Okay Enough Thursday
Apr. 22nd, 2021 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickHad one long phone call with a donor trying to do an online gift (on a different part of the website than I normally work with), and a bunch of Easter gifts to put on, but hey -- made the day go by, I guess. And there wasn't anything too frustrating, so I'll take that. If only the weather had been better -- windy and cold today! I could feel myself being blown around on the drive home! O.o And I really shouldn't be indulging in hot chocolate on April 22. . .meh. At least next week is looking a lot nicer!
As for my afternoon, well, let's look at the to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – pushed myself a little further on the bike while I caught up with more of “Nuka-World Level One Survival!” Rejoined Minnie as she watched the Pack take on the Super Mutants in the Shovel Museum – they too had a Legendary among their ranks that she was hoping would die. Unfortunately, they had better luck against the Mutants than the Disciples before them – not MUCH better, admittedly, as everyone BUT the Legendary died. While Jon was a bit disappointed, he decided that having a pile of corpses to loot was a good consolation prize and picked over the dead for new armor and undergarments (while he liked the look of the Disciple stuff, he had to move over to the Pack furry undergarments just to keep Minnie’s Strength stat up and thus able to carry stuff). She’s finally got some decent kit for once!
Naturally, Jon promptly sent Minnie back into Nuka-World to properly save, lest he lose his Hardened Sniper Rifle yet again. After that was taken care of, though, it was back out into the wider world to take care of a rather pressing problem – purified water supplies. As was stated earlier, Nuka-World itself is very much lacking in any clean water to drink – you can fill bottles up with DIRTY water, and then sacrifice three of those at a cooking station to make one bottle of purified water, but that’s not a great return on investment. Fortunately, Nuka-World does have ONE place where you are guaranteed to find clean water – Ethan’s House. This is a little ramshackle house out in the wilds beyond the park which is home to Ethan, who is a very sweet man who lets you use his water pump, his bed, and his supplies as necessary. He’s actually a tribute to a Fallout enthusiast who died while the game was still in production, which is – shockingly sweet of Bethany Esda. But yes, the main reason Minnie visited was that water pump – those are ALWAYS purified water, meaning she could drink herself to proper hydration and fill up all her bottles with the clean stuff! Nice~ And she even caught a quick nap in his bed, lovely.
With that taken care of, Jon decided his next objective would have to be to see if he could find better power armor. With that in mind, Minnie skirted around the edges of the Kiddie Kingdom and World of Refreshment, taking care to avoid the Gunners, Gazelles, and Glowing Bloatflies nearby (Jon becoming increasingly amused at how just about EVERYTHING has the “danger skull” next to its name, meaning Minnie’s too underleveled to take it on effectively). Her target? The town of Bradburton, which has one house that has a guaranteed power armor spawn. Along the way, though, she came across another fight – Operators versus Gunners, with a Legendary among the latter. The molotovs were flying fast and furious from the Gunner side, but the Operators ended up triumphing, and Minnie happily ran in to loot the Legendary.
Who had a shitty Cavalier’s (15% damage reduction while blocking or sprinting) Raider Leg on him. Jon was EXTREMELY disappointed. Even worse, when he finally reached the house he was looking for (with a quick stop at the Dark Souls bonfire house for stimpacks – yes, really! – and the weird cat house with the only unique cat models in the game), the power armor spawn was an incredibly crappy set of THREE, count ‘em, THREE pieces. Minnie ended up taking it anyway, simply because it WAS genuinely more protection if and when she ran into ghouls, but you could hear the annoyance in Jon’s voice. Can’t say I blame him. Left it with Minnie attempting to get Rachel’s holotape for Oswald later without waking up too many ghouls – wish you luck, girl!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Started Chapter 2 – Alice is settling into her shithole room above Trip’s Pawnshop, and learning how to work her laptop. Figured I could take a moment for her to figure out how to use a touchpad, as she’s not entirely up on her technology thanks to a decade in Rutledge. Gotta spend some time checking her e-mail and her actual physical mailbox, then we can start questing!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Thursday shortness strikes again, but I had prepared for this --
A) Started with the only actual thing in my subs – Call Me Kevin doing a sponsored video for Core! Or possibly Core World, according to the title screen. . . Core is one of those things that allows you to make your own short games and upload them for other people to play – it’s basically a game hub over on the Epic Games store. Kevin wandered around a few games, including a life sim (loading tires and barrels to get money after being robbed the moment he stepped foot in Core City, then getting rejected for a date); a death run (where some players are running an obstacle course, trying to avoid traps set off by the other players – Kevin kept falling off the edges of the course as a runner, but did much better as a trapper – until he died apparently at random); a survival sim (washed up on an island, Kevin attempted to find himself someone to leech off of – when that didn’t work, he just fed himself to the local sharks); a My Hero Academia superhero simulator (though naturally Kevin instead became a villain, going after law enforcement in the local park); and a shooter (capture-the-flag style – he actually did all right in this one, though he blamed teammate antony95 for all his mistakes XD). Good times – always nice to see him try something a bit new.
