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recently i've been getting into streaming vr and there's no doubt that the holy grail vr streaming setup is a

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green screen with a mixed reality setup where you actually transport yourself

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into the game like we showed off recently only problem is if i wanted to

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do something like that in my living room i either have to hack an xbox connect

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for a somewhat convincing effect or i

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need to paint my living room green which what do you think green living room

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yeah i didn't think so so i discovered the next best thing it

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turns out that with these these are called vive trackers you can

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actually cover your body with additional tracking points that transport you into

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the game in avatar form so

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we've got no table so we'll use a monitor box

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the vive tracker has already been opened because i've

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actually been fighting with this thing for a couple weeks but that's okay the important things in the box are a usb

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micro b cable a wall wart which

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oh shoot i left them all at the office it's

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not a wall wart i knew it i knew at one point that it was not a wall wart and

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then for some reason i got it in my head that it was a wall board again okay it

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doesn't matter the point is this is a multi-purpose cable purpose number one

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is to charge the tracker so this is the tracker it screws on to whatever you

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want and allows you to bring outside objects into vr through the same

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technology as your controllers and your headset so you charge it up it's got a

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battery on board purpose number two is to plug into this little weighted base

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that takes right here this little dongle this is the dongle for the tracker that

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it needs to communicate its location to your pc now your controllers use the

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headset but it only has two connection slots so as soon as you start to add

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multiple trackers you run out of connections you could have one

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controller and one tracker and you wouldn't need this but as soon as you

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want to use both your controllers you're gonna need it let's step back and take a

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look at some of the other ways that you can stream vr first though the easiest

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is to just import your game as a source into obs this way the audience sees

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exactly what you see it's fast it's simple but it does have the disadvantage

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of being a little bit disorienting for the audience because they're looking out

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through your eyes but they're not in control of where the camera is pointed

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you can mitigate this somewhat by widening the field of view and adding a

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smooth camera mod but it's not perfect

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it's never going to be perfect that's where liv comes in we're going to

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get rid of our beat saber source we're going to set our target to beat saber

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exe and boom now we've got a virtual

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camera that acts as a third-party observer of what the player is doing in

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the game now with a green screen we were able to see me standing there in the

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game but now this is something different we've got an avatar whose head is

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actually moving around according to how i'm holding the headset

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makes for a pretty neat experience setting this up is pretty straightforward you look down at your

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feet point the little pointer and you are greeted by the camera viewfinder and

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avatar menus so camera is basically controlled by saying where

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you want the camera to be and where you'd like it to point you've

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got third person view which kind of like follows you around i think it's actually

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hard to see it because it's following your head around all the time mixed

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reality a bunch of different ones i like selfie i just like the automatic angle

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you can change your field of view all that kind of good stuff and then there's your avatar you can see mine is pretty

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messed up right about now but that's okay we're going to go ahead and

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calibrate it stand like this go like that and hey look at that

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oh wait except we got a small problem the legs are like

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so uh oh wait never mind i did it wrong i did it entirely wrong that time okay

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point your little pointer at the icon at your feet my hands and my head are

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tracking according to what i'm doing except oh look at that i'm wiggling my

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hips and he's just kind of doing whatever that is and if i move

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around you can see his legs move in a way that is really unnatural

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but in a game like beat saber where you don't necessarily have to move your feet

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around much that might not matter to you thing is with my play style i actually

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do like to move around a lot because i play this sort of

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50 for fun and the other 50 for exercise

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so it ends up looking like i'm kind of leaning back and forth looks kind of

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stupid

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now we're going to add things up a notch one of my free usb ports they are

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technically usb2 but if you plug multiples of them into a single hub

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people have run into interference or bandwidth issues so your mileage may

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vary there one of mine's at the back so i'm going to use this handy dandy extender i'm going to pretend i don't

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have these other usb extensions from a previous troubleshooting step and i'm

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going to put the other two directly into the front usbs on my case now you may

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have some difficulty pairing these controllers i actually had to take

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anything but the one i was pairing physically out of the room and just pair

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one at a time in order to get them to all pair up properly and then i've gone

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i've labeled them all to make sure that i know which one goes with which but your mileage may vary mine are all

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paired though so i should be able to just go one two three and they should

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fire up for me unless you've got a reliable way to attach your trackers to

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your body though your base stations aren't going to know where your body

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parts are so that's where this comes in rebuff reality sent this over this is

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their track strap plus the only difference between the plus one and the regular one is that it has an integrated

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battery bank so you get longer time i would say if you're streaming that long

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in vr though you probably don't need to

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stream that long in vr at a time you don't want to cut off your circulation

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but a tight fit is important because if you're stomping and your trackers are

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kind of jiggling around like this it will cause tracking anomalies man this

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is some of the nerdiest stuff i've ever done it doesn't get any better from here

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because the next thing i'm going to do is roll up my pants a little bit actually to make sure that the pants

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don't cover the tracking dots that's one of the reasons you can't just duct tape

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these things to your feet because if you cover up too many of the

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tracking points then it won't work so yeah we're going flood pants for the

