Tired Friday
Mar. 26th, 2021 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickHad another not-great night of sleep, thanks to a not-QUITE-a-leg cramp -- it never actually developed into a full-blown charley horse or anything (and thank fuck for that), but it made it hard to get comfortable -- especially with my brain going like a mile a minute about it. . .also I'm pretty sure I woke up (fortunately briefly) at 4 AM. Ugh. . . Fortunate for me it wasn't TOO busy at work! Quiet phone, and I was finally able to get all the information together for that e-mail on credit card stuff that needs adjustment, and to fix this one lady's thing. . . Hardly a perfect day (especially with it being rather gloomy for most of it), but I've had worse Fridays.
Anyway, that's the first part of my day -- how'd I do on the old to-do list?
1. Get in a workout: Check! Another day on the bike, another day with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Finished off Episode 69 today, with Grills going around the vault area, clearing out junk, uranium, and enemies alike as he got the other two control boards for the workshops and finished off the “Explore Vault 88” quest. Took out a Deathclaw in one shot behind one wall – the Radscorpions behind another proved to be a bit more of a problem! Mostly because they kept popping up essentially RIGHT ON TOP OF HIM. Yikes – no wonder why he’s so freaking terrified of the damn things in YOLO!
However, no matter how tough the various enemies were, they were nothing compared to the rads. Vault 88 was deliberately built in a zone rich in uranium, and if you’re not quick on the old “scrap” button, you’re gonna be picking up rads by the BUCKETFUL. And poor Grills didn’t have the materials necessary in the settlement to make himself a decontamination arch! Fortunately he did have some Nuka-Grape on him – and the ability to make beds whenever he wanted, meaning he could also take Rad-Away in a pinch and then sleep off the side effects. Fortunately by the end of the episode, a new ghoul settler showed up to join the Vault, and Grills was able to assign her to be a provisioner, linking her into Hangman’s Alley and thus getting all his materials on-hand to create his arch. Aaah, fresh rad scrubs. . .
Anyway, his adventure through the caves of what would be Vault 88 left him with the following:
1. A Deadeye .50 Hunting Rifle, which slows down time for a bit while aiming – the only truly USEFUL Legendary drop Jon got the whole episode, and that was off a MOLE RAT.
2. A giant water purifier in the back of one room, producing 100 water! This would be good if it didn’t make it near-impossible to defend the place. XD Ah well, we’re almost to the end of this series – I doubt Grills is going to sweat it.
3. Five million tons of nuclear material because holy HELL all the uranium
4. The knowledge of the fabled shortcuts! Yes, there’s two barricades you can clear in the tunnels once you’ve activated all the workshops, which lead back to the Commonwealth. One, in the subway tunnels, will lead you to a ladder, that leads right outside Milton General Hospital and Fallon’s Department Store. The other, up the northeast tunnel, leads to a room with some ghouls (which Jon did NOT appreciate, taking off after the jumpscare) and an exit to University Point (this is apparently the old Pharmacy there). So that’s cool!
With all that in hand, Grills ended the episode having teleported back to Hangman’s Alley for a bit of R&R while Jon made his plan for the rest of Vault 88. He was thinking he could do it all in one episode, but nope – seems we’ll need two, at least to handle this trip out into the Commonwealth to pick up the stuff from Hallucingen. Though that’s for next episode. Episode 70 – man, counting that, we’re only four from the end, folks! Still gotta take down the Institute – AND see what he’s doing with Nuka-World. Hmmm. . .
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check – started the Paino fight! Victor and Alice have each snapped a string (Alice with a tossed Vorpal Blade, Victor with his Quill Bow), but the darn thing has a pretty fast charge attack, so they’ve taken refuge in what should be the orchestra pit. Time to come up with a new plan. . .and a new weapon! (Which is the main reason I’m reluctant to cut this bit. . .I really DO want to introduce the Awful Orphica. Again, we’ll see what I think on a third look!)
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check -- though that was easier than usual for a Friday, given there were only two videos. I'm used to James having an erratic update schedule, but no Fun With Shorts? Weird. . . Anyway --
A) Started, as per usual, with Call Me Kevin and the game Mr. Prepper! You’d think from the title that this is a game all about prepping for the apocalypse, but it’s actually more about escaping from a suburban hell surveillance state. Yeah, sure, you build yourself a bunker with a secret garden and whatnot, but you’re doing it in service of an “escape plan” (Kevin’s is a rocket!). And you can go around to various areas, like a forest! In which lives a little old lady who does herbal concoctions and sends you to kill a pack of wolves and get mushrooms from an old mine owned by a guy named Bob. It’s weird, but enjoyable. Like many of the things Kevin plays.
B) Then it was onto GrayStillPlays and more GTA V! Another terrible stunt course, with blasts of agony in threes. You want terrible jumps off of arrows onto painfully small signs? We’ve got plenty! You want going up and down perpendicular ramps and through flaming hoops? We’ve got that too! You want a boosted ramp jump forcing you through three tiny holes, over a bunch of hovering slow-down sticks, then making you land inside a super-tight pocket? IT IS HERE AND YOU WILL LIKE IT. Poor Gray really struggled just STARTING the stupid board thanks to all the shit jumps and tricky platforming he had to do – the creator REALLY liked sticking in gaps where gaps were very much not necessary. Not QUITE as mental as the last time he went to GTA – though it’s hard to beat an upside-down wall ride – but just as frustrating, I’m sure!
C) Then, just for funsies, finished off with another TheEpicNate video on Fallout 4 – this time about fan theories about the game! Mannequins possessed by the spirit of Ug-Qualtoth? Dogmeat an Institute synth spy? The Mother of the Children of Atom being a real person with special Stealth Boys? Jared the raider boss being Mama Murphy’s son? The Vault-Tec security revolt in Vault 111 was successful? How plausible do you find these ideas? (I’ll buy the mannequins being manipulated by dark forces, and I like the idea that SOME of the Vault 111 security made it out, but Dogmeat is NOT an Institute pup! . . .he could be something ELSE, but not a synth.)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Kind of N/A at the moment – nothing happening actual activity-wise on Valice Multiverse, and obviously I’m good currently with Victor Luvs Alice. Trying to see if there’s anything that suits my fancy to reblog on VM right now, but I won’t sweat it too much if I don’t find anything.
So yeah, been a pretty quiet night -- which is good, because it might encourage me to get to bed a little earlier. As it stands, gotta answer my final DW comment. . .and get my to-do list for tomorrow sorted:
1. Clean my room and do my big laundry dump
2. Watch the Plumbella videos in my Watch Later, along with my YouTube Subs
3. Play some Sims 4 (Newcrest Save, get the McFlys to Mt. Komorebi!)
4. Write some more on "Londerland Bloodlines"
We'll see if this is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy or difficult-difficult-lemon-difficult. Hopefully the former! At least, no matter what, it is Saturday, and I can sleep in a little. . .night all!
Anyway, that's the first part of my day -- how'd I do on the old to-do list?
1. Get in a workout: Check! Another day on the bike, another day with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Finished off Episode 69 today, with Grills going around the vault area, clearing out junk, uranium, and enemies alike as he got the other two control boards for the workshops and finished off the “Explore Vault 88” quest. Took out a Deathclaw in one shot behind one wall – the Radscorpions behind another proved to be a bit more of a problem! Mostly because they kept popping up essentially RIGHT ON TOP OF HIM. Yikes – no wonder why he’s so freaking terrified of the damn things in YOLO!
However, no matter how tough the various enemies were, they were nothing compared to the rads. Vault 88 was deliberately built in a zone rich in uranium, and if you’re not quick on the old “scrap” button, you’re gonna be picking up rads by the BUCKETFUL. And poor Grills didn’t have the materials necessary in the settlement to make himself a decontamination arch! Fortunately he did have some Nuka-Grape on him – and the ability to make beds whenever he wanted, meaning he could also take Rad-Away in a pinch and then sleep off the side effects. Fortunately by the end of the episode, a new ghoul settler showed up to join the Vault, and Grills was able to assign her to be a provisioner, linking her into Hangman’s Alley and thus getting all his materials on-hand to create his arch. Aaah, fresh rad scrubs. . .
Anyway, his adventure through the caves of what would be Vault 88 left him with the following:
1. A Deadeye .50 Hunting Rifle, which slows down time for a bit while aiming – the only truly USEFUL Legendary drop Jon got the whole episode, and that was off a MOLE RAT.
2. A giant water purifier in the back of one room, producing 100 water! This would be good if it didn’t make it near-impossible to defend the place. XD Ah well, we’re almost to the end of this series – I doubt Grills is going to sweat it.
