Uh,
so welcome to Office Hours.
This is your time to ask me questions about resonate.
Uh,
I was gonna be on Twitch today,
um,
which is what we're all trying to sort of make our way towards,
or Discord,
uh,
and then instead of setting it up,
I decided to take a nap on my couch and I woke up and I was late.
I,
I have
like.
OBS open,
I've got like resonant assets downloaded.
I've got
uh like VRMs processing as well cos I,
I need like a,
I'm doing like trying to do at least VTubba stuff sort of,
um,
but you know,
then I took a nap instead of acting it,
so
very,
very useful.
Right,
so let's go ahead and get,
get started.
Maybe I'll have time to do these like admin docs I keep putting off at some point.
I,
it sort of ends up being like a broken,
uh,
so questions,
uh,
what's the dog doing?
The dog is currently playing this game,
this game where they,
they put their hand in my hand and then they pull,
they pull my hand towards them.
They want,
they want me on my lap.
They are now on my.
Are you OK?
Secondarily,
we have a question from comp uh comp user who says,
is there any explanation behind 7?
Yeah.
Absolutely,
your explanation is 7.
Next question,
do we have
additional questions?
If not,
maybe I'll continue on my,
my journey of Twitch.
I have a sort of question,
I guess,
from Poochball,
who's got a screenshot of a session where I attached legs
to 3D model of the guy from that dinosaur Yemi.
Of course,
Mr.
Socks.
Uh,
so now we have a question from Mizzy.
Mizzy says,
I saw a video of the new resonant Unity SDK and it's really cool,
and there's the amazing integration of reso and Unity,
but I still gotta ask really body physics.
Not sure when Roger body physics is going to happen.
Um,
we haven't made any announcements about what our,
our next major focus is or anything like that.
So,
um,
yeah,
uh,
7 says,
what's the next on the agenda for resonant updates?
Well,
I just answered that,
so we're not ready to announce what's next for the updates,
no priority changes,
etc.
Voel says,
how high priority is the IK?
Um,
the IK priority is,
uh,
4 out of 23,
divided by 2 + 7,
divided by 3.
Multiplied by the day of the week.
In other words,
ask like a better question,
cause I will answer it literally,
otherwise.
Actually,
IK doesn't necessarily mean full body tracking.
There are two separate items there.
There is
reworking the IK and then there is adjusting full body tracking related matters.
Those do overlap,
but there would probably be two
sort of initiatives to do that that might be,
uh,
split.
Uh,
Hecker says that since folks suggest that the MOC world for voting world be updated,
perhaps have competition of its own.
Is that something you'd be open to,
or actually the right person to talk about it?
Yeah,
I,
I run the voting for the MMC uh no I don't really wanna update it.
Um,
the voting world,
it's,
it's interesting cos like
it works.
There are some like rough areas,
but like
it works,
and
then we come up with sort of ideas about like
oh we wanna change things or or make it look better
or or stuff like that and I'm like,
but it works.
I think it works fine.
Um,
anything that we would be doing design wise would purely be design wise,
and I,
I don't,
I don't think it's needed.
I saw someone say like,
hey,
it's still got the old nearest UI and I'm like,
I thought we were past this.
No one owns UI design,
you can just like
do stuff.
So I'm limiting the updates to it uh to ones that are required for the competition.
Um,
so I noticed that this year that there was a bug with the narrative category,
so I'm,
I'm looking into that one.
we also still don't have,
uh,
local keys for some of the,
the voting messages.
If you look at the bottom of the English locale file,
you'll see
like MMC voting strings,
you've put more in there for the additional categories.
Uh,
and
yeah,
I'm not,
I'm not really interested in changing it.
Um,
there are other people who suggested,
hey,
let's put
a mute helper in it,
and it's like,
nope,
if like.
If we needed mute helper,
what I'd actually rather do is just mute everyone else,
like just completely remove voices from the entire world.
Um,
it's meant to be a little bit uncomfortable in there,
as are polling stations in reality,
right?