B) Then it was into the Watch Later for Linkara’s latest AT4W – “Mystery Science Theater 3000 #1!” Yes, MST3K had a tie-in comic series with the Kickstartered reboot (the Netflix version with Jonah), and being a) a comic reviewer and b) a fan of MST3K, Linkara decided to take a look at it. Preceded by a long intro going over the history of the show and his own history with it. To my delight, he actually shares most of my opinions about it – Mike is the better host, the Sci-Fi era is good (though I will totally admit to nostalgia coloring my opinion in this case – I got introduced to the show through reruns on the Sci-Fi channel), and the revival was a mixed bag, with the host segments focusing too much on the Mads instead of Jonah and the Bots (I honestly just don’t like Kinga and Max; they don’t gel with me). Though he is hopeful the SECOND Kickstarter (now active) will get the show running again. . .
Anyway, as for the comic itself? Much like the revival, a mixed bag. The premise is that Kinga’s invented a bubble-based solution that can put people into comics, and after testing it on Max, floods the SOL with it to force Jonah and the Bots into various comics, starting with Tom taking over the title role in a “teen reporter” romance comic. The artwork is great, capturing everyone’s look perfectly and aping the style of the comic they’re riffing on beautifully. The jokes – well, the ones that land are good, but Linkara’s of the opinion that they threw too many of them onto the page – there’s jokes adding to and changing the dialogue, along with more standard “outside observer riffing on something weird” gags. It’s a lot to process, and it gets a little cluttered at times. Honestly, I think the part that hit best for me was Kinga and Max invading the comic to put in paid promotion for Tostino’s Pizza Rolls, simply because it highlighted the awkwardness of the sponsorship so well. XD So not great, but not terrible either – wouldn’t mind seeing him take on the rest of the mini-series eventually!
C) And just for funsies, a video from my Recommendeds about why fast travel in Fallout 4 is a bad idea, with a Sole Survivor fast-traveling to a recently-cleared vault – only to immediately spawn in next to a Super Mutant Suicider. *nods* And all I can think about is fast-traveling to Oberland Station and getting near insta-killed by that bastard Mutant with the missile launcher. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – four asks and a thread queued up on Valice Multiverse, and I got the full text of my Song Saturday post on Victor Luvs Alice sorted, hooray! :)
So that's all sorted, at least. :) Just gotta clear out some more stuff from the inbox now and hit the sheets. . .Friday tomorrow! Supposed to be a little warmer, but still pretty windy, so. . . Spring in New England, everyone! Night all!
As for my afternoon, well, let's look at the to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – pushed myself a little further on the bike while I caught up with more of “Nuka-World Level One Survival!” Rejoined Minnie as she watched the Pack take on the Super Mutants in the Shovel Museum – they too had a Legendary among their ranks that she was hoping would die. Unfortunately, they had better luck against the Mutants than the Disciples before them – not MUCH better, admittedly, as everyone BUT the Legendary died. While Jon was a bit disappointed, he decided that having a pile of corpses to loot was a good consolation prize and picked over the dead for new armor and undergarments (while he liked the look of the Disciple stuff, he had to move over to the Pack furry undergarments just to keep Minnie’s Strength stat up and thus able to carry stuff). She’s finally got some decent kit for once!
Naturally, Jon promptly sent Minnie back into Nuka-World to properly save, lest he lose his Hardened Sniper Rifle yet again. After that was taken care of, though, it was back out into the wider world to take care of a rather pressing problem – purified water supplies. As was stated earlier, Nuka-World itself is very much lacking in any clean water to drink – you can fill bottles up with DIRTY water, and then sacrifice three of those at a cooking station to make one bottle of purified water, but that’s not a great return on investment. Fortunately, Nuka-World does have ONE place where you are guaranteed to find clean water – Ethan’s House. This is a little ramshackle house out in the wilds beyond the park which is home to Ethan, who is a very sweet man who lets you use his water pump, his bed, and his supplies as necessary. He’s actually a tribute to a Fallout enthusiast who died while the game was still in production, which is – shockingly sweet of Bethany Esda. But yes, the main reason Minnie visited was that water pump – those are ALWAYS purified water, meaning she could drink herself to proper hydration and fill up all her bottles with the clean stuff! Nice~ And she even caught a quick nap in his bed, lovely.
With that taken care of, Jon decided his next objective would have to be to see if he could find better power armor. With that in mind, Minnie skirted around the edges of the Kiddie Kingdom and World of Refreshment, taking care to avoid the Gunners, Gazelles, and Glowing Bloatflies nearby (Jon becoming increasingly amused at how just about EVERYTHING has the “danger skull” next to its name, meaning Minnie’s too underleveled to take it on effectively). Her target? The town of Bradburton, which has one house that has a guaranteed power armor spawn. Along the way, though, she came across another fight – Operators versus Gunners, with a Legendary among the latter. The molotovs were flying fast and furious from the Gunner side, but the Operators ended up triumphing, and Minnie happily ran in to loot the Legendary.
