Happy Unofficial BTTF Day!
Oct. 4th, 2020 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAnd it's doubly so this year -- not only is it 10/04, but -- according to my work calendar which tracks how many days have passed and how many days are left in the year -- there are now 88 days remaining in 2020! So yeah! XD You gotta take the little things, especially in this year. I didn't do anything particularly BTTF-related, admittedly, but I did wear my "Save the Clocktower" shirt and a pair of my BTTF socks, so -- some celebration. :)
Perhaps because of the date, it turned out to be a pretty decent Sunday overall, minus a few annoyances:
-->Spent the morning chilling out with my smoothie and whatnot -- at least until I started making my bed and started listening to a lot of my harder rock/alternative stuff XD
-->After lunch, started with the YouTube (having learned my lesson last week about the hour when Jon from Many A True Nerd posts) and continued throughout the day:
A) Starting with some OXBox and OXTra! We all love them, right? Anyway, the two list videos of the day were:
1. "7 Irritating Problems Video Games Suddenly Have Now" – always online as an anti-piracy measure! Long installations! Day One patches as big as the game itself! So many accounts on so many sites to juggle! Daily rewards to stress you out! Special editions out the wazoo! LOOOOOOOT BOXES! Yeah, uh, there's a lot to hate about trying to play video games these days, sadly. :( Though my favorite bit was actually the segment on insane numbers of special editions – did you know Red Dead Redemption 2 released a special edition full of fancy goodies – and didn't include the actual game?! What the ever-loving – uuugh. This is why I stick to a few core games, so I don't have to put up with too much of this bullshit.
2. "7 Worst Gangs In Games You Should Definitely Not Join" – I thought for sure that the "Tunnel Snakes" (a minor gang led by the PC's bully, Butch, in Vault 101) from Fallout 3 would be featured, but nope! DIFFERENT Fallout 3 gang that is actually themed around ice hockey. Which they seem to think was a blood sport (well, an OFFICIAL blood sport). Between them and Moe and his "swatters" in Fallout 4 . .do all citizens of the various wastelands that make up post-apocalypse America think our sports were all about killing each other?? I mean, with the Kings from Fallout: New Vegas (also on the list), at least finding a whole school for learning about Elvis COULD be reasonably construed as people worshiping the guy. . . Ah well. At least they're not art snob mimes (yes, an actual entry on the list – video games are WEIRD).
B) Then it was back on the treadmill today after beanbag game, so it was back to Jon from Many A True Nerd's Fallout 4 Survival playthrough! I finished off Part III with his raid on Station Olivia for the Abernathys, which went pretty well despite him accidentally activating some raiders he didn't want to activate (fortunately molotovs saved him there) and sneaking RIGHT BEHIND Ack Ack's back (a named raider leader who has a minigun – I know what a pain in the ass she is, and am shocked Jon managed to get off a one-shot kill on her back. I, um, really have to revise my opinion on Laser Muskets). Anyway, he grabbed the locket, returned it, then went back to Sanctuary to drink some river water (which irradiated him and made him sick – fortunately he had spare antibiotics) and get a good night's sleep. Part IV opened up with him going to Corvega to take care of the raiders there, and running across a disagreement between two people in a diner (I believe it's a drug dealer, Wolfgang, and the woman who's son he helped hook on drugs). Jon TRIED to be persuasive in his red dress, but didn't succeed – he JUST survived with a shattered arm and leg. And then, as he tried to sneak into Corvega through a pipe, he ended up attracting the attention of a raider with a Fat Man and got nuked. XD At least he got to redo his confrontation with Wolfgang at the diner and take care of him and his friend via Molotov. And then he got into Corvega through the secret pipe entrance, only to discover that is a terrible idea because there are both more feral ghouls than he anticipated, and more raiders. So far, only the one death, but we'll see how long that lasts!
