Stressful Thursday
Jan. 7th, 2021 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickOn a country-wide level, with everyone reacting to what happened yesterday, and on a personal level, with a bad day at work -- having to run around doing stuff because my coworkers were busy with another project, going up and downstairs and getting my lunch interrupted and trying to catch up on phone calls and letters and -- ugh. It just -- it wasn't a nice day. I miss when I wasn't constantly stressed out by -- everything.
Anyway -- let's see how I did on the Standard Evening To-Do List:
1. Get in a workout: Check – got in a slightly more intense bike ride, with more of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Grills finished up episode 37 by hunting down and grenading a few rogue robots – nothing too special, which actually saddened Jon a little bit. Fortunately, Episode 38 started off very strong to make up for it. Jon’s plan for the episode was to head down to the southwest corner of the map, to start working on some of his Brotherhood missions (collecting the nukes for Liberty Prime and “convincing” another farm to give up its food) and pick up a Railroad dead drop along the way. He started at a little military depot and started down, eventually coming across a ruined town he hadn’t found before –
And then getting assaulted by a Legendary Radscorpion Stalker, which burrowed into the ground and burst up right in front of him. Jon managed to whittle down its health bar a bit, then ran for safety by a ruined garage. . .only to find himself on the outskirts of a raider camp, with some pretty hardcore raiders and a Legendary Albino Mongrel. Jon promptly doubled back, deciding to take on the singular threat of the Radscorpion, and he eventually (with the help of many criticals) killed it and took the Heavy Leather Assassin’s gear it dropped.
And then he spotted a Legendary Deathclaw Matriarch nearby, and made the foolish decision of “I can probably take her.” And he might have, had he not realized the Deathclaw was able to fit into the garage. Cue the damn thing, after an initial fakeout, running straight up to him and taking him out with a massive claw swipe.
Sooo yeah – take two of Grills’s journey involved taking the awesome power armor! The spawns this time were a little different – a bunch of Rust Devils and their robots, a perfectly ordinary Deathclaw, and a Super Mutant Behemoth! With the help of his power armor and a little more tactical thinking, Jon was able to murderlate them all! He then took on the raider camp, which proved to be a repurposed motel (with beds, yay!), and ended a fight between a Legendary Deathclaw and a Super Mutant Skirmisher, sneaking up to steal the former’s loot – unfortunately, it didn’t have anything he liked. He took a snooze, then started the new day exploring the new locale – Natick Banks! He checked out the local church, which seemed to tell an interesting story with all the corpses inside – settlers were apparently taken out by raiders, which were then taken out by Super Mutants, which were then taken out by the Legendary Deathclaw, which Grills ended up killing. So Grills is apparently the alpha predator in this world. XD I left Jon getting Grills to the top of the tower for a better view while gushing about how cool it is he’s still finding new stuff in the game and how he credits not having the crutch of fast travel to rely on. ...I think I’m gonna reserve fast travel for “have to get to a settlement fast for defense mission” in my new playthrough. (I’d go to pure Survival, but I can’t give up the quicksave, sorry Jon!)
2. Keep up with YouTube subscriptions: Check! Today’s offerings:
A) With Call Me Kevin – yet more GTA V Chaos Mod! And Kevin foolishly chose to try and complete a few more story missions, because apparently he doesn’t suffer enough when this thing is on. XD Highlights from this session included Michael and his clone beating up Griefer Jesus (and then Clone Michael getting ignited randomly shortly thereafter); Michael making it rain semi-literally in his chrome fire truck as it flew off while being chased by all the police; low-render-distance Trevor trying to chase a plane, only for all the scenery to disappear; Trevor falling through the world twice as the game tried to make him enter different vehicles during said chase; Trevor finally catching up to the plane after a meteor shower in the middle of doomsday; Michael turning into a gravity well during a therapy session; and Franklin getting teleported onto a roof and getting attacked by killer clowns during a repossession. This is great and I hope he does every story mission. XD
B) That was – actually the only video in my subscriptions, as GrayStillPlays doesn’t seem to post on Thursdays and figuring out when James Turner’s next video is coming out is a complete crapshoot. So I hopped into my Watch Later and caught up on the latest Linkara episode instead! This was the Star Trek comic-and-record set “Dinosaur Planet,” made for kids in the wake of the animated series and first movie. Apparently quite a few of these were made, though not always well – Uhura as suddenly a white woman, everybody? *wince* The one Linkara looked at was a later addition to the stable, and it was GOOFY – the main team of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Sulu beam down to a horrible lava planet in search of intelligent life Spock’s sensors found there, accompanied by two hearty security team members. They’re attacked by pterodactyls and have to escape into a cave, and one of the security team (Wodsworth) trips, bumps his head, and immediately suffers extreme greed and aggression for some reason. Turns out, the planet is in fact populated by telepathic dinosaurs, as exemplified by the derpiest T. Rexes anyone has ever seen, who help save the crew after Wodsworth starts shooting at them and makes their “organic” cave home crumble in the process. It is hilarious, colorful (literally, the background colors change practically every panel) fun and a good way to start 2021 off right, at least on his show.