You don't go to a polling station in your local like school assembly room
to
have a chinwag.
You go there to like put an X in a box and then go home and have a cup of tea.
And that's,
that's the goal of the world,
that's not,
it's not to look pretty or be fancy,
it's to just work.
Uh,
moving forwards,
uh,
gryphon says,
what do you do on the reso team?
What's your role?
I believe I've answered this several times in office hours,
and more recently I've answered it in my Me prime video,
which I'll link in the video description.
Uh,
in,
I,
I'll link in the,
in the chat,
you know,
but,
um,
apparently Runescape's raised prices,
um,
so I'll link that.
But like in summary,
like a little bit of everything.
Uh,
Mizzy says,
on a more serious note,
I haven't messed up with the SD the SDK yet,
uh,
but how does it work or can it work in multiple?
OK,
so
how it works is that you link,
um,
a unity editor window like scene,
um,
with a resonant session using resonite link
and
Unity SDK does the sort of translation between,
uh,
Unity land.
And Resonant land for you.
You can edit a uh resonant world in the Unity SDK in multiplayer,
but only one user can be in charge of the Unity related matters.
Uh,
you can see this in,
uh,
a couple of the devlog videos that that Freaks has
posted where other users are in the world whilst in,
uh,
unity.
Let me tell you,
I've lost my place.
Give me a sec.
Um,
so yeah,
just,
just one user there.
Uh,
someone else asked somewhere,
oh yeah,
Euphoria asked,
uh,
will Rosite Link be available to non-hosts in the future?
I,
I don't predict so
without the onset of,
of,
of some improvements to permissions.
Um,
it gives you like higher than
admin level control over the world.
Uh,
Mizzy.
I,
this happens a lot with like features we launch
where
we get people using them in ways that we don't expect and that's absolutely fine.
But for D&D
the DM should be in resonite as well.
The DM should have like a little fake like rectangle in front of them,
which is,
you know,
their like DM cave with their like paperwork inside it.
And they can just like move around like city blocks and trees and
sewers and monsters in
ressonite using their hands.
Something I actually really wanna see is a D&D session where the,
the Dungeon Master is
like giant sized,
right?
And the players just exist on the table.
And so then every single time,
like it's the dungeon's turn or the dungeon master's turn,
whatever the terminology is,
this big
colossus like
DM just goes like
a wild dragon appears,
and they pop down like a statue of a dragon in front of you.
You know,
then they push like a
air horn button that they've got and it's like.
And then there's a fart noise,
it's like
the dragon appeared,
yeah,
that
is what you should be thinking about for Dungeons and Dragons inside resonite,
not
I'm the DM.
I am feeble.
I am going to be in unity in desktop mode.
You can even have like,
uh,
you know,
like a little stage,
right,
so if there's like a conversation
or an encounter,
everyone has to go to the stage and it's you know it's a sus spectacle.
What's that?
There's actually a VR game which does something similar to that.
Damn damn dammio dungeon do da
dungeon
VR game me.
Yeah,
apparently there's too many,
so YouTube actually won't help,
but there,
there's one I'm thinking of.
Oh,
screw tabletops in,
like
when we were rezidite,
we're talking like,
hi guys,
like this isn't even a table,
like this is like actually a dungeon,
and I'm like putting stuff in it.
Yeah,
demio.
I didn't know.
They'd,
they'd made a,
a second one called Demio Battle,
cause it was Demio Demio that I'm,
I'm referring to,
which apparently I already own,
you know,
there we go.
Having said this,
don't stop me
from you,
you know,
running your D&D using Resonate Link,
but like,
think
bigger.
You wanna think even bigger?
What about having a live audience?
You Wanna think even bigger?
What about a live audience and stream it to Twitch?
Wanna think even bigger?
Live audience,
stream it to Twitch
and.
Record it,
shove it in YouTube,
get a Netflix deal,
D&D Adventures and
VR and
D&D
thing in my bobby,
launching now,
and you're like,
oh,
they wouldn't do that,
and it's like
they did a D&D movie,
guys,
like D&D's mainstream now.
Yeah,
make a bunch of money,
buy Netflix stock,
uh sell Netflix to
a toilet paper company,
right off into the sunset,
resonate.
OK,
moving onwards from,
from,
from Demio,
uh,
services dis disconite or disco,
I,
whichever one you would want.
I have no,
I have no opinion.
Uh,
7 says,
will resonite link SDK go both ways in future,
like resonite to Unity,
vice versa with the real-time both ways.
Uh,
no.
We have no interest in like making a unity product.
We say,
having launched the Unity SDK.
Um,
we wanna get stuff out of Unity and away from Unity,
not back into Unity.
Troia says,
is there currently a way to fetch a list of all uploaded worlds in-game?
Yeah,
absolutely.
So
go to my public folder,
like rummage around or maybe it's in the resonant Essentials folder,
I don't know.
Uh,
you'll find an exported world browser,
cos the world browser's just a facet,
so you can run the world browser in your own like
worldspace and then you can just like play around with the components there.
That's how the original like worlds you're in facet
was,
was created,
was just like modifying the world browser um in um worldspace.
So go ahead and do that.
Uh,
there is a data feed that you can use as well,
which might be slightly better depending on your um requirements,
but I believe that there is sort of a
technical limitation with the,
the world's data feed
currently.
I've read the GitHub issue for that
like 5 or 6 times because it's one.
That Ray opened and I wanted to kind of fix it to help Ravi out
because uh it was marked as a blocker for having the official Bosarin facet.
And bear in mind I made the original like years
ago and now we're trying to make an official one.
I was like,
hell yeah,
I should have blocked that.
So I read the GAB issue um that Ravi made about 4 or 56 times,
um,
and
I don't
remember understanding any of it,
so I need to read it again.
Just one of those issues where you,
you just,
you keep reading it and you're like,
yeah,
those are words,
and you get distracted and you have to do something else,
it's like,
no,
I mean those are words,
those are words.
Alright,
moving
forwards,
uh,
Puchbull says,
have you heard of the project Basis?
Uh,
I have heard of Bass.
I've been over to Bass.
Uh,
I wish them all their luck.
Uh,
no,
Bass isn't the one I went,
I went to Banter,
sorry,
they've got the same like B.
I haven't been over to Bass yet.
No,
I've heard of Bass,
I've sent Bass,
I've read some of their code.
Uh,
cool.
All the best to the
bassists are working on seats.
Hell yeah.
Yeah,
I kind of unfortunately have to um
stop looking at bassist now.
I'm just gonna get like sad and that'll be unproductive.
They're doing very well with player accounts,
like very,
very well with player accounts,
and we aren't,
so it's like,
I mean like concurrent users in one single session.
I'm sure they like
users over time graph is very much like us.
Has it been added to like the,
you know,
the like
big chart thing that people spawn out?
Has basically been added?
If it hasn't,
it should be,
but I,
I,
I wish them well.
Um,
let's move forward to,
uh,
Pooch has a second half of their question.
I've heard a rumour that Resonant is partnering with the creator of the poemysher.
No,
not at all.
Probably never.
Not through any ill intent
or or like issue,
it's just,
it's,
it's unsuitable for our use cases
uh to allow that kind of shader um
anywhere near us,
primarily
because we're moving away from unity,
but secondarily just because of how complicated.
Moving forward4 is asking for me to link the data feed issue,
absolutely,
I'll go ahead and find it for you.
Uh,
and 7 is asking about custom shaders with the Unit TSDK.
No,
uh,
there are no changes on custom shaders at all,
um,
in regards to the UnitTSDK.
There are some tools to make converting um
Unity
materials and shaders into
resonate
materials and shaders easier,
uh,
but that does not include custom shaders,
is a
um like a shift,
like a conversion.
Or for
RUV,
here it is,
so the RUV data feed issue is 3804,
and like I said,
I've read it like 3 or 4 times and I don't.
Going back to D&D just for a second,
if you're interested in sort of like
thematic and event-based,
storytelling,
narrative,
board games,
stuff like that,
uh,
we do periodically stream on our Twitch channel,
uh,
Freke's taking part in Blood in the Clock Tower in VR,
uh,
and you can see how that works.
If he says,
will more default items receive tags in the future,
i.e.,
world orbs,
finger photos,
etc.
Depends what you mean by tags and depends
what you wanna use them for.
Uh,
where am I?
Future is properly plushie when,
uh,
it would probably have to be with one of those like crowdfunded plushie places,
and I've heard a couple of those like need to be looked into carefully or something.
Um,
so like,
I don't know,
probably a year or two for that kind of thing.
I'm alive,
I,
I don't see questions.
I'm just kind of sitting here in
silence
waiting for more questions.revik says,
how do we possess your soul?
I have
no idea,
to try your best,
it probably won't work.
Pooch says.
We're doesn't it be implementing kernel level anti-cheat in the future.
We are not a competitive game,
nor do we have competitive game,
um,
plans.
So
no.
So if you have some use cases for the tagging that they're,
uh,
talking about.
Um,
yeah,
tags wouldn't be the,
the solve there,
things like component access,
right?
So you'd just be like
get
component in children
world orb,
oh look,
it's a world orb,
and the same thing from a photo metadata,
you'd be.
To query that with component access as well.
Uh,
Compet Jesus says,
do you know if it's possible to get 4G geometry,
like what's in the game,
4D golf?
Probably.
Um,
you usually need like custom shaders for that kind of sort of setup.
Um,
but you might be able to do like analogues and stuff.
I'm not actually familiar with 4D golf,
but I have seen other sort of
Twitch and YouTube and TikToks of 4D related games.
Usually what they do is they just move
one of the dimensions that you have and usually.
Your control,
they moved to like a different button.
So,
uh,
in one of the 40 games I saw,
uh,
it was like,
you can have like a slice of the environment,
right?
And so you like,
by scrubbing through the 4th dimension,
you can,
you can
get a different slice of the environment
and it was a good game.
Um,
having said that,
that's called walking,
where you move yourself
along a dimension
and you see new things,
that's called walking.
So they like put walking,
removed it from the game and put it on another button and caught it forward to it.
And it still is a good game,
but like that's usually the way I see it.
Maybe 4D goal.
Yeah,
they've done
uh just time,
I can see in this sort of uh
screenshot
video hover thing
that it's just 3 dimensional geometry put through like a.
Kaleidoscope basically of time.
Looks like Vinny has played 4D golf,
I'll add that to my watch later.
Oh no,
just joking,
I won't cos my watch later is.
Yeah,
the only reason why we have kernel level anti-cheat
and all of these games and stuff is because
uh you guys wouldn't stop cheating,
and I don't mean like
you particularly or anyone here,
it's just like
that like people playing the game wouldn't stop cheating.
Uh,
and money started being put on the line for the game,
and so there you go.
The alternative to,
um,
like kernel level anti-cheat when it comes to sort of
cheating and stuff like that
is like a separate machine.
Like you,
like,
uh,
you know,
this is my
League of Legends machine,
um,
to like
make sure I don't cheat on League of Legends.
Every like couple of months I have to take it to like League of Legends HQ
where they like unpadlock it
and like do updates and then give it back to me padlocked,
and I can't,
I can't edit it.
Uh if you're wondering if something like that actually does happen,
absolutely,
look into the
practise of using what's called a secure access workstation
in um
computer
stuff.
Uh and my.
Microsoft,
they were called saws,
secure access one,
and they were just,
if you looked at um uh like internal Microsoft saw incorrectly,
it would go like,
alright cool,
you gotta,
you gotta rebuild me.
You gotta rebuild me.
They're like the scariest machines ever
because their single job
of a saw
is to make it more difficult to do your job.
Is World Data Feed capable of providing all publicly
uploaded worlds regardless of being hosted or not?
Should be,
yeah.
