Stressful Wednesday
Mar. 24th, 2021 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickSpent all day pretty much working on one spreadsheet -- mostly because I kept coming across problems while researching the people on the spreadsheet. And then there was answering the phone, and doing more credit card stuff, and trying to get in a quick lunch break, and -- bleh. It wasn't the greatest day, is what I'm saying. Made it through, though -- didn't get EVERYTHING I wanted to get done, done, but I got the spreadsheet sorted, so. . .
Had decent luck with the nightly to-do list as well:
1. Get in a workout: Check – got myself back down on the bike for one of the “fun rides” and worked up a sweat watching the rest of Episode 68 of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills as he lead the charge into the junkyard, despite being overtired. Surprisingly, this did not result in the deaths of all the Hubologists – mostly because most of the robots were already taken care of. There were a few rad-heavy areas as they navigated through some of the underground bits (like by a decommissioned tram car), but Grills was able to weather those pretty well. . .and the one robot that remained, a big old MK II Sentry bot? The one that Grills was prepared to launch a Nuka-Grenade at?
One bullet. One bullet from the Two-Shot Advanced .44 with his sneak attack bonus, and it went boom. Jon was – surprised. XD At any rate, this meant that the Hubologists could get to their spaceship, Dara could give a big speech to her followers and hand Grills Hub’s Alien Blaster (a “lucky” version of the weapon that builds criticals faster; Jon wasn’t particularly impressed because the damage is only about 150 base), and Grills could go out and get the missing power distributor and fusion cores for the ride! Jon, having done this already, knew where to go for the power distributor, and was able to get two fusion cores off the exploded Sentry Bot, and another from the location where the distributor lay. So he was able to go ahead and plug all those in and send the Hubologists on the ride of their lives! Literally – apparently the last time Jon did this, as Bacon, he got FOUR fusion cores because there’s four slots, and killed them via head explosion. He genuinely thought that’s just how the quest ended until someone I guess told him otherwise. XD But in this reality, the Hubologists survived, gave Grills some more alien blaster rounds, and he left them to their new base with a bunch of XP in hand. Aaand a bunch of exhaustion – on the way back to the park proper, Grills got Weary from lack of sleep, and running promptly became a no-go. Fortunately a nice Nuka-Dark got him perked up enough to make it back to the Nuka-Town Market. . .
Where he discovered my favorite glitch – turns out the traders finally getting their explosive collars off means getting all their OTHER clothes off too. Mackenzie and her brethren just hang out in the market with their kit off now. XD Jon was deeply confused, but needed the rad scrub and doctoring Mackenzie offered too much to make much of it. He got cured of most of his illnesses, then essentially dragged himself back to bed in the Fizztop Grille before his Weariness could do much damage to his legs.
And with that, Jon looked upon Nuka-World and called it good for the moment, figuring it wasn’t really worth trying to clear out the other park. He said he was still planning to come back in the semi-near future, though. . . At any rate, he hopped back in the power armor, got everything he wanted to take back with him (mostly fusion cores, some decent weaponry, junk, and Nuka-Grapes and Nuka-Quantums), and took the tram back to the Commonwealth proper. One dead Raider and Institute-teleport hop later, he was back home! Good to see Hangman’s Alley again. . .he put the Alien Blaster up on the wall of weapons, put the Spacesuit on a mannequin for display, gave Strong the bearskin outfit from Far Harbor on the advice of the commenters, then headed over to the weapons workbench to start making improvements to his Thirst Zapper!
. . .Turns out he was short on fiberglass, both for that and to improve a nice piece of Synth leg gear he picked up from a Legendary Bloodworm that ups his movement speed. And with his own shop closed for the night, he had to take a quick run up to Diamond City to bother Percy for some stuff, and then over to Cambridge to grab some Abraxo Cleaner from the electronics store in College Square. With enough fiberglass to do the conversion, and enough Quantum to make some ammo, Grills soon had himself a squirt gun that shot Quantum-powered nuclear explosions. And, being Grills, he chose to test this new gun on his robot companions, since they were conveniently grouped together in his bedroom. First shot took out Codsworth and Jezebel (from Automatron, yes she’s just still hanging around in her new robot body) – Curie returned fire, with Grills firing another shot at her –
And getting exploded for his efforts, because while the blast radius isn’t huge, this is not a gun you use at close range. Jon was happy with its effects, though, and reloaded the save he just dropped before testing without issue. Whew! He ended the episode saying that he was going down south next time to check out some locations he hadn’t been to before – and as the title of Episode 69 is “Vault 88,” I think I know what’s coming. XD
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! The concert has finished, and Alice has nearly scared the life out of the Conductor by applauding. XD Though he made clear later that he doesn’t mind her listening in – she just startled him. Dude usually performs to an empty room, you see. . .as a symbolic representation about how Victor often doesn’t feel comfortable sharing his music with just anybody. It’s a pretty personal thing for him, and you’ve got to earn his trust to have him want to play for you. It’s why him telling Alice she could stay after she gave him the Ball & Socket drawing for his birthday in “Finding You” was so significant – it meant he really considered her a friend at that point. :) At any rate, we’re just coming up on the Paino fight now. . .though I’m starting to think that, once I’m done with this edit, I might have to go back and find something to cut. This particular chapter’s feeling a bit meandering compared to the others. . .we’ll see how I feel once I get the whole thing sorted, though!
