Okay, Three Out Of Five Ain't Bad?
Dec. 19th, 2020 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chick1. Clean room: Check! Dusted, Swiffered, vacuumed, was done a little after 2:30 thanks to various breaks and lunch. Good until after the New Year!
2. Play Sims 4 (there was another patch, but I think we should be okay -- if I have to do some more test save playing, I will): Check! I did indeed go back into my "test save," though I decided to go back to my original Victor and Alice Sims rather than visit Geeker again. I was GOING to play them through a couple of days to see how things went. . .
And then I got a look at their clothing and instead spent pretty much the entire play-session in CAS re-dressing them (and updating their skintones, since we can do that now!). I mean, it WAS fun, can't deny that. I like putting Victor and Alice in fun new outfits -- and since this was my original pairing, I could add some of my nice new custom content stuff. :) Not my usual playsession, yeah, but still a good time!
3. Watch the two Plumbella vids in my Watch Later: Check -- over-checked, in fact, as I ended up watching three videos from her!
1. Plumbella has apparent dived head-first into obsessing over Pride and Prejudice, specifically the 2005 movie adaptation, so she decided to do a video where she downloaded a Mr. Darcy (and family), downloaded a version of her, and then did a “greatest hits” version of his and Elizabeth’s love affair with her standing in for Elizabeth. XD It was a very fun video, especially with her searching out all the right custom content, finding a GORGEOUS Pemberly, and then having to deal with modern-day DJs cranking out terrible music and Mr. Darcy being constantly on his phone. XD After a rocky start full of insults and whatnot, Plumbella finally got Darcy and Simbella to be in a relationship – and then Simbella turned down his first marriage proposal, which, yeah, IS accurate to P&P! XD But Darcy accepted when Simbella asked, so the episode ended on them getting married while Lady Catherine burned to death from a heat wave. XD Good times~
2. Plumbella discovered a terrible house on the Sims 4 subreddit (used in a “this is how other people build houses”/“this is how I build houses” meme) and decided “I must recreate that in Sims.” It was a hell of a trip – Plumbella had to do some fun “move objects on” stuff to get a triangular window just right, and the roofing was a genuine NIGHTMARE for her, poor thing – but she managed a reasonable facsimile of the horrible facade, and happily turned it into a livable (if smaller than she expected) home with equally eclectic furnishings. Because sometimes you just want to make a horror show of a house in the game, that’s why. XD
3. And, just uploaded today, Plumbella looks at the latest updates from Paralives, the life simulator that one day hopes to challenge the stranglehold EA has on the “life simulator” market. Well, I say latest updates – she made a video on the game in May, then chose to not check up on it for a while so she could be surprised by stuff later, so this was basically just her catching up on the last six or so months of development. The game looks like it’s coming along well! Graphics are crisper, character customization is getting more in-depth (game has a color wheel! Imagine that), genetics are being built, activities are being made. . . It’s a small Canadian team, so one hopes they manage to get it fully off the ground! We’re all pulling for you, folks!
4. See about catching up at least a little on my YouTube Subscriptions: Not checked -- I forgot to factor in the OXBox/OXtra Christmas challenges, and ended up not having enough time before I swapped into "evening productivity mode" to go back to my subscriptions. Will have to do this tomorrow!
5. If possible, read and review the final chapter of my friend's fanfic (depending on how things go down, this may be shoved back to Sunday): Not checked -- as suspected, I ended up getting caught up in other things, so I will be making an effort to do this tomorrow!
So yeah -- still over half of the to-do list? And I got a few other things done as well:
-->Did indeed watch OXBox/OXtra Christmas challenges for today, which were a lot of fun!
OXBox Xmas Challenge Day 7 – Andy in the Hitman 2 “Sadistic Santa” challenge! The rules – finish any of the standard contracts in Hitman 2 without EVER changing out of the Santa outfit (basically like one of the in-games escalations where you can’t change your disguise). Andy chose to complete the “Another Life” mission in Whittleton Creek as it’s nice and suburban – though he refused to take a snowball or “chocolate” coins, like Mike and Jane were pleading. Instead it was a lockpick and a sniper rifle. And like the consummate Hitman professional he is, Andy got the job done with almost no trouble at all (only losing a star on his score thanks to shooting his final target in the head on the street in broad daylight – though he was in cover on a roof, so nobody figured out it was him. And with a ride home on the bus in his jolly red suit, Agent 47 brought Andy the greatest gift of all – a point! So he’s finally on the board. . .things are getting interesting!
