Another Gaming-Heavy Day
Dec. 28th, 2020 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAs shall be evidenced as I take you through my to-do list:
1. Catch up on the regular Call Me Kevin and Gray Still Plays episodes in my Subscriptions: Partial check – thanks to doing a lot of gaming again today (see below, item #3), I didn’t have a lot of time for YouTube, so I wasn’t able to fully catch up. I DID, however, manage to watch some Kevin and a bit of Gray –
Call Me Kevin:
1. Hitman 2, murdering people as Santa! :D Specifically, he did the Home Alone-themed mission in Paris, where “Santa 47” must kill off-brand versions of The Wet Bandits and grab all the items they look to steal before they can. And pacify Marv in particular three times with bricks. XD Kevin of course approached this in his usual way – by showing up to a fashion show dressed as a pirate carrying a gift-wrapped shovel, murdering Santa in front of a bunch of people, slaughtering the staff as he tried to find his way out (getting killed multiple times), and finally giving up and taking out the boys with stuff like shuriken to the head dressed as a waiter. And then stealing a helicopter as Santa 47 to escape the level. :D God, I love chaos runs of this game. . .
2. League of Legends, admitting to a deep shame! Because apparently this game is embarrassing to have on your “gaming resume.” I confess, I don’t really get how these types of games work – it’s so much flashy colors and noise to me – but it was fun to watch Kevin trundle around as a giant catfish, licking other players and chewing them up. ...No, I don’t think it makes any more sense in context. XD He also played this 80s-looking dude with a pretty spinning sword rainbow attack, and a bot that can shoot out its fists to grab people. The last was the best game, as he had the friendliest people in the chat. Hell, he even ended up kind of adopting two of them after making a joke about his son watching! XD I love it when people play along with the madness. XD And if Kevin wants to continue playing as strange catfish creatures or grabby bots, I’m game!
GrayStillPlays:
1. Happy Wheels, bottling all the flips! Seriously, the bottle flips that people are designing for him are getting truly mental with all the different areas and names and whatnot. To be fair, Gray keeps pulling off the impossible in his flips. . . There were also terrible obstacle courses with falling bits of scenery, to keep it fresh. “Gray’s Gray Level” was a particular pain in the ass in this regard, as per Gray himself. XD Delightful bullshit! I still love this game. Especially with how happy he is whenever he completes one of the impossible challenges. XD
2. Get back to writing on "In A World Of His Own:" Check! I have started the “Sketchbook World” chapter, with Victor and Alice boating around a watercolor lake (and Alice telling Victor about how she nearly got him a set back in “Finding You”), chatting about how they hope to leave the East End of London behind with their upcoming wedding. Alice just spotted The Artist (a storyboard version of Victor) on the shore, so they’re gonna row on over – and meet him JUST as the sky opens up in a rainbow rainstorm. XD Look, I really like the music video for “ME!” by Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie, okay?
3. Play Untitled Goose Game and/or Fallout 4 (maybe do the pub level in the former, and get myself back to Sanctuary in the latter?): Check! Double check, in fact, as I did manage both!
Untitled Goose Game: I got past the pub level – though let me tell you, it took some doing! A lot of the pub level relies on waiting for the delivery person to open the gate into the back area to do some tasks (namely, set the “table” with all the items), and the Publican’s Husband/Burly Man is RELENTLESS in his quest to keep you out! It’s kind of hard to distract him – and even harder when you’re trying to get a fragile pint glass past him so you can drop it in the canal! That to-do item was a pain in the neck. . . I managed it eventually with a lot of luck. And once through the pub, I found myself in the model village, which contains your final objective, so – figured hell with it and finished the game! Somehow getting a noisy bell through all the previous levels was easier than getting that one pint glass out into the canal. (Though, to be fair, the bell didn’t BREAK every time I dropped it. Basically, once you pick up that pint glass, you have to have a SOLID plan on how to distract the husband so you can get out without being startled!) So I’ve finished the main campaign of the game. Good thing there’s a few additional goals to accomplish if I like! :)
Fallout 4: Mods were activated, game has refused to blow up! So that’s good. Since I didn’t have a massive amount of time (because I wanted to get in a workout, see below), I focused on just getting Victor out of the vault. Read through the terminals, killed the radroaches (which was – well, they swarmed poor Victor at one point and took some decent chunks out of his health. Good thing Vault 111 still has working sinks with purified water despite the security staff mutiny and everyone dying!), gathered up all the materials I could gather, left a hubflower for the victims outside the vault entrance, spotted a random Radrabbit at the stream (thank you, “Commonwealth Wilderness Overhaul!”), and left it with Victor having just re-entered Sanctuary, right before he talks to Codsworth. So that’s that – good start for when I pick back up again on Wednesday!