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check, plus a little extra! Helps when you only have two to sort through. . .
A) First up was Call Me Kevin with Mitoza, a game where you are given a seed, and a choice. And that choice leads to another choice, and that choice leads to another choice, and all of the choices are extremely messed up. You can have devil eggplants opening ice cream parlors, a bowling ball with a face painted on it cracked open to reveal a brain, a rubber ducky-related Psycho reference, and the cake once again proven to be a lie. And everything always results in a new seed, so you can explore all the different choices. It is aggressively weird and I’m not sure what to make of it. Neither was Kevin, though, so at least I’m in good company?
B) Then it was over to GrayStillPlays, back in Minecraft to make more of the best weapons in the world! XD Or, in this case, the best WANDS in the world. . .people told him he should mess with enchantments, so he added all the zeroes and made a series of wands that, essentially, shoot creepers. Creepers that go from “generic explosion” to “Gray has to give himself God-Flight so he doesn’t accidentally kill himself as he obliterates the world.” XD There’s also the egg-wand, which shoots mobs of enemies, and the fishing rod that fires giant blocks of TNT. XD It was this last that Gray chose to bring to the fight with the Ender Dragon, blowing it up repeatedly for his amusement. Maybe not QUITE as epic as some of his one-shot kills from the past, but still. I am IMPRESSED, good sir.
C) Then, because I had a bit of time, I decided to go ahead and watch that Red Plumbob video I’ve been meaning to catch up on – the evolution of the wishing well through the Sims series! And, weirdly enough, this is one case where Sims 4 actually wins the day! Yes, Sims 2 really made you earn it by making it a Garden Club reward for a great garden, and Sims 3 had a beautiful fountain-like design, but Sims 4 has both the most potential wishes, AND the most variety of wish outcomes! Largely centered around moodlets, yes, but this is actually one of the better uses for them. Plus you can try and game the system with this well, if you’re willing to give up a few simoleons. . .or wait for someone else to make a wish that goes bad. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A due to yesterday’s queuing – which is good, because I had plenty of DW comments and AO3 comments to answer tonight!
So that's all good. Time to answer my final comment then head to bed. Tomorrow's supposed to be the pick of the week, weather-wise -- then it starts getting rainy and going down into the 50s again. Meh. End of March! Hopefully the next two days will be okay. . . Night all!
Had decent luck with the nightly to-do list as well:
1. Get in a workout: Check – got myself back down on the bike for one of the “fun rides” and worked up a sweat watching the rest of Episode 68 of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills as he lead the charge into the junkyard, despite being overtired. Surprisingly, this did not result in the deaths of all the Hubologists – mostly because most of the robots were already taken care of. There were a few rad-heavy areas as they navigated through some of the underground bits (like by a decommissioned tram car), but Grills was able to weather those pretty well. . .and the one robot that remained, a big old MK II Sentry bot? The one that Grills was prepared to launch a Nuka-Grenade at?
One bullet. One bullet from the Two-Shot Advanced .44 with his sneak attack bonus, and it went boom. Jon was – surprised. XD At any rate, this meant that the Hubologists could get to their spaceship, Dara could give a big speech to her followers and hand Grills Hub’s Alien Blaster (a “lucky” version of the weapon that builds criticals faster; Jon wasn’t particularly impressed because the damage is only about 150 base), and Grills could go out and get the missing power distributor and fusion cores for the ride! Jon, having done this already, knew where to go for the power distributor, and was able to get two fusion cores off the exploded Sentry Bot, and another from the location where the distributor lay. So he was able to go ahead and plug all those in and send the Hubologists on the ride of their lives! Literally – apparently the last time Jon did this, as Bacon, he got FOUR fusion cores because there’s four slots, and killed them via head explosion. He genuinely thought that’s just how the quest ended until someone I guess told him otherwise. XD But in this reality, the Hubologists survived, gave Grills some more alien blaster rounds, and he left them to their new base with a bunch of XP in hand. Aaand a bunch of exhaustion – on the way back to the park proper, Grills got Weary from lack of sleep, and running promptly became a no-go. Fortunately a nice Nuka-Dark got him perked up enough to make it back to the Nuka-Town Market. . .
Where he discovered my favorite glitch – turns out the traders finally getting their explosive collars off means getting all their OTHER clothes off too. Mackenzie and her brethren just hang out in the market with their kit off now. XD Jon was deeply confused, but needed the rad scrub and doctoring Mackenzie offered too much to make much of it. He got cured of most of his illnesses, then essentially dragged himself back to bed in the Fizztop Grille before his Weariness could do much damage to his legs.
