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crossover_chickThough I did get MOST of it done:
Catching Up On The OXBox/OXtra In My Watch Later: Accomplished! In order, I watched --
1. “7 Dumb Reasons You Received Amazing Powers” – A camera puts a “gene tonic” that lets you turn invisible when you stand still in your pocket after enough pictures (BioShock)! A bullet in the head gives you the ability to time travel by “diving” into objects and their varied pasts (Dark Dreams Never Die)! A movie actor who for eight games has been able to throw magical energy around finally reveals he’s the descendant of magical Mediterranean cultists (Mortal Kombat 9)! Gotta love video games and their explanations for your badassery, am I right? :p
2. “7 Shockingly Scary Moments In Non-Horror Games” (aka proof I’ve had these building up since before Halloween) – The infamous possessed piano from Mario 64 of course made an appearance, but to my mind, the scariest stuff on the list were Dead Hand from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (horrifying monster with disembodied hands all over the place to hold you in place for chomping) and the “MENACING!!” level from Lemmings (a bone-and-viscera-stained shoutout to a previous title of the creators, Menace). Cripes, now that’s the stuff that will give you nightmares. O.o
3. “7 Worst Horror Movie Games Of All Time” – kind of the antithesis of the previous list, going from games that you didn’t expect to be scary and were shockingly good at it, to games you did expect to be scary, aaaand. . .well, the tie-in to The Grudge is super short and contains the world’s slowest first-person protagonist; the tie-in to The Ring features you shooting Bigfoot in in-game “VR” sections; the tie-in to Saw is terrible and incredibly funny when Kevin plays it; and the tie in to Child’s Play is an endless runner mobile game where you play as Chucky dashing around the “Good Guy” doll factory. I know, I was baffled too.
4. “7 Embarrassing Idle Animations Your Heroes Wish You Hadn’t Seen” – Desmond Miles from Assassin’s Creed (yeah, remember him from the modern-day segments I’m pretty sure nobody cares about?) will pick a wedgie out of his butt! Niko from GTA IV will openly adjust his balls! Kyle Katarn from Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith will attempt to shave with his lightsaber, and his apprentice Mara Jade will poke the blade! Ah, good times XD Gives me fond memories of those idle animations from American McGee’s Alice where she’d accidentally drop the Jackbomb on her foot or get a Card lodged in her forehead. XD
5. “7 Achievements We Got For Being A Dumb Jerk” – aka, sometimes games will reward you for stupid mistakes or acts of petty (or not so petty) cruelty. Accidentally recycle yourself with a recycler bomb in Prey? There’s an achievement for that. Pose as a statue and snap the junk off what might be the real Michelangelo’s David in Metal Gear Solid 4? Achievement. Kill nine patients by draining all their blood while hitting them with a hammer in Surgeon Simulator? Achievement. Take a minigun and a rocket launcher to a super-stealthy heist mission in Payday 2? You’re clearly Mike Channell, and if you can resist the temptation to use them (which you won’t), achievement. XD
6. “7 Weirdest Fast Travel Systems That Still Beat Walking” – Gotta get somewhere fast? Why not shoot yourself out of a canon like in Secret of Mana? Or get blackout drunk and end up in a portapotty somewhere near your destination, like in Sunset Overdrive? Or mail yourself in a cardboard box like in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, in what is probably the MOST LOGICAL use for the famous box! (Except when you use this on your own home base, but given that you OWN the place. . .like Andy said, unlikely anyone will call you on it.)
7. “7 Bosses Who Beat Themselves For You” – Generally by setting it up so either they smash themselves into something (like Little Horn from Super Meatboy), or by sending something that can easily be smashed back into them at you (like Bowser Jr. from Super Mario Bros U). The best bosses, of course, are the kind where you just have to wait for them to kill themselves, like Dum Drum from Donkey Kong – gotta love a steel barrel with easily-defeatable minions and a penchant for telegraphing its attacks! Now if only the Jabberwock from AMA would behave like this. . .
8. “7 Heroes Who Lived Long Enough To Become The Villain (Part 3)” – who knew so many games liked to bring back your PC from the first game to become a boss in the sequel? Or, in some cases, the DLC. . .or the DLC to the sequel! Though props to InFamous for managing it IN THE VERY FIRST GAME – if you don’t mind spoilers, the villain of the piece? Your protagonist’s time-traveling older self, trying to correct the mistakes of his past but finding his younger self wanting (and probably annoying). As a BTTF fan, I will get behind this twist. XD (And, of course, the Metal Gear series has to top it with The Phantom Pain's protagonist in fact being the antagonist of one of the earlier NES titles. . .)
