AprilPvd shares her retirement experience. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you manage life in retirement. Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu
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VR should be bigger than it is
I feel like I live in an alternate reality where I get to experience and enjoy things that are not the norm but OK so now we’re gonna finish watching they are is a major part of my life. I want to start expressing it more on this podcast because I think it’s something that people just do not understand. So join me as I talk about my many virtual reality experiences.
I hear people talking about their headsets whether it’s quest or valve and in some cases the Apple Vision Pro just sitting on a shelf gathering dust. I use my headset anywhere from 2 to 8 hours a day.
No Man’s Sky
Wednesday
CHAMPIONS DEFEATED
42/60 WINS
HOLO ARENA VICTORIES
194/220 WINS
ITERATION: OCEANUS
23/30 WINS
Thursday
Grand Nagus pose the question about what would happen if I took a new character off of the planet in my Corvette so I spent the day experimenting with that. it was interesting because I tried a bunch of things like at one point I just bought a newly created character straight from her planet to the anomaly and she got out at the anomaly and then because she was on flatscreen and the character that picked her up was in VR I decided I wanted to swap them out because I really am more comfortable doing things on VR. But when I logged back in to the new one on the anomaly, she was floating in space but she could summon her spaceship which was funny cause you know she didn’t go through any of the things to fix it, but it was still working and it wanted her to continue with the quest, but she was not able to call the anomaly. So then I decided to try the opposite, which would be to have a new save on the VR and then have the flat screen pick her up in the Corvette and take her to the anomaly which started out fine but when I switched back to the VR while the flatscreen was landing in the anomaly, the VR character moved a little bit and she was all of a sudden in space so after trying a couple of times I’m not moving, but it was interesting because the Corvette was there for the VR character she looked at her window. She was in space, but when I looked at the flatscreen, she was in the anomaly so I had the flatscreen character leave the anomaly come back into the anomaly without moving the VR character. Then the VR character was able to get out of the Corvette in the anomaly. I gave her some suspicious packets and she was able to sell some a space station, but not at the anomaly and get the living wrath ship.
Friday
I was having so much fun in No Man’s Sky using the egg sequencer to get the mechanical worm pets traits to 100%.
It’s such a silly thing but it’s so relaxing. I compounded my situation by making that save have yet another mechanical pet that is at 100% but here’s the kicker. The mechanical pets name cannot be changed so I can’t distinguish between which mechanical pet I’m using so I decided to spend some time getting all of them up to 100% and then starring them on my ship after they’ve got to 100%. Of course, now I need to give them away because that character is gonna end up with too many eggs. But one of my ideas is to also have her hatch some eggs and then she can basically be a breeder. So say I decide that I’m getting rid of this pet but later I want to bring it back she can go and lay an egg for me.
I also realized that I had way more regular battles than the championship battle for the ratio. I think the problem is that you really need to finish each area do the battles in that system and then get the chips to go to the space station. Otherwise you’ll end up just hopping around and have to do more of the regular battles just to get the proper number of the championship battles for instance, I’ve done 211 of the 220 for the regular hollow arena victory but I only done 45 of the 60 for the championship battles so I’m going to have to do more of the Halloween battles even after I get to 220.
Saturday
Stored eggs on the character began on Aprillian and also on my second save for April Pvd. She actually hatched some of the triple S hundred percent straight eggs that April Pvd created because she’s going to become a kind of a farm. So if she has most of the ones that April Pvd has then if she needs to, she can release one on her account knowing that she can go back and get an egg from the second save if that makes sense. OK so I have actually been hurting myself by jumping around. Sometimes in between battles, I would go to a planet to hatch an egg and it turns out that if you battle three times in a system, then you get the championship request so that’s what I’m gonna be doing from now. Currently doing it on flatscreen, but I was in VR earlier and I need to jump over to Aprillian because she got a pet that I really like and she just got it to the point where it can lay an egg. But she didn’t have enough mayonnaise to open up enough slot, so I’m gonna have to give her some runway maul or something and then she’s gonna get an egg from that and then give it to April Pvd who’s going to update the traits. My next challenge is gonna be changing traits on different pets to see how they battle differently. because right now I’ve just been going with whatever traits the pet has and then taking that to 100% but like if it’s got a lot of gentleness, I could actually turn that into. I think aggression.
CHAMPIONS DEFEATED
46/60 WINS
HOLO ARENA VICTORIES
214/220 WINS
ITERATION: OCEANUS
26/30 WINS
Sunday
Actually only played a little bit on Sunday because I had a lot of meal prepping to do. Something interesting happened in the quest community and when I talked about it on Facebook I got a weird response. I watch a lot of YouTube videos and a lot of of them are on the PTC and they talk about what’s coming up and one of the things they talk about was having folders which so big because I sometimes forget games that I’ve bought or games that I’ve played because they end up taking so much room and they scroll down. I mean just think if your phone was just one whole screen. So with folders I could put games in one apps I wanna try later apps I’ve tried and I don’t wanna play anymore, etc. so I made this post:
I don’t understand people that just come out of their mouth like that. They knew Meta Horizon OS two point whatever is the latest. They’re now going with Two and then in increasing and maybe they didn’t know but I don’t know why you would come out with telling me, I’m on drugs. Of course he never came back to apologize, although a couple of other people expressed their support and one person even applauded me for my phrasing.
I did want to at least do an Oceanus Battle because I wanna get that out of the way so I ended up thinking I could just jump in and jump back out and it turned out to not be the case. I ended up spending over 45 minutes losing twice until I redid my team and by then it was past my bedtime. I tried to go to bed by 9 PM. I know I don’t have to because I’m retired, but I do.
Monday
A lot of pet battles finally got my pet for Holo Arena
Tuesday
Wanted to jump to this planet to get this pet thought it would be easy but it’s not. I did a jump from Einstein to Aptarkaba to Ontiniangp I used the backup ship, but they were pretty nice ships so I might have to go back and find them. I did remove everything out of my Exco suit.
Wednesday
I beat Oceanus and got my wandering shrimp in a bubble pet and then took it to the egg sequence so I got it up to 100 on all its traits. The only milestone I have left is the championship and again I’d kick myself because I did the Holo Arena battles without sticking to the systems and this is really important you need to stay in the system you start with and go three times and then you’ll get the championship so I started the day needing eight championships. My goal for the day is to do all 24 battles and finish it today then I wanna go and check on my settlements. Although I probably should’ve been checking on my settlement and I might’ve been able to do some of the battles in my settlement because I hear that you have the tables in your settlement as well. I did some battles in VR, but then I ended up going back to flatscreen of course I have a hard time landing, especially when I get to a planet at night and it’s an archive. For My second round of battles I was on a highly toxic planet and at one point I logged in and then neglected to check and I almost died.
Thursday
I finally got all the milestones and finished the Holo Arena quest line.
I started standing up while doing the pet battles and walking in place. I just can’t take sitting down and gaming anymore. I guess I’m afraid i’ve ending up like that guy from South Park plus when I do sit down for too long, my knees start to ache. I just feel like I need to be moving so I found a solution. I think I’ve mentioned before that. I use a patio furniture cushion to walk on. That helps me walk in place. I moved that cushion over to my MacBook Pro stood in place walking and that helped with the flatscreen gaming. The biggest difference is that I was also watching some YouTube videos.
Friday
I got the idea to do the video while working out in VR on Thursday so I started implementing the ID and then I started doing my continuation of my galaxy jumping and I jumped to Odiwagiri Galaxy. this time I jumped in my freighter. Again, I got educated by watching a YouTube video and it turns out that when you get to the point where it says jump to the new galaxy and you get the warning that you have no hyper Dr. fuel. It just means that you’re hyperdrive fuel needs to be at 100%. I always thought it meant that you had to be in your spaceship and not even afraid of because I had fuel in the hyper drive, but once I fill my hyper Dr. up I’m afraid I jumped. I still got the damage in my suit and my ship and I forgot to swap out my multitool so that got damaged but my afraid I didn’t get damaged, which was good and I still ended up on the planet, so that was interesting but it just saves me one more step which is always good.
