Decently Relaxing Saturday
Sep. 12th, 2020 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI mean, it's always nicer when I don't have to clean, of course. . . ;p But yeah, it was good weather, nice sunny day, and I accomplished everything on my little to-do list!
-->Watched all the YouTube I wanted to watch, and a bit more besides:
A) Though I listed three specific YouTube channels I wanted to watch today, I decided to start with a fourth – we had a double feature of Fun With Shorts post yesterday, and I needed to catch up!
1. "Senses of Man Part 1" – a dull narrator invades a cookout to talk about how we process various sensory information (not just the standard five, either – balance is mentioned, and touch is basically broken up into various receptors for temperature, pain, pressure, and whatnot), while Josh bemoans having a body and comments on how this is all really gross. :p
2. "The Hospital" – a terrible brown 70s short about kids in the hospital, starting with a boy who broke his leg falling from a tree before switching to a girl with appendicitis. Showcasing terrible 70s medical practices, and Josh making some pretty pointed jokes about the cost of health care near the end!
B) Then it was onto one of my listed "must-watches" – Linkara! After what sounds like from his twitter a pretty stressful move, he's back with some "Green Goblin" comics! (Or, well, he's uploading the video – I suspect the review itself was pre-recorded and he hasn't had time to put them up until now.) At any rate, this is an interesting one – a Paetron-sponsored look at some side "Clone Saga" content, featuring Phil Ulrich and his short stint as a HEROIC Green Goblin! Dude literally stumbled into Harry's secret lab in a warehouse, got drenched in the formula thanks to be startled by a rat, and decided he might as well take a suit and a glider and try to get into the crime-fighting business. We didn't see the whole short series (Linkara had the Patron pick six issues from the thirteen-issue run), but we did see his beginning, a few adventures in the middle, and his end as his equipment gets damaged and he decides he's not really up for this whole "superhero" thing. It was interesting stuff – not GREAT, as it has 90s silliness and bad artwork all over it, but I'm sorry the concept didn't get a better airing. And apparently poor Phil got tormented and turned into a supervillain after all that later on, so that sucks. :( Petition to let Phil be a hero again!
C) And then it was over to the Spiffing Brit, who has come back to Reanu Keeves in Fallout 4 to show off how you can get damn near infinite experience! As usual, it involves bugging out menus in the game – and it also involves everyone's favorite robot Ada! :D Specifically, what you need to do is start Ada's quest line to unlock the Robot Workbench, make a robot, drop all your goodies for making stuff in a container, give Ada a bunch of what remains – then, through quick timing, initiate trade AND edit your robot at the same time, leading to a situation where you can pseudo-mount a mod on the robot while actually trading with Ada, and get constant XP for doing so. You have to be careful of your controls, of course, and it does take a lot of trading back and forth to get anywhere (and if you want REAL XP, you have to take the Idiot Savant perk and hope it fires a lot), but if you're patient. . .well. Reanu went from Level 16 to Level 42, and later Level 69, just from this exploit. Spiffing promptly maxed out his melee potential (already broken from a previous video) and just went to town on a bunch of Super Mutants. Even trying to make it fair by not using his glitched-out super weapons didn't stop most of the enemies from going down VERY quickly. And now he's promising a future episode where, after getting the right equipment, Reanu is going to become basically immortal. . .
D) And then, finally, as promised, catching up on my GrayStillPlays, which included:
1. Another episode of Solar Smash, where Gray learns you can abuse the slow time feature to keep planet populations alive while you fuck with said planet – cue him seeing how many people will stay alive if he does things like slow-mo cut Earth in half, or take the bottom and top off to make a flat Earth. XD He also attempted to write "YEET" on both regular Earth and Techno-Earth, but neither worked out as planned, awww.
2. Then back to Universe Sandbox 2, so it doesn't get jealous of the above. Gray's trick in this game was to stop the Earth's rotation and see what happened – half of the planet getting encased in ice! And making the sun twice as hot doesn't really fix things. From there it was just a lot of playing around to see how fucked up he could make things while still having a chance of life on the planet – turns out under the right circumstances, you can have a chance of life WHILE THE PLANET'S IN A BLACK HOLE. So – encouraging? XD
3. Then to Pro Gymnast, which has a character editor AND a level editor for Gray to abuse! Not to mention, lots and lots of spinny wheels on which to crush a gymnast. . .poor Borntodie was squeezed into spaghetti a couple of times, flung straight through the earth, and rocketed into space based on an essentially INFINITE distance score. XD Gray was delighted, and rightfully so.
4. Then we're back to Stickman Annihilation 2, to smash more sticks! Well, we're back to the Stickman Annihilation series, anyway – I think this is a different entry than the one he's played before. This one has a VEHICLE EDITOR, you see. . . Gray proceeded to make ALL the cannon vehicles, from one super-long cannon and one super-short cannon on carriage wheels, to 100 cannons stacked on four all-terrain wheels. That last killed the fps and created damn near INFINITE points for him to unlock courses with. Even the premade vehicles were amazing, though – ever wanted to see a toilet smash into people and run them over? Now you can. And it's as great as you imagined.
