How Did The To-Do List Go?
Nov. 11th, 2017 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chick-->Garden City -- did that this morning! Turns out we needed to get a gift card from there to give to my cousin and his girlfriend as a Christmas gift. Getting up there was pretty okay -- getting AROUND the place? Oh cripes. Jam-packed full of cars -- we had to leave the main parking area and go into a back lot to get a spot and find what we were looking for. And then, trying to get out, we were briefly trapped by another woman trying to claim a parking space some other guy was trying to pull out of. . .then we ended up at that stupid exit that only has a stop sign and ended up having to loop back around a bit. . .then I nearly wasn't able to get into the right lane to get home. . .and then there was an accident on the highway that delayed us with some rubbernecking. . .and then I got stuck behind a guy with no brake lights and had to do a sudden stop when he stopped. . .simply put, it wasn't the most relaxing of trips. But we made it, gift card has been acquired, yay. All good driving practice -- just keep having to remind myself of that.
-->BioShock -- put in an hour in this afternoon. I really, REALLY hate Rosie Big Daddies. I'd only just got used to figuring out how to kill Bouncers, and now I'm back to ones with ranged weapons! One killed me multiple times before I could take it out. Being stuck with constantly-changing Plasmids doesn't help either -- I never seem to have a good one when I need it! *grumbles* But I managed to kill two in the opening area of Olympus Heights and save their Sisters (also one that unfortunately put its Sister back in her hidey-hole before I could take him down, so that felt like a waste). Although one Sister I almost couldn't find -- I'd killed her Daddy near a flooded spot right as he killed me, and when I headed back from the Vita Chamber, I could hear her crying, but couldn't see her. Turns out she was under the water in the flooded bit. *facepalm* Come on, game, work with me here. And I can't even spend my ADAM yet anyway, given the Plasmid situation. . .
At any rate, I'm in the second area now, Apollo Square. It's not looking like a friendly place, what with the corpses everywhere. Including one that was lynched. . . I DID, however, manage to execute a perfect Big Daddy-killing plan, making up for my mistakes in Olympus Heights. I saw the Daddy fighting some splicers and realized that was a great way to whittle down its health. So when I got the Hypnotize Big Daddy 2 Plasmid, I used it and had him follow me around fighting Splicers and getting set on fire. By the time the Plasmid wore out and he went to collect another Little Sister, he only had a sliver of health left -- easily taken care of with two exploding buckshots. Go me. I'm currently camped in a relatively quiet area after hacking a turret along the path I need to go and listening to it go nuts trying to shoot something -- not sure what. Hopefully I can get that second Lot 192 dose soon and go back to having my Plasmids fully under my control! (Though I might have to get myself Cyclone Trap 2. . .tried it out when it was my active Plasmid and wow, the way it flings enemies!)
-->YouTube videos -- watched a couple of things in my "Watch Later" queue, Helloween's latest Darkwood set (he has met a mushroom lady and will be doing some favors for her, and survived another night of terrors with very little effort required), and a video he did on the classic Splatterhouse 2 game (he got up to the sewers). Good times. I think tomorrow will be The Sim Supply's new "Wags to Riches" series -- and none too soon, as the video count is up to FIVE and they're all just over a half-hour. Even if I can't get Sims 4 to play (and trying to get Origin to work is one thing I DIDN'T get to), looks like I'll be marathoning it nonetheless! I also watched another Kubz Scout 60 Seconds game just for funsies.
-->"The Technicolor Phase" -- finished the latest Alice-POV section, with her learning about Emily from Victor and Victoria and asking if they can help her reunite with her family, which they are only too happy to do. Next up on that is the next Lizzie-POV section, where she meets Emily after Emily gets Victor's letter on the situation.
-->Usual cleaning -- check! And Mom vacuumed the living room yesterday, so I was off the hook for that bit. :)
-->Not freezing my ass off -- fortunately check. We were in the car most of the time around Garden City, and then I stayed inside with the heat the rest of the day. :p
-->Bonus thing: Chapter 15 of "Secundus" is now up on AO3! Forgotten how long it was -- and how many fandoms I shoved in there. Yikes. This is why I try to keep my crossovers to like a maximum of three with some cameos thrown in.