4. Listen to some of the songs in the "Valice" playlist on Spotify: Not checked, due to the fact that I didn't realize Spotify gave you no "free listens" -- you have to sign up for an account. Which, rather than try to find the better part of 63 songs on YouTube one at a time, I will probably do. It's the cool thing to have anyway.
5. Try to watch the two OXBox/OXtra videos I have in my Watch Later: Not a check, unfortunately – between getting distracted by other videos (see below) and spending a good chunk of my afternoon gaming, I didn’t manage to watch these. Hopefully tomorrow!
Other:
-->I read through the Untitled Goose Game TV Tropes page, which led me to watch some related videos:
1. The Muppets skit at “The Game Awards 2019,” which featured Beaker visiting the UGG world (the skit being the Muppet promoting the new “Untitled Beaker Game”) – and then the Goose appearing as a Muppet! XD And of course stealing the card revealing the name of the winner of the segment they were hosting, Best Game For Impact. XD Beaker and the Goose had a bit of a tussle, but eventually it calmed down enough so they could announce the winner. XD Good stuff – and frankly, the Goose makes a good Muppet.
2. The very end of the 8/18/2020 “Nintendo Indie World” Showcase, showing off independent games coming to the Switch and suchlike, which had the presenters wrapping up the show – before needing to very quickly roll a certain trailer once a certain someone started honking. XD Or, rather, two certain someones – the trailer was for the co-op two geese mode added in September, as well as the game coming to new platforms! XD
3. And just one I found looking for the other two – a video on how the game was made! Basically, it started as a joke between four Australian friends who had previously made another game and were looking for new ideas. UGG was just sort of going to be a “tech demo” of sorts with the goose and the garden, released just as a stopgap while they worked on a “real” game. And then they made a trailer, getting a friend to score it, and the damn thing went viral, making them realize “okay, I guess this IS our next proper game.” Also, it seems part of the reason it doesn’t have a title other than “Untitled Goose Game” is the boys cared more about participating in climate protests, which is fine by me. It’s funnier if it doesn’t have a title anyway. XD
-->Spent a chunk of the early afternoon after lunch helping Mom sort out the 3-D Hogwarts puzzle we're working on -- discarding the pieces created by the foam-cutting process, trying to sort stuff by where it comes (roof, wall, base, things like that). We've gotten a few bits done here and there, but I suspect this is gonna be a project! Ah well, it keeps us busy into the New Year. *nods*
-->Got in a workout, yay me – another bike ride, and another chunk of time spent with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! After taking out the Courser and letting his fellow Brotherhood handle the synths he summoned on death, Jon took another shot at going through Reeb Marina’s story – that being Eugene and Malcolm, twin brothers who intended to try and escape the irradiated hellhole Massachusetts had become via boat, but ended up turning on each other and trying to kill each other via robot reprogramming birthday surprise. Though Jon pointed out that there was only ONE corpse in the building, so it’s possible this was a weird case of split personality. (Though, also, this is “-1 Perception” Jon we’re talking about, so. . .)
At any rate, having finished up there, he went over to Finch Farm to steal all their mutfruit (and empty bottles to fill with water), talk to Doc Weathers (resting there for a bit), and catch a save – aaand picked up Insomnia, right before going to face Saugus Ironworks and the Forged. Poor guy. . .he pressed onward, though, working his way through the nearby “Hub City” junkyard, which was a Gunner camp – one that allowed him access to the bridge and those assholes on it with missile launchers and Fat Men. Jon took out Captain Bridget and all her ilk, lucked out in that something else had taken care of most of the Forged outside the main building, popped a Nuka-Cola, and headed inside.
