Aaaah Ran Out Of Time
Aug. 30th, 2021 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickHave had a busy night of talking to people from tumblr and have somewhat lost track of time -- let's slap the update form up here and get going --
Work – Well, booted up the work computer and almost immediately discovered another credit card issue. *sigh* And they still haven’t resolved some of the others either. . .on the other hand, day went by pretty easily between researching that, checking a quality control file, and working on some auditor stuff, so that’s something, at least. Still, bleh.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another round on the bike, another round with episode 20 of Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Turns out I was a bit wrong – after going through the Museum of Witchcraft, finding the Pristine Deathclaw Egg and Sargent Lee’s holotape (after getting past his -1 Perception and spotting it on the floor in front of Lee’s corpse), picking up “The Devil’s Due” quest, and making the decision that going to visit a Deathclaw nest is too dangerous, he’s taking the egg to Diamond City, Past!Jon instead chose to investigate a nearby lighthouse – Kingsport Lighthouse, in fact. Home to a contingent of the main cultists of the game – the Children of Atom! Who were much more hostile than Past!Jon was expecting, and armed with those nasty “Gamma Guns” of theirs that shoot loads of radiation. Poor Miss Jon died once, but managed to get past them and kill the lot on the second go-round, with the help of copious amounts of Rad-X! She even got up to the top of the lighthouse itself to kill the Glowing One within it – Past!Jon was slightly sad that this meant the lighthouse would be inoperable, but probably for the best.
After taking them out and stealing a Gamma Gun for later, Miss Jon then headed over to Diamond City and found the contact for the egg, Wellingham, who was none too pleased to receive only one egg so late, but handed over the agreed-upon caps and his own personal recipe for “Deathclaw Egg a la Wellingham,” meaning Miss Jon now has a new omelet recipe, om nom. From there she went inside the Colonial Taphouse itself and stumbled upon the dust-up between Henry Cooke and Paul Pembroke – she tried asking Henry and Darcy (Paul’s wife) about it, but didn’t get very far. So instead she wandered around the Upper Stands, breaking into a bunch of houses to steal things and see how the inhabitants lived (one of them has a personal pool with a freaking boat in it! And there’s a good hint as to Henry’s drug-dealing ways in his place, as he has raider armor and a ton of drugs in his “bedroom.”) He even found the “crazy cat lady” house, though the lady seemed to be living very comfortably – she just loved her dozens of identical cats. XD
With that adventure over with, Past!Jon decided it was time to find Goodneighbor finally. First attempt didn’t go very well – besides having to deal with some Super-Mutants, poor Miss Jon got stuck in the scenery at one point, forcing Past!Jon to restart to free her. Second attempt looks to be going better, though past!Jon for the life of him can’t seem to find the front door. I know he has to find it in the next six minutes or so, if only because the next episode is “Welcome to Goodneighbor,” but damn. XD I thought I had a talent for getting lost in this game.
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Having gotten the power back on, Alice has made the shocking discovery that the elevator in the basement still works, and was able to successfully ride it up to the second floor – though not without getting winged by a picture she attempted to stab into submission. Still, it’s better than what she expected, which was the elevator to fall with her in it, a la the classic “Tower of Terror.” :p Now it’s time to explore the upper level of the hotel and see what can be found. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check and double check – caught up with some stuff from the Recommended plus the videos from my subs! Again, this is partially because James Turner didn’t upload, but not gonna complain. :p
A) Started with a recommendation from yesterday from my friend Squid – The Game Theorists, “The Best Way To DESTROY Earth! | The SCIENCE of... Solar Smash!” Mostly because it referenced GrayStillPlays and his love of the game. XD The actual meat of the video was figuring out if one of the planet-destroyers in the game – the death ray – would actually be plausible, and the answer is – “well, if you could somehow cram six days of solid sunlight energy into a spaceship and fire it into the earth as a beam, then yeah, you could actually vaporize everything on the planet before exploding it.” So TECHNICALLY possible, but not really because getting the amount of energy necessary to destroy the Earth is probably impossible. (We hope so, anyway.)
