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@sylantroh.bsky.social

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A silly person who has done mathematics all her life, and recently discovered she enjoys roleplay. pfp: @xaubun.bsky.social

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Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 4h

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

I didn’t actually know that people other than myself use this world. I’m kinda motivated to fix it up now as there are a few things that are broken/annoying if I remember correctly.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks for this. Bakery is the #1 thing I really the absence of since I switched to Linux. Glad to know that this is possible with the built in baking.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 12d

For anyone reading this who is not a bot, this bill will ban all funding for ALL healthcare (yes, even if you're not trans) if a hospital provides any healthcare to a trans person (yes, even if they pay for it out of pocket). Have fun paying $1000+ for your yearly checkup instead of the $25 copay.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 16d

toast ghost

A 3d render of a bedsheet ghost riding a blue bicycle on the road. The ghost is late for school, and so, has a piece of toast with jam in its mouth.

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Raliv @raliv.bsky.social · 25d

@naelstrof.bsky.social and I have our first stable version of our new multithreaded version of Jiggle Physics for Unity!

I am excited to be able to offer this free and open source under the MIT license. If you use it to make something cool I'd love to see!

#unity3d #indiedev #gamedev #opensource

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 25d

I've been using Wayland only with NVIDIA and there are some definite pain points, but everything (except VR) works nicely. And VR works too, just not nicely.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 25d

The major limitation with the VRChat SDK is that it doesn't support build + test (offline testing), though personally this didn't impact me much as I already usually would upload test versions of my worlds.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 25d

I use the Linux Unity client with ALCOM for VRChat world dev.
I've heard that AMD gpus generally play nicer with linux, but I only have an NVIDIA gpu so I can't confirm myself.
As for Bakery, it's Windows + NVIDIA only, and I haven't found any examples of anyone getting it to work otherwise.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 25d

And finally, for VRChat, make sure to use an up to date version of GE-Proton otherwise video players will likely not work.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 25d

It's a shame because most everything else (including non-VR video games) work flawlessly and/or have fantastic alternatives that are just better.

Speaking of which, Unity works just fine natively, but the one thing I miss more than anything else is the Bakery plugin, as that does not work.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · 25d

Having made the switch earlier this year, VR kinda sucks sadly but is still usable. I recommend checking out Linux VR Adventures for help, but in my experience, Envision/ALVR gets you most of the way there out of the box (for wired/wireless respectively).

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · Sep 1

In my estimation, a lot of the people who have problems with Bluesky are so used to platforms just serving up the content buffet that they're unwilling to do the work to have a good experience here.

That work is the social part of social media.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is really important for safety too. Someone not being willing to put even a small amount of extra effort into their relationships is a major red flag that they may be malicious. And even if it's not malice, I'd rather surround myself with people who do care enough to put in that extra effort.

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KeybladeSpirit (Involuntarily Unemployed) @keybladespirit.bsky.social · Aug 29

I've been thinking a lot about Machine Love by @jamies.page and I think this is what basically I've gotten out of out.

Venn Diagram: Left circle is labelled "Software That Could Concievably Fall in Love." Right circle is labelled "Software That Absolutely Cannot Fall in Love." Intersection is labelled "Software That Could Maybe Fall In Love But Don't Get Your Hopes Up Okay?"

Left circle contains Kasane Teto, Clippy, old MS Paint, the Linux mascot Tux, Cleverbot, Classic Mac OS, MS-DOS, and old Microsoft Word.

Right circle contains new Microsoft Word, ChatGPT, Copilot, Microsoft Office 365, and modern MS Paint.

Intersection contains Windows Vista.

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Strange Petals @strangepetals.com · Aug 15

Please go purchase OFF on steam, i have made a VRChat Batter avatar some months ago in excitement for the re-release!

Please go enjoy OFF and it's wonderful inspirations

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Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yeah. The cause is something I'm doing to save FPS, but it not appearing in the VRChat camera is a result of this bug: feedback.vrchat.com/sdk-bug-repo...

