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 It is 4pm, so we're going to get that started.

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 Let's jump straight into the questions that we have in the thread.

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 So Lex says "What are the plans for Neocene again?"

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 So Neocene was like, it's unfair to call that like a backup, but it's like an addition

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 to the big chunky launcher, right?

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 We would be remaking the big chunky launcher and making that into like our own launcher.

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 So that would also allow us to have more of a backup in case the things like the steam

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 removal happened again, whatever, we'd have our own launcher, etc.

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 But it would also allow us to sort of more simultaneously manage builds.

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 So if there was any testing needed, or people wanted to jump between the headless or the

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 quest build, or the android build, etc. they'd be able to do it a lot easier.

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 We'd also be able to serve builds there for different establishments, such as businesses,

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 education, learning, etc.

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 Yeah, that was what Neocene was meant to be.

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 Next up we have hentai games who says "What's the status of the lawsuit and when are we

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 getting an update?"

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 I don't know what that is.

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 I mean, my suit's in the cupboard, but like, I don't know what that is.

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 So I don't know.

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 And with that, we're out of questions.

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 So Jack asks "Is Neocene accompanied by a change in the build/deploy pipeline too?"

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 Yeah, the idea there was to update how the build pipeline and the deployment pipeline

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 It would have been a great actual hero scenario for the recent Cloudflare, YouTube download,

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 MMC 2023 issues where we had builds being unsynchronized.

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 Right now, builds that are generated are like three different pipelines, and so it's really

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 Neocene would completely streamline that, and we'd be able to do that a lot easier.

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 Lou says "What tips practices would you recommend for inventory management?"

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 I actually have a video on this one as far as I'm aware.

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 Let me go ahead and double check if I can find it.

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 It's been working really well outside of Neos as well, it does require diligence, and sometimes

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 you'll end up clicking a lot of folders.

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 But if you start doing it, it really does prevent many issues.

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 People go "There is no inventory management in Neos, so I won't inventory manage."

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 And I go "Okay, cool.

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 You could do a little bit of it."

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 So yeah, but then all the stuff I hadn't managed would still be there.

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 I was like "Well, yeah, but you can do the new stuff."

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 When did I upload that video?

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 I've not got a staff badge there, I've only got one row, and I'm wearing a center hat.

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 That's gonna be well dated, let me see.

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 Strangely the date isn't displayed in YouTube Studio, I have to go to the actual video.

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 Two years ago!

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 15 December 2020, fantastic.

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 I didn't answer the question, because it assumes things that don't exist, or might not exist.

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 It's a very strange question.

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 I guess the second half, yes, the second half, that's a better answer for the second half,

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 which is "Any updates will be in the announcements channel."

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 And before you say there are no updates in the announcements channel, yes, any future

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 updates will be in the announcements channel.

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 You can compare it to that one thing that you pre-ordered on the internet two years

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 ago and it never shipped and then suddenly randomly arrived today.

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 I've got edi controllers sat next to me charging.

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 If you find checking the announcements channel problematic, you can always go to this amazing

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 Jack has an overarching question.

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 What things are planned, considered for future improvements to new users' audio systems,

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 and better reverb zones, deafening zones, etc.

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 I would like to, firstly, in my opinion, I guess, and then for what we're actually doing,

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 you can go ahead and check the roadmap, but I would like to see, we were looking into

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 it, I can't remember why we stopped, but we were looking into a different audio system

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 that would allow the structure of the area that you're in to affect the audio in some

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 way, like walls and doorways and stuff like that would have affected the audio.

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 I'd have to go double check what the name of that library that we were looking at is,

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 but that doesn't, I can't remember the name of it, etc.

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 We are using Steam audio right now for some things, I think we want to upgrade that.

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 I would like to see more tweaks to the logarithmic falloff, I would also like to see better tooling

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 to visualize that as well.

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 and the default cube editing for the falloff of audio, because I know most people just

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 don't care, and they leave the falloff on logarithmic, they leave the sound at 100%,

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 and then everyone just complains because audio is always too loud, no one balances their

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 Quick reminder there, balance your audio.