World Data Feed is like where we'll eventually.
Um,
where we'll eventually
move the world browser to.
Everything's going towards data feeds in it.
So the goal is that the world browser will be powered by the world data feed.
So
if you can't do something on the world data feed,
it's also our problem.
And then you guys have,
have found,
I believe,
I believe you guys have found the bug that
I'm referring to with the world's data feed.
I've gotta read the world data feed bug again.
Yeah,
I don't know,
that's why I keep getting confused by that.
Particular issue.
Do we have any additional questions or I'll start
winding things down here.
I do some terraform
state.
Poochball says,
when I first played Resonate,
I thought
the VRC issue of most people being in private instances would
be less due to the smaller community and less trolls,
but it seems to be around the same in most people being in private roles.
Is there any reason for this?
There's a variety of reasons for this,
none of which,
um,
are like
a problem,
whilst also being a.
Problem at the same time,
right,
so
I don't want anyone who is in private worlds to,
to,
to feel like they're doing anything wrong
or problematic,
but at the same time,
like,
we should
try and fix the problem,
right?
So
it's,
it's an interesting sort of like juxtaposition,
it's like,
hey,
if you're doing it,
you're fine,
but if you would like to host more,
more,
more public sessions,
then,
then yeah,
I'd be interested in that.
At metrics.resoite.com you will see um a bunch of
metrics and alerting and stuff like that.
One of the ones that you'll see,
which I always find interesting is ratio of sessions to users,
which is
how many
sessions exist
per user.
It always is above 1,
and what that means is
there are more sessions than users
in most cases.
Not by much,
right,
cause we're at like between 1 and 2,
we're not at 2.
To improve that situation,
we're gonna need things.
Uh,
like better permission systems,
see the gap issue for that,
uh,
the licence component
and updates,
see the issue for that.
Uh,
better tooling for moderators and stuff like that,
we've got issues for that.
That will increase the safety of being in,
in public worlds.
But one of the problems that we have that's larger than,
than all the other ones that we face as well is that like
we have a bunch of like reasons why you might be getting onto,
um,
the reasons that you get onto VR chat are largely.
To socialise,
but
getting into resin I,
hey,
maybe you actually do want to build something,
so for that case,
a private world makes absolutely logical sense.
Yeah,
66% of users are not excessive.
Right,
so there's any upcoming components you're excited about making or having made?
I'm like in vari variable soup right now.
You've got like
the headless login,
you've got the proxy,
you've got the cache folders,
you've got some log flushing stuff.
If you wanna know why I'm,
I.
Needing it,
it's because of,
of
the insanity that I'm going through trying to get
a headless working in,
in Azure without any human intervention.
Like,
I know that you
and everyone here can like run a headless.
Like,
you know,
I,
if I give you a Linux machine or a Windows machine,
I'm sure you can stand up a headless,
but
can you stand up a headless
from
zero
to it running
without human intervention?
Cause
here's a lovely diagram about how I'm doing that.
I'm currently having issues because
the
VM that I'm running
Flag Car Linux on
needs an IP address that I can reach,
but the only IP addresses that I can reach have to be within the corporate
assigned address space,
and they didn't give me much headroom,
like at all.
And if you make subnets within the
virtual networking scheme of,
of a.
It steals a bunch of those addresses in ways that I really do not understand.
So
we have,
and I'll have to like sort of anonymize this
a bit
by just randomly changing some digits,
but I don't know which ones I can change,
so I'm just gonna change the first two and I hope I don't accidentally leak our
clients like IP address range.
Tell you what,
we'll just do obviously incorrect things.
So.
If you guys know CIDR notation well,
um,
I have changed the first two,
octets,
but the last two are the same cos I believe they relate to the,
the forward slash bit.
But that's the address space I've got,
not a lot.
It's just like,
it's just to like very clearly tell you,
like this isn't valid,
you know.
Interestingly enough,
um,
Terraform,
it turns out,
has a method or a
method,
function.
