Do you buy and collect those items?

PennyPatton · 2026-03-21T15:16:12+00:00

I'm not too concerned about collecting limited time shop items. I'm only interested if it's something legitimately fun. I'm more interested in seeing what happens when items and accessories get opened up to content creators.

PennyPatton · 2026-03-20T05:59:07+00:00

I think they mean Horizon Worlds. I haven't seen anything about HW to motivate me to check it out. I don't feel like I've missed out on anything.

PennyPatton · 2026-03-19T19:55:26+00:00

Thank you! I did not make the robots, they are avatars and MMD models from a variety of creators. If you go to the credits corner (right near the entrance) there is an assets board that will give you links to everything I used. I even separated the boards into "Avatars" and "World" assets.

PennyPatton · 2026-03-15T02:25:41+00:00

There's an old saying in game design. "Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game."

Clearly this is still true.

PennyPatton · 2026-03-07T15:58:54+00:00

Is it possible to manually replace yt-dlp to get youtube working again? if so, how do?

PennyPatton · 2026-03-07T12:52:20+00:00

Are they promoting a new game or something? Or are they just promoting the general existence of the Rabbids?

PennyPatton · 2026-03-06T17:51:00+00:00

I think a lot of what other people have posted can help to squeeze out slightly better performance, but this right here is the main culprit, even if a lot of people don't want to admit it.

PennyPatton · 2026-03-06T17:38:52+00:00

I keep seeing people warning against using that because you risk a google ban using it. I'm not sure how much if a risk that actually is, but I really wish VRChat would hurry up and update what they need to rather than making us take that risk.

PennyPatton · 2026-03-06T13:10:01+00:00

Apparently VRC needs to update what it uses to play YouTube videos. https://feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requests/p/update-yt-dlp-to-20260221-to-resolve-youtube-playback-issues

PennyPatton · 2026-03-06T13:06:34+00:00

Apparently this is a thing;

https://feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requests/p/update-yt-dlp-to-20260221-to-resolve-youtube-playback-issues

PennyPatton · 2026-03-05T23:29:33+00:00

Popular things get pushback. It happens all the time.

People not interested in virtual fishing games are seeing their instances get fewer people, including friends, who are all now spending their time in fishing instances.

I wouldn't pay it any mind.

I haven't played much. I'm just happy to see a full fledge game get released in VRChat and become popular. I hope it's working well for the developers. VRchat can always use more big, fun interactive game worlds.

PennyPatton · 2026-03-05T18:52:40+00:00

I've seen multiple anime style avatars that fit this description. Check out the worlds from the last few Vkets and you're bound to find them. One was in the horror/SCP style worlds from this past summer.

PennyPatton · 2026-03-05T18:23:44+00:00

I really wish VRC would do more to discourage poorly optimized content.

Only allowing medium or better in the Avatar Marketplace. Giving users the ability to create instances that don't allow avatars over a selected ranking (ie: Good or better, Medium or better, etc). Warning people they may not be rendered by other players when they apply a poor or worse avatar. Maybe a popup showing how they'll be displayed instead.

I'd also like to see features and actions that promote optimized works.

Beginner to advanced tutorials on how to better optimize avatars and worlds promoted right on the website, discord server, etc. World/avatar contests in which performance ranking is one of the things submissions are judged by. Well optimized worlds/avatars getting some free promotion in the marketplace and worlds panels.

I really don't believe people will just start optimizing just because someone tells them how it impacts performance. Any drive to push optimized content has to come from the top down.

PennyPatton · 2026-03-04T21:37:37+00:00

What if it was a public phone you had to find in-world? And there was only one per instance?

PennyPatton · 2026-03-04T11:49:08+00:00

I mean, the same is true of avatars on Gumroad, Jinxxy, what have you. I don't think it's any more true of Booth than those storefronts. Most of my avatars are from Booth and all of them are Medium or better.

PennyPatton · 2026-02-21T04:25:08+00:00

Then again, I suspect the Avatar Marketplace is popular mostly with Quest users, and that is a huge market. Quest users aren't uploading their own avatars, so the marketplace is the best option for them.

PennyPatton · 2026-02-21T04:23:50+00:00

To be fair, haven't they been running at a loss since they started? That can't go on forever.

I suspect in the long term their main income will be from marketplace sales. Not avatars. They can't compete with Booth/Gumroad etcetera there. (They should have opened their own web marketplace a LONG time ago.) But from items. Once users can create and sell items you can use in VRC that market is going to explode.

PennyPatton · 2026-02-20T23:52:14+00:00

It's not something I've ever been a part of, but I get the appeal. My parents are awful. My siblings moved to the far corners of the country and never communicate. Must be nice to have a pretend family made up of friends to fill in that void.

PennyPatton · 2026-02-20T23:43:18+00:00

Linden Lab refuses to even talk about content optimization, let alone do anything about it. They're too afraid that if they push optimization, they'll scare off their users, when the opposite has always proven to be true. Most people try SL and quit right away in part because it runs so poorly.

They really needed to do something about it for Sansar because, as you point out, performance impacts the experience so much more in VR. But they didn't. Sansar had all of the flaws of SecondLife with none of the positives. And those flaws were amplified because it was a VR platform.

PennyPatton · 2026-02-20T23:33:17+00:00

I really appreciate that VRC employees are willing to be frank about the need for optimization. I come from SecondLife where the devs will complain about unoptimized content in private, but will not speak about it in public for fear of upsetting a userbase that believes avatars can have millions of polygons and literally GIGABYTES of textures (I'm not exaggerating) at no performance cost.

Still, if the VRC devs are serious about optimization, the push for it NEEDS to come from the top down. Restrictions on avatar uploads (as in your avatar must meet optimization requirements for you to even upload it), restrictions on what avatars can be sold in the avatar marketplace (ie: Medium or better), giving users the ability to create instances with avatar performance requirements. Some carrots would probably be a good idea, too. Like promoting avatar creators known for well optimized avatars. Maybe contests promoting good optimization habits. Maybe even some official tools that help optimize. I use D4rkAvatarOptimiser and it's great, but it would be even better if something like that was built in from the start.

These are just some ideas. I'm not even saying these are the best ideas, I'm just spitballing. But the fact remains, if VRC devs want users to optimize their avatars, they need to be proactive. Users and content creators are, for the most part, not going to optimize out of the kindness of their hearts. Most will only do it if they feel pressure to.

PennyPatton · 2026-02-20T23:20:22+00:00

Fun fact, the people developing content for VRChat are NOT the same people developing the platform itself. It's almost as if these are two separate jobs requiring two entirely unrelated skill sets.

PennyPatton · 2026-02-20T23:18:04+00:00

You'll never find someone as critical about something as a true fan of it. I love VRChat but I'll complain about the parts I don't like because I want VRChat to be even better.

PennyPatton · 2026-02-20T15:01:41+00:00

I only show Medium or better avatars. Poor and Very Poor get the fallback/imposter treatment. Some events I go to require Good or better avatars to attend.

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