Hello,
welcome to Office hours.
I would like to do a preliminary,
um,
preliminary statement before office hours begins in the form of a story.
Um,
if you don't hear sound,
uh,
I really don't know what's up.
As long as like one person hears sound,
it's nothing to do with me.
I guess I can push buttons.
Voice and video settings,
here we go.
No,
like for streaming video you can either choose the frame rate or whatever,
um,
but for,
for just talking you can't
rhyme a little more,
yeah,
OK.
Uh,
so,
uh,
here comes the story.
Um,
I was scheduled to go on a sort of
vacation,
when I say vacation,
it's more like a working vacation,
right?
Um,
Frukes is actually a really good person at the working vacation,
they should be,
maybe they should take like an actual,
but like wherever they go they usually end up doing a bit of work.
Um,
anyway,
and that was my plan,
and I was gonna go over to,
to,
to Texas and,
uh,
I had a 20 hour layover on both sides because I tried
to do cheap airlines and then I like I basically screwed up.
Right,
meant that I had
a hotel booked in my 20 hour layover on the way out
and a hotel booked on my 20 hour layover on the way back.
Uh,
20 hour layover in the way there
is in Vegas and the 20 hour layover on the way back was in Denver.
So for the Denver leg I got like a cheap airport hotel,
but for the Vegas one
I was looking around and I'm like the strip is like right next to the airport,
like Las Vegas Strip is right next to the airport.
Is there something we could do here?
And a lot of the hotels are actually quite cheap.
Um,
the reason is because uh in Vegas they make their
money based on what you spend inside the hotel,
um,
not
on the hotel room.
And so the,
the cheapest hotel is actually what's called the Luxor.
Now the Luxor is a pyramid,
um,
that has been in Vegas for,
for years.
It is like insane.
Um,
Vegas is insane regardless,
but
this is particularly more insane.
The the regular types of insane.
There's literally a human constructed pyramid
with a giant glowing light on it,
um,
in
the middle of Vegas,
and you can stay inside.
Uh,
the inside of the pyramid looks a little bit like this,
uh,
where are we?
Um,
and
the elevators that you take to your rooms actually have to follow a 30 degree,
uh,
incline,
which makes them technically not elevators,
they are inclinators instead.
Uh,
and so
I would have stayed inside the pyramid.
I have found out,
um,
since
I guess,
not doing that particular vacation for the,
the,
um,
explanation that will come certainly soon.
I found out that the Luxor is a little bit under disrepair.
It's been,
um,
neglected.
Although I did see some photos that said that
they might have renovated it since the last review,
um,
but if you look at like Luxor review,
uh,
you might see like questionable,
um,
questionable reviews.
Which uh can happen sometimes to older hotels.
Uh,
however,
uh,
the Las Vegas sphere
was an unfortunate occurrence for the Luxor,
uh,
particularly cos it's a hotel that's not doing so well,
because what they decided was like,
well,
people are advertising
on the,
the Las Vegas sphere.
Maybe we could advertise on the side of a giant pyramid.
So I believe,
currently,
it looks like this,
they put a giant picture of a Dorito and the word Doritos on the side of.
Luxor.
Um,
the way that they did that is by using a sort of like fabric,
like a blanket or a mesh,
etc.
So if you happen to have a hotel room
on the Doritos side of the pyramid,
um,
then
you,
uh,
your view out of the,
uh,
the Luxor Hotel room
is like occluded by that mesh.
It's like looking through a screen door.
Um,
but
like
the view usually is actually one of the nice things about that hotel,
uh,
particularly because the windows are kind of weird because they've got.
In,
it's on a slant,
uh,
so
I realised none of this is about the actual story,
but,
but that,
this is a really old photo and you'll,
you'll see what I mean by like it looking dead,
etc.
uh,
like
that would,
that's actually ancient.
Like I,
I have like I have no idea how old that photo is,
but like I can just tell it's ancient.
It feels so ancient.
Um,
you can see there that the windows are,
uh,
slanted.
This is actually more like it
these days.