5. And, finally, MORE HAPPY WHEELS! The theme was "savagery," the name was pain. Bottle throws where you get an ax to the head or a moon crushing you if you get it in the wrong spot. Bottle runs at 45 degree angles. A GrayStillPlays board full of infinite Bud Lights. This is what we have, and it is AMAZING. I think the only series I love more than this is Sims 4. XD
-->We had beanbag game fairly late in the day (my parents were out in the yard most of the day cutting dead branches off of trees) -- Dad won three games, Mom won one, and I won one. My throwing was definitely better today than yesterday! Hopefully we can keep up on our practice. XD
-->Played some Fallout 4, testing out a couple of new mods -- "Mod Configuration Manager," which is just a tool for adjusting the settings of compatible mods; and "Crafting Highlight Fix," which removes the weird highlights from the stuff you're crafting at the various benches. Unfortunately it doesn't fix the annoying static I get all over my screen which can sometimes make me feel sick, but I'm keeping it anyway because it is actually really nice to see whatever I'm making (food or guns or whatnot) in full freaking color. I also discovered how you play with HUD colors to try and see if I could adjust the static problem that way -- no dice, though I have now set everything to purple just cause. :p Also, can confirm another mod I installed earlier, which removes the ghoul corpses from Sunshine Tidings, does indeed work as expected. So that's nice. :) I've actually decided I'm not starting the Official Playthrough until late October (specifically, October 24th, as that's the day after the game starts in-universe -- I mean, if I can find the time to start it up on October 23rd after work, I will), so I have a little more time to install and test a couple more mods I find intriguing, and just play the game and make sure it won't explode. And to make a plan on how I want to tackle the "official playthrough" (less getting distracted by Minutemen stuff, for one thing!).
-->And currently I'm just doing a bit of the RP thing on Valice Multiverse, getting ready to write my progress report for the Sunday queue on Victor Luvs Alice, doing a character survey for Alice for later posting on VLA, and preparing to answer DW comments. Typical Saturday night stuff. Tomorrow -- another round of beanbag game, mostly likely; OXBox, Sims videos, and Call Me Kevin; and playing Sims 4 and doing Love Day with Chell and Wheatley. Not too different from today, honestly. *shrug* Fine by me. Night all!
-->Watched all the YouTube I wanted to watch, and a bit more besides:
A) Though I listed three specific YouTube channels I wanted to watch today, I decided to start with a fourth – we had a double feature of Fun With Shorts post yesterday, and I needed to catch up!
1. "Senses of Man Part 1" – a dull narrator invades a cookout to talk about how we process various sensory information (not just the standard five, either – balance is mentioned, and touch is basically broken up into various receptors for temperature, pain, pressure, and whatnot), while Josh bemoans having a body and comments on how this is all really gross. :p
2. "The Hospital" – a terrible brown 70s short about kids in the hospital, starting with a boy who broke his leg falling from a tree before switching to a girl with appendicitis. Showcasing terrible 70s medical practices, and Josh making some pretty pointed jokes about the cost of health care near the end!
B) Then it was onto one of my listed "must-watches" – Linkara! After what sounds like from his twitter a pretty stressful move, he's back with some "Green Goblin" comics! (Or, well, he's uploading the video – I suspect the review itself was pre-recorded and he hasn't had time to put them up until now.) At any rate, this is an interesting one – a Paetron-sponsored look at some side "Clone Saga" content, featuring Phil Ulrich and his short stint as a HEROIC Green Goblin! Dude literally stumbled into Harry's secret lab in a warehouse, got drenched in the formula thanks to be startled by a rat, and decided he might as well take a suit and a glider and try to get into the crime-fighting business. We didn't see the whole short series (Linkara had the Patron pick six issues from the thirteen-issue run), but we did see his beginning, a few adventures in the middle, and his end as his equipment gets damaged and he decides he's not really up for this whole "superhero" thing. It was interesting stuff – not GREAT, as it has 90s silliness and bad artwork all over it, but I'm sorry the concept didn't get a better airing. And apparently poor Phil got tormented and turned into a supervillain after all that later on, so that sucks. :( Petition to let Phil be a hero again!
