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Steam Support verdict is in
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Nearly 2 in the afternoon my time, I got a response from Steam. I have been waiting patiently for three days and here we go. Time to see if we can get the ball rolling on
the RMA and hopefully they’ll work with me.
And the verdict is..
1. They use FedEx as I said before, and won’t use anything else.
2. They expect me to have a car, a box, a printer, and bubble wrap. They claim
they “understand the situation” but won’t help me.
3. They won’t just send the replacement controller.
Totally not furious for waiting a week to be told “NOPE!”, I said to them “I’ll just buy a new controller”.
…And I can’t even do that now.
Everything Valve Index, is sold out. I had the chance to buy a replacement controller. It was available a week ago. But I waited for them, only for them to say “NOPE!” and now I can’t even do THAT now.
Is this karma? Is it just coincidence? I think it is karma, to tell me.. to NOT make the same fucking mistake I made and take care of my left controller. It’s a punishment.
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Jero today tried to help me with this. A shocker, but I am very thankful– as he also told me using hot glue should repair the damage I caused. But I have to be careful to not get any on the pins. And yes it would definitely void my warranty.
To be on the safe side, I’m going to just wait until Valve finally get the Index and all its individual parts for sale again. This way if I do fuck up, I’ll have a new controller ready to go.
It’s likely they only have a small amount for RMA use, and there’s a chance my order might even be cancelled due to not having the stock in.
EDIT:
…HOLY GABEN!! I just checked their site and nearly everything is available again!
Quickly placed an order for a new right controller. I am NOT letting it slip from my claws again! 😄
Damn do I feel lucky it’s available again! But what the hell happened before!? All I can think of, is it may’ve been a computer glitch that was showing very.. very wrong info.
It was just under $160.. for one controller. Yeah, that’s a lot. This one controller is more expensive than my fucking graphics card! ..That’s insane.
But.. hopefully this has taught me to take better care of the controllers; to treat them like fine china.
Though IMO, they should had refused to do the RMA. It was 100% my fault; not a fault with the controller. “User misuse” should never be covered in any warranty.
Even SteamVR warns not to leave the charger cables in during use as it ‘might’ cause damage. It is not their fault I didn’t heed this warning. So it’s only right that I pay for
it.
Says it should arrive in a week by now. I still remember my Index full kit arriving
in 3-4 days after ordering it, so who knows. By Monday, I hopefully should get a “has been shipped!” update, and maybe by Wednesday I’ll have it. Then I’ll keep the box and put the broken controller in it.
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“This is hot, not going to lie” / Why I don’t feel it’ll work out with Blender
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I said I wouldn’t be doing these kind of posts, but I will only do it once.
Plus if you’ve noticed I haven’t really been talking about anything in VRChat for awhile. The reason is I have ‘new responsibilities’ now; caring for a cat. After the 4th day, finally worked out a plan with myself and my mother. And yesterday I finally got into VR
again (with the cat still in the room). Occasionally I reached over and pet her, but it’s like she’s all “I want you to sit down in your chair so I can sit on you, not when you’re on your bed! I can’t annoy you when you have that weird thing strapped to your face, so I’m a pissed off kitty!!! -_-”
Saw Muum was on. Huh. Never seen him on at this hour. He’s usually asleep by now. Went to go see him. As usual I didn’t see him right away, so I went under the world trying to look for the name. Found it deep below the world in a secret part. I slowly made my way down there. When I was close enough, I saw three people down there. My friend and two others.
Found a doorway and space dragged myself in. Couldn’t move as VRChat assumed I was still up in the other part of the world. This part of the world looked very unfinished, like I wasn’t supposed to be here. I was about ready to enter the rectangular room and saw things I wish I didn’t. A sergal, banging the fuck out of an anime chick.
But… instead of going somewhere else, I totally wasn’t watching them going at it with my mic obviously muted, chuckling like an idiot.
Good thing too, as Raymond joined and he never found me (thankfully). He doesn’t have playspace mover.
When I totally wasn’t trying to get a closer look at the action like one of those porn star photographers, Blender joins (ahh man). I try to respawn and reset my playspace and eventually do manage.
