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All right, so I make it the top of the hour that means prime time the AMA office hours are for me

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It's starting if you have questions drop them in the office hours text channel

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That's like two channels up from the one that you're currently looking at if you're in the meeting stage

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Let's go ahead and get started do have a few preamble bits. So we're experimenting today with new technology

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I set up prime time as a podcast on the sounder FM system

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Which means we update upload an audio file to them

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They do automatic audio transcription and storage for us at varying qualities

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And then you guys can listen to that online at any point with the audio transcription sort of like following along in between

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On there so they get you sort of like recordings and audio transcription

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That means that prime shouldn't really have to write notes anymore. I'm not really sure about the quality of that

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I did some test recordings, but it's kind of difficult before you do like a full run-through

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So if it's crap, I'll write regular notes and we'll sort something else out

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But it should help those who want to listen and read along and do both at the same time as far as more

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So that's cool

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Secondarily, I keep getting asked like what do you want people to do? You know more what do you want the community to do more?

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I got a bit ranty. So I just like ranted into a document that's on the wiki here. It's under my

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user page, so

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It's like my space I can rent if you don't agree with it

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That's totally fine

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But it's just a page could be considerate where I talk about all the things that people do that I wish you guys didn't do

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Um, there's discussion about sort of why how what when where in there if you disagree with literally any of that, it's fine

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I'm not gonna hate you about it. It's just a list of stuff. I wish people didn't do or did do

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There is lots of stuff there that causes frequent arguments

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But do you remember that none of it is an attack on you is instead just sort of a request like hey

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maybe don't shoot me in the face of your giant weapon every time you see me or

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Hey, maybe don't put a bell on your neck which rings from across the map I can hear literally everywhere

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Hey, maybe don't make the entire halo

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Orchestral and choral theme tune play when you open your context menu on global audio at global volume. Thank you. Oh

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Oh, yeah, maybe bake your blend shapes bake your blend shapes plus

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So we have no questions, so I'm just gonna sit here if you've got questions, please drop them into the chat

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I see lots of people are talking

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Go ahead

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List a bunch of reasons why on that page if you disagree with them, that's totally fine. I'll add more as I hear them

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Know questions, please go ahead type them or get started on questions the moment the questions start appearing

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Strangely questions don't usually appear to like a quarter past and it's like ha

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I pretty it's a very good question. Here's a good way of seeing it which is to if you got a sort of blend shape

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heavy avatar just go ahead and like take a copy of that and

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Should probably say for the recording as pretty as asks

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How much does baking blend shapes affect the performance or optimization of at the avatar?

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so take an avatar that you have lots of blend shapes on and

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Save a copy of it so that you don't you know

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You've got to back up and then bake the blend shapes off the avatar then compare the spawning load and performance load on the avatar

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when you spawn it out Tom Fox and if Tom Fox is here listening, but Tom Fox did this in one of the

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Fernal equinox worlds and it was incredibly

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Incredibly obvious which one had been baked and which one had not he literally had his avatar

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Which he's wearing and he said that he'd done some optimization particularly for fernal equinox

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On the avatar and he was wearing it and he loaded it back into it

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No problem whatsoever, and then he loaded into his unoptimized avatar, and it was like ah

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So like it does have a lot of impact if you want to see it for example

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And you have access to the Rex avatar not blaming Rex avatars Rex avatars much

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He's saying a good for testing this because they have a lot of blend shapes because they have a lot of

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Really know if I can put it like a metric like how much is what you asked

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I don't think I like you know what you want the measurement in

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It's purely on so it happens on both loading and just sort of like generic a lot of memory requirements, right? So each

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Vertex that moves is is data vertex, which is which are frozen and don't need additional data about where they need to be

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I don't need to exist. So if your left pinky doesn't have a blend shape associated with it

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You know in the model data in that the theory of the program and network trafficking and loading all sorts of stuff like that

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The left pinky is never going to move now, of course, it's going to deform with the bones

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So it's probably a bad example what I mean, like it's not going to form with relationships

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A ramp asks with what happened on the web and wiki lately would it be feasible to provide official dumps though?