Yeah,
that's an old school guy,
that's like
that's like the cock grandpa.
Uh,
anyway,
uh,
so part of this trip,
uh,
involves finding somewhere.
Usually I send it to a friend,
uh,
that friend has elected to move to California.
I'm not mad at them,
that's their tritely choice,
you know,
it's not like I had a,
a,
an agreement or a business service agreement with them.
So
this was the first time.
I was like,
hey,
they've they've,
you know,
Feather's probably got to go into commercial boarding.
And I was actually looking forward to it because
you can't rely on friends all the time,
so it'd be great to have somewhere
where you know Feder's comfortable
where I can put them in boarding just in case there's an emergency or,
or,
you know,
more friends aren't available at the particular time I'm travelling,
so I'm like.
I'll do it,
yeah,
uh,
dog boarding is like it's just basically like a
dog.
I don't wanna use the words
that the company does cause then I tell you the company name and I don't want
to say the company name cause I don't want to be angry at the company,
etc.
Uh,
but yeah,
it's like a,
a dog hotel.
Now when it comes to dog boarding,
there are
like basically three options.
There are like what I call like more farmyard,
um.
Dog boarding,
that's where your dog usually goes to like a ranch or something and they stay in
kennels that you might sort of
know,
if you think of like larger dogs or maybe sort of farmyard dogs,
you know,
it's like a a cube with like a bed,
um and a water bowl and a food bowl and then they they get walked and then they,
they just live in that cube for a little bit,
right?
um.
That's like option one,
and then option two is like commercial boarding,
um,
like a,
a,
a strip mall basically at a pet store,
and
that's somewhere in the middle.
And then the end option is usually what I call like the sort of vacation for dogs,
dog boarding,
which is where they go to like somewhere a magic,
someone's house,
uh,
someone's ranch or whatever,
and instead of staying in kennels there,
they basically stay in the person's house.
Um,
my mother's Dogs,
they do that every time that my mother goes on vacation,
her dogs go to this lady's house and basically they live
inside this lady's house and my mother pays that lady for.
That's like the five-star dog.
So I was aiming for the middle,
commercial pet boarding.
Um,
the first one doesn't sound nice,
but it's like,
it's,
it's OK for larger dogs.
Um,
like they're not mistreated or anything,
they're just bored and that,
that's it.
And like dogs,
dogs can be bored,
they're more resilient.
I turned around to see Feder literally choking on a Piece of blanket.
I,
I don't know what's going on.
I've just,
like,
I've just saved his life again.
Alright,
we're fine.
Um,
like a string,
like a loose thread had come off and then
the loose thread had wrapped around his teeth,
and he was just like,
I
I don't know what's going on for him.
Uh,
anyway,
uh,
so
because I'm trying to save money,
I'm like,
hey,
I'll,
I'll book the dog boarding for the day I leave,
but it's like,
it was,
I don't know,
like 4 or 5 hours before my flight,
so plenty of time.
I was gonna drop off the dog,
come back to my apartment,
pick up.
My actual bags to travel,
you know,
go around,
turn lights off,
that sort of thing,
and then,
and then I leave.
Uh,
so I book them in,
I follow all the,
the guidance,
I read all the paperwork,
I,
I sign all the forms,
and everything is basically like,
yep,
just drop them off at this time
and,
uh,
you'll be good to go.
And I'm like,
absolutely
awesome.
Who knows,
hands up.
Who knows anything about like
socialising a dog to a new stranger?
Who knows anything?
Uh,
rule one,
you don't do it.
On a leash.
You don't do it on a leash.
You do not socialise new dogs to new people
on leashes.
Uh,
the way that you should do it is you,
you,
you show both people into a room.
Ideally,
the owner and the dog first,
they play in the room and then in comes the new person.
And then,
you know,
the new person engages in play and the owner engages in play with the new person.
Uh,
you know,
you can,
if it's culturally appropriate to you,
you can sort of hug or handshake the new person.
And that sort of says like,
hey,
this new person's welcoming,
you know,
they're in our pack,
they're part of the,
the,
the social order,
they're OK,
they're,
they're OK.
