Pretty Successful Monday
Dec. 21st, 2020 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI mean, there was a fair bit of faffing about online too, but when you look at the to-do list. . .
1. Catch up on subscriptions (at the very least, I need to watch all my Kevins, or all my Grays, though I'm hoping for both): Check, or close enough to! I’m not FULLY caught up, in that I haven’t watched the videos uploaded today, or the Fun With Shorts video from a few days ago – but I AM pretty much caught up with every other subscription video I missed! Let’s see –
On The Call Me Kevin Side:
1. Kevin decided to break into the ASMR side of YouTube, complete with buying an expensive “ear microphone!” What followed was a delight of horrible sounds and Kevin being, frankly, absolutely feral. I mean – he rubbed bread on the damn things at one point. Bread. Saying you’re the meat in a sandwich. So much of this can be taken out of context for bad purposes – hell, so much of it is bad IN CONTEXT. ...It’s hilarious, go watch it. XD
2. A double-sponsored video, with Oculus and ILMX Lab paying him to play the wonders of Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge in VR! Kevin was apparently some sort of android deckhand on a cargo ship that was taken over by pirates. Not that the pirates needed to feck everything up with Kevin on boards! Using his multitool to expose all sorts of dangerous wiring; stealing money from the cargo; shooting up his own escape pod once he evaded the pirates and their drones. . .hell, he was ready to surrender to them before the game told him “no, you have to fight back.” But then he realized he loved the combat and the chance to dual-wield blasters and was all for fighting. XD It’s a beautiful game, to be sure, and Kevin was clearly having a blast, so if you like VR and Star Wars. . .better than Journey to Batuu, that’s for sure!
3. Into Firefighting Simulator: The Squad, a game about – well, fighting fires with a squad. Or without – Kevin started in single-player mode, after all. And promptly dumped the victim he was supposed to be rescuing into the flames. XD He then proceeded to chalk up a bunch of traffic accidents, argue with the admittedly dumb AI about how to put out the fire, forget that hoses need nozzles to direct the water, then join a group of real people and, somehow, end up the most competent one. Yeah, now THAT’S a scary sentence, isn’t it? :p Though he was back on form with the next fire, leaving the victims of the smoke on the roof. Stuff like that is why I watch you, Kevin. :p
4. Back into Bitlife to play as The Lord! Yes, Kevin has access to “God Mode” adjusting of people now, so he decided to play as God himself (with red hair and red eyes, just because). “The Lord” proved to have a less-than-perfect life, getting regularly ill, blowing off his exorcism job for shoe sales, and getting addicted to cocaine and dying young from an overdose. So Kevin tried “The Devil” next – nope, after a life of assaulting others, he himself died from assault. Kevin tried playing further as his kid Tasmanian – nope, kid died early due to childhood illness! Kevin tried making “GLASHNOK Smith” with maxed-out stats – didn’t help, STILL died young from assaults. So finally Kevin tried “The Reject” with all stats set to 0 at first. After two entirely expected early childhood deaths, the third one – actually thrived. Good job, girlfriend, long life that ended peacefully in his sleep. The dice rolls on the back end of this game make NO sense, I swear.
On The GrayStillPlays Side:
1. More GTA V Impossible Stunt Races – “Rage Quit” edition! You know it’s gonna be good when he starts out with a terrible small turny wall ride that he just can’t QUITE get up. . . The middle two were less intense (Gray in fact mocked one that called itself “The Rage Race” as he didn’t find it particularly hard), but the LAST one. . .oh man, the creator claimed it killed people, and given the amount of perfectly-timed jumps you had to make across a variety of stupid obstacles, he was not kidding. Poor Gray was suffering right up to the finish line, where he accidentally killed poor Florida Man. Oh, Gray, your pain is DEFINITELY our gain.