B) Then it was down to Plumbella and her latest upload – “OMGWTFBBQ: The Sims Mod So Horrific That It Was Banned!” About a “classic” Sims 2 mod that – well. It allowed you to cook and eat newborn babies on a special barbecue. Seriously. This thing was beloved by people making spooky machinimas, but beloathed by enough other Simmers that it was eventually removed from ModTheSims at the time. ...There is totally a Sims 4 version that allows you to roast toddlers. Not my playstyle, but you do you, creepy Simmers!
C) Had a little palate cleanser after that with The English Simmer and a CAS take on the “every room is a different pack” build challenge – “I create a family but every sim is a different pack... and they're chaotic!” She randomized the first two Sims off the gallery, then randomized a couple of kids for them, plus parents for the first one. In order, we had: Kamila Rose, rocking a leather jacket and bright triangle skirt from Moschino Stuff; her wife Mildrid Martin, in a cornrow-like bun and a flowery jumpsuit from Dream Home Decorator; their teenage son Marvin Martin, who sported a barbecue dad hairstyle and bright pink swim trunks from Perfect Patio Stuff; their toddler daughter Jocelyn Rose in curlicue braids tied with beaded ties and a little bee shirt paired with a colorful skirt from Toddler Stuff; Kamila’s mother Lizbeth Rose with gray hair died pink, a long pink jacket to match, and a chonky “Fitbit” from Snowy Escape; and Kamila’s father Paxton Rose, who got aging rocker vibes with an unbuttoned vest over a t-shirt and a shark-tooth necklace from Get To Work. Very fun little challenge, and makes me actually want to spend some more time in CAS myself!
D) After that, it was over to my actual Subs with Call Me Kevin and Payday 2, doing stealthy heists in ridiculous costumes. XD Specifically stumbling through the opening levels of that hospital from The Walking Dead before vamoosing after being caught doing something suspicious; skulking around a warehouse in a Santa suit, getting repeatedly caught removing old banknotes from shipping containers and murdering guards – he finally won by just throwing the money over the fence before it could be found, killing only ONE guard, and then sprinting to the getaway van with his ill-gotten gains; stumbling around a horror-themed level called “Safehouse Nightmare” trying desperately to restart a thermal drill to get into a safe while being attacked by undead monsters wielding guns while his AI teammates just ran around like chickens with their heads cut off; and attempting to stealthily infiltrate an auction house for a special tablet, only to draw police attention with a broken camera and have to shoot down like a thousand cops while waiting for various computers to be hacked and time-locked vaults to open. In conclusion, crime is hard, yo. XD
E) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Featuring “the extremely purple bottle flip” (with Yeet Demon, Yeet Demon +, Yeet God +, Hacker, and the Reverse Flip – plus a spot that didn’t have a name but Gray got a bottle there anyway); “the very unfair pogo jump through harpoons” (Gray had to try many, MANY times to figure out the best way to trigger the harpoons without being turned into a pile of delicious giblets); “the leap into a circle of harpoons to get the coin” (Gray’s leg managed to win the board for him there); “the strawberry jam spike fall” (with extra swords and spikes – but Gray still managed to complete it FIRST TRY); “the extremely yeety bottle run” (I don’t know how many times Gray had to try this one to keep from exploding from the sheer speed); and “the escape from hell” (featuring the phrase “rectal porcupine,” which, given his tendency to get crossbow bolts up the bum, I am surprised had not yet appeared on this channel). Basically a very good day in Happy Wheel Land. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – finished the text for my two remaining posts for this week’s Newcrest Adventures updates, so those’ll be ready to slap in the queue tomorrow, yay!