Saturday
I want to show off all of the eggs I got from the Holo Arena milestones
I did some more jumping, and I realized that I made a big mistake in my initial jumping. I did not look at the list for galaxies, which is my mistake. Remember, I’m trying to get to the Kikolgallr galaxy to get this dragon pet.
I made the mistake of starting what I thought was my furthest galaxy, and that’s what I had to do to get I don’t know I didn’t even think of looking. So I started in the Eissentam galaxy which, as you can see is a couple of galaxies passed the Kikolgallr galaxy. If I had started at Hilbert, I would’ve been there by now. I got as far as Calypso and decided to head to bed.
Got some big news today. Sean Murray posted on X:
It looks like a bee. So something’s going down. The main sign will be when the game goes on sale on Steam.
Sunday
Creature AprilPvd has been hatching a mechanical egg every day. I’m also using her to store some of the pets that I may have to delete on April Pvd main so I can get more pets. I still have some eggs. I wanna hatch that I haven’t hatched yet.
I made the jump to the Hesperius Dimension and I did it on the flatscreen now I’m gonna try a little bit more on the flatscreen because I am watching YouTube videos about the upcoming update.
So what I have been doing is taking out my colossus and scanning for alien structures after each jump, finding a portal and then making a base on that near that portal.
Hesperius Dimension
Hyades
Ickjamatew
Budullangr
Kikolgallr
I did it. I made the jump to Kiko, but I did not find the 3S dragon I found a dragon that was ASS and it was pink, but not the blue one. It was fun and it was a lot of work and I made a lot of bases. I like the figuring out part of No Man’s Sky. I did find one triple S pet.
I finally got back to my settlement and each one of them had biological horrors, but I fought them off. They also had a bunch of resources for me, which was nice. I did end up doing one pet Battle just to see what my new pets performed like. And I made an egg from the giant worm pet.
Monday
Tuesday
Other
Working Out in VR
I wanna start with talking about my workout in VR. Every Monday, Thursday and Saturday I spend an hour and 40 minutes working out VR in my own home with personal trainers. I know part of the barrier is the fact that you do have to wear a headset and it has become second nature for me. Yes I do sweat a lot with the headset. I have had to experiment with different head straps, which hold the quest. In the past three or four months, I have gone through three headsets. My initial one that I was using for years was a Bobo VR that had an extra battery pack which allowed me to play indefinitely also has these two what they call in tennis pressing on the top of my head and leaving an invention and creating bald spots. So I tried a different “halo“ style that worked very well and was very comfortable, but it only came with one battery which did not last more than an hour and a half and you could not buy additional batteries. I decided to upgrade to the next version of Bobo VR, which had the ability to remove the antenna. But the latest one came with the fan and it was too heavy. So I went to the previous model, which fortunately uses the same battery, but it was more comfortable and that’s the one I’m currently using. I also use a VR fabric covering over the facial interface which absorbs my sweat. It comes in a pack of two so I have a clean one to change out and then I wash the sweaty one. I used three apps for my workout first FitXR, in which a trainer guide me through a warm-up and then an HIIT class. Then I switch over to Litesport for weight training in boxing. This one is my favorite because it uses mixed reality so that the trainer appears right in front of me while I work out in front of my mirror in which I can see both me and the trainer. The boxing workout is 16 minutes where I have to follow the hits on this pad that floats in front of me and gives me haptic feedback when I hit it. Idk four orkouts in this app and by the time I’m done I’ve worked out for an hour and I switch over to my Elliptical. elliptical is synced with my quest headset so that as I am using the elliptical, I am propel through different immersive maps such as Paris or Venice or my current favorite Jurassic Park experience. Then I’m back into FitXR for a much-needed cool down.
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