What do you not do if you want a dog to have a calm boarding experience?
You don't
leave them on a leash,
um,
at the,
uh,
check-in desk of the,
of the boarding
where everyone else is.
Rest of the store,
including other pets who are not using the particular services,
they're just sort of walking around the pet store.
Uh,
that would also work,
um,
but no,
they wanted to say hello to,
to Fetter in the sort of the reception area of this,
this dog boarding place.
And,
uh,
it's one of the things,
uh,
Fetta struggles with is particularly there's like on leash greetings.
Um,
particularly in high stress environments,
like if you'd given him a room,
a private room to like calm down and say hello to the person,
he would have been absolutely fine.
If they'd said,
uh,
on the paperwork,
hey,
come by the day before for like a half hour meeting where like the people who'll
be looking after your dog will do like meet and greets or something like that,
I'd have been absolutely sure.
Um,
no,
um.
I assumed it was give the person the leash and walk away.
It was not one of those places,
um,
and the reason behind that is because I had chosen the regular price boarding,
not the private suite.
They have like a couple of options.
Turns out the regular boarding
is like stacked kennels,
uh,
they're,
they're nice,
but they're,
they're still stacked,
right?
It's a smaller dog.
And so to put the dog into the,
the,
the stacked kennels,
these complete strangers who had just met.
would have to pick up feather.
Now,
Feder doesn't like strangers.
He doesn't like being picked up
particularly.
He's OK with me doing it,
but that's because it's me,
picked up.
Um,
he doesn't like particularly like strangers,
and he certainly doesn't like being forced,
uh,
so
he would not stop barking,
which is like,
it was fear barking,
it was an aggressive bark.
There's a difference.
If you don't know the difference,
just go listen to some dogs,
you'll instantly know
if the dog is fear barking.
Or alert barking
and uh like just think about it when you listen
and so they're like,
well,
can we feed him treats?
I'm like absolutely.
And here's what I'm expecting,
yeah,
like half a bag of treats down,
he loves them.
If it's half a bag of treats,
it's half a bag of treats.
Absolutely love them after half a bag of treats.
Uh,
but no,
he just gets worse.
And then like
to,
uh,
like throw salt in the wound,
it's like,
hmm,
well maybe my colleague will do a better job and so suddenly.
It's like,
oh no,
no,
there's two strangers that are trying to introduce themselves to my scared dog.
Uh,
so the other stranger comes out and
like she doesn't do
anything
that like any dog trainer I've ever spoken to
has ever told me
about meeting a new dog.
She does it all wrong.
And uh
I think Feder like actually nipped her.
I say nip not bite cos like bite's got connotations for like,
you know,
future worlds consequences.
He like
closed his mouth around her finger,
realised it was her finger,
and then let go.
There was no mark,
there was no blood,
there was no injury,
it's just like,
oh whoops,
that was a hand.
Uh,
but at that point they were like,
uh sorry,
uh we will not be able to take your dog in,
in,
in pet boarding,
and I'm like,
OK.
So uh I um.
Yeah,
we can't take your dog because we're not really that well trained.
Um,
I was very clear to them,
I was like,
hey,
I get it,
you've got policies,
you've got training,
I'm it's not you guys,
I'm not angry at you guys.
You've just blown up my vacation,
so
I'm gonna go home,
have a nice day.
Like I wanted them to understand I wasn't about it.
Uh,
and so I went home
and I lay on the couch for like 5 minutes
and.
And
I was like,
hm,
what can I do?
I started googling around and it was like,
hmm,
well,
there are other commercial boarding opportunities,
let's take a look.
Uh they're all like,
I don't know,
like a 30 minute car drive away and I don't have a car.
Um,
and they have like,
hey,
we can refuse your dog too,
so it's like,
OK,
me without a car,
get 30 minutes across town
just for the same thing to happen,
hm,
not likely.
Uh,
so I'm like,
damn it,
I'm gonna have to just cancel the entire trip.
