Okay, Did It Again
Aug. 31st, 2021 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickThis time I'm blaming the fact that the red floodgates opened last night, right before I hit the sheets. On the one hand, it's great to be over the PMSy "when the fuck will it come" portion of the month, but on the other, now I get to deal with my actual period in all its glory, and. . .bleh. At least I should be past the worst of it by tomorrow night. For now, updates:
Work – Fairly quiet day, though I had a bad morning – came in slightly late because I got lost trying to get out a different way than usual (they were repaving a road right next to my regular way – I am blaming period brain and being way too literal when told to “go up the big hill”), had to deal with the usual idiots in traffic, got a telemarketer on the phone. But I was able to get the rest of the documentation I needed for audit stuff, the credit card stuff MIGHT actually be fixed by tomorrow morning, and I was able to spend most of the day on the relatively easy task of fixing up duplicates. So that’s good, at least.
Also good – beanbags after work because while it was hot, it wasn’t particularly humid, yay! And the scores are pretty easy to relate – Dad W-W-W, me 2-2-2, Mom 3-3-3. The amusement factor helps cancel out my annoyance at Dad getting all the wins (especially on the second one – we were tied on the final throw, but I threw a four and he threw a five, so. . .). Maybe we’ll get a chance to play tomorrow too – depends on when the rain from Ida comes in!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, another thirty with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Finished off Episode 20 with Past!Jon trying and failing to get into Goodneighbor from the ground, so instead Miss Jon took to the wreckage of the on-ramps and found the accidental drop-in point that I myself found while playing with my Sole Survivor Victor. XD Finn attempted to extort the lady who jumped off a roof and got himself murdered by Hancock, and Miss Jon instantly decided “play nice with this guy.” XD She also went out the front door to try and figure out where the hell she was SUPPOSED to come in (also killing some Super Mutants and Gunners around the front of the place), but Past!Jon couldn’t place it on the map. Fallout 4 may not be HUGE, but the map is pretty jam-packed, and I can attest it is easy to get lost!
With that out of the way, Episode 21 was all about getting to know the citizens of Goodneighbor! There was Daisy, who runs the general store – a sweet-natured ghoul who asked Miss Jon if she could see her way toward clearing out the Boston Library and returning an overdue book, because it was a favorite place of hers as a child and she doesn’t like that it’s now infested with Super Mutants. And next door was K-L-E-0, the Assaultron who runs her own gun shop – as she put it, why work for the man when you can be the man? Or woman, as the case may be. Past!Jon kinda wanted to flirt with her, but sadly she is not romanceable (and also has a plan to kill everyone she meets, as Miss Jon found out by snooping on her terminal, so any breakup would be HARSH). Across from them was of course Hancock – Miss Jon had a look-see around the state house, picked up the location of Parsons Insane Asylum from the chatter of the bodyguards, and then talked to Hancock himself to learn his story (at least the version he tells strangers) and get some work – scoping out Pickman’s Gallery, oooh. That should be interesting.
And from there she stumbled across Bobbi No-Nose’s door, where Bobbi asked if she’d be willing to help out on a dig. Miss Jon was a touch reluctant at first, given that she was able to weasel out that this was some sort of break-in job, but eventually her curiosity got the better of her and she went in to help. “Help” turned out to be “kill the Mirelurks that chased away the other workers,” and now she’s gotta go meet up with Bobbi in Diamond City at some point to recruit someone else. (Which – okay, I know that’s where her partner-in-crime is incarcerated, but she tells you to meet her IN Diamond City. Which is notoriously anti-ghoul thanks to Mayor McDonough. Shouldn’t she meet you OUTSIDE it?)
