Could Have Been Worse Monday
Mar. 22nd, 2021 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickUniverse: Okay, so -- you're starting off this week with your period, and you're getting cramps bad enough that you actually have to pop a painkiller before going to work.
Me: Ugh, seriously?
Universe: As recompense, your talkative, annoying coworker will be staying at home with a backache.
Me: . . .Go on.
Yeah -- had the usual period bullshit today (it literally started right before I went to bed last night, and I woke up a couple of times from the aforementioned cramps -- usually it's more just a general feeling like I have to go to the bathroom a lot, but this was genuine pain. Fortunately it seems to have calmed down by now), but I didn't have to deal with so much coworker bullshit, so that was something. Plenty to do at work as well, which at least kept us all busy. I don't expect things to really get better than today, but I am hopeful they will at least not get any worse either.
As for the afternoon, let us cover the Standard To-Do List:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Even on the first day of my period, I got on the bike and finished off episode 67 of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up with Grills as he entered the Interstellar Theater in the Galactic Zone of Nuka-World, on the hunt to find enough star cores to gain control over the park and its robots, while Jon made plans on how he was going to handle this in the eventual YOLO run. (Currently I think Finalley has bigger things on her mind than going to a theme park, but I look forward to her eventually shacking up with the Nuka-World raiders – yeah, Jon’s already said that he’s doing the storyline “properly” with her, because his one-life-no-reloads character is NOT going to be doing “Open Season.” Finalley’s first priority is always “what allows me to complete this quest with the least damage to my person?”) Said theater turned out to be a bit of a bad idea, just because not only are there a bunch of robots around – including the Startender, a big old Sentry Bot – there’s also laser turrets pretty much EVERYWHERE. Poor Grills was shot to pieces before he managed to take them all out. Though on the plus side, he DID manage to locate all four star cores in the area, plus some more Nuka-Colas, because why not rot out your teeth while in the area? XD Though, as a trip back to the main overworld to locate the star cores just scattered around there proved, Nuka has some real benefits. A Mr. Frothy spraying Grills with radiation while investigating what looked like a museum area caused him to test out Nuka-Grape – good rad recovery, good health recovery, no immune system fuckery! Methinks sir needs to find himself the recipe book for that!
At any rate, after locating enough star cores to plug into the mainframe and trigger another global robot shutdown, Grills shut down any patrolling Assaultrons (Nukatrons here in the park, of course) and went to the robot battle arena to try and locate the cores there. He snuck in the back, since it’s just an advanced locked door –
And then immediately started regretting all his decisions because, while the Nukatrons weren’t active, the other robots were. Including TWO Legendary Protectrons whom Jon had to SPRINT away from after defeating because, well, Legendary robots explode upon death, and shower you with agony and rads. LOTS of rads – Jon took +222 just from not getting away from the first explosion fast enough! Yikes. . .he did eventually kill all the robots and get four out of the six cores (the other two were in the ACTUAL arena, and he was like “no thanks”), but the damage taken and the lack of good loot made him think that the trip wasn’t really worth it. Finalley will NOT be coming here, thank you very much! Not unless she has to.
Where she will be going is “Vault-Tec: Trip To The Stars,” a promotional piece showcasing the vaults as potential interstellar habitats (and also including various bits of subliminal advertising and gassing and whatnot, because evil corporations are evil). Grills got stuck going through a lot of the actual exhibit at first, but then Jon remembered the employee's key right near the start of the place and took Grills through the back area, where the employees worked, and was able to avoid the most radiation-heavy bits and get five out of the six star cores there. He also picked up a space suit just to see what the stats were and if it had weight, since if you’re doing the Hubologist quests, you need to get these for them. Turns out it did!
Also turns out that, despite not actually starting their quest, the space suit still counts as a quest object and can’t be dropped. Whoops. Grills could take the hit to his carry capacity, but Jon wasn’t happy. At least he got the last of the star cores he needed to hit the 20 necessary to fully power up the place and make the park “his.” 35 would have gotten him the special armor on display, but Jon’s quite happy with his badly-abused bit of kit. He headed on back to base after that, talking about his plans for the next episode – namely, see if he can take out a Nukalurk Queen in one shot in the World of Refreshment, and do at least part of the Hubologist quest just to get rid of the stupid spacesuit in his inventory before heading back to the Commonwealth. XD He also mentioned secret future plans for the park, which – I’m curious. There’s not actually that many parts left in this LP – 73 is the grand finale. And judging by the episode titles, 69 at least deals with the Vault-Tec DLC. So what’s he on about? Maybe we’ll find out in episode 68. . .