So I had bought
specifically cos I used Expedia for most of the booking.
Expedia's like,
do you want travel insurance?
And I've been stung so many times on travel and
travel insurance was like 20 bucks more and I'm like,
yeah,
sure.
So I uh put travel insurance on all of the,
all of the various things I'd booked.
uh and so I was like,
well,
at least I've got travel insurance.
So I uh
read through the entire policy front to back.
I even gave the policy to a.
LLM
shoot me in the face,
I know,
but like those policy documents was like 501 pages.
And I was like,
hey LLM,
what do you think?
Because it could read 50 pages in an instant.
Um,
I was on a clock here,
I remember,
my flight was due at 2
and it was like 10 at this time.
And it was like,
oh
yeah.
Travel insurance doesn't cover
a person or an individual,
an entity that is not the travelling entity,
um,
having issues,
right?
So I would have been able to get money back should Federer have been a service
animal and Feder been ill or or or or part of the trip being a problem,
that would have been fine,
but Federer wasn't part of the trip,
so it basically was just like
unforeseen circumstances other
not covered under the insurance and uh
the LM spat out.
Well,
you could ring them,
and I'm like hm,
so I could ring them and spend 2 hours on the phone for them to say no.
I even considered lying,
which by the way is insurance fraud,
so don't do it,
but I considered it.
Um,
when I was submitting the claim,
it was like select the reason for your claim and the options were like ridiculous,
it was like
illness,
and I'm like,
well um you could
like
you could argue
like that it's an illness.
Problem,
my mental health or whatever.
Uh,
so I click that and it's like
we need a doctor's note.
I'm like OK,
so
now to get money back,
I have to
lie to my doctor
and lie to the airline
and lie to the insurance company thus committing insurance fraud.
And I'm like nah.
Na,
nah,
I know that people do.
Shame on you,
that's insurance fraud.
But um I was just like nah.
So I just cancelled everything and there is some money coming back to me,
um,
but it's like,
I don't know,
it's like
300 bucks of the like $1000 I spent,
so I,
I lost like 700.
Um,
and we came home.
And I think I went to bed that day and I just kept going back to bed,
it was just like like I'd been hit by a truck,
cos like travel is stressful anyway,
but like all of that travel anxiety just had nowhere to go.
It was like you'd um
you know like opened a vacuum chamber
all at once with no pressure valve,
it was just like,
Uh,
what?
And I felt like that for the past couple of days.
It's,
it's clearing now,
but like,
Jesus Christ.
Like,
fuck,
basically.
Uh,
so I tell a few people and immediately they're all like,
well,
I would have watched them,
and it's like,
where do you live?
Oh,
I live in Finland.
I was like,
OK,
so
I would have to pay for your plane ticket for you to fly from
Finland
to the United States.
States
to stay at my house
and look after my dog.
That's gonna be more than if I sent him to one of
these like ranch locations where he's looked after like he's a,
a golden boy,
you know.
Um,
but I do appreciate all the offers.
There is a couple of offers there that I actually might
be able to use should I need to travel again,
so thank you for all of those.
Um,
and then
obviously the parents tried to do.
Sorry,
the parents tried to do their thing and you know,
offer solutions,
and I was like,
hey,
hey guys,
don't need solutions.
And now I just wanna lie on the couch with this dog because
I might as well like have fun with this dog seeing as they cancelled my vacation.
They're currently barking cos I'm not paying them attention.
Uh,
that's always
fun.
Oh,
I've got a cold coming in or something.
Um,
anyway,
the short answer of that particular story is now in,
uh,
the wiki.
Um,
and Fetta has been dubbed a destroyer of vacations.
So a bit like Game of Thrones where
when someone introduces them in a Game of Thrones event and they're just like,
I am the hand of the king,
I am a blah blah blah,
I am lord of the seven kingdoms,
it's like,
well.
Federer,
you are destroyer of vaca and here is Feder when Federer's in
destroyer of vacations mode.
And with that story over,
which sucks so fucking goddamn much,
a little terror.
I look at Federer right now and it's like,
I'm never gonna be like angry at him.