2. And a sudden return to The Sims 4 – Gray now has Snowy Escape, Gray was feeling festive and sadistic, Gray decided to make a giant house of “isolation” rooms for 50 Loner Sims and a mingling pen for 50 extrovert Sims in the skiing area of Mt. Komorebi, infect one Sim in each with that illness from My First Pet Stuff, and see which house died off first! Yes, it was the mingling pen house, but it was CLOSE – as per usual with Gray’s experiments, most people actually died of starvation and embarrassment (from urinating themselves), and that took out a LOT of people in the isolation house. Ultimately, two people in there managed to outlast the sole survivor of the pen after he caught the disease, but DAMN. Good to see the return of the Simmies, though – I had missed them a bit.
Oh, and Gray had an iOS game sponsorship, so after a brief chat about “The Battle Cats,” he hit his tablet with a battle ax. YES AN ACTUAL FUCKING BATTLE AX I DON’T KNOW WHO LET HIM HAVE ONE. Jesus Christ Gray. XD
3. Clicked on this one by accident, was going to save it for tomorrow, realized “wait a minute, even if I’m trying to get to bed a little earlier, I’M ON FUCKING VACATION” – let’s watch some more Fun With Ragdolls: The Game! Gray played the game ONCE before, and already people are making ridiculously hard courses for him to complete. From levels where you must yeet yourself from place to place, mindful of being smacked into space by hammers; to levels where if you make a single mistake, all the hammers and crushers and whatnot get faster – and there are NO CHECKPOINTS; to levels where “parkour” means “leap across these lasers and land on the ONE SPOT where you won’t get flung into space – and then get into a cannon and fling yourself into space,” Gray played them all. Cursing every creator as he did. XD
2. Watch the next OXBox and OXtra Christmas Challenges: Check! For your recap pleasure –
OXBox Xmas Challenge Day 9 – Mike in the Mafia: Definitive Edition “Christmas Carnage” Challenge! The rules – win a legendarily difficult car race in the game without rage-quitting or giving in to the urge to swear. XD And guess what? He did it! It didn’t look good in the beginning – apparently the old-timey cars used in the game handle like a BITCH – and Mike struggled to get any sort of lead – but then one of the AI drivers wrecked, Mike zoomed past him, and despite doing things like accidentally going through the pit lane while checking on the drivers behind him, and smashing into someone else’s crashed car while taking a dangerous corner, he won! Achievement unlocked and a third Christmas point! So if Jane and Andy want any chance at the Christmas crown, they’re gonna have to bring their A-games for the head-to-head challenges. . .
OXTRA Christmas Challenge Day 4 – Luke vs Ellen in Among Us “Hide and Seek Speed Rampage!” The pair played everyone’s favorite quarantine game with the OXBox crew, with one of them being the impostor. Everyone else hid out in the level (Pollus, it looked like), and the impostor had to find and kill as many of the others in five minutes as possible. Whoever killed the most, or killed everyone possible (if there’s one person left, the impostor auto-wins, so you can’t kill EVERYONE) in the fastest time, won! Ellen got an early lead of 2:13 with everyone-but-Mike killed (thanks to Luke unintentionally leading Andy straight back to Impostor Ellen); but then Luke managed to beat her time with a subtle and nuanced strategy of “mash the kill button until it works.” XD He killed everybody but Ellen – though not for lack of trying; he actually followed her through a couple of airlocks, but she managed to shake him, giggling all the while. XD Jane’s strategy of trying to make Luke think she was indoors by faking she was outdoors when she really was outdoors didn’t work as well, though. XD So Luke’s got a three-to-one lead now! Ellen has to bring her A-game tomorrow too. . .
3. Edit another gift fic: Check! Got one of the “Londerland Bloodlines”-themed ones done, yaaay~ One of the longer ones too – another request, so that helped. On track to finish right on Christmas Eve!