Member
call,
whatever the hell you wanna,
uh,
here it is,
it's uh in terraform and it's called
CIDR subnet.
And so we take
that
clearly invalid address and we split it up into
uh
that
and
yeah,
that and that,
and it means that
we get two subnets that both have 3 US supply IP addresses in them.
3,
and only 3.
Added to this,
if you make changes to subnets or networking after deploying like VMs or services to
those subnets,
uh,
you can't edit the subnet until you remove the,
the VMs from the subnet,
which of course I could do using Terraform,
but that would actually cause them to just
be recreated cause that's what Terraform does,
right?
It just goes like,
oh,
that's wrong,
I'll just remake it,
um,
which means it would like
delete stuff,
and I'm like no.
I don't want you to delete anything,
I just want you to edit the subnet.
I'm like,
well,
we can't do that.
And I'm like,
well,
I can do it in the Azure port.
So what I've done is I've edited things in the Azure portal to correct,
and then I run it through Terraform,
and Terraform says,
you've touched
the Azure state without telling me.
I'm gonna throw a hissy fit.
And then I have to write like incredibly long commands that are essentially like
Terraform import,
the resource name in Terraform,
and then like a URL to like where it exists.
In,
um,
uh,
we're currently using Azure for both this corporate installation and the,
the regular one that you guys use.
Um,
we will eventually have to support
other cloud providers if we continue with our,
our corporate ambition.
Red says,
when are we,
uh,
swapping to random shed in Florida services,
which is what,
um,
community member uses?
Never.
I mean,
um,
Headless might get like easier to host at some point.
The gap
for like getting you guys like an official headless image.
For Docker that doesn't require Steam
is,
I've gotta like figure out security uh cos we still need the like the headless code,
um,
and
uh also making sure it syncs up with like Triggs's process,
which like,
yeah,
I can't really do that.
Uh Pitchbull says,
does Resonak want to go corporate be under shareholders like VR chat?
I hope not.
Uh,
we already have shareholders and we will be doing that at some point,
but not in the same way as VR chat.
Like there is no way to not have a company.
And not have
like
shareholders and corporate stuff,
like it's a it's a regular part of running a company.
We're actually going through a share update right now,
um,
and and that's cool.
I,
I don't know what Valve does like share wise,
so there,
there's,
I'm gonna get this wrong cos I'm not a financial guy at all or anything like that,
but
um.
It's very,
very,
very normal,
almost sort of required,
depending on,
on how big for a company to end up with what's called a board of directors.
Um,
the directors are in charge of the company's
best interest and the best interest of the,
the shareholders.
Um,
I know that usually
turns into like an
absolute madness
of like corporate greed,
but it isn't the corporate board that do that,
like the structure,
it's the people on the board.
Uh,
there's actually an interview with like the blis.
Guy,
which kind of like,
people will know who I mean,
the blizzard guy that was in an interview recently,
uh,
Kaplan,
yeah.
Now,
it is
a 5 hour video,
so
like,
using what I'm gonna call
convenient abridging.
Here's a reaction video of XQC reacting to the exact 3 minutes and 46
seconds of the 5 hour video that I would like you to watch,
um,
at some point.
So you don't need to watch the entire 5 hours,
you can just watch XQC.
Actually you don't need to watch FTC cos he doesn't speak English,
so you just like
just tune him out.
For thosen't aware,
he does speak English,
he just speaks very,
very fast and not a lot of people can understand him.
So we already do have shareholders,
myself included.
You can check our commercial register to figure out who our other,
uh,
shareholders are,
um,
but
like
it's,
it's not something we can avoid.
Like even if we had zero shareholders,
we would have 1 shareholder and it would be free.
Uh,
Poochball says,
do the shareholders of Reso want to paywall everything like.
Yard,
no.
That,
the only way that would happen
is if like,
um,
the board of directors or,
or shareholders,
whatever,
ended up with,
with like
more than 50%
of our voting shares.
At that point they would start to be able
to influence things the way that they wanted.
Currently,
uh,
Frukes has enough voting shares to overrule anyone on any silly guy.
