All Right Wednesday
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crossover_chickWhich is getting away from me, so let's just get that update form completed, shall we?
Work – Quiet, reasonably boring day – they have figured out what happened with the credit card stuff, fortunately, and that should be resolved, but I couldn’t actually UPDATE the pledge I needed to, so actually MAKING SURE is going to have to wait until tomorrow. We also had a staff meeting, but that wasn’t any great shakes – just going over campaign stuff and workflow and all that. Broke up the day a bit, at least. We’ll see how tomorrow goes!
Beanbags – Just cool enough (with a good breeze) for us to play. And an interesting day today – I had 3-W-3, Dad W-3-W, Mom 2-2-2! And I won my game and Dad won his second with TWELVES – all four bags in the holes! That was nice! :D And at least Mom was consistent throughout? :p
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another round on the bike, another round with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Caught up with Miss Jon as she cleared the church of the raiders with her new Deliverer (Past!Jon gushing over the gun and its INCREDIBLY low action point cost in VATS all the while), before waiting until roughly midnight to help deliver H2-22 to the Ticonderoga safehouse! Given most of the actual run was cut out, I’m assuming she and her super gun had very little trouble. :p After that it was back to Railroad HQ to check in with Dr. Carrington and get the next quest, “Butcher’s Bill” – finding out what happened to the Augusta Safehouse! Past!Jon happily took on the job, as he was having fun doing this sort of “secret agent” stuff – after a detour to check out the Union’s Hope Cathedral and kill the ghouls inside (including Father Gabe – Past!Jon was quite puzzled as to why he was immediately hostile. Sorry, Jon, he’s just programmed that way!), he directed Miss Jon to Kendall Hospital, where he had a LOT of fun picking off the raiders inside with the Deliverer. Kept going “James flipping Bond” whenever he pulled off a really good shot. XD Once the raiders were cleared out (including one particularly dense one who was standing right beside an oblivious Past!Jon while he grabbed Augusta’s final report, but never turned around and saw him, allowing him to just shoot the guy), and the surprise Deathclaw in the basement dealt with via combat shotgun and Psycho-Jet, Miss Jon reported again to Carrington about the carnage (apparently the safehouse was initially compromised by the Institute, and then the raiders showed up and slaughtered the survivors), then finally got back to the main plot, heading to Virgil and picking up the Interceptor Relay plans. Which, of course, meant making a choice – who got to help Miss Jon make the damn thing?
Well, after some consideration (and a level of “Gunslinger” to make the Deliverer even more powerful), Past!Jon decided he was having the most fun with the Railroad and went to ask them to help. Tinker Tom tried to get her to set up a new safehouse so she could build all the bits there, but Past!Jon was lazy and just built it in Sanctuary, on the same platform where everyone’s sleeping bags were kept. XD Suddenly him actually giving settlers a ROOF in Hangman’s Alley in future LPs seems freaking kind. At any rate, Miss Jon actually already had everything to build the Relay on her (picking up all the junk you can carry will do that), so once it was all built and powered up, she was ready to head into the Institute! And that ended up Episode 28 – Episode 29, we go beneath and see what her (and Past!Jon’s) first reaction to the place was!
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check! We have finished the Ocean House Hotel, with Dorothy helping Alice across the burnt wreckage of her old room, and Alice making it out unscathed (mostly – she did trip while jumping out of the elevator shaft). She’s now on her way back to the sewers to head home – though, thanks to earlier reminders that laundry IS a thing, we’re actually going to end the chapter with her in the laundromat, reading Dorothy’s diary while she does a load. Poor girl deserves not to stink, after all!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – three in, three out again, though it was a bit of a tight squeeze -- "Londerland Bloodlines" ran long (as it always does) and thus I was a bit late getting to Subs. Got there in the end, though!
