Bitchy Annoying Tuesday
Feb. 23rd, 2021 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickLots of little demands on my attention, a whole morning with one of my coworkers out, meaning no barrier between me and the chatty one, a late lunch due to everyone and their brother going in and out of the kitchen, and me just generally feeling grouchy because PMS reasons. Which turned into feeling grouchy because of actual period reasons once I got home -- just as I was going to take out the pad I wore today just in case too! Which, okay, glad I DID wear it now, but damn. Ugh, I'm already in "bleh, so tired" mode. . .
Despite that, though, I made it through the day, and managed to be decently productive this afternoon/evening:
1. Get in a workout: Check! More time on the bike, more time for Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills getting his ass kicked by a Bloodrage Mirelurk he thought he’d killed (this was a different one) and Jon laughing through his anger. He managed to murder the damn thing, along with its buddies to build up some criticals, and get himself into a state where he could actually continue onward, but it was tough going. Two illnesses, immunity suppressed due to having to take Rad-Away, two Stimpacks to fix his broken limbs leaving him parched. . .yeah, Grills was not in a good way at all.
Which is why Jon directed him straight toward the lighthouse with Cassie Dalton’s final target in it! To be fair, his plan was to go by water, sneak around the edge of the place to find a way to kill the one boss Trapper that the quest required, then leg it back to Far Harbor. Unfortunately, his attempts to snipe off a few of the guys around the water were stymied by his first kill having a friend who spotted Grills almost immediately – and then the game crashing! Apparently this is (or was) a thing with Far Harbor, at least with Jon – crashing a lot more than vanilla. I, obviously, wouldn’t know. :| But yeah, Jon took it as a sign to end the episode there and come back to it next time!
Episode 57 started with him back at the lighthouse, still in poor shape after redoing all of his progress from last time but now holed up on an island near the lighthouse for better sniping. This time, he managed to take out the boys on the bottom with his Gauss rifle without issue, creep up to a better position, and get a shot at the boss that he could use a critical to guarantee would be a killing one. After that, he booked it, commenting that there’s a note up there that suggests Cassie made up the story of her and her suffering kin, but if you want to read that, go watch Bacon’s adventures, he is not getting killed again! XD
With that out of the way, Grills swam all the way back to Far Harbor, picking up an infection along the way. He hit up Dr. Teddy for some cures and whatnot, then went all around the little community handing in quests – prioritizing the Mariner, since he was hoping for new dialogue. And new dialogue she had – very heartfelt too, as she explained her plans to will all of her land to the community at large in a last attempt to get these squabblers to come together. Because, despite herself, she cares about Far Harbor. And she counts Grills as a friend too, which – awwww. Yeah, she and Victor would TOTALLY get along in my version of the game. :) She also gave him a fancy Harpoon Gun, but Jon didn’t think its legendary affect that great and planned to sneakily sell it later. He also got a bleeding fish hook from Cassie for all his help with her tall tales, and a Rescue Diver’s Suit from Captain Avery after turning in the other quests, in thanks for helping everyone else out. Again, both of these objects don’t suit Grills (who is a guns-focused character and already has “Aquaboy,” which basically negates the diver’s suit’s bonuses), but they’d be good money, I guess! I left it with Grills back on Longfellow’s island to get a bit of R&R before his next adventure – which, based on the title of the episode, will be the last quest with the Mariner! Going after the Red Death, ooooh. . .
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! LaCroix has released Alice, given her a pretentious speech about how she should have died and the fact that she owes her life to him, and then mind-controlled her to leave the theater when she attempted to ask him what the hell actually happened to her. AKA, she is not having a good night. Left it off with Jack finding her outside the door – time for the tutorial, Alice! You’ll be fine. Mostly.
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Took me a little longer than anticipated, thanks to Kevin and Gray both having long videos, but we did it!