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rest of this video with the trackers on my feet we just go into settings

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controllers manage vive trackers and make sure that i set the correct roles

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for each of them you can see you can actually load yourself up with trackers but we're

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going to be going for a relatively modest setup so selfie that's

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all good avatar now we're going to add oh yes

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feet now that's a little bunged up that's okay we can calibrate that there we go

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look at that hand step and step and step

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and twirl

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there's all kinds of dancing you can do like this

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i know so if i was to move back and forth how's

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my motion now a little more natural

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fine a little weird yeah i mean what's weird about it exactly because i think there's

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more than more than one thing that's a little weird right now to achieve a more

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convincing level of full body tracking we need just one more tracker this one

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is going to go right around the hips because that's really where these joints

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move and now we've got full hip wiggle

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tracking all right let's have a look at how that works you know you haven't seen enough of this

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yeah we're gonna need to recalibrate that

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that's where the tracking problems come in and now my butt is up in the air this

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was where i was stumped for like two weeks

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i tried every combination of ports on the system i tried usb extensions

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because i thought it might be a range issue or compatibility issue with the tracker dongles

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none of them fix the problem but what i'm hoping

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because i really hope we're finishing a video today is that i have the real

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solution now in this care package from valve a

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typical vr setup has two base stations

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you got one on one corner and then you've got one over on the other corner

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the problem is that as soon as you've got feet involved and closed and you're

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moving around like this or you're you've got your tether coming down the back of

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your body it's really easy for the trackers to get occluded from one or

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even both of the base stations which is what causes them to drift now i have

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particular issues with number c

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letter c suggesting that it's not entirely occlusion issues and it could

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be a weak radio in here but whatever this

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i'm hoping is going to solve it once and for all i'm adding not one but two more

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base stations which actually from anecdotal evidence seems to give better

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tracking performance just in all cases not just if you're trying to do a full

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body setup like what i'm doing i'm not entirely confident this is going to fix

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the issue which is why you don't see me drilling any holes in my ceiling just yet

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but i am pretty sure

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come on stop it

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whatever you wanted to replace these floors anyway right wow that's pretty impressive so these

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just fired right up looks like one of them needs a firmware update and my

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headset my headset got a firmware update while we were working on this this is

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compelling youtube content it's moment of truth time now

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and my feet are still wandering off into

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the sunset okay maybe the answer is a combination

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of the two oh that looks way better wow i'm looking through my own waist

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shaking it i've got hope no i got rid of

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my my saber again

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oh no they're drifting what the why are they drifting quite

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literally no reason on earth

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for this tracker to drift it has three lighthouses

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hello what are you doing

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there it goes all right see it's here that's where it is

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not here here wait why is it up here

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new idea sometimes having large reflective surfaces in the room can cause problems

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you know that moment when you get a big OLED gaming tv and then you put a

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blanket over it to game nope they're all over the place now new

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idea and ironically my wife's she was like hey do the antennas have a

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particular pickup pattern i was like oh yeah they would be designed to

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be plugged in on their little thing probably so she's like oh well why don't

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you put them up right well i don't have more of those little bases so how about

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this first solution

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let's see if that helps good

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yeah it's glitching again new idea guys it might be my mic pack

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and power that off ouch

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are we good wow that actually looks a lot better

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fresh day fresh perspective fresh computer i've actually wired up my

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test bench with the boot drive from my vr pc let's give it a shot

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it seems to be behaving quite a bit better so you can see now as i shift my

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hips around in vr we've actually got a fairly

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natural style of movement except when the tracker disappears through the floor

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which it seems to be doing less of but still doing it which is sort of

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unbelievable to me at this point but we're gonna have to call this as good as we can get it for now so let's fulfill

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the promise in the title transforming into ninja

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chick or whatever this one's called

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looking not bad now let's give it a run

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does it look alright right now is it working

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okay i'm just going to put aside how frustrating the last day

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has been and how sleep-deprived i am and i'm just going to play the game

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and have fun does it look significantly more natural

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than just having the feet i honestly don't remember now

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feels like a lifetime ago to me too games are supposed to be fun right then

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i'm just gonna have fun now i'm not gonna stress about missing a block or a

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little glitch here and there this is supposed to be about documenting fun

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see that block i miss right there fun

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it's hard to have fun when you're sleep deprived low blood sugar

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and so frustrated you can't see strain

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yeah i will not rage quit i will rage persevere

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dancing to the song that i can barely

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hear over the blood pressure in my ears

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oh i don't know if i can say that that's worth it

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but uh i don't know does at least look kind of cool until i check the headset onto the

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couch and it looks like i dive bombed it you know i feel like dive bombing into

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the couch

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guys i think that it's fixed check this out

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ah

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that looks really good doesn't it still getting a little bit of glitchiness but

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what i did was i changed over to a four port usb card that has a separate

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controller for every single port and it looks like after all that the issue

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really was some kind of usb incompatibility so i got the diagnosis

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right but then i solved the problem

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incorrectly is that does it look good like it seems pretty good oh i wondered

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