A) Started with James Turner and a new building challenge – “I can only use 1 item from each pack (Sims Build Challenge)” Yes, with 45 packs tied to this iteration of the game, James was on a mission to see if he could build an entire house with only one item from each! (Almost – My First Pet Stuff is permanently disabled in his game, and he couldn’t do Throwback Fit Kit because that’s pure CAS stuff.) Well, sort of – his rules were “I can build the shell and put in wallpaper and flooring freely, as that would cut off too many packs too quickly” and “I’m allowed to use multiples of the same item with different color swatches” (for example, he used a picture from Get Famous in the bedroom – he can’t now use anything else from Get Famous, but he is allowed to use that same picture with different swatches elsewhere in the house). He managed to do it in the end, though it was getting dicey when it came to the kitchen and living room – if it wasn’t for scaling down a Movie Hangout Stuff projector screen, he wouldn’t have had a TV, and he had to chuck in a couple of random items from Spooky Day (the pumpkin-carving station) and a couple of the kits to make sure he got everything he could. And, of course, he technically broke the rules before he even began – he said his one base game item was going to be the Super Subtle Saucer Light, but he also had a base game outdoor bin. Because you gotta have an outdoor bin. :p Couldn’t fault him on anything else, though! Though I’m not the best person to ask, I don’t always know what comes with which pack. And the shell is really nice – tempted to download it and do my own version with the stuff I have!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Deathloop! This is a game about apparently a rip in space-time causing this one certain area to loop constantly. You play as Colt, the head of security who is sick of the loop and wants to break it. On his side he has a thing that can revive him from death twice; a “hackamajig” (no, seriously, that’s what they called it) to hack machines, like turrets; and notes from other selves who have gone through this loop many, many times and are trying to guide him in the right direction. Against him he has a bunch of “Eternalists” (I smell cult); Julianna, a former friend turned vicious enemy; and – well, the fact that he’s being played by Kevin, who does stealth when he’s supposed to be running around guns blazing and vice-versa. XD It’s a pretty wild game, and I found myself getting intrigued by the actual story when Kevin wasn’t complaining about having to kill people while killing loads of people and checking his e-mails to look for hot singles and alerting everyone to his location. XD Also, there’s a mode where you can play as Julianna and invade random timelines to kill Colt – think Dark Souls-style PVP! Kevin gave it a try once it unlocked and bumbled around for a bit, shooting poorly at Colt and stealing other people’s faces – he won kind of default because Colt died to something else. XD Good stuff, and I might have to look up the game so I can get an idea of the story when an Irishman living in Spain isn’t skipping through half of it. XD
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays, with a new GTA board – where he has to save Spongbob Squarepants from being used to make super soldiers! Yes. Seriously. This involves driving a police pig with Patrick to get to the prison (doing a little light parkour along the way and picking up a gun that has some very lethal knockback); sniping off the guards (if you can call what Gray did sniping); talking to the prisoners and the whales locked up for clues as to where Spongebob is; and GETTING HIS HANDS ON THE GTA EQUIVALENT OF THE GRAVITY GUN OOOOOH NOOOOO XD Yes, uh, Gray abused that thing a lot in the latter half of the video. Everything can and will be launched – including Spongebob himself. XD And then had to drive a car through various exploding fuel canisters and VERY POORLY pilot a helicopter out of there and into the portal to I assume Bikini Bottom. Where he promptly picked everything up with his gravity gun and threw it into the ocean. God help us all if Gray ever gets that tech in real life. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed to one, and then got Thursday, Friday, and Saturday all filled out – though Friday is a bit of a random reblog of someone’s FO4 fan art of Preston Garvey, if only because I couldn’t find anything else to put there, and couldn’t think of anything to do myself quickly. I really gotta find more stuff to fill that slot. . .
And yeah, that's about it! Bit of a distracted night with the writing and whatnot, but everything got sorted eventually. And now I really have to get to bed -- two more days to get through! And a cleaning Saturday behind them, great. . . At least I got approved to take October 1st off! Just a couple more weeks. . .night all!