Where he proceeded to miss all his shots on his very first target and ended up under fire by a LOT of molotov cocktails! XD Fortunately, he managed to do better after that, slowly working his way through the rooms and grinding up his criticals on a Protectron he activated. Faced with confronting Slag, the boss, he chose to try throwing a few Plasma Grenades to see what happened. What happened? A lot of death, a relatively easy kill of old Slaggy, and a bit of worrisome behavior from Jake Finch (who may have just randomly started firing at Grills, unless that was one of the unnamed Forged standing with Slag) until he decided to surrender and be friends with Grills. Of course, every boon has its price – Slag fell into the molten metal, and Jon had to pop a Stimpack and leap in after him to retrieve the Finch family sword, the Shishkebab, to complete their quest. But he managed it without dying (yay power armor) and I left him waiting around for the Finch family reunion to be over so he can officially claim settlement and sword. Oh, and he’s got the coils Zao needs too, so kudos all around for Grills Bears! :D
So yeah -- once again, the Goose and the Apocalypse took up most of my time. Though mostly Goose today. XD And with an early answer to my comment, I'm pretty good for the night. Think I'll spend some time getting pictures sorted for my upcoming Newcrest Adventures updates on tumblr. . . Also probably make that Spotify account. Dunno if I'll listen to any of the songs TONIGHT (got Fallout background music running), but then they'll be available for tomorrow!
Speaking of which, let's get the to-do list for the 29th sorted:
1. Continue catching up on Kevin and Gray in my Subscriptions
2. Get back to writing on "Londerland Bloodlines"
3. Buy the Snowy Escape and Nifty Knitting packs and play Sims 4
4. Get in a workout
5. Set up tumblr queues (I've been bad about this on Victor Luvs Alice lately)
If you're wondering about item #3, there's a sale on, they're both cheaper than they would be normally, and I've decided that's a good use of the extra $50 my aunt so kindly gave me. :p Besides, I want whatever extra gameplay I can get.
And that's about it. Time to sort through pictures, keep an eye on comments and messages, and figure out Spotify. Night all!
1. Catch up on the regular Call Me Kevin and Gray Still Plays episodes in my Subscriptions: Partial check – thanks to doing a lot of gaming again today (see below, item #3), I didn’t have a lot of time for YouTube, so I wasn’t able to fully catch up. I DID, however, manage to watch some Kevin and a bit of Gray –
Call Me Kevin:
1. Hitman 2, murdering people as Santa! :D Specifically, he did the Home Alone-themed mission in Paris, where “Santa 47” must kill off-brand versions of The Wet Bandits and grab all the items they look to steal before they can. And pacify Marv in particular three times with bricks. XD Kevin of course approached this in his usual way – by showing up to a fashion show dressed as a pirate carrying a gift-wrapped shovel, murdering Santa in front of a bunch of people, slaughtering the staff as he tried to find his way out (getting killed multiple times), and finally giving up and taking out the boys with stuff like shuriken to the head dressed as a waiter. And then stealing a helicopter as Santa 47 to escape the level. :D God, I love chaos runs of this game. . .
2. League of Legends, admitting to a deep shame! Because apparently this game is embarrassing to have on your “gaming resume.” I confess, I don’t really get how these types of games work – it’s so much flashy colors and noise to me – but it was fun to watch Kevin trundle around as a giant catfish, licking other players and chewing them up. ...No, I don’t think it makes any more sense in context. XD He also played this 80s-looking dude with a pretty spinning sword rainbow attack, and a bot that can shoot out its fists to grab people. The last was the best game, as he had the friendliest people in the chat. Hell, he even ended up kind of adopting two of them after making a joke about his son watching! XD I love it when people play along with the madness. XD And if Kevin wants to continue playing as strange catfish creatures or grabby bots, I’m game!
