Bit Of A Scattered Night
Oct. 8th, 2021 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickPulled in a few different directions here -- catching up on webcomics, catching up on tumblr, talking with friends, doing Victor's VTM V5 Ghoul character sheet -- but I'm starting to get it together. A bit. ...Look, let me just get this done so I can get onto the Friday Night Writing Thing, okay?
Work – A VERY quiet Friday to close out the week – still no chatty coworker (however, she’d taken today off ANYWAY, so that’s okay), and most of the day was just doing obits and duplicates. One call from someone trying to update their credit card about an hour before leaving. Fine by me!
Beanbags – Yes, with the usual gnatty conditions. I did really well today, though – 2-W-W! Dad got W-2-2, and poor Mom got 3-3-3 with a really off day. Dang. Ah well, we’ll have tomorrow, and probably Sunday and Monday too for her to make it up.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – finished Episode 3 of “A Spot of Bother,” mostly because it was pretty short and filled up a workout session nicely. Having taken out the pirates who already made it to land, Corazon managed to convince the others that they should go and take back his ship, The Joyful Damnation, promising that they could all adventure together on it. The local squid population was pressed into service to pull the skiff Curly Joe and the others had arrived in, and – you know how I told you to remember Merilwen’s new whale friend?
Yeah, Merilwen got him to ram the ship. The idea was just to knock the pirates on their feet, but good old Henry the Humpback did a pretty solid blow to the side, and thus when the gang reached the ship and started boarding (Corazon and Dob in front, the latter with a slice of “pirate ham” to intimidate people with), the vast majority of the crew were busy with, you know, making the sure the damn ship didn’t sink. Which meant that the gang only had to face off against Corazon’s former first mate turned captain, Panniers, and Corazon’s father – Lord Milquetoast! Yes, as it turns out, “Corazon” is, by birth, Percival Milquetoast, who ran off from his palatial estate to become a pirate and live free. And as the rumors about him being a no-good pirate are starting to spread among high society, Lord Milquetoast decided the only options available to him were to either force his son to come back, or to have him killed by the pirates who were planning on try to murder him anyway. After very unsuccessfully trying to get Lord Milquetoast to adopt THEM (wanting to live in a manor with fifteen horses), the others rallied around their new friend, with Dob suggesting that Lord Milquetoast just leave and say that his son was killed, and Corazon continues pirating under a different name, and Corazon himself offering up a switcheroo, where they get someone who looks like him to pretend to be Percival. Lord Milquetoast was sadly not up for either suggestion, and of course Panniers was all for murdering Corazon, so a – much stripped down by Johnny’s own confession – boss fight began! Corazon flicked the fancy captain’s hat off Pannier’s head (into the water, to his own regret), Merilwen took a shot at Panniers and missed, Panniers took a swing at Corazon and missed –
And then Dob rolled a natural twenty on shoving Panniers over the boat, and a delightful scene of slapstick ensued where Panniers slipped on the bit of “pirate ham” and ended up falling overboard, and Henry – sensing a good dramatic moment – came up and at least PRETENDED to swallow him. XD Lord Milquetoast decided “okay, let’s go with Dob’s plan,” and Corazon got him to hand over all his money before graciously changing his name to Corazon de la Ballena – aka, Heart of the Whale. XD Merilwen called off the squid, Corazon evicted his father and former crew from the ship, the hole made by Henry was patched, and the gang celebrated with Egbert launching bomb fireworks and Dob leading everyone in a rousing chorus of “The Vengabus” while Johnny facepalmed. XD Delightful ending to the second adventure!
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check! After learning the shocking news that Knox used to be a bounty hunter, Alice has let it slip to Arthur that she’s kind of in the business of looking into things for people. So he’s got her looking into his missing bounty hunter – a Wonderland-approved side quest. Before she heads out on THAT mission, though, she still has a few names to look up in the Krime-puter. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – three in the old Subs, and one extra thing from the Watch Later –
A) Since we had no James Turner today either, I went with one of my other favorite Simmers for my fix – aka, I watched the last Pumbella video in my WL, “create-a-style is coming to the sims 4 !!!!!!!! thank u arnie!” Yes, this is a look at the development process of a “Create-A-Style”-type mod (called “Create YOUR Style”) by modder Arnie, who has made things like the “Farmland” mod (think “sorta like Cottage Living only with a more distinct storyline”) and the “Plumfruit” set (which updates the in-game phone and adds some new computers with an “Apple”-type look). He’s figured out how to put colors onto objects via the medium of fussing around with the controls for photographs and lights, and now he’s doing his best to make whole sets of customizable furniture for us plebs. I have no idea how it works, but it is strangely satisfying to watch his gifs of pulling a photo onto a table and having the table suddenly turn the colors in the photo. XD Good luck with that, Arnie!
B) Then it was over to the Subs themselves for this week’s Fun With Shorts – “Freedom 2000,” Part 1! The first half of a cartoon short that makes you THINK it’s about aliens looking at a devastated Earth and will be about the horrors of climate change and how we have to stop polluting. . .but nope, it turns out Earth is fine and this is a short all about how awesome America and capitalism is. You could FEEL the sarcasm oozing out of the screen when Josh realized what this was about. XD Ooh boy. . .I expect even worse dragging once we get out of the whole “the colonization of America was great actually” bit. XD
C) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and – ooh, look at this. Alan Wake, a game that I watched get roasted by Helloween4545 over in his channel back on the day has been remastered, and Kevin’s giving it a spin! (With the sponsorship of Epic Games to help keep his new Spanish lights on.) He ran through Episode One (fairly literally, given that it was all about Alan running through one of his nightmares, Alan running through the diner, and then Alan running through the woods away from shadow-monster ax-murderers to reach a gas station) and seemed to enjoy himself! Well, he enjoyed begging God, or Ninja, or Donkey Kong for help as he tried to kill ax murderer Carl Stuckey with a flashlight and a revolver, or trying to look cool balancing on big logs and whatnot. XD As for the remaster itself. . .I’m very sorry, but Helloween called these characters (in particular, Alan’s wife Alice) goblins before the update, and I personally think they look even CREEPIER now. Alan just – doesn’t look quite human. His eyes aren’t sitting right in his head. Look, I know remasters are supposed to sharpen the textures and all that fun stuff, but sometimes – sometimes you just GOTTA leave them alone. XD Still, if Kevin does more, I won’t say no – it’ll be a nice bit of nostalgia. Especially since this IS the game that introduced me to Poets of the Fall and some of my favorite music. :)
D) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and – Negative Nancy, a game where your only speech option is saying “no.” I was like “I could have SWORN you’ve played this before” – apparently what he played was a demo, and the developers have sent him the new full version early because who better to advertise a game all about negativity and bad endings! XD Gray of course looked for the best way to get Nancy murdered – arguing with a customer about returning a gift card that she saved for seven years didn’t do it (if only because her bestie stepped in to defuse the situation); arguing with her awful “cool” overtime-forcing boss about her nickname didn’t do it (though it kind of made Gray want to kill himself when he realized the nicknames would never end if he didn’t pick one); but searching for a rabid possum at the behest of an old lady who thought she was at the pet store? YEAH, THAT DID IT. Though it took a while, as she also had to continually get negative at her doctors, her boss, and her bestie to actually DIE. And then she got taken by the grim reaper cat, to be reincarnated as a customer for her bestie to serve. XD Oh man – I remember the demo version of this being a bit of a trip, so I’m looking forward to what the full version can serve up! XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – three ask replies over on Valice Multiverse to keep me busy! At least I wasn’t dealing with more than that on a night where I’m kind of bouncing all over the place. . .
Not too shabby -- now, let's set up tomorrow's to-dos:
1. Free Writing Day (possibly more tumblr queue stuff)
2. Watch the two OXBox/OXtra list videos in my Watch Later, and keep up with YouTube Subs
3. Play Bloodlines and start cleaning up the renewed Santa Monica Sidequests
. . .you know what, let's keep it there, have a light Saturday. Apparently we might be decorating for Halloween tomorrow anyway (if my Mom doesn't get distracted redoing her closet), so should plan around that possibility. Besides, I like having time built in to just do random crap. :p And now to finally get to the writing stuff -- night all!