Work – Quiet, reasonably boring day – they have figured out what happened with the credit card stuff, fortunately, and that should be resolved, but I couldn’t actually UPDATE the pledge I needed to, so actually MAKING SURE is going to have to wait until tomorrow. We also had a staff meeting, but that wasn’t any great shakes – just going over campaign stuff and workflow and all that. Broke up the day a bit, at least. We’ll see how tomorrow goes!
Beanbags – Just cool enough (with a good breeze) for us to play. And an interesting day today – I had 3-W-3, Dad W-3-W, Mom 2-2-2! And I won my game and Dad won his second with TWELVES – all four bags in the holes! That was nice! :D And at least Mom was consistent throughout? :p
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another round on the bike, another round with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Caught up with Miss Jon as she cleared the church of the raiders with her new Deliverer (Past!Jon gushing over the gun and its INCREDIBLY low action point cost in VATS all the while), before waiting until roughly midnight to help deliver H2-22 to the Ticonderoga safehouse! Given most of the actual run was cut out, I’m assuming she and her super gun had very little trouble. :p After that it was back to Railroad HQ to check in with Dr. Carrington and get the next quest, “Butcher’s Bill” – finding out what happened to the Augusta Safehouse! Past!Jon happily took on the job, as he was having fun doing this sort of “secret agent” stuff – after a detour to check out the Union’s Hope Cathedral and kill the ghouls inside (including Father Gabe – Past!Jon was quite puzzled as to why he was immediately hostile. Sorry, Jon, he’s just programmed that way!), he directed Miss Jon to Kendall Hospital, where he had a LOT of fun picking off the raiders inside with the Deliverer. Kept going “James flipping Bond” whenever he pulled off a really good shot. XD Once the raiders were cleared out (including one particularly dense one who was standing right beside an oblivious Past!Jon while he grabbed Augusta’s final report, but never turned around and saw him, allowing him to just shoot the guy), and the surprise Deathclaw in the basement dealt with via combat shotgun and Psycho-Jet, Miss Jon reported again to Carrington about the carnage (apparently the safehouse was initially compromised by the Institute, and then the raiders showed up and slaughtered the survivors), then finally got back to the main plot, heading to Virgil and picking up the Interceptor Relay plans. Which, of course, meant making a choice – who got to help Miss Jon make the damn thing?
Well, after some consideration (and a level of “Gunslinger” to make the Deliverer even more powerful), Past!Jon decided he was having the most fun with the Railroad and went to ask them to help. Tinker Tom tried to get her to set up a new safehouse so she could build all the bits there, but Past!Jon was lazy and just built it in Sanctuary, on the same platform where everyone’s sleeping bags were kept. XD Suddenly him actually giving settlers a ROOF in Hangman’s Alley in future LPs seems freaking kind. At any rate, Miss Jon actually already had everything to build the Relay on her (picking up all the junk you can carry will do that), so once it was all built and powered up, she was ready to head into the Institute! And that ended up Episode 28 – Episode 29, we go beneath and see what her (and Past!Jon’s) first reaction to the place was!
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check! We have finished the Ocean House Hotel, with Dorothy helping Alice across the burnt wreckage of her old room, and Alice making it out unscathed (mostly – she did trip while jumping out of the elevator shaft). She’s now on her way back to the sewers to head home – though, thanks to earlier reminders that laundry IS a thing, we’re actually going to end the chapter with her in the laundromat, reading Dorothy’s diary while she does a load. Poor girl deserves not to stink, after all!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – three in, three out again, though it was a bit of a tight squeeze -- "Londerland Bloodlines" ran long (as it always does) and thus I was a bit late getting to Subs. Got there in the end, though!