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! Victor and Alice have finally made it inside the Conservatory and heard the Conductor with his orchestra. Turns out the tune he’s playing is one Victor’s been struggling with, and now Victor’s annoyed he can’t make notes to take back to the real world with him. ...I’d say I was pulling on personal experience, but fortunately for me, if I’ve ever had a dream like this, I don’t remember it. XD Anyway, it’ll be time to talk to the Conductor soon enough! And frighten the poor guy into falling over, because he doesn’t usually have an audience. XD
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! And even managed to fit in a tiny bit of bonus OXBox. . .
A) Started with Call Me Kevin taking a look at the Farming Simulator eSport scene! . . .No, I am NOT making that up! No, seriously, this is a genuine eSport. Kevin showed us a bunch of clips, featuring various teams like Grimme farming their little hearts out and competing to get the best score for their processed grain (or hay bales, as it looked like in-game). It’s actually quite competitive – players using their various vehicles to block their opponents, namely by making the bridges onto the actual bale-processing area inaccessible. Kevin, being a good Irish boy, got really into the hype. And kept asking John Deere if they’d consider a sponsorship, promising he’d do a video if he got a tractor from them. XD A very strange little video, but – it makes more sense than some of the Irish TV he showed us before.
B) Then it was onto the Monday Double-Shot of GrayStillPlays –
I. In yesterday’s video, it was back to the classic City Smash to destroy things on a level smaller than planet-sized! This game’s received an update too – a few new cityscapes (including a moon colony), one new way to murder all the buildings (Gray calls it the “Suckblaster” as it sucks everything in before exploding all over the place), and – most importantly – most of the disasters are now customizable. As you might imagine, Gray had to pump up ALL the rookie numbers. XD Most things at max power were pretty amazing – in particular, the beam of agony can just OBLITERATE cities. On the opposite end of the scale, the UFO is definitely the redheaded stepchild of the group, given it can be taken out by a lightning strike. Or by a bunch of cluster bombs streaming between portals. Which breaks the game so hard the image of the explosion gets square borders. XD Ah, good to see some classic “Gray torturing a game” again. XD
II. Of course, what goes around, comes around – today’s video was a return to GTA V and stunt races! And today’s board – WOW. Okay, just getting UP to the main board was a challenge, as it was a vertical climb up a building, into a half-pipe, onto a platform. And things did NOT get easier from there! Mostly due to the wall rides from hell – you had one that was the size of a Twizzler (that you had to do forwards AND backwards), one that started out as a half-pipe into a drop, then twisted sideways like a mobius strip while shoving obstacles in Gray’s path, and the piece de resistance – THE UPSIDE-DOWN ONE. You had to hit the boosts EXACTLY right, all while dodging all the random crap the creator sunk into the assets. And then you had to figure out exactly how to make a certain boosty jump over some slow-down sticks to reach the finish line. This was pure Gray masochism, and I think the board by which all others will be judged for a while.
C) And then a pair of bonus short videos – OXplain, by OXBox’s (OX)Andy! I think this might be a new series where Andy does quick videos explaining interesting tidbits of video game information (sort of like Luke covering the Playstation Phone/Xperia Play this weekend). So far there’s two, totaling seven minutes in length between them –
I. Today’s subject was NBA Jam and how it was rigged in one very specific instance. You see, the company that made it, Midway Games, was based out of Chicago, and the game came out during the height of the Bulls’s dominance. But one of the creators happened to be a fan of their rivals, the Detroit Pistons. So, in a display of hilarious pettiness, he snuck in a bit of code where, if the Bulls players were up against the Pistons players, and the game was close enough that a crucial last-minute shot by the Bulls would win it – the Bulls players would never make the shot. They would always miss and lose to the Pistons. Yes, unfair, but it’s literally ONLY this matchup, and literally ONLY if it’s super-close. As unfairness goes, that’s pretty darn good. XD
II. And the original video, about how, if you ever wanted to stay in the house that inspired at least the exterior of the mansion from The 7th Guest and its sequel, you can do so! You just have to go to Oregon wine country and be prepared to spend $450 a night. Also the interior doesn’t match the games at all, but then again, that just means no logic puzzles. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Actually kind of N/A tonight, as I already fixed up everything this weekend, and I won’t be hitting the “queue” button on any of it until tomorrow. *shrug* Suits me fine – let me catch up on my tags and relax a little. :p
So yeah, not too shabby. Now I just have to answer my DW comment and head to bed. Four more days, and my period's not gonna be done until the workweek is. . .bleeeh. At least this way I know for sure I'll be free of it for my long weekend next week. Night all!
Me: Ugh, seriously?
Universe: As recompense, your talkative, annoying coworker will be staying at home with a backache.
Me: . . .Go on.
Yeah -- had the usual period bullshit today (it literally started right before I went to bed last night, and I woke up a couple of times from the aforementioned cramps -- usually it's more just a general feeling like I have to go to the bathroom a lot, but this was genuine pain. Fortunately it seems to have calmed down by now), but I didn't have to deal with so much coworker bullshit, so that was something. Plenty to do at work as well, which at least kept us all busy. I don't expect things to really get better than today, but I am hopeful they will at least not get any worse either.
