Folks, you are not going to believe who just followed me on bluesky, my money problems are over!

https://bsky.app/profile/chengcharliescheng.bsky.social

Okay, I finally finished my first tease video. I've posted it on reddit and am gearing up to drop it elsewhere this afternoon. And I'm giving myself an ulcer worrying it's gonna flop completely.

All I really wanna do with my life is make cool stuff and help people get off. Why do I gotta do marketing!

But, all that being said, I'm pretty happy with how the video turned out, hopefully people find it funny. I threw a tank in at the last minute, see if you can spot it!

https://comradeoohaah.itch.io/freshbullswanted

https://patreon.com/ComradeOohAah

Phew, I have been a busy pervy propagandist. This video is an in progress of a template I'm working on so that I can drop teasers of FBW's features on reddit and social media. I'm shooting for a Travel Destination advertisement vibe, so I'm making a set of intro and outro vids that are going to sandwich the individual feature descriptions. My goal is to hit them hard with the features about The Handy integration first, and as I move on to the less interesting features, more "interruptions" will occur giving people an idea of the brainwashing that's actually going on in the milking dungeon.

Yes, that is actually me doing the voice, and it's killing my throat. I think I'm channeling an old-timey prospector crossed with a southern gentleman. I don't typically do voicework so it's hard to maintain a consistency. I'm just being silly with it.

Non-FBW News: I've got 3 patrons and BuzzyBody (my LoveSpouse toy android app) has reached 128 downloads, which isn't too bad considering I'm only on itch and haven't really been doing any social media work beyond a couple reddit and forum posts. I really need something to kick things in gear for patrons which is why I'm going so hard on these teaser vids at the moment. I should be coding and finishing up BuzzyBody to put on the Play store, instead I'm making "content."

Hope y'all dig the vid. This is my first time working with Canva and I think it's going pretty well, all things considered. I'm gaining transferable skills at least.

https://patreon.com/ComradeOohAah

http://comradeoohaah.com/

if you don't know what's going on - the BuzzyBody app I mention hit 100 downloads today, so I'm kinda celebrating by posting outside of gamedev.

lol, I'm trying to come up with ideas for social media content creation to tease the Milker and one of the ideas I have is for my CCPGPT chat logs to be leaked by a CHUD hacker. Thus, I built a scriptable GPT Player and then fed the scripting rules to deepseek telling it i was trying to make a milker to satire (NSFW)Jordan Peterson's posting this was the first script it pumped out. Thought some of y'all might get a kick out of it. I've gotten it to get a bit more risque as I experiment.

I live! Lol, apologies for the long delays. It's been a busy year since my last Milker update in March?!

Well, shit. So what had happened was, since my end goal is to build up a Patreon in the hopes of doing this Lewd VR dev thing full time. I figured that by creating an app that supports those inexpensive aliexpress toys for the app known as LoveSpouse would allow me to quickly gain access to an existing audience... Jury is still out, but...

Mistake #1: Since my last updated I've released BuzzyBody an Android Media Player that let's you use those cheap toys with FunScripts (which are basically files of haptic instructions to sync more expensive toys with videos and audio). I started developing it in April, released it in October. I didn't bother y'all with it because it's not commie themed (besides a communist bee as its icon) and I wasn't sure anyone was interested. I released it on a couple of websites and made a post on the LoveSpouse subreddit. This kinda bombed. Whether it's the app's fault or not, I'll never know because...

Mistake #2: I created my reddit ComradeOohAah account 4 days ago last year, and then did nothing with it! Much like here on hexbear, I try to keep my shitposting separate from work stuff. This meant that when it was time for me to post for my app, I had no karma and my posts were immediately relegated to the void. I got very little activity. And what little comments I did get, I couldn't respond to right away because I had to go and build up Karma in other subreddits.

So, since I'm afraid of getting my account banned for spamming, I take the L and decide to add a new feature that would give me a reason to post.

This week I released v0.2 of BuzzyBody, it now can act as a relay between ButtPlug.io's Intiface Control Software and the LoveSpouse toys. This means all those folks out there with cheapo aliexpress toys can now use their toys with all sorts of PC lewd stuff. As far as ButtPlug is concerned, all those toys are now emulated as a Lovense device. Not as many features, but like 20% of the price. This turned out reasonably well. I haven't gotten any additional Patrons off of it (I got one while posting this!), but I got about 26 downloads in the past 3 days. Putting me now at 86.

And qdot, the guy who created ButtPlug.io, messaged me on reddit and gave me props for using the Device Emulation feature! I was very stoked.

However.

Mistake #3: I still have not really built up the ComradeOohAah reddit account, so when I tried to post in the NSFW Oculus subreddit, I got very little traction. 33% upvoted, 0 comments. Maybe because I'm a low karma account, maybe because I'm competing against actual porn sites, idk. Just didn't hit. Admittedly, it's not a VR app, but there are enough buttplug.io vr apps out there that they would benefit from having a cheap toy. Their loss, really.

