A Tired Wednesday
Apr. 14th, 2021 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickOr, at least, now it is -- sleep has not been the greatest this week, I have to admit. (And for some reason my brain has randomly remembered Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is a thing that exists and keeps replaying bits of it for me. WTF.) But work was okay -- got some stuff I've been meaning to get in the mail, in the mail, and cleaned up a bunch of other things too. Nice to get a few things off the desk!
As for this evening:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Another 25 on the bike, and another 25 with “Nuka World Level One Survival!” Caught up with Minnie as she continued carefully skirting the river by the edge of Sanctuary, doing her best not to upset the local raiders or Mirelurks. Her first destination proved to be the robot junkyard not that far away, with the big old prototype Sentry Bot. Jon was willing to let Minnie have the XP for discovering it (though he cursed when he realized she was getting a few extra points for being “Well-Rested”) in order to pick up the Fat Man and its nuke that live there. He also had Minnie activate the sentry bot, then wait on top of a car for it to take out the inevitable Mole Rat spawn to pick up some fresh meat, hide, and teeth. And then she had it self-destruct so she could loot the fusion cores out of it. XD That plus one found in a nearby container gave her a total of three. . .
Meaning she had three full “batteries” with her when she found her power armor! Yes, apparently there is a free set that spawns between the junkyard and Satellite Station Olivia, at a vertibird crash site. Admittedly, it’s about the WORST power armor you can get – rusty, low level, and often missing bits – the set Minnie found has no helmet or left arm. But it’s power armor with no quest attached, so Jon decided it would have to do. Minnie plonked in a fusion core, hopped in, and headed straight back to Sanctuary to make some final preparations, managing to avoid any confrontations along the way. Though she did find a shotgun on the dead raider that’s just outside of Sanctuary Hills! So that was handy!
Once back home, Jon took a look at her kit and improved her new shotgun and her trusty ten millimeter pistol – and then abruptly remembered “shit, wait, crafting gets her XP!” and packed out of there sharpish! He then had to cook up some of his meat, which was more XP (though fortunately not a lot), leading him to panic a bit and send Minnie to bed so they could get a good, early start the next morning to go to Nuka-World. He succumbed to the urge to craft once more before departing, though, improving the chest piece of his power armor to Model B. He also took a moment to shoot the hell out of Codsworth to get a critical in hand, safe in the knowledge that pre-companion-status Codsworth would just sit there and take it. And with that, Minnie headed out across the river, doing her best to avoid all XP-gathering opportunities (mainly any and every fight) on her trip to Nuka-World!
. . .Jon promptly took her too close to Wicked Shipping during his travels, meaning she got a load of XP from that. Which wouldn’t have been too bad if she hadn’t had to stop at Sunshine Tidings Co-Op (which was another load of XP), and then fight a radroach to get a save point. Which took her over the top to Level 2. RELOAD!
In the new reality, Jon refrained from improving the power armor, and took a route that kept well away from Wicked Shipping, allowing him to get to Sunshine, kill that one radroach, and then drop a nap-save. From there he proceeded out toward the broken-down highway, again doing his best to avoid all trouble. . .and ran into a bear. Which killed Minnie. RELOAD!
Fortunately, third time was the charm – Minnie gave the abandoned church and its raiders (and the nearby bear in its cave) a wide berth (despite Jon being briefly tempted by the stockpile underneath), found her way to the invisible walls at the edge of the map – and then to the little gap that allowed her to march straight up to the Transit Center of Nuka-World! Yaaaay~ Of course, her troubles are far from over – you see, the Transit Center is populated by a number of reasonably-leveled Gunners. And their Assaultron. THAT is the reason Minnie has a Fat Man and a crit – her only hope of SURVIVING to get to Nuka-World is to nuke that thing and hope it dies! And so she went on the hunt, carefully circling the center to try and find the damn bot. . . There were almost exactly ten minutes left in the episode when I stopped for the day – we’ll see how it goes and if Jon will need to do more reloading yet!
