Lazy Sunday
Oct. 10th, 2021 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI partially blame this on me staying up until 2:30 AM -- I slept in a bit later as a result, and then between that and the gloomy weather, I just sort of bummed around the web, listening to music and all of that. Did get most of the stuff on my to-do list sorted, though. . .
1.Either start Chapter 6 of "Learn To Love Again" OR continue with the Hypnosnippet I started: Check – working some more on the hypnosnippet won. Hey, I’m between chapters in “Learn to Love Again,” it’s a long weekend, I’m entitled! XD Though hilariously the hypnosnippet doesn’t actually have much hypnosis in it right now – it’s more building up to things with Alice learning about Victor’s kink and trying to figure out why the hell he has it. (Because he’s being written by me, Alice, and I tend to identify with your boyfriend.) Just a nice short side project for the moment!
2. Watch the one Plumbella video in my Watch Later, YouTube Subs, and Jon's FO4 YOLO episode: Check -- very easy video day, in fact. Which is good, as I was very busy being distracted by non-video things!
A) Started with the Plumbella video – “shall we talk about The Sims 5 subscription service rumour?” Apparently there’s a rumor going around about the Sims 5 being potentially a subscription service game based on a job posting – Plumbella is reasonably certain this is referring to the EA Play subscription service, but figured the model was worth discussing. Part of her thinks that a subscription service COULD work for a Simmer who doesn’t want or need a lot of expansion packs and just wants to play for a short amount of time to “test the waters,” but she falls herself on the “I want actual packs to own” side, and most of us commenters agreed. Subscriptions would be WAAAY too easy for EA to abuse – and considering that, if you’ve bought all the packs for Sims 4 at full price, you’re out 785 pounds, or roughly $1,069 US – ooof. It’s always a bit of a kick in the teeth to see the prices added up and realize just how much you’ve spent on your once-a-week hobby. *wince* At least I’ve been making good use of gift cards and sales when I can!
B) Then it was onto the Subs and Call Me Kevin for another episode of Stardew Valley with Hermit, who refuses to leave his island farm! (. . .is it just me, or did Kevin start two LPs about not moving from your original location after moving from Ireland to Spain?) Well, okay, he’ll leave ONCE – Kevin has decided that, just to get certain raw materials and other items of necessity (like a fishing rod), Hermit is allowed to leave the farm once a year. However, to get those items, he ALSO needed cashola, and so the vast majority of the video was Hermit going through the seasons, deforesting the island and smashing up all the rocks for geodes to bring to Clint in town, and desperately selling anything and everything he could get his meaty little paws on (including burgers and a care package of cookies from his mother) for cash! He did well enough to get roughly 30K in-game (mostly from become a premiere forester and thus getting more wood from every tree chopped down), but unfortunately Kevin wasn’t even able to buy the item he was looking for (a duplicator), because it wasn’t available yet. He instead loaded up on seeds (including fruit tree saplings), copper ore to make stuff like tappers (for more lovely sap), and a fishing rod. Plus a backpack upgrade, yay more inventory space! He also has a mushroom farm courtesy of one of the few people who are willing to visit HIM instead of waiting for his once-yearly visit to town. XD It’s a weird little challenge, but a very fun one. We’ll see if he does Year 2 for our amusement!
C) Then, after supper, we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started off with a bottle flip full of torment and death – not only did you have to land two bottles in two separate slots (admittedly next to each other) to unlock the standard win, you also had slots for unleashing a wave of butcher’s cleavers upon you, a couple of spiked balls and chains with a homing mine, or dropping you through the floor into a surprise rope swing followed by a ball fall (which is how Gray eventually won, simply because he KEPT getting dropped in there). This was followed by such classics as a board of “annoying things” (where you had to go up the annoying staircase, avoid the annoying arrows and people, and deal with the annoying troll win at the end – fortunately there was a real win at the beginning); a series of test chambers with various people with weapons, culminating in a very overpowered Florida Man (Gray managed to beat him by getting a cleaver stuck in an – interesting place and using the handle to tap the floating weapons so he could roll over them); a “harpoon swing” through a sideways spike fall (and into a pane of stabby glass – Gray managed to win after a few very painful tries); a drive through the various peoples of the game in a homemade tank (which lost its tread within moments, Gray was confuzzled); an impossible pogo jet fall where right above the jet were ALL the weapons (Gray not only managed to knock the weapons into the jets to clear both, he also by sheer LUCK got his pogo stick back so he could leap into the now-cleared fall); a ride through various weapons of varying danger (conjoined crossbows, a jet rail gun, a rapidly-multiplying watermelon. . .you know, all the usual fun stuff); and an epic rope swing that starts you out on an AT-AT and has you swing and spin around various goofy faces and what I think was the sun and the moon, before getting spooled onto the world’s tiniest win and getting slapped in the face for all eternity by the rope (Gray was very amused). Good times, as always!
