Period's A-Coming Monday
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crossover_chickIt didn't actually ARRIVE today, but I'm feeling the warning signs -- extra twitchiness, some early "feels like cramps but isn't really" fun, breaking out, wanting all the chocolate. . .basically I'm in PMS mode and I do not appreciate. At least work wasn't TOO bad -- coworkers were largely on-task doing their own thing, but as usual, credit card stuff remains an issue. *sigh* I have grown to miss the days when it was just me running it once per month. That was a system I could get behind. Meh.
Ah well -- got through the day, made it home, folded some laundry (as my mom was out digging up the garden to put in her plants and my dad was fighting with his computer), then got to work on the to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – did indeed get on the treadmill today, which meant about a half-hour with “Nuka-World Level One Survival!” (Minus start-up and the time I had to spend looking for the next episode, because YouTube tried to auto-start one of Bacon’s episodes when Episode 10 finished.) Caught up with Minnie as she accepted her parting gifts from Oswald – as I mentioned previously, the Sword of Wonders Jon wasn’t particularly interested in as its special effects aren’t great against the monsters in Nuka-World. His top hat, on the other hand, he was very interested in – in addition to boosting Perception and Charisma by one each, it also allows the wearer to move ten percent faster – and Minnie, who relies a LOT on running away from enemies, was all over that. So now she’s in Pack armor with a bandanna and a top hat. You know, just your usual Raider Queen look. XD
With Oswald peacefully on his way out, the park officially claimed for the Pack (who should at least appreciate the bright colors), and the hidden Cappies found, Minnie headed back to home base to pick up an important something – the Exterminator’s Laser Musket! Yes, the decision was made to finish off Episode 10 with a quick look inside the World of Refreshment, just to get the hidden Cappy in THERE so Minnie could get that quest closer to done. And, naturally, in a world of Nukalurks, you want something that does extra damage against them. So Minnie made what improvements she could to the gun – three crank capacitor, short scope – and went to fight her way through to the Cappy!
She got her ass kicked because it turns out Mirelurks and all variants of same have AMAZING energy resistance, meaning “Exterminator’s” on a laser musket means bupkiss. Minnie attempted to rely on her speed to just sprint past the Nukalurks and get the Cappy before retreating, but one swipe from a ‘lurk put an end to that plan. So, Episode 11 started with Minnie heading in the OTHER direction, to the Safari Zone to do THAT park first. She did a little reconnaissance along the outer wall first – then encountered a Stingwing nest and, mindful of what had happened the last time she fought the damn things, went the other way. The initial meeting with Cito went reasonably well – he’d gotten the Gatorclaw (yes, it’s what it says on the tin) he was fighting down to about half-health, and a sneak attack on her part brought it down. Cito asked for her help in fighting the monsters, and they proceeded back to the primate house. . .where Cito woke up another Gatorclaw, and Minnie learned that non-sneak-attacks on the damn things didn’t do nearly as much as VATS told her they would. She was gutted – quite literally.
Of course, death isn’t going to keep Minnie from trying to claim another park – though Cito and his gatorclaw fight nearly did; turns out the trigger for the fight is actually just to the LEFT of the main entrance, and by going in too directly, Minnie didn’t trigger it. She made a run for the primate house herself, but turns out it’s locked with a key only Cito has, and the Gatorclaw nearby doesn’t give a shit if Cito’s with you. On the plus side, her death revealed the location of the first hidden Cappy in the park? XD Fortunately, third time was the charm – that and luring the second Gatorclaw into some mines Minnie had on her. She and Cito got inside the primate house, met Cito’s ghoul-rilla family (he wasn’t willing to tell his sad backstory, but a nearby note gave some of it – his full name is Marcito, and his parents were killed by the Gatorclaws), and got a holotape explaining the problem – basically, there’s a replicator in the main lab pumping out these Gatorclaws, so the only way to stop them is to shut down that replicator. Minnie and Cito set out on their journey to the “Big Triangle Building,” aka the Welcome Center –
And promptly met another Gatorclaw. Fortunately, though, Fallout’s hilarious physics engine decided to cut Minnie a break in this encounter – for whatever reason, when she got a hit in on the accursed thing, it went FLYING into the stratosphere. And then gravity did the rest. Jon was baffled but – well, he’ll take that as a win!
The Welcome Center did not go nearly as smoothly, unfortunately – another Gatorclaw inside (Minnie used running up the stairs to the upper level, then jumping over the railing to confuse it and gain time to get her action points back to smack it up), and a security lockdown that requires a special passcode – and the person who has it was kidnapped by what I assume is the FO4 version of PETA? Jon didn’t get into the lore. . .at any rate, they’ve got to go investigate the rollercoaster now to find the scientist, or what remains of him. Though when I left it, Minnie was taking a detour around the maze in the middle of the park to find the second hidden Cappy (leaving just the one in the plant). We’ll see if she gets it without dying!
