Mostly Good Wednesday
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crossover_chickTalky coworker apparently pulled a muscle and was out today, meaning it was a very quiet day -- or a quiet morning, at least. Things got slightly more stressful this afternoon as I tried to help one lady with her credit card stuff and see about some of the other credit card issues. . . I swear, it never ends with these people. Meeeh. Well, I did my best and I'm off tomorrow, so I'm not gonna worry about it now. Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be SOME sort of resolution on Friday. . .
Anyway, got home, and -- despite a worrying sprinkle as I approached the house -- it was nice enough for us to play our beanbag game! My record went 3-W-3, with Dad getting the opposite and Mom coming second in all three games. Again, at least I got one win! Hopefully I'll do a bit better when we play tomorrow -- supposed to be similar to today, so it's almost a guarantee. :)
As for the to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – another 25 on the bike, another chunk of “Nuka-World Level One Survival” watched! Caught up with Minnie as she managed to successfully sneak the Sword of Wonders into Cito’s inventory – second time’s the charm, apparently! And not a moment too soon, either, as they encountered another Gatorclaw as they went back out into the wider world. Fortunately, Minnie was able to get up high and pepper it with bullets while Cito slashed at it with his new toy, and together they took it down. Not a bad strategy for dealing with the accursed monsters. . .
But Jon wanted some damn quest markers for the things, to aid in tracking them down, so into the “triangle house” and down into the secret lab they went! This, naturally, was not Jon’s favorite area – lots of tight corridors and corners between wider rooms, and a “companion” that could not be directed to do anything, and did not sneak when Minnie started sneaking. And who happily threw himself at Gatorclaws whenever he saw them. Fortunately, he did serve as a decent distraction, and Minnie found one bit of luck while fleeing a fight – Gatorclaws cannot open doors. So falling back and shutting the Gatorclaws in various rooms until she got her action points back and/or they lost interest in her was a viable strategy! Especially when she started spreading caltrops everywhere to literally trip them up. . .and switched to the Disciple’s Blade in close quarters for quicker and more frequent hits. Sometimes you gotta go with speed over power!
Even so, these were not easy fights – not only were there two regular Gatorclaws hanging around the lab, the main terminal to shut down their production was guarded by an Albino Gatorclaw – and if it has an adjective, it’s going to be tougher. Minnie brought the Fat Man to deal with that bastard, though shockingly it DIDN’T kill the horrible thing in one hit! Cito managed to kill it instead, after Minnie misthrew a grenade, in a display of true badassery with the sword. And then two more spawned in once Minnie shut down their production (swapping the replicator back over to gazelles, because hey, food!) – fortunately Jon had anticipated this and mined up the spawn spot. Didn’t outright kill them, but again, the whole “use Cito as a distraction and run behind doors” method worked a treat, and eventually they were downed.
And so the final stage of the Big Gatorclaw Hunt began! Minnie nipped back home to the Fizztop off-camera to put away the Fat Man and get some sleep (she was Overtired, which was draining her strength), then caught back up with Cito and started following the little green squares on the compass. One was near some of the cages, one of which had a convenient hole in the back – Minnie’s original plan was to sneak through, but an Expert-locked door foiled that plan. Fortunately, when Cito inevitably drew the damn thing’s attention, it couldn’t actually get through the hole to HER when she was in the cage, so she just emptied her 10mil into it while Cito smacked it with his sword. Another one was in the stage show area – Minnie TRIED to sneak around the long way to that one, but only managed to upset a swarm of flying ants. So instead she did the drugs and damn near killed the thing in one hit! O.o Apparently Psychobuff should be Minnie’s drug of choice! Though it’s not enough to save her from the flying ant swarm – I left off with her suddenly encountering the damn things again after she thought she’d lost them. XD Poor Minnie, she has NO luck. . .
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice has had her plan to try and lure out as many of the gang as possible to knock unconscious and/or drink the blood of blown clear out of the water by the pet dog she didn’t know they had. And then her attempt to get into the building another way was foiled by the shirtless guy at the entrance, aka Brian. He’s dead – got her knife to the neck – but now she’s being held at gunpoint by another thug as Dennis makes his appearance! Ah, gotta love being the protagonist in these games, huh? Don’t worry, Alice, you’ve got faster reflexes AND plot armor. You’ll be fine.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Plus an extra video, yay~
A) Decided I might as well catch up with a little off the Watch Later and watched Cinnamon Toast Ken and Call Me Kevin’s crossover – a bit with a woman addicted to drinking blood! Started with her confessing to animal blood, then human blood when talking to her mom, then both when they got her to go to a doctor. Lot of changing the story (possibly for the cameras). It was funny, though a little gross, especially when the mom started crying over the confession and the boys started focusing in on something on her lip – I did have a few dry heaves there and had to take a pause. But it was mostly enjoyable, especially with their banter regarding how much blood she drinks (seven liters a week, apparently, which is roughly one and a half humans) and how she probably just wanted someone to tell her she’s a vampire and whantnot. Including wondering if the notoriously-pale Irish tend toward vampirism. I mean, Kevin does have significant canines. . .