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He's similar to how Wikipedia does it this would allow usage of offline wiki really is when needed or desired

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We do have backups. We're doing like full-scale backups of basically anything that we don't have access to

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So we do sort of like semi-regular basically whenever I like poke wraith and say do it

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We're not providing those currently but we'll provide them when we know where the wiki is heading later see announcements

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Basically, we don't control the host that the wiki is on and so we're not kind of like we want to just keep it backed up

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Once we know what's happening there, we can sort of get backups or whatever sorted

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You of course welcome to do your own backup tooling

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But like the wiki being down shouldn't actually ever happen especially seeing as it's like it's not a complicated website

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It's like we can cache the heck out of that and it'll be fine

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We do do do like really smart cache and validation there, it's incredibly easy

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It's basically like did someone update the page cool then validate the cache

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So moving along what's on to specs is question now the MMC has wrapped up and you've had a chance to go through it as a judge

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Were there any common problems on missed opportunities to optimize that you notice across the board? Yeah presentation was a problem occurred a lot

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Always ask a fresh set of eyes to look at your entry it took me a long time to understand quite a few

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It does happen a lot in sort of tools apps utility. So, um, you might love your application your utility or your tool that you've made

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I have no idea what it does. Like I have literally no idea what it does

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It took probably about ten minutes later. We're on to the next world where I'm like, oh I understand I

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Understand that makes sense. Um, so that's a missed opportunity. It's just making sure that we're advertising

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Presentation is key. You can see that particularly in a lot of the sort of JP worlds. They do a lot of presentation

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They also do a lot of multilingual presentation and that's because they are on the other side of the fence, right?

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most of the content we produce in Neos is in English and so they're constantly asking like can we translate that like I know we

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That's silly but like they always do the other side of it and they will take anything they're making it translated to English for us

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So they're sort of offering an olive brunch and we're just like ignoring it in some cases not actively or intentionally just through like

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You know, whatever sort of priorities are piling up. So presentation is always good

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For example Coles's entries with the commentary. I would much rather like walk around a world

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We've gone commentary mode than read a gigantic board full of credits. It was it's always good to see that they did that in

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Hole in the wall and then they did that in Grove Lake. I can never remember if it's 72 or 74

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Grove Lake though is what I call it. So it's good to see that as for problems

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My very first tutorial ever was on how to configure your collision settings

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So you don't need the white box under the floor. Let's take a look at that

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It's how to improve your world collision. You can register a mesh

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Even if that is a procedural mesh, that's totally fine

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But that means that like you could put in your floor mesh and that way it would wait until the floor mesh

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Loaded before it engaged gravity and you fall through the ground

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There was an artistic reason why they started you in a toilet and it was great

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But then like 13 people loaded at once and we're like in a toilet and it was just like, huh?

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Because we're all in like this one cubicle and it's like what is happening here sometimes happens in media TV films, etc

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Way, you know multiple people end up in the same cubicle. That's really comical

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They also think about loading, you know, whilst I'm loading sometimes things are kind of scary

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Lotus Bay yes, Lotus Bay. I can never remember if it's like a valley or a bay it look more like a valley

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I wouldn't call it a bay but Lotus Bay they had the breath effect and you spawned outside and so whilst the breath effect was

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Squares appearing in front of my face, so I didn't know why or what and it was just like, you know until that loads

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I don't know what that is. So just just think about loading as well

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Happy to see a lot less issues of multiplayer issues

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We did still have some but there are a lot sort of less there in the game category. I did notice a lot of people still

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Misunderstanding maybe intentionally maybe not intentionally it depends on sort of like your understanding of it

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So I'll do some videos on the asset management system

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Understand storing materials within your world hierarchy for easy access and standardization, you know

