Full Time Pixie @elfi@pixie.town

it's saturday somewhere, and it's too early for screenshots so have a really early #mockupMonday? idk

@Zest *patpatpatpatpat--driver4vr trial has expired, frozen in place D:*

@RustyRetro@snouts.online @RustyRetro@awoo.space Ah heck, awoo.space doesn't have this instance whitelisted and I never got a response to the federation request :< I'll miss you

So with some trial software, cardboard, a nylon strap, a stapler, and a pair of joycons, I managed to get a VERY rudimentary VR rig set up.

Upside: cheap, I have spent $2 on this endeavour so far
Downside: bodgy software, may need to try alternative solutions, 10 minute runtime limit, and there's so little smoothing or calibration that I get motion sick with just those 10-minute test runs

With some finetuning, a chance to make proper grips, and maybe secondhand equipment, maybe I can get it good enough for primetime!

cc @Zest @wolfcoder

3D printing resins arrived, holy crap that's a bigger bottle than I was expecting. This should last me a long time o_o

@junebug I think I'd skip the flowers and just leave a plush moth on my neck

@fluxom_alt Where's the kitten who thinks of nothing but murder all day

@junebug but I'm too busy looking at moths

@Zest VRChat! I'd love to hang out once I figure out what I'm doing and don't get so wracked by nerves!

@soft gasp :O so am I

@Anke l-lamp...

You ever just lie in bed and cry about how moths are just so innocent and precious little beans

Little moth has insomnia, longs for dreams about lämp

@junebug the Ar Tonelico series. Fascinating, well-fleshed out stories and setting with a fantastic amount of background detail, including its own model of physics, and the dive system theoretically could be used to explore various motivations and mentalities in its world and characters in a mature and candid light, BUT

The games themselves have a problem with uncomfortable and skeezy fanservice that starts out as obviously disconnected "marketing decisions" that can be ignored, but gets more deeply entrenched and problematic in the series as it goes on, and the community has a problem with people who will go out of their way to find posts like these on hellsite and defend it to their last breath

These days I mostly focus on the teru tribe, which have a deeply interesting history of their own throughout the setting and are one of the few things that aren't associated with any of the really unpleasant decisions made by the developers... mostly because they're only really used as plot devices orz