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Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 818 - I Found WoW in VR

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 818 - I Found WoW in VR
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV and Virtual Reality.
Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 818 - I Found WoW in VR
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Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 817 - Unaccompanied Minors

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 817 - Unaccompanied Minors
https://ctrlaltwow.blogspot.com/2025/01/recording-tuesday-january-14-2025-ctrl.html
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus talk about Video games both Virtual Reality and Flatscreen.
Grand Nagus:
We are in the middle of the New Year’s Event, called ‘Heavensturn’
 
I promptly used the tabletop dish in my new OCE house, this is how it looks on the table among others:  
I used the mugs from the Christmas event, as you can see, since i don’t have the reagents and materials on this character, yet, to craft coffee or tea cups, so i bought a few more Christmas mugs so i can use them.
 
As part of the event you can raffle for a fortune, good fortune or bad fortune, so i’m really happy with that. It’s just a cosmetic thing that doesn’t have any ingame power, just for fun.
I won the lottery on my Oceanic homeworld for a beach front house. It was a really nice new year's present.
Materia DC, Sephirot World, Ward 21 Plot 19. 
I don’t have a Message book yet, and the house is classified as ‘Under Renovation’ for now, but you are more than welcome to stop by.
 
 
 
 
 
I’ve been unlocking a few new submarine destinations in my FC Workshop.
Submarines and Airships are basically timed exploration missions that can take up to 1,5 IRL days to complete, depending on the speed of the vessel and how many destinations you visit. You level up your ships
 
AprilPvd in VR:
So I don’t think I wanna play with kids anymore. You get a lot of loud noises in the background and I messed up. He wasn’t giving clear. He was trying to order me around drop the anchor raise the anchor. Let’s just keep going nice and he was just very basically annoying and we ended up dying which happens I mean, gosh it’s just a game and then he ran back to tell everybody how awful I was.
Sail
 
Loaded money up on my steam account so that I could buy the blue coins in SAIL which I used for cosmetics. I wanted to make a purple boat. Turns out you cannot buy the coins on steam, and you can only buy them on the Meta version. I met a character was only level two so I immediately stop playing Steam and work to level up my Meta character. But there is the daily challenge in which you can earn blue coins, 101 challenge and between five and 50 when you spin a wheel. So I’ve been hopping onto the Steam version every day to complete the challenge, hoping to get enough of the blue coins, too get some cosmetics.
Ran into some awful kids using the N-word repeatedly and name the ship in word killer.
Event in Zenith 
Medieval Dynasty
 
Exercise 
HoloFit challenge 
Vehicles
 
Soapbox 
Legendary Tales!
PCVR RPG game that is expensive but beautiful
 
AprilPvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvdvr
https://www.youtube.com/aprilpvd
Shout Outs & Thank You
 
 

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 816 - Christmas

Recording Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 816 - Christmas 
Grand Nagus:
Path of Exile 2:
 
Early access has started.
Likely going to last between 6-12 months.
Access to Early Access will cost you $30.
You can buy Supporter Packs that include Early Access access.
Those are packs of cosmetic content that is usable for both versions of Path of Exile, though not all of it will be available for both, like lore related content for PoE2 is obviously not accessible / usable in PoE1.
All the items you buy in PoE1 carry over to PoE2, like cosmetic skins (other than the ones that are not available in PoE2 like spell skins of spells that are not in PoE2) and stash tabs. All of that is available for you to use once you start playing PoE2 right away.
Content that is not unlocked yet in PoE2, you  have to wait for it to be unlocked to use the related cosmetics.
 
I really like the game, although it’s more difficult at the start, so I had to farm some items and abilities to be able to beat some of the bosses. I like challenging content, but sometimes I think it’s a little too tough. But then, once I defeat a boss, it’s ok, it’s all about the challenge, and being able to just one-shot the bosses isn’t fun either.
 