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! The Artist has officially introduced himself now, and the conversation has gone from asking why rainbow rainstorms (the Artist thinks it’s because Victor once joked about Burtonsville’s rain washing all the color into the Land of the Dead), to discussing alternatives to tattoos (none of them like the permanent nature of them, but they’re all over the idea of body painting), to why the Artist is a pencil drawing instead of an ink one (because it’s ALICE who favors pencils – Alice gets blushy when she realizes this). Having fun with this one! And looking forward to making them splash about in the paint. XD
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! And more than that, as you shall see --
A) Decided to ACTUALLY start with some OXBox and OXtra lists sitting in my Watch Later – we had:
I. “7 Scariest Moments in Resident Evil History” – in honor of the upcoming RE8, it’s time for a walk down terrifying memory lane! Andy ranked what he felt were some of the scariest moments in the series thus far, from the dogs bursting through the windows in the corridor in the original Resident Evil (and the remake’s twist of having them just HIT the window the first time, only to get through the SECOND time you pass through), to the flaming zombie bursting out of an oven in Resident Evil 4 (very much ready to set you on fire), to Jack Baker stalking you in the early parts of Resident Evil 7 (and whacking your leg off with a shovel if you let him – good thing you’re infected with fungus that will let you reattach it). RE8 is gonna have a lot to live up to, that’s for sure!
II. “7 Hilariously Simple Ways You Skipped a Whole Level” – aka, speedrunners, make notes! XD All sorts of skippy goodness here, from saving a scientist at the beginning of Half-Life to open a security door for you so you can open up the way to the next level immediately; to getting rid of a Cyberdemon while it’s still behind bars to avoid yet another level of Hell in Doom 64, to erasing Chin from Double Dragon from existence via descending a ladder (okay, not a LEVEL skip, but I guess a final boss skip still counts?). The best one was getting the Master Key as your gift at the beginning of Dark Souls to open up all sorts of shortcuts, including one that skips Undeadburg – if only because Ellen, who is in the process of playing the infamously-hard game for the first time for OXtra, sounded SO UNBELIEVABLY SOUR about it. XD Sorry, Ellen, you’re not streaming a speedrun here!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Monopoly Plus! Playing against – himself! Hell, he did a whole green screen intro with three of him to set up the scene. XD We had Dancing Bear Kevin, who was focused on getting matching sets; Car Who Hit Me Kevin, who just wanted to buy all the things; and Dog Kevin, who was very frugal. . .but who proved to be the come-from-behind victor thanks to some lucky trades and good investing. Mostly because Dancing Bear Kevin made him a hilariously good trade just to get one of his matching sets, and Car Who Hit Me Kevin kept landing on his spaces and having to mortgage the hell out of his own stuff. XD Also, Dancing Bear Kevin getting doubles only for something bad to happen (having to pay a lot of money to an opponent, getting sent to jail, bad chance card) became kind of a running gag. XD I love Kevin’s mental breakdowns – they’re so fun!
C) Speaking of fun mental breakdowns, it was time for GrayStillPlays to go back to GTA V stunt races! Today’s race was one of those that starts out relatively okay – just some “ride around the edges of these rings” – then gets progressively more insane – “do this jump on these wheel guides and land on the platform!” “Go up and down these half-pipe ramps while drifting across the sideways platforms connecting them!” “Get across these black blocks with colorful lines spaced in JUST the right way to drive you ABSOLUTELY OUT OF YOUR MIND trying to figure out how to get across them!” Poor Gray – he thought he had a handle on the board, and then – rug. Pulled. He’s earned his Thursday off tomorrow, that’s for sure!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check -- adjusted the Victor Luvs Alice queuing schedule so the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday posts fire on the correct day, and was able to track down one post on a friend's tumblr that I wanted to add to my drafts. Not much, but it's what needed to be done!