GrayStillPlays:
1. Happy Wheels, bottling all the flips! Seriously, the bottle flips that people are designing for him are getting truly mental with all the different areas and names and whatnot. To be fair, Gray keeps pulling off the impossible in his flips. . . There were also terrible obstacle courses with falling bits of scenery, to keep it fresh. “Gray’s Gray Level” was a particular pain in the ass in this regard, as per Gray himself. XD Delightful bullshit! I still love this game. Especially with how happy he is whenever he completes one of the impossible challenges. XD
2. Get back to writing on "In A World Of His Own:" Check! I have started the “Sketchbook World” chapter, with Victor and Alice boating around a watercolor lake (and Alice telling Victor about how she nearly got him a set back in “Finding You”), chatting about how they hope to leave the East End of London behind with their upcoming wedding. Alice just spotted The Artist (a storyboard version of Victor) on the shore, so they’re gonna row on over – and meet him JUST as the sky opens up in a rainbow rainstorm. XD Look, I really like the music video for “ME!” by Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie, okay?
3. Play Untitled Goose Game and/or Fallout 4 (maybe do the pub level in the former, and get myself back to Sanctuary in the latter?): Check! Double check, in fact, as I did manage both!
Untitled Goose Game: I got past the pub level – though let me tell you, it took some doing! A lot of the pub level relies on waiting for the delivery person to open the gate into the back area to do some tasks (namely, set the “table” with all the items), and the Publican’s Husband/Burly Man is RELENTLESS in his quest to keep you out! It’s kind of hard to distract him – and even harder when you’re trying to get a fragile pint glass past him so you can drop it in the canal! That to-do item was a pain in the neck. . . I managed it eventually with a lot of luck. And once through the pub, I found myself in the model village, which contains your final objective, so – figured hell with it and finished the game! Somehow getting a noisy bell through all the previous levels was easier than getting that one pint glass out into the canal. (Though, to be fair, the bell didn’t BREAK every time I dropped it. Basically, once you pick up that pint glass, you have to have a SOLID plan on how to distract the husband so you can get out without being startled!) So I’ve finished the main campaign of the game. Good thing there’s a few additional goals to accomplish if I like! :)
Fallout 4: Mods were activated, game has refused to blow up! So that’s good. Since I didn’t have a massive amount of time (because I wanted to get in a workout, see below), I focused on just getting Victor out of the vault. Read through the terminals, killed the radroaches (which was – well, they swarmed poor Victor at one point and took some decent chunks out of his health. Good thing Vault 111 still has working sinks with purified water despite the security staff mutiny and everyone dying!), gathered up all the materials I could gather, left a hubflower for the victims outside the vault entrance, spotted a random Radrabbit at the stream (thank you, “Commonwealth Wilderness Overhaul!”), and left it with Victor having just re-entered Sanctuary, right before he talks to Codsworth. So that’s that – good start for when I pick back up again on Wednesday!
4. Listen to some of the songs in the "Valice" playlist on Spotify: Not checked, due to the fact that I didn't realize Spotify gave you no "free listens" -- you have to sign up for an account. Which, rather than try to find the better part of 63 songs on YouTube one at a time, I will probably do. It's the cool thing to have anyway.
5. Try to watch the two OXBox/OXtra videos I have in my Watch Later: Not a check, unfortunately – between getting distracted by other videos (see below) and spending a good chunk of my afternoon gaming, I didn’t manage to watch these. Hopefully tomorrow!
Other:
-->I read through the Untitled Goose Game TV Tropes page, which led me to watch some related videos:
1. The Muppets skit at “The Game Awards 2019,” which featured Beaker visiting the UGG world (the skit being the Muppet promoting the new “Untitled Beaker Game”) – and then the Goose appearing as a Muppet! XD And of course stealing the card revealing the name of the winner of the segment they were hosting, Best Game For Impact. XD Beaker and the Goose had a bit of a tussle, but eventually it calmed down enough so they could announce the winner. XD Good stuff – and frankly, the Goose makes a good Muppet.
