Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

Apropos of nothing the dryad girl was really cute and fae, definitely sharing more features with plant than person in things like surface texture and features, and her appearance kind of presaged all these events because she had just cursed two "troublemakers" (mercenary scouts) to turn into trees when she met the young man

Had a very intense and vivid dream that had a ton of moving parts; a region of natural wonder, a sweet dryad met by a young man whose family had visited the area, an ancient windfish-like kaiju in torpor under a great temple being studied by a government, a man with a mercenary army seeking its power coming and forcing it awake and destroying the temple, only to slay it with a bullet through one of its missing plates, followed by taking over the entire region and ruling it like a dictator

The young man's family (turning out to be researchers) survived and escaped, but the man going back to stop the dictator and learning of magic through the dryad, getting the backing and training of the government's military force, and launching geurrilla attacks on the dictator's forces before facing him head-on as two powerful mages, the dryad sacrificing herself to give the young man an edge over the overwhelming power of the dictator who had fused with the remains of the kaiju and various machinery after an assassination attempt had claimed his mortal life

A phyrric victory, the region wasted away without the influence of its two guardians, the military threw a tacky celebration only for the embittered young man to go AWOL and destroy all of their records, followed by vanishing outright and using both his magic and stolen military technology to become something of a fae supersoldier that could disappear into the wood and disrupt any camera or radar that could pinpoint him with a high-energy pulse, ultimately fighting against the world's militaries to protect what natural wonders remained

Wow @_@

@Zest @AzureHusky hear hear!

@wolfcoder@mastodon.social @Zest @wolfcoder@computerfairi.es yeah, silences are a bit dodgy and bugprone though so it's a crapshoot

But anyway yeah, I managed to just barely pull off the most cheapass route you warned me against, albeit after swapping for another set of readily available tools with better motion detection :'D

@wolfcoder@mastodon.social @Zest @wolfcoder@computerfairi.es not sure it would've gone through .social since it's silenced on pixie.town now

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