Okay, good, got all that sorted. . .now I just have to answer this final message and it's off to bed. Hopefully I'll be able to get to sleep a little easier tonight. . .or at least not wake up like an hour early. Ugh. Two more days. . .night all!
As for this evening:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Another 25 on the bike, and another 25 with “Nuka World Level One Survival!” Caught up with Minnie as she continued carefully skirting the river by the edge of Sanctuary, doing her best not to upset the local raiders or Mirelurks. Her first destination proved to be the robot junkyard not that far away, with the big old prototype Sentry Bot. Jon was willing to let Minnie have the XP for discovering it (though he cursed when he realized she was getting a few extra points for being “Well-Rested”) in order to pick up the Fat Man and its nuke that live there. He also had Minnie activate the sentry bot, then wait on top of a car for it to take out the inevitable Mole Rat spawn to pick up some fresh meat, hide, and teeth. And then she had it self-destruct so she could loot the fusion cores out of it. XD That plus one found in a nearby container gave her a total of three. . .
Meaning she had three full “batteries” with her when she found her power armor! Yes, apparently there is a free set that spawns between the junkyard and Satellite Station Olivia, at a vertibird crash site. Admittedly, it’s about the WORST power armor you can get – rusty, low level, and often missing bits – the set Minnie found has no helmet or left arm. But it’s power armor with no quest attached, so Jon decided it would have to do. Minnie plonked in a fusion core, hopped in, and headed straight back to Sanctuary to make some final preparations, managing to avoid any confrontations along the way. Though she did find a shotgun on the dead raider that’s just outside of Sanctuary Hills! So that was handy!
Once back home, Jon took a look at her kit and improved her new shotgun and her trusty ten millimeter pistol – and then abruptly remembered “shit, wait, crafting gets her XP!” and packed out of there sharpish! He then had to cook up some of his meat, which was more XP (though fortunately not a lot), leading him to panic a bit and send Minnie to bed so they could get a good, early start the next morning to go to Nuka-World. He succumbed to the urge to craft once more before departing, though, improving the chest piece of his power armor to Model B. He also took a moment to shoot the hell out of Codsworth to get a critical in hand, safe in the knowledge that pre-companion-status Codsworth would just sit there and take it. And with that, Minnie headed out across the river, doing her best to avoid all XP-gathering opportunities (mainly any and every fight) on her trip to Nuka-World!
. . .Jon promptly took her too close to Wicked Shipping during his travels, meaning she got a load of XP from that. Which wouldn’t have been too bad if she hadn’t had to stop at Sunshine Tidings Co-Op (which was another load of XP), and then fight a radroach to get a save point. Which took her over the top to Level 2. RELOAD!
In the new reality, Jon refrained from improving the power armor, and took a route that kept well away from Wicked Shipping, allowing him to get to Sunshine, kill that one radroach, and then drop a nap-save. From there he proceeded out toward the broken-down highway, again doing his best to avoid all trouble. . .and ran into a bear. Which killed Minnie. RELOAD!
Fortunately, third time was the charm – Minnie gave the abandoned church and its raiders (and the nearby bear in its cave) a wide berth (despite Jon being briefly tempted by the stockpile underneath), found her way to the invisible walls at the edge of the map – and then to the little gap that allowed her to march straight up to the Transit Center of Nuka-World! Yaaaay~ Of course, her troubles are far from over – you see, the Transit Center is populated by a number of reasonably-leveled Gunners. And their Assaultron. THAT is the reason Minnie has a Fat Man and a crit – her only hope of SURVIVING to get to Nuka-World is to nuke that thing and hope it dies! And so she went on the hunt, carefully circling the center to try and find the damn bot. . . There were almost exactly ten minutes left in the episode when I stopped for the day – we’ll see how it goes and if Jon will need to do more reloading yet!