B) Then, in the actual Subs, we had more of Call Me Kevin reacting to stuff – “Woman Leaves New Husband For Her Cousin On Her Wedding Day” from – well, the title has what I now understand to be something of a bad word among the people it purportedly describes, so maybe I’ll put it as “Roma Brides US.” But MAN was that a trainwreck – apparently the bride had ALREADY dated her cousin, so there was THAT right at the beginning. . .and then the show set up the groom as the “sad abused good guy,” only for him to get blackout drunk BEFORE THE CEREMONY EVEN STARTED. . . Kevin was initially rooting for the guy, but switched sides SUPER fast. Not that he ever really approved of the COUSIN thing, that remained super weird and kinda creepy. The two ended up running off together, and one of the camera people knocked over one of the little kid bridesmaids. TLC, YOU HAVE SOME WEIRD SHOWS. ...Keep making them, Kevin cringing over them is very funny. XD
C) And then it was time for the COMPARATIVELY NORMAL episode of “GrayStillPlays does horrible things to Minecraft.” Today’s candidate for more zeros? CREEPERS! Yes, the green explodey things that regular players hate – Gray decided what they needed was more height, more heads, and MORE EXPLOSIONS DAMN IT. XD The final form was some three-headed monster that could dig a giant crater in the ground just from HOPPING. Gray obliterated half the landscape traveling around with them, trying to find the portal to the Ender Dragon. And then, when the Ender Dragon didn’t put up enough of a fight for his purposes, Gray spawned in a bunch more to deal with his army of monsters. . . I don’t know how much loonier he can make these creature buffs of his, and I’m afraid to find out. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A today, as I can’t do the Friday post for Victor Luvs Alice until I post the next chapter of “In A World Of His Own” tomorrow, and today’s one of my days off from Valice Multiverse. Which is good, as I’m not even finished going through my tracked tags on VLA yet. . .
So yeah, that was all good. And now I have to plan for my day off, oooo~
1. Post Chapter 2 of "In A World Of His Own"
2. Watch the Plumbella and OXBox/OXtra lists in my Watch Later and keep up on YouTube Subs
3. Play Sims 4 and work more on what I'm now calling the "Ice Cream Conery" (the ice cream parlor place shaped like a cake cone that I'm making)
4. Get in a workout
5. Get my tumblr queues sorted
I feel this is all reasonable, even with having to budget an hour for beanbag game. *nods* And now it's time to answer DW comments and actually catch up on tumblr -- gonna try not to stay up TOO late tonight, but we'll see how that actually goes. :p Night all!
Anyway, got home, and -- despite a worrying sprinkle as I approached the house -- it was nice enough for us to play our beanbag game! My record went 3-W-3, with Dad getting the opposite and Mom coming second in all three games. Again, at least I got one win! Hopefully I'll do a bit better when we play tomorrow -- supposed to be similar to today, so it's almost a guarantee. :)
As for the to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – another 25 on the bike, another chunk of “Nuka-World Level One Survival” watched! Caught up with Minnie as she managed to successfully sneak the Sword of Wonders into Cito’s inventory – second time’s the charm, apparently! And not a moment too soon, either, as they encountered another Gatorclaw as they went back out into the wider world. Fortunately, Minnie was able to get up high and pepper it with bullets while Cito slashed at it with his new toy, and together they took it down. Not a bad strategy for dealing with the accursed monsters. . .
But Jon wanted some damn quest markers for the things, to aid in tracking them down, so into the “triangle house” and down into the secret lab they went! This, naturally, was not Jon’s favorite area – lots of tight corridors and corners between wider rooms, and a “companion” that could not be directed to do anything, and did not sneak when Minnie started sneaking. And who happily threw himself at Gatorclaws whenever he saw them. Fortunately, he did serve as a decent distraction, and Minnie found one bit of luck while fleeing a fight – Gatorclaws cannot open doors. So falling back and shutting the Gatorclaws in various rooms until she got her action points back and/or they lost interest in her was a viable strategy! Especially when she started spreading caltrops everywhere to literally trip them up. . .and switched to the Disciple’s Blade in close quarters for quicker and more frequent hits. Sometimes you gotta go with speed over power!
Even so, these were not easy fights – not only were there two regular Gatorclaws hanging around the lab, the main terminal to shut down their production was guarded by an Albino Gatorclaw – and if it has an adjective, it’s going to be tougher. Minnie brought the Fat Man to deal with that bastard, though shockingly it DIDN’T kill the horrible thing in one hit! Cito managed to kill it instead, after Minnie misthrew a grenade, in a display of true badassery with the sword. And then two more spawned in once Minnie shut down their production (swapping the replicator back over to gazelles, because hey, food!) – fortunately Jon had anticipated this and mined up the spawn spot. Didn’t outright kill them, but again, the whole “use Cito as a distraction and run behind doors” method worked a treat, and eventually they were downed.