So yeah, pretty productive Saturday! Even if I did end up not RPing on ValiceMultiverse. . .eh, three-day weekend, I can probably make up for it tomorrow. VictorLuvsAlice queue is done, which helps. Time to see what else needs accomplishing before bed -- night!
-->BioShock -- put in an hour in this afternoon. I really, REALLY hate Rosie Big Daddies. I'd only just got used to figuring out how to kill Bouncers, and now I'm back to ones with ranged weapons! One killed me multiple times before I could take it out. Being stuck with constantly-changing Plasmids doesn't help either -- I never seem to have a good one when I need it! *grumbles* But I managed to kill two in the opening area of Olympus Heights and save their Sisters (also one that unfortunately put its Sister back in her hidey-hole before I could take him down, so that felt like a waste). Although one Sister I almost couldn't find -- I'd killed her Daddy near a flooded spot right as he killed me, and when I headed back from the Vita Chamber, I could hear her crying, but couldn't see her. Turns out she was under the water in the flooded bit. *facepalm* Come on, game, work with me here. And I can't even spend my ADAM yet anyway, given the Plasmid situation. . .
At any rate, I'm in the second area now, Apollo Square. It's not looking like a friendly place, what with the corpses everywhere. Including one that was lynched. . . I DID, however, manage to execute a perfect Big Daddy-killing plan, making up for my mistakes in Olympus Heights. I saw the Daddy fighting some splicers and realized that was a great way to whittle down its health. So when I got the Hypnotize Big Daddy 2 Plasmid, I used it and had him follow me around fighting Splicers and getting set on fire. By the time the Plasmid wore out and he went to collect another Little Sister, he only had a sliver of health left -- easily taken care of with two exploding buckshots. Go me. I'm currently camped in a relatively quiet area after hacking a turret along the path I need to go and listening to it go nuts trying to shoot something -- not sure what. Hopefully I can get that second Lot 192 dose soon and go back to having my Plasmids fully under my control! (Though I might have to get myself Cyclone Trap 2. . .tried it out when it was my active Plasmid and wow, the way it flings enemies!)
-->YouTube videos -- watched a couple of things in my "Watch Later" queue, Helloween's latest Darkwood set (he has met a mushroom lady and will be doing some favors for her, and survived another night of terrors with very little effort required), and a video he did on the classic Splatterhouse 2 game (he got up to the sewers). Good times. I think tomorrow will be The Sim Supply's new "Wags to Riches" series -- and none too soon, as the video count is up to FIVE and they're all just over a half-hour. Even if I can't get Sims 4 to play (and trying to get Origin to work is one thing I DIDN'T get to), looks like I'll be marathoning it nonetheless! I also watched another Kubz Scout 60 Seconds game just for funsies.
-->"The Technicolor Phase" -- finished the latest Alice-POV section, with her learning about Emily from Victor and Victoria and asking if they can help her reunite with her family, which they are only too happy to do. Next up on that is the next Lizzie-POV section, where she meets Emily after Emily gets Victor's letter on the situation.
-->Usual cleaning -- check! And Mom vacuumed the living room yesterday, so I was off the hook for that bit. :)
-->Not freezing my ass off -- fortunately check. We were in the car most of the time around Garden City, and then I stayed inside with the heat the rest of the day. :p
-->Bonus thing: Chapter 15 of "Secundus" is now up on AO3! Forgotten how long it was -- and how many fandoms I shoved in there. Yikes. This is why I try to keep my crossovers to like a maximum of three with some cameos thrown in.
So yeah, pretty productive Saturday! Even if I did end up not RPing on ValiceMultiverse. . .eh, three-day weekend, I can probably make up for it tomorrow. VictorLuvsAlice queue is done, which helps. Time to see what else needs accomplishing before bed -- night!