A) Started with James Turner and a new building challenge – “I can only use 1 item from each pack (Sims Build Challenge)” Yes, with 45 packs tied to this iteration of the game, James was on a mission to see if he could build an entire house with only one item from each! (Almost – My First Pet Stuff is permanently disabled in his game, and he couldn’t do Throwback Fit Kit because that’s pure CAS stuff.) Well, sort of – his rules were “I can build the shell and put in wallpaper and flooring freely, as that would cut off too many packs too quickly” and “I’m allowed to use multiples of the same item with different color swatches” (for example, he used a picture from Get Famous in the bedroom – he can’t now use anything else from Get Famous, but he is allowed to use that same picture with different swatches elsewhere in the house). He managed to do it in the end, though it was getting dicey when it came to the kitchen and living room – if it wasn’t for scaling down a Movie Hangout Stuff projector screen, he wouldn’t have had a TV, and he had to chuck in a couple of random items from Spooky Day (the pumpkin-carving station) and a couple of the kits to make sure he got everything he could. And, of course, he technically broke the rules before he even began – he said his one base game item was going to be the Super Subtle Saucer Light, but he also had a base game outdoor bin. Because you gotta have an outdoor bin. :p Couldn’t fault him on anything else, though! Though I’m not the best person to ask, I don’t always know what comes with which pack. And the shell is really nice – tempted to download it and do my own version with the stuff I have!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Deathloop! This is a game about apparently a rip in space-time causing this one certain area to loop constantly. You play as Colt, the head of security who is sick of the loop and wants to break it. On his side he has a thing that can revive him from death twice; a “hackamajig” (no, seriously, that’s what they called it) to hack machines, like turrets; and notes from other selves who have gone through this loop many, many times and are trying to guide him in the right direction. Against him he has a bunch of “Eternalists” (I smell cult); Julianna, a former friend turned vicious enemy; and – well, the fact that he’s being played by Kevin, who does stealth when he’s supposed to be running around guns blazing and vice-versa. XD It’s a pretty wild game, and I found myself getting intrigued by the actual story when Kevin wasn’t complaining about having to kill people while killing loads of people and checking his e-mails to look for hot singles and alerting everyone to his location. XD Also, there’s a mode where you can play as Julianna and invade random timelines to kill Colt – think Dark Souls-style PVP! Kevin gave it a try once it unlocked and bumbled around for a bit, shooting poorly at Colt and stealing other people’s faces – he won kind of default because Colt died to something else. XD Good stuff, and I might have to look up the game so I can get an idea of the story when an Irishman living in Spain isn’t skipping through half of it. XD
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays, with a new GTA board – where he has to save Spongbob Squarepants from being used to make super soldiers! Yes. Seriously. This involves driving a police pig with Patrick to get to the prison (doing a little light parkour along the way and picking up a gun that has some very lethal knockback); sniping off the guards (if you can call what Gray did sniping); talking to the prisoners and the whales locked up for clues as to where Spongebob is; and GETTING HIS HANDS ON THE GTA EQUIVALENT OF THE GRAVITY GUN OOOOOH NOOOOO XD Yes, uh, Gray abused that thing a lot in the latter half of the video. Everything can and will be launched – including Spongebob himself. XD And then had to drive a car through various exploding fuel canisters and VERY POORLY pilot a helicopter out of there and into the portal to I assume Bikini Bottom. Where he promptly picked everything up with his gravity gun and threw it into the ocean. God help us all if Gray ever gets that tech in real life. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed to one, and then got Thursday, Friday, and Saturday all filled out – though Friday is a bit of a random reblog of someone’s FO4 fan art of Preston Garvey, if only because I couldn’t find anything else to put there, and couldn’t think of anything to do myself quickly. I really gotta find more stuff to fill that slot. . .
And yeah, that's about it! Bit of a distracted night with the writing and whatnot, but everything got sorted eventually. And now I really have to get to bed -- two more days to get through! And a cleaning Saturday behind them, great. . . At least I got approved to take October 1st off! Just a couple more weeks. . .night all!