D) Then, of course, it was time for Jon’s Fallout 4 You Only Live Once episode! Which – was only 36 minutes today. I was baffled (and worried) for a moment, but it turns out there was a good reason for the short episode –
It’s the episode covering “Home Sweet Home,” the quest where you set up raider outposts in the Commonwealth for Nuka-World. AKA, Jon’s least-favorite quest in the game. Both because it’s a) surprisingly boring (especially if you’re focusing on speech checks like Jon is) and b) because it’s artificially long, due to the fact that you have to go back to Shank in Nuka-World for pretty much each step. And it’s worse in Survival thanks to the fact that you can’t fast-travel to the settlements you’re taking over. You have to walk. And, naturally, Jon has to be careful whenever he travels anywhere because he has no idea what enemies are around and what might happen, so – apparently this 36 minute episode showing Finalley taking over the Red Rocket near Sanctuary as her “tutorial” settlement (for the Operators, of course), bullying Abernathy into providing it food, sending some settlers over to Sunshine Tidings from Starlight Drive-In so she could take over both easily with some speech checks, hitting up Diamond City for whiskey and mentats so she could make more Grape Mentats to help with all this (and killing the scavenger hiding in the Colonial Taphouse along the way for Mason, because why not at this point), going back and forth on the unskippable cutscene train to Nuka-World all the while –
TOOK JON FOUR FUCKING HOURS.
Yeah, I was slightly sad that I didn’t get a longer episode on my long weekend until I heard THAT. Poor Jon! No wonder he loathes this quest. . .ah well, it’s over with now – now he just has to make it through the enforced violence of “Power Play.” Let’s see if his plan for handling that holds up as well as his plan for handling the Galactic Zone! (Come on, Jon, Finalley can’t die before we actually hit the day the bombs drop!)
3. Play Sims 4 and finish off my Newcrest Adventures cycle: Check – and hallelujah, I GOT WHEATLEY HIS PROMOTION! My goal today was really just to get the final day of Newcrest done before I put it on hiatus in favor of the Chill Save and setting up my Challenge save – I didn’t have any expectations of actually getting Wheatley to the next level of his job. Both because a) of all the trouble I’ve suddenly had diagnosing Sims past the first one, and b) because he needed to complete one last surgery to even be ELIGIBLE for a promotion, despite his excellent work record. So I was just having him bum around the hospital, analyzing sample swabs for easy work performance, wondering if I dared diagnose a Sim with Burning Belly on the off-chance it would be right and allow me a chance at surgery –
And then I saw it pop up in the work goals: “Attend to Collapsed Sim.”
This is a GUARANTEED surgery, folks. I was on TENTERHOOKS waiting for the Sim to actually show up. And when she did – well, I don’t know what the hell is going on with hospitals these days, but surgeries of any sort are glitchy as hell. I’d seen it with James Turner when he’s gone to have babies there recently, and now I saw it with my own game, with the patient regularly rotating 180 degrees out of the surgery tube and Wheatley continually t-posing for dominance. But despite all this, the surgery completed successfully, and when the end of the day came, Wheatley made Medical Specialist! Giving him a bonus, the “Sickness Resistance” trait, and that new desk I wanted! I promptly set up his office downstairs with the computer Geeker won them and saved (for the fifth time). :D w000, that was satisfying!
As for the other two – well, Geeker DEFINITELY had his work progress bar go up today, so that’s something. No promotion for him, but at least it’s working! And Chell got to have one last club gathering with the Powerhouses, so that was nice. :) A very good note to end my Newcrest days on!
4. Get in a workout: Ah – no check. I MEANT to, but I got caught up in stuff like watching the Call Me Kