Survived First Day Back In The Office
Dec. 2nd, 2020 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickHad The Anxiety (tm), of course, and once again had a delayed lunch (someone calling in to update their credit card right before I could get my sandwich), but I suppose it wasn't too bad a day. Lot of catching up, lot of little things to try and get done. And it really helps that it's a short week. Knowing I only have to get through two more days is very nice.
Anyway -- got through the workday, then came home and:
-->Helped out some on the puzzle -- Mom and I fitted in a few more pieces, yay~
-->Had a longer, somewhat more intense bike ride than normal to get in my exercise
-->Caught up on my YouTubes:
A) Another, longer round on the bike means another round with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Though unfortunately I wouldn’t call it longer, simply because I was fighting with the connection a lot while watching, ugh. >( I did manage to finish episode 23, with Grills making his way through the Glowing Sea – he got the Children of Atom to point him toward Virgil’s cave, took out the puny Deathclaw along the way (not even an alpha!), met up with Virgil and learned about the courser chip, then promptly took a vertibird out of that hellhole and back to Hangman’s Alley. There was a brief amusing moment where he thought he’d locked himself out somehow, but then remembered he’d left through the side entrance. XD So he got back into his house, repaired his power armor (putting on the new X-01 right leg he’d found – just needs the right arm now!), dumped his junk, and decontaminated himself with his arch before settling in for a good night’s sleep. Episode 24 started with him deciding to kick off some of the Automatron quests on his way to do “Old Guns” at the Castle – though the bit I saw was mainly him just fixing up a “tech lab” on the roof of his house, setting up a new provisoner to Egret Tours Marina (and giving her some better armor and weapons), and getting badly spooked by a pack brahmin on his way back to Hangman’s Alley as he left. XD Turned in another “Cleansing The Commonwealth” quest (and got one that sent him off to Far Harbor, because the Brotherhood just don’t care if you don’t want to do the DLC yet), then started on his way to find General Atomics (and if he can start his “Hunter/Hunted” quest along the way, he won’t say no). Left him on his journey – hopefully tomorrow I can pick back up on it, without suffering video stutter!
B) Then time to fully catch up with Call Me Kevin:
1. More Bitlife – today, Kevin was Monopoly Man! With the goal of becoming as rich as possible! This – actually worked out rather well for him, despite becoming depressed at age six and his parents divorcing soon afterward. He ended up with a pretty solid career as a cameraman, and later an actor, for most of his life; got regular cash infusions from his blended family, and good inheritances when his parents died; and married an 85-year-old for her money and then had Agent 47 (yes, really, the game said it was him) bump her off. He struggled with depression and the hate of his coworkers for most of his life, admittedly, but a few turns in the old paddle boat or fishing canoe always made him feel better. XD Not too bad a run!
2. Bugsnax – Kevin takes a trip out to Snak Island to meet up with some cute monsters, catch some half-food, half-insect creatures called Bugsnax, and INDULGE IN BODY HORROR. You think I’m joking – an explicit side effect of feeding people Bugsnax? Their limbs slowly turning into fruits and vegetables. Like, feed someone a strawberry Bugsnax, and their hand will become a strawberry. This is not seen as horrifying at ALL for some reason. O.o It’s a very colorful and cute game, and Kevin was clearly having fun with it (even if he was badly confused about what the hell even was going on), but – who approved this as a game concept? Seriously. Who. (I do like the pizza butterfly though.)
3. An official episode of Project Winter – he tried this out in his “playing games like Among Us” video, and he liked it enough to return! He played around with some people who almost sussed out he was Kevin, but then someone suggested it was just a soundboard. . .so Kevin made a soundboard of himself to play. XD And then he basically forced this one guy to keep feeding him constantly. XD The second round was marginally more productive, with Kevin bonding with a new group of people and getting a shotgun for his trouble! He basically was a silly in front of everyone while the more competent players did the actual goals. But hey, the game ended with him and a couple of his fellow survivors successfully escaping the winter hellscape, so win! Literally! XD I hope he does more – it’s fun to see him troll people like this.
C) And then some GrayStillPlays, to keep up with him – he’s back with the newly upgraded and even more ridiculous Imagine Lifetimes again! And let me tell you, he got up to some shit. Namely:
1. Finding out that, if you let the detergent-loving baby crawl into the laundry hamper, MOM WILL ACTUALLY PUT THEM IN THE WASHING MACHINE – you have just under four minutes to free yourself, but Gray wasn’t up for that XD
2. Discovering that, yes, you can become the next Trump – but the game will shame the hell out of you and your accomplishments
3. Learning that becoming a video game developer leads to an “Inception” ending where you create Imagine Lifetimes – and when you click on the game within a game, the game ACTUALLY RESTARTS
4. Realizing that it is possible to die from spending too much time looking for a person to cheat on his partner with
5. Laughing his ass off as he stumbles across the “simulation ending” where you get to discover the game is just a simulation – and when you take the integrity down to zero, you can actually crash the game
So, basically, Gray managed to destroy all the things by the end of this episode. He was very pleased. :P
-->Did another gift fic; came up with what I think will be a fun idea for one of the folks on here ;)
-->Just did my queue for the next few days -- found a fun post to reblog, did one on the fact my brain will not shut up about my beloved Fallout 4 and the AU that I came up with for it, and reblogged a favorite Christmas song for Saturday. So yay, I'm actually set for a while, w000~
And that's about it, really, beyond catching up with webcomics and trying not to fall down the Nexus Mods rabbithole (even if I'm resisting the urge to download any more, I still like looking!). Gotta answer my comment and then head to bed -- two more days to get through! Hopefully they won't be complete and utter shit. . . Night all!