3. Five million tons of nuclear material because holy HELL all the uranium
4. The knowledge of the fabled shortcuts! Yes, there’s two barricades you can clear in the tunnels once you’ve activated all the workshops, which lead back to the Commonwealth. One, in the subway tunnels, will lead you to a ladder, that leads right outside Milton General Hospital and Fallon’s Department Store. The other, up the northeast tunnel, leads to a room with some ghouls (which Jon did NOT appreciate, taking off after the jumpscare) and an exit to University Point (this is apparently the old Pharmacy there). So that’s cool!
With all that in hand, Grills ended the episode having teleported back to Hangman’s Alley for a bit of R&R while Jon made his plan for the rest of Vault 88. He was thinking he could do it all in one episode, but nope – seems we’ll need two, at least to handle this trip out into the Commonwealth to pick up the stuff from Hallucingen. Though that’s for next episode. Episode 70 – man, counting that, we’re only four from the end, folks! Still gotta take down the Institute – AND see what he’s doing with Nuka-World. Hmmm. . .
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check – started the Paino fight! Victor and Alice have each snapped a string (Alice with a tossed Vorpal Blade, Victor with his Quill Bow), but the darn thing has a pretty fast charge attack, so they’ve taken refuge in what should be the orchestra pit. Time to come up with a new plan. . .and a new weapon! (Which is the main reason I’m reluctant to cut this bit. . .I really DO want to introduce the Awful Orphica. Again, we’ll see what I think on a third look!)
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check -- though that was easier than usual for a Friday, given there were only two videos. I'm used to James having an erratic update schedule, but no Fun With Shorts? Weird. . . Anyway --
A) Started, as per usual, with Call Me Kevin and the game Mr. Prepper! You’d think from the title that this is a game all about prepping for the apocalypse, but it’s actually more about escaping from a suburban hell surveillance state. Yeah, sure, you build yourself a bunker with a secret garden and whatnot, but you’re doing it in service of an “escape plan” (Kevin’s is a rocket!). And you can go around to various areas, like a forest! In which lives a little old lady who does herbal concoctions and sends you to kill a pack of wolves and get mushrooms from an old mine owned by a guy named Bob. It’s weird, but enjoyable. Like many of the things Kevin plays.
B) Then it was onto GrayStillPlays and more GTA V! Another terrible stunt course, with blasts of agony in threes. You want terrible jumps off of arrows onto painfully small signs? We’ve got plenty! You want going up and down perpendicular ramps and through flaming hoops? We’ve got that too! You want a boosted ramp jump forcing you through three tiny holes, over a bunch of hovering slow-down sticks, then making you land inside a super-tight pocket? IT IS HERE AND YOU WILL LIKE IT. Poor Gray really struggled just STARTING the stupid board thanks to all the shit jumps and tricky platforming he had to do – the creator REALLY liked sticking in gaps where gaps were very much not necessary. Not QUITE as mental as the last time he went to GTA – though it’s hard to beat an upside-down wall ride – but just as frustrating, I’m sure!
C) Then, just for funsies, finished off with another TheEpicNate video on Fallout 4 – this time about fan theories about the game! Mannequins possessed by the spirit of Ug-Qualtoth? Dogmeat an Institute synth spy? The Mother of the Children of Atom being a real person with special Stealth Boys? Jared the raider boss being Mama Murphy’s son? The Vault-Tec security revolt in Vault 111 was successful? How plausible do you find these ideas? (I’ll buy the mannequins being manipulated by dark forces, and I like the idea that SOME of the Vault 111 security made it out, but Dogmeat is NOT an Institute pup! . . .he could be something ELSE, but not a synth.)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Kind of N/A at the moment – nothing happening actual activity-wise on Valice Multiverse, and obviously I’m good currently with Victor Luvs Alice. Trying to see if there’s anything that suits my fancy to reblog on VM right now, but I won’t sweat it too much if I don’t find anything.
So yeah, been a pretty quiet night -- which is good, because it might encourage me to get to bed a little earlier. As it stands, gotta answer my final DW comment. . .and get my to-do list for tomorrow sorted:
1. Clean my room and do my big laundry dump
2. Watch the Plumbella videos in my Watch Later, along with my YouTube Subs
3. Play some Sims 4 (Newcrest Save, get the McFlys to Mt. Komorebi!)
4. Write some more on "Londerland Bloodlines"
We'll see if this is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy or difficult-difficult-lemon-difficult. Hopefully the former! At least, no matter what, it is Saturday, and I can sleep in a little. . .night all!