Yeah,
Freaks has,
you're actually,
like,
literally,
this is all publicly available information,
so go look at it if you don't believe me.
There's Class A,
B,
and C shares.
And
uh
I don't remember the difference between A and C,
but I do rememberence the difference between B,
A and C.
So B is like our um
decision making shares.
They have like what are called votes,
voting power in them.
Uh,
Fruits is like 90,
90+% of those,
um,
and
most of the team have got
sort of between 0 and 1% voting shares.
Um,
and it's not board,
this is like shareholder voting,
it's slightly different.
Uh,
and so
occasionally we do have things that need shareholder.
Votes and even though Frukes overpowers any
voting with with Frukes' individual decision,
we do do it formally
um as a vote,
and the reason behind that is because Frukes waits till last,
right,
so
he has the decision making power of course,
but like let's say like
the greater than like
half the employees say no to something,
Fruchs is gonna be like ah.
Gonna look shitty if I say no to this,
but they're still allowed to,
of course.
So,
uh,
I guess a TLDR with that would be,
is the only way
what is revealed in that
3 minute XQC clip
would happen to resonate
is if Freaks wanted it to happen.
So
place all your trust,
hopefully not too much,
don't burn out the guy.
Place all your trust into Freaks,
and if you don't want to place it all into freaks,
the team members that have 1% as well are.
Sounding board for freaks to make decisions.
Oh,
and uh
if I was in Jeff Kaplan's place,
I would have done the exact same thing he did.
I don't wanna put words in,
in either of their mouths,
like either the,
the executive above him
or Kaplan's um
uh like mouth,
but it's almost to the point of like
the conversation basically was
hi Kaplan,
please do something immoral
or we're going to do something even more immoral.
And Kaplan's choice was
I resign,
uh,
which is,
is,
you know,
sometimes the,
the best move.
There's also a really,
really relevant Mike Oldfield song here called Far Above the Clouds.
Mike Oldfield does a lot of sort of orchestral music,
thematic,
um,
songs,
etc.
Far Above the Clouds consists of lyrics about sort of at some point through it,
uh,
a man picks up his bag of secrets and disappears
above the mountaintops,
far above the clouds where no one will ever see.
Hi again.
That's what Kaplan did.
Kaplan was like,
nope,
I ain't doing that.
Picked up his secrets and he just went off up the mountain.
One of the other things that we've got for like our um
to our credit,
and it sounds really weird,
it's also something that's really easy to fix,
but
like
they have to own the company first
is
people don't like
the greedy types,
the corporate greedy types,
they don't really wanna own European countries,
uh
countries,
uh companies,
they don't wanna own European companies.
It's usually because like Europe's kind of,
kind of better in,
in
protection laws,
you know,
all sorts of
laws,
etc.
so you know,
difficult to do,
exactly,
yeah.
Things like the GDPR and our,
our commitment to not sell data to you,
uh,
like other people is like very important.
So a good example here is we were running,
um,
we're running some YouTube ads right now
and we had to like figure out like how do we wanna track these?
And we have this issue whereby
we can't really do that unless we start spying.
Spying on you.
And if we start spying on you,
we're gonna have to contract with third parties
like Google Analytics and stuff like that.
And if we do that,
then we'll need to update our privacy policy and see
if it complies with GDPR like it's just like,
ah,
what do we do?
Uh,
so our Google ad links to Steam and Steam has
uh inbuilt tracking that we can take a look at,
but it's,
it's like surface level,
it's basically like
you came to Steam
from our advert.
That's it.
And,
and,
and we actually lose the linkage there.
By the time you've like.
Downloaded Resonite,
launched it,
logged in,
we have no idea who you are,
like we have no idea where you came.
Something we're considering to kind of sort of mitigate that a little bit
is very similar to the Fortnite Creator Code programme,
whereby,
let's say you're making content for Resonite,
maybe you're one of our,
our sponsored content creators or you're just a content creator generally,
we might open it up to everyone.
