Yup, What Did I Tell Ya
Apr. 6th, 2021 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickOne day at work and I'm already feeling stressed out. Mostly from people constantly asking me for shit. *facepalm* I really don't like feeling like I'm the sole competent one sometimes. . .also, more credit card bullshit today, hooray. . .seriously, so glad this one's a short week. And that I chose to take the entire day for my COVID shots.
Anyway -- managed to survive with a minimum of rage, got home, and started on the good old Standard Weekday To-Do List:
1. Get in a workout: Check – another 25 on the bike, while watching the last third of the Grand Finale of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up with Grills taking out the last of the synths in the room and looting the corpses – one of the named Legendaries had a Mutant Slayer’s Board on him, of all things. XD Maybe he used to work in the FEV lab? The other had an Acrobat’s Leather Left Leg, though, which is somewhat more useful – Jon took that one just for the fun factor (it negates 50% of fall damage – get one for each leg and you can jump from any height you like!). With all goodies claimed, he set the charge, then Elder Maxson gave the order for them to teleport out.
Ingram instead teleported them to the relay room, because a certain child-sized synth had appeared there. Grills being Grills, he rejected the synth Shaun without a second thought, which actually got Ingram annoyed with him briefly – until he explained the whole “synth” thing, and then she was cool with it. *rolls eyes* With nothing else holding him to the Institute, the group teleported out, and Grills hit the detonator button on the roof of Mass Fusion, watching the Institute go up in flames – and the ending cinematic, since this is technically the “end” of the game. I was wondering how that fit into general gameplay – all the times I’ve seen it, it marked the end of a speedrun. But in an actual playthrough, it fades back out to you talking with your chosen faction about what next. In Grills’s case, that was talking with Elder Maxson, who congratulated him on his efforts before telling him to meet them back on the Prydwen for further instructions.
With “The Nuclear Option” completed (and a bunch of XP in pockets), Grills headed back to Hangman’s Alley briefly to drop off his power armor, put his latest “armor” acquisition on a mannequin (he looted Father’s labcoat off his corpse, somehow not burned to a crisp), and asked a couple of companions how they felt about what happened. Nick Valentine was pretty cheerful, congratulating Grills on helping to remove the boogeyman of the Commonwealth! Preston, on the other hand, was horrified by Grills just killing all of the scientists in the place, and rejected his comment about them being their enemies. He actually had the perfect idle animation fire as he told Grills that he’d committed mass murder – getting up from his chair and walking away. It was great. I love you, Preston. :) Even if Grills gives no shits about your opinion.
With that taken care of, Grills headed back to the Prydwen, to receive his commendations from Maxson and Kells – a free extra jetpack for his power armor, and the rank of Sentinel in the Commonwealth BOS chapter. There was also a special gun waiting for him in Proctor Teagan’s shop – the Sentinel’s Plasmacaster, a plasma gun with amazing base damage and the Instigating effect – double damage if the target is at full health. Grills took that back to base and upgraded it into a killer sniper, and ended the episode, and the series, on the forecastle of the Prydwen – still in his bear head, by the way. Because his name is Grills BEARS, remember? *facepalm* But yeah, Jon spent some time talking about the fun he’d had and how much he loves Survival mode – even if it got surprisingly easy near the end. But then he hinted that his next series – a much shorter one – would be all about challenges and doing things the hard way. What is it, you may ask? Well, he didn’t say in the video. . .
But remember how he said he had plans for Nuka-World earlier? I thought Grills was going to return himself. . .but no, I think what he was actually referring to was the next series YouTube was recommending me down there – his “Nuka-World Survival Level One” series! Where his character has to get to Nuka-World – including through the Gauntlet – as a level one scrub. :D I was planning on watching this next anyway, so. . . (Though I might take a quick breather in between with another video first – we’ll see!) Still, gonna be weird not watching this series anymore -- I really got into it, even (perhaps especially) when I stopped playing the game myself. Jon makes watching him trek across the Commonwealth a lot of fun, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the experience. (Even if I was horrified at some of the BOS stuff -- yeah, definitely a Railroad/Minutemen kinda girl here!)
