Welp, THAT Fizzled
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crossover_chickAt least for my area -- Henri ended up getting downgraded back to Tropical Storm before it hit us, and I think it ended up being just a Tropical Depression. Granted, it caused some damage -- down in the southern part of the state, there's a lot of people without power, and I think it ended up hitting parts of Connecticut and New York harder than it hit us. But we just got some heavy rains and wind -- nothing too major. My parents were openly pissed that they'd spent so much of the past two days hiding Mom's porch plants in the garage and taking down the cucumber trellis. *sigh* The problem with listening to the weather forecasters around here -- they hype up stuff that goes nowhere, and downplay stuff that turns into real problems, it seems.
Anyway -- once it became apparently we were going to be okay and losing power was likely not to be a thing, I went ahead and did a small to-do list for myself:
1. Work some more on my Fallout 4 Sims Challenge: Check – it’s coming along, slowly but surely! I’ve updated what state the world should be in when you start, added in a “fighting raiders” element by giving them their own two little outposts and their own club, etc. I’ve kind of nailed down the basics, but getting it all together is going to take more time than originally anticipated. *shrug* This is what I get for making a challenge that contains elements I’ve always wanted to play with but haven’t actually done much with – plus clubs. :p
2. Keep up on YouTube Subs and Jon’s FO4 YOLO episode: Check, check, and more check – lot of videos watched today! Amazing what you can do with free time and a rainy day –
A) Started with a short dramatic reading and illustration of a hilarious AI-produced Batman comic, in which Joker and Two-Face attack the Batcave! Highlights include “sometimes he is Bruce Wayne, sometimes sometimes Batman, ALLTIMES ORPHAN,” Two-Face flipping Alfred like a coin and going home when Alfred lands heads-up, Joker claiming, “You drink water, I drink anarchy” and Batman responding “I drink BATS,” Joker deflecting a batrocket with his sick sense of humor, and Joker giving Batman a coupon for new parents that is expired. I want all comic books to be written by AIs now. XD
B) Then this afternoon, it was over to the Plumbella video of the day: “A build challenge BUT I can't use the same object twice!” Exactly what it says on the tin – a challenge where you can only use any given object once – and that includes wallpapers. Though you are allowed the option to use the same wallpaper on any given wall section, rather than going tile-by-tile, which is good. Plumbella build a little suburban bungalow for a three-Sim household (two parents, one child), and spent most of the video either stressing over the build, or looking for loopholes in the rules (like counting all of the various counter variations as six separate objects for the kitchen. It came out – ECLECTIC, to say the least, but certainly livable! And it didn’t look bad, it just looked like a variety of styles all got thrown together in a blender. XD She actually quite enjoyed it, which, given how much she’s bitched about some of these build challenges in the past, is a nice change! :)
C) Then it was over to English Simmer because lookie what we have here: “Would I buy sims 4 packs if I wasn't a game changer?” Yup, she saw Plumbella’s video previously and decided to record her own version. Interestingly, she and Plumbella have opposite views on City Living (Plumbella finds cities make her queasy; English Simmer loves starting out in the apartments and the general city vibe), and she admitted that she probably would have broken down in the end and bought My First Pet Stuff because she loves the death. Sorry, English, but that’s not enough to tempt ME! By contrast, I like the idea of having ice cream in my game and the Cool Kitchen kitchen set, while she hates both. Loves the popcorn maker from Movie Hangout, though, so. . . We agree Vampires is the best, though. :p
D) Then, this evening, I listened to another “Lore By Night” podcast episode from the past – Episode 2, about building a V5 character, as shown through the creation of “Sexy Steve” the Jazz Pianist. It was interesting stuff, though again, these early episodes tend to be LOUD. I have to listen to them on half-volume at MOST. Still, I’m enjoying Mr. Lore By Night’s voice, so I’ll probably keep coming back to this every so often for more fun times with vampire lore and character creation.