..He’s with Raymond. Thankfully Raymond doesn’t say anything to me and Blender wants to snuggle. I do so and then try to lead him away from Raymond. First attempt was a
fail, but the second was a win (when Raymond lost me and left). I tell him about
the ‘show’ below our feet I totally wasn’t watching for the past 10 minutes (totally wasn’t).
He’s more disgusted they’re doing it in a Friends+ instance than how it “sounds like a bad blend” with a sergal banging an anime chick.
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He starts talking about someone that Orion doesn’t like, that I eagerly listen to. Soon our peace and quiet are shattered by two random people barging in and wanting to talk. I very quietly whisper to Blender if he wants to go somewhere else and discuss this, and to follow my lead.
I respawn and try to look for another place, but there is nothing else except outside. After a few attempts I lead Blender outside and we continue our conversation. In the corner of my eye I see Muum coming outside. Looks like the sergal finally finished up.
I decided to bring Muum over and have Blender introduce himself, while at the same time hang out with Muum as it’s been a long time since I’ve seen him.
This was a mistake on my part, but it wouldn’t become clear until later. So we talked about things and Muum showed him the sunken boi, which he didn’t seem as impressed as I thought he’d be. The only real reaction came from Muum using the Narga model, and I know Blender is really into Nargacugas.
We also discovered Monday is Muum’s birthday. Nice. Happy early birthday! Blender being the very kind soul he is, wanted to show him the Happy Birthday video he made for himself and myself during our birthdays. But Muum was in a 3 way conversation with his friends, and Blender didn’t want to interrupt. So we waited, and waited, and waited some more. A half an hour passed, and it got to a point where I was trying to tell him “hun, it isn’t that big of a deal”.
I finally had enough and walked up to them, going against my own standards to help Blender out. I smiled and stood there, waiting for a reaction and then made my
move, explaining Blender’s predicament. Muum tried to say the same thing I was saying that it isn’t that big of a deal to him, and then he wanted to show Muum the video.
We all walked into the bar and found the video player. …I had no idea everyone in the fucking bar could hear the video, instead of just the ‘targeted individual’. Fuckin’ hell.
I was hearing comments in the background like “the fuck is this shit?!” Another guy replied saying “some kind of Chuck E Cheese thing, I dunno.”
Thankfully Blender didn’t hear the hurtful comments, but boy did I feel embarrassed being around him at that time. Thankfully noone asked me anything (such as if I know Blender).
I let them do what they wanted, while I decided to be a depressed person that feels like all of their friends left me except the names on these beer bottles, and started to get ‘drunk’.
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Skipping this part even though it was funny, I’m not getting to the point of this segment. I came back after I was telling my mother the cat nearly fell into my chair from the arm
rest, and wouldn’t leave and that I hoped I wasn’t going to be yelled at for not caring about the cat, but I thankfully wasn’t.
I was drinking from a can of Sprite Zero Sugar to calm myself down, watching the two in one of the booths of the bar talking to eachother. I felt, there’s just no way myself and Blender are going to make this work. Blender likes this ‘open’ relationship with me a bit too much, and I feel he isn’t going to agree to a closed relationship. …I know I said I wasn’t going to feel this and had even promised him I wouldn’t, but my emotions overpower my words. Plus I’m reminded Blender himself saying he’s a “slut” for affection.
After I finished my drink, checked my friends list and saw NapPie on. Thought of visiting him to see what kind of shenanigans are happening over there.
I went over to them and said “I’m going to visit some friends” and left. I heard Blender say he was going to go to bed soon just before I left the world.
Just going to end this segment here as there’s not much else to say. Other than Blender did go to bed, and we didn’t get to do it because Muum got him to bed. But at least he got a good night sleep and that’s good. 👍
…Just wish he got a good night sleep from me, but.. meh. That’s why I feel I made a mistake here.
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Grey’s flirting with me…?
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It’s 2am. Went to go see Novice. Felt he was likely with Grey and yep. Took awhile for me to ‘warm up’ to this, though I didn’t really notice how Grey was trying to avoid me while Novice and I were talking about things. I was also kind of hoping to get Novice in the mood (even though it was getting close for him to do his graveyard shift).