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Alice successfully snuck past the guard that serves as the actual Obfuscate tutorial. . .only to stumble straight into the Dementation one, having been caught by surprise by a Sabbat member wielding a baseball bat and his clawed friend. But they’re not going to have the advantage for long, not when Alice has such a natural talent for Dementation she can use it without even meaning to. . .who wants to see Wonderland help take out some low-humanity Kindred dickheads? :D
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Very easy when there's only two videos, mind --
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and Donut County! This is that weird game where you’re a raccoon with a hole you can control with a tablet, where the aim is to swallow everything in the various levels into the hole (with the exception of one character who manages to escape via hot air balloon, setting up the plot of “we need to find this character so he can rescue us from the hole”). As you might expect, Kevin was only too happy to embrace this concept, sending various talking animals and their homes/businesses/parks into the void of the hole – and, as a bonus, destroying a soup restaurant (one of his quirks is that he loathes soup). XD It does look like a fun game – a fun, very weird game, but still. XD
B) Then it was onto GrayStillPlays and another terrible GTA V stunt race! XD This one was a “hardcore nightmare,” focused around terrible difficult obstacles and platforming. Platforms that got smaller and smaller each time. . .lots of having to climb things that shouldn’t be climbed, or hop things that shouldn’t be hopped, or running off the edge of the board because it’s impossible to stop. XD And THEN, while he was on one of the harder platforming sections (hopping from “Burger Shot” sign to “Burger Shot” sign), someone apparently came into his game, saw him struggling, and put some extra cars around just for shits and giggles. They didn’t actually have collision, happily, but still! Poor Gray, this was truly a board of suffering.
C) And then, because I had the time and it was looking very lonely in my Watch Later, I went ahead and watched the OXBox video waiting there – “7 Most Mundane Activities Games Tried to Pass Off as Exciting Minigames!” Do you consider turtle races the height of fun (Shenmue III)? How about counting different kinds of pedestrians as they walk past (Yakuza: Like a Dragon)? Perhaps you prefer jumping rope? Endlessly? A thousand times over EIGHT REAL-WORLD MINUTES (Final Fantasy IX)? No? Then I guess these games aren’t for you. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Found a couple more things to reblog later in my wander through my tracked tags on Victor Luvs Alice, got the actual Newcrest Adventures update for tomorrow sorted, and got another Song Saturday post put in the drafts because I already knew what song I wanted to come next! :D And over on Valice Multiverse, I had one thread reply, and threw in a couple of reblogs from tracked tags. I’m feeling weirdly productive over on the tumblrs for a change – not a bad feeling, just unusual.
So -- yeah, I suppose I can't complain about anything there. A little extra burst of productivity is a good thing! Help me through some of the longer slogs later. . .now, of course, I have to answer my DW comment and then prepare to get some sleep.
. . .and maybe reread at least part of that snippet I worked on the other day. That's kind of what it's there for. :p Night!
Anyway -- managed to survive with a minimum of rage, got home, and started on the good old Standard Weekday To-Do List:
1. Get in a workout: Check – another 25 on the bike, while watching the last third of the Grand Finale of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up with Grills taking out the last of the synths in the room and looting the corpses – one of the named Legendaries had a Mutant Slayer’s Board on him, of all things. XD Maybe he used to work in the FEV lab? The other had an Acrobat’s Leather Left Leg, though, which is somewhat more useful – Jon took that one just for the fun factor (it negates 50% of fall damage – get one for each leg and you can jump from any height you like!). With all goodies claimed, he set the charge, then Elder Maxson gave the order for them to teleport out.
Ingram instead teleported them to the relay room, because a certain child-sized synth had appeared there. Grills being Grills, he rejected the synth Shaun without a second thought, which actually got Ingram annoyed with him briefly – until he explained the whole “synth” thing, and then she was cool with it. *rolls eyes* With nothing else holding him to the Institute, the group teleported out, and Grills hit the detonator button on the roof of Mass Fusion, watching the Institute go up in flames – and the ending cinematic, since this is technically the “end” of the game. I was wondering how that fit into general gameplay – all the times I’ve seen it, it marked the end of a speedrun. But in an actual playthrough, it fades back out to you talking with your chosen faction about what next. In Grills’s case, that was talking with Elder Maxson, who congratulated him on his efforts before telling him to meet them back on the Prydwen for further instructions.
With “The Nuclear Option” completed (and a bunch of XP in pockets), Grills headed back to Hangman’s Alley briefly to drop off his power armor, put his latest “armor” acquisition on a mannequin (he looted Father’s labcoat off his corpse, somehow not burned to a crisp), and asked a couple of companions how they felt about what happened. Nick Valentine was pretty cheerful, congratulating Grills on helping to remove the boogeyman of the Commonwealth! Preston, on the other hand, was horrified by Grills just killing all of the scientists in the place, and rejected his comment about them being their enemies. He actually had the perfect idle animation fire as he told Grills that he’d committed mass murder – getting up from his chair and walking away. It was great. I love you, Preston. :) Even if Grills gives no shits about your opinion.
