Just Another Quarantine Monday
Apr. 27th, 2020 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickMy report is as follows:
-->FINALLY got my stupid certification done on the Unemployment site -- I was going to call them, but then one of my coworkers texted some jokes to everyone, and I was worried I'd try to call and be constantly interrupted by people texting back. So I did the only thing I hadn't tried yet -- switching browsers.
And now the website is bookmarked on Google Chrome, because for whatever reason, it doesn't like Firefox anymore. *grumbles* Whatever. Certification worked, I am going to get money. That is the important bit.
-->Spent the rest of my morning doing my entire Newcrest Adventures update for the week! Yeah, all five posts, pictures AND text! So that's one less thing to worry about for my Victor Luvs Alice queue (beyond updating how many posts go out tomorrow evening). *thumbs up*
-->After lunch, mucked around online for a while, then booted up Sims 4 and went back to my new A-Maze-Ing Wonderland Park! I finished the "Deluded Depths" area today -- took QUITE a bit of fiddling (and resizing of objects), but it now has a pool (with lots of neat stuff floating in it, like fish, a spiky clam trap, some treasure chests, and a sized-down Shipwreck Shark) and a mini-"theater" with Mock Turtle, the fish couple, and Carpenter watching Walrus and some Oyster Starlets perform. I think it came out pretty nice! I still need to figure out how to fix my "Queensland" area (mainly, I think I need to rotate it), and how to fit in at least a small Looking-Glass Land chess-themed area and a Dollhouse area (I didn't download Haggy's "playable Dollhouses" not to use it!), but it's coming along! I also added in all my new Fallout CC and checked it out in-game -- my rocket bottles of Nuka-Cola are smaller than someone else's "standard" Nuka-Cola bottles. XD It's all very cool and I'm having a lot of fun. :D
-->YouTube Batch One:
A) Some more "companion reacts" and special moments from Fallout 4 from Fuzzy Ninja Llama (special meaning "a certain NPC has a bunch of different lines where she comments on your highest SPECIAL stat XD -- also, why is there no option to show the alien blaster to Jack Cabot? I think he'd flip)
B) A quick update video from Fantayzia saying "Hey, Slice Of Life is back up on KawaiiStacie's website and there's been an update with some bugfixes, go check it out!" So if I want to download that for my game, it's available again, yay. (The creator took it down after a minor stress breakdown -- she's slowly putting all her mods back up as she rediscovers her love for modding)
C) Plumbella does Sims 4 expert mode (because the video she'd PLANNED to record didn't go through) -- 8 Sims, fast forward only for a week. It started off well enough -- but then the dad set a meal on fire, and everything basically went to hell after that. Three people died, one glitched out into being a neighbor?, the two toddlers were taken away for neglect, and then on Saturday the mom died from another cooking fire, meaning only the kids were left, so that household was done. It was delightful to see her get into the chaos, only to start regretting it once everything started getting out of hand.
D) RT and Plumbella doing multi-player LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4! Not a match-up I expected, but hey. It was pretty amusing, with Plumbella constantly stealing Hermione from RT because apparently she's his favorite character, to them mocking Dumbledore and talking smack about Hagrid's umbrella-wand, to RT casually murdering students by levitating them and flinging them off high platforms. XD Now if only we could get Call Me Kevin into the mix. . .
E) Plumbella does another "random packs" challenge -- THIS time, the challenge is to build a house, randomizing what pack you can use every five minutes. The house ended up -- interesting, to say the least. XD I mean, she did the best with what she had on every change-over, but the final product had metal stairs indoors, a Voidcritter play area outside, no matching furniture, and no fridge for the kitchen. A wonderful place to live! XD
-->Wrote some more on "Londerland Bloodlines" after supper -- Alice has agreed to deal with Therese's ghost problem in exchange for calling off the feud with Tung. She's also entertained the possibility that her family might be ghosts if those are a thing. . . I can tell you right now, Alice, one of them is a lot more solid these days. XD Therese just has to give her a map and tell her how to get in, and Alice can proceed to getting that quest over and done with!