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 your tool, etc., and figure out what needs to be quieter, what needs to be louder, what

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 the word 100% in the audio level means 100% of normal, or as in the intended way that

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 the author wants this experience to be established with you.

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 Mine arrived, and one was charged to full, and one wasn't charged to full, so I just

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 I actually sent, I could find this library again, because I sent an email to the library

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 creator, because it's not licensed.

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 Yes, here it is.

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 There's literally no license, no information about it.

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 Acoustic echo cancelling, voice suppression, voice activity detection.

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 I asked for a license, they said no.

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 They said that it's open source, I don't want to give it a license, so I just said okay,

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 I don't even remember why we did it.

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 Frix asked me to look into seeing if I could get them to clarify the license, so I was

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 Glavin says are there plans to have a native built-in user calling system?

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 I would love for the halls like that to kind of be drop-in and easy to use.

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 But I would love for more logical systems to exist.

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 which we should absolutely emulate, and then someone starts saying, "No, you're going to

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 I am complimenting VRChat on a pre-feature, well-created, and saying that we could emulate

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 Jack comments that there's stuff that Logics can't do, like reduce update rates and stuff

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 wait for hard permissions, though, because at that point we are enabling you to kind

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 Jack mentions the IK culling mod, yeah, I've looked into that one.

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 Every mod I look into the source code of, I'm like, I'm sorry, guys, I'm so sorry, because

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 it's like one line of code to change something that annoyed people.

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 Jack asks, did you ever find your personalized easter egg in our MMC entry?

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 You'll have to unfortunately remind me of which gear and which entry.

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 I looked at far too many, and oftentimes it was not clear who worked on the list, or if

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 So Rukio, good map, fantastic work team.

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 like more hidden than I think was reasonable, and therefore we didn't notice that they

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 cool, there are easter eggs in here, but they weren't easy enough to find.

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 IX that took ten years to find.

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 We have so many entries to look at, and not enough time to look at all of them.

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 There's something about like, if you made a certain drink, then something would appear,

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 And the only reason I knew that is because I saw something weird, and then I inspected

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 it, and I was like "oh I see this", because I was then technically analysing the system.

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 Oh, Jackal, thought, do you...

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 So Jackal asks "how's the move, are other efforts going, do you think you'll be starting

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 anyone starts like Moveroo the rumour mill.

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 I'm trying to get the move sorted, I have now applied for the apartment building, which

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 They needed income verification, which I provided, and for some reason that's gone all the way

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 She needs to respond in the next couple of days or she'll lose a customer.

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 She'll lose a customer with a very good credit score as well, so you know, she's losing out.

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 Once that's sorted, then I can do things like arrange movers.

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 I haven't got that much to move, but I am feeble and weak, I can't move a bed and a

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 anyway, but if you get a cleaner to do it, then they don't have to do it.

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 And they won't charge you, but you'll charge - it works out cheaper.

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 "But you have requested a tutorial about the multi-UV material and what it's good for."

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 It really comes up a lot in avatar management and stuff like that.

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 So let's imagine you have an avatar that has a scrolling emissive effect.

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 If you think about the UV for a face, that's sort of where you take the skin off someone's

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 That is one set of UVs, but then maybe another set of UVs is the stars or the twinkles that

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 Separate those up.

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 I have to look at my avatar and take a look at that.

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 Inside of Blender, you can use as many UV maps as you want.

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 There's stuff in Blender that I still don't know what it's for.

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 I just like I have a character ID to like, you know, reweight paint their arm or something.

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 Just I use it for like probably like a small part of its capabilities.

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 Jack is commenting on the fact that they are starting up work on a new version of their

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 I wouldn't suggest doing that.

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 There are no additional questions.

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 I will scroll up the list, double check and I haven't missed any.

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 I haven't missed any that I can see.

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 How many additional questions do you let me know?

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 I put them in that thread and I'll get them in the order that they have here.

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 extra time for the person who's getting accepted?

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 It's something to do with polling and caching as far as I'm aware.

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 I know that's like a sort of like, what's the word I'm looking for?

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 Lacklustre I guess we'll do for now.