As for the afternoon, let us cover the Standard To-Do List:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Even on the first day of my period, I got on the bike and finished off episode 67 of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up with Grills as he entered the Interstellar Theater in the Galactic Zone of Nuka-World, on the hunt to find enough star cores to gain control over the park and its robots, while Jon made plans on how he was going to handle this in the eventual YOLO run. (Currently I think Finalley has bigger things on her mind than going to a theme park, but I look forward to her eventually shacking up with the Nuka-World raiders – yeah, Jon’s already said that he’s doing the storyline “properly” with her, because his one-life-no-reloads character is NOT going to be doing “Open Season.” Finalley’s first priority is always “what allows me to complete this quest with the least damage to my person?”) Said theater turned out to be a bit of a bad idea, just because not only are there a bunch of robots around – including the Startender, a big old Sentry Bot – there’s also laser turrets pretty much EVERYWHERE. Poor Grills was shot to pieces before he managed to take them all out. Though on the plus side, he DID manage to locate all four star cores in the area, plus some more Nuka-Colas, because why not rot out your teeth while in the area? XD Though, as a trip back to the main overworld to locate the star cores just scattered around there proved, Nuka has some real benefits. A Mr. Frothy spraying Grills with radiation while investigating what looked like a museum area caused him to test out Nuka-Grape – good rad recovery, good health recovery, no immune system fuckery! Methinks sir needs to find himself the recipe book for that!
At any rate, after locating enough star cores to plug into the mainframe and trigger another global robot shutdown, Grills shut down any patrolling Assaultrons (Nukatrons here in the park, of course) and went to the robot battle arena to try and locate the cores there. He snuck in the back, since it’s just an advanced locked door –
And then immediately started regretting all his decisions because, while the Nukatrons weren’t active, the other robots were. Including TWO Legendary Protectrons whom Jon had to SPRINT away from after defeating because, well, Legendary robots explode upon death, and shower you with agony and rads. LOTS of rads – Jon took +222 just from not getting away from the first explosion fast enough! Yikes. . .he did eventually kill all the robots and get four out of the six cores (the other two were in the ACTUAL arena, and he was like “no thanks”), but the damage taken and the lack of good loot made him think that the trip wasn’t really worth it. Finalley will NOT be coming here, thank you very much! Not unless she has to.
Where she will be going is “Vault-Tec: Trip To The Stars,” a promotional piece showcasing the vaults as potential interstellar habitats (and also including various bits of subliminal advertising and gassing and whatnot, because evil corporations are evil). Grills got stuck going through a lot of the actual exhibit at first, but then Jon remembered the employee's key right near the start of the place and took Grills through the back area, where the employees worked, and was able to avoid the most radiation-heavy bits and get five out of the six star cores there. He also picked up a space suit just to see what the stats were and if it had weight, since if you’re doing the Hubologist quests, you need to get these for them. Turns out it did!
Also turns out that, despite not actually starting their quest, the space suit still counts as a quest object and can’t be dropped. Whoops. Grills could take the hit to his carry capacity, but Jon wasn’t happy. At least he got the last of the star cores he needed to hit the 20 necessary to fully power up the place and make the park “his.” 35 would have gotten him the special armor on display, but Jon’s quite happy with his badly-abused bit of kit. He headed on back to base after that, talking about his plans for the next episode – namely, see if he can take out a Nukalurk Queen in one shot in the World of Refreshment, and do at least part of the Hubologist quest just to get rid of the stupid spacesuit in his inventory before heading back to the Commonwealth. XD He also mentioned secret future plans for the park, which – I’m curious. There’s not actually that many parts left in this LP – 73 is the grand finale. And judging by the episode titles, 69 at least deals with the Vault-Tec DLC. So what’s he on about? Maybe we’ll find out in episode 68. . .
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! Victor and Alice have finally made it inside the Conservatory and heard the Conductor with his orchestra. Turns out the tune he’s playing is one Victor’s been struggling with, and now Victor’s annoyed he can’t make notes to take back to the real world with him. ...I’d say I was pulling on personal experience, but fortunately for me, if I’ve ever had a dream like this, I don’t remember it. XD Anyway, it’ll be time to talk to the Conductor soon enough! And frighten the poor guy into falling over, because he doesn’t usually have an audience. XD
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! And even managed to fit in a tiny bit of bonus OXBox. . .
