{"id":6532,"date":"2019-02-19T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2019-02-19T20:28:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T01:28:24","slug":"a-day-in-desktop-another-avatar-stealing-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/02\/19\/a-day-in-desktop-another-avatar-stealing-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in Desktop \/ Another avatar stealing attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots and lots to go over, some I can barely remember.
\nFinally encouraged myself to get on VRChat after dinner. I was<\/em> going to get on earlier as HDS Part 1 has been updated to 1.3, and there’s a room that’s been altered which requires me to rewrite what I wrote down. But, I just couldn’t push myself to do it, as I’m still unsure if logging in meant certain ‘death’ in the hands of a crasher.
\n–
\nSo, logged in and found Kovo in a world he made. He said he was going to, to host all of his public avatars (including this highly controversial female Best Boi avatar);
\n
\n(I was behind him at the time of this picture. the day after Friday)<\/em><\/p>\n

The only one in the room with him (besides myself) was Lunar. I tried to stay out of
\nsight, considering of going to another world. But, they saw me. And then I hear Kovo
\nsay “you got Ben to keep you company!” Uhhhhhhh.. Kovo, wtf?! Even though it’s been two weeks since what happened, you really<\/span><\/em> think that’s a good idea? I need an adult!
\nLunar didn’t want him to leave (acting like a child), and convinced him to stay a bit longer. He also said for me to check out his world. I did a small glance and notice the quantity of cacti surrounding the edges of the world. But as I told Kovo, Lunar acted like she was defending him by snarling at me and stuff. Though, I knew she was just messing with me and went with it (at the time).
\nKovo told me that he used a ‘program’ that helped to set the collision of the cacti and stuff. Curious. Should’ve asked him for a link to said program, just incase I ever want to get into world building again.
\nThen 5 minutes later… he finally<\/em> realizes I’m not in VR and asked what’s going on. I happily told him the reason, and he seemed to understand me.
\nHe then left saying he would be back in an hour (while keeping his avatar in the
\nworld), leaving me stuck with Lunar. She was Semi-AFK, so I started looking around the world. It’s pretty cool. Small, and there’s a structure in the middle. No interior, though. But overall, nice world.
\nLunar eventually caught up to me, calling me by name. And for the longest time, she was all “Beeeennieee!” and I was all “Luuunnaarrr!” Just playing along to her games (while starting to get annoyed by them). Her running around me, singing and stuff, then getting in my face, booping me, and starting the whole “Beeeennieee!” thing again.
\nRemind you, this is a ‘supposed’ 16-year-old (according to herself).
\n–
\nTried to figure out what’s the occasion of why she’s so hyper all the sudden (thinking she found another to add to her polyrelationship), she said “I just am” (and spun around infront of me again, singing). And while this was going on, my fight or flight response was building, wondering if she was suddenly going to call me a cutie and try to rekindle the platonic crush I had for her. It was screaming “GET. THE HELL. OUT OF THERE!!<\/a>” So I tried to (casually) run away from her, and she’s all “Don’t run from me!!”. I tried to make this look like more of a game and totally not trying to avoid her.
\nNow I could had said “let’s go to another world with more people”, but Kovo was still technically in the world and it just wouldn’t feel right. Yet, leaving her by herself apparently ‘did’…?
\n*facepalm*<\/em> Look, I panicked, and I had to make a decision. So I chose to join off
\nof Sir Rivers. Yes<\/em> I could had handled the situation better… but I didn’t (and still
\ndon’t) know how<\/em>. Again, I panicked… all because I didn’t want my stupid, desperate for love brain thinking it was ‘something more’ again. -_-
\n
\nThis image I grabbed from a meme compilation video, definitely speaks to how that whole mess started. It is so me. \ud83d\ude1b
\n“Don’t stand, don’t stand so<\/strong>.. don’t stand so<\/strong> close to me! Because I, can’t handle, very pretty girrllls liiike her! Especially, when she is, nearly 3\/4’s of my age!<\/em>
\nIt’s no use!<\/a> She saw me! I start to shake annnd.. cough! Need to get the, hell out of <\/em>
\nhere! Before she calllls meeeeee ‘cute<\/span>‘! *guitar sounds*<\/em>
\n“Don’t stand, don’t stand so<\/strong>.. don’t stand so<\/strong> close to me!”<\/em>
\n–
\nEntering a public world, Rivers is AFK in VR. Yellowjack was also there, who approached and told me that he’s no longer friends with Frostfirefox. He also<\/em> wanted to know why I wasn’t in VR. Eventually I was able to get him away from the others, and told him everything. He said how he “heard” I got crashed, yet didn’t act at all<\/em><\/span> disappointed at me for not listening to Kovo.