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 I know it's a lacklustre answer, but it's always that particular thing.

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 immediate in the future.

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 But you know, it is 4.24pm.

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 So go ahead and get that done.

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 I've got some reading to do.

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 So Jackal has a gigantic question which we're going to read.

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 Vakrin, I have set up a simple round frame.

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 I have to read it because otherwise it doesn't appear on the recording.

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 menu slot attached to me and the player.

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 I'm having a difficult time getting consistent series of events though, so thank you for

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 How can I recreate those actions that I have to do manually using logics or components

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 If it's a timing issue where I have to put in some kind of delay, don't the rest of me

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 load or any sub-hardwired or something zero?

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 You can absolutely do that.

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 Good, good, no sound, no flashy lies to say.

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 You can absolutely do that with logics.

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 if you need help you can contact me in game, great, so that's the solution.

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 I don't know why two works well, I just always use two.

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 stick an update delay of two and it should work.

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 It should totally be available to do using a variety of logics.

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 Update delay is a node.

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 Update order you shouldn't really need to touch.

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 if it does work, great.

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 I do that every time.

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 Like I get some like logic just won't work.

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 I start adding random update delays, it works.

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 It's basically like an order of operations thing.

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 Particularly in avatar spawning, which sounds like the problem that you're describing.

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 Jack says, "Would you be interested in perhaps throwing together an official NES calendar

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 once I have the thing improved?"

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 You mean an in-game calendar?

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 We want to get that sorted.

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 I would love if we could have like more social style stuff on our website.

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 I always talk about it, but it kind of doesn't make sense anymore.

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 Like the AltSpaceVR event calendar was amazing.

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 It was basically, you know, you want to host an event where it's just you playing a guitar

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 in a fire, like a round of fire based map.

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 You know what I mean?

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 Campfire, that's the word I was looking for.

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 Round of campfire on a map like that, you can just post that to the AltSpaceVR webpage

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 and people can come.

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 You want to do a special interest group?

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 We saw everything on that list from religion to politics to support groups, etc.

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 It was great.

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 I don't know how far along they are in pulling the plugs, it might exist, but I'd love to

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 get that on the website at some point.

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 We have like a community tab on the dash, that would be amazing.

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 But starting in five minutes, Jack plays the trombone.

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 I don't know if he can play the trombone, I just thought the first instrument that popped

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 into my head.

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 Next question.

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 Second, says "Do you know of any changes that may have happened to make LNL more unreliable,

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 more desynchial of later?

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 Is it like an external factor like international peering that's just going downhill?"

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 There have been no changes to those things as of late.

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 Cloudflare would have not affected those, because that's a socket channel which would

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 No changes I can think of.

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 International peering might be a culprit.

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 I am so happy that someone so far away knows what international peering is, thank you so

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 much for knowing that phrasing.

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 So many people don't understand how crazy the internet is, so I'm glad you know that

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 term.

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 Raid, I can never pronounce your name, I'm sorry, I've seen your pronunciation guide,

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 I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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 Do slots load in a consistent order at all is the way to manipulate order slots load

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 in.

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 Not that I'm aware of, although try the update order.

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 That does affect things like aligners, UIX, and things like that, so it might affect load,

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 I'm not certain.

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 Yeah, the internet is just crazy.

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 Stop using super reactions, guys, don't those cost like, you can only do like five of those

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 a month or something.

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 Five a day, oh that's fine, yeah, five a day, I thought it was five a month, I've never

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 used them because I thought it was five a month.

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 It's like when you play a video game and like, you know, some quest giver will be like "thank

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 you for savoring the forest, here's this like potion that will make you super awesome",

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 but you never drink it, because you're never like "oh I might need it for like, I might

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 need it for like", you get to the credits and you're just like "never drank that super

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 awesome potion, never drank that super awesome potion".

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 Per week, it's per week, that's still bad, okay, thank you, I go.

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 Anyway, we will leave off there, if you have any additional questions please feel free to

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 direct message me, please feel free to also check the questionsnail.com channel or the

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 announcements channel out, or wherever else you get your news from, and remember, fight

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 the rumour now and stay awesome.