Angry at him,
but I am a little bit.
It's an acute.
Hi Feder,
I'm very angry at you.
Let me pet you.
Uh,
Nick,
uh,
Nicky says,
next time we might handle this further in advance.
Uh,
yeah,
I,
uh,
I did handle it further in advance.
At no point did the pet boarding place suggest,
let's have a meet and greet.
But now I know I need to look for boarding places that have meet and greets
and do meet and greets,
and I probably also need to up the training.
However,
I hit a wall in Feather's training,
and I.
Believe it's because we live in an apartment.
Just imagine you've got like supersonic hearing.
You can see via that photo how big Feter's ears are.
And so you can hear
not only the neighbours above and below you,
but the neighbours to the left to the right,
probably like,
you know,
forward,
backwards,
he can hear.
So I'm moving soon.
I'll be moving to a
uh uh a house of some kind,
resume Fetter's training when there aren't scary people moving in the wall.
uh so with that over,
uh I'll go over to actual questions.
Uh,
so Freak says if cheese was a country,
which country would it be?
Probably like Switzerland or something,
you know,
Swiss cheese.
Uh,
Zog says,
would you prefer a Nintendo Switch or Xbox?
I have Xbox actually.
I have,
um,
an Xbox 360
and an Xbox One S developer kit.
Uh,
they are not plugged in,
they're on my bookshelf.
Josh says,
what's the dog doing?
We've just talked for 20 minutes about this little dog,
so we'll,
we'll skip that one.
Stealing this from Tom Scott video,
if you were cheese,
what cheese would you be?
There's this really gross.
Cheese that no one eats because it looks really,
really gross,
I forget its name,
but it looks really,
really,
really gross.
So I'd be that cheese cos that would,
that would be like
the ability to,
um,
exist and not to make it,
no,
don't like,
um,
no,
don't link.
Uh,
Papati says,
will we be doing a cheese hereli?
No,
that is enough cheese to wear.
Hecker,
now that Neos is no more,
will there still be issues of mentioning on the wiki,
at least one creature wants to make a postmortem info.
Page about it,
whereas until now
even the name seems to be lost.
I would still prefer you don't.
I think I did remove the um
like the word philtre,
like it used to be that you couldn't make a page if it contained the word Neo.
I think I like relaxed that a little bit cos it was getting some false positives.
But like
there is the Neos Preservation Project,
you could probably link to that from a wiki page
um the link to it as
Neo's Preservation Project,
not like Neo or whatever.
Alright,
I think we're out of questions.
Do we have one?
Oh,
someone asked for a Techtree update,
we can do that.
We'll do that in a minute.
Uh,
Revi
Revi says,
you wouldn't happen to know what the Neos website turned into by chance?
I know exactly what they're trying to do now.
I don't really wanna talk about it so you can see the,
the Neo's thread where I,
I periodically,
I'll,
I'll analyse it a little bit.
Um,
but my favourite interpretation.
Was the deer dimension,
so a while ago
if you went to Neos.com,
it would just randomly like give you this sort of like semi um
semi-transparently covered,
so it kind of looked like airy and sort of like white
cos it was semily uh it was it was covered in like a
semi-transparent
white background,
so it was like everything looked sort of like heaven.
Um,
there's pictures of deers and someone was like,
I don't know why,
but I went to Neos.com and I got sent to the deer dimension.
And that's just like the way I've internalise that website now,
it's like,
yeah,
Neos.com is the dear dimension.
Goldie says,
why don't um
HDP Protofox know and support
headers?
Um,
that would require collections.
Um,
so what I'm gonna do
is,
uh,
I'm,
I'm loading,
I'm on the wiki right now.
I won't show you this cos I'll have to set a screen share,
but
I'm on the wiki right now and I'm opening
up web developer tools and I'm going to network.
And I'm just gonna refresh the page
and I'm gonna find the actual web
request to the wiki
that
um
represents loading the actual page.
And then I'm gonna screenshot the headers that
er
came back from
er the,
actually we'll just do both,
I just wanna double check for
tokens.