E) After that it was over to Call Me Kevin and GTA V – with a mod that gives your character the powers of Spider-Man. Oh dear. XD Trevor webslinging on nothing and causing helicopters to crash by perching on the front and making the pilot stare at his ass; Franklin continually ruining a drug deal by hitting Lamar with various webs before stopping armed robberies and assaults with an army of spider-drones and webbing people to various walls; Michael webbing up his son to try and win a bike race and accidentally constantly abandoning his daughter on the jetski by flinging himself web-slingshot style into the ocean before completely breaking the game because the characters are no long where they’re supposed to be. It’s maybe not QUITE as weird as the Chaos Mod, but it’s definitely up there. XD Wouldn’t mind a second episode, frankly!
F) Then we had more GrayStillPlays and 100 Years Life! Turns out, there’s a whole second path if you complete one as the guy – you get reincarnated as a girl, specifically the one you can hang out with as your guy self! You start life being left in a dumpster and adopted by a kind passer-by, and – well, if you’re Gray, you find a secret temple and wish to be rich as hell; spend the majority of your life in your bikini, garnering all sorts of attention from your cute college roommate and a sexy lifeguard – though don’t eat their cake, it’s laced with things that will make you wander into the middle of the street and get run over; decide to become a very successful stripper in a blond wig – up until the point where you decide to blow off work for a meal with Dad and your boss gets beat up in your absence; buy a pet penguin from the pet store; then meet aliens, go with them on their spaceship, let them destroy the earth, and then kill the main bridge crew to take over the ship. And then you try to conquer another alien race, but they have the ability to call down orbital lasers, so you’re forced to befriend them instead. And you STILL die at 39. XD I don’t know at all why these games are like this, but they are definitely perfect for Gray. XD
G) And finally, we had Jon’s latest Fallout 4 You Only Live Once episode! Today was a surprisingly short one all about the Brotherhood! As Miss Finalley had a bunch of quests to turn in and to pick up from them for precious XP to build a jetpack for her power armor. So, in order:
I. Vertibird trip back to the Prydwen – relatively safe except for a sentry bot taking offense to the vertibird’s presence and firing upon it; fortunately it had terrible aim and missed Finalley.
II. Finalley spoke to Elder Maxson to pick up quests to provide the data tape to Proctor Ingram and fetch Dr. Li, both of which are pretty easy (at least with Finalley abusing every Charisma-boosting item she has).
III. Finalley spoke to Kells and turned in “The Lost Patrol” to him, dumping the guaranteed Legendary armor she got before picking up “Duty or Dishonor,” the quest all about that initiate who’s secretly feeding a bunch of ferals beneath the airport with BOS supplies. Finalley ALSO spent all of her money at Teagan’s shop (whew!), though she was slightly hampered by her riches meaning she couldn’t take her armor off to get better prices with her Charisma gear. Fortunately her wig and glasses did the job well enough for her to empty out her caps and get SCAV! working for her again.
IV. After a quick stop at the lunchroom to cook up all her Fog Crawler meat (with the oil she’d just purchased), Finalley took a nap in her Prydwen bunk. . .and promptly picked up Fatigue because she’s already eating more, why not sleep more too? Meeeh.
V. As refreshed as she could get, Finalley headed down to the airport itself and completed “Duty Or Dishonor,” using her Charisma gear to get the extra XP from passing speech checks, and Berry Mentats to highlight the huge numbers of ghouls infesting the place and take them out with little danger to herself. There were even a bunch of Legendary enemies along the way, though she only got one good nonsellable thing out of it – a Cunning Combat Armor Right Arm that, because it was lighter and more moddable, Jon decided was better than the Cunning Operator’s Right Arm she had. She ended the mission by killing Clarke and then murdering all the ghouls just as the Berry Mentats wore off – and NEARLY missed one last one lurking in the corner because it wasn’t glowing. -1 Perception Jon, everyone!
VI. Finalley turned in “Duty Or Dishonor” for more XP, then left the Prydwen, whacked on her hazmat suit because of a surprise radstorm, and then teleported into the Institute to convince Madison Li to rejoin the Brotherhood in her beautiful dress. Another mission done!
VII. Finalley left the Institute, headed over to the police station, and turned in Haylen’s Haptic Drive to complete both the original “Quartermastery” quest and “Semper Invicta,” before heading home to put away her gear, get the data tape off Sturges, and sob over the fact that she can’t use Brandis’s “Survivor Special” gun, which does more damage at lower health and thus would be PERFECT for her build – but as Jon mentioned when he originally wrapped up “Lost Patrol,” it’s a guaranteed Legendary and thus “illegal.” He even cruelly MODDED the thing to see what the max damage would be, and it’s 571. Ooof. Jon, at least let her put it up on display, buddy.
And that wrapped up the episode, with Jon saying they’d be stopping by the Brotherhood to drop off the newly-completed tape and Li missions, and then possibly do dumb things like try to secure a bunch of nukes from ghouls in the Glowing Sea because THAT couldn’t go wrong! *facepalm* Oh Jon Jon Jon. . .
3. Play more Bloodlines and work some more on the Downtown quests: Check! Crystal headed over to Confession to get Venus’s quests – and turns out, they are much easier with Dominate! Crystal was able to both convince the main goon that Venus had already paid for the month, and Boris to just cancel the debt without violence. Nice! Crystal is a girl who likes using her words – and her ability to force people to obey her. XD
Along with that, she also fought Jezebel Locke in her Empire Arms suite (which was tough, but Blood Strike and Bloodheal together did the job of keeping her alive long enough to beat Jezebel to deal with her ax), danced to “A Smaller God” in one of the hotel’s banquet rooms (I – may have lingered to hear the entire song ^^;), gotten the “eliminate Patty” quest from Skelter at the Last Round, told Damsel about Paul’s death and Jezebel’s vanquishing, checked out the murder scene now that it is a murder scene and Dominated the bum there into not talking (and then ran into fire like an idiot, whoops), and went and talked to Tin Can Bill to learn how he got sick. Left her outside the entrance to the plaguebearer sewers of Brother Kanker – next time, we’ll see about wrapping up the plaguebearer quest, and go see our own ghoul, Heather, at our Santa Monica digs!
4. Keep up on tumblr queues: Check! Three asks replies over on Valice Multiverse, nothing too difficult, and I just finished a quick draft of the three posts for this week's Newcrest Adventures update over on Victor Luvs Alice. Keeping ahead of the curve!
And now I have to finish up comments and head to bed, as I do indeed have work tomorrow now that the hurricane hasn't wrecked this part of the state. Meh. Just two more weeks until I get another proper long weekend. . .night all!
Anyway -- once it became apparently we were going to be okay and losing power was likely not to be a thing, I went ahead and did a small to-do list for myself:
1. Work some more on my Fallout 4 Sims Challenge: Check – it’s coming along, slowly but surely! I’ve updated what state the world should be in when you start, added in a “fighting raiders” element by giving them their own two little outposts and their own club, etc. I’ve kind of nailed down the basics, but getting it all together is going to take more time than originally anticipated. *shrug* This is what I get for making a challenge that contains elements I’ve always wanted to play with but haven’t actually done much with – plus clubs. :p
2. Keep up on YouTube Subs and Jon’s FO4 YOLO episode: Check, check, and more check – lot of videos watched today! Amazing what you can do with free time and a rainy day –
A) Started with a short dramatic reading and illustration of a hilarious AI-produced Batman comic, in which Joker and Two-Face attack the Batcave! Highlights include “sometimes he is Bruce Wayne, sometimes sometimes Batman, ALLTIMES ORPHAN,” Two-Face flipping Alfred like a coin and going home when Alfred lands heads-up, Joker claiming, “You drink water, I drink anarchy” and Batman responding “I drink BATS,” Joker deflecting a batrocket with his sick sense of humor, and Joker giving Batman a coupon for new parents that is expired. I want all comic books to be written by AIs now. XD
B) Then this afternoon, it was over to the Plumbella video of the day: “A build challenge BUT I can't use the same object twice!” Exactly what it says on the tin – a challenge where you can only use any given object once – and that includes wallpapers. Though you are allowed the option to use the same wallpaper on any given wall section, rather than going tile-by-tile, which is good. Plumbella build a little suburban bungalow for a three-Sim household (two parents, one child), and spent most of the video either stressing over the build, or looking for loopholes in the rules (like counting all of the various counter variations as six separate objects for the kitchen. It came out – ECLECTIC, to say the least, but certainly livable! And it didn’t look bad, it just looked like a variety of styles all got thrown together in a blender. XD She actually quite enjoyed it, which, given how much she’s bitched about some of these build challenges in the past, is a nice change! :)
C) Then it was over to English Simmer because lookie what we have here: “Would I buy sims 4 packs if I wasn't a game changer?” Yup, she saw Plumbella’s video previously and decided to record her own version. Interestingly, she and Plumbella have opposite views on City Living (Plumbella finds cities make her queasy; English Simmer loves starting out in the apartments and the general city vibe), and she admitted that she probably would have broken down in the end and bought My First Pet Stuff because she loves the death. Sorry, English, but that’s not enough to tempt ME! By contrast, I like the idea of having ice cream in my game and the Cool Kitchen kitchen set, while she hates both. Loves the popcorn maker from Movie Hangout, though, so. . . We agree Vampires is the best, though. :p
D) Then, this evening, I listened to another “Lore By Night” podcast episode from the past – Episode 2, about building a V5 character, as shown through the creation of “Sexy Steve” the Jazz Pianist. It was interesting stuff, though again, these early episodes tend to be LOUD. I have to listen to them on half-volume at MOST. Still, I’m enjoying Mr. Lore By Night’s voice, so I’ll probably keep coming back to this every so often for more fun times with vampire lore and character creation.
E) After that it was over to Call Me Kevin and GTA V – with a mod that gives your character the powers of Spider-Man. Oh dear. XD Trevor webslinging on nothing and causing helicopters to crash by perching on the front and making the pilot stare at his ass; Franklin continually ruining a drug deal by hitting Lamar with various webs before stopping armed robberies and assaults with an army of spider-drones and webbing people to various walls; Michael webbing up his son to try and win a bike race and accidentally constantly abandoning his daughter on the jetski by flinging himself web-slingshot style into the ocean before completely breaking the game because the characters are no long where they’re supposed to be. It’s maybe not QUITE as weird as the Chaos Mod, but it’s definitely up there. XD Wouldn’t mind a second episode, frankly!
F) Then we had more GrayStillPlays and 100 Years Life! Turns out, there’s a whole second path if you complete one as the guy – you get reincarnated as a girl, specifically the one you can hang out with as your guy self! You start life being left in a dumpster and adopted by a kind passer-by, and – well, if you’re Gray, you find a secret temple and wish to be rich as hell; spend the majority of your life in your bikini, garnering all sorts of attention from your cute college roommate and a sexy lifeguard – though don’t eat their cake, it’s laced with things that will make you wander into the middle of the street and get run over; decide to become a very successful stripper in a blond wig – up until the point where you decide to blow off work for a meal with Dad and your boss gets beat up in your absence; buy a pet penguin from the pet store; then meet aliens, go with them on their spaceship, let them destroy the earth, and then kill the main bridge crew to take over the ship. And then you try to conquer another alien race, but they have the ability to call down orbital lasers, so you’re forced to befriend them instead. And you STILL die at 39. XD I don’t know at all why these games are like this, but they are definitely perfect for Gray. XD
G) And finally, we had Jon’s latest Fallout 4 You Only Live Once episode! Today was a surprisingly short one all about the Brotherhood! As Miss Finalley had a bunch of quests to turn in and to pick up from them for precious XP to build a jetpack for her power armor. So, in order:
I. Vertibird trip back to the Prydwen – relatively safe except for a sentry bot taking offense to the vertibird’s presence and firing upon it; fortunately it had terrible aim and missed Finalley.
II. Finalley spoke to Elder Maxson to pick up quests to provide the data tape to Proctor Ingram and fetch Dr. Li, both of which are pretty easy (at least with Finalley abusing every Charisma-boosting item she has).
III. Finalley spoke to Kells and turned in “The Lost Patrol” to him, dumping the guaranteed Legendary armor she got before picking up “Duty or Dishonor,” the quest all about that initiate who’s secretly feeding a bunch of ferals beneath the airport with BOS supplies. Finalley ALSO spent all of her money at Teagan’s shop (whew!), though she was slightly hampered by her riches meaning she couldn’t take her armor off to get better prices with her Charisma gear. Fortunately her wig and glasses did the job well enough for her to empty out her caps and get SCAV! working for her again.
IV. After a quick stop at the lunchroom to cook up all her Fog Crawler meat (with the oil she’d just purchased), Finalley took a nap in her Prydwen bunk. . .and promptly picked up Fatigue because she’s already eating more, why not sleep more too? Meeeh.
V. As refreshed as she could get, Finalley headed down to the airport itself and completed “Duty Or Dishonor,” using her Charisma gear to get the extra XP from passing speech checks, and Berry Mentats to highlight the huge numbers of ghouls infesting the place and take them out with little danger to herself. There were even a bunch of Legendary enemies along the way, though she only got one good nonsellable thing out of it – a Cunning Combat Armor Right Arm that, because it was lighter and more moddable, Jon decided was better than the Cunning Operator’s Right Arm she had. She ended the mission by killing Clarke and then murdering all the ghouls just as the Berry Mentats wore off – and NEARLY missed one last one lurking in the corner because it wasn’t glowing. -1 Perception Jon, everyone!
VI. Finalley turned in “Duty Or Dishonor” for more XP, then left the Prydwen, whacked on her hazmat suit because of a surprise radstorm, and then teleported into the Institute to convince Madison Li to rejoin the Brotherhood in her beautiful dress. Another mission done!
VII. Finalley left the Institute, headed over to the police station, and turned in Haylen’s Haptic Drive to complete both the original “Quartermastery” quest and “Semper Invicta,” before heading home to put away her gear, get the data tape off Sturges, and sob over the fact that she can’t use Brandis’s “Survivor Special” gun, which does more damage at lower health and thus would be PERFECT for her build – but as Jon mentioned when he originally wrapped up “Lost Patrol,” it’s a guaranteed Legendary and thus “illegal.” He even cruelly MODDED the thing to see what the max damage would be, and it’s 571. Ooof. Jon, at least let her put it up on display, buddy.
And that wrapped up the episode, with Jon saying they’d be stopping by the Brotherhood to drop off the newly-completed tape and Li missions, and then possibly do dumb things like try to secure a bunch of nukes from ghouls in the Glowing Sea because THAT couldn’t go wrong! *facepalm* Oh Jon Jon Jon. . .
3. Play more Bloodlines and work some more on the Downtown quests: Check! Crystal headed over to Confession to get Venus’s quests – and turns out, they are much easier with Dominate! Crystal was able to both convince the main goon that Venus had already paid for the month, and Boris to just cancel the debt without violence. Nice! Crystal is a girl who likes using her words – and her ability to force people to obey her. XD
Along with that, she also fought Jezebel Locke in her Empire Arms suite (which was tough, but Blood Strike and Bloodheal together did the job of keeping her alive long enough to beat Jezebel to deal with her ax), danced to “A Smaller God” in one of the hotel’s banquet rooms (I – may have lingered to hear the entire song ^^;), gotten the “eliminate Patty” quest from Skelter at the Last Round, told Damsel about Paul’s death and Jezebel’s vanquishing, checked out the murder scene now that it is a murder scene and Dominated the bum there into not talking (and then ran into fire like an idiot, whoops), and went and talked to Tin Can Bill to learn how he got sick. Left her outside the entrance to the plaguebearer sewers of Brother Kanker – next time, we’ll see about wrapping up the plaguebearer quest, and go see our own ghoul, Heather, at our Santa Monica digs!
4. Keep up on tumblr queues: Check! Three asks replies over on Valice Multiverse, nothing too difficult, and I just finished a quick draft of the three posts for this week's Newcrest Adventures update over on Victor Luvs Alice. Keeping ahead of the curve!
And now I have to finish up comments and head to bed, as I do indeed have work tomorrow now that the hurricane hasn't wrecked this part of the state. Meh. Just two more weeks until I get another proper long weekend. . .night all!