C) Then it was onto Jon's "Season of Fallout 4" Sunday offering – which was "Fallout 4: The Great Sunken Treasure Hunt!" Yeah, apparently he needs another week to finish "Fallout 4 Is Better Than You Think" Part 2. But hey, I had a lot of fun with this video, as he made a "deep sea diver" build who spent almost all of her time in the water with the help of Aquagirl (which stops you getting irradiated by water and lets you breathe underwater – it's basically an extremely OP perk) and explored all the bodies of water around the base game area and Far Harbor! Made a number of interesting discoveries, such as a number of little floating settlements where people tried to make a go of things on sea (including growing crops in bathtubs and whatnot!); a bunch of sunken cargo ships; and, in Far Harbor, the Creepy Mannequin Boat of Doom. XD It was fascinating, and really makes me want to explore the world more! There's so much to see and do! :D Plus, he got a lot of useful information for an upcoming series of his – You Only Live Once, where death is the end, so he's got to be very, VERY careful about how he handles things. Traveling by water might keep him alive, since there are no "swimming" enemies, nor enemies that can follow you into deep water (you'd think mirelurks could, but apparently not. . .). I'm looking forward to it!
D) Then it was time for some Call Me Kevin, featuring:
1. More Among Us! This time we were on the game show Kill That Colour, where Kevin spun a virtual wheel with all the colors available in the game, and did his best to kill that color first whenever possible. He even did a whole intro for it! XD After a few initial stumbles (namely, the people of the color he was trying to kill constantly leaving the games he was in), Kevin got a good streak of either getting people ejected (as a Crewmate) or just killing them outright (as an Impostor) – and then Jay came into his life. Little Jay, who was new to the game and very sweet and polite. Kevin immediately took him under his wing, giving him tips and whatnot, and even defying the color wheel when it came up with Jay's color (brown). Sadly, the host closed the room due to inactivity after a few games, so Jay joins the rest of Kevin's AU friends in the void, but it was nice while it lasted. :p
2. And Medieval Dynasty, a game where you have to survive in medieval Poland and I think eventually start your own village? Look, it's a first-person survival sim, I was expecting something turn-based like the Civilization games, we're all confused. Except Kevin, who made good use of his time punching and skinning other people's geese and cows, before taking off all his clothes while looking for a wife. XD Yeah, he wasn't particularly well-liked in the village he started out in! But he did successfully hunt rabbits and deer, and build himself a little house on the river, so – progress? *shrug* We'll see if he does anything more with it!
-->I also played some Fallout 4, after the initial OX videos -- and this, sadly, is where some of the disappointment came in. I'll break it down for you:
A) Had a slow-loading Steam convince me to restart my computer, the combination of which ate up a half-our of my time
B) Loaded up the game with that "Crafting Pack Combined" mod still enabled to try and get through all the crafting menus to see if there was ANYTHING I missed in regards to finding the missing crafting stations -- and partway through, the game froze, forcing me to end it through the task manager.
C) Restarted, kept going through the menus for a while -- and then went "screw it, I have a limited amount of time here before we do beanbag game, I can't search forever for these things." Went out, disabled the mod, and downloaded one of the littler mods that makes it up -- the "Atelier -- Be An Artist" one. Reloaded a save before I went looking for the magazines, went back to the Boston Library (killing some Rust Devils and Mechanist robots along the way), then found the magazine and went back to Sanctuary. Now, this mod did work -- I found the crafting stations (paint mixer and an easel) in the right places, and I was able to use them.
And that's when I discovered that, due to the artist stuff giving you the "Well-Rested" perk as one of its bonuses, the animation and sound cue for said perk will play on your screen.
MULTIPLE TIMES IN A ROW.
This is only a thing with the Easel, fortunately, but it starts while you're in the menu choosing the painting you want to make, and continues for a good few seconds onward, and it is REALLY ANNOYING. Also, while you can make paintings, they just appear in your inventory as rolled-up bits of paper. I tried dropping it and moving it around in workshop mode, but I couldn't get it to turn into an actual painting on the wall. I thought this mod let you make ACTUAL PAINTINGS?? That's part of the reason I got it! (Other part being -- Victor's artistic as well as musical, wanted to represent both parts of his personality.)