So my next steps for BuzzyBody is to create a VR version. A very generous friend gifted me some bHaptic TactGloves for my birthday and I'm going to attempt to figure out a way to create a DepthMap from adult 3d 180 videos so that when people are watching these videos they can reach out and "touch" the performers. I'm reasonably optimistic about being able to do that, but who knows the timeline. The second thing I want to do with the VR version is create reactive environments that sync to the user's music and their toy so that the sensations of pleasure in your body have room to build and expand outside your body and into the virtual world. With me, there's a lot of opportunity with this feature to play around with synesthesia and Homuncular Flexibilty, which is kinda my passion. I really want to explore and push past the limits of how people experience pleasure by using technology to expand the mind's boundaries of the body. Once you do that, it opens a lot of interesting doors.

So, that's kind of my postmortem on BuzzyBody, the app you didn't know exists. Oh! And it made me $2 on itch.io. I'm a capitalist now. Sorry, not sorry.

Another, not really a mistake, but it was a hurdle in that I wasn't able to really get any social media up and going until this month. Again, I didn't want to connect the lewd stuff to my personal accounts and risk losing access to all my friends I barely see irl. That meant getting a new phone number, which meant spending money I couldn't spare, etc. I think doing social media and building a brand is going to be the way forward in the future. I'd prefer not to have to market myself like that, but I suspect reddit is gonna be a dead end which means building a presence on tiktok and insta and bluesky and whatever. We'll see. (Insert rant here on how we live in a post-scarcity world with post-scarcity type jobs, but its a capitalist dystopia)

SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE COMRADE XI'S SPECIAL PROJECT?

Well, for one thing, I've been calling it Fresh Bulls Wanted.

Here's my last video from March [nsfw]

And I'm getting ready to start up on it again. Since that video / before I started on BuzzyBody I had added a Head Shake/Nod Recognition ability, rearranged the start menu components into a Consensual On-boarding, and the start of a dialogue playback system for what I have now decided is going to be a good cop, bad cop dynamic for the Comrades in Charge. I'm not going to get to deep into details but I think there's gonna be a CCP General as the judging overseer, and then a friendly, unseen Milker Controller that whispers in your ear.

Big Hurdle #1: This is going to require dialogue, and I think that's what caused me to stall and divert to BuzzyBody. I was talking with a friend of mine recently and I think the major speedbump was my concern of just how much of myself am I willing put out there, you know? It's one thing to do things in private, it's one thing to make something like this with generic dialogue, but if I'm gonna make this something people can resonate with I probably need to put it all on the table, and for some reason that's far more intimidating than openly telling people I'm buying adult toys and building stuff like this in the first place. IDK why. Am I afraid of being judged, rejected. Is it an intimacy thing, idk. Conquering that is the big hurdle.

Big Hurdle #2: I need to learn video editing. I've got a bunch of ideas for making some social media reels and things for both apps, but I know F all about video editing software. So I've gotta sit down with Davinci Resolve or Canva or whatever and learn my butt off.

So yeah, that's kind of where I'm at and how my year went. I do have a Patreon now, and a single (2!) Patron(s)! I'm trying to post far more stuff over on there, if anyone is interested. But I'll try to keep y'all updated so that when Xi decides it's time to put all these gooners in the virtual milking gulag you won't be surprised.

https://patreon.com/ComradeOohAah

http://comradeoohaah.com/

If you'll forgive me for ranting for a bit, I just gotta vent.

So for those of you that don't know me, Hi, I'm ComradeOOhAah, I'm the alt of a long time user and the aspiring Lewd VR developer that was enlisted by Xi Jinping personally in order to build a VR Milking Dungeon to brainwash chuds like Jordan Peterson. You can see plenty of posts about that project over in [email protected]

That project is currently on hold as I was developing it for an adult toy called The Handy and I realized the userbase was rather small and that since I am hoping to turn this into a patreon thing to keep me from starving (where's my Xi Bucks? I don't know! China is collapsing any day now!) I should perhaps look towards a more accessible toy with a wider userbase.

So, for the past few months I've been working on an android media player (specifically the file browser) that will eventually be turned into a standalone VR Media Player that will eventually be turned into an experiment in creating point clouds from stereographic video for VR gloves to interact with and a VR Audio visualizer framework where I can experiment with synesthesia to play with people's arousal. (You probably didn't need all this info but I think I just laid out my definitive roadmap.)

The trick about this media player that I figured would get me some followers is that there are these files called FunScripts that sync rather expensive adults toys with movement on screen of adult videos. I've created a parser for those files and have adapted them to work with a large number of inexpensive vibrating toys sold on aliexpress. Everything is going great so far, took me the summer, but all that is done.

And then all progress came to a screeching halt. Before I release the first beta version I want to create a script that will check for updates. And a script for that will allow me to share news of other projects I'm working on, like the Milking Dungeon and all the other stuff I'm dreaming of creating. Plus I wanna figure out a way to show show Patreon supporters, that sort of stuff.