OXTRA Christmas Challenge Day 2 – Luke vs Ellen in Fall Guys! Like before, it was a best-out-of-five challenge – five games of Fall Guys, whoever does best (aka gets the farthest in the various rounds) gets a Christmas point! Though the actual gameplay footage suggested it was originally best out of THREE – but then two things happened:
1. Luke and Ellen forgot about team games, meaning they’d have to work together temporarily to beat the round;
2. Luke and Ellen did not beat their two team game rounds.
That plus a double elimination on a regular race-style level (Medieval Madness, I think it was called) meant that they actually ended up having to play SIX games, as they’d both won one thanks to the other getting eliminated early on a level before the double-fails occurred. Ellen eventually managed to survive the Slime Time level (staying on the rotating rings to avoid falling into slime – also, now fruit is fired at you on the regular!) and took home the Christmas point, but it was a hard sell! Still, watching them struggle and crack up over their own ineptitude (especially on this one level where they had to race across giant fans) was very cute – and hey, thanks to Santa Jon’s very wonky greenscreen, we got a BTTF reference at the beginning, so that’s nice! Also the image of Luke perched on Santa’s knee. ...I’m not sure context would actually help explain that. XD
-->Got another gift fic sorted! Knocking them all out, one by one. . . I should probably start putting the tumblr ones in drafts too, just to lessen my workload a bit on Christmas Eve itself. . .
-->And I'm currently in the middle of RP Shenanigans over on Valice Multiverse, plus I owe comments, so I'd better wrap this up and get going. New to-do list:
1. Read and review the final chapter of my friend's fanfic
2. Watch the OXBox/OXtra Christmas Challenges
3. Catch up at least a little on YouTube Subscriptions
4. Figure out what I need to do to fix my Fallout 4 DLC stuff (THANKS, FO4Edit) and what that means for my current save
5. Edit another gift fic
6. Get in some sort of workout
7. Watch Jon's latest Fallout 4 YOLO video
Yeah, longer because I'm trying to account for anything I might do/really should do. :p Hopefully I get more than three items done on this one! Night all!
2. Play Sims 4 (there was another patch, but I think we should be okay -- if I have to do some more test save playing, I will): Check! I did indeed go back into my "test save," though I decided to go back to my original Victor and Alice Sims rather than visit Geeker again. I was GOING to play them through a couple of days to see how things went. . .
And then I got a look at their clothing and instead spent pretty much the entire play-session in CAS re-dressing them (and updating their skintones, since we can do that now!). I mean, it WAS fun, can't deny that. I like putting Victor and Alice in fun new outfits -- and since this was my original pairing, I could add some of my nice new custom content stuff. :) Not my usual playsession, yeah, but still a good time!
3. Watch the two Plumbella vids in my Watch Later: Check -- over-checked, in fact, as I ended up watching three videos from her!
1. Plumbella has apparent dived head-first into obsessing over Pride and Prejudice, specifically the 2005 movie adaptation, so she decided to do a video where she downloaded a Mr. Darcy (and family), downloaded a version of her, and then did a “greatest hits” version of his and Elizabeth’s love affair with her standing in for Elizabeth. XD It was a very fun video, especially with her searching out all the right custom content, finding a GORGEOUS Pemberly, and then having to deal with modern-day DJs cranking out terrible music and Mr. Darcy being constantly on his phone. XD After a rocky start full of insults and whatnot, Plumbella finally got Darcy and Simbella to be in a relationship – and then Simbella turned down his first marriage proposal, which, yeah, IS accurate to P&P! XD But Darcy accepted when Simbella asked, so the episode ended on them getting married while Lady Catherine burned to death from a heat wave. XD Good times~
2. Plumbella discovered a terrible house on the Sims 4 subreddit (used in a “this is how other people build houses”/“this is how I build houses” meme) and decided “I must recreate that in Sims.” It was a hell of a trip – Plumbella had to do some fun “move objects on” stuff to get a triangular window just right, and the roofing was a genuine NIGHTMARE for her, poor thing – but she managed a reasonable facsimile of the horrible facade, and happily turned it into a livable (if smaller than she expected) home with equally eclectic furnishings. Because sometimes you just want to make a horror show of a house in the game, that’s why. XD
3. And, just uploaded today, Plumbella looks at the latest updates from Paralives, the life simulator that one day hopes to challenge the stranglehold EA has on the “life simulator” market. Well, I say latest updates – she made a video on the game in May, then chose to not check up on it for a while so she could be surprised by stuff later, so this was basically just her catching up on the last six or so months of development. The game looks like it’s coming along well! Graphics are crisper, character customization is getting more in-depth (game has a color wheel! Imagine that), genetics are being built, activities are being made. . . It’s a small Canadian team, so one hopes they manage to get it fully off the ground! We’re all pulling for you, folks!