And so the final stage of the Big Gatorclaw Hunt began! Minnie nipped back home to the Fizztop off-camera to put away the Fat Man and get some sleep (she was Overtired, which was draining her strength), then caught back up with Cito and started following the little green squares on the compass. One was near some of the cages, one of which had a convenient hole in the back – Minnie’s original plan was to sneak through, but an Expert-locked door foiled that plan. Fortunately, when Cito inevitably drew the damn thing’s attention, it couldn’t actually get through the hole to HER when she was in the cage, so she just emptied her 10mil into it while Cito smacked it with his sword. Another one was in the stage show area – Minnie TRIED to sneak around the long way to that one, but only managed to upset a swarm of flying ants. So instead she did the drugs and damn near killed the thing in one hit! O.o Apparently Psychobuff should be Minnie’s drug of choice! Though it’s not enough to save her from the flying ant swarm – I left off with her suddenly encountering the damn things again after she thought she’d lost them. XD Poor Minnie, she has NO luck. . .
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice has had her plan to try and lure out as many of the gang as possible to knock unconscious and/or drink the blood of blown clear out of the water by the pet dog she didn’t know they had. And then her attempt to get into the building another way was foiled by the shirtless guy at the entrance, aka Brian. He’s dead – got her knife to the neck – but now she’s being held at gunpoint by another thug as Dennis makes his appearance! Ah, gotta love being the protagonist in these games, huh? Don’t worry, Alice, you’ve got faster reflexes AND plot armor. You’ll be fine.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Plus an extra video, yay~
A) Decided I might as well catch up with a little off the Watch Later and watched Cinnamon Toast Ken and Call Me Kevin’s crossover – a bit with a woman addicted to drinking blood! Started with her confessing to animal blood, then human blood when talking to her mom, then both when they got her to go to a doctor. Lot of changing the story (possibly for the cameras). It was funny, though a little gross, especially when the mom started crying over the confession and the boys started focusing in on something on her lip – I did have a few dry heaves there and had to take a pause. But it was mostly enjoyable, especially with their banter regarding how much blood she drinks (seven liters a week, apparently, which is roughly one and a half humans) and how she probably just wanted someone to tell her she’s a vampire and whantnot. Including wondering if the notoriously-pale Irish tend toward vampirism. I mean, Kevin does have significant canines. . .
B) Then, in the actual Subs, we had more of Call Me Kevin reacting to stuff – “Woman Leaves New Husband For Her Cousin On Her Wedding Day” from – well, the title has what I now understand to be something of a bad word among the people it purportedly describes, so maybe I’ll put it as “Roma Brides US.” But MAN was that a trainwreck – apparently the bride had ALREADY dated her cousin, so there was THAT right at the beginning. . .and then the show set up the groom as the “sad abused good guy,” only for him to get blackout drunk BEFORE THE CEREMONY EVEN STARTED. . . Kevin was initially rooting for the guy, but switched sides SUPER fast. Not that he ever really approved of the COUSIN thing, that remained super weird and kinda creepy. The two ended up running off together, and one of the camera people knocked over one of the little kid bridesmaids. TLC, YOU HAVE SOME WEIRD SHOWS. ...Keep making them, Kevin cringing over them is very funny. XD
C) And then it was time for the COMPARATIVELY NORMAL episode of “GrayStillPlays does horrible things to Minecraft.” Today’s candidate for more zeros? CREEPERS! Yes, the green explodey things that regular players hate – Gray decided what they needed was more height, more heads, and MORE EXPLOSIONS DAMN IT. XD The final form was some three-headed monster that could dig a giant crater in the ground just from HOPPING. Gray obliterated half the landscape traveling around with them, trying to find the portal to the Ender Dragon. And then, when the Ender Dragon didn’t put up enough of a fight for his purposes, Gray spawned in a bunch more to deal with his army of monsters. . . I don’t know how much loonier he can make these creature buffs of his, and I’m afraid to find out. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A today, as I can’t do the Friday post for Victor Luvs Alice until I post the next chapter of “In A World Of His Own” tomorrow, and today’s one of my days off from Valice Multiverse. Which is good, as I’m not even finished going through my tracked tags on VLA yet. . .
So yeah, that was all good. And now I have to plan for my day off, oooo~
1. Post Chapter 2 of "In A World Of His Own"
2. Watch the Plumbella and OXBox/OXtra lists in my Watch Later and keep up on YouTube Subs
3. Play Sims 4 and work more on what I'm now calling the "Ice Cream Conery" (the ice cream parlor place shaped like a cake cone that I'm making)
4. Get in a workout
5. Get my tumblr queues sorted
I feel this is all reasonable, even with having to budget an hour for beanbag game. *nods* And now it's time to answer DW comments and actually catch up on tumblr -- gonna try not to stay up TOO late tonight, but we'll see how that actually goes. :p Night all!