A) Time to catch up on Call Me Kevin! We had –
I. Cities Skylines, with Kevin trying to recreate Ireland! This mainly involved making a village in the north with one huge dirt street for everyone to live on that he refused to link up to power lines, setting up “Poop Lake” (drinking AND sewage), going from coal power to wind turbines because he couldn’t keep the former supplied with coal, building a looong road down to Dublin, accidentally connecting a bunch of one-way roads the wrong way around, building “The Spire” out of a gigantic dirt pile (and then having to stop a general store from building on the same spot), destroying “Sewage Town” with meteors once Dublin started to thrive, and saving as a giant tsunami came to wash away Dublin from all the meteors. It was – something. XD
II. Contraband Police, with Kevin acting as a border guard in Standard Funny-Sounding Vaguely-Russian Fictional Country. The idea is that you’re looking for undesirables and potential smugglers to keep out of SFSVRFC – Kevin being Kevin, he spent most of his time allowing undesirables free entry and ripping up the cars of innocent people. Admittedly, occasionally he found contraband, but he was just as likely to send someone to the labor camp for being a bit rude to him. And the minute he got his hands on a knife. . .well, let’s just say he failed the game due to murder reasons more than once. XD No one ever let Kevin run border patrol, is what I’m saying. (Also, the goats in this game are horrifying. Just – trust me on this.)
B) And then we had GrayStillPlays – Minecraft? Okay, so, someone made a 107-level parkour course featuring all the blocks and special block types you can find in Minecraft – normal blocks, jumpy blocks, speedy blocks, honey blocks, snake blocks, invisible blocks you can only see in a mirror with the help of Minecraft Steve – all sorts of blocks. All in a twisty-turny map where you have to have perfect timing, precision, and speed to make it through the entire course.
Gray spent seven and a half hours going through it all. I have no idea if this was all in one go, or if he allowed himself bathroom breaks, but yeah. Seven and a half hours. We know because there was a timer. I was wondering why this particular episode was almost a half-hour. Also, there was a death counter, and he died over three thousand times. Was quite proud of that fact, in fact. XD Oh Gray. . .honey, if you want to take an extra day off this week, go ahead. You’ve earned it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got Valice Multiverse’s queue good to go for tomorrow (two asks and a thread, which was – tougher than usual thanks to period tiredness, but still did it).
Yeah, not too shabby, especially with my energy and motivation levels plummeting. Still have to answer my DW comment, but I think I can manage that before heading to bed. I just hope I can keep myself moving through tomorrow. . .eh, I've managed it before, I'll do it again. Night all!
Despite that, though, I made it through the day, and managed to be decently productive this afternoon/evening:
1. Get in a workout: Check! More time on the bike, more time for Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills getting his ass kicked by a Bloodrage Mirelurk he thought he’d killed (this was a different one) and Jon laughing through his anger. He managed to murder the damn thing, along with its buddies to build up some criticals, and get himself into a state where he could actually continue onward, but it was tough going. Two illnesses, immunity suppressed due to having to take Rad-Away, two Stimpacks to fix his broken limbs leaving him parched. . .yeah, Grills was not in a good way at all.
Which is why Jon directed him straight toward the lighthouse with Cassie Dalton’s final target in it! To be fair, his plan was to go by water, sneak around the edge of the place to find a way to kill the one boss Trapper that the quest required, then leg it back to Far Harbor. Unfortunately, his attempts to snipe off a few of the guys around the water were stymied by his first kill having a friend who spotted Grills almost immediately – and then the game crashing! Apparently this is (or was) a thing with Far Harbor, at least with Jon – crashing a lot more than vanilla. I, obviously, wouldn’t know. :| But yeah, Jon took it as a sign to end the episode there and come back to it next time!
