AlexCory21

joined 2 years ago
[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

TLDR: if you're a VRChat player/enjoyer, Find a cool world in VRChat to pose in with your favorite avatar by yourself or with friends and take a picture with the in-game camera.

Alternatively, "Elite Dangerous" is a great desktop background generator! Find a cool spot and take a screenshot. Boom. New desktop background haha.

/end TLDR


I play alot of VRChat and I found a cool world in VRChat called " VR art 'New place' ". It's basically a VR art museum where you click on the "painting" and it teleports you inside of it. The scenery in the world is super super pretty and very cool; I highly recommend it.

What I did is I found a spot that I thought would look good for a desktop background. I posed on a dock facing a giant moon. And then used VRChat's fly camera to give some distance. Thus making my avatar appear small in the center and expanding the view of the art in the world. That way the focus is moreso on the world with my small avatar in the center.

It's kind of like placing yourself in the middle of your favorite desktop background. Granted I suppose any experienced photoshopper or photographer could do something similar haha.

As for Elite Dangerous, I've enjoyed flying my ship to a cool star system and then using the spectator camera to take pictures of cool phenomena and use those as desktop background too. Some of my favorites include: landing on Ring planets, finding a tiny planet with a view of 3 or more stars, or pictures of black holes.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes! You get to invite the bots and choose their talent specs and everything. And you can fill raids with them too!

The following YouTube video is a step-by-step guide to setting up AzerothCore with player bots. It is a bit complicated but if you follow along, you too can get a WoW server stood up ;-)

https://youtu.be/UG900F19GPk

Once you have the server, you can use the ChromieCraft client and edit "WTF/Config.wtf". And set the "realmList" to the local IP of the virtual machine.

https://www.chromiecraft.com/en/downloads/

Oh also, here's a link to the player bot commands list. It's a bunch of text commands. Nirv has a addon that lets him issue commands but for whatever reason it's incompatible with some of my preferred addons. So I just create chat macros and use an action bar to issue commands.

https://github.com/mod-playerbots/mod-playerbots/wiki/Playerbot-Commands

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yes! You get to invite the bots and choose their talent specs and everything. And you can fill raids with them too!

The following YouTube video is a step-by-step guide to setting up AzerothCore with player bots. It is a bit complicated but if you follow along, you too can get a WoW server stood up ;-)

https://youtu.be/UG900F19GPk

Once you have the server, you can use the ChromieCraft client and edit "WTF/Config.wtf". And set the "realmList" to the local IP of the virtual machine.

https://www.chromiecraft.com/en/downloads/

Oh also, here's a link to the player bot commands list. It's a bunch of text commands. Nirv has a addon that lets him issue commands but for whatever reason it's incompatible with some of my preferred addons. So I just create chat macros and use an action bar to issue commands.

https://github.com/mod-playerbots/mod-playerbots/wiki/Playerbot-Commands

Note: I feel like I should warn... Nirv is kinda an a-hole. But he is very smart and knowledgeable about this stuff. So maybe just focus on the tutorial and getting it setup etc.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm a sucker for nostalgia and a believer of game preservation, and I managed to figure out, with some guides, how to setup my own private World of Warcraft server using AzerothCore. It only goes up to Wotlk but IMO, that's the best expansion anyway.

I've been using it currently to solo play the game with bots. Funny enough, the bots actually dodge fire! Lol. But since it has bots that means I can still do dungeon and raid content! And I don't have to deal with the stress of juggling a raid schedule. I can just play whenever I want, however long I want.

It does also have the option to be port forwarded to allow friends to join. But I don't have any good friends interested in that. And I don't want to make the server fully public for reasons.

Unfortunately, its very complicated to setup. So I highly recommend finding a guide before trying to install it. It does require setting up a virtual machine and running a bunch of scripts. So it can be a bit complicated for anyone who isn't tech savvy.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

BK Chicken Friesius

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I've got a modded Nintendo Wii which plays GameCube games and also does emulation from a large hard drive.

I also have a ps3 with two gun controllers and Time Crisis Razing Storm combo disc (3 shooting games included). And Killzone 3 which imo, is amazing. Especially with the gun controllers.

I also have an older xbox 360 white model with backwards compatability that still works somehow (knock on wood). So we can also play original xbox games in addition to Xbox 360 games.

All of these hooked up to a large flat panel TV on a swivel mount. And with 2 couches. And a fake zebra rug and smart lights for ambience.

I will entertain you with nostalgia. And couch coop or versus gaming.


And if we get bored of games. We can watch YouTube or Netflix or whatever.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Who's gonna pay for the build cost and maintenance? Just curious.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

A good way to avoid this would be to go to sleep before that time and wakeup afterwards.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Sunkist Orange

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Very sweet story. I also try to help out like that whenever/whereever I can.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Depending on what apps you want, you can try downloading Winlator and run them. I've had some success running windows games on my phone. However I never tried productivity apps.

But... Theoretically, if "wine" can run them then Winlator should be able to run them.

That's about as close as it gets currently. Although it does require some level of tech savvy knowledge I suppose (and an android phone). Which thus means it isn't perfect as you previously stated.

Maybe it'll improve over time. Just have to wait and see.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if the feature is region locked or not. I didn't have to worry about any of that. This feature is brand new with the One UI 7 update.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Za1Md_WtHZk

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