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If you need to go find it, but our people are also storing things like textures static texture components

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Other things like that inside a separate asset folder within the top root of their world

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That makes it difficult for the asset system to automatically optimize and stream in different versions of your assets

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Because you're saying like hey don't use the asset version system of this use this exact image

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You know, there are optimizations at play that we can do for you if you use the asset system

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And if you don't let me count a common one with that

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I see is if you put like the assets or the materials etc on your avatar

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I should really only have materials stored on your avatar if you're driving them

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So if you're playing around with the colors of your avatar store them on your avatar or if you're playing around other properties and materials

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Animate them etc restore my avatar. That's fine

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if not, let the asset management system handle it and that means that if you are respawned if you are like duplicate your avatar or

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Load in a lot quicker because when you're respawning it won't have to recreate those assets or refetch those assets because they're like already

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Yes, some management system. There's lots of stuff there. That's like really

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Um, but who knows well, I'll have to see what happens with it

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weird filing noises

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Coming from I don't really know what's going on

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I may have to jump away my building management are visiting my an apartment at some point today or tomorrow

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Sorry, it's really weird. I may have to cut things short. I'm just a little bit here. Um

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Where was I so specs follows up that question with interesting notes materials in the world hierarchy makes sense

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But not textures themselves. I don't think any of them do

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But I know that some people do it for various reasons

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Let's look through on other matters here

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The clap plan this is not a question but a small spelling mistake to the be considerate page totally fine doesn't matter

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Yeah, like spelling doesn't matter on my ranty page feel free to correct it if you'd like to

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Ozi asks, is there anything that surprised you during the MMC?

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I'm always surprised at the sort of like whiteness that people have when their creations

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It's very interesting to see like what people interpret things as especially when the stuff it feels

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Miscategorized like it's up to you which category you put it in like we have to act upon that and judge a category based on

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That but there were some games that should have been in game

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But one in game there were some social things that should have been in social

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But we're in game there were some social things that were in other that should have been in

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Game or other or social like think about the category again. I don't want to call out things, but it's basically like

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For social particularly. It's am I meant to relax here and will I revisit this world and have fun there like

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That's really what like has social for me. You know I don't want any barriers to my social nurse

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And then above that is just the sort of variety of some of the the tools that we're still seeing

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People like I bet I could do that if I ever tried it

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I bet I could do this or could I do this and it's just like what never really thought of it

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I was interesting this year as well because we had like we didn't have many like our entries the

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Ray thought provoking for me. I like weird art if you see my Twitter

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I retweet weird art like all the time and I even made a weird art like entry

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It's hard to explain. We didn't have a lot of sort of what I would call

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General art, but there wasn't sort of any art that like

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Appealed to like my actual like taste and oh, but that's fine like I'm there to judge

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What's there not to judge? What's not there, but yeah, I would like to see

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Different areas of art. I'm not like an art boffin or anything. I kind of hate art boffins

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Especially when they're like yes this painting of two lions is worth 32 million dollars like I don't understand

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But there are pieces of art which are like really

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Strange compared to just sort of the normal sort of a painting of a lady is sitting at a table

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Which you know you see a lot, but yeah, so it's good to see that we keep seeing like gaps or needs for like other categories

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I know someone wanted I

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Actually can't remember that were like it would be great if we had this as a category

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I don't know what that is

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I think they were looking for like world experience or something because they're like it's not a game

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but it's like a I don't know it wasn't it sort of like the the Venn diagram of like museum tour and

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Video game and in the middle is where they wanted world experience, so it's quite weird in that regard

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Okay, let's move down through questions froppies link the video make sure that's on the note somehow

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I think I can edit them. I don't know. We'll see what like a server trying this new tooling

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Recordings going great. We'll see what happens there

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We couldn't yeah, we're good on everything um

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Okay, we have no other questions here play code is talking about some of the entries. That's great