A) Started with Call Me Kevin taking a look at the Farming Simulator eSport scene! . . .No, I am NOT making that up! No, seriously, this is a genuine eSport. Kevin showed us a bunch of clips, featuring various teams like Grimme farming their little hearts out and competing to get the best score for their processed grain (or hay bales, as it looked like in-game). It’s actually quite competitive – players using their various vehicles to block their opponents, namely by making the bridges onto the actual bale-processing area inaccessible. Kevin, being a good Irish boy, got really into the hype. And kept asking John Deere if they’d consider a sponsorship, promising he’d do a video if he got a tractor from them. XD A very strange little video, but – it makes more sense than some of the Irish TV he showed us before.
B) Then it was onto the Monday Double-Shot of GrayStillPlays –
I. In yesterday’s video, it was back to the classic City Smash to destroy things on a level smaller than planet-sized! This game’s received an update too – a few new cityscapes (including a moon colony), one new way to murder all the buildings (Gray calls it the “Suckblaster” as it sucks everything in before exploding all over the place), and – most importantly – most of the disasters are now customizable. As you might imagine, Gray had to pump up ALL the rookie numbers. XD Most things at max power were pretty amazing – in particular, the beam of agony can just OBLITERATE cities. On the opposite end of the scale, the UFO is definitely the redheaded stepchild of the group, given it can be taken out by a lightning strike. Or by a bunch of cluster bombs streaming between portals. Which breaks the game so hard the image of the explosion gets square borders. XD Ah, good to see some classic “Gray torturing a game” again. XD
II. Of course, what goes around, comes around – today’s video was a return to GTA V and stunt races! And today’s board – WOW. Okay, just getting UP to the main board was a challenge, as it was a vertical climb up a building, into a half-pipe, onto a platform. And things did NOT get easier from there! Mostly due to the wall rides from hell – you had one that was the size of a Twizzler (that you had to do forwards AND backwards), one that started out as a half-pipe into a drop, then twisted sideways like a mobius strip while shoving obstacles in Gray’s path, and the piece de resistance – THE UPSIDE-DOWN ONE. You had to hit the boosts EXACTLY right, all while dodging all the random crap the creator sunk into the assets. And then you had to figure out exactly how to make a certain boosty jump over some slow-down sticks to reach the finish line. This was pure Gray masochism, and I think the board by which all others will be judged for a while.
C) And then a pair of bonus short videos – OXplain, by OXBox’s (OX)Andy! I think this might be a new series where Andy does quick videos explaining interesting tidbits of video game information (sort of like Luke covering the Playstation Phone/Xperia Play this weekend). So far there’s two, totaling seven minutes in length between them –
I. Today’s subject was NBA Jam and how it was rigged in one very specific instance. You see, the company that made it, Midway Games, was based out of Chicago, and the game came out during the height of the Bulls’s dominance. But one of the creators happened to be a fan of their rivals, the Detroit Pistons. So, in a display of hilarious pettiness, he snuck in a bit of code where, if the Bulls players were up against the Pistons players, and the game was close enough that a crucial last-minute shot by the Bulls would win it – the Bulls players would never make the shot. They would always miss and lose to the Pistons. Yes, unfair, but it’s literally ONLY this matchup, and literally ONLY if it’s super-close. As unfairness goes, that’s pretty darn good. XD
II. And the original video, about how, if you ever wanted to stay in the house that inspired at least the exterior of the mansion from The 7th Guest and its sequel, you can do so! You just have to go to Oregon wine country and be prepared to spend $450 a night. Also the interior doesn’t match the games at all, but then again, that just means no logic puzzles. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Actually kind of N/A tonight, as I already fixed up everything this weekend, and I won’t be hitting the “queue” button on any of it until tomorrow. *shrug* Suits me fine – let me catch up on my tags and relax a little. :p
So yeah, not too shabby. Now I just have to answer my DW comment and head to bed. Four more days, and my period's not gonna be done until the workweek is. . .bleeeh. At least this way I know for sure I'll be free of it for my long weekend next week. Night all!
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Date: 2021-03-23 05:52 am (UTC)My current 'alarm clock' is actually a winamp playlist that has some white noise sleep audio followed by several tunes meant to wake me up and keep me from dozing back off completely while not being too distracting if I'm trying to organize thoughts. I've been eyeballing some of the ones that supposedly let you play MP3s for an alarm on Amazon, tho.
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Date: 2021-03-24 03:03 am (UTC)Nice -- I have a traditional alarm clock, but I generally wake up before it goes off (oftentimes early enough that I'm sort of half-trying to get back to sleep for a little while before pulling myself out of bed). If I do sleep to the alarm, I need it annoying so I'll actually properly wake up.
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Date: 2021-03-24 07:27 am (UTC)Sometimes I sleep through mine, unfortunately, but usually only if I'm sick or really exhausted.
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Date: 2021-03-25 02:55 am (UTC)Bleh -- I don't think I've ever slept through mine, though I have forgotten to set it a couple of times. Been a while since I actually woke up late, though.
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