Okay, NOW We Have Progress
Jul. 23rd, 2017 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chick-->More self-indulgent snippetry, though I've more or less wrapped up what I wanted from them, so tomorrow I can start working on actual "going to show people this" fic again
-->Watched all of Helloween's current S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat sets (one last night before going to bed, the others this afternoon -- the Zone has thrown an emission at Helloween every time, and he had to survive a merc ambush and the world's longest and most tedious 'escort protection' quest, but he got an awesome new anomaly scanner and some great new guns, and has made something of a name for himself in killing evil beasties) and his last two Nier: Automata sets (a curious chunk of the DLC examining the trials of a broken machine called Plato 1728 who formed a "friendship" with a doll and slaughtered everyone around him when the doll was destroyed, leading the other machines to be afraid of dolls and destroy them -- which ended in a MUSIC VIDEO of doll destruction, of all things; and a sum-up of all the "joke" endings he didn't get previously). This just leaves his new 8-bit Saturday RPG, The Illusion of Gaia -- two sets, both about an hour. And tomorrow's supposed to be rainy, so I should have plenty of time to catch up. w00!
-->Got out and about for a bit! The weather was beautiful today, and I couldn't stand spending all my time in my room. So I took a quick hike up the road to the nearest Dunkin Donuts and got myself a frozen hot chocolate. Nummy~ And my parents got a gift card from a couple of their friends for DD, so it didn't even cost me anything. :) And it was nice to walk around and explore the neighborhood a bit. Don't particularly like that there's no sidewalks, but what can you do.
-->Played Sims 4! Left it a little late, but it did happen. Emmett had the day off, so I had him go out on a date with Nikal. Got Silver status, mostly because, once again, things went well until Nikal randomly got up and left, then rejected Emmett's attempts to flirt once he found her again. And then she later started flirting again with him on her own. This hot-cold thing is starting to get on my nerves -- I honestly think I might have one of them "just friends" the other. It's really not worth the aggravation at this point. (If you're wondering how I got Silver when she was rejecting flirts, the main goal is just to socialize with your date. That I achieved easily. It was the smaller goals that gave me trouble, and I kinda gave up fulfilling them when I got irritated by Nikal's attitude.) Emmett also bought an observatory (cheaper than I expected!) and got himself another pretty sky print. So that was nice, at least. :)
-->Skim-read my friend Helen's latest Dirk Gently fic -- it's kinda long, and I had the videos to catch up on, but I read enough to really enjoy it and look forward to a second, more thorough read. :) And there's a delightful little shout-out to A:MR in one chapter that made me giggle.
So yeah, pretty good day over all. :) I still need to answer a few things, and there's some videos left in "watch later" that I'd like to watch (including Sim Supply's latest Parenthood sets), but progress has been made! Yay~
Okay, off to do the other things I need to do. Night all!
-->Watched all of Helloween's current S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat sets (one last night before going to bed, the others this afternoon -- the Zone has thrown an emission at Helloween every time, and he had to survive a merc ambush and the world's longest and most tedious 'escort protection' quest, but he got an awesome new anomaly scanner and some great new guns, and has made something of a name for himself in killing evil beasties) and his last two Nier: Automata sets (a curious chunk of the DLC examining the trials of a broken machine called Plato 1728 who formed a "friendship" with a doll and slaughtered everyone around him when the doll was destroyed, leading the other machines to be afraid of dolls and destroy them -- which ended in a MUSIC VIDEO of doll destruction, of all things; and a sum-up of all the "joke" endings he didn't get previously). This just leaves his new 8-bit Saturday RPG, The Illusion of Gaia -- two sets, both about an hour. And tomorrow's supposed to be rainy, so I should have plenty of time to catch up. w00!
-->Got out and about for a bit! The weather was beautiful today, and I couldn't stand spending all my time in my room. So I took a quick hike up the road to the nearest Dunkin Donuts and got myself a frozen hot chocolate. Nummy~ And my parents got a gift card from a couple of their friends for DD, so it didn't even cost me anything. :) And it was nice to walk around and explore the neighborhood a bit. Don't particularly like that there's no sidewalks, but what can you do.
-->Played Sims 4! Left it a little late, but it did happen. Emmett had the day off, so I had him go out on a date with Nikal. Got Silver status, mostly because, once again, things went well until Nikal randomly got up and left, then rejected Emmett's attempts to flirt once he found her again. And then she later started flirting again with him on her own. This hot-cold thing is starting to get on my nerves -- I honestly think I might have one of them "just friends" the other. It's really not worth the aggravation at this point. (If you're wondering how I got Silver when she was rejecting flirts, the main goal is just to socialize with your date. That I achieved easily. It was the smaller goals that gave me trouble, and I kinda gave up fulfilling them when I got irritated by Nikal's attitude.) Emmett also bought an observatory (cheaper than I expected!) and got himself another pretty sky print. So that was nice, at least. :)
-->Skim-read my friend Helen's latest Dirk Gently fic -- it's kinda long, and I had the videos to catch up on, but I read enough to really enjoy it and look forward to a second, more thorough read. :) And there's a delightful little shout-out to A:MR in one chapter that made me giggle.
So yeah, pretty good day over all. :) I still need to answer a few things, and there's some videos left in "watch later" that I'd like to watch (including Sim Supply's latest Parenthood sets), but progress has been made! Yay~
Okay, off to do the other things I need to do. Night all!