-->YouTube Batch Two:
A) The latest Fun With Shorts, "This is Color 2" -- which, as you might guess, is a sequel to another short and thus starts "in media res" as it were. The usual stuff about how light is a color spectrum and how certain materials absorb or reflect certain colors, peppered with constant commentary from Josh about how he's not in school anymore and doesn't have to care about this. XD
B) James Turner skipping forward a week in his ACNH LP to Bunny Day! Everything was eggs and pain, essentially, as he struggled to craft all the Bunny Day recipes to earn himself a special prize. Which turned out to be a special wand that he doesn't know how to create yet, so was it really worth the effort? Well, seeing him struggle to find more water eggs for his items was amusing, at least. . . XD Also, more turnips were bought and stored so he can conquer the market! No time travel shenanigans this time, though -- he'll do it the old-fashioned way.
C) James Turner showing off a house-building challenge he did -- a tiny home set between two townhouse shells! The idea is that someone bought up the alley between the two and made a little modern house there. It's only three tiles wide, but four stories of space -- and, somehow, he made it work. First floor is a little "foyer" and kitchen; second floor master bedroom with bathrooms and separate shower; third floor second bedroom with bathroom and shower; fourth floor a little living area. Everything's pretty cramped with the stairs, but he play-tested it all, so it does work. He also uploaded the shells by themselves to the gallery, so other people can do a "thin house" build if they want! Too cramped for me (plus I'm busy with my park), but maybe, if I get really bored one day. . .
-->After catching up on webcomics, spent a little time browsing the "fallout 4 mods" tag on tumblr -- and found an article someone wrote on modding Fallout 4 in 2020. Hmmmmmmm. . .this might be useful. . .
-->And then spent some time working on the Thursday post where I try to explain my idea about bringing a Bloodlines!Malkavian!Alice into Fallout!Sole Survivor!Victor's world. It has already expanded to include a) a low-Humanity Tremere using the blood bank area as blood storage, keeping it fresh via Blood Sorcery -- he objects to Victor's presence and there's a fight; b) a secret settlement of vampires made up of the protagonist models from Bloodlines that can be become friends with Victor and Alice; and c) turning Jack Cabot's "alien" artifact into a vampiric one and getting his help in overcoming Alice's sunlight problem. Haven't worked out all the details -- but as this is a "I'll write what I want when I want" AU, I don't really have to! XD
And that's about it, apart from me answering the comment waiting in my inbox. Tomorrow -- some Call Me Kevin and Gray Still Plays, a couple of other Fallout 4 videos I found (companion and faction leader free-for-alls!), and "Secundus 2." And taking another look at that modding guide. . . Night all!
-->FINALLY got my stupid certification done on the Unemployment site -- I was going to call them, but then one of my coworkers texted some jokes to everyone, and I was worried I'd try to call and be constantly interrupted by people texting back. So I did the only thing I hadn't tried yet -- switching browsers.
And now the website is bookmarked on Google Chrome, because for whatever reason, it doesn't like Firefox anymore. *grumbles* Whatever. Certification worked, I am going to get money. That is the important bit.
-->Spent the rest of my morning doing my entire Newcrest Adventures update for the week! Yeah, all five posts, pictures AND text! So that's one less thing to worry about for my Victor Luvs Alice queue (beyond updating how many posts go out tomorrow evening). *thumbs up*
-->After lunch, mucked around online for a while, then booted up Sims 4 and went back to my new A-Maze-Ing Wonderland Park! I finished the "Deluded Depths" area today -- took QUITE a bit of fiddling (and resizing of objects), but it now has a pool (with lots of neat stuff floating in it, like fish, a spiky clam trap, some treasure chests, and a sized-down Shipwreck Shark) and a mini-"theater" with Mock Turtle, the fish couple, and Carpenter watching Walrus and some Oyster Starlets perform. I think it came out pretty nice! I still need to figure out how to fix my "Queensland" area (mainly, I think I need to rotate it), and how to fit in at least a small Looking-Glass Land chess-themed area and a Dollhouse area (I didn't download Haggy's "playable Dollhouses" not to use it!), but it's coming along! I also added in all my new Fallout CC and checked it out in-game -- my rocket bottles of Nuka-Cola are smaller than someone else's "standard" Nuka-Cola bottles. XD It's all very cool and I'm having a lot of fun. :D
-->YouTube Batch One:
A) Some more "companion reacts" and special moments from Fallout 4 from Fuzzy Ninja Llama (special meaning "a certain NPC has a bunch of different lines where she comments on your highest SPECIAL stat XD -- also, why is there no option to show the alien blaster to Jack Cabot? I think he'd flip)
B) A quick update video from Fantayzia saying "Hey, Slice Of Life is back up on KawaiiStacie's website and there's been an update with some bugfixes, go check it out!" So if I want to download that for my game, it's available again, yay. (The creator took it down after a minor stress breakdown -- she's slowly putting all her mods back up as she rediscovers her love for modding)
C) Plumbella does Sims 4 expert mode (because the video she'd PLANNED to record didn't go through) -- 8 Sims, fast forward only for a week. It started off well enough -- but then the dad set a meal on fire, and everything basically went to hell after that. Three people died, one glitched out into being a neighbor?, the two toddlers were taken away for neglect, and then on Saturday the mom died from another cooking fire, meaning only the kids were left, so that household was done. It was delightful to see her get into the chaos, only to start regretting it once everything started getting out of hand.