When he had to go, he then noticed Grey wasn’t with us. Said “I’ll check up on him”. But Novice went over as I was, and we both saw Grey in a corner not wanting to be bothered.
Others ran over and saw him too, trying to comfort him. ..It’s a bit late for all of us, when he was over here being lonely.
One of them asked if he was OK and what was wrong. He said “I don’t want to talk about it”. I thought someone may’ve passed away in his life, as I don’t know if he’s in any relationships.
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When Novice left, I heard him briefly talking about mentioning someone. Huh. Could it had been a crush? Might be possible. Went back over to the mirror, and Grey came over. I told him that I was sorry that I haven’t him in awhile, that I’ve been busy.
He answers with a nearly snarky “with Blender” attitude. I correct him: “with life. New responsibilities now.” “That’s always fun” he says as he briefly goes back into hiding and comes back over to me.
He started asking me semi-personal questions, such as “why a dragon? Where did your sona come from? Why Benie? Where did your name come from?” Sure, I have no problem answering these. Explained where I got the original idea from. After he saw it, he
said “holy fuck.. that is you! ..So I was fucked by Clip Art.” *embarrassed laugh here*
I then explained the origin of my name. He found that cool, but started doing some research on who possibly made the clip art.
Most of his searches he found nothing. Then he did a reverse search and found two schools in California using the art.. with one literally using it as their mascot– a school called Dent Elementary, where their slogan is “Go Dragons!”
It’s one thing to use dragons as their school mascot… but one that looks like MY SCALESONA?! WOW!! I feel honored. I mean sure they made a lot of changes to it. But I’m just curious– which one grabbed the Clip Art first? Them, or myself?
And by the way, this is a real school. And if any staff from that school comes across this part of my blog post, “hi! My friend GreyTheWolf in VRChat found you, and how you use the same Clip Art as my sona in VRChat.” 🙂
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Outside of this big news, I can’t really remember what was also said (and in what order). But there are only two things I know of.
1. Him being lonely and him acting like I was right as that’s why he’s sad but not really wanting to admit it at first.
2. Myself asking him about the whole message thing. He said “I don’t have a boyfriend if that’s what you’re asking” and I was trying to get myself out of that conversation. I
said “no, that’s not what I meant. I meant to say I’m a friend.” “Do you even remember what I did to you a year ago?” he asks.. yeah I do, but “there are no buts here, I did and I feel ashamed of it.” …What are you saying, Grey? I mean it is obvious he’s blaming himself even though I feel it was more my fault, but why? And why now?
Likely because of Blender. There’s a possible link between the three of us, and Grey seems quite jealous of Blender, because it made him think about what I said a year ago. How I had feelings for him and he turned me down. Now he blames himself for it. Wishes he should had agreed to be my BF.
That, and he says Blender has been spending more tine with me than him. I would say something but I’m just as guilty of “sounding childish” for feeling that (when I see Blender with others in the world I’m in).
He started calling me cute and stuff, getting hard and claiming he “doesn’t understand why”. And next thing is him giving me a hell of a blowjob. That was nice. And I helped him too. At the end he said I made him happy and gave me a big hug. I’m very glad I did Grey. Though I couldn’t stop thinking about Blender, and how he’s going to react with this news.
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But I just want to say, being a BF to him.. it’s not going to happen. I said this before that it wasn’t going to happen. That ship has sailed, and it’s not coming back to port.
I’m not allowing it. He’s ‘out of my league’. He cares about his health and wants others to do so. That is a major turn off for me that I do not need in my life. I just don’t see myself ever going back to him as a romantic relationship.
One of these days, I’m going to have to break it to him. I’m sorry Grey, but my health is not something I want to worry about. It’s the least thing I want to worry about. There’s being a hypochondriac, and then there’s you. Plus you drive.. another turn off.
(Yes I’m being serious here. I want someone that would fully understand me.. live like me. Know what I go through. Feel my pain as if you were me.)