Best part is -- there's no point in my complaining, as the creator of the mod has marked it, and all his other crafting mods that were in the pack, as "Unsupported." *sigh* I might leave it in just to have like a "decorative" easel in Victor's house, and easels for settlers to paint on for increased settlement happiness, but I'm not certain yet. Definitely not bothering with any of the other crafting mods, though. Worried their glitches might be WORSE. Instead, I have a new mod that adds more cooking recipes to try out next weekend, and HOPEFULLY along with that, the weather mod. And then I will be DONE MODDING, harrumph. Taken me long enough, huh? XD
So yeah -- tl;dr version is that the combined mod still doesn't work; one of the separate mods does but has an annoying glitch that, due to the creator removing support, is unlikely to be fixed. Sign that I should probably stop trying to find ways to make the game more like Sims 4 and just get going playing it. XD
-->Played the beanbag game after that -- Dad and I both won two games, and Mom won one. :) We had a surprising number of shootouts too, both to win and for second place. We're all getting a lot better at cornhole, and it shows! Good times~
-->As stated, did a walk on the treadmill -- though I accidentally jarred the safety key loose at one point, so technically I did two walks. Did around two miles -- I'm not sure how far along I was when I knocked out the key, but I know it was over halfway, so I set the second walk up for .8 miles. So I probably did a little more than two -- hey, justified the brownie with ice cream I had tonight. :p
-->Wrote some more on "Londerland Bloodlines" -- Alice has checked in with Knox, telling him the Cathayan is taken care of, and bringing him up to speed with what's happening with Arthur and Carson. Guy's a little stunned, to say the least. XD She's currently facing the music with Therese, who is going to be deeply confused when Alice is genuinely contrite and gives her the ghost stuff with no expectation of a favor back. XD Because that's not how vampires work, usually. . .of course, Alice is VERY new. . .
-->And now, having finished up the evening YouTube, I'm setting up my Valice Multiverse queue, answering messages, and catching up on webcomics. As you do on a Sunday night. Gotta wrap up everything by 11:30, of course, since it is a work day tomorrow. . .meeh. Hopefully it'll be a decent Monday where I don't get out super-late. Five days of work this week. . .but I do have a three-day weekend immediately following because of Columbus Day, so that's something to look forward to. All long weekends are good weekends, and it's nice when I don't have to spend the vacation days to get them. :P
So yeah -- time to make sure I have answered all the things I can reasonably answer! Night all!
Perhaps because of the date, it turned out to be a pretty decent Sunday overall, minus a few annoyances:
-->Spent the morning chilling out with my smoothie and whatnot -- at least until I started making my bed and started listening to a lot of my harder rock/alternative stuff XD
-->After lunch, started with the YouTube (having learned my lesson last week about the hour when Jon from Many A True Nerd posts) and continued throughout the day:
A) Starting with some OXBox and OXTra! We all love them, right? Anyway, the two list videos of the day were:
1. "7 Irritating Problems Video Games Suddenly Have Now" – always online as an anti-piracy measure! Long installations! Day One patches as big as the game itself! So many accounts on so many sites to juggle! Daily rewards to stress you out! Special editions out the wazoo! LOOOOOOOT BOXES! Yeah, uh, there's a lot to hate about trying to play video games these days, sadly. :( Though my favorite bit was actually the segment on insane numbers of special editions – did you know Red Dead Redemption 2 released a special edition full of fancy goodies – and didn't include the actual game?! What the ever-loving – uuugh. This is why I stick to a few core games, so I don't have to put up with too much of this bullshit.
2. "7 Worst Gangs In Games You Should Definitely Not Join" – I thought for sure that the "Tunnel Snakes" (a minor gang led by the PC's bully, Butch, in Vault 101) from Fallout 3 would be featured, but nope! DIFFERENT Fallout 3 gang that is actually themed around ice hockey. Which they seem to think was a blood sport (well, an OFFICIAL blood sport). Between them and Moe and his "swatters" in Fallout 4 . .do all citizens of the various wastelands that make up post-apocalypse America think our sports were all about killing each other?? I mean, with the Kings from Fallout: New Vegas (also on the list), at least finding a whole school for learning about Elvis COULD be reasonably construed as people worshiping the guy. . . Ah well. At least they're not art snob mimes (yes, an actual entry on the list – video games are WEIRD).