Get Some Exercise: Accomplished! Did a round on the treadmill, 2 miles at 3.5 for a little over a half-hour. . . and a nice walk on the treadmill means that, in the middle of the above marathon, I got to watch some more of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Mostly finishing up the home renovation and crafting episode – Jon ended up making the lower half of Hangman’s Alley a large open communal area with beds, crafting workstations, a communal bathroom (made from one of the shacks you for some reason cannot scrap), and a little shop for the Vault-Tec Rep to man. The upper half was his own personal quarters, with a bed, nice lighting, art, and a doghouse for Dogmeat. :) Oh, and the Bobblehead display stand. Once that was all set up to his liking (and he’d banished a settler who dared sit in his chair by making him a Provisioner running between Hangman’s Alley and Taffington Boathouse), he changed around and upgraded his armor (he’s now got some nice military fatigues, bolstered with Ballistic Weave), then combined a couple of bits from his Brotherhood of Steel Power Armor with his incomplete X-01 armor and upgraded all of that as far as it could go. In fact, getting his Power Armor properly kitted out was his true goal of the episode, as he revealed he was heading back to the main plot, and the Glowing Sea next episode!
Though, as it turned out as we started episode 22, not before doing a few other things. Namely, turning in one of his Brotherhood radiant quests to Rhys and picking up a couple more from him and Haylen, then doing the Silver Shroud questline because he was heading by Goodneighbor anyway. Took out the ghouls in Hubris Comics, picked up all he could carry in there along with the costume, and I left him turning over all the stuff to Kent. :D So I’ve got that to look forward to next time I exercise!
Hopefully Finish Up The Latest Chapter Of "In A World Of His Own:" Accomplished! Wrapped up Orchestralia with Victor naming the Orphica, and the Conductor trying to find him paper to write on so he can be sure of REMEMBERING the songs they're working on during this little jaunt through his head. Not quite my preferred page's worth of writing, but at least it leaves me in a good place in the story (especially since I'm probably going to have to break for gift fics next week -- December and all!).
Play Fallout 4: . . .Um. . .
Yeah, unfortunately I didn't manage to fit in the game -- ironically, because I was too busy doing the following:
1. Cleaning up the excessive amount of saves I had for my previous playthrough (I kept the first couple, the last couple, and of course the starting saves for my new version of Victor) so I didn't have five million saves cluttering up my computer
2. Getting my list of my installed mods fully sorted and in the order they're loaded in Vortex (just for my own reference purposes)
3. Starting a fresh notebook I had lying around to make some notes on how I want to stat out my new version of Victor, and getting excessively distracted by trying to figure out what perks I wanted to take first, and what SPECIAL stats I wanted to boost first, and -- yeah. Before I knew it, it was just past five, and if I wanted to get my workout in. . .
I am kinda glad I did all that, though -- mostly because having the full list of mods is a good thing, cleaning up the old saves is also a good thing, and trying to figure out what I wanted to take first for Victor has led me to realize that I want to tweak his SPECIAL stats one more time. Namely, I want to bump his Endurance down one, from eight to seven, and his Agility up one, from four to five. My reasoning being, Victor as per canon can definitely take a hit (dude runs into HOW many things while fleeing from Emily and keeps on going?), but he's also decently agile, if kinda clumsy when nervous. And one of the perks in the Agility tree is "Moving Target," which gives you more damage resistance and energy resistance while sprinting, which -- seems appropriate for Victor? The main reason he did as well as he did in the fight against Barkis is because he was a fast dodger! "They can't hurt what they can't hit," after all. The base Agility you need to take the perk is six -- if I drop Endurance down to a still-very-respectable seven and move the point to make starting Agility five, I can use the "You're Special" book's free SPECIAL point to boost Agility up to six and take that perk early. *nods* I'm also planning on taking "Scrapper," "Gun Nut," and "Armorer" early, as those are super-useful and fit my backstory of him as a tinkerer who was in the Engineer Corps in the Army. I'll get this all sorted out eventually! XD
So yeah, that plus Mock the Week with lunch and Taskmaster with supper (the contestants in series 8 can be really gross sometimes and I don't approve), and doing my queue for Valice Multiverse, basically sums up my day. It DOES feel good to have those eight videos out of the Watch Later, I gotta say. Tomorrow, I hope to do the same with most of the Plumbella I've been missing out on (TEN videos from her; we'll see!), along with playing Sims 4 (gotta start the Liddell-Van Dorts on their vacation!), and writing some more on "Londerland Bloodlines." And I'll try to get in a bike ride too. Let's see how I do on that to-do list! Night all!
Catching Up On The OXBox/OXtra In My Watch Later: Accomplished! In order, I watched --
1. “7 Dumb Reasons You Received Amazing Powers” – A camera puts a “gene tonic” that lets you turn invisible when you stand still in your pocket after enough pictures (BioShock)! A bullet in the head gives you the ability to time travel by “diving” into objects and their varied pasts (Dark Dreams Never Die)! A movie actor who for eight games has been able to throw magical energy around finally reveals he’s the descendant of magical Mediterranean cultists (Mortal Kombat 9)! Gotta love video games and their explanations for your badassery, am I right? :p
2. “7 Shockingly Scary Moments In Non-Horror Games” (aka proof I’ve had these building up since before Halloween) – The infamous possessed piano from Mario 64 of course made an appearance, but to my mind, the scariest stuff on the list were Dead Hand from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (horrifying monster with disembodied hands all over the place to hold you in place for chomping) and the “MENACING!!” level from Lemmings (a bone-and-viscera-stained shoutout to a previous title of the creators, Menace). Cripes, now that’s the stuff that will give you nightmares. O.o
3. “7 Worst Horror Movie Games Of All Time” – kind of the antithesis of the previous list, going from games that you didn’t expect to be scary and were shockingly good at it, to games you did expect to be scary, aaaand. . .well, the tie-in to The Grudge is super short and contains the world’s slowest first-person protagonist; the tie-in to The Ring features you shooting Bigfoot in in-game “VR” sections; the tie-in to Saw is terrible and incredibly funny when Kevin plays it; and the tie in to Child’s Play is an endless runner mobile game where you play as Chucky dashing around the “Good Guy” doll factory. I know, I was baffled too.
4. “7 Embarrassing Idle Animations Your Heroes Wish You Hadn’t Seen” – Desmond Miles from Assassin’s Creed (yeah, remember him from the modern-day segments I’m pretty sure nobody cares about?) will pick a wedgie out of his butt! Niko from GTA IV will openly adjust his balls! Kyle Katarn from Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith will attempt to shave with his lightsaber, and his apprentice Mara Jade will poke the blade! Ah, good times XD Gives me fond memories of those idle animations from American McGee’s Alice where she’d accidentally drop the Jackbomb on her foot or get a Card lodged in her forehead. XD
5. “7 Achievements We Got For Being A Dumb Jerk” – aka, sometimes games will reward you for stupid mistakes or acts of petty (or not so petty) cruelty. Accidentally recycle yourself with a recycler bomb in Prey? There’s an achievement for that. Pose as a statue and snap the junk off what might be the real Michelangelo’s David in Metal Gear Solid 4? Achievement. Kill nine patients by draining all their blood while hitting them with a hammer in Surgeon Simulator? Achievement. Take a minigun and a rocket launcher to a super-stealthy heist mission in Payday 2? You’re clearly Mike Channell, and if you can resist the temptation to use them (which you won’t), achievement. XD
6. “7 Weirdest Fast Travel Systems That Still Beat Walking” – Gotta get somewhere fast? Why not shoot yourself out of a canon like in Secret of Mana? Or get blackout drunk and end up in a portapotty somewhere near your destination, like in Sunset Overdrive? Or mail yourself in a cardboard box like in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, in what is probably the MOST LOGICAL use for the famous box! (Except when you use this on your own home base, but given that you OWN the place. . .like Andy said, unlikely anyone will call you on it.)
7. “7 Bosses Who Beat Themselves For You” – Generally by setting it up so either they smash themselves into something (like Little Horn from Super Meatboy), or by sending something that can easily be smashed back into them at you (like Bowser Jr. from Super Mario Bros U). The best bosses, of course, are the kind where you just have to wait for them to kill themselves, like Dum Drum from Donkey Kong – gotta love a steel barrel with easily-defeatable minions and a penchant for telegraphing its attacks! Now if only the Jabberwock from AMA would behave like this. . .
8. “7 Heroes Who Lived Long Enough To Become The Villain (Part 3)” – who knew so many games liked to bring back your PC from the first game to become a boss in the sequel? Or, in some cases, the DLC. . .or the DLC to the sequel! Though props to InFamous for managing it IN THE VERY FIRST GAME – if you don’t mind spoilers, the villain of the piece? Your protagonist’s time-traveling older self, trying to correct the mistakes of his past but finding his younger self wanting (and probably annoying). As a BTTF fan, I will get behind this twist. XD (And, of course, the Metal Gear series has to top it with The Phantom Pain's protagonist in fact being the antagonist of one of the earlier NES titles. . .)
Get Some Exercise: Accomplished! Did a round on the treadmill, 2 miles at 3.5 for a little over a half-hour. . . and a nice walk on the treadmill means that, in the middle of the above marathon, I got to watch some more of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Mostly finishing up the home renovation and crafting episode – Jon ended up making the lower half of Hangman’s Alley a large open communal area with beds, crafting workstations, a communal bathroom (made from one of the shacks you for some reason cannot scrap), and a little shop for the Vault-Tec Rep to man. The upper half was his own personal quarters, with a bed, nice lighting, art, and a doghouse for Dogmeat. :) Oh, and the Bobblehead display stand. Once that was all set up to his liking (and he’d banished a settler who dared sit in his chair by making him a Provisioner running between Hangman’s Alley and Taffington Boathouse), he changed around and upgraded his armor (he’s now got some nice military fatigues, bolstered with Ballistic Weave), then combined a couple of bits from his Brotherhood of Steel Power Armor with his incomplete X-01 armor and upgraded all of that as far as it could go. In fact, getting his Power Armor properly kitted out was his true goal of the episode, as he revealed he was heading back to the main plot, and the Glowing Sea next episode!
Though, as it turned out as we started episode 22, not before doing a few other things. Namely, turning in one of his Brotherhood radiant quests to Rhys and picking up a couple more from him and Haylen, then doing the Silver Shroud questline because he was heading by Goodneighbor anyway. Took out the ghouls in Hubris Comics, picked up all he could carry in there along with the costume, and I left him turning over all the stuff to Kent. :D So I’ve got that to look forward to next time I exercise!
Hopefully Finish Up The Latest Chapter Of "In A World Of His Own:" Accomplished! Wrapped up Orchestralia with Victor naming the Orphica, and the Conductor trying to find him paper to write on so he can be sure of REMEMBERING the songs they're working on during this little jaunt through his head. Not quite my preferred page's worth of writing, but at least it leaves me in a good place in the story (especially since I'm probably going to have to break for gift fics next week -- December and all!).
Play Fallout 4: . . .Um. . .
Yeah, unfortunately I didn't manage to fit in the game -- ironically, because I was too busy doing the following:
1. Cleaning up the excessive amount of saves I had for my previous playthrough (I kept the first couple, the last couple, and of course the starting saves for my new version of Victor) so I didn't have five million saves cluttering up my computer
2. Getting my list of my installed mods fully sorted and in the order they're loaded in Vortex (just for my own reference purposes)
3. Starting a fresh notebook I had lying around to make some notes on how I want to stat out my new version of Victor, and getting excessively distracted by trying to figure out what perks I wanted to take first, and what SPECIAL stats I wanted to boost first, and -- yeah. Before I knew it, it was just past five, and if I wanted to get my workout in. . .
I am kinda glad I did all that, though -- mostly because having the full list of mods is a good thing, cleaning up the old saves is also a good thing, and trying to figure out what I wanted to take first for Victor has led me to realize that I want to tweak his SPECIAL stats one more time. Namely, I want to bump his Endurance down one, from eight to seven, and his Agility up one, from four to five. My reasoning being, Victor as per canon can definitely take a hit (dude runs into HOW many things while fleeing from Emily and keeps on going?), but he's also decently agile, if kinda clumsy when nervous. And one of the perks in the Agility tree is "Moving Target," which gives you more damage resistance and energy resistance while sprinting, which -- seems appropriate for Victor? The main reason he did as well as he did in the fight against Barkis is because he was a fast dodger! "They can't hurt what they can't hit," after all. The base Agility you need to take the perk is six -- if I drop Endurance down to a still-very-respectable seven and move the point to make starting Agility five, I can use the "You're Special" book's free SPECIAL point to boost Agility up to six and take that perk early. *nods* I'm also planning on taking "Scrapper," "Gun Nut," and "Armorer" early, as those are super-useful and fit my backstory of him as a tinkerer who was in the Engineer Corps in the Army. I'll get this all sorted out eventually! XD
So yeah, that plus Mock the Week with lunch and Taskmaster with supper (the contestants in series 8 can be really gross sometimes and I don't approve), and doing my queue for Valice Multiverse, basically sums up my day. It DOES feel good to have those eight videos out of the Watch Later, I gotta say. Tomorrow, I hope to do the same with most of the Plumbella I've been missing out on (TEN videos from her; we'll see!), along with playing Sims 4 (gotta start the Liddell-Van Dorts on their vacation!), and writing some more on "Londerland Bloodlines." And I'll try to get in a bike ride too. Let's see how I do on that to-do list! Night all!