C) And quick bonus video where someone did “kinetic typography” to illustrate a John Mulaney bit about zoning out, which was fun. :)
3. Write on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Got through Beckett’s opening conversation with Alice – I do love him and his “tone permanently set to snark” voice. XD Alice rather likes him too, though she does consider him something of a vampire version of Cheshire. (Cheshire is displeased by this. XD) So now I just have to wrap things up with Bertram, send Alice back to her haven, and end this “chapter” of Londerland Bloodlines with her finally reaching Downtown again! And with a quick POV-switch to Bertram for some future shenanigans set-up. . .
I've also completed my Valice Multiverse queue and dropped the latest Wyrd Sisters Podcast episode in my queue for Saturday on Victor Luvs Alice, so that's nice. Also been researching various "hunger/thirst/sleep" mods for Fallout 4 again -- I like the idea of having actual human needs, but most of the mods I've found seem to be a) buggy as all hell and/or b) more complicated than I'd like. I just want more excuses to use all the food mods I've downloaded, damn it. :P Ah well, suppose I should just go on as I have, faking it whenever necessary.
As it stands, it's time to answer DW comment and wrap things up before going to bed. Friday tomorrow, yay. . .hopefully it'll be a relatively quiet day and I can just go into the weekend feeling less -- ugh. We'll see. Night all.
Anyway -- let's see how I did on the Standard Evening To-Do List:
1. Get in a workout: Check – got in a slightly more intense bike ride, with more of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Grills finished up episode 37 by hunting down and grenading a few rogue robots – nothing too special, which actually saddened Jon a little bit. Fortunately, Episode 38 started off very strong to make up for it. Jon’s plan for the episode was to head down to the southwest corner of the map, to start working on some of his Brotherhood missions (collecting the nukes for Liberty Prime and “convincing” another farm to give up its food) and pick up a Railroad dead drop along the way. He started at a little military depot and started down, eventually coming across a ruined town he hadn’t found before –
And then getting assaulted by a Legendary Radscorpion Stalker, which burrowed into the ground and burst up right in front of him. Jon managed to whittle down its health bar a bit, then ran for safety by a ruined garage. . .only to find himself on the outskirts of a raider camp, with some pretty hardcore raiders and a Legendary Albino Mongrel. Jon promptly doubled back, deciding to take on the singular threat of the Radscorpion, and he eventually (with the help of many criticals) killed it and took the Heavy Leather Assassin’s gear it dropped.
And then he spotted a Legendary Deathclaw Matriarch nearby, and made the foolish decision of “I can probably take her.” And he might have, had he not realized the Deathclaw was able to fit into the garage. Cue the damn thing, after an initial fakeout, running straight up to him and taking him out with a massive claw swipe.