Episode 57 started with him back at the lighthouse, still in poor shape after redoing all of his progress from last time but now holed up on an island near the lighthouse for better sniping. This time, he managed to take out the boys on the bottom with his Gauss rifle without issue, creep up to a better position, and get a shot at the boss that he could use a critical to guarantee would be a killing one. After that, he booked it, commenting that there’s a note up there that suggests Cassie made up the story of her and her suffering kin, but if you want to read that, go watch Bacon’s adventures, he is not getting killed again! XD
With that out of the way, Grills swam all the way back to Far Harbor, picking up an infection along the way. He hit up Dr. Teddy for some cures and whatnot, then went all around the little community handing in quests – prioritizing the Mariner, since he was hoping for new dialogue. And new dialogue she had – very heartfelt too, as she explained her plans to will all of her land to the community at large in a last attempt to get these squabblers to come together. Because, despite herself, she cares about Far Harbor. And she counts Grills as a friend too, which – awwww. Yeah, she and Victor would TOTALLY get along in my version of the game. :) She also gave him a fancy Harpoon Gun, but Jon didn’t think its legendary affect that great and planned to sneakily sell it later. He also got a bleeding fish hook from Cassie for all his help with her tall tales, and a Rescue Diver’s Suit from Captain Avery after turning in the other quests, in thanks for helping everyone else out. Again, both of these objects don’t suit Grills (who is a guns-focused character and already has “Aquaboy,” which basically negates the diver’s suit’s bonuses), but they’d be good money, I guess! I left it with Grills back on Longfellow’s island to get a bit of R&R before his next adventure – which, based on the title of the episode, will be the last quest with the Mariner! Going after the Red Death, ooooh. . .
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! LaCroix has released Alice, given her a pretentious speech about how she should have died and the fact that she owes her life to him, and then mind-controlled her to leave the theater when she attempted to ask him what the hell actually happened to her. AKA, she is not having a good night. Left it off with Jack finding her outside the door – time for the tutorial, Alice! You’ll be fine. Mostly.
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Took me a little longer than anticipated, thanks to Kevin and Gray both having long videos, but we did it!
A) Time to catch up on Call Me Kevin! We had –
I. Cities Skylines, with Kevin trying to recreate Ireland! This mainly involved making a village in the north with one huge dirt street for everyone to live on that he refused to link up to power lines, setting up “Poop Lake” (drinking AND sewage), going from coal power to wind turbines because he couldn’t keep the former supplied with coal, building a looong road down to Dublin, accidentally connecting a bunch of one-way roads the wrong way around, building “The Spire” out of a gigantic dirt pile (and then having to stop a general store from building on the same spot), destroying “Sewage Town” with meteors once Dublin started to thrive, and saving as a giant tsunami came to wash away Dublin from all the meteors. It was – something. XD
II. Contraband Police, with Kevin acting as a border guard in Standard Funny-Sounding Vaguely-Russian Fictional Country. The idea is that you’re looking for undesirables and potential smugglers to keep out of SFSVRFC – Kevin being Kevin, he spent most of his time allowing undesirables free entry and ripping up the cars of innocent people. Admittedly, occasionally he found contraband, but he was just as likely to send someone to the labor camp for being a bit rude to him. And the minute he got his hands on a knife. . .well, let’s just say he failed the game due to murder reasons more than once. XD No one ever let Kevin run border patrol, is what I’m saying. (Also, the goats in this game are horrifying. Just – trust me on this.)
B) And then we had GrayStillPlays – Minecraft? Okay, so, someone made a 107-level parkour course featuring all the blocks and special block types you can find in Minecraft – normal blocks, jumpy blocks, speedy blocks, honey blocks, snake blocks, invisible blocks you can only see in a mirror with the help of Minecraft Steve – all sorts of blocks. All in a twisty-turny map where you have to have perfect timing, precision, and speed to make it through the entire course.
Gray spent seven and a half hours going through it all. I have no idea if this was all in one go, or if he allowed himself bathroom breaks, but yeah. Seven and a half hours. We know because there was a timer. I was wondering why this particular episode was almost a half-hour. Also, there was a death counter, and he died over three thousand times. Was quite proud of that fact, in fact. XD Oh Gray. . .honey, if you want to take an extra day off this week, go ahead. You’ve earned it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got Valice Multiverse’s queue good to go for tomorrow (two asks and a thread, which was – tougher than usual thanks to period tiredness, but still did it).
Yeah, not too shabby, especially with my energy and motivation levels plummeting. Still have to answer my DW comment, but I think I can manage that before heading to bed. I just hope I can keep myself moving through tomorrow. . .eh, I've managed it before, I'll do it again. Night all!
