Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@TeaCatherine Of course something intersting happened yesterday. My brother got his VR headset. I got to play on it, so I played Beatsaber and VRChat. Beatsaber is really fun and VRChat was just interesting to say the least. In VRChat, I just left the real world, I was fully emerced in that world. My brother realized that I wasn't in touch with the real world anymore and used it to his advantage. Hekept whispering in my ear and touching me tospook me. So imagine, like, something from the other dimension just whispers in your ear and touches your arm.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko What exactly is VRChat? I get that it's like a chat room but with VR but how?

@TeaCatherine Basically, VRChat is a free VR gamewhere you can chat with people in user made worlds and such. You can choose your own avatar, which is how you'll appear in game. You can also make your own avatar using Unity and a 3d model you either made yourself or one you got off the internet. It's really cool. And because all the worlds are usermade, there are some really cool worlds. Here's a video on all kinds of VRChat wrlds you can check out if you're interested.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko Is VRChat the one that's got tons of sketchy stuff and is generally unsafe? (I was once looking over my dad's shoulder whilst he was reading an article about child abuse in VR online things.)

@TeaCatherine VRChat does have some… stuff in it. I recommend it more as a T rated game for that.

@TeaCatherine VRChat is safe, but only if you know what you're doing. There are a lot of toxic players and such. If you just wanna play with friends, you can open up a private world where only you choose who joins. And VRChat can be a pretty fun community, but you just gotta be safe with it. Don't let some random toxic dude in a stupid avatar ruin your look on VRChat, cause there are genuinely nice people on the platform.

@ChaoticKirby Yeah, VRChat can be great, or you can see something so cursed you wanna throw up.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko VRChat might be the only reason as to why I would get a headset. It looks fun in general.

@ChaoticKirby VRChat works on PC too.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko Yeah, but it’s not as fun. Feels like I’m playing a higher-quality Roblox.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko Well, I hope you enjoy it. I should probably crack on with packing the stuff on the bookshelf (but, carpet burn...)

@ChaoticKirby Yeah. It really is better in VR.

@SlashFuture Nintendo Life really like PNG's, just convert your file to PNG. Also, if your image is too big it won't accept it.

@SlashFuture JPEG works. Don’t know why JPG wouldn’t.

Then again, I’m not a tech whiz.

I'm back. Honestly, slaw is probably mankind's worst culinary invention.

@TeaCatherine Let me tell you a marvellous story then. A story of a glamorous past, vowen with golden thread of hope and happiness.

A long time ago, in 1998, there was a lot of great games. It wasn't the golden age of gaming yet, but it was still great. Spyro Crash and Mario somehow coexisted on the market. What the gaming was lacking, was an FPS with complex storytelling. And then came Half Life. A survival horror shooter with impressive AI and immensive story about an undergound laboratory experiment gone horribly wrong.

Years passed and the future of gaming looked brighter and brighter. It was a time of hope. Wind Waker came out, and everything was fun. People looked forward to new releases, but not like now, where almost every AAA is meh or disappointing. Looking forward to games was exciting, and playing them was filled with joy rarely seen nowadays. And on one faithful day of 2004, children of the world received a gift almost unparalleled by everything that came before. Half Life 2 came and changed gaming forever.

It was a pure bliss. Endless days spent by either losing yourself in absolute extasy of exploring an almost photorealistic, dystopian world, or on dreaming about a pc machine capable of computing advanced physics. Physics, that was used both in combat, in solving many logic puzzles, or for pure enjoyment. The plot, the characters, enemies, weapons, even planks and textures of sand, were forever imprinted in young minds experiencing what seemed to be the ultimate form of gaming.

Looking back, the young minds would often find themselves lost in thoughts, reminiscing the times when everything seemed exciting, when people would come around, talking endlessly about various gimmicks found along the way, reading colorul magazines with pretty pictures of buggies riding on the coastline and letting their imagination flow freely.

It was magnificent.

@ComfyAko That seems like an over exaggeration, but what do I know, I haven't played it.

@SlashFuture Hey, what's up with flat BOTW Link?

@TeaCatherine well, maybe a little bit. But people who played it will all say the same, I think.

@SlashFuture Good luck.
@ComfyAko You mean you haven't played it?