Happy Birthday Christopher Lloyd!
Oct. 22nd, 2017 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAnd to my favorite mad scientist, Doc Brown! :D Yeah, couldn't let his birthday go by without a 10:04-er. And, thanks to Mom's baking yesterday, I even got to have cake and ice cream. :) Life is good.
Pretty low-key Sunday -- my parents went out for a bike ride mid-morning, and I hung around the house catching up on my YouTubery, mainly. Though I did go outside and spend a little time in the backyard to get some fresh air and sunshine. Got into the 80s today, shockingly enough. I swear, the weather is just getting more and more screwy. . .but you know me and my hatred for the cold, so I'll take whatever warmth is thrown at us.
YouTubery mainly consisted of catching up on my Helloween -- The Evil Within 2 and Secret of Mana. Helloween largely faffed about in the first, gathering up collectibles and running around investigating side missions. The game does seem to be an improvement on its predecessor, but there's still a fair whack of stuff that feels ripped off from other games, and Helloween already thinks the story is a load of bollocks. But he seems to be having a lot more fun than he did in the original, so that's good. The second -- well, he did a set that was nearly TWO FREAKING HOURS, so obviously he likes that one. :p Lot of running around the world, gathering weapon orbs, chain-casting spells to ruin the lives of enemies, running away from enemies whose lives refuse to be ruined, and failing to stop the villain's plans because this is a video game and you're never allowed to just do that unless it's final boss time. :p Good stuff, though I'm glad I took a couple of breaks while watching it. Don't need to feel completely brainwarped by the 16-bit.
In writing news, wrote a new entry for the "Victor gets a color from Barkis" story that instead takes place when he actually GOT the color, at the rehearsal. I'm probably going to rework what I originally wrote into Victoria's perspective instead -- after all, she would have gotten a color from him too. (Maybe she gets green, and only notices when the fire flares green because it's winter and thus there aren't many plants around?) Then we need a wrap-up story where I set up the OT3 thing, then I can get to getting Alice into the group. (And the side Lizzie/Bonejangles.) And here's me thinking this would be a simple side project I could switch to when things weren't going well with "Fixing You. . ." Still fun, though, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people think of it once it's postworthy.
And in video game news, I went ahead and bought the Spooky Stuff pack for Sims 4, so after Wheatley was done with work, I had him throw a Spooky Party! It was a pretty low-key one, as the household doesn't have a ton of money for decorations, but there were some cool costumes on display, the guests shared candy and watched a bad horror movie with Geeker, and pumpkins were carved! I was deeply amused when Alice (whom I invited mainly to have a neighborhood face in the guests) carved a cat pumpkin all on her own. XD It made Gold Level, which unlocked a special costume for them -- dunno when and where I'll wear it, but it's out there, so, yay. :) Ironically, given I'm a bit ahead on my Sims and I post them on Wednesdays, this update is going to go up AFTER Halloween -- but it's just the day after, so whatevs. :p
Right -- now that I'm done with the YouTube scene for a bit, it's time to catch up on some other websites, and do some queuing over on Valice Multiverse. Can't stay up too late, though -- driving test tomorrow! I'm trying not to be nervous. Helps if I don't think about it too much, so off to distract myself some more! Night all!
Pretty low-key Sunday -- my parents went out for a bike ride mid-morning, and I hung around the house catching up on my YouTubery, mainly. Though I did go outside and spend a little time in the backyard to get some fresh air and sunshine. Got into the 80s today, shockingly enough. I swear, the weather is just getting more and more screwy. . .but you know me and my hatred for the cold, so I'll take whatever warmth is thrown at us.
YouTubery mainly consisted of catching up on my Helloween -- The Evil Within 2 and Secret of Mana. Helloween largely faffed about in the first, gathering up collectibles and running around investigating side missions. The game does seem to be an improvement on its predecessor, but there's still a fair whack of stuff that feels ripped off from other games, and Helloween already thinks the story is a load of bollocks. But he seems to be having a lot more fun than he did in the original, so that's good. The second -- well, he did a set that was nearly TWO FREAKING HOURS, so obviously he likes that one. :p Lot of running around the world, gathering weapon orbs, chain-casting spells to ruin the lives of enemies, running away from enemies whose lives refuse to be ruined, and failing to stop the villain's plans because this is a video game and you're never allowed to just do that unless it's final boss time. :p Good stuff, though I'm glad I took a couple of breaks while watching it. Don't need to feel completely brainwarped by the 16-bit.
In writing news, wrote a new entry for the "Victor gets a color from Barkis" story that instead takes place when he actually GOT the color, at the rehearsal. I'm probably going to rework what I originally wrote into Victoria's perspective instead -- after all, she would have gotten a color from him too. (Maybe she gets green, and only notices when the fire flares green because it's winter and thus there aren't many plants around?) Then we need a wrap-up story where I set up the OT3 thing, then I can get to getting Alice into the group. (And the side Lizzie/Bonejangles.) And here's me thinking this would be a simple side project I could switch to when things weren't going well with "Fixing You. . ." Still fun, though, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people think of it once it's postworthy.
And in video game news, I went ahead and bought the Spooky Stuff pack for Sims 4, so after Wheatley was done with work, I had him throw a Spooky Party! It was a pretty low-key one, as the household doesn't have a ton of money for decorations, but there were some cool costumes on display, the guests shared candy and watched a bad horror movie with Geeker, and pumpkins were carved! I was deeply amused when Alice (whom I invited mainly to have a neighborhood face in the guests) carved a cat pumpkin all on her own. XD It made Gold Level, which unlocked a special costume for them -- dunno when and where I'll wear it, but it's out there, so, yay. :) Ironically, given I'm a bit ahead on my Sims and I post them on Wednesdays, this update is going to go up AFTER Halloween -- but it's just the day after, so whatevs. :p
Right -- now that I'm done with the YouTube scene for a bit, it's time to catch up on some other websites, and do some queuing over on Valice Multiverse. Can't stay up too late, though -- driving test tomorrow! I'm trying not to be nervous. Helps if I don't think about it too much, so off to distract myself some more! Night all!