[SDK 3.8.0] Player Camera Fails to Render DrawMeshInstanced Objects | SDK Bug & Feature Requests | VRChat

In the public world 'a-lin', photos taken using the player camera fail to display vegetation, trees, terrain, and similar environmental objects.

feedback.vrchat.com

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · Aug 14

That's actually strange and might be a bug. Was it in game, or in a photo that it didn't render?

If it's in a photo taken with VRChat's camera, that's a bug on their end that I can't really do anything about. Otherwise, it's probably a bug on my end that I'm not aware of.

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Basis @basisvr.org · Aug 10

In a few hours, we have our big load test to break our previous record of 293, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone. still room to join in on the fun! discord.gg/v6ve6WT562

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · Jul 17

In line with the frequency illusion, I've started seeing more interactive and non-competitive worlds in VRChat (though of course they were there all along).

I've really enjoyed "Write a Letter" by Elliot112. Lots of love and also pain engraved into that world.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · Jul 12

As of right now, there's two things, one of which is in a slightly more obvious location than the other.

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · Jul 12

Woo! I'm glad :)

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · Jul 11

There are no indicated sound effects in this comic, so the sounds are up to your imagination.

Panel 1: Hatsune Miku, Akita Neru, and Kasane Teto are on stage performing their song Triple Baka, with Miku pointing forward towards the crowd, Neru tapping on her phone, and Teto singing contently. Teal, yellow, and red lights shine into the sky behind them.

Panel 2: The crowd is going wild, many hands with glowsticks in the. A few people are wearing Miku and Teto t-shirts. The Neru cosplayer girl from the previous comic is on her dad's shoulders to get a better view of the concert.

Panel 3: The exterior of the amphitheater-esque concert venue. It's by a grassy park on one side and a body of water on the other. A few lit windows of the city they're in can be seen in the background. There's a sign on the wall of the venue that says "SHOW!!" with a long blue triangle and a short red triangle on it. A blue, yellow, and red spotlight shine out of the venue into the night sky, which is opalescent and littered with different shaped stars and galaxies.

Panel 4: We pan farther up into that colorful night sky and words appear, reading: Your effect on the world matters no matter who remembers it and how

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · Jul 11

I am sooooo invested in this story

Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · Jul 7

Panel 1: Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto are on stage at a concert venue, in front of cheering fans with teal and red glowsticks. Behind them is a screen large screen displaying a cloudy pink background.
Miku: "We will now be performing TRIPLE BAKA!"

Panel 2: One person in the crowd points at the stage and blurts out "WAIT! Wasn't there a yellow one in this song??" as others around him either look at him or look forward in silence. The Sanrio Boy and Junji Ito Girl from some of my other comics are there.

Panel 3: The crowd begins to chant: "YEL-LOW-ONE!! YEL-LOW-ONE!! YEL-LOW-ONE!!"

Panel 4: Miku looks over at Teto, unsure of what to do. Teto only returns her gaze, equally uncertain, as the chant continues in the background.

Panel 5: Miku is projecting her phone onto the screen large screen at the back of the stage, for everyone to see, and is now video calling her friend Akita Neru, the yellow-haired girl who was the third one in Triple Baka.

Panel 6: Neru picks up the video call, revealing that she's actually in the crowd at the concert, wearing a glowstick halo and holding another glowstick. A guy next to her is pogging, having realized it's her. The crowd explodes in a "RAAAAAAAAAAA"

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · Jul 8

As far as I can tell, this is a bug with how I'm rendering the tower for performance reasons: feedback.vrchat.com/sdk-bug-repo...

The issue is already tracked, so we can only hope that VRChat gets around to fixing it eventually.

[SDK 3.8.0] Player Camera Fails to Render DrawMeshInstanced Objects | SDK Bug & Feature Requests | VRChat

In the public world 'a-lin', photos taken using the player camera fail to display vegetation, trees, terrain, and similar environmental objects.

feedback.vrchat.com

Sylan @sylantroh.bsky.social · Jul 7

The world is simply called "Monument" :)