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice has made it up to Dennis’s beach house! Having snuck past the guard at the front, she’s managed to get one of the gang, Al, successfully outside by turning off the circuit breaker. He’s going to serve as a snack as Alice tries to lure them all outside one by one – but a surprise dog is going to put that plan to rest rather quickly. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! I wasn’t sure if I could manage it, but I set my mind to it and cleared out both the videos I missed yesterday and the ones today!
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and his two videos –
I. A “reaction” video to an episode of Extreme Cheapskates, “The World’s Cheapest Date,” on TLC – Kevin was inspired after doing a crossover video watching some more of the channel with “Cinnamon Toast Ken.” XD (Yes, YouTube recommended me the crossover, it’s in my Watch Later!) This was an eight-minute clip of this extreme cheapskate being extremely proud of stuff like showering in his clothes (which still have the tags on so he can return them later!), sneaking away a bunch of paper plates from his nephew’s birthday party, and FLUSHING THE TOILET ONCE A WEEK WITH SHOWER WATER. Also, he lives with two roommates, and while apparently HE gets to live there for free in exchange for mowing the lawn (he teaches Zumba and supposedly one of his pupils offered him the place after her grandfather died), he charges the roomies rent and doesn’t tell them about his situation. The date was of course cringe – him trying to get her to share a meal off the kids’ menu at a BBQ place, and then ordering one rib (as in A SINGLE RIB) when she had the audacity to go with a pulled pork sandwich. Kevin was in shock most of the episode, and it was hilarious. I’d love to see more of him reacting to this kind of absolute, hopefully-played-up-for-the-cameras lunacy!
II. Him being sponsored by Square Enix to play their game Outriders with his buddy RTGame! Apparently this is set on another planet being ravaged by war and space monsters, with the protagonists being altered super-hero sorts with the ability to set people on fire (Kevin) or slow down time (RT). Much shooting and chaos and setting people on fire and slowing down time to shoot them better ensued. XD Most of it done without pants, because RT’s character started out without any, and then Kevin took his off his character out of solidarity, and then it just became a thing. They did a bunch of shooty side quests and – very reluctantly – a bit of main mission stuff. I couldn’t follow it, because I’ve never heard of the game, but it looks fun if you like co-op shooters in this vein, and of course listening to these two bounce off each other is always amusing. :) Good times!
B) Then it was time for GrayStillPlays and HIS two videos –
I. More Minecraft fuckery – now the villagers are getting upgraded, and basically they are as OP as the golems and the dogs. XD More so, arguably – they shoot arrows, they yeet all the things, they rip the souls out of creatures and turn them into loot, they tame the equally-ridiculous dogs, they swim in lava, and their final form is a rainbow-colored multi-armed muscle man. Oh, and they build giant Reginald statues all over the place (Reginald being the top-hatted, bow-tie-wearing chicken that serves as Gray’s sidekick in this world). There’s only so many ways I can say “they fuck up everything and beat the Ender Dragon without breaking a sweat” in regards to these videos, but trust me, it was great. XD
II. And more Happy Wheels! The “the board doesn’t even let him get through the intro” thing is getting pretty popular – starting with a two-layer bottle run that forces him into Sonic-level speed? Yuup, that’s how we do things on this channel. XD We also had a truly hellacious pogo jump with mines, harpoons, and a Tom Hardy underneath a chute with a soccer ball, so you’d better JUMP, boy (Gray did – took a few tries to get there, though!); a baby rope swing with the baby character from the “mom and two kids” bicycle (Gray did fine on the swing, but nearly fucked up his win by covering the coin with a “cart” the baby was riding in to the win area); a rainbow bike obstacle course that includes dangerous gap jumping, riding over bumps with spikes just above your head, and figuring out just how to land on the win after going up a speedy ramp (also you have to kill your kid to start, which Gray was surprisingly sad about); and a board that literally starts by blowing you up and shooting you with harpoons because it was designed to be impossible for Gray to beat. Gray managed to find the right combination of lean to survive the onslaught and ride onto the win area. He is a god. A terrible, terrible god. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, at least for the standard Monday stuff – got the pictures for the next Newcrest Adventures update sorted this morning, then put them into drafted “starter posts” this evening. Only two posts this week (Eric didn’t do a hell of a lot the third day of his portion of the round robin), but hey, considering I’m in that periody state and thus my concentration ain’t great, that’s probably a good thing.
So that's all good, at least -- nice to know I won't be falling behind with my Subs anytime soon! :) I don't like my YouTube funtimes to feel like a looming thing over my shoulder. At any rate, time to finish up answering comments and head to bed. Two more days to get through! Hopefully they won't be too rough. . .fingers crossed, everyone! Night all!
Ah well -- got through the day, made it home, folded some laundry (as my mom was out digging up the garden to put in her plants and my dad was fighting with his computer), then got to work on the to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – did indeed get on the treadmill today, which meant about a half-hour with “Nuka-World Level One Survival!” (Minus start-up and the time I had to spend looking for the next episode, because YouTube tried to auto-start one of Bacon’s episodes when Episode 10 finished.) Caught up with Minnie as she accepted her parting gifts from Oswald – as I mentioned previously, the Sword of Wonders Jon wasn’t particularly interested in as its special effects aren’t great against the monsters in Nuka-World. His top hat, on the other hand, he was very interested in – in addition to boosting Perception and Charisma by one each, it also allows the wearer to move ten percent faster – and Minnie, who relies a LOT on running away from enemies, was all over that. So now she’s in Pack armor with a bandanna and a top hat. You know, just your usual Raider Queen look. XD
With Oswald peacefully on his way out, the park officially claimed for the Pack (who should at least appreciate the bright colors), and the hidden Cappies found, Minnie headed back to home base to pick up an important something – the Exterminator’s Laser Musket! Yes, the decision was made to finish off Episode 10 with a quick look inside the World of Refreshment, just to get the hidden Cappy in THERE so Minnie could get that quest closer to done. And, naturally, in a world of Nukalurks, you want something that does extra damage against them. So Minnie made what improvements she could to the gun – three crank capacitor, short scope – and went to fight her way through to the Cappy!
She got her ass kicked because it turns out Mirelurks and all variants of same have AMAZING energy resistance, meaning “Exterminator’s” on a laser musket means bupkiss. Minnie attempted to rely on her speed to just sprint past the Nukalurks and get the Cappy before retreating, but one swipe from a ‘lurk put an end to that plan. So, Episode 11 started with Minnie heading in the OTHER direction, to the Safari Zone to do THAT park first. She did a little reconnaissance along the outer wall first – then encountered a Stingwing nest and, mindful of what had happened the last time she fought the damn things, went the other way. The initial meeting with Cito went reasonably well – he’d gotten the Gatorclaw (yes, it’s what it says on the tin) he was fighting down to about half-health, and a sneak attack on her part brought it down. Cito asked for her help in fighting the monsters, and they proceeded back to the primate house. . .where Cito woke up another Gatorclaw, and Minnie learned that non-sneak-attacks on the damn things didn’t do nearly as much as VATS told her they would. She was gutted – quite literally.
Of course, death isn’t going to keep Minnie from trying to claim another park – though Cito and his gatorclaw fight nearly did; turns out the trigger for the fight is actually just to the LEFT of the main entrance, and by going in too directly, Minnie didn’t trigger it. She made a run for the primate house herself, but turns out it’s locked with a key only Cito has, and the Gatorclaw nearby doesn’t give a shit if Cito’s with you. On the plus side, her death revealed the location of the first hidden Cappy in the park? XD Fortunately, third time was the charm – that and luring the second Gatorclaw into some mines Minnie had on her. She and Cito got inside the primate house, met Cito’s ghoul-rilla family (he wasn’t willing to tell his sad backstory, but a nearby note gave some of it – his full name is Marcito, and his parents were killed by the Gatorclaws), and got a holotape explaining the problem – basically, there’s a replicator in the main lab pumping out these Gatorclaws, so the only way to stop them is to shut down that replicator. Minnie and Cito set out on their journey to the “Big Triangle Building,” aka the Welcome Center –
And promptly met another Gatorclaw. Fortunately, though, Fallout’s hilarious physics engine decided to cut Minnie a break in this encounter – for whatever reason, when she got a hit in on the accursed thing, it went FLYING into the stratosphere. And then gravity did the rest. Jon was baffled but – well, he’ll take that as a win!
The Welcome Center did not go nearly as smoothly, unfortunately – another Gatorclaw inside (Minnie used running up the stairs to the upper level, then jumping over the railing to confuse it and gain time to get her action points back to smack it up), and a security lockdown that requires a special passcode – and the person who has it was kidnapped by what I assume is the FO4 version of PETA? Jon didn’t get into the lore. . .at any rate, they’ve got to go investigate the rollercoaster now to find the scientist, or what remains of him. Though when I left it, Minnie was taking a detour around the maze in the middle of the park to find the second hidden Cappy (leaving just the one in the plant). We’ll see if she gets it without dying!
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice has made it up to Dennis’s beach house! Having snuck past the guard at the front, she’s managed to get one of the gang, Al, successfully outside by turning off the circuit breaker. He’s going to serve as a snack as Alice tries to lure them all outside one by one – but a surprise dog is going to put that plan to rest rather quickly. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! I wasn’t sure if I could manage it, but I set my mind to it and cleared out both the videos I missed yesterday and the ones today!
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and his two videos –
I. A “reaction” video to an episode of Extreme Cheapskates, “The World’s Cheapest Date,” on TLC – Kevin was inspired after doing a crossover video watching some more of the channel with “Cinnamon Toast Ken.” XD (Yes, YouTube recommended me the crossover, it’s in my Watch Later!) This was an eight-minute clip of this extreme cheapskate being extremely proud of stuff like showering in his clothes (which still have the tags on so he can return them later!), sneaking away a bunch of paper plates from his nephew’s birthday party, and FLUSHING THE TOILET ONCE A WEEK WITH SHOWER WATER. Also, he lives with two roommates, and while apparently HE gets to live there for free in exchange for mowing the lawn (he teaches Zumba and supposedly one of his pupils offered him the place after her grandfather died), he charges the roomies rent and doesn’t tell them about his situation. The date was of course cringe – him trying to get her to share a meal off the kids’ menu at a BBQ place, and then ordering one rib (as in A SINGLE RIB) when she had the audacity to go with a pulled pork sandwich. Kevin was in shock most of the episode, and it was hilarious. I’d love to see more of him reacting to this kind of absolute, hopefully-played-up-for-the-cameras lunacy!
II. Him being sponsored by Square Enix to play their game Outriders with his buddy RTGame! Apparently this is set on another planet being ravaged by war and space monsters, with the protagonists being altered super-hero sorts with the ability to set people on fire (Kevin) or slow down time (RT). Much shooting and chaos and setting people on fire and slowing down time to shoot them better ensued. XD Most of it done without pants, because RT’s character started out without any, and then Kevin took his off his character out of solidarity, and then it just became a thing. They did a bunch of shooty side quests and – very reluctantly – a bit of main mission stuff. I couldn’t follow it, because I’ve never heard of the game, but it looks fun if you like co-op shooters in this vein, and of course listening to these two bounce off each other is always amusing. :) Good times!
B) Then it was time for GrayStillPlays and HIS two videos –
I. More Minecraft fuckery – now the villagers are getting upgraded, and basically they are as OP as the golems and the dogs. XD More so, arguably – they shoot arrows, they yeet all the things, they rip the souls out of creatures and turn them into loot, they tame the equally-ridiculous dogs, they swim in lava, and their final form is a rainbow-colored multi-armed muscle man. Oh, and they build giant Reginald statues all over the place (Reginald being the top-hatted, bow-tie-wearing chicken that serves as Gray’s sidekick in this world). There’s only so many ways I can say “they fuck up everything and beat the Ender Dragon without breaking a sweat” in regards to these videos, but trust me, it was great. XD
II. And more Happy Wheels! The “the board doesn’t even let him get through the intro” thing is getting pretty popular – starting with a two-layer bottle run that forces him into Sonic-level speed? Yuup, that’s how we do things on this channel. XD We also had a truly hellacious pogo jump with mines, harpoons, and a Tom Hardy underneath a chute with a soccer ball, so you’d better JUMP, boy (Gray did – took a few tries to get there, though!); a baby rope swing with the baby character from the “mom and two kids” bicycle (Gray did fine on the swing, but nearly fucked up his win by covering the coin with a “cart” the baby was riding in to the win area); a rainbow bike obstacle course that includes dangerous gap jumping, riding over bumps with spikes just above your head, and figuring out just how to land on the win after going up a speedy ramp (also you have to kill your kid to start, which Gray was surprisingly sad about); and a board that literally starts by blowing you up and shooting you with harpoons because it was designed to be impossible for Gray to beat. Gray managed to find the right combination of lean to survive the onslaught and ride onto the win area. He is a god. A terrible, terrible god. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, at least for the standard Monday stuff – got the pictures for the next Newcrest Adventures update sorted this morning, then put them into drafted “starter posts” this evening. Only two posts this week (Eric didn’t do a hell of a lot the third day of his portion of the round robin), but hey, considering I’m in that periody state and thus my concentration ain’t great, that’s probably a good thing.
So that's all good, at least -- nice to know I won't be falling behind with my Subs anytime soon! :) I don't like my YouTube funtimes to feel like a looming thing over my shoulder. At any rate, time to finish up answering comments and head to bed. Two more days to get through! Hopefully they won't be too rough. . .fingers crossed, everyone! Night all!