And with that, Jon looked upon Nuka-World and called it good for the moment, figuring it wasn’t really worth trying to clear out the other park. He said he was still planning to come back in the semi-near future, though. . . At any rate, he hopped back in the power armor, got everything he wanted to take back with him (mostly fusion cores, some decent weaponry, junk, and Nuka-Grapes and Nuka-Quantums), and took the tram back to the Commonwealth proper. One dead Raider and Institute-teleport hop later, he was back home! Good to see Hangman’s Alley again. . .he put the Alien Blaster up on the wall of weapons, put the Spacesuit on a mannequin for display, gave Strong the bearskin outfit from Far Harbor on the advice of the commenters, then headed over to the weapons workbench to start making improvements to his Thirst Zapper!
. . .Turns out he was short on fiberglass, both for that and to improve a nice piece of Synth leg gear he picked up from a Legendary Bloodworm that ups his movement speed. And with his own shop closed for the night, he had to take a quick run up to Diamond City to bother Percy for some stuff, and then over to Cambridge to grab some Abraxo Cleaner from the electronics store in College Square. With enough fiberglass to do the conversion, and enough Quantum to make some ammo, Grills soon had himself a squirt gun that shot Quantum-powered nuclear explosions. And, being Grills, he chose to test this new gun on his robot companions, since they were conveniently grouped together in his bedroom. First shot took out Codsworth and Jezebel (from Automatron, yes she’s just still hanging around in her new robot body) – Curie returned fire, with Grills firing another shot at her –
And getting exploded for his efforts, because while the blast radius isn’t huge, this is not a gun you use at close range. Jon was happy with its effects, though, and reloaded the save he just dropped before testing without issue. Whew! He ended the episode saying that he was going down south next time to check out some locations he hadn’t been to before – and as the title of Episode 69 is “Vault 88,” I think I know what’s coming. XD
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! The concert has finished, and Alice has nearly scared the life out of the Conductor by applauding. XD Though he made clear later that he doesn’t mind her listening in – she just startled him. Dude usually performs to an empty room, you see. . .as a symbolic representation about how Victor often doesn’t feel comfortable sharing his music with just anybody. It’s a pretty personal thing for him, and you’ve got to earn his trust to have him want to play for you. It’s why him telling Alice she could stay after she gave him the Ball & Socket drawing for his birthday in “Finding You” was so significant – it meant he really considered her a friend at that point. :) At any rate, we’re just coming up on the Paino fight now. . .though I’m starting to think that, once I’m done with this edit, I might have to go back and find something to cut. This particular chapter’s feeling a bit meandering compared to the others. . .we’ll see how I feel once I get the whole thing sorted, though!
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check, plus a little extra! Helps when you only have two to sort through. . .
A) First up was Call Me Kevin with Mitoza, a game where you are given a seed, and a choice. And that choice leads to another choice, and that choice leads to another choice, and all of the choices are extremely messed up. You can have devil eggplants opening ice cream parlors, a bowling ball with a face painted on it cracked open to reveal a brain, a rubber ducky-related Psycho reference, and the cake once again proven to be a lie. And everything always results in a new seed, so you can explore all the different choices. It is aggressively weird and I’m not sure what to make of it. Neither was Kevin, though, so at least I’m in good company?
B) Then it was over to GrayStillPlays, back in Minecraft to make more of the best weapons in the world! XD Or, in this case, the best WANDS in the world. . .people told him he should mess with enchantments, so he added all the zeroes and made a series of wands that, essentially, shoot creepers. Creepers that go from “generic explosion” to “Gray has to give himself God-Flight so he doesn’t accidentally kill himself as he obliterates the world.” XD There’s also the egg-wand, which shoots mobs of enemies, and the fishing rod that fires giant blocks of TNT. XD It was this last that Gray chose to bring to the fight with the Ender Dragon, blowing it up repeatedly for his amusement. Maybe not QUITE as epic as some of his one-shot kills from the past, but still. I am IMPRESSED, good sir.
C) Then, because I had a bit of time, I decided to go ahead and watch that Red Plumbob video I’ve been meaning to catch up on – the evolution of the wishing well through the Sims series! And, weirdly enough, this is one case where Sims 4 actually wins the day! Yes, Sims 2 really made you earn it by making it a Garden Club reward for a great garden, and Sims 3 had a beautiful fountain-like design, but Sims 4 has both the most potential wishes, AND the most variety of wish outcomes! Largely centered around moodlets, yes, but this is actually one of the better uses for them. Plus you can try and game the system with this well, if you’re willing to give up a few simoleons. . .or wait for someone else to make a wish that goes bad. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A due to yesterday’s queuing – which is good, because I had plenty of DW comments and AO3 comments to answer tonight!
So that's all good. Time to answer my final comment then head to bed. Tomorrow's supposed to be the pick of the week, weather-wise -- then it starts getting rainy and going down into the 50s again. Meh. End of March! Hopefully the next two days will be okay. . . Night all!