4. Get some of the edited gift fics that will be posted on tumblr put into drafts: Half check -- of the four I have edited, I have two in my drafts. Which isn't bad, gotta say! Anything that makes the queue on Friday a little easier to get up is a good thing. :)
5. Figure out the Fallout 4 mess so I can play it (and remake Victor if I have to): More or less check – after reviewing some videos online about cleaning DLC and clean saves, and agonizing over the whole mess for a while (worried I’d break my game, still sour about why I have to do this in the first place. . .downloaded a couple of new mods (THEY’RE FIXES FOR THE CRYO STUFF LEAVE ME ALONE), I went ahead, bit the bullet, and replaced the DLC .esms with the vanilla backups I made when I first started modding. (And then had to recopy them to my “backups” folder because I accidentally moved the files instead of copying them.) With them still dirty, I fired up my current save and completed the “Sanctuary” quest and did a bit of wandering around, before being murdered by insects. Things seem okay so far. . .I guess now I just have to decide if I commit to the reclean with my updated FO4Edit, or if I leave them dirty. It pisses me off that there seems to be no real consensus on whether or not you clean FO4 official DLC. I may not mod Sims 4 much these days because of the need for patch updates, but I’ll defend its much easier modding system to the fucking death.
Oh, and after further research – the “LooksMenu” mod looks to be a little too glitchy for my tastes. I’ll just do my best to remake Victor in what I hope is my FINAL trip through the character creator.
Other:
-->Worked on the puzzle this morning while having my breakfast smoothie -- not so hard when you figure out some of the patterns. I mean, yes, it is still PRETTY damn hard, but I was able to find homes for all the pieces that were lying around the edges, so that was nice.
-->Got in a workout -- more bike today, and thus more of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! We continued with Grills Bears, having learned of the Liberty Prime project, learning what his tasks regarding said project were. First up – talk to the newly returned Dr. Li and convince her to help out with Prime’s power problems (his CPU kept shorting out every time they ran power to it). Turned out she was a bit miffed at being asked to help on that particular project – bad memories, perhaps? Never played Fallout 3. . .at any rate, Grills was able to convince her to help by saying the BoS does care about the Commonwealth. Second up – help build the actuators that will get Prime moving. Most of the stuff is already at the Airport, but the gang needs him to find a High-Energy Magnet to complete the list. He’s been directed to check Medford Hospital, but Jon’s pretty sure he can take care of that nonsense elsewhere.
With that out of the way and back on the move, Jon took a moment to swim to Nordhagen Beach and take care of their raider (or, rather, Triggermen) problem at Easy City Downs, then proceeded over to the Railroad to see if they were enemies yet. To my surprise, they weren’t – Desdemona was happy enough to get Grills to help out on a “destroy the Coursers at the Ticonderoga safehouse” mission (which apparently the character he actually did a Railroad run with didn’t get!), and with no holotape actually in his inventory, Tinker Tom was happy to give him a replacement to use! So everything still cool between them for the time being. Grills took a short detour to Vault Tec-Regional HQ before heading to the safehouse to see what was inside – feral ghouls and a bit of story regarding one of the few good Vault-Tec employees and his rather sociopathic manager. Sounds legit. Then it was off to the safehouse where we dropped H2 so long ago, where Grills had a brief moment of worry when he saw Brotherhood Knights wandering about. . .but no, they hadn’t twigged as to what the base was, and I left Grills murdering coursers and synths, making sure to leave no survivors so his cover wasn’t blown. :p Just another day in the Commonwealth!
-->And now I'm just answering a few tumblr messages as I wrap this up and prepare to answer DW comments. Nothing too special, should get to bed on time. :)
Okay! So, productive day, if you define productivity as "watching a shit ton of YouTube videos." XD Let's make tomorrow's list:
1. Top up my phone's minutes (I keep forgetting to do this, and considering I'm a week from running out. . .)
2. Watch the remaining videos in my Subscriptions
3. Watch the next OXBox and OXtra Christmas Challenges
4. Play Sims 4 and get back to Newcrest Adventures Victor and Alice
5. Edit another gift fic
6. Put more edited gift fics into drafts on tumblr
7. Get in a workout
Little lengthier, yes, but I actually meant to add the "workout" one to yesterday's list anyway, sooo. . . Still should be completely doable, right? *nods* Hopefully so! Night all!
