Another FO4-y Sunday
Dec. 6th, 2020 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickThough it wasn't quite as good on the old to-do list front:
Clear out the non-Sims-related/non-podcast videos from the Watch Later list: Check! Admittedly, one of them was added today, but still counts. XD (Also, if you're wondering why I specified "non-podcast," the Discworld podcast I follow uploaded the latest two episodes to YouTube in the wrong order, so the one in my WL is the earlier one I have to watch second.)
A) Admittedly, I started off with an off-the-list video from my recommendeds – 10 lucky saves in speedrunning! Nothing too special, I suppose, but it was fun to see people in the midst of a speedrun manage to save their run from a potentially fatal mistake at the last second!
B) Finally watched the new show from Linkara, Late Night Double Feature! It’s basically “new character Clive Sinclair talks about a pair of movies – generally horror – that have loosely similar themes and whether or not they’re good.” This Double Feature was I Bury The Living (1958, psychological horror about a guy who ends up in charge of a graveyard – and starts thinking he has the ability to kill people by accidentally sticking the wrong pin in their reserved plot) and The Autopsy of Jane Doe (don’t remember if he said the year, supernatural horror about a father/son mortician team accidentally stirring up a horrible curse tied to the body of a girl who was killed during the Salem Witch Trials). Clive liked both, but unfortunately the second hit a LOT of my personal squick buttons, even from the short summary and clips. I mean, my own fault, but I thought they were BOTH older movies and thus the second one would be less creepy. . . Basically, it’s iffy if I’ll watch any more of this (like how I ended up abandoning Longbox of the Damned because of a body horror comic episode), but if you like schlocky horror, might as well give it a go?
C) Next up was a video from Kevin’s “stream clips” channel that I’ve been meaning to watch for a couple of months now – Kevin plays Sim City (2013 – or 2014?)! Kevin created Jim City, which was focused on one thing, and one thing only – OIL. If Kevin had a spare cent (or even if he didn’t), he spent it on oil pumps, oil storage, oil refineries. . .the only deviations were to put up gambling houses on the highway in, a giant mansion for himself as the mayor, and a nuclear power plant that ended up going critical a couple of times near the end. XD Also there was a giant monster attack and an earthquake, but by sheer luck they both affected areas Kevin couldn’t care less about (the dump and the oil power plant he’d already shut down, respectively). Kevin being chaotic is always a good time, and I’m glad to see it! :p
D) And then another compilation of “RTgame has to try and stop Kevin from being god of chaos – it doesn’t work” in a number of games they’ve played together. XD From Kevin ruining heists in what I assume to be Payday 2, to Kevin constantly shooting himself out of cannons in Sea of Thieves, to the probably-by-now famous clips of Kevin trolling RT, Kiwo, and The Spiffing Brit in Phasmophobia, this compilation had it all! Good times, good times. . .
Catch up on Kevin and Gray in the Subscriptions: Sadly not checked -- in between me spending a fair amount of time just faffing about online and regularly being pulled into helping Mom with the latest puzzle, I ended up not having the time. Fortunately, only two days behind; should be easier to catch up tomorrow!
Play Fallout 4: That's a big check -- actually ran longer than I intended, though in-game I can't say I actually did all that much. Most of my time was spent cleaning up Sanctuary for resources, doing a bit of cooking (and checking out the new recipes I'd added in via a mod literally called "New Recipes" DON'T JUDGE ME I LIKE FOOD VARIETY), upgrading the 10mm gun a little (and scrapping the fuckton of other 10mms I'd picked up), and rearranging the workbenches to something more reasonable. I DID eventually get down to the Red Rocket, where Victor met Dogmeat, fought the mole rats, descended into the cave underneath the Red Rocket to take out more of the mole rats, and made himself some camping gear and a portable workbench -- but then a thunderstorm rolled in and I decided to have him wait that out before going any farther. I'm basically trying to roleplay Victor doing a few normal human things, like not rushing out anywhere in a heavy rain, so -- yeah. Slightly slower start to this playthrough, but it's still fun. :)
Write up all my current notes for said playthrough: Oh yeah, big check. Got all my notes from the last two play sessions written up, with some adjustments to reflect how things would go in my hypothetical fanfic of all of this. Probably gonna have to adjust what my progression list looks like (I was doing it by quest, but it's probably better to do it by dates because soon enough I'm going to -- well, I technically already have multiple quests running, but I'm not counting "Music Lessons" because that's a mod quest that auto-starts the minute you leave Vault 111. But yeah, doing it by date and just noting what quests I've finished, kind of like my "Londerland Bloodlines" notes is probably the better idea. Fix that up in a second!
