Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@keeri Thank you!

Anyway, sharing this mostly for introverts having trouble sharing this and extroverted folks who care a ton and fail to understand why their introverted friend is sad and avoiding attention on their birthday.

Proper care and feeding of your introvert is important, and what may have no cost and be easy for you may be different. Doing your best to take the load off and live their experience is so, so valuable. 💜

This message brought to you by loving and caring family who pulled me into a Zoom call to wish me happy birthday, used two phone calls with me to bargain for schedule, then tried to drag me to a big birthday dinner with lots of people.

No, please, I beg of you, I just want a day to chill and vibe with my friends and without my specific anxiety of coordinating with large groups of people.

Today's my hatchday. It's on the balance been positive, but I kind of want to package a specific anxiety from it that family (no one here) have flared up unintentionally, in case it helps other introverted folks like me struggle to communciate this to well-meaning people they love.

I like the attention, I love the well wishes, and I love being recognized on my special day, but please don't make social obligations for me that I am expected to meet. I just want to relax and vibe.

@Dex (Even if it seems kind of insubstantial in hindsight or after suspension of disbelief wears off: being the small friend in VR, having paws and a tail in VR, and the general euphoria of being the shape and size you want to be is very very very very good.)

@Soreth @Doephin @anthracite
1. How dare you for the original pun.
2. Good, re, bitings
3. Looking in on this completely by accident this evening has greatly improved my evening. Thank you.
4. Your pun license is still revoked.

@Kyreeth @cstross Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You used dalle-mini to escape justice for killing my father. Prepare to die.

@cstross The story of Inigo Montoya somehow makes too much sense now.

@Dex Yeah, that makes sense!

@Dex (Which will likely be installing VRCFury and GoGo Loco into your project space, which are btw surprisingly simple and mostly drag-and-drop. They're great.

But because we no longer have mod support, requires you to manually toggle OSC or recalibrate to force an avatar scale update manually. It's not 100% smooth until they support it natively, but doable as an effect with some manual controller clicky.)