BUT I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW! I have spent weeks spinning my wheels messing around trying to visualize how best to present this information to the user. Do I create a whole new Information control panel where they can see different tabs (Updates, News, Supporters)? Should there be a new button on the side that only shows itself when there's an update available? All this shit going through my head for weeks putting me into a total doom spiral as I watch my bank account shrink and freak out that I'm never gonna release this thing.

And then today, while brushing my teeth, I had a flash of insight. It was perfect!

Are you ready for this gift of epic genius that the gods have bestowed upon me?

Before! (These are sfw)

After!

I'm not mad that it took me this long to realize I could adapt my current UI, but I hate that I can't remember the last time I was able to just create something without the worry of whether or not it was gonna make me money or not. I hate the constant feel of starvation looming overhead. I hate that everything around me is going to shit and I feel powerless to do anything. I hate that none of the leftist orgs around me are taking covid seriously. I hate that everyone around me is full in on the election spectacle. And I hate that I'm spending all this time beating myself up because I can't tell if I'm procrastinating or if I'm percolating. All I wanna do is make sex positive VR content for people to enjoy, not starve, and overthrow the bourgeoisie. I feel like that's a low bar!

Lol, as I was writing this and thinking about how much I wanted Xi to invade and hold me and tell me everything is going to be okay, I heard a bunch of crows cawing outside and I looked out and saw a Bald Eagle being absolutely bodied in midair. There must be about 5 crows going after this one big mfer. They got some really good hits in too! Chased it away from the nearby pond. lmao. Crows together strong.

Anyway, I'm done ranting. If you read this far thank you, I'm just very frustrated with existence and don't have anyone irl I can talk to about this stuff anymore.

Forgive me for the lack of dedication to the Revolution, Comrades. I'm afraid I've had some non-milking related work that needed doing. So, while I've gotten plenty done, I've not had time to do a devlog.

Today is a general gripe session, no behind the scenes CCP secrets today, just wanted to share some of the fun that comes from developing for the Meta Quest.

If you've been keeping up with things at all, you know that the Adult Toy I'm developing for is an internet enabled stroker that connects to a remote server for it's instructions. It uses a Connection Key to interact with this server, which means that for at least one part of my app's configuration a keyboard of some sort is required for the user to enter their Connection Key. Because the Meta uses Android, there's a built in keyboard option available that Unity uses. It takes a bit of finagling, But it works.

UNTIL META BROKE IT A COUPLE MONTHS AGO!

Luckily I found a workaround. Kinda.

https://communityforums.atmeta.com/t5/Unity-VR-Development/System-keyboard-not-opening-every-time-in-Meta-quest-3-device/td-p/1179306

Which introduced a new problem. This workaround messes up the input box so it doesn't make the inputted text readily available. Now I have to a manually get the text from the child of the input game object. Fine, I'm doing it!

Today, as I'm working my way through this and having half rewritten my API interface because for some reason, despite getting the Connection Key, it's still not working.

THEN MY APP SUDDENLY STOPS HAVING INTERNET ACCESS WHEN RUN ON THE QUEST!

Hours of troubleshooting later...

OH LOOK, ANOTHER KNOWN PROBLEM!

https://communityforums.atmeta.com/t5/Unity-VR-Development/UnityWebRequest-Not-Working-on-Quest-3-quot-cannot-resolve/td-p/1093537

Apparently when I updated the XR plugin a while ago, the most up to date version available from Unity still has the bug. And months later it just decided to fuck my shit up, fam.

So eventually, I do all the steps, upgrade the XR plugin to non-public version, I reboot a couple times, I manually update my manifest, I get internet back. What a day... My API still isn't working properly when I manually enter the Connection Key. wtf... Then I look at what my settings script is saving and there's some sort of new line or a line break in my JSON. Weird, but fine whatever, hazards of the keyboard workaround. I trim off new lines and returns and whatnot, IT'S STILL THERE!

Eventually, I figure out that for some reason the android keyboard or TMPro is adding Unicode character 8203 to the end of my Connection Key, which is a Zero Width Space character. I don't know what that is, but it's clearly reactionary. So now I'm Trimming that along with \r \n and that does the trick. Suddenly my Connection Key input flow is working. I can now test all the other stuff I've been working on that came to a screeching halt last month.

Bleah. I'll get a "real" OohAah devlog up one of these days. I've done some pretty cool stuff and despite being way past when I want to release the alpha for testing, things are coming along. I've also been buying cheap adult toys off AliExpress for a future project and have been messing around with that when I should really be working on the milker. Turns out using them are not going to be as easy I hoped. Long story short, for some reason the company making them set their bluetooth up in reverse, so they're not pairable and can only be controlled by making your device broadcast an advertising packet or something. Which is not easy in Unity. Bleah, I'll figure it out tho.

Thanks for reading, just had to vent. Hope y'all are doing well.