Yeah OK,
I see a token.
Alright,
so I'll blur that.
I'll blur like other stuff that you censored.
The rest is like user agent.
Yeah,
that's probably,
I just,
um,
but
you can see there
that those are all the headers that,
um,
my browser
and the Wiki mate to,
um,
try and sort of negotiate
loading that wiki page.
And you'll notice that there are N,
as in there are more than one and the,
the number is dynamic,
so that's called N.
So when you need n things in a web request,
that's a collection of things.
So that's why the HTP nodes do not have headers.
You would need,
uh,
collections for that.
Now,
uh,
the common response that we do get to that when someone says like,
oh why not like CSV or something,
and it's like,
no thank you,
no thank you.
We don't want to create a,
like a,
a DSL named for uh.
Name of that is domain specific language
for specifying web headers in a string
when the end goal is collections and you'll be able to do it correctly anyway.
I have had like
some people say
like why not the um
the multinode setup,
and that's the one where like you spawn a plus node
and you can keep on adding inputs
um
and then yeah,
that's exactly what Hecko's saying,
um.
And then Hecker's like,
yeah,
string passing
collect collections,
man,
collections.
Like every single way you handle it,
it ends up being collections.
It's like,
what about a node that takes multiple inputs of strings
and makes them into like the hedges and like,
you mean a collection of strings?
It's like,
no.
It's like,
oh,
what about,
uh,
a comma separated list or you mean a collection?
Oh look,
Frixie is typing,
we'll get.
Get some cool stuff.
Uh,
Bretta says,
wait,
it's all collections,
yeah,
pretty much.
Rover says,
can I make a collection that contains itself?
You probably should be able to.
Uh,
Frog says it's essentially,
oh,
you don't need to wait for collections,
just use worse collections instead of implementing collections.
In some cases it's like,
oh yeah,
you don't need collections for that,
just implement collections because like they're all,
they're all talking about the same thing.
So it,
it's,
it's fun.
Like we get it,
but um
think about it like uh.
You know,
like a big hole,
every single time we do like a,
a worse collections or like a,
a hack,
or like a,
a,
you know,
a workaround or like an adjustment
or we cave to some sort of like request,
we're digging a little hole
and we're putting poop in that hole,
and at some point,
we,
not you,
we
have to go in that,
that hole
with our little boots on
and we have to dig the poop out
and.
Occasionally there'll be a case where people have
got used to that hole containing poop,
and they don't want it removed.
They're like,
no,
when I hold my space bar down,
it warms up my room.
I need that feature,
you can't remove it.
At which point we're standing next to a hole full of poo
and we can't clean it.
Then we suffocate or die,
or the.
Um,
resonite
slowly turns into
sewers,
and then like,
it doesn't feel good to use resonite anymore cos you're,
you're knee-deep in poo
everywhere you walk.
Wanna build a model,
poop.
Wanna build a house,
poop.
Wanna build a gun,
poop.
Wanna import in an avatar,
poop.
This is gonna be quoted somewhere,
isn't it?
Anyway,
moving forward.
Uh,
it has the potential.
There are edge cases and I do,
I do,
I do understand the frustration
when you don't realise that something is poop
and you ask us for it.
Like,
I,
I get it,
I understand.
There are in in some cases where we can sort of work around it
and that's one of the reasons why we ask in your GitHub issues that you be um
like
as
problem focused as possible,
not solution focused,
because the problem
that you have,
HDP headers for Protoflux
could be solved by another.
Way,
um,
or has multiple ways of solving it,
but if you make a GitHub request that asks for
the poop node,
then we're kind of stuck,
right?
You're like,
I want the poop node,
and I'm like,
no,
there's tonnes of ways to solve it.
Like something that we could do,
for example,
is,
um,
let's say you wanted
all of the web requests for a particular session to have a header.
That's something we could maybe set up in the session configuration.
I don't know why you'd want that,
but that would be like,
you know,
maybe some sort of
Jason configuration.
The world in the headless or something like that.