No time to worry about that right now, though – Miss Jon’s got warehouses to break into, Triggermen to kill with her new silenced weapon, and a sniper rifle to strip for parts to improve the one she’s already got. XD I left it with Past!Jon leveling up and taking “Gun Nut 3” so he could build more fun mods – gotta love the crafting in this game! :D
2. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check – Alice has talked about her time at Houndsditch and covered A:MR now – and Victor has clearly cottoned on that she killed Bumby, but being a smart and polite boy, isn’t asking directly about it. :P We’re wrapping up now with June’s arrival (as per usual, on the train that killed Bumby), and what happened afterward to put Alice in the opera house for Victor’s arrival. Nice and simple!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – bit of a later start today, so it was just three in, three out –
A) Started with the latest from James Turner (and girlfriend Deligracy) – “What if Sims were real people? (Using AI to turn Sims into humans)” AKA James and Deli use an AI program to turn pictures of Sims into pictures that look like real people (I WANT to say it’s “Artbreeder,” but I wouldn’t swear to it). They did a lot of different Sims, including Bob and Eliza Pancakes (Bob came out really well, James thought Eliza looked a bit like a combination of a toddler and an adult); their own self-Sims (Semaj didn’t share much of a resemblance to James, but Deli thought hers had a similar chin at least); Bella and Mortimer Goth (Bella came out beautiful, Mortimer was a shaved-mustache one-forehead-crinkle hot mess); Vlad Straud in both regular and dark forms (both came out really good! Vlad makes a handsome human); the Tragic Clown (a VERY bulbous-headed human with VERY weird hair); Tina Tinker (rather square-shaped face, but decent); Agnes Crumplebottom (very nice human form); KATRINA! Caliente (reality show contestant, according to James XD); Brent and Brant Hecking (the Brindleton Bay gay couple – Brent came out good, but Brant looks like a rich frat boy according to James and Deli); Chaz, Trenton, and Hazel from the Cottage Living LP (Hazel was really good, but the boys kinda suffered – especially Chaz, who had his entire hair color changed); Geoffrey and Nancy Landgraab (Geoffrey looked like a teenager in a swim cap, but Nancy came out well); Dina Caliente (again looked younger – and kind of like human Eliza); Sims 1 Bella Goth (surprisingly good result for a first-generation Sim!); both Sims 1 and Sims 4 Cassandra Goth (S1 version had terrifying clown hair and looked surprisingly old; S4 version actually kind of resembled Cassandra, but the hair was still a mess); and to finish off, BONEHILDA (it actually WORKED, shockingly enough, but naturally she looked like a spooky ghost version of herself – James suggested this is “freshly dead” Bonehilda). Very fun, if very strange, video! XD
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin where, to my delight, he was playing more Twelve Minutes! Time to finally get Willem Dafoe to stop killing him and his wife constantly! Which – took quite a few loops, both to figure out the puzzles (particularly the time-specific ones, like when to call a certain person), and to be the usual Kevin dick (like flushing the valuable watch the cop wants XD – also, he DID kill his wife, but only the once, and he was a LOT sorrier about it than Jon ever was!), but eventually with some steaming brainpower (and some help from Google), he figured out the solution and reached the twist! Which I will be nice and put under a cut.
. . .the husband is his wife’s half-brother, and the actual killer of her father. He’s the result of the affair her father had with her nanny. The game is ACTUALLY him trying to convince himself that marrying his sister is a FINE idea and the cop is his father trying to get him to see fucking sense. Yeaaaaah. Kevin was pretty mind-blown, as you might imagine – though I don’t think he ever got that the meat of the game is meant to be imaginary. Instead he got stuck in more loops trying to read a particular book on the shelf. XD Eventually he managed to click on it, and then gratefully took the father’s offer to get hypnotized and forget it all because he was DONE. XD Which – you know, better ending than shooting your father, repressing it, and then going to schtup your half-sister!
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays and a special GTA V Board – Gray pays for his video sins by forcing various ages of Florida Man through special challenges to make it to heaven! Like doing a wall ride around and through a pair of bridge supports – in TOP DOWN VIEW. Or doing a chute drop through Spongebob’s digestive system as a noodly-armed toddler. Or “burning some fat” by killing people with fire bullets in the world’s most overdressed car. Or running like mad on a makeshift “hamster wheel” with Sonic’s blue lightning as a twelve year old (and then having to do it AGAIN and transfer to another one going the opposite way just below it!). Or taking a trip to see the twisted sharks and orcas that have resulted from Godzilla’s death (aka the breather level, which ironically takes place underwater). Or having to face up to his lies in his thumbnails for videos and ACTUALLY run a car through the ultimate gauntlet of wind turbines – TWICE. Or, for dessert, making it through the Ultimate Thumbnail Hole. XD All this – to end up in the swamps of Florida, aka Heaven for the likes of Gray. Poor guy, that was – that was some prime torture.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got the Victor Luvs Alice one sorted between writing and YouTube – Wednesday straight through Saturday this week, yay for having drafted reblogs and whatnot! Just have to remember to switch the queue back to one post per day after tomorrow’s three-parter. . . And on Valice Multiverse, four ask replies, nothing too difficult (though one did require Wikipedia research).