Who had a shitty Cavalier’s (15% damage reduction while blocking or sprinting) Raider Leg on him. Jon was EXTREMELY disappointed. Even worse, when he finally reached the house he was looking for (with a quick stop at the Dark Souls bonfire house for stimpacks – yes, really! – and the weird cat house with the only unique cat models in the game), the power armor spawn was an incredibly crappy set of THREE, count ‘em, THREE pieces. Minnie ended up taking it anyway, simply because it WAS genuinely more protection if and when she ran into ghouls, but you could hear the annoyance in Jon’s voice. Can’t say I blame him. Left it with Minnie attempting to get Rachel’s holotape for Oswald later without waking up too many ghouls – wish you luck, girl!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Started Chapter 2 – Alice is settling into her shithole room above Trip’s Pawnshop, and learning how to work her laptop. Figured I could take a moment for her to figure out how to use a touchpad, as she’s not entirely up on her technology thanks to a decade in Rutledge. Gotta spend some time checking her e-mail and her actual physical mailbox, then we can start questing!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Thursday shortness strikes again, but I had prepared for this --
A) Started with the only actual thing in my subs – Call Me Kevin doing a sponsored video for Core! Or possibly Core World, according to the title screen. . . Core is one of those things that allows you to make your own short games and upload them for other people to play – it’s basically a game hub over on the Epic Games store. Kevin wandered around a few games, including a life sim (loading tires and barrels to get money after being robbed the moment he stepped foot in Core City, then getting rejected for a date); a death run (where some players are running an obstacle course, trying to avoid traps set off by the other players – Kevin kept falling off the edges of the course as a runner, but did much better as a trapper – until he died apparently at random); a survival sim (washed up on an island, Kevin attempted to find himself someone to leech off of – when that didn’t work, he just fed himself to the local sharks); a My Hero Academia superhero simulator (though naturally Kevin instead became a villain, going after law enforcement in the local park); and a shooter (capture-the-flag style – he actually did all right in this one, though he blamed teammate antony95 for all his mistakes XD). Good times – always nice to see him try something a bit new.
B) Then it was into the Watch Later for Linkara’s latest AT4W – “Mystery Science Theater 3000 #1!” Yes, MST3K had a tie-in comic series with the Kickstartered reboot (the Netflix version with Jonah), and being a) a comic reviewer and b) a fan of MST3K, Linkara decided to take a look at it. Preceded by a long intro going over the history of the show and his own history with it. To my delight, he actually shares most of my opinions about it – Mike is the better host, the Sci-Fi era is good (though I will totally admit to nostalgia coloring my opinion in this case – I got introduced to the show through reruns on the Sci-Fi channel), and the revival was a mixed bag, with the host segments focusing too much on the Mads instead of Jonah and the Bots (I honestly just don’t like Kinga and Max; they don’t gel with me). Though he is hopeful the SECOND Kickstarter (now active) will get the show running again. . .
Anyway, as for the comic itself? Much like the revival, a mixed bag. The premise is that Kinga’s invented a bubble-based solution that can put people into comics, and after testing it on Max, floods the SOL with it to force Jonah and the Bots into various comics, starting with Tom taking over the title role in a “teen reporter” romance comic. The artwork is great, capturing everyone’s look perfectly and aping the style of the comic they’re riffing on beautifully. The jokes – well, the ones that land are good, but Linkara’s of the opinion that they threw too many of them onto the page – there’s jokes adding to and changing the dialogue, along with more standard “outside observer riffing on something weird” gags. It’s a lot to process, and it gets a little cluttered at times. Honestly, I think the part that hit best for me was Kinga and Max invading the comic to put in paid promotion for Tostino’s Pizza Rolls, simply because it highlighted the awkwardness of the sponsorship so well. XD So not great, but not terrible either – wouldn’t mind seeing him take on the rest of the mini-series eventually!
C) And just for funsies, a video from my Recommendeds about why fast travel in Fallout 4 is a bad idea, with a Sole Survivor fast-traveling to a recently-cleared vault – only to immediately spawn in next to a Super Mutant Suicider. *nods* And all I can think about is fast-traveling to Oberland Station and getting near insta-killed by that bastard Mutant with the missile launcher. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – four asks and a thread queued up on Valice Multiverse, and I got the full text of my Song Saturday post on Victor Luvs Alice sorted, hooray! :)
So that's all sorted, at least. :) Just gotta clear out some more stuff from the inbox now and hit the sheets. . .Friday tomorrow! Supposed to be a little warmer, but still pretty windy, so. . . Spring in New England, everyone! Night all!