B) Then it was back on the treadmill today after beanbag game, so it was back to Jon from Many A True Nerd's Fallout 4 Survival playthrough! I finished off Part III with his raid on Station Olivia for the Abernathys, which went pretty well despite him accidentally activating some raiders he didn't want to activate (fortunately molotovs saved him there) and sneaking RIGHT BEHIND Ack Ack's back (a named raider leader who has a minigun – I know what a pain in the ass she is, and am shocked Jon managed to get off a one-shot kill on her back. I, um, really have to revise my opinion on Laser Muskets). Anyway, he grabbed the locket, returned it, then went back to Sanctuary to drink some river water (which irradiated him and made him sick – fortunately he had spare antibiotics) and get a good night's sleep. Part IV opened up with him going to Corvega to take care of the raiders there, and running across a disagreement between two people in a diner (I believe it's a drug dealer, Wolfgang, and the woman who's son he helped hook on drugs). Jon TRIED to be persuasive in his red dress, but didn't succeed – he JUST survived with a shattered arm and leg. And then, as he tried to sneak into Corvega through a pipe, he ended up attracting the attention of a raider with a Fat Man and got nuked. XD At least he got to redo his confrontation with Wolfgang at the diner and take care of him and his friend via Molotov. And then he got into Corvega through the secret pipe entrance, only to discover that is a terrible idea because there are both more feral ghouls than he anticipated, and more raiders. So far, only the one death, but we'll see how long that lasts!
C) Then it was onto Jon's "Season of Fallout 4" Sunday offering – which was "Fallout 4: The Great Sunken Treasure Hunt!" Yeah, apparently he needs another week to finish "Fallout 4 Is Better Than You Think" Part 2. But hey, I had a lot of fun with this video, as he made a "deep sea diver" build who spent almost all of her time in the water with the help of Aquagirl (which stops you getting irradiated by water and lets you breathe underwater – it's basically an extremely OP perk) and explored all the bodies of water around the base game area and Far Harbor! Made a number of interesting discoveries, such as a number of little floating settlements where people tried to make a go of things on sea (including growing crops in bathtubs and whatnot!); a bunch of sunken cargo ships; and, in Far Harbor, the Creepy Mannequin Boat of Doom. XD It was fascinating, and really makes me want to explore the world more! There's so much to see and do! :D Plus, he got a lot of useful information for an upcoming series of his – You Only Live Once, where death is the end, so he's got to be very, VERY careful about how he handles things. Traveling by water might keep him alive, since there are no "swimming" enemies, nor enemies that can follow you into deep water (you'd think mirelurks could, but apparently not. . .). I'm looking forward to it!
D) Then it was time for some Call Me Kevin, featuring:
1. More Among Us! This time we were on the game show Kill That Colour, where Kevin spun a virtual wheel with all the colors available in the game, and did his best to kill that color first whenever possible. He even did a whole intro for it! XD After a few initial stumbles (namely, the people of the color he was trying to kill constantly leaving the games he was in), Kevin got a good streak of either getting people ejected (as a Crewmate) or just killing them outright (as an Impostor) – and then Jay came into his life. Little Jay, who was new to the game and very sweet and polite. Kevin immediately took him under his wing, giving him tips and whatnot, and even defying the color wheel when it came up with Jay's color (brown). Sadly, the host closed the room due to inactivity after a few games, so Jay joins the rest of Kevin's AU friends in the void, but it was nice while it lasted. :p
2. And Medieval Dynasty, a game where you have to survive in medieval Poland and I think eventually start your own village? Look, it's a first-person survival sim, I was expecting something turn-based like the Civilization games, we're all confused. Except Kevin, who made good use of his time punching and skinning other people's geese and cows, before taking off all his clothes while looking for a wife. XD Yeah, he wasn't particularly well-liked in the village he started out in! But he did successfully hunt rabbits and deer, and build himself a little house on the river, so – progress? *shrug* We'll see if he does anything more with it!