So that's all good at least! Now I just have to try and get to bed at a decent time. . .and hopefully sleep a little better tonight. Supposed to be cooler the next few days, so fingers crossed! Night all!
Work – Fairly quiet day, though I had a bad morning – came in slightly late because I got lost trying to get out a different way than usual (they were repaving a road right next to my regular way – I am blaming period brain and being way too literal when told to “go up the big hill”), had to deal with the usual idiots in traffic, got a telemarketer on the phone. But I was able to get the rest of the documentation I needed for audit stuff, the credit card stuff MIGHT actually be fixed by tomorrow morning, and I was able to spend most of the day on the relatively easy task of fixing up duplicates. So that’s good, at least.
Also good – beanbags after work because while it was hot, it wasn’t particularly humid, yay! And the scores are pretty easy to relate – Dad W-W-W, me 2-2-2, Mom 3-3-3. The amusement factor helps cancel out my annoyance at Dad getting all the wins (especially on the second one – we were tied on the final throw, but I threw a four and he threw a five, so. . .). Maybe we’ll get a chance to play tomorrow too – depends on when the rain from Ida comes in!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, another thirty with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Finished off Episode 20 with Past!Jon trying and failing to get into Goodneighbor from the ground, so instead Miss Jon took to the wreckage of the on-ramps and found the accidental drop-in point that I myself found while playing with my Sole Survivor Victor. XD Finn attempted to extort the lady who jumped off a roof and got himself murdered by Hancock, and Miss Jon instantly decided “play nice with this guy.” XD She also went out the front door to try and figure out where the hell she was SUPPOSED to come in (also killing some Super Mutants and Gunners around the front of the place), but Past!Jon couldn’t place it on the map. Fallout 4 may not be HUGE, but the map is pretty jam-packed, and I can attest it is easy to get lost!
With that out of the way, Episode 21 was all about getting to know the citizens of Goodneighbor! There was Daisy, who runs the general store – a sweet-natured ghoul who asked Miss Jon if she could see her way toward clearing out the Boston Library and returning an overdue book, because it was a favorite place of hers as a child and she doesn’t like that it’s now infested with Super Mutants. And next door was K-L-E-0, the Assaultron who runs her own gun shop – as she put it, why work for the man when you can be the man? Or woman, as the case may be. Past!Jon kinda wanted to flirt with her, but sadly she is not romanceable (and also has a plan to kill everyone she meets, as Miss Jon found out by snooping on her terminal, so any breakup would be HARSH). Across from them was of course Hancock – Miss Jon had a look-see around the state house, picked up the location of Parsons Insane Asylum from the chatter of the bodyguards, and then talked to Hancock himself to learn his story (at least the version he tells strangers) and get some work – scoping out Pickman’s Gallery, oooh. That should be interesting.
And from there she stumbled across Bobbi No-Nose’s door, where Bobbi asked if she’d be willing to help out on a dig. Miss Jon was a touch reluctant at first, given that she was able to weasel out that this was some sort of break-in job, but eventually her curiosity got the better of her and she went in to help. “Help” turned out to be “kill the Mirelurks that chased away the other workers,” and now she’s gotta go meet up with Bobbi in Diamond City at some point to recruit someone else. (Which – okay, I know that’s where her partner-in-crime is incarcerated, but she tells you to meet her IN Diamond City. Which is notoriously anti-ghoul thanks to Mayor McDonough. Shouldn’t she meet you OUTSIDE it?)