Final Fantasy XIV:
 
Starlight Celebration, the in game Christmas event, is upon us.
Along with it, we get a Twitch collaboration to earn yourself a ingame mount if you gift a sub, or sub yourself, three times within the event period, the event duration is the same as the collaboration timeframe.
I really look forward to this event, since it’s the first one, since I started playing, that we get housing items that I really like to use in my house / apartment.
I like the theme surrounding the ‘Kinderpunsch’ items, and, as you can see from looking at the event banner in the show notes, it looks like there is heavy involvement of children this year.
I’ve heard people say that they can’t use housing items, because they don’t have a house, but, let me tell you, if you are kind of new to the game, or never really knew this about housing, there are two other options besides owning your own plot of land, aka having a house in game, that you can utilize to have your little home away from home.
An apartment - Each housing ward has one, technically two, if you count the sub-division too, apartment buildings where you can rent / buy, there is no such thing as renting in FFXIV, your own apartment, so it’s more of a condo. It will cost you 500,000 gil, it is one room, AND it has the big advantage, that it is NOT affected by the demolition rule, so it’s a permanent place for you to call home. It has a maximum item count of 100, so not too much, but it’s way better than nothing.
A FC room - Almost the same as an apartment, but you are tied to your FC for better or worse. Since it’s a non-permanent place, for the FC ties and all that, its cost is ‘only’ 300,000 gil. In every other way the FC room is identical to the apartment.
 
You can own both an apartment and a FC room, if you want, they are not mutually exclusive.
A couple of pictures from my apartment to show you what’s possible, and i’m by no means great at using space, i just do stuff like i want it, and execute the ideas i have and find elsewhere, so others are even better at decorating than i am, specially small spaces.
A picture of my Lalafell alt.
AprilPvd in VR:
 
They finally fixed a lot of the problems that co-op was having. There will be some people who won’t appreciate the fix, but it made me feel better.
The infinite harvestable glitch made everything much easier. I could just take wheat over to my windmill and said it to constantly grind flour and then sell a stack of the flour for almost 3000 gold.
Zenith
Blade to 62 all gear to 60 and both Legendary weapons to 65 because I actually got to join a group to take down the big boss. this actually took some doing because not too many people are still playing and the ball still playing not too many are doing the in content. It actually took me three tries to get in a group because it’s a group of eight and the first time I tried I was on the bench. The second time I actually got there late cause I forgot about the time, but the third time was a charm and even though on the third game, I got kicked out. I still manage to get enough of the marks of dreads to upgrade my second legendary weapon to 65. I had been going in occasionally to grind for the mats to create the radiant crest, which was the other part of the upgrade.
Sail
I also tried a game called Sail which is an open world where you can play with other people and actually got into a game with some kids. And while they were semi annoying, they were actually very helpful.
Fly
AprilPvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvdvr
https://www.youtube.com/aprilpvd
 

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 815 - Co-op versus Multiplayer

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 815 - Co-op versus Multiplayer
Show Notes: Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 815 - Co-op versus Multiplayer
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 815 - Co-op versus Multiplayer
Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.
Tour of Grand Nagus's Home in FFXIV with AprilPvd on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/nNTF_T-uTEo?si=N6C3rUTpSpgBys3V
Grand Nagus:
FFXIV Mobile:
 
New kitchen design:
After  over a decade of service my old office chair  is being retired and replaced by this:
AprilPvd in VR:
Flatscreening in Final Fantasy XIV
 
Medieval Dynasty
 
Working out in VR
 
 
Hunting Simulator
 
My Pokemon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AprilPvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvdvr
https://www.youtube.com/aprilpvd
 

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 814 - Happy Birthday Grand Nagus

Recording Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 814 - Happy Birthday Grand Nagus
What do we want in a video game?
Quests multiplayer, consistent world
AprilPvd in VR
Final Fantasy VR Try
Medieval Dynasty
Medieval Dynasty Coop Playtest
 
Zenith 
Freeland
 
Exercise 
Sailing
 
DOE
DeRail Valley
Grand Nagus:
I play on Halicarnassus on Dynamis Data Center.
 