Uh,
you can share a code with people,
you know,
maybe it'll be like
gryphon Phillips 4 or whatever,
whatever gryphon what's.
The credit code to be,
and then when you register a resonant account,
if you put in that code,
maybe we'll give you like a little bit more storage or,
or some other incentive.
And what that lets us do is say like,
hey,
like
100 people
registered using Griffin's credit code,
what's gryphon doing?
We gotta like,
we gotta,
we gotta do it.
Poochbor says a friend sent me this and said Rezina is sharing data.
No,
no,
no.
There's lots of conversation in here,
but one of the things that you need to remember is that.
Prime wrote a humongous
uh response to it,
which you can read in this direct link here,
which talks about exactly why all parts of the privacy policy exist and may say that,
including a change log where I removed some of the ambiguity according,
uh,
including issues around the,
the language around selling
to,
to remove the ambiguity here.
I haven't caught up with,
um,
I need to reread the post that was made on May 19th last year.
I did respond to it,
but like I don't,
I don't remember this post being here,
and the reason I don't remember it is cause it's got
like VRM pictures halfway through it.
But
the point is,
if you read that issue top to bottom
and you get to the bottom of it
with like the knowledge that we are selling data,
then I,
I don't really know how.
Just read the entire thing.
And if you've got an issue,
like,
feel free to comment on there.
The reason why it's still open is because
we wanna take a look at,
like,
we wanna take.
Take a look at doing it,
but it's also like kind of really expensive and Tompkins.
So yeah,
create a code.
And again,
those work out well because
um
like you,
the user are in charge,
right?
If you wanna register an account
with,
with Griffin's credit code,
go for it.
If you don't wanna register an account with Griffin's credit code,
go for it.
Like gryphon
won't get a kickback,
we won't know that you've come from Griffin's place and
you know,
it'll be fine.
But that might make gryphon sad.
It'll give something,
we're not sure.
Like we,
we could go as far as like,
you know,
if
you're a certain kind of creator,
and,
and don't like,
don't,
don't come back to other people's office hours and be like,
I heard a rumour you were gonna do this,
this is an idea,
OK?
It's not a rumour,
it's an idea.
Like,
say you put in
Griffin's creator code
and then gryphon becomes like,
you know,
the,
the biggestcriter code user on the planet.
Maybe we give gryphon.
Us a badge,
and so it'll be like,
hey,
you registered with Griffin's creator code
because Griffin's knowing as a solid,
you get a badge.
And then like,
can you imagine it,
like,
gryphon on his YouTube videos will be like,
yo,
it's the gryphon Army,
show your gryphon support with your gryphon badge by using gryphon and,
and when registering a resume account,
and you get this cool picture above your
name.
Join the gryphon Army today.
It isn't an evil idea,
it's actually perfectly fine.
Uh,
particularly when we go into like,
um,
profiles rather than badges above the nameplate,
uh,
cos that'd be easy to,
to,
to chuck on there,
you know,
it's like,
hey,
this guy registered using Griffin's creator code.
What's up gryphon Army?
Today we're gonna take a look at the latest memes.
Yeah,
I'm still going,
I don't really know why.
If you've got questions,
go for it.
I'll keep going for another couple of minutes.
I'm just gonna sit here.
And we're like,
we're making gryphon into like a big content creator accidentally.
You know,
then we could pull a report and it'd be like,
who,
which,
which creator tags have been used a lot
this month.
Well,
we'll figure you out,
right,
we'll we'll figure you out,
you won't be able to get,
we'll figure it out.
Fris
has said
that he might look at
the possibility of
doing that soon.
I have to use so many like magic.
Spells,
just so you guys don't get like the wrong idea,
maybe I should just stop.
No more magic spells,
I'm just gonna say things.
You misquote me and everything like that,
it's on you.
Alright,
with that,
I do believe that we're out of questions and I will go ahead and,
and,
and wind things down.
Uh
yeah,
speak soon,
guys.
Remember,
tell your friends about the gryphon creator code.