Watch the next episode of Jon's YOLO run: Check -- just finished, in fact, because I started late thanks to helping Mom finish the latest puzzle (I'm too easily sucked into this kind of stuff!). Today's episode was titled "With Friends Like These. . ." and the reason for that is DEACON. Namely, Finalley finally caught up with Deacon to do "Tradecraft" and take out the synths in the old base under the Slocum Joe's -- and kept getting blocked in, shoved into firefights, and generally just having a bad time because Deacon was constantly over her shoulder and constantly in a mood to aggro synths. She made it through with only minor damage, happily (partly because she picked up the old power armor she left by Concord to give her extra damage resistance against the nastier synths), but yeah. There was a lot of yelling at Deacon for not sticking to the plan this episode. XD After that Finalley did a loop of her settlements to send a bunch of people to Hangman's Alley with all her various bits of junk (and visited Mama Murphy for a hit of the Sight in exchange for some Jet -- the dialogue option that will get Skinny Malone to let you go without a fight. Incidentally, according to Jon, Mama Murphy only has three valuable bits of information, so as long as you consult her at the right points in the story, you can get her hints without killing her (five times and she's dead). Skinny Malone's memory is obviously one, and I know from watching the Survival Playthrough that the Courser Recall Code is the other. I assume the third is getting a boost in the fight against Kellogg, since I know that's something she can do -- we'll find out), and then visited Taffington Boathouse and cleared out the bloodbugs, before heading home, turning in her quests, and sending Preston Garvey off to the Castle so it can eventually be retaken. Jon's considering plans for next week -- I left him a comment telling him he has to keep her alive to the end of the month just because it's my birthday XD
So yeah, four out of five items, which is not bad! Especially when one of those times was literally "just watch some YouTube videos." XD Though I DO still need to do my queue for Valice Multiverse (nothing too painful). . . Okay, I'll do that before bed (trying to get to bed earlier tonight, as I went to bed super late last night and that coupled with insomnia -- yeah, need to get a better sleep schedule going!). Tomorrow's to-do list: Play Sims 4 (gotta get back to Victor and Alice for this week's Newcrest Adventures update); watch the Sims-related videos in my Watch Later; catch up on Kevin and Gray in the subscriptions; write a gift fic; get in a workout (I've been lazy this weekend, but my period is on the way out, so time to get back to work). This all feels reasonable, especially if I can get some more sleep and feel less lazy. I mean, we'll see, this is me and my lack of time management we're talking about. . .
Okay, time to do the things and then get to bed BEFORE 2:30 IN THE MORNING. *nods* Night all!
Clear out the non-Sims-related/non-podcast videos from the Watch Later list: Check! Admittedly, one of them was added today, but still counts. XD (Also, if you're wondering why I specified "non-podcast," the Discworld podcast I follow uploaded the latest two episodes to YouTube in the wrong order, so the one in my WL is the earlier one I have to watch second.)
A) Admittedly, I started off with an off-the-list video from my recommendeds – 10 lucky saves in speedrunning! Nothing too special, I suppose, but it was fun to see people in the midst of a speedrun manage to save their run from a potentially fatal mistake at the last second!
B) Finally watched the new show from Linkara, Late Night Double Feature! It’s basically “new character Clive Sinclair talks about a pair of movies – generally horror – that have loosely similar themes and whether or not they’re good.” This Double Feature was I Bury The Living (1958, psychological horror about a guy who ends up in charge of a graveyard – and starts thinking he has the ability to kill people by accidentally sticking the wrong pin in their reserved plot) and The Autopsy of Jane Doe (don’t remember if he said the year, supernatural horror about a father/son mortician team accidentally stirring up a horrible curse tied to the body of a girl who was killed during the Salem Witch Trials). Clive liked both, but unfortunately the second hit a LOT of my personal squick buttons, even from the short summary and clips. I mean, my own fault, but I thought they were BOTH older movies and thus the second one would be less creepy. . . Basically, it’s iffy if I’ll watch any more of this (like how I ended up abandoning Longbox of the Damned because of a body horror comic episode), but if you like schlocky horror, might as well give it a go?
C) Next up was a video from Kevin’s “stream clips” channel that I’ve been meaning to watch for a couple of months now – Kevin plays Sim City (2013 – or 2014?)! Kevin created Jim City, which was focused on one thing, and one thing only – OIL. If Kevin had a spare cent (or even if he didn’t), he spent it on oil pumps, oil storage, oil refineries. . .the only deviations were to put up gambling houses on the highway in, a giant mansion for himself as the mayor, and a nuclear power plant that ended up going critical a couple of times near the end. XD Also there was a giant monster attack and an earthquake, but by sheer luck they both affected areas Kevin couldn’t care less about (the dump and the oil power plant he’d already shut down, respectively). Kevin being chaotic is always a good time, and I’m glad to see it! :p
D) And then another compilation of “RTgame has to try and stop Kevin from being god of chaos – it doesn’t work” in a number of games they’ve played together. XD From Kevin ruining heists in what I assume to be Payday 2, to Kevin constantly shooting himself out of cannons in Sea of Thieves, to the probably-by-now famous clips of Kevin trolling RT, Kiwo, and The Spiffing Brit in Phasmophobia, this compilation had it all! Good times, good times. . .