Work – A VERY quiet Friday to close out the week – still no chatty coworker (however, she’d taken today off ANYWAY, so that’s okay), and most of the day was just doing obits and duplicates. One call from someone trying to update their credit card about an hour before leaving. Fine by me!
Beanbags – Yes, with the usual gnatty conditions. I did really well today, though – 2-W-W! Dad got W-2-2, and poor Mom got 3-3-3 with a really off day. Dang. Ah well, we’ll have tomorrow, and probably Sunday and Monday too for her to make it up.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – finished Episode 3 of “A Spot of Bother,” mostly because it was pretty short and filled up a workout session nicely. Having taken out the pirates who already made it to land, Corazon managed to convince the others that they should go and take back his ship, The Joyful Damnation, promising that they could all adventure together on it. The local squid population was pressed into service to pull the skiff Curly Joe and the others had arrived in, and – you know how I told you to remember Merilwen’s new whale friend?
Yeah, Merilwen got him to ram the ship. The idea was just to knock the pirates on their feet, but good old Henry the Humpback did a pretty solid blow to the side, and thus when the gang reached the ship and started boarding (Corazon and Dob in front, the latter with a slice of “pirate ham” to intimidate people with), the vast majority of the crew were busy with, you know, making the sure the damn ship didn’t sink. Which meant that the gang only had to face off against Corazon’s former first mate turned captain, Panniers, and Corazon’s father – Lord Milquetoast! Yes, as it turns out, “Corazon” is, by birth, Percival Milquetoast, who ran off from his palatial estate to become a pirate and live free. And as the rumors about him being a no-good pirate are starting to spread among high society, Lord Milquetoast decided the only options available to him were to either force his son to come back, or to have him killed by the pirates who were planning on try to murder him anyway. After very unsuccessfully trying to get Lord Milquetoast to adopt THEM (wanting to live in a manor with fifteen horses), the others rallied around their new friend, with Dob suggesting that Lord Milquetoast just leave and say that his son was killed, and Corazon continues pirating under a different name, and Corazon himself offering up a switcheroo, where they get someone who looks like him to pretend to be Percival. Lord Milquetoast was sadly not up for either suggestion, and of course Panniers was all for murdering Corazon, so a – much stripped down by Johnny’s own confession – boss fight began! Corazon flicked the fancy captain’s hat off Pannier’s head (into the water, to his own regret), Merilwen took a shot at Panniers and missed, Panniers took a swing at Corazon and missed –
And then Dob rolled a natural twenty on shoving Panniers over the boat, and a delightful scene of slapstick ensued where Panniers slipped on the bit of “pirate ham” and ended up falling overboard, and Henry – sensing a good dramatic moment – came up and at least PRETENDED to swallow him. XD Lord Milquetoast decided “okay, let’s go with Dob’s plan,” and Corazon got him to hand over all his money before graciously changing his name to Corazon de la Ballena – aka, Heart of the Whale. XD Merilwen called off the squid, Corazon evicted his father and former crew from the ship, the hole made by Henry was patched, and the gang celebrated with Egbert launching bomb fireworks and Dob leading everyone in a rousing chorus of “The Vengabus” while Johnny facepalmed. XD Delightful ending to the second adventure!
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check! After learning the shocking news that Knox used to be a bounty hunter, Alice has let it slip to Arthur that she’s kind of in the business of looking into things for people. So he’s got her looking into his missing bounty hunter – a Wonderland-approved side quest. Before she heads out on THAT mission, though, she still has a few names to look up in the Krime-puter. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – three in the old Subs, and one extra thing from the Watch Later –
A) Since we had no James Turner today either, I went with one of my other favorite Simmers for my fix – aka, I watched the last Pumbella video in my WL, “create-a-style is coming to the sims 4 !!!!!!!! thank u arnie!” Yes, this is a look at the development process of a “Create-A-Style”-type mod (called “Create YOUR Style”) by modder Arnie, who has made things like the “Farmland” mod (think “sorta like Cottage Living only with a more distinct storyline”) and the “Plumfruit” set (which updates the in-game phone and adds some new computers with an “Apple”-type look). He’s figured out how to put colors onto objects via the medium of fussing around with the controls for photographs and lights, and now he’s doing his best to make whole sets of customizable furniture for us plebs. I have no idea how it works, but it is strangely satisfying to watch his gifs of pulling a photo onto a table and having the table suddenly turn the colors in the photo. XD Good luck with that, Arnie!