D) RT and Plumbella doing multi-player LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4! Not a match-up I expected, but hey. It was pretty amusing, with Plumbella constantly stealing Hermione from RT because apparently she's his favorite character, to them mocking Dumbledore and talking smack about Hagrid's umbrella-wand, to RT casually murdering students by levitating them and flinging them off high platforms. XD Now if only we could get Call Me Kevin into the mix. . .
E) Plumbella does another "random packs" challenge -- THIS time, the challenge is to build a house, randomizing what pack you can use every five minutes. The house ended up -- interesting, to say the least. XD I mean, she did the best with what she had on every change-over, but the final product had metal stairs indoors, a Voidcritter play area outside, no matching furniture, and no fridge for the kitchen. A wonderful place to live! XD
-->Wrote some more on "Londerland Bloodlines" after supper -- Alice has agreed to deal with Therese's ghost problem in exchange for calling off the feud with Tung. She's also entertained the possibility that her family might be ghosts if those are a thing. . . I can tell you right now, Alice, one of them is a lot more solid these days. XD Therese just has to give her a map and tell her how to get in, and Alice can proceed to getting that quest over and done with!
-->YouTube Batch Two:
A) The latest Fun With Shorts, "This is Color 2" -- which, as you might guess, is a sequel to another short and thus starts "in media res" as it were. The usual stuff about how light is a color spectrum and how certain materials absorb or reflect certain colors, peppered with constant commentary from Josh about how he's not in school anymore and doesn't have to care about this. XD
B) James Turner skipping forward a week in his ACNH LP to Bunny Day! Everything was eggs and pain, essentially, as he struggled to craft all the Bunny Day recipes to earn himself a special prize. Which turned out to be a special wand that he doesn't know how to create yet, so was it really worth the effort? Well, seeing him struggle to find more water eggs for his items was amusing, at least. . . XD Also, more turnips were bought and stored so he can conquer the market! No time travel shenanigans this time, though -- he'll do it the old-fashioned way.
C) James Turner showing off a house-building challenge he did -- a tiny home set between two townhouse shells! The idea is that someone bought up the alley between the two and made a little modern house there. It's only three tiles wide, but four stories of space -- and, somehow, he made it work. First floor is a little "foyer" and kitchen; second floor master bedroom with bathrooms and separate shower; third floor second bedroom with bathroom and shower; fourth floor a little living area. Everything's pretty cramped with the stairs, but he play-tested it all, so it does work. He also uploaded the shells by themselves to the gallery, so other people can do a "thin house" build if they want! Too cramped for me (plus I'm busy with my park), but maybe, if I get really bored one day. . .
-->After catching up on webcomics, spent a little time browsing the "fallout 4 mods" tag on tumblr -- and found an article someone wrote on modding Fallout 4 in 2020. Hmmmmmmm. . .this might be useful. . .
-->And then spent some time working on the Thursday post where I try to explain my idea about bringing a Bloodlines!Malkavian!Alice into Fallout!Sole Survivor!Victor's world. It has already expanded to include a) a low-Humanity Tremere using the blood bank area as blood storage, keeping it fresh via Blood Sorcery -- he objects to Victor's presence and there's a fight; b) a secret settlement of vampires made up of the protagonist models from Bloodlines that can be become friends with Victor and Alice; and c) turning Jack Cabot's "alien" artifact into a vampiric one and getting his help in overcoming Alice's sunlight problem. Haven't worked out all the details -- but as this is a "I'll write what I want when I want" AU, I don't really have to! XD
And that's about it, apart from me answering the comment waiting in my inbox. Tomorrow -- some Call Me Kevin and Gray Still Plays, a couple of other Fallout 4 videos I found (companion and faction leader free-for-alls!), and "Secundus 2." And taking another look at that modding guide. . . Night all!
