Cranky Start To The Week
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crossover_chickYou know it's not going to be a great day when you get pretty much all the way to work and discover you put on your SNEAKERS instead of your work shoes. >.< Fortunately I spend pretty much all day at a desk, so no one noticed (or mentioned them if they did). There were also a number of annoying credit card calls, the usual "cripes when do I get to get my soda out of the fridge" lunch nonsense, and to cap it all off, I had to cut through the city for the first time in MONTHS because there was an accident the usual way I went on the highway. On a day where they let us out a little early. Yeah, I didn't get a heck of a lot of benefit from that. *heavy sigh* Making me fucking APPRECIATE five days off, eh universe? Though I fully admit that my emotions have gone off-kilter over the past year, plus I didn't get great sleep last night -- took me a while to get to sleep, then I woke up early TWICE because of howling winds -- so I'm probably overreacting. Ugh.
On the plus side, once I was home, I was reasonably productive --
1. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, another day with Jon's Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up with Grills as he finished clearing out Suffolk County Charter School, locating an issue of "The Unstoppables" (gives you +1% chance to avoid all damage from an attack per comic) and the last of Principal Hudson’s school announcements, where she defended the food paste project and suggested people who didn’t like it didn’t trust their government, the damn Commies. XD The last place he checked was the basement, which had a few more ferals, and a mysterious skeleton who’d apparently been locked inside a room with some of the pink paste – Jon couldn’t puzzle out their backstory, especially since they had a Stealth Boy of all things in their possession. O.o Jon and Grills eventually decided some mysteries just couldn’t be solved, took the Stealth Boy, and left the school.
And promptly discovered an Epic Super Mutant Behemoth stomping around nearby. Though “Epic” turned out to be a bit of a misnomer – two shots from Grills with his sneak attack bonuses and whatnot took it down pretty easily. Grills ended the episode turning his sights to another location – the old headquarters of Galaxy News, now otherwise known as Gunner Plaza! He wanted to clear out the energy-weapon-using bastards (only the Brotherhood get those!) and see the Vault that they apparently occupy inside before proceeding to the end game. This took us to Episode 71, where Grills sniped off a few of the people just outside the Plaza, before getting some unexpected help from a Brotherhood vertibird dropping off a few Knights!
A few, extremely low-level Knights. One got killed via the medium of exploding cars; the other managed to survive and provide a decent distraction as Grills took out the Gunners outside. And the vertibird itself exploded, as they are wont to do. XD Grills left his buddy outside to guard the entrance and proceeded within, where he formed a VERY brief alliance with a Protectron (ended when Grills dared to shoot a turret in front of it) and then proceeded around the building, clearing out Gunners and reading employee terminals. There was a rather interesting exchange between Jim (who hated his job, hated the guy sitting next to him, hated the smell lingering in the area, and basically just hated everything) and Boris (the intern next to him, who actually bore him no ill will but advised him to be grateful for what he had – and admitted he though the smell was coming from Jim). And I just realized – the OTHER computer in the area mentioned a separate employee playing a prank on another by stuffing an old, rotting lunch in their desk. . .
Anyway, not much else to say except Grills is pretty damn good at taking out Gunners – he’s cleared out the lower floor of everyone except Captain Wes (who is apparently behind a locked door) and was heading upstairs, with Jon complaining (after finding turret control) that hacking in this game is less rewarding than you’d think. Lockpicking too – apparently they don’t give you enough rewards to invest in the perks. This after I just watched him complain in Finalley’s run that, if he’d invested in Lockpicking, he could have gone onto the roof of Poseidon Energy and gotten the Endurance Bobblehead a lot more stealthily. . .
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check – got Victor the Awful Orphica, and he and Alice are moving into phase two of the fight against the Paino! Again, I’m still thinking this chapter is probably dragging on a bit long compared to the others. . . Well, I still have time to edit – I said it should be ready to start posting in late April over on Victor Luvs Alice, after all. And even then, I’m pretty satisfied with the first few chapters. . . I’ll wrestle it into submission!
3. Keep up with Call Me Kevin and GrayStillPlays: Altered the list item for now because Wyrd Sisters Podcast’s latest episode will have to wait until Wednesday evening at the earliest. But check on this much, that I can say!
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and another round of GTA V and the Chaos Mod! Kevin did a couple of simple missions this time – Franklin stealing a movie car from a set (made a bit easier when everyone else burned to death from all peds igniting, and when the car got a free new paint job from “Blue Traffic” – and then a bit harder when the damn thing exploded); Trevor trying to hijack a plane (went SURPRISINGLY well – well, once the “Pacifist” effect wore off and Trevor kept insta-dying every time he tried to shoot someone. . .also when the insane gravity stopped and he was allowed to open his parachute. Also also Kevin somehow broke THE SKY independent of the mod – it’s now just black void); and Franklin getting Michael and Trevor’s help in rescuing Lamar from a kidnapping by a rival gang (this didn’t go well at all, thanks to everyone firing on each other every time Kevin swapped characters, and various issues with the vehicles Franklin kept using to try and get Lamar out of there, from the tires popping on a mercenary jeep (even when it no longer HAD tires), to a spawned-in helicopter dropping out of the sky when Franklin was shoved into the passenger seat (shoving Lamar out).) Good, delicious, chaotic fun – no complaints here. :D
B) Then it was time to catch up with GrayStillPlays! We had:
I. Room Smash – the creator of Solar Smash and City Smash is getting up close and personal with the ways you can destroy things now! You can sling molotov cocktails into a bar (though good luck getting the bartender to stop cleaning his bartop), open up black holes in the science lab, use a rocket launcher on a china shop, or attempt a mass culling via time bombs and sticky bombs in da club. Though that last didn’t end quite how Gray expected, when four of the crash test dummy people just REFUSED to die. Even when they had black holes DIRECTLY ABOVE THEM. Gray has dubbed them the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which feels appropriate. I am definitely looking forward to more destruction in this game. :D
II. More Happy Wheels! And oh man, are the levels getting weird. A pogo-man jet fall where the best way to win is to go backwards and jump on a car a few times; a fall down the colon that involves being yeeted UPWARD at one point; a bottle flip with an entire YEET wall and the win box surrounded by ninja stars (Gray still got it!); various harpoon runs of hell (including one where the harpoons suddenly got LOWER at a certain point – and then you had three you had to jump at the end); a short drunken bottle run where you had to force your way past an invisible wall; and a pogo fight with secret endings galore and a “love affair” between Pogo-Man and Hobo Viking (let’s just say the latter’s head got stuck in a very demonetizing place). XD Good times, good times. . .
C) And then, just for funsies, a short compilation video of cats being scared by the sudden appearance of a cucumber behind them. Basically, cats can really fucking jump if you startle them, even with a vegetable. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the text done on my Newcrest Adventures posts, go me! So I literally just have to slot them in the queue and make sure they all fire on Wednesday tomorrow night, yay~
So that's all good at least. Now I just have to answer my other DW comment and head to bed. Two more days of work. . .hopefully tomorrow can be more along the lines of quiet "looking up roster maintenance shit" stuff. In the right shoes. *sigh* Night all.
On the plus side, once I was home, I was reasonably productive --
1. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, another day with Jon's Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up with Grills as he finished clearing out Suffolk County Charter School, locating an issue of "The Unstoppables" (gives you +1% chance to avoid all damage from an attack per comic) and the last of Principal Hudson’s school announcements, where she defended the food paste project and suggested people who didn’t like it didn’t trust their government, the damn Commies. XD The last place he checked was the basement, which had a few more ferals, and a mysterious skeleton who’d apparently been locked inside a room with some of the pink paste – Jon couldn’t puzzle out their backstory, especially since they had a Stealth Boy of all things in their possession. O.o Jon and Grills eventually decided some mysteries just couldn’t be solved, took the Stealth Boy, and left the school.
And promptly discovered an Epic Super Mutant Behemoth stomping around nearby. Though “Epic” turned out to be a bit of a misnomer – two shots from Grills with his sneak attack bonuses and whatnot took it down pretty easily. Grills ended the episode turning his sights to another location – the old headquarters of Galaxy News, now otherwise known as Gunner Plaza! He wanted to clear out the energy-weapon-using bastards (only the Brotherhood get those!) and see the Vault that they apparently occupy inside before proceeding to the end game. This took us to Episode 71, where Grills sniped off a few of the people just outside the Plaza, before getting some unexpected help from a Brotherhood vertibird dropping off a few Knights!
A few, extremely low-level Knights. One got killed via the medium of exploding cars; the other managed to survive and provide a decent distraction as Grills took out the Gunners outside. And the vertibird itself exploded, as they are wont to do. XD Grills left his buddy outside to guard the entrance and proceeded within, where he formed a VERY brief alliance with a Protectron (ended when Grills dared to shoot a turret in front of it) and then proceeded around the building, clearing out Gunners and reading employee terminals. There was a rather interesting exchange between Jim (who hated his job, hated the guy sitting next to him, hated the smell lingering in the area, and basically just hated everything) and Boris (the intern next to him, who actually bore him no ill will but advised him to be grateful for what he had – and admitted he though the smell was coming from Jim). And I just realized – the OTHER computer in the area mentioned a separate employee playing a prank on another by stuffing an old, rotting lunch in their desk. . .