1. Catch up on subscriptions (at the very least, I need to watch all my Kevins, or all my Grays, though I'm hoping for both): Check, or close enough to! I’m not FULLY caught up, in that I haven’t watched the videos uploaded today, or the Fun With Shorts video from a few days ago – but I AM pretty much caught up with every other subscription video I missed! Let’s see –
On The Call Me Kevin Side:
1. Kevin decided to break into the ASMR side of YouTube, complete with buying an expensive “ear microphone!” What followed was a delight of horrible sounds and Kevin being, frankly, absolutely feral. I mean – he rubbed bread on the damn things at one point. Bread. Saying you’re the meat in a sandwich. So much of this can be taken out of context for bad purposes – hell, so much of it is bad IN CONTEXT. ...It’s hilarious, go watch it. XD
2. A double-sponsored video, with Oculus and ILMX Lab paying him to play the wonders of Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge in VR! Kevin was apparently some sort of android deckhand on a cargo ship that was taken over by pirates. Not that the pirates needed to feck everything up with Kevin on boards! Using his multitool to expose all sorts of dangerous wiring; stealing money from the cargo; shooting up his own escape pod once he evaded the pirates and their drones. . .hell, he was ready to surrender to them before the game told him “no, you have to fight back.” But then he realized he loved the combat and the chance to dual-wield blasters and was all for fighting. XD It’s a beautiful game, to be sure, and Kevin was clearly having a blast, so if you like VR and Star Wars. . .better than Journey to Batuu, that’s for sure!
3. Into Firefighting Simulator: The Squad, a game about – well, fighting fires with a squad. Or without – Kevin started in single-player mode, after all. And promptly dumped the victim he was supposed to be rescuing into the flames. XD He then proceeded to chalk up a bunch of traffic accidents, argue with the admittedly dumb AI about how to put out the fire, forget that hoses need nozzles to direct the water, then join a group of real people and, somehow, end up the most competent one. Yeah, now THAT’S a scary sentence, isn’t it? :p Though he was back on form with the next fire, leaving the victims of the smoke on the roof. Stuff like that is why I watch you, Kevin. :p
4. Back into Bitlife to play as The Lord! Yes, Kevin has access to “God Mode” adjusting of people now, so he decided to play as God himself (with red hair and red eyes, just because). “The Lord” proved to have a less-than-perfect life, getting regularly ill, blowing off his exorcism job for shoe sales, and getting addicted to cocaine and dying young from an overdose. So Kevin tried “The Devil” next – nope, after a life of assaulting others, he himself died from assault. Kevin tried playing further as his kid Tasmanian – nope, kid died early due to childhood illness! Kevin tried making “GLASHNOK Smith” with maxed-out stats – didn’t help, STILL died young from assaults. So finally Kevin tried “The Reject” with all stats set to 0 at first. After two entirely expected early childhood deaths, the third one – actually thrived. Good job, girlfriend, long life that ended peacefully in his sleep. The dice rolls on the back end of this game make NO sense, I swear.
On The GrayStillPlays Side:
1. More GTA V Impossible Stunt Races – “Rage Quit” edition! You know it’s gonna be good when he starts out with a terrible small turny wall ride that he just can’t QUITE get up. . . The middle two were less intense (Gray in fact mocked one that called itself “The Rage Race” as he didn’t find it particularly hard), but the LAST one. . .oh man, the creator claimed it killed people, and given the amount of perfectly-timed jumps you had to make across a variety of stupid obstacles, he was not kidding. Poor Gray was suffering right up to the finish line, where he accidentally killed poor Florida Man. Oh, Gray, your pain is DEFINITELY our gain.
