alex

alex

@lightling.space

alex (lightling.space), mid-20s, 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them, ΘΔ wolf of warm sand/ocean water webdev by day, gamedev/composer/artist/streamer/gremlin by night https://twitch.tv/itsLightling sometimes nsfw art 🔞 (labeled); spicier posts @werewolf.porn 💜🦊 ✊️ 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 🇨🇩 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇱🇧 🇨🇺

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My first world, Midnight Grotto, is now public vrchat.com/home/world/w... I have been working on this very actively since May, taking a base by Soooma and greatly expanding upon it with new areas like a cafe, bath house, & private rooms, while going through & replacing original buildings/assets.

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this is cute and all but an ad criticizing everything being full of AI is... rich coming from mozilla lmfao. bsky.app/profile/fire...

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seeing paleo pines put out a Q&A steam post & seeing them address people apparently thinking their plushes were taking funds away from them & looking back at past posts of plushies & seeing walls of people saying that & im just like. man. gamers really are Stupid and need to Shut The Fuck Up lmao.

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and people are like making up these wild conspiracy theories when the devs are repeatedly saying they weren't the ones that breached contract, & being like "what are they doing with these 170K kickstarter euros! they're rich!" (that's like a couple salaries for a year? also they can't make updates?)

like if you think that's scummy wait till you hear about star citizen, most AAA publishers/studios, paradox, or A Certain Game About Hitching A Ride From Shady People Whose Dev Literally Puts Backdoors Into Games To Legitimately Stalk/Harass Streamers/YouTubers & Is Still Popular For Some Reason(TM)

seeing paleo pines put out a Q&A steam post & seeing them address people apparently thinking their plushes were taking funds away from them & looking back at past posts of plushies & seeing walls of people saying that & im just like. man. gamers really are Stupid and need to Shut The Fuck Up lmao.

apparently they're review bombing them b/c they had another recent "overpriced" (it's standard makeship pricing) plush while dealing with their publisher revoking their ability to continue putting out dev updates & it's like, what the fuck do you expect, them to just break contractual law for you?

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If you're at Howloween this is happening TOMORROW! There will also be an exclusive Howl2026 MacPaint digital art piece given away on floppy disk! Hopefully 40 is enough

bsky "we added profile links! we want to support creators!" yeah nah i'll stick to bio if y'all just gonna use this as a way to censor and shadow-ban people more easily lmao

"we're working on per-link labeling" - why do i doubt that? (looks at lack of real TOTP & bunch of other things promised) - shouldn't have released it if it wasn't done & was gonna censor people account-wide - still no need to even do that, that's the burden of the link - what about handles then?

also insane that i get much bigger projects done at work without vibe-coding than they get done with vibe-coding like damn y'all implemented a two-text-input set of data and a favicon scraper & couldn't even deliver it with a "solution" to a *non-problem* lol Mr "I'd never hire ppl who refuse genAI"

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Replying to @purplebirdman.com

the red line for me will always be when social media sites attempt to police content beyond the scope of their web domain. it means folks who are not interested in being verified via bluesky will not be able to reach my content in other places because of decisions to limit visibility like this

It has left labs and is now public :3

alex@lightling.space

My first world, Midnight Grotto, is now public vrchat.com/home/world/w... I have been working on this very actively since May, taking a base by Soooma and greatly expanding upon it with new areas like a cafe, bath house, & private rooms, while going through & replacing original buildings/assets.

holy fuck i'd legitimately forgotten just how bad windows is. insane how people actually use this lmao.

not me finally noticing the "VRChat" window titlebar at the very last clip lsdfkghsdfgkljhdfgsjklhdf made sure to copy transforms to hide the title bar in all the other clips and totally forgor about that one lmao oh well who cares

alex@lightling.space

My first world, Midnight Grotto, is now public vrchat.com/home/world/w... I have been working on this very actively since May, taking a base by Soooma and greatly expanding upon it with new areas like a cafe, bath house, & private rooms, while going through & replacing original buildings/assets.

(it's also in the middle one shhh) there is no "game capture" for obs on linux, there actually isn't a functional window capture either on wayland, there is only "display capture" ...which actually prompts you to pick either a display *or* window because wayland is a very sane & normal concept

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My first world, Midnight Grotto, is now public vrchat.com/home/world/w... I have been working on this very actively since May, taking a base by Soooma and greatly expanding upon it with new areas like a cafe, bath house, & private rooms, while going through & replacing original buildings/assets.

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I have been frequently sharing updates documenting the entire process of me working on all the different models and UI menus and some of the unique features like the disclaimer system. I'm so relieved and happy that this is finally in a state where I feel comfortable making it public.

It would be really helpful if y'all favorited it, made it your home world, used it, whatever it takes to bring it from Labs to the general public. Would hate for this labor of love to get buried by the AI slop gaming the system lately. vrchat.com/home/world/w...

vrchat.comMidnight Grotto by itsLightlingLightling's fork of Twilight Grotto originally by Soooma greatly expanding upon the original base by adding custom decor‚ a cafe‚ bath house‚ and apartments (with three private rooms) reachable via a ...

My first world, Midnight Grotto, is now public vrchat.com/home/world/w... I have been working on this very actively since May, taking a base by Soooma and greatly expanding upon it with new areas like a cafe, bath house, & private rooms, while going through & replacing original buildings/assets.

Almost nothing of the original world remains beyond the original cave models for the grotto and entrance. Even the buildings themselves have been remodeled to optimize them in terms of material slotting & poly count. A few prefabs like ProTV/billiards are by others. Everything else is by me.

I swear the suggestions section of the sidebar on twitch has a new random furry VRC streamer I've not seen the name for before like every other day, where the hell do they all keep coming from fr fr