Not bad, not bad -- though it's probably a good thing I didn't have the other tumblr blog to worry about tonight. XD Time to finish up catching up on tumblr tags and head to bed! Night all!
Work – Well, booted up the work computer and almost immediately discovered another credit card issue. *sigh* And they still haven’t resolved some of the others either. . .on the other hand, day went by pretty easily between researching that, checking a quality control file, and working on some auditor stuff, so that’s something, at least. Still, bleh.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another round on the bike, another round with episode 20 of Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Turns out I was a bit wrong – after going through the Museum of Witchcraft, finding the Pristine Deathclaw Egg and Sargent Lee’s holotape (after getting past his -1 Perception and spotting it on the floor in front of Lee’s corpse), picking up “The Devil’s Due” quest, and making the decision that going to visit a Deathclaw nest is too dangerous, he’s taking the egg to Diamond City, Past!Jon instead chose to investigate a nearby lighthouse – Kingsport Lighthouse, in fact. Home to a contingent of the main cultists of the game – the Children of Atom! Who were much more hostile than Past!Jon was expecting, and armed with those nasty “Gamma Guns” of theirs that shoot loads of radiation. Poor Miss Jon died once, but managed to get past them and kill the lot on the second go-round, with the help of copious amounts of Rad-X! She even got up to the top of the lighthouse itself to kill the Glowing One within it – Past!Jon was slightly sad that this meant the lighthouse would be inoperable, but probably for the best.
After taking them out and stealing a Gamma Gun for later, Miss Jon then headed over to Diamond City and found the contact for the egg, Wellingham, who was none too pleased to receive only one egg so late, but handed over the agreed-upon caps and his own personal recipe for “Deathclaw Egg a la Wellingham,” meaning Miss Jon now has a new omelet recipe, om nom. From there she went inside the Colonial Taphouse itself and stumbled upon the dust-up between Henry Cooke and Paul Pembroke – she tried asking Henry and Darcy (Paul’s wife) about it, but didn’t get very far. So instead she wandered around the Upper Stands, breaking into a bunch of houses to steal things and see how the inhabitants lived (one of them has a personal pool with a freaking boat in it! And there’s a good hint as to Henry’s drug-dealing ways in his place, as he has raider armor and a ton of drugs in his “bedroom.”) He even found the “crazy cat lady” house, though the lady seemed to be living very comfortably – she just loved her dozens of identical cats. XD
With that adventure over with, Past!Jon decided it was time to find Goodneighbor finally. First attempt didn’t go very well – besides having to deal with some Super-Mutants, poor Miss Jon got stuck in the scenery at one point, forcing Past!Jon to restart to free her. Second attempt looks to be going better, though past!Jon for the life of him can’t seem to find the front door. I know he has to find it in the next six minutes or so, if only because the next episode is “Welcome to Goodneighbor,” but damn. XD I thought I had a talent for getting lost in this game.
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Having gotten the power back on, Alice has made the shocking discovery that the elevator in the basement still works, and was able to successfully ride it up to the second floor – though not without getting winged by a picture she attempted to stab into submission. Still, it’s better than what she expected, which was the elevator to fall with her in it, a la the classic “Tower of Terror.” :p Now it’s time to explore the upper level of the hotel and see what can be found. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check and double check – caught up with some stuff from the Recommended plus the videos from my subs! Again, this is partially because James Turner didn’t upload, but not gonna complain. :p
A) Started with a recommendation from yesterday from my friend Squid – The Game Theorists, “The Best Way To DESTROY Earth! | The SCIENCE of... Solar Smash!” Mostly because it referenced GrayStillPlays and his love of the game. XD The actual meat of the video was figuring out if one of the planet-destroyers in the game – the death ray – would actually be plausible, and the answer is – “well, if you could somehow cram six days of solid sunlight energy into a spaceship and fire it into the earth as a beam, then yeah, you could actually vaporize everything on the planet before exploding it.” So TECHNICALLY possible, but not really because getting the amount of energy necessary to destroy the Earth is probably impossible. (We hope so, anyway.)
