Metaverse check-in: Dan's VR headset and the stick-of-butter avatar

• Did Dan make any progress on the church-in-the-metaverse question this week?

Following up on last week's church-and-the-metaverse discussion, Dan reports buying a VR headset and poking around chat rooms as a stick-of-butter avatar. He says the experience made him reconsider the woman who felt molested in VR: she was not physically touched, but he now understands her sense of violation. The hosts debate freedom in virtual spaces — you can take the headset off, but offensive intent still reveals the heart — and share encounters with an obnoxious avatar, a seven-year-old who laid down metaverse safety rules, and two apparently praying people in a VR room. One host admits feeling like he accidentally assaulted someone while fumbling around in VR.