Re:Building Together EP 341 — "People Over Pictures"

Baked tried to slap a Halloween mask overlay on his mech and the tool couldn't find his token — the same problem he thought got fixed months ago. His read: the site is pulling from the old contract. He's auditing the whole site that night and handing a full report over for updating, with CEELOS noting it's October and spooky-season overlays are exactly the thing that should be working right now.

CEELOS delivered his ReGames #2 feedback in full: he arrived mid-bingo with no idea how to select a card, stood in front of one that was already taken, then got dropped into capture the flag with a red ball floating over his head and no explanation of what to do with it. He eventually ran toward the blue side purely on instinct, heard people shouting about "that guy on the red team," and panicked.

The biggest problem wasn't the game — it was that nobody showed up on time, plus someone spawning in too much stuff and lagging the instance out. His alpha: be there ten minutes early, when the game creator, Sal, zGhostin and Baked are all around to run through basics. He didn't get to play either; everything was lagging for him.

Stuck, CEELOS called his son over, taught him W-A-S-D, and within five minutes the kid had figured out running, camera control and flying. Baked confirmed from across the map that he could tell exactly which avatar was which: one was soaring, the other was doing laps of the building's interior perimeter.

People kept telling Baked to get in the catapult right next to him; it simply wasn't rendering on his machine. Once things loaded he commentated capture the flag, then he and zGhostin wandered into a Yuga Labs event — a virtual version of the Bored Ape brick-and-mortar pop-up currently running in Korea. His takeaway: there's something going on in Otherside nearly 24/7 if you just jump in and start talking to people.

zGhostin offered to host a streaming session in Discord covering controls and fast travel. CEELOS's counter-suggestion: a pinned post on X or in Discord, because not everyone will show up to a live session — something anyone can be pointed to. He admitted it took him three minutes just to remember which key swaps your avatar.

Baked helpfully noted that the bottom right of the screen tells you to press one for controls. CEELOS: he pressed F1 repeatedly and only succeeded in dimming his screen, while his son watched. toomazingTM supplied the fix — Control+F1, because it's a laptop — which CEELOS took as proof of his entire point about assumed knowledge.

Recounting his e-bike crash: he hopped from street to sidewalk, nearly clipped a curb, and "instead of pressing the brake, I fucking pressed the throttle," launching himself into the grass. He lay there laughing at himself. CEELOS compared it to a certain demographic of driver; the grass is credited with saving an arm.

CEELOS confessed he'll ride anything except one specific coaster at Knott's with only a lap restraint — his daughters have stopped asking. On traveling fair rides he's out entirely, which prompted SLICK RIC, who works the fair circuit, to confirm that a lot of it is just pins, and that he wouldn't put his own kids on that stuff.

Before letting ValerieKates go, CEELOS posted photographic evidence from a Mexican-soul-food breakfast spot: the menu describes flautas as deep-fried flour tortillas. He promised that if he ever opens a restaurant, the flauta plate will be named "the Val." toomazingTM, separately, clarified he was getting taquitos — "not flautas, taquitos."