Good news and Bad news / “At 3:16pm PDT, I’m gonna be taking a shit (on modders).” -VRChat / “‘X’ wants to join here”

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Good news and Bad news
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I’m still waiting for a response from Steam Support to start the RMA process for
my ‘broken’ right controller.
Though, a bit of good news. After Shaw told me what I needed to do and I sent it, a few hours passed and I got a response! ..And now for the bad news.
1. What Shaw did seems to ‘not be good enough anymore’ and they still want the serial number for the controller. But they told me they’ll settle with the Transaction ID which is part of the purchase.
2. …They use FedEx.

They did add onto this with “if you’re unable to send it through FedEx, let us know”.. and I definitely did let them know.
And now I’m waiting hours yet again for a response. However, at least I know (according to Shaw) this is normal.
But it also isn’t looking good. I pray they’ll work with me with the whole ‘mail a new controller in a box that has the shipping label and send it back through mail carrier (or call FedEx and have them pick it up from my house)’ thing. But if not, then I’m buying a new
controller.
I could also, if they only accept FedEx, to just void my warranty altogether and hot glue the piece back into the controller. But that runs the risk of the hot glue not exactly the best thing to use when it comes to an electronics repair job, and cause the controller to never be charged again (or worse.. from ever working again).
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“At 3:16pm PDT, I’m gonna be taking a shit (on modders).” -VRChat
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6pm came. Enjoying my dinner. Discord grabs my attention. New VRChat update. Hoo boy! But take a shot everytime you see the word ‘update’ (don’t actually do that
though).
But what was different about this update was– actually nothing. Standard update. They updated to Unity 2019.4.30f1, but say you don’t need to update.
It uses the ‘new’ Avatar Fallback System (a thing that’s been in place several months ago). Mainly for Quest users unable to see PC avatars (without the link cable), and for people who have the performance avatars thing set– overall to reduce the amount of seeing the dreaded ‘robot’ avatar.
This also covers the base if the avatar fails to load for people, and if you have their avatar hidden. Tupper explains the changes in this really bad, cringy “lolol memes are funny RIGHT?!” video here.
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And with any update, it broke mods. But this update– was actually surprisingly light on what it broke and the modders were able to quickly fix most of them.
So where am I going with this? Why is this update any ‘different’ than the others? Why was I being so overdramatic? Memes, my friend. Mainly this one someone posted, which made me laugh. Sounds just like something the VRChat devs would do.
But like I said, thankfully it didn’t break much and the modders were able to quickly update most of them. However, I didn’t know this until nearly 2 in the morning…
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“‘X’ wants to join here”
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Getting bored doing my self-walkthrough (feeling like this text walkthrough I’m following isn’t going everywhere as the video walkthrough is, but praying it’ll align sometime).. I tried out VRChat in desktop mode and saw just how little the mods I used are broken. So I got my trackers on and got on. Obviously realizing what time it is, Blender may’ve possibly had already gone to bed by now (after waiting all night for me to get on). A relief I felt that he hasn’t (yet), only “getting off VRChat temporarily” as he said.
So I wait patiently in my homeworld, not really feeling like going to see anyone else. Not really in a talking mood due to IRL things about the cat and my mother going through my mind.
Decide to listen to the OST of the ‘vs RetroSpecter’ mod in the world, and since I was bored I tried to ‘pretend’ to be BF. I felt silly and embarrassed but at least noone’s watching me. And holy fuck the songs were wearing me out, trying to keep up with every note.
Blender sent me an invite and joined me as I was resting. He saw what I was listening to and tried to say something but got cut out and crashed– VRChat had stopped responding for him. He came back 5 minutes later.
He was talking random things about himself (sadly I forgot them), but the only thing I do remember is him saying that Orion wanted an invite. Alright, no problem. I just wonder why he chooses now to come here. Like he cares for him and not me. But, meh. It’s whatever.
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Orion joined, he wanted to only see Blender as I said. Blender mentions a meetup (do they seriously have meetups every damn day!? Sheesh!) and Orion said he had to “remove someone”. I’m slightly curious, but I keep it to myself. He says it was “a neo-nazi”, and the name of the person is ‘Jellyosaurus’.
I paused, saying “..oh. Him.” “Yeah, him” Orion answered.

So the guy I banged 3 weeks ago, is a neo-nazi. That’s… good to know. Plus, Orion just asked me to invite him. …Why? But whatever. I shall. Maybe you wanna yell at ’em.
Yet nothing happened. He’s running around being bored. …And now Wolfdog wants to join. Geezus. I should’ve gotten the mod that makes my homeworld as Friends+ and set it to be Invite+ instead.
By the time Wolfdog joins and I’m talking to Blender, Jellyosaurus suddenly starts bitching about how tired he is. Since noone else wants to step up and deal with it, I do and yell at him. Then Wolfdog appears behind me and is all “someone’s ornery!” …not the time dude. He keeps messing with me about it, and I’m trying to keep myself from blowing up. Then I hear him say how he was just joking and messing around and how I “know him by now” that he’s joking.
Save your ‘jokes’ for someone that can handle it, but I tried forcing myself to calm down and play along with him saying “he knows I’m joking” to Blender. The two talked out things and I went over to the mirror. Well, half of myself wanted to. The other half felt stupid doing so. I mainly didn’t want Wolf to see me and Blender being a thing; felt it would be very.. disastrous.
Now Shaw wants in the world. Wow.  Let him in. And Jellyosaurus says multiple people want to join the instance.
…Finally made a new Invite+ instance for them. There you go. Now you all can invite who you all want without needing to ask me. …..All I wanted to do was be with Blender! FFS!