forced to shut down. If you don’t know what Rythm is, then you likely never been to a popular Discord server. It’s a bot that plays Youtube links in Discord, preferably in a music voice channel.
But Google, is cracking down on these bots. Reasons unknown, but it’s to be assumed of two reasons.
1. Bots like ‘Groovy’ and ‘Rythm’ cause a lot of strain on Google’s API.
2. Google wants people to go to their website instead of bots.
Whatever the reason was, Rythm was forced to comply with Google’s cease and desist and as of today have shut down.
…But Rythm is not dead. Infact they’re coming up with an even better service that they hope to release by late next year.
You can find out more (and participate in their Alpha and Beta versions) by going here.