Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 862 - Home Makeover Edition
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.
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AprilPvd in VR:
VR News, Horizon Worlds shutting down for VR March 31, 2026.
No Man’s Sky
Wednesday
https://youtu.be/Bm0hViF84f8?si=1m7gY6y6Wj8xPLhm
No Man’s Sky Remnant is Extremely Satisfying to Play
This is a cute YouTube video about someone who enjoyed the expedition as much as I did.
I spent some time going to my “neighborhood“ it was very disappointed that the power wasn’t working. I thought I had figured it all out.
Thursday
I was inspired by Grand Nagus’s discussion of his home in Final Fantasy 14 that I decided to decorate in No Man’s Sky. There are lots of things to use and you can resize them and color them and position them in different ways. This is what I did today, but I’m gonna keep working.
My house for April Pvd is glass walls and glass floors over a nice colorful cave. I put up some walls to create a bedroom and then I made a living room with curtains and couches and plants.
Logged into Sebastian to check out the lighting situation at the other three bases, but he was at a heap so I decided to go ahead and do a waste run. The plant was further than I thought it would be, but I was listening to PHM for the fifth time and it was very relaxing so I did the run, but as I was playing , I noticed that I was continuously being shot at. I opened up my settings and turned off PVP, but I still kept getting shot at. I ended up having to bring in my ship and shoot it down and then I had to find my Colossus again. My squadron came in to help me and then after I shot down that ship, I got some cred with the V guys and then the sentinel started to come, but I just got found my Colossus and then just started going and they eventually went away. But that was so weird.
Friday
Wanted to do some screen recording on my flat screen so I got the idea of using OBS but the output was so bad and I’m really enjoyed the output on QuickTime player, but it wouldn’t record just the sound it would record my voice or anything I was doing in in the room which sometimes I’m when I am flat screening I’m usually watching something on TV. After several hours, I finally figured out how to record with QuickTime and I’m very happy. But it was a lot of work. I also duplicated a bunch of salvage data so that I could give them to all my alt so I can work on my building. I don’t know why but I’ve gotten in the building book or I do know why it’s because of Grand Nagus. But I’m excited because I have some ideas and we opportunities that No Man’s Sky has for building.
Headstrap
The cool thing about the quest three headset is that like the iPhone you customize it but instead of a cool case you put on your own hedge strap. The head strap that comes with the quest three is just an elastic band and it’s very uncomfortable. So you have options of different head straps and the most popular one is the halo head strap which is named after the device to isolate your head if you have a brain injury or a surgery. The one I have been using for years like I talked about in the previous episode was leaving depressions on my head and after a few weeks, I’m trying one that did not have The 2 pads at the top. It was evident that they were in the causing false spots. At the same time, the new hedge strap had only one battery, and there was no way other than buying another head strap, which I did consider, that I could get an additional battery and I was only getting two hours from said battery even though the advertisement sent 4 to 6. So my only option if I wanted to continue gaming after the two hour mark was to plug in using a USB-C cable. But of course, this meant that my movement was hampered. The goal of trying the new hedge drum was to see if my hair will grow back and I could stop shaving my head, but I didn’t realize it was a while. The two pads on the top of the bobo VR head strap was causing baldness spots, there was a spot at the back top of my head. That was also just bald. I don’t know if it’s alopecia or just old age, there is a thought that it might’ve been from my heavy locs but I don’t think so. So I decided to go back to shaving my head, which means I can use that other headset because I really want the battery duration. So I swapped them out. I did see that there is another bubble VR head strap for $80. That includes a fan which I don’t need, but it doesn’t have the pads on the top.
Saturday
I worked a little bit longer on Aprillian’s house. I put in some shelves and put dishes out and set up a kitchen with the refrigerator. I also put in a balcony. Then I went to work on Sebastian’s house and I love it. I made this beautiful staircase, and this gorgeous roof.
For all of my new builds, I’ve made high ceilings so each floor is two walls high. It’s really interesting how No Man’s Sky does the walls because they change when you stacked them on top of each other. I have to admit I use the duplication method for the salvage data to buy the blueprint plans. It was funny because while I was doing the building, I wanted to put the stairwell in and I hadn’t done the roof. This go round I actually learned how to do the slanted roof and place the corners properly. But I went to work on the balcony and some other parts and I kept getting the warning that I was losing my shield and I realized I hadn’t put the two middle parts in the roof.
I had eon doing all of her changes to her base and it was beautiful, but she had a few things that she had gotten from April Pvd so I logged April P. I logged her in on my laptop and then I want to do some stuff and I was away for about an hour when I got back he was almost was dead. I had died and her inventory was empty. Fortunately, I did the restore point and she got all her stuff back, but I forgot that sometimes when you log back in you, log back in outside your property, even though you logged inside, so I’m glad that I was able to reload. That’s the thing you have to remember is that you can reload I’ll go back to your restore point instead of panicking. I was gonna go look for her grave, but I had a feeling you know if you die and then die again grave is gonna be empty so I didn’t want that to happen.
OK, this was crazy. I worked on Epril’s house for almost an hour and I had it looking so cute. I even put some storage things under her landing pad because April Pvd had the blueprints and she didn’t and then I logged off April Pvd In VR and got back on Epril who was on with me but on flatscreen and I had joined her game with April Pvd, but everything was gone. So while I was in VR with Epril I logged on Apple Pvd on the flatscreen as she joined Epril’s game, and when I did was had a Pvd lay down stuff that she had the blueprint for that Epril didn’t and then went back to Epril and grab the stuff and put them where they needed to be and made copies of them so it’s not as cute as it was originally, but it still looks nice and I’m really having fun making the cute little homes. I took some lockers and shrunk them down and rotated them to make them look like books and I also went to the anomaly and got another plant.
Monday
Worked on garden for Sebastian:
Removed bio dome and used small walls around the outside and planted grass.
Tuesday
Worked on Sebastian’s home creating a solarium along with a building to hide the solar panels and batteries
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Big Gee
Check out this video, "winnie's hole"
https://youtu.be/-UJrv7sFEuk?si=kYlZqT57qvYosvYF
AprilPvd
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Good day all.. Kep here!
So the latest Warcraft expansion (Midnight) released on the 2nd of March (if you had early access). My highest characters are still only level 83, as I cannot quite decide which character to play? I have so many different options, I really should just pick one to main and crack on! I guess that is one of the problems with being an Altoholic??!
Anyway.. I have been questing around the Isle of Quel’Danas, Silvermoon City and Eversong Woods, which has brought back some very found memories of The Burning Crusade! (TBC)
I have collected some more mounts: Innovation Investigator, Leaping Vein Seeker, Comfy Bel’ameth Flying Quilt, OC91 Chariot, Delver’s Gob-Trotter (to name a few).
Anyway..
All the best,
Kep
P.S. I have also decided I want to build a church in my housing plot, so I have started collecting various decor and items, which is taking some time to gather..
P.P.S. Some screen shots attached.