No time to worry about that right now, though – Miss Jon’s got warehouses to break into, Triggermen to kill with her new silenced weapon, and a sniper rifle to strip for parts to improve the one she’s already got. XD I left it with Past!Jon leveling up and taking “Gun Nut 3” so he could build more fun mods – gotta love the crafting in this game! :D
2. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check – Alice has talked about her time at Houndsditch and covered A:MR now – and Victor has clearly cottoned on that she killed Bumby, but being a smart and polite boy, isn’t asking directly about it. :P We’re wrapping up now with June’s arrival (as per usual, on the train that killed Bumby), and what happened afterward to put Alice in the opera house for Victor’s arrival. Nice and simple!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – bit of a later start today, so it was just three in, three out –
A) Started with the latest from James Turner (and girlfriend Deligracy) – “What if Sims were real people? (Using AI to turn Sims into humans)” AKA James and Deli use an AI program to turn pictures of Sims into pictures that look like real people (I WANT to say it’s “Artbreeder,” but I wouldn’t swear to it). They did a lot of different Sims, including Bob and Eliza Pancakes (Bob came out really well, James thought Eliza looked a bit like a combination of a toddler and an adult); their own self-Sims (Semaj didn’t share much of a resemblance to James, but Deli thought hers had a similar chin at least); Bella and Mortimer Goth (Bella came out beautiful, Mortimer was a shaved-mustache one-forehead-crinkle hot mess); Vlad Straud in both regular and dark forms (both came out really good! Vlad makes a handsome human); the Tragic Clown (a VERY bulbous-headed human with VERY weird hair); Tina Tinker (rather square-shaped face, but decent); Agnes Crumplebottom (very nice human form); KATRINA! Caliente (reality show contestant, according to James XD); Brent and Brant Hecking (the Brindleton Bay gay couple – Brent came out good, but Brant looks like a rich frat boy according to James and Deli); Chaz, Trenton, and Hazel from the Cottage Living LP (Hazel was really good, but the boys kinda suffered – especially Chaz, who had his entire hair color changed); Geoffrey and Nancy Landgraab (Geoffrey looked like a teenager in a swim cap, but Nancy came out well); Dina Caliente (again looked younger – and kind of like human Eliza); Sims 1 Bella Goth (surprisingly good result for a first-generation Sim!); both Sims 1 and Sims 4 Cassandra Goth (S1 version had terrifying clown hair and looked surprisingly old; S4 version actually kind of resembled Cassandra, but the hair was still a mess); and to finish off, BONEHILDA (it actually WORKED, shockingly enough, but naturally she looked like a spooky ghost version of herself – James suggested this is “freshly dead” Bonehilda). Very fun, if very strange, video! XD
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin where, to my delight, he was playing more Twelve Minutes! Time to finally get Willem Dafoe to stop killing him and his wife constantly! Which – took quite a few loops, both to figure out the puzzles (particularly the time-specific ones, like when to call a certain person), and to be the usual Kevin dick (like flushing the valuable watch the cop wants XD – also, he DID kill his wife, but only the once, and he was a LOT sorrier about it than Jon ever was!), but eventually with some steaming brainpower (and some help from Google), he figured out the solution and reached the twist! Which I will be nice and put under a cut.
. . .the husband is his wife’s half-brother, and the actual killer of her father. He’s the result of the affair her father had with her nanny. The game is ACTUALLY him trying to convince himself that marrying his sister is a FINE idea and the cop is his father trying to get him to see fucking sense. Yeaaaaah. Kevin was pretty mind-blown, as you might imagine – though I don’t think he ever got that the meat of the game is meant to be imaginary. Instead he got stuck in more loops trying to read a particular book on the shelf. XD Eventually he managed to click on it, and then gratefully took the father’s offer to get hypnotized and forget it all because he was DONE. XD Which – you know, better ending than shooting your father, repressing it, and then going to schtup your half-sister!
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays and a special GTA V Board – Gray pays for his video sins by forcing various ages of Florida Man through special challenges to make it to heaven! Like doing a wall ride around and through a pair of bridge supports – in TOP DOWN VIEW. Or doing a chute drop through Spongebob’s digestive system as a noodly-armed toddler. Or “burning some fat” by killing people with fire bullets in the world’s most overdressed car. Or running like mad on a makeshift “hamster wheel” with Sonic’s blue lightning as a twelve year old (and then having to do it AGAIN and transfer to another one going the opposite way just below it!). Or taking a trip to see the twisted sharks and orcas that have resulted from Godzilla’s death (aka the breather level, which ironically takes place underwater). Or having to face up to his lies in his thumbnails for videos and ACTUALLY run a car through the ultimate gauntlet of wind turbines – TWICE. Or, for dessert, making it through the Ultimate Thumbnail Hole. XD All this – to end up in the swamps of Florida, aka Heaven for the likes of Gray. Poor guy, that was – that was some prime torture.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got the Victor Luvs Alice one sorted between writing and YouTube – Wednesday straight through Saturday this week, yay for having drafted reblogs and whatnot! Just have to remember to switch the queue back to one post per day after tomorrow’s three-parter. . . And on Valice Multiverse, four ask replies, nothing too difficult (though one did require Wikipedia research).
So that's all good at least! Now I just have to try and get to bed at a decent time. . .and hopefully sleep a little better tonight. Supposed to be cooler the next few days, so fingers crossed! Night all!