Sooo yeah – take two of Grills’s journey involved taking the awesome power armor! The spawns this time were a little different – a bunch of Rust Devils and their robots, a perfectly ordinary Deathclaw, and a Super Mutant Behemoth! With the help of his power armor and a little more tactical thinking, Jon was able to murderlate them all! He then took on the raider camp, which proved to be a repurposed motel (with beds, yay!), and ended a fight between a Legendary Deathclaw and a Super Mutant Skirmisher, sneaking up to steal the former’s loot – unfortunately, it didn’t have anything he liked. He took a snooze, then started the new day exploring the new locale – Natick Banks! He checked out the local church, which seemed to tell an interesting story with all the corpses inside – settlers were apparently taken out by raiders, which were then taken out by Super Mutants, which were then taken out by the Legendary Deathclaw, which Grills ended up killing. So Grills is apparently the alpha predator in this world. XD I left Jon getting Grills to the top of the tower for a better view while gushing about how cool it is he’s still finding new stuff in the game and how he credits not having the crutch of fast travel to rely on. ...I think I’m gonna reserve fast travel for “have to get to a settlement fast for defense mission” in my new playthrough. (I’d go to pure Survival, but I can’t give up the quicksave, sorry Jon!)
2. Keep up with YouTube subscriptions: Check! Today’s offerings:
A) With Call Me Kevin – yet more GTA V Chaos Mod! And Kevin foolishly chose to try and complete a few more story missions, because apparently he doesn’t suffer enough when this thing is on. XD Highlights from this session included Michael and his clone beating up Griefer Jesus (and then Clone Michael getting ignited randomly shortly thereafter); Michael making it rain semi-literally in his chrome fire truck as it flew off while being chased by all the police; low-render-distance Trevor trying to chase a plane, only for all the scenery to disappear; Trevor falling through the world twice as the game tried to make him enter different vehicles during said chase; Trevor finally catching up to the plane after a meteor shower in the middle of doomsday; Michael turning into a gravity well during a therapy session; and Franklin getting teleported onto a roof and getting attacked by killer clowns during a repossession. This is great and I hope he does every story mission. XD
B) That was – actually the only video in my subscriptions, as GrayStillPlays doesn’t seem to post on Thursdays and figuring out when James Turner’s next video is coming out is a complete crapshoot. So I hopped into my Watch Later and caught up on the latest Linkara episode instead! This was the Star Trek comic-and-record set “Dinosaur Planet,” made for kids in the wake of the animated series and first movie. Apparently quite a few of these were made, though not always well – Uhura as suddenly a white woman, everybody? *wince* The one Linkara looked at was a later addition to the stable, and it was GOOFY – the main team of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Sulu beam down to a horrible lava planet in search of intelligent life Spock’s sensors found there, accompanied by two hearty security team members. They’re attacked by pterodactyls and have to escape into a cave, and one of the security team (Wodsworth) trips, bumps his head, and immediately suffers extreme greed and aggression for some reason. Turns out, the planet is in fact populated by telepathic dinosaurs, as exemplified by the derpiest T. Rexes anyone has ever seen, who help save the crew after Wodsworth starts shooting at them and makes their “organic” cave home crumble in the process. It is hilarious, colorful (literally, the background colors change practically every panel) fun and a good way to start 2021 off right, at least on his show.
C) And quick bonus video where someone did “kinetic typography” to illustrate a John Mulaney bit about zoning out, which was fun. :)
3. Write on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Got through Beckett’s opening conversation with Alice – I do love him and his “tone permanently set to snark” voice. XD Alice rather likes him too, though she does consider him something of a vampire version of Cheshire. (Cheshire is displeased by this. XD) So now I just have to wrap things up with Bertram, send Alice back to her haven, and end this “chapter” of Londerland Bloodlines with her finally reaching Downtown again! And with a quick POV-switch to Bertram for some future shenanigans set-up. . .
I've also completed my Valice Multiverse queue and dropped the latest Wyrd Sisters Podcast episode in my queue for Saturday on Victor Luvs Alice, so that's nice. Also been researching various "hunger/thirst/sleep" mods for Fallout 4 again -- I like the idea of having actual human needs, but most of the mods I've found seem to be a) buggy as all hell and/or b) more complicated than I'd like. I just want more excuses to use all the food mods I've downloaded, damn it. :P Ah well, suppose I should just go on as I have, faking it whenever necessary.
As it stands, it's time to answer DW comment and wrap things up before going to bed. Friday tomorrow, yay. . .hopefully it'll be a relatively quiet day and I can just go into the weekend feeling less -- ugh. We'll see. Night all.