2. The very end of the 8/18/2020 “Nintendo Indie World” Showcase, showing off independent games coming to the Switch and suchlike, which had the presenters wrapping up the show – before needing to very quickly roll a certain trailer once a certain someone started honking. XD Or, rather, two certain someones – the trailer was for the co-op two geese mode added in September, as well as the game coming to new platforms! XD
3. And just one I found looking for the other two – a video on how the game was made! Basically, it started as a joke between four Australian friends who had previously made another game and were looking for new ideas. UGG was just sort of going to be a “tech demo” of sorts with the goose and the garden, released just as a stopgap while they worked on a “real” game. And then they made a trailer, getting a friend to score it, and the damn thing went viral, making them realize “okay, I guess this IS our next proper game.” Also, it seems part of the reason it doesn’t have a title other than “Untitled Goose Game” is the boys cared more about participating in climate protests, which is fine by me. It’s funnier if it doesn’t have a title anyway. XD
-->Spent a chunk of the early afternoon after lunch helping Mom sort out the 3-D Hogwarts puzzle we're working on -- discarding the pieces created by the foam-cutting process, trying to sort stuff by where it comes (roof, wall, base, things like that). We've gotten a few bits done here and there, but I suspect this is gonna be a project! Ah well, it keeps us busy into the New Year. *nods*
-->Got in a workout, yay me – another bike ride, and another chunk of time spent with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! After taking out the Courser and letting his fellow Brotherhood handle the synths he summoned on death, Jon took another shot at going through Reeb Marina’s story – that being Eugene and Malcolm, twin brothers who intended to try and escape the irradiated hellhole Massachusetts had become via boat, but ended up turning on each other and trying to kill each other via robot reprogramming birthday surprise. Though Jon pointed out that there was only ONE corpse in the building, so it’s possible this was a weird case of split personality. (Though, also, this is “-1 Perception” Jon we’re talking about, so. . .)
At any rate, having finished up there, he went over to Finch Farm to steal all their mutfruit (and empty bottles to fill with water), talk to Doc Weathers (resting there for a bit), and catch a save – aaand picked up Insomnia, right before going to face Saugus Ironworks and the Forged. Poor guy. . .he pressed onward, though, working his way through the nearby “Hub City” junkyard, which was a Gunner camp – one that allowed him access to the bridge and those assholes on it with missile launchers and Fat Men. Jon took out Captain Bridget and all her ilk, lucked out in that something else had taken care of most of the Forged outside the main building, popped a Nuka-Cola, and headed inside.
Where he proceeded to miss all his shots on his very first target and ended up under fire by a LOT of molotov cocktails! XD Fortunately, he managed to do better after that, slowly working his way through the rooms and grinding up his criticals on a Protectron he activated. Faced with confronting Slag, the boss, he chose to try throwing a few Plasma Grenades to see what happened. What happened? A lot of death, a relatively easy kill of old Slaggy, and a bit of worrisome behavior from Jake Finch (who may have just randomly started firing at Grills, unless that was one of the unnamed Forged standing with Slag) until he decided to surrender and be friends with Grills. Of course, every boon has its price – Slag fell into the molten metal, and Jon had to pop a Stimpack and leap in after him to retrieve the Finch family sword, the Shishkebab, to complete their quest. But he managed it without dying (yay power armor) and I left him waiting around for the Finch family reunion to be over so he can officially claim settlement and sword. Oh, and he’s got the coils Zao needs too, so kudos all around for Grills Bears! :D
So yeah -- once again, the Goose and the Apocalypse took up most of my time. Though mostly Goose today. XD And with an early answer to my comment, I'm pretty good for the night. Think I'll spend some time getting pictures sorted for my upcoming Newcrest Adventures updates on tumblr. . . Also probably make that Spotify account. Dunno if I'll listen to any of the songs TONIGHT (got Fallout background music running), but then they'll be available for tomorrow!
Speaking of which, let's get the to-do list for the 29th sorted:
1. Continue catching up on Kevin and Gray in my Subscriptions
2. Get back to writing on "Londerland Bloodlines"
3. Buy the Snowy Escape and Nifty Knitting packs and play Sims 4
4. Get in a workout
5. Set up tumblr queues (I've been bad about this on Victor Luvs Alice lately)
If you're wondering about item #3, there's a sale on, they're both cheaper than they would be normally, and I've decided that's a good use of the extra $50 my aunt so kindly gave me. :p Besides, I want whatever extra gameplay I can get.
And that's about it. Time to sort through pictures, keep an eye on comments and messages, and figure out Spotify. Night all!