FFXIV patch 7.1 launched today
Minimalist interior design added
Interior design change added
 
Stargazer Deck 
AprilPvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvdvr
https://www.youtube.com/aprilpvd

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 813 - The World Turned Upside Down

Recording Monday, October 1, 2024
 
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 813 - The World Turned Upside Down
AprilPvd is Virtual Reality
I will eventually record Live on our Twitch.tv page http://twitch.tv/aprilpvdvr. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.
Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 813 - The World Turned Upside Down
What I’ve Been Doing:
Zenith is out and Freeland is in.
 
Medieval Dynasty
 
Riff XR
 
FreeLand
 
Exercising in VR
FitXR
LiteSport
HoloFit
AprilPvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvdvr
https://www.youtube.com/aprilpvd
 

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 812 - It Is What It Is

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 812 - It Is What It Is (Video)
AprilPvd is Virtual Reality
I will eventually record Live on our Twitch.tv page http://twitch.tv/aprilpvdvr. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.
 
What I’ve Been Doing:
Ctrl Alt WoW episode 812 it is what it is 
Today’s episode I am trying something new. I want to show you what it’s like for me virtual reality in multiple ways. Start off with me playing Zenith because as you can see from the video of me in real life, I am actually moving my body instead of just hitting.
 Next, I’m gonna show you something I do with the 360° camera using the Insta360 1X2
And now we go into Medieval Dynasty, which is a simulation. It’s not so much as a game more like a little experience or a simulation. When I am in Medieval Dynasty I feel like I’m in an actual place and I just do things that make me content. I farm I build I decorate. Sometimes I just go in and move buildings around to my knees. It’s almost like The Sims in that respect.
Access any kind of way is hard. VR really helped me, especially during the pandemic and now that I’m on a small budget I have a trainer I can go to and a gym. I can travel to different places on my elliptical while getting exercise. 
FitXR
LiteSport 
Holofit
Well, I was enjoying doing the audio podcast. I just felt like it wasn’t enough to really have you experience what I do in VR. I hope this here’s a better idea.
AprilPvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvd
https://www.twitch.tv/aprilpvdvr
https://www.youtube.com/aprilpvd
https://www.youtube.com/thataprilpvd
 
 
 

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 811 - What’s Wrong With VR - Nothing

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 811 - What’s Wrong With VR - Nothing
Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 811 - What’s Wrong With VR - Nothing
AprilPvd talks about her week in Virtual Reality. Join her in her journey in VR over the past 5 years, her gameplay in Zenith and her passion in life. 
VR is Life! Sober is a valid lifestyle choice!
You can also find her on YouTube at Youtube.com/AprilPvd
Streaming Zenith Daily on Twitch.tv/AprilPvd
CtrlAltWow@gmail.com

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 810 - Clan of Darkness is Back

Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 810 - Clan of Darkness is Back
AprilPvd talks about her week in Virtual Reality. Join her in her journey in VR over the past 5 years, her gameplay in Zenith and her passion in life. 
VR is Life! Sober is a valid lifestyle choice!
You can also find her on YouTube at Youtube.com/AprilPvd
Streaming Zenith Daily on Twitch.tv/AprilPvd
CtrlAltWow@gmail.com

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 809 - Quest is Way More Sociable Than Apple Vision Pro

Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 809 - Quest is Way More Sociable Than Apple Vision Pro
AprilPvd talks about her week in Virtual Reality. Join her in her journey in VR over the past 5 years, her gameplay in Zenith and her passion in life. 
VR is Life! Sober is a valid lifestyle choice!
You can also find her on YouTube at Youtube.com/AprilPvd
Streaming Zenith Daily on Twitch.tv/AprilPvd
CtrlAltWow@gmail.com