-->I also played some Fallout 4, after the initial OX videos -- and this, sadly, is where some of the disappointment came in. I'll break it down for you:
A) Had a slow-loading Steam convince me to restart my computer, the combination of which ate up a half-our of my time
B) Loaded up the game with that "Crafting Pack Combined" mod still enabled to try and get through all the crafting menus to see if there was ANYTHING I missed in regards to finding the missing crafting stations -- and partway through, the game froze, forcing me to end it through the task manager.
C) Restarted, kept going through the menus for a while -- and then went "screw it, I have a limited amount of time here before we do beanbag game, I can't search forever for these things." Went out, disabled the mod, and downloaded one of the littler mods that makes it up -- the "Atelier -- Be An Artist" one. Reloaded a save before I went looking for the magazines, went back to the Boston Library (killing some Rust Devils and Mechanist robots along the way), then found the magazine and went back to Sanctuary. Now, this mod did work -- I found the crafting stations (paint mixer and an easel) in the right places, and I was able to use them.
And that's when I discovered that, due to the artist stuff giving you the "Well-Rested" perk as one of its bonuses, the animation and sound cue for said perk will play on your screen.
MULTIPLE TIMES IN A ROW.
This is only a thing with the Easel, fortunately, but it starts while you're in the menu choosing the painting you want to make, and continues for a good few seconds onward, and it is REALLY ANNOYING. Also, while you can make paintings, they just appear in your inventory as rolled-up bits of paper. I tried dropping it and moving it around in workshop mode, but I couldn't get it to turn into an actual painting on the wall. I thought this mod let you make ACTUAL PAINTINGS?? That's part of the reason I got it! (Other part being -- Victor's artistic as well as musical, wanted to represent both parts of his personality.)
Best part is -- there's no point in my complaining, as the creator of the mod has marked it, and all his other crafting mods that were in the pack, as "Unsupported." *sigh* I might leave it in just to have like a "decorative" easel in Victor's house, and easels for settlers to paint on for increased settlement happiness, but I'm not certain yet. Definitely not bothering with any of the other crafting mods, though. Worried their glitches might be WORSE. Instead, I have a new mod that adds more cooking recipes to try out next weekend, and HOPEFULLY along with that, the weather mod. And then I will be DONE MODDING, harrumph. Taken me long enough, huh? XD
So yeah -- tl;dr version is that the combined mod still doesn't work; one of the separate mods does but has an annoying glitch that, due to the creator removing support, is unlikely to be fixed. Sign that I should probably stop trying to find ways to make the game more like Sims 4 and just get going playing it. XD
-->Played the beanbag game after that -- Dad and I both won two games, and Mom won one. :) We had a surprising number of shootouts too, both to win and for second place. We're all getting a lot better at cornhole, and it shows! Good times~
-->As stated, did a walk on the treadmill -- though I accidentally jarred the safety key loose at one point, so technically I did two walks. Did around two miles -- I'm not sure how far along I was when I knocked out the key, but I know it was over halfway, so I set the second walk up for .8 miles. So I probably did a little more than two -- hey, justified the brownie with ice cream I had tonight. :p
-->Wrote some more on "Londerland Bloodlines" -- Alice has checked in with Knox, telling him the Cathayan is taken care of, and bringing him up to speed with what's happening with Arthur and Carson. Guy's a little stunned, to say the least. XD She's currently facing the music with Therese, who is going to be deeply confused when Alice is genuinely contrite and gives her the ghost stuff with no expectation of a favor back. XD Because that's not how vampires work, usually. . .of course, Alice is VERY new. . .
-->And now, having finished up the evening YouTube, I'm setting up my Valice Multiverse queue, answering messages, and catching up on webcomics. As you do on a Sunday night. Gotta wrap up everything by 11:30, of course, since it is a work day tomorrow. . .meeh. Hopefully it'll be a decent Monday where I don't get out super-late. Five days of work this week. . .but I do have a three-day weekend immediately following because of Columbus Day, so that's something to look forward to. All long weekends are good weekends, and it's nice when I don't have to spend the vacation days to get them. :P
So yeah -- time to make sure I have answered all the things I can reasonably answer! Night all!