That,
that might be an option,
but like we,
I wouldn't know why you would need that,
but I'm just like thinking out loud that's something we could do.
We could say like oh all
all Rores in the session need this header,
yeah,
sure,
that that's something we could do.
And we like kind of do that already with the
um the like allow list that we've got for domains.
If you look at the update notes,
Freaks recently added wiki.resonate.com to that allow list,
right?
That's sort of like a one of those sort of like roundabout ways
of Nicky says good way to optimise a bunch of slot duplication.
That are supposed to happen in one frame.
Um,
there's no way to optimise that
if you need them all to happen in one frame
because
that means you need to do basically like a,
a bunch of data model edits
of what slot duplications are
quite intensive data model edits,
um,
in one frame.
There's,
there's like the only way to
make that better
would be to split it across multiple
thingama bobbies,
so that you could batch it across multiple thema bobbies.
Uh,
but if you still want one frame,
then one frame is one frame.
You probably mean.
One update as well,
not one.
Revi's asking where the thread is.
I'll endeavour to find you the dear dimension thread.
I found it.
I will provide you a link to the dear dimension.
Uh,
Gran says,
you mentioned a thread that I posted about a custom component that I made,
uh,
that you wanted to make yourself.
Are there any other components you'd want to make yourself?
Also,
do you want the code of the one you said,
uh,
that you wanted to make?
Um,
yeah,
go ahead,
release that as the MIT licence.
I probably won't copy it word for word,
but like,
hey,
it's your code,
so release it under what licence you'd like.
Um,
I'd be able to rewrite it without looking at your code.
If your code's MIT licenced,
I'll be able to look at it,
if it's any other weird licence,
I probably just look at it.
um,
but yeah,
it was really good.
As for the,
are there any other components you'd like to make?
So
you know that we have the GitHub where we ask all feature requests to be made.
Well,
I'll let you into a little secret.
We have
another list
that Prime owns called Prime List,
and Prime List is private and won't be shared because
it's stuff that Prime writes down during conversation with other people
and it's less like.
Uh,
go make this happen or go implement this.
It's like,
double check that there's a GitHub issue for that.
Prime,
do research into that to make sure it doesn't need a GitHub issue.
Prime,
this is an idea you had whilst you're on
the toilet at 3:00 a.m. staring at the ceiling.
Maybe one day it might be something good to put into resume.
And so the list is like really a name.
Um,
one of the items on there,
um,
is called stuck piss lasers.
Uh,
I know exactly what that means,
but before I work on that,
I would need.
To
coalesce my thoughts into something
larger and more complex than stuck piss lasers,
but
I internally know what stuck piss lasers mean.
If you can fix stuck piss lasers
with just
that,
those three words,
go right ahead,
but I guarantee you can't.
This is where raid's typing,
I bet you raid knows about the piss laser.
User by the name of socks,
SOX is the,
uh,
um,
they,
they coined the term piss laser.
They are
the reason why stuck.
Piss lasers is on this.
Uh,
so Grand replies with,
Is this where your laser gets stuck
when you're small
or in a collider?
I'm like,
No,
that's stuck lasers.
For stuck piss lasers to occur,
they must be yellow and stuck.
Grant says,
What even makes a laser piss yellow?
Do you wanna know the best thing?
I have
muscle memory
on my controllers
that will allow me to make my lasers piss,
but
I can't explain it to you.
And that's,
that's why it's on that list and it's not a getup issue.
Stuck piss lasers means,
OK,
go back into resonite,
remember how to turn on the piss lasers,
remember how to get them stuck,
and
then write a GitHub issue about it and then fix it.
And that's why it's not on the GitHub,
and that's why it's a private list.
I'm gonna go ahead and open the private list and
I'm gonna give you a couple of other items,
and you'll,
you'll see why.
It just,
it doesn't make any sense,
but it makes sense to me.
There's one here that says,
uh,
why release all grab no user?
I'll have to think about that one for a bit.
One here that just says glyph EMC.
Size 64,
I think I actually did that one.