B) Then it was over to the Subs themselves for this week’s Fun With Shorts – “Freedom 2000,” Part 1! The first half of a cartoon short that makes you THINK it’s about aliens looking at a devastated Earth and will be about the horrors of climate change and how we have to stop polluting. . .but nope, it turns out Earth is fine and this is a short all about how awesome America and capitalism is. You could FEEL the sarcasm oozing out of the screen when Josh realized what this was about. XD Ooh boy. . .I expect even worse dragging once we get out of the whole “the colonization of America was great actually” bit. XD
C) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and – ooh, look at this. Alan Wake, a game that I watched get roasted by Helloween4545 over in his channel back on the day has been remastered, and Kevin’s giving it a spin! (With the sponsorship of Epic Games to help keep his new Spanish lights on.) He ran through Episode One (fairly literally, given that it was all about Alan running through one of his nightmares, Alan running through the diner, and then Alan running through the woods away from shadow-monster ax-murderers to reach a gas station) and seemed to enjoy himself! Well, he enjoyed begging God, or Ninja, or Donkey Kong for help as he tried to kill ax murderer Carl Stuckey with a flashlight and a revolver, or trying to look cool balancing on big logs and whatnot. XD As for the remaster itself. . .I’m very sorry, but Helloween called these characters (in particular, Alan’s wife Alice) goblins before the update, and I personally think they look even CREEPIER now. Alan just – doesn’t look quite human. His eyes aren’t sitting right in his head. Look, I know remasters are supposed to sharpen the textures and all that fun stuff, but sometimes – sometimes you just GOTTA leave them alone. XD Still, if Kevin does more, I won’t say no – it’ll be a nice bit of nostalgia. Especially since this IS the game that introduced me to Poets of the Fall and some of my favorite music. :)
D) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and – Negative Nancy, a game where your only speech option is saying “no.” I was like “I could have SWORN you’ve played this before” – apparently what he played was a demo, and the developers have sent him the new full version early because who better to advertise a game all about negativity and bad endings! XD Gray of course looked for the best way to get Nancy murdered – arguing with a customer about returning a gift card that she saved for seven years didn’t do it (if only because her bestie stepped in to defuse the situation); arguing with her awful “cool” overtime-forcing boss about her nickname didn’t do it (though it kind of made Gray want to kill himself when he realized the nicknames would never end if he didn’t pick one); but searching for a rabid possum at the behest of an old lady who thought she was at the pet store? YEAH, THAT DID IT. Though it took a while, as she also had to continually get negative at her doctors, her boss, and her bestie to actually DIE. And then she got taken by the grim reaper cat, to be reincarnated as a customer for her bestie to serve. XD Oh man – I remember the demo version of this being a bit of a trip, so I’m looking forward to what the full version can serve up! XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – three ask replies over on Valice Multiverse to keep me busy! At least I wasn’t dealing with more than that on a night where I’m kind of bouncing all over the place. . .
Not too shabby -- now, let's set up tomorrow's to-dos:
1. Free Writing Day (possibly more tumblr queue stuff)
2. Watch the two OXBox/OXtra list videos in my Watch Later, and keep up with YouTube Subs
3. Play Bloodlines and start cleaning up the renewed Santa Monica Sidequests
. . .you know what, let's keep it there, have a light Saturday. Apparently we might be decorating for Halloween tomorrow anyway (if my Mom doesn't get distracted redoing her closet), so should plan around that possibility. Besides, I like having time built in to just do random crap. :p And now to finally get to the writing stuff -- night all!