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Play Cody says I've noticed that when deleting accident deleting an object and bring it back that most of the meshes or materials come back

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It defined as asset holders. Yes, that's correct. That's a that's how that system works. There is a sort of video

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I couldn't work out whether it was correct. I watched it, and I had to ask

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Jax to go take a look at it again. They did like creating a fence with like

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Preserve preservation of assets. I'm not sure if they did it correctly, but it was a good sort of thing basically

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Play Cody comments on the world experience category as saying like a visual novel, but like a cinema

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Joyful guy I was trying to remember the sort of adjective that came before that like joyful joyful guy, which was really clever like

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That was cool, and then you can get out the chair, but hit play on the animation

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You can just see like the the chair and the box is sort of like zooming around

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Unfair to the user by judging because they don't have sounds or are we being unfair to not judge them because they don't have sounds

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That made things interesting. There's like instruction going on outside of my like boarding up my door. Maybe I'm trapped. I don't know all right

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Keep your questions going. I'm gonna go look through my people of my door all

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Right well, I don't see any other questions, so any other questions

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Do you let me know about ten minutes left on the office hours?

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I can always quit it early if he there's no more questions I

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Could talk about MMC like forever though, so it's interesting to see some stuff

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I don't really answer. How am I today? Is it just like it's it's an office hours about yes, and yes stuff

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And to have an answer it just like you know it gets off topic pretty fast

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Crusher I already answer that one upstairs. I say upstairs sometimes, and I don't mean it. I mean it like

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Physically upstairs, so they said like I answered the upstairs. I bet I answered that earlier, and I meant like hi

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In the scroll feed not like literally upstairs

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There's sometimes when I'm like higher in a Neos world than someone else

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Maybe they're lower and there isn't like stairs involved. You know we're on no clip most of the time

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And I'm just like oh yeah, they're downstairs. What do you mean? There's no stairs in this entry?

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It's like well. They're downstairs. There was an entry at the MMC that has a lot of downstairs though

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I do not remember the name of it

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I don't remember the name, but I don't have to find it a burning memory. Oh there you go

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We had some issues. They're running it with multiple people

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It's the team that built if they're listening go check it through with multiple people in the end. I actually got sort of

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Experiencing it by myself rather than what inevitably happened because the whole thing was like that entry was about a routine

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It was you wake up your brush your teeth you go downstairs. You have coffee

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Just like not a good thing to do because it tastes completely different same thing with coffee, but that was the routine

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So medra has a copy of it. We won't be posting it

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Discussions because the results are final

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We won't be posting the voting time least because it leads to arguments at least trauma like it's not about the specific sort of it

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Something which I would like to do, but the timing just didn't work out

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Myself and then do the sort of judging criteria

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As a separate meeting so it would be like voting where I don't anything out of course because I'm an influencer

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And then I didn't run through the the judging process privately

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And then you'll be able to see that middle one there and see their first experience

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Good examples of first experience is that something you can't recreate are things like

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We knew how the Neolander ring worked, and we were just you know happily building things taking a second look at it

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But of course we had some guest judges now guest judges are outside of Neos like they're not Neos community members

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They're not Neos team members, so they're not

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final decisions and so

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And it's like I don't want to say anything here like I want them to judge Neolander as a new user and so if they

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That thing had great tactile audio design

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So people didn't see what I was doing

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But it would be good to see this first impression because I was confused at first. There's a lot of entries where I'm confused at first

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Except puzzle games like NCR the heist I think I could probably speedrun that thing like the first run through I could probably speedrun

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But I'm just like oh, I need to go over here got it cool

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If you're in a maze, or you don't know where you're going always stick to the left wall

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Just keeps to the left or left wall left wall left wall

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Branching path to get where you're going hug the left will get everywhere did that in Elden Ring last night

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There's a sewer area where it's really maze like and I just hugged the left wall and managed to see everything

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There is a little bit disjointness there though because it's a bit like non-linear. I love non-linear games

