If you don’t mind a copy of their “Lite” version that often ships with audio hardware, you can google a method to generate a valid license key for that version that doesn’t require buying anything. ;)

I think I got really lucky in the fact that I was introduced to it by some friends who were much more familiar with the culture and also had several worlds to show me right away. The first few times, I definitely was only logging in during group events with friends, then eventually I started branching out and visiting other worlds (setting them to friends+) just to catalogue them and add them to my favourites. I started googling for ways to find parties, raves, whatever, and came across a big list of discord servers for groups hosting parties. I joined a few of those and now I’m usually in vrchat a couple times a week dancing at events, on top of whatever else is going on with my friends.

I call it sequel but I’ve heard squirrel and squeal.

Honestly? Probably like 1/5? Maybe a little lower, 1 out of every 7? There’s a lot of desktop VRchat players, you’d be surprised. It’s pretty easy to spot desktop folks because the avatars act a certain way with regard to the arms and locomotion, and once you notice that it’s easy to see there are simply many people in desktop.

FWIW, you won’t be discriminated against or singled out, but folks may poke a little fun at you in certain situations due to the way desktop locomotion looks to other users. Like if you crouch or crawl in desktop, the avatars often look really silly doing those animations.

That’s a great question actually, lmao

… is flying not a superpower? :(

I finally found the script, sorry for the massive delay.

https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs

It’s named “Lemmy Community Seeder” which is probably why I couldn’t find it anywhere, I wasn’t searching for those terms.

I can’t seem to find it in a Google search now so I’ll take a look at my server in case I ran the script there and saved a copy. There appear to be a lot of similar tools now to assist with people moving over from Reddit but this script was really quick and handy.

And every time I try to pull off a sweet gymnastics maneuver below an air conditioning unit suspended by failing screws…

I did this on my instance. You create a new user and give the script those credentials, it goes out and subs to all the trending communities across the various instances so now my instance has a big mish-mash of communities federated, not just the ones I originally subscribed to on my personal user.

I know a guy who also won his hearing but now has to enforce the ruling, and it seems like it’s completely up to him to now to get his money? Like he has to seek out bailiff services himself I guess? It feels pretty strange to hear that he won the hearing against his landlord, they owe him money, but getting the money isn’t some automatic process. Like what’s the fucking point?

Yeah I woke up to bright flashes of lightning and loud thunder. Forgot how much I missed that sound.

When I first got into VRChat to hang out with some friends, I thought maybe I could survive just playing on desktop for free. Now, a couple thousand dollars later, I own a Valve Index, extra base stations and 4 trackers for full-body tracking.

Dune 2, on our 386. Pretty sure my brother pirated the game from a BBS and at the time I didn’t know piracy or BBS’ were a thing.

I’ve found in my experience that over the years my internal voice updated to match how I sound when recorded. So when I hear myself speaking on a recording it’s much less jarring now since it feels much more like how I predicted it would sound.

I know this doesn’t help your current situation but it’s a fun fact I recognized since you mentioned it.

I miss lockpicking, it’s so cathartic. I used to have a small set of picks and folks near my desk at the office would often try to pop a padlock I kept around when we were bored. I liked how everyone seemed so interested in the ease with which you can pop many locks.

I just wanted to throw in a thank you for kicking off this discussion. It’s good to tackle this sort of thing early and I really appreciate your tone and compassion, OP.

I’ll be pedantic and say that CEOs are paid to think everyone has money to spend. ;)

But I totally agree with you.

Anecdotally, I’ve bought 3 keys over the years from g2a and 2 of them immediately didn’t work. Iirc there’s a big button you click during checkout if your key doesn’t work and the seller immediately has to provide you with a working one. That’s not g2a though, that’s just the seller providing you with another cheap key from their collection. G2A is scammy in other ways too (I’ve yet to be able to cancel their $2 “insurance” fee or whatever they call it the first time, it’s been years and I’ll probably have to chargeback since their site just throws me errors when I try to cancel. PayPal won’t even let me cancel it from their end.)

Why defend them?

How could one make it impossible for others to shun or ostracize them?

When you figure it out you can sell it to Elon Musk for billions.