2. And a sudden return to The Sims 4 – Gray now has Snowy Escape, Gray was feeling festive and sadistic, Gray decided to make a giant house of “isolation” rooms for 50 Loner Sims and a mingling pen for 50 extrovert Sims in the skiing area of Mt. Komorebi, infect one Sim in each with that illness from My First Pet Stuff, and see which house died off first! Yes, it was the mingling pen house, but it was CLOSE – as per usual with Gray’s experiments, most people actually died of starvation and embarrassment (from urinating themselves), and that took out a LOT of people in the isolation house. Ultimately, two people in there managed to outlast the sole survivor of the pen after he caught the disease, but DAMN. Good to see the return of the Simmies, though – I had missed them a bit.
Oh, and Gray had an iOS game sponsorship, so after a brief chat about “The Battle Cats,” he hit his tablet with a battle ax. YES AN ACTUAL FUCKING BATTLE AX I DON’T KNOW WHO LET HIM HAVE ONE. Jesus Christ Gray. XD
3. Clicked on this one by accident, was going to save it for tomorrow, realized “wait a minute, even if I’m trying to get to bed a little earlier, I’M ON FUCKING VACATION” – let’s watch some more Fun With Ragdolls: The Game! Gray played the game ONCE before, and already people are making ridiculously hard courses for him to complete. From levels where you must yeet yourself from place to place, mindful of being smacked into space by hammers; to levels where if you make a single mistake, all the hammers and crushers and whatnot get faster – and there are NO CHECKPOINTS; to levels where “parkour” means “leap across these lasers and land on the ONE SPOT where you won’t get flung into space – and then get into a cannon and fling yourself into space,” Gray played them all. Cursing every creator as he did. XD
2. Watch the next OXBox and OXtra Christmas Challenges: Check! For your recap pleasure –
OXBox Xmas Challenge Day 9 – Mike in the Mafia: Definitive Edition “Christmas Carnage” Challenge! The rules – win a legendarily difficult car race in the game without rage-quitting or giving in to the urge to swear. XD And guess what? He did it! It didn’t look good in the beginning – apparently the old-timey cars used in the game handle like a BITCH – and Mike struggled to get any sort of lead – but then one of the AI drivers wrecked, Mike zoomed past him, and despite doing things like accidentally going through the pit lane while checking on the drivers behind him, and smashing into someone else’s crashed car while taking a dangerous corner, he won! Achievement unlocked and a third Christmas point! So if Jane and Andy want any chance at the Christmas crown, they’re gonna have to bring their A-games for the head-to-head challenges. . .
OXTRA Christmas Challenge Day 4 – Luke vs Ellen in Among Us “Hide and Seek Speed Rampage!” The pair played everyone’s favorite quarantine game with the OXBox crew, with one of them being the impostor. Everyone else hid out in the level (Pollus, it looked like), and the impostor had to find and kill as many of the others in five minutes as possible. Whoever killed the most, or killed everyone possible (if there’s one person left, the impostor auto-wins, so you can’t kill EVERYONE) in the fastest time, won! Ellen got an early lead of 2:13 with everyone-but-Mike killed (thanks to Luke unintentionally leading Andy straight back to Impostor Ellen); but then Luke managed to beat her time with a subtle and nuanced strategy of “mash the kill button until it works.” XD He killed everybody but Ellen – though not for lack of trying; he actually followed her through a couple of airlocks, but she managed to shake him, giggling all the while. XD Jane’s strategy of trying to make Luke think she was indoors by faking she was outdoors when she really was outdoors didn’t work as well, though. XD So Luke’s got a three-to-one lead now! Ellen has to bring her A-game tomorrow too. . .
3. Edit another gift fic: Check! Got one of the “Londerland Bloodlines”-themed ones done, yaaay~ One of the longer ones too – another request, so that helped. On track to finish right on Christmas Eve!