4. See about catching up at least a little on my YouTube Subscriptions: Not checked -- I forgot to factor in the OXBox/OXtra Christmas challenges, and ended up not having enough time before I swapped into "evening productivity mode" to go back to my subscriptions. Will have to do this tomorrow!
5. If possible, read and review the final chapter of my friend's fanfic (depending on how things go down, this may be shoved back to Sunday): Not checked -- as suspected, I ended up getting caught up in other things, so I will be making an effort to do this tomorrow!
So yeah -- still over half of the to-do list? And I got a few other things done as well:
-->Did indeed watch OXBox/OXtra Christmas challenges for today, which were a lot of fun!
OXBox Xmas Challenge Day 7 – Andy in the Hitman 2 “Sadistic Santa” challenge! The rules – finish any of the standard contracts in Hitman 2 without EVER changing out of the Santa outfit (basically like one of the in-games escalations where you can’t change your disguise). Andy chose to complete the “Another Life” mission in Whittleton Creek as it’s nice and suburban – though he refused to take a snowball or “chocolate” coins, like Mike and Jane were pleading. Instead it was a lockpick and a sniper rifle. And like the consummate Hitman professional he is, Andy got the job done with almost no trouble at all (only losing a star on his score thanks to shooting his final target in the head on the street in broad daylight – though he was in cover on a roof, so nobody figured out it was him. And with a ride home on the bus in his jolly red suit, Agent 47 brought Andy the greatest gift of all – a point! So he’s finally on the board. . .things are getting interesting!
OXTRA Christmas Challenge Day 2 – Luke vs Ellen in Fall Guys! Like before, it was a best-out-of-five challenge – five games of Fall Guys, whoever does best (aka gets the farthest in the various rounds) gets a Christmas point! Though the actual gameplay footage suggested it was originally best out of THREE – but then two things happened:
1. Luke and Ellen forgot about team games, meaning they’d have to work together temporarily to beat the round;
2. Luke and Ellen did not beat their two team game rounds.
That plus a double elimination on a regular race-style level (Medieval Madness, I think it was called) meant that they actually ended up having to play SIX games, as they’d both won one thanks to the other getting eliminated early on a level before the double-fails occurred. Ellen eventually managed to survive the Slime Time level (staying on the rotating rings to avoid falling into slime – also, now fruit is fired at you on the regular!) and took home the Christmas point, but it was a hard sell! Still, watching them struggle and crack up over their own ineptitude (especially on this one level where they had to race across giant fans) was very cute – and hey, thanks to Santa Jon’s very wonky greenscreen, we got a BTTF reference at the beginning, so that’s nice! Also the image of Luke perched on Santa’s knee. ...I’m not sure context would actually help explain that. XD
-->Got another gift fic sorted! Knocking them all out, one by one. . . I should probably start putting the tumblr ones in drafts too, just to lessen my workload a bit on Christmas Eve itself. . .
-->And I'm currently in the middle of RP Shenanigans over on Valice Multiverse, plus I owe comments, so I'd better wrap this up and get going. New to-do list:
1. Read and review the final chapter of my friend's fanfic
2. Watch the OXBox/OXtra Christmas Challenges
3. Catch up at least a little on YouTube Subscriptions
4. Figure out what I need to do to fix my Fallout 4 DLC stuff (THANKS, FO4Edit) and what that means for my current save
5. Edit another gift fic
6. Get in some sort of workout
7. Watch Jon's latest Fallout 4 YOLO video
Yeah, longer because I'm trying to account for anything I might do/really should do. :p Hopefully I get more than three items done on this one! Night all!