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There was an inspiration hill someone said that we're looking at doing anti-chamber in the US and that they'd unfortunately quit that project

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So do something similar maybe not as big as anti-chamber in the US, but do non-linear stuff. We had mirror room

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And we have that reflection game last year mirror room and a reflection game last year. I've got the non-nucleation tunnel

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There's a few more non-nucleation things I see in people's inventories and stuff make more non-nucleation stuff. It's great. It's great. So

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Player Cody asks isn't most games kind of like doing specific chores meeting certain tasks into progress

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Not most games at all

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There are a type of like a sub-genre of puzzle games where I call them like to-do list games where you just basically like

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I get it. I just got to do this. I get it. I just got to do this. I

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Get it, I just sort of do this, you know, it's it's it's crazy like that

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So maybe the burning memory does sort of qualify as that but it has a reason to like it's trying to tell a story with that

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That's totally fine

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Same thing with like Stanley Parable would be a good example there

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You're doing the same thing over and over again because it's part of the experience

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Whereas there's a sub-genre of puzzle games called hidden object games where it's like you've entered the spooky house

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Find the key for the secret vampire lair. You need to like look at a

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picture of the house and find a

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Cheese grater that's like hidden behind the first the third banister and like that that that's not a puzzle game

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That's just like visual recognition, but some people like those

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I know the hidden object games are particularly popular with like

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Some demographic because there's tons of them tons of

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Moving onwards to definitely not get why have you renamed yourself? I'll ask later

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Hypothetically if the audio recording and transcription system works permanently, would you be willing to show someone else how to set up? Yes sounder fm

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I'll just post that chat sounder fm. It's basically a podcasting website and they're like free audio transcription and I'm like hell yeah

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I basically stop recording on my recording upload it to sounder. It does all your transcription

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I predict it's going to be terrible particularly when I say things like

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Git siro and all the like weird, you know, it's screen names that you guys have

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Audio recognition is of course trained on common words and sort of with the sort of end diagram and inclusion of

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VR VR development and then funny screen names. It's not probably not going to do good

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But they actually have features to do with that which is why I chose them

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They will see like hey, we've heard this name a few times. For example, if they keep hearing fruits and

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They see it as fruit exactly as tempestrel just said I could say hey every time I say fruit

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I actually mean this and then type and it will update the audio transcription on the on the fly. It's called something like

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A term replacement. I can't remember the name of the feature, but it'll basically be like, oh, okay. Sorry

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We made that mistake and they'll feed that data back to their audio transcription services. So see if they can make it better

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All right moving onwards to

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Another question from lurking this will the there will there be any effort to mainstream years going forward? I love to see more players

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Yes, we are. Absolutely dying

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Jumping at the seams to try and like get more development going. We have stuff going on behind the scenes as well

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Like they're still working on stuff. It's more sort of random. It's not directed. It's not motivated. It's not moving in the same direction

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See announcements etc

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Earlier I open up the code based is look at I think it's such a shock mayor if they're still watching

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or listening Chuck mayor and their interpolation issue where they're like hey when we interpret the hints we do it wrong and I'm like

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I'll open up the code base and see what's going on there because that's confusing to me mathematically

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And I want to see that there's a mathematical reason that's happenings. We just need to find out what that is

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So I open up the the code base

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To see what's going on there

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I think it's probably doing some sort of curve maths and the curve is just like wrong for integers

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It actually happens on happens of the graphing component a lot as well

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It happened on the graphing component on the left hand side of the graph and I reported it and freaks is like I fixed it

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And like no the bug actually just moved to the right hand side of the graph

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So we've got a look at that one again, and maybe I'll take a look at some point

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But yeah, well, we're dying to get development going forwards

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Gun Griffin

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Doesn't doesn't work changing name doesn't work

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Changing name doesn't work asks. What's the best?