With that taken care of, Grills headed back to the Prydwen, to receive his commendations from Maxson and Kells – a free extra jetpack for his power armor, and the rank of Sentinel in the Commonwealth BOS chapter. There was also a special gun waiting for him in Proctor Teagan’s shop – the Sentinel’s Plasmacaster, a plasma gun with amazing base damage and the Instigating effect – double damage if the target is at full health. Grills took that back to base and upgraded it into a killer sniper, and ended the episode, and the series, on the forecastle of the Prydwen – still in his bear head, by the way. Because his name is Grills BEARS, remember? *facepalm* But yeah, Jon spent some time talking about the fun he’d had and how much he loves Survival mode – even if it got surprisingly easy near the end. But then he hinted that his next series – a much shorter one – would be all about challenges and doing things the hard way. What is it, you may ask? Well, he didn’t say in the video. . .
But remember how he said he had plans for Nuka-World earlier? I thought Grills was going to return himself. . .but no, I think what he was actually referring to was the next series YouTube was recommending me down there – his “Nuka-World Survival Level One” series! Where his character has to get to Nuka-World – including through the Gauntlet – as a level one scrub. :D I was planning on watching this next anyway, so. . . (Though I might take a quick breather in between with another video first – we’ll see!) Still, gonna be weird not watching this series anymore -- I really got into it, even (perhaps especially) when I stopped playing the game myself. Jon makes watching him trek across the Commonwealth a lot of fun, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the experience. (Even if I was horrified at some of the BOS stuff -- yeah, definitely a Railroad/Minutemen kinda girl here!)
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Alice successfully snuck past the guard that serves as the actual Obfuscate tutorial. . .only to stumble straight into the Dementation one, having been caught by surprise by a Sabbat member wielding a baseball bat and his clawed friend. But they’re not going to have the advantage for long, not when Alice has such a natural talent for Dementation she can use it without even meaning to. . .who wants to see Wonderland help take out some low-humanity Kindred dickheads? :D
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Very easy when there's only two videos, mind --
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and Donut County! This is that weird game where you’re a raccoon with a hole you can control with a tablet, where the aim is to swallow everything in the various levels into the hole (with the exception of one character who manages to escape via hot air balloon, setting up the plot of “we need to find this character so he can rescue us from the hole”). As you might expect, Kevin was only too happy to embrace this concept, sending various talking animals and their homes/businesses/parks into the void of the hole – and, as a bonus, destroying a soup restaurant (one of his quirks is that he loathes soup). XD It does look like a fun game – a fun, very weird game, but still. XD
B) Then it was onto GrayStillPlays and another terrible GTA V stunt race! XD This one was a “hardcore nightmare,” focused around terrible difficult obstacles and platforming. Platforms that got smaller and smaller each time. . .lots of having to climb things that shouldn’t be climbed, or hop things that shouldn’t be hopped, or running off the edge of the board because it’s impossible to stop. XD And THEN, while he was on one of the harder platforming sections (hopping from “Burger Shot” sign to “Burger Shot” sign), someone apparently came into his game, saw him struggling, and put some extra cars around just for shits and giggles. They didn’t actually have collision, happily, but still! Poor Gray, this was truly a board of suffering.
C) And then, because I had the time and it was looking very lonely in my Watch Later, I went ahead and watched the OXBox video waiting there – “7 Most Mundane Activities Games Tried to Pass Off as Exciting Minigames!” Do you consider turtle races the height of fun (Shenmue III)? How about counting different kinds of pedestrians as they walk past (Yakuza: Like a Dragon)? Perhaps you prefer jumping rope? Endlessly? A thousand times over EIGHT REAL-WORLD MINUTES (Final Fantasy IX)? No? Then I guess these games aren’t for you. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Found a couple more things to reblog later in my wander through my tracked tags on Victor Luvs Alice, got the actual Newcrest Adventures update for tomorrow sorted, and got another Song Saturday post put in the drafts because I already knew what song I wanted to come next! :D And over on Valice Multiverse, I had one thread reply, and threw in a couple of reblogs from tracked tags. I’m feeling weirdly productive over on the tumblrs for a change – not a bad feeling, just unusual.
So -- yeah, I suppose I can't complain about anything there. A little extra burst of productivity is a good thing! Help me through some of the longer slogs later. . .now, of course, I have to answer my DW comment and then prepare to get some sleep.
. . .and maybe reread at least part of that snippet I worked on the other day. That's kind of what it's there for. :p Night!