C) And then it was over to the Spiffing Brit, who has come back to Reanu Keeves in Fallout 4 to show off how you can get damn near infinite experience! As usual, it involves bugging out menus in the game – and it also involves everyone's favorite robot Ada! :D Specifically, what you need to do is start Ada's quest line to unlock the Robot Workbench, make a robot, drop all your goodies for making stuff in a container, give Ada a bunch of what remains – then, through quick timing, initiate trade AND edit your robot at the same time, leading to a situation where you can pseudo-mount a mod on the robot while actually trading with Ada, and get constant XP for doing so. You have to be careful of your controls, of course, and it does take a lot of trading back and forth to get anywhere (and if you want REAL XP, you have to take the Idiot Savant perk and hope it fires a lot), but if you're patient. . .well. Reanu went from Level 16 to Level 42, and later Level 69, just from this exploit. Spiffing promptly maxed out his melee potential (already broken from a previous video) and just went to town on a bunch of Super Mutants. Even trying to make it fair by not using his glitched-out super weapons didn't stop most of the enemies from going down VERY quickly. And now he's promising a future episode where, after getting the right equipment, Reanu is going to become basically immortal. . .
D) And then, finally, as promised, catching up on my GrayStillPlays, which included:
1. Another episode of Solar Smash, where Gray learns you can abuse the slow time feature to keep planet populations alive while you fuck with said planet – cue him seeing how many people will stay alive if he does things like slow-mo cut Earth in half, or take the bottom and top off to make a flat Earth. XD He also attempted to write "YEET" on both regular Earth and Techno-Earth, but neither worked out as planned, awww.
2. Then back to Universe Sandbox 2, so it doesn't get jealous of the above. Gray's trick in this game was to stop the Earth's rotation and see what happened – half of the planet getting encased in ice! And making the sun twice as hot doesn't really fix things. From there it was just a lot of playing around to see how fucked up he could make things while still having a chance of life on the planet – turns out under the right circumstances, you can have a chance of life WHILE THE PLANET'S IN A BLACK HOLE. So – encouraging? XD
3. Then to Pro Gymnast, which has a character editor AND a level editor for Gray to abuse! Not to mention, lots and lots of spinny wheels on which to crush a gymnast. . .poor Borntodie was squeezed into spaghetti a couple of times, flung straight through the earth, and rocketed into space based on an essentially INFINITE distance score. XD Gray was delighted, and rightfully so.
4. Then we're back to Stickman Annihilation 2, to smash more sticks! Well, we're back to the Stickman Annihilation series, anyway – I think this is a different entry than the one he's played before. This one has a VEHICLE EDITOR, you see. . . Gray proceeded to make ALL the cannon vehicles, from one super-long cannon and one super-short cannon on carriage wheels, to 100 cannons stacked on four all-terrain wheels. That last killed the fps and created damn near INFINITE points for him to unlock courses with. Even the premade vehicles were amazing, though – ever wanted to see a toilet smash into people and run them over? Now you can. And it's as great as you imagined.
5. And, finally, MORE HAPPY WHEELS! The theme was "savagery," the name was pain. Bottle throws where you get an ax to the head or a moon crushing you if you get it in the wrong spot. Bottle runs at 45 degree angles. A GrayStillPlays board full of infinite Bud Lights. This is what we have, and it is AMAZING. I think the only series I love more than this is Sims 4. XD
-->We had beanbag game fairly late in the day (my parents were out in the yard most of the day cutting dead branches off of trees) -- Dad won three games, Mom won one, and I won one. My throwing was definitely better today than yesterday! Hopefully we can keep up on our practice. XD
-->Played some Fallout 4, testing out a couple of new mods -- "Mod Configuration Manager," which is just a tool for adjusting the settings of compatible mods; and "Crafting Highlight Fix," which removes the weird highlights from the stuff you're crafting at the various benches. Unfortunately it doesn't fix the annoying static I get all over my screen which can sometimes make me feel sick, but I'm keeping it anyway because it is actually really nice to see whatever I'm making (food or guns or whatnot) in full freaking color. I also discovered how you play with HUD colors to try and see if I could adjust the static problem that way -- no dice, though I have now set everything to purple just cause. :p Also, can confirm another mod I installed earlier, which removes the ghoul corpses from Sunshine Tidings, does indeed work as expected. So that's nice. :) I've actually decided I'm not starting the Official Playthrough until late October (specifically, October 24th, as that's the day after the game starts in-universe -- I mean, if I can find the time to start it up on October 23rd after work, I will), so I have a little more time to install and test a couple more mods I find intriguing, and just play the game and make sure it won't explode. And to make a plan on how I want to tackle the "official playthrough" (less getting distracted by Minutemen stuff, for one thing!).
-->And currently I'm just doing a bit of the RP thing on Valice Multiverse, getting ready to write my progress report for the Sunday queue on Victor Luvs Alice, doing a character survey for Alice for later posting on VLA, and preparing to answer DW comments. Typical Saturday night stuff. Tomorrow -- another round of beanbag game, mostly likely; OXBox, Sims videos, and Call Me Kevin; and playing Sims 4 and doing Love Day with Chell and Wheatley. Not too different from today, honestly. *shrug* Fine by me. Night all!