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! The Artist has officially introduced himself now, and the conversation has gone from asking why rainbow rainstorms (the Artist thinks it’s because Victor once joked about Burtonsville’s rain washing all the color into the Land of the Dead), to discussing alternatives to tattoos (none of them like the permanent nature of them, but they’re all over the idea of body painting), to why the Artist is a pencil drawing instead of an ink one (because it’s ALICE who favors pencils – Alice gets blushy when she realizes this). Having fun with this one! And looking forward to making them splash about in the paint. XD
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! And more than that, as you shall see --
A) Decided to ACTUALLY start with some OXBox and OXtra lists sitting in my Watch Later – we had:
I. “7 Scariest Moments in Resident Evil History” – in honor of the upcoming RE8, it’s time for a walk down terrifying memory lane! Andy ranked what he felt were some of the scariest moments in the series thus far, from the dogs bursting through the windows in the corridor in the original Resident Evil (and the remake’s twist of having them just HIT the window the first time, only to get through the SECOND time you pass through), to the flaming zombie bursting out of an oven in Resident Evil 4 (very much ready to set you on fire), to Jack Baker stalking you in the early parts of Resident Evil 7 (and whacking your leg off with a shovel if you let him – good thing you’re infected with fungus that will let you reattach it). RE8 is gonna have a lot to live up to, that’s for sure!
II. “7 Hilariously Simple Ways You Skipped a Whole Level” – aka, speedrunners, make notes! XD All sorts of skippy goodness here, from saving a scientist at the beginning of Half-Life to open a security door for you so you can open up the way to the next level immediately; to getting rid of a Cyberdemon while it’s still behind bars to avoid yet another level of Hell in Doom 64, to erasing Chin from Double Dragon from existence via descending a ladder (okay, not a LEVEL skip, but I guess a final boss skip still counts?). The best one was getting the Master Key as your gift at the beginning of Dark Souls to open up all sorts of shortcuts, including one that skips Undeadburg – if only because Ellen, who is in the process of playing the infamously-hard game for the first time for OXtra, sounded SO UNBELIEVABLY SOUR about it. XD Sorry, Ellen, you’re not streaming a speedrun here!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Monopoly Plus! Playing against – himself! Hell, he did a whole green screen intro with three of him to set up the scene. XD We had Dancing Bear Kevin, who was focused on getting matching sets; Car Who Hit Me Kevin, who just wanted to buy all the things; and Dog Kevin, who was very frugal. . .but who proved to be the come-from-behind victor thanks to some lucky trades and good investing. Mostly because Dancing Bear Kevin made him a hilariously good trade just to get one of his matching sets, and Car Who Hit Me Kevin kept landing on his spaces and having to mortgage the hell out of his own stuff. XD Also, Dancing Bear Kevin getting doubles only for something bad to happen (having to pay a lot of money to an opponent, getting sent to jail, bad chance card) became kind of a running gag. XD I love Kevin’s mental breakdowns – they’re so fun!
C) Speaking of fun mental breakdowns, it was time for GrayStillPlays to go back to GTA V stunt races! Today’s race was one of those that starts out relatively okay – just some “ride around the edges of these rings” – then gets progressively more insane – “do this jump on these wheel guides and land on the platform!” “Go up and down these half-pipe ramps while drifting across the sideways platforms connecting them!” “Get across these black blocks with colorful lines spaced in JUST the right way to drive you ABSOLUTELY OUT OF YOUR MIND trying to figure out how to get across them!” Poor Gray – he thought he had a handle on the board, and then – rug. Pulled. He’s earned his Thursday off tomorrow, that’s for sure!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check -- adjusted the Victor Luvs Alice queuing schedule so the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday posts fire on the correct day, and was able to track down one post on a friend's tumblr that I wanted to add to my drafts. Not much, but it's what needed to be done!
Okay, good, got all that sorted. . .now I just have to answer this final message and it's off to bed. Hopefully I'll be able to get to sleep a little easier tonight. . .or at least not wake up like an hour early. Ugh. Two more days. . .night all!
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