I,
I wouldn't be able to find the item,
actually,
uh,
yeah,
here we go again.
Why release or grab no user?
Another one here says
why time to complete not sane for smooth and constant.
One here says,
uh,
wrecked be transform.
That's what it says,
wrecked B transform.
It's wrecked transform with a B in the middle.
Oh,
here's a lovely another one.
No text colour for text shit.
Uh,
Goldie Runi says,
how is life in the business obelisk?
Uh,
so our main business client.
Um,
they're all on vacation for Easter,
which apparently lasts a lot longer than like Easter should,
so
they've been away for quite a while and they're coming back.
When they do come back,
we have a firewall issue,
um,
and,
uh,
so they need to resolve that.
So business obelisk is on hold right now,
uh,
hence the vacation,
but
hence the cancelled vacation,
so like,
uh,
eh,
I might do some like a couple of fun things.
This week just to kind of get back into the flow of things.
Um,
I don't know,
I haven't really decided.
There are a couple more security updates I need to do,
like I,
um,
I updated Nextcloud,
I updated Gravana,
I added like 365 days to the metrics.
I did like a bunch of like non-resonite work just to keep the,
uh,
Ny says,
uh,
met a couple of users,
came over from Recrum,
uh,
any thoughts on the Recrum situation?
It's really like
annoying cos it seem,
it seems like VR is dying,
right?
Horizons is shutting down,
Recrum is shutting down,
Altspace shut down,
um,
etc.
But like it's almost like every single time one of those shuts down,
VR chat and us get more powerful.
It's like,
it's like the death vote or whatever,
it's like ah
we get more powerful.
Now of course it's sadder
and it um and it's problematic right,
cos it it represents.
Present a sort of general unhealth of VR in the industry.
Um,
but if they wanna come try us out,
great.
If they don't wanna come try us out,
also great.
One of the things that I would ask for any
users who are dealing with people who are coming in,
stealing with sounds
problematic,
but you know,
one of the,
the things I,
I would like you to keep in mind when
interacting with users that come from other platforms is
please don't overwhelm them
and please for the love of God.
Don't make your entire conversation about
the differences between the two platforms.
Remember your first day in VR chat?
Did you like open an inspector or open Unity?
No,
you probably ran around as a Digimon making crazy noises or
going up to random people and asking for them to show you the way.
Do that.
Don't make someone else's first resonant experience
opening up an inspector and unpacking Protoflux into them.
That'll scare them off.
Like,
engage.
Of them,
like have a conversation,
talk about cheese,
ask them what their favourite tractor is.
That's the conversation that will keep them in resinite long enough to
then appreciate the ability to open an inspector and then in time,
in their own time,
they'll be able to open an inspector and start having.
But yeah,
we have uh like
uh resinite community saying hello to new people
can sometimes feel like
smothering them with a blanket,
or is it.
Should feel like
um
a handshake
and then like an awesome experience.
Also,
do keep in mind that not all users want to do development as well.
Um,
as Ressonet grows,
we're going to have to have larger and larger sort of um cohorts of users
who just they just wanna play,
right?
They just wanna play.
So we need more and more events,
more and more sessions,
more and more people
who
do not
just immediately go like.
Boom inspector,
boom,
Protoflux,
boom tour.
Uh,
do you know why Recrum had like 200 employees?
I,
I don't know their like leadership structure at all.
I don't know what type of company they are or anything.
Uh,
Compuser says that there are people who
joined specifically because of inspectors in Protoflux.
Yes,
there are.
There are lots of people that do that,
but do keep in mind that not everyone is doing that.
So just like.
Read the room or whatever and and and like figure out what's
uh Nikki says it wasn't just uh going bananas with VC money.
Like I said,
I don't know what type of company Recrum is.
Um,
I don't know who owns them.
It's the company called Recrum,
um,
so I don't know their,
their corporate structure or anything like that.
I'm gonna have to dash.
I will get the tech tree updated in the wiki after though.
Uh,
feel free to talk amongst yourselves,
but I'm gonna head off and do some stuff,
as we ran over.