4. Get some of the edited gift fics that will be posted on tumblr put into drafts: Half check -- of the four I have edited, I have two in my drafts. Which isn't bad, gotta say! Anything that makes the queue on Friday a little easier to get up is a good thing. :)
5. Figure out the Fallout 4 mess so I can play it (and remake Victor if I have to): More or less check – after reviewing some videos online about cleaning DLC and clean saves, and agonizing over the whole mess for a while (worried I’d break my game, still sour about why I have to do this in the first place. . .downloaded a couple of new mods (THEY’RE FIXES FOR THE CRYO STUFF LEAVE ME ALONE), I went ahead, bit the bullet, and replaced the DLC .esms with the vanilla backups I made when I first started modding. (And then had to recopy them to my “backups” folder because I accidentally moved the files instead of copying them.) With them still dirty, I fired up my current save and completed the “Sanctuary” quest and did a bit of wandering around, before being murdered by insects. Things seem okay so far. . .I guess now I just have to decide if I commit to the reclean with my updated FO4Edit, or if I leave them dirty. It pisses me off that there seems to be no real consensus on whether or not you clean FO4 official DLC. I may not mod Sims 4 much these days because of the need for patch updates, but I’ll defend its much easier modding system to the fucking death.
Oh, and after further research – the “LooksMenu” mod looks to be a little too glitchy for my tastes. I’ll just do my best to remake Victor in what I hope is my FINAL trip through the character creator.
Other:
-->Worked on the puzzle this morning while having my breakfast smoothie -- not so hard when you figure out some of the patterns. I mean, yes, it is still PRETTY damn hard, but I was able to find homes for all the pieces that were lying around the edges, so that was nice.
-->Got in a workout -- more bike today, and thus more of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! We continued with Grills Bears, having learned of the Liberty Prime project, learning what his tasks regarding said project were. First up – talk to the newly returned Dr. Li and convince her to help out with Prime’s power problems (his CPU kept shorting out every time they ran power to it). Turned out she was a bit miffed at being asked to help on that particular project – bad memories, perhaps? Never played Fallout 3. . .at any rate, Grills was able to convince her to help by saying the BoS does care about the Commonwealth. Second up – help build the actuators that will get Prime moving. Most of the stuff is already at the Airport, but the gang needs him to find a High-Energy Magnet to complete the list. He’s been directed to check Medford Hospital, but Jon’s pretty sure he can take care of that nonsense elsewhere.
With that out of the way and back on the move, Jon took a moment to swim to Nordhagen Beach and take care of their raider (or, rather, Triggermen) problem at Easy City Downs, then proceeded over to the Railroad to see if they were enemies yet. To my surprise, they weren’t – Desdemona was happy enough to get Grills to help out on a “destroy the Coursers at the Ticonderoga safehouse” mission (which apparently the character he actually did a Railroad run with didn’t get!), and with no holotape actually in his inventory, Tinker Tom was happy to give him a replacement to use! So everything still cool between them for the time being. Grills took a short detour to Vault Tec-Regional HQ before heading to the safehouse to see what was inside – feral ghouls and a bit of story regarding one of the few good Vault-Tec employees and his rather sociopathic manager. Sounds legit. Then it was off to the safehouse where we dropped H2 so long ago, where Grills had a brief moment of worry when he saw Brotherhood Knights wandering about. . .but no, they hadn’t twigged as to what the base was, and I left Grills murdering coursers and synths, making sure to leave no survivors so his cover wasn’t blown. :p Just another day in the Commonwealth!
-->And now I'm just answering a few tumblr messages as I wrap this up and prepare to answer DW comments. Nothing too special, should get to bed on time. :)
Okay! So, productive day, if you define productivity as "watching a shit ton of YouTube videos." XD Let's make tomorrow's list:
1. Top up my phone's minutes (I keep forgetting to do this, and considering I'm a week from running out. . .)
2. Watch the remaining videos in my Subscriptions
3. Watch the next OXBox and OXtra Christmas Challenges
4. Play Sims 4 and get back to Newcrest Adventures Victor and Alice
5. Edit another gift fic
6. Put more edited gift fics into drafts on tumblr
7. Get in a workout
Little lengthier, yes, but I actually meant to add the "workout" one to yesterday's list anyway, sooo. . . Still should be completely doable, right? *nods* Hopefully so! Night all!
