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PS: weighted companion cube Prompto is literally the best thing, and I did not know how badly I needed it in my life.

Finally sitting down to replay the game. I'd had a large stack of mods I downloaded over the years, and I forgot I left them enabled during the opening cutscenes.

Apparently Lunafreya is being supported by Power Rangers Red and Blue. Prompto is now a highly animate weighted companion cube. And all of the cars are full of sapient cactuars.

Everyone continued to act as if the situation was deadly serious.

... I couldn't stop laughing for a good 5 minutes.

@keliff Similar thing happened to me during my senior project in college. 100% of grade for the course. My two other group members were ready to graduate, so they just ignored the project entirely and forced me to solo it.

Prof was cool and let me set the grade for the other students. I gave them a C- apiece so they'd still graduate, but with a fucked GPA for resumes.

It's pretty wild, but if your teacher is cool, maybe they'll let you give similar feedback?

A friend wanted help farming Safi'jiiva from World while we wait for Rise to release more quests. This was one of my ending snapshots.

... relatedly, being able to play the game on high detail is pretty great now. 👀 💦

Been helping immediate family get their vaccine appointments, and just got my first (Pfizer) jab today, so I can vouch for the process.

While the floodgates open on April 15th here in WA, for folks that are having trouble getting vax that are eligible already, here are two resources that worked for us:

1. Kaiser Permanente Vaccination Hotline: 1-877-832-9915. Phone lines open at 7AM for vax bookings, though their information line is open all day.

We were able to book after a 25 minute wait and _ignoring_ the phone tree crashing once and telling us to call back later.

2. https://vaccinefinder.org/, which is a directory service for local vaccinations. My roommate's mother and father-in-law were able to schedule using it after most other resources dried up, 404ed, or crashed on them.

Other options should be opening up soon, but posting these just in case folks find them useful.

@Felthry Whenever you create a new item (read: a new primitive), it's the default object you would spawn in SL. A lot of folks became... a bit attached to it accordingly.

@Taylor A cubesona, if you will

Fun fact: every one of my pseudonymous identities since ~2004 has used some rendition of the default Second Life cube. I wonder if anyone noticed.

Default cubes in VRChat: a guide

cursed: default Unity cube
deeply cursed: default Blender cube
eldritch horror:

@qdot It al̵̛̬̏̍̉́̀͂̕͝l̷͖̈̏̏͛̌̃͗͝͝ s̸̭̤̳̎̇̇̃̈͊͌͝t̸̛̜͈̼̄͂͛̽̓̑̕ą̸̤́͋͝ŗ̴̨̰̳̪͒̈́t̷͉̉̀́͋͊͑̿̾ş̸̻̺͖̩̟̗̀̂̈́̎̾̓͜͠ ̵̤͓̑͂̀ẃ̷̻͖̆͛̀͐̍͑͐̌į̸̨͉̗̖͍̖̒́̋̿̚t̷̤͉͖̖́͋̽͛̀h̷̛̦̺̥͙̑ ̶͈͍̼̺̗̱̐͆̅̋͗̑̚͝a̶̡̢̫̖̘̦̰̞͠ ̵̨̹͓̞̱͇̙̏̔͑̇͂͂c̴̝̜̽̉̾̍̒̽͌͜͝ͅu̶̢͕͔͕͇̖͊̊̀̒̾̿̀́̕͜b̵̢͔͔̍̏̈̉̒̇͋̽͒ͅĕ̴̳͑̀̈́̽ͅ

@Felthry I should have said "typically" and "in certain media" to clarify, and to specify the exact script of kanji, since yes they differ widely.

All I was trying to say is that the cultural assumption of "left than right" can influence design, and in certain cases gets culturally inverted, messing with design elements in games.

@Felthry Which is all to say: it's probably weird because the popular speedrun categories skip steps intended for normal play.