\nI’m now convinced that he’s innocent, and was in the wrong place at the right time (just like myself). Because if it wasn’t for me, we would had never found out about the stealer’s friends. So in a way, what I did was actually… good?<\/em> Though you’re going to have to go through hell to convince me that it’s OK I get back in VR. Plus, I’m actually enjoying my FPS at 90 (instead of in the teens).
\nWhile I’m talking, Rivers goes to another world. Catch up to him in this rather strange small world with a TV. He was watching these even stranger videos of these guys in a Discord server, doing random shit. Some of which was actually funny, like not knowing the official name that says “This is only a test”. One thought it was “weather noises”.. lol, what dumbasses. Kind of makes me feel better about myself. Maybe I needed this, to see that there’s far stupider people on this planet.
\nA half an hour later, one of Kovo’s friends (Sparky_1) sends me an invite. Seeing how I felt comfortable of being here, I debated if I should go. But, eventually did.
\n–
\nFriends+ world now, I eventually told Sparky what’s going on (and even everything about Lunar, as I felt I could trust him as he said he too has secrets he has to keep). At first, he seemed he was 100% on my side, even wondering why Kovo and Vale didn’t approve. But after explaining it in more detail, he finally got what they meant (but still seemed he wanted to support me), even agreeing to the whole “it shouldn’t matter, as long as you’re happy” thing. And I was happy. *sigh*
\nBut, life goes on. He told me not to give up and keep looking, and I told him I will. At this same time, I happened to glance over at my secondary monitor and see Lunar DMing me. Didn’t think much of it, hopefully thinking she understood why I left and just wanted to say hi. Opened up the DM, and saw her asking “why did you leave me?”
\nFfffffuck. So I had to explain it, without holding anything back. It got a bit ugly once, with her thinking that I’m asking her not to be herself, but finally explained that I was worried for myself, explaining the way she acted was how this got started in the first place, and she understood and gave me a hug.
\nAlways be yourself, Lunar. Just.. *sigh* not around me. :\/
\nSo, that’s about it when it comes to this. The next thing was going back to Kovo’s world, inviting Sparky, but he was lagging badly and we went back to the previous world, where hilarity ensued with Kovo being gay and stuff.
\n–
\nThe rest of the night was situated in Kovo’s world. It seemed quite popular for a Friends+ world– almost too<\/em> popular. But I enjoyed myself, even though I couldn’t move my arms.. I still loved staying above 60 FPS! This is now literally the only good thing to come out of not using VR in VRChat.
\nAs it neared my bedtime, Recondude was asking another VR user how he was looking to upgrade their system. I listened in, as usual. Heard him say that he doesn’t like water cooling for their CPU. A man after my own heart, it seems.
\nHe told me he was having 11 FPS. How odd, and quite similar to what I would have. Told him my CPU, and he’s all “is it better or worse than an i5 2500?” And I’m all.. uhhh. I, would assume<\/em> it’s better, because surely everyone has a better CPU than I have! But let’s go ask the guy you’ve been talking to, as he seems he might know. And the guy in VR is
\nall “I don’t know much about AMD, only that I hate it”.
\nEhh, no problem.