Anyway -- got through the workday, then came home and:
-->Helped out some on the puzzle -- Mom and I fitted in a few more pieces, yay~
-->Had a longer, somewhat more intense bike ride than normal to get in my exercise
-->Caught up on my YouTubes:
A) Another, longer round on the bike means another round with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Though unfortunately I wouldn’t call it longer, simply because I was fighting with the connection a lot while watching, ugh. >( I did manage to finish episode 23, with Grills making his way through the Glowing Sea – he got the Children of Atom to point him toward Virgil’s cave, took out the puny Deathclaw along the way (not even an alpha!), met up with Virgil and learned about the courser chip, then promptly took a vertibird out of that hellhole and back to Hangman’s Alley. There was a brief amusing moment where he thought he’d locked himself out somehow, but then remembered he’d left through the side entrance. XD So he got back into his house, repaired his power armor (putting on the new X-01 right leg he’d found – just needs the right arm now!), dumped his junk, and decontaminated himself with his arch before settling in for a good night’s sleep. Episode 24 started with him deciding to kick off some of the Automatron quests on his way to do “Old Guns” at the Castle – though the bit I saw was mainly him just fixing up a “tech lab” on the roof of his house, setting up a new provisoner to Egret Tours Marina (and giving her some better armor and weapons), and getting badly spooked by a pack brahmin on his way back to Hangman’s Alley as he left. XD Turned in another “Cleansing The Commonwealth” quest (and got one that sent him off to Far Harbor, because the Brotherhood just don’t care if you don’t want to do the DLC yet), then started on his way to find General Atomics (and if he can start his “Hunter/Hunted” quest along the way, he won’t say no). Left him on his journey – hopefully tomorrow I can pick back up on it, without suffering video stutter!
B) Then time to fully catch up with Call Me Kevin:
1. More Bitlife – today, Kevin was Monopoly Man! With the goal of becoming as rich as possible! This – actually worked out rather well for him, despite becoming depressed at age six and his parents divorcing soon afterward. He ended up with a pretty solid career as a cameraman, and later an actor, for most of his life; got regular cash infusions from his blended family, and good inheritances when his parents died; and married an 85-year-old for her money and then had Agent 47 (yes, really, the game said it was him) bump her off. He struggled with depression and the hate of his coworkers for most of his life, admittedly, but a few turns in the old paddle boat or fishing canoe always made him feel better. XD Not too bad a run!
2. Bugsnax – Kevin takes a trip out to Snak Island to meet up with some cute monsters, catch some half-food, half-insect creatures called Bugsnax, and INDULGE IN BODY HORROR. You think I’m joking – an explicit side effect of feeding people Bugsnax? Their limbs slowly turning into fruits and vegetables. Like, feed someone a strawberry Bugsnax, and their hand will become a strawberry. This is not seen as horrifying at ALL for some reason. O.o It’s a very colorful and cute game, and Kevin was clearly having fun with it (even if he was badly confused about what the hell even was going on), but – who approved this as a game concept? Seriously. Who. (I do like the pizza butterfly though.)
3. An official episode of Project Winter – he tried this out in his “playing games like Among Us” video, and he liked it enough to return! He played around with some people who almost sussed out he was Kevin, but then someone suggested it was just a soundboard. . .so Kevin made a soundboard of himself to play. XD And then he basically forced this one guy to keep feeding him constantly. XD The second round was marginally more productive, with Kevin bonding with a new group of people and getting a shotgun for his trouble! He basically was a silly in front of everyone while the more competent players did the actual goals. But hey, the game ended with him and a couple of his fellow survivors successfully escaping the winter hellscape, so win! Literally! XD I hope he does more – it’s fun to see him troll people like this.
C) And then some GrayStillPlays, to keep up with him – he’s back with the newly upgraded and even more ridiculous Imagine Lifetimes again! And let me tell you, he got up to some shit. Namely:
1. Finding out that, if you let the detergent-loving baby crawl into the laundry hamper, MOM WILL ACTUALLY PUT THEM IN THE WASHING MACHINE – you have just under four minutes to free yourself, but Gray wasn’t up for that XD
2. Discovering that, yes, you can become the next Trump – but the game will shame the hell out of you and your accomplishments
3. Learning that becoming a video game developer leads to an “Inception” ending where you create Imagine Lifetimes – and when you click on the game within a game, the game ACTUALLY RESTARTS
4. Realizing that it is possible to die from spending too much time looking for a person to cheat on his partner with
5. Laughing his ass off as he stumbles across the “simulation ending” where you get to discover the game is just a simulation – and when you take the integrity down to zero, you can actually crash the game
So, basically, Gray managed to destroy all the things by the end of this episode. He was very pleased. :P
-->Did another gift fic; came up with what I think will be a fun idea for one of the folks on here ;)
-->Just did my queue for the next few days -- found a fun post to reblog, did one on the fact my brain will not shut up about my beloved Fallout 4 and the AU that I came up with for it, and reblogged a favorite Christmas song for Saturday. So yay, I'm actually set for a while, w000~
And that's about it, really, beyond catching up with webcomics and trying not to fall down the Nexus Mods rabbithole (even if I'm resisting the urge to download any more, I still like looking!). Gotta answer my comment and then head to bed -- two more days to get through! Hopefully they won't be complete and utter shit. . . Night all!
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