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What is the best method to set up a headless client for the first time

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Uh, take a look at the headless client guide. I also do tutorials on it

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There is a lot of information on the wiki. I don't know why it's not linked

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I see questions in the headless client channel all the time where they're like, what does the configuration property mean?

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I mean i've i've documented them all on the wiki. So

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So go take a look at I do actually recommend as well that you set one up locally on a computer that you own

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That's like next to you. Maybe it's an old laptop. Maybe it's even the computer that you play on. I know someone does that

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Once you get it working, you'll be a bit more confident

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If you want to set it up on a server that's located outside of your house

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Like somewhere in a cloud or data center or something like that. You need to be familiar with

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Logging into that server be a vm

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Like a windows like, you know

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The the blue bar at the top logging into a vm or if it's maybe a linux terminal get familiar with that stuff first because

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That will be the the cincher for you once you've got that sorted

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It really is just as simple as running mono space like headless client or whatever it is

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Xe and then it loading a json file like it's simple learn json too. Jason. Um, if you're interested in computing a tool

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I want you to learn json

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And I I don't care if you're interested in json

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If you're interested in computing programming or anything like that. I want you to learn json, uh, the jason spec

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Is listed on the official website for json

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It's presented as like a weird flow chart, but it's like really really really really important that you learn. Jason

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Uh, you can also use a site called jason lint

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Uh, there's many like things that can do this but basically like type json and then chuck it into jason lint

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And let you know if there's a problem

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Uh player coding has a question

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This will be the last question actually froppy sharkman tempestrel. If you're asking a question, please type it. Otherwise, no more questions

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We're at time. Um, so player cody asks speaking of the wiki when wanting to add contribute to it. Uh

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Is it best to look through the different pages confirm info wanting to be shared is already there

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I'll go through the search bar and put keyword all of those things. Um, search for information to see if it's there

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Don't search for information. See if it's there is is a bad fight

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So just check it's there before you do it wait a question a couple of weeks ago at the office hours

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Which is something on the lens of like when are we going to document what a logic node does on the wiki?

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And i'm like, well that's already kind of there. Maybe you didn't search for it

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Or maybe you'll do some visibility or discovery sort of solutions there

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Who knows but yeah, just look for it

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There's also a link on the left hand side of the wiki called contributing

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And there's a contributing page there that talks about how to do it and why to do it

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Just as a reminder for everyone

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Anyone can contribute to the wiki

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Your grandmother your grandfather your aunt your niece your nephew your daughter your son your sister your brother

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Your next-door neighbor can contribute to the wiki. There is no restriction whatsoever

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If you want to type go type I don't care if you make a mess. I'll just fix it for you. Honestly

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I'll just fix it for you. I won't even be mad if

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You know 50 of how a node works go type it there if you know 10 of how a node works go type it there

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If you have a sentence about the node

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That provides detail to our users that is not there go type that sentence

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I don't even care if you just start a new page and put that one sentence on it if that's all you know about it

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Go start that page

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Documentation is a sort of

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progressive enhancement thing

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Think about it like, you know cleaning your house. I need to do that

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Sometimes just starting is the problem if I stood up now and I took out the trash

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I've started cleaning so start that documentation

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Last question from lucky because we're running it really long time lucky moose asks will dedicated hosting beyond near servers by default rather than the host computer in the future

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That is something we're looking into it's on the roadmap

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Details TBD right now headless client is the way to host headless things. It's not really even a server servers would be a little bit different

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It's a headless client, but people just call it servers it for clo-co reasons

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Take a look at the wiki and there's a link above from froppy about that

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With that that's all the time I have I gotta run so I will see you guys next week if you have any questions in the meantime do

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Make noises in my general direction DM me or whatever later

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I will be posting the link to the recording of this which should have hopefully been audio transcribed in a way that makes sense

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Or I'll just do regular notes, but the recording will be up on that

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Podcasting website soon. I'll speak to you guys later. Bye. Bye