\nTalked to Recon again, asking what his FPS is when he’s alone in a world. Told him that I usually get 55-60 FPS when in VR, and he says.. 45. OOF! Press ‘F’ to pay respects! Someone with a weaker CPU than me who does VR!? Though he says by this Wednesday, he’s getting a better system. Lucky son of a bitch (even though he works and deserves
\nit), as I told him it’ll possibly take me ’till Summer until I get upgrades for mine.
\n–
\nAfter that, things started getting a bit odd. I’m in one of my really tall avatars talking to this group of randoms that were sitting on a small hill next to the edge of the world (with another friend). Suddenly, I see the vote kick symbol appear. Ohh boy, what’s going on? Hearing the randoms saying “decline, everyone decline”, I can only assume it may’ve been a mistake.
\nSwitch back to one of my normal sized avatars and try to investigate why this person needs to be kicked. There’s trouble happening infront of me, with a small group trying to tell one friend to unblock them (and convince the other guy to). Quite confused. Then they start talking about another friend, and I hear “he has me blocked, but I can see him because I have a client”. This person that said that, sounds like 8-10 years old (like one of those “I LOVE MINECRAFT!!!” kids).
\nUhh, we all have clients, that’s how we’re able to connect to VRChat. Ran over to
\nKovo, trying to figure out just what the hell is going on. He’s all “I can’t kick him, I have no ability, even though I own the world”. Then he says he’ll do another instance, and so we all go on. Well, ‘all’ except for most friends who are still in the old instance.
\nOne friend says “that kid is an avatar stealer”.. FUCK, AGAIN?! This time I let the friend conduct whatever he needs to do, and tell my other friend to stay here. Learned my
\nlesson. Not being the hero this time.
\n10 minutes later, he tells us Kovo made a new instance (and it’s clear to proceed). We all accept his invite and meet up with the others, and try to piece together just what the fuck happened. They tell me their stories, and I tell them until we get a somewhat clear picture of what happened.
\n–
\nAnd what happened, sadly isn’t something I can delete the ID of my avatar and reupload. Apparently (according to Azure who was with us), they can now take every single one of your avatars, and even modify them to remove any proof you own them. In addition, even if you think you can go to a public world with a public avatar, they will still steal your avatar (as their hack will steal everyone’s uploaded avatars in that room)…
\nLovely. This shit just makes me never want to come to VRChat ever again. But she said not to be worried over it, for if you see someone wearing your avatar, to report their ass.
\n—
\nAnd apparently, that also<\/span> goes to the one that crashed me. Was told that even though it was my fault, they doubt the admins would see it as that. So, it would<\/em> be nice to get some payback for this craziness I’m going through; use the screenshots that Kovo
\nprovided, could possibly get the OPNR guy banned.
\nI also told her about how I’m scared to get in VR (because of the crash), fearing they’ll damage my headset. At first she was shocked I was ‘scared’ of being crashed (yeah, I know its pathetic), she said not to worry about that. Though… have have been reports a crasher could damage one’s system hardware (frying the CPU or GPU).
\nGREAT! Just great! Low life asshats. Here I was thinking of going back to VR… not so much now (at least, not for VRChat). I’ll still play other games in VR.
\nHer response to that was “that’s why you stay out of public instances”. After telling her that it happened in a Friends+ one, she said “well, that’s why we stay in private or friends only instances.”
\nHer words are definitely true. Half of me wants to move on and get back in VR. While the other half feels that.. maybe I don’t really need<\/em> it as much as I thought I did. Without VR, I’m able to do things that I could only do in Desktop (aka, go to laggy worlds without my CPU having a stroke), and watch videos without them sounding choppy.
\nI really miss those memories of joining VRChat for the first time. Plus, I almost feel like saying “bring it on” for wanting to steal all my avatars. Because if I catch ’em…ooohoohoohoohoo!! THEY will be the ones that get ‘thoroughly pwned’ by the admins!! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

.
\nSo, that’s about it. As I said, a lot happened yesterday. What a mess though. Another thing is she kindly suggested that I work on the eye shader for BenieTheDragon, and make the pupils bigger. I’m actually been thinking of doing that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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