Catch up on Kevin and Gray in the Subscriptions: Sadly not checked -- in between me spending a fair amount of time just faffing about online and regularly being pulled into helping Mom with the latest puzzle, I ended up not having the time. Fortunately, only two days behind; should be easier to catch up tomorrow!
Play Fallout 4: That's a big check -- actually ran longer than I intended, though in-game I can't say I actually did all that much. Most of my time was spent cleaning up Sanctuary for resources, doing a bit of cooking (and checking out the new recipes I'd added in via a mod literally called "New Recipes" DON'T JUDGE ME I LIKE FOOD VARIETY), upgrading the 10mm gun a little (and scrapping the fuckton of other 10mms I'd picked up), and rearranging the workbenches to something more reasonable. I DID eventually get down to the Red Rocket, where Victor met Dogmeat, fought the mole rats, descended into the cave underneath the Red Rocket to take out more of the mole rats, and made himself some camping gear and a portable workbench -- but then a thunderstorm rolled in and I decided to have him wait that out before going any farther. I'm basically trying to roleplay Victor doing a few normal human things, like not rushing out anywhere in a heavy rain, so -- yeah. Slightly slower start to this playthrough, but it's still fun. :)
Write up all my current notes for said playthrough: Oh yeah, big check. Got all my notes from the last two play sessions written up, with some adjustments to reflect how things would go in my hypothetical fanfic of all of this. Probably gonna have to adjust what my progression list looks like (I was doing it by quest, but it's probably better to do it by dates because soon enough I'm going to -- well, I technically already have multiple quests running, but I'm not counting "Music Lessons" because that's a mod quest that auto-starts the minute you leave Vault 111. But yeah, doing it by date and just noting what quests I've finished, kind of like my "Londerland Bloodlines" notes is probably the better idea. Fix that up in a second!
Watch the next episode of Jon's YOLO run: Check -- just finished, in fact, because I started late thanks to helping Mom finish the latest puzzle (I'm too easily sucked into this kind of stuff!). Today's episode was titled "With Friends Like These. . ." and the reason for that is DEACON. Namely, Finalley finally caught up with Deacon to do "Tradecraft" and take out the synths in the old base under the Slocum Joe's -- and kept getting blocked in, shoved into firefights, and generally just having a bad time because Deacon was constantly over her shoulder and constantly in a mood to aggro synths. She made it through with only minor damage, happily (partly because she picked up the old power armor she left by Concord to give her extra damage resistance against the nastier synths), but yeah. There was a lot of yelling at Deacon for not sticking to the plan this episode. XD After that Finalley did a loop of her settlements to send a bunch of people to Hangman's Alley with all her various bits of junk (and visited Mama Murphy for a hit of the Sight in exchange for some Jet -- the dialogue option that will get Skinny Malone to let you go without a fight. Incidentally, according to Jon, Mama Murphy only has three valuable bits of information, so as long as you consult her at the right points in the story, you can get her hints without killing her (five times and she's dead). Skinny Malone's memory is obviously one, and I know from watching the Survival Playthrough that the Courser Recall Code is the other. I assume the third is getting a boost in the fight against Kellogg, since I know that's something she can do -- we'll find out), and then visited Taffington Boathouse and cleared out the bloodbugs, before heading home, turning in her quests, and sending Preston Garvey off to the Castle so it can eventually be retaken. Jon's considering plans for next week -- I left him a comment telling him he has to keep her alive to the end of the month just because it's my birthday XD
So yeah, four out of five items, which is not bad! Especially when one of those times was literally "just watch some YouTube videos." XD Though I DO still need to do my queue for Valice Multiverse (nothing too painful). . . Okay, I'll do that before bed (trying to get to bed earlier tonight, as I went to bed super late last night and that coupled with insomnia -- yeah, need to get a better sleep schedule going!). Tomorrow's to-do list: Play Sims 4 (gotta get back to Victor and Alice for this week's Newcrest Adventures update); watch the Sims-related videos in my Watch Later; catch up on Kevin and Gray in the subscriptions; write a gift fic; get in a workout (I've been lazy this weekend, but my period is on the way out, so time to get back to work). This all feels reasonable, especially if I can get some more sleep and feel less lazy. I mean, we'll see, this is me and my lack of time management we're talking about. . .
Okay, time to do the things and then get to bed BEFORE 2:30 IN THE MORNING. *nods* Night all!