B) Then it was down to Plumbella and her latest upload – “OMGWTFBBQ: The Sims Mod So Horrific That It Was Banned!” About a “classic” Sims 2 mod that – well. It allowed you to cook and eat newborn babies on a special barbecue. Seriously. This thing was beloved by people making spooky machinimas, but beloathed by enough other Simmers that it was eventually removed from ModTheSims at the time. ...There is totally a Sims 4 version that allows you to roast toddlers. Not my playstyle, but you do you, creepy Simmers!
C) Had a little palate cleanser after that with The English Simmer and a CAS take on the “every room is a different pack” build challenge – “I create a family but every sim is a different pack... and they're chaotic!” She randomized the first two Sims off the gallery, then randomized a couple of kids for them, plus parents for the first one. In order, we had: Kamila Rose, rocking a leather jacket and bright triangle skirt from Moschino Stuff; her wife Mildrid Martin, in a cornrow-like bun and a flowery jumpsuit from Dream Home Decorator; their teenage son Marvin Martin, who sported a barbecue dad hairstyle and bright pink swim trunks from Perfect Patio Stuff; their toddler daughter Jocelyn Rose in curlicue braids tied with beaded ties and a little bee shirt paired with a colorful skirt from Toddler Stuff; Kamila’s mother Lizbeth Rose with gray hair died pink, a long pink jacket to match, and a chonky “Fitbit” from Snowy Escape; and Kamila’s father Paxton Rose, who got aging rocker vibes with an unbuttoned vest over a t-shirt and a shark-tooth necklace from Get To Work. Very fun little challenge, and makes me actually want to spend some more time in CAS myself!
D) After that, it was over to my actual Subs with Call Me Kevin and Payday 2, doing stealthy heists in ridiculous costumes. XD Specifically stumbling through the opening levels of that hospital from The Walking Dead before vamoosing after being caught doing something suspicious; skulking around a warehouse in a Santa suit, getting repeatedly caught removing old banknotes from shipping containers and murdering guards – he finally won by just throwing the money over the fence before it could be found, killing only ONE guard, and then sprinting to the getaway van with his ill-gotten gains; stumbling around a horror-themed level called “Safehouse Nightmare” trying desperately to restart a thermal drill to get into a safe while being attacked by undead monsters wielding guns while his AI teammates just ran around like chickens with their heads cut off; and attempting to stealthily infiltrate an auction house for a special tablet, only to draw police attention with a broken camera and have to shoot down like a thousand cops while waiting for various computers to be hacked and time-locked vaults to open. In conclusion, crime is hard, yo. XD
E) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Featuring “the extremely purple bottle flip” (with Yeet Demon, Yeet Demon +, Yeet God +, Hacker, and the Reverse Flip – plus a spot that didn’t have a name but Gray got a bottle there anyway); “the very unfair pogo jump through harpoons” (Gray had to try many, MANY times to figure out the best way to trigger the harpoons without being turned into a pile of delicious giblets); “the leap into a circle of harpoons to get the coin” (Gray’s leg managed to win the board for him there); “the strawberry jam spike fall” (with extra swords and spikes – but Gray still managed to complete it FIRST TRY); “the extremely yeety bottle run” (I don’t know how many times Gray had to try this one to keep from exploding from the sheer speed); and “the escape from hell” (featuring the phrase “rectal porcupine,” which, given his tendency to get crossbow bolts up the bum, I am surprised had not yet appeared on this channel). Basically a very good day in Happy Wheel Land. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – finished the text for my two remaining posts for this week’s Newcrest Adventures updates, so those’ll be ready to slap in the queue tomorrow, yay!
Not bad, not bad -- though it's probably a good thing I didn't have the other tumblr blog to worry about tonight. XD Time to finish up catching up on tumblr tags and head to bed! Night all!