Anyway, not much else to say except Grills is pretty damn good at taking out Gunners – he’s cleared out the lower floor of everyone except Captain Wes (who is apparently behind a locked door) and was heading upstairs, with Jon complaining (after finding turret control) that hacking in this game is less rewarding than you’d think. Lockpicking too – apparently they don’t give you enough rewards to invest in the perks. This after I just watched him complain in Finalley’s run that, if he’d invested in Lockpicking, he could have gone onto the roof of Poseidon Energy and gotten the Endurance Bobblehead a lot more stealthily. . .
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check – got Victor the Awful Orphica, and he and Alice are moving into phase two of the fight against the Paino! Again, I’m still thinking this chapter is probably dragging on a bit long compared to the others. . . Well, I still have time to edit – I said it should be ready to start posting in late April over on Victor Luvs Alice, after all. And even then, I’m pretty satisfied with the first few chapters. . . I’ll wrestle it into submission!
3. Keep up with Call Me Kevin and GrayStillPlays: Altered the list item for now because Wyrd Sisters Podcast’s latest episode will have to wait until Wednesday evening at the earliest. But check on this much, that I can say!
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and another round of GTA V and the Chaos Mod! Kevin did a couple of simple missions this time – Franklin stealing a movie car from a set (made a bit easier when everyone else burned to death from all peds igniting, and when the car got a free new paint job from “Blue Traffic” – and then a bit harder when the damn thing exploded); Trevor trying to hijack a plane (went SURPRISINGLY well – well, once the “Pacifist” effect wore off and Trevor kept insta-dying every time he tried to shoot someone. . .also when the insane gravity stopped and he was allowed to open his parachute. Also also Kevin somehow broke THE SKY independent of the mod – it’s now just black void); and Franklin getting Michael and Trevor’s help in rescuing Lamar from a kidnapping by a rival gang (this didn’t go well at all, thanks to everyone firing on each other every time Kevin swapped characters, and various issues with the vehicles Franklin kept using to try and get Lamar out of there, from the tires popping on a mercenary jeep (even when it no longer HAD tires), to a spawned-in helicopter dropping out of the sky when Franklin was shoved into the passenger seat (shoving Lamar out).) Good, delicious, chaotic fun – no complaints here. :D
B) Then it was time to catch up with GrayStillPlays! We had:
I. Room Smash – the creator of Solar Smash and City Smash is getting up close and personal with the ways you can destroy things now! You can sling molotov cocktails into a bar (though good luck getting the bartender to stop cleaning his bartop), open up black holes in the science lab, use a rocket launcher on a china shop, or attempt a mass culling via time bombs and sticky bombs in da club. Though that last didn’t end quite how Gray expected, when four of the crash test dummy people just REFUSED to die. Even when they had black holes DIRECTLY ABOVE THEM. Gray has dubbed them the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which feels appropriate. I am definitely looking forward to more destruction in this game. :D
II. More Happy Wheels! And oh man, are the levels getting weird. A pogo-man jet fall where the best way to win is to go backwards and jump on a car a few times; a fall down the colon that involves being yeeted UPWARD at one point; a bottle flip with an entire YEET wall and the win box surrounded by ninja stars (Gray still got it!); various harpoon runs of hell (including one where the harpoons suddenly got LOWER at a certain point – and then you had three you had to jump at the end); a short drunken bottle run where you had to force your way past an invisible wall; and a pogo fight with secret endings galore and a “love affair” between Pogo-Man and Hobo Viking (let’s just say the latter’s head got stuck in a very demonetizing place). XD Good times, good times. . .
C) And then, just for funsies, a short compilation video of cats being scared by the sudden appearance of a cucumber behind them. Basically, cats can really fucking jump if you startle them, even with a vegetable. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the text done on my Newcrest Adventures posts, go me! So I literally just have to slot them in the queue and make sure they all fire on Wednesday tomorrow night, yay~
So that's all good at least. Now I just have to answer my other DW comment and head to bed. Two more days of work. . .hopefully tomorrow can be more along the lines of quiet "looking up roster maintenance shit" stuff. In the right shoes. *sigh* Night all.
