Nothing stupid about not knowing something…just not trying to learn something is what I would call stupid.
That said…I would suggest you take the build in flight school and kinda do what all real pilots I know have done. Learn to walk, before trying to run.
If you are talking about VFR I am assuming you are not looking at flying a 747 at 36000ft back and forth accross the atlantic.
VFR is in principle simply flying by what you can see outside of the windows of your aircraft first and foremost. So after you have managed to fly your airplane around the local airport you can venture out a little further. The first thing you need for that is a map…not necessarily an aviation VFR chart, though that does provide much more information usefull for a pilot than a street or hiking map.
But with MSFS you can actually fly using a good street atlas and still get where you want to go.
Flying by VORs, NDBs is technically already flying by using instruments…beyond what is needed for VFR at least looking at FAA rules. Look inside the cockpit of a J3 Cub and you see what you need for Daytime VFR…one of the items is actually outside of the cockpit 
since the fuel gauge is not a gauge on the panel but a swimmer flag directly in the tank-cap.
I suggest learn that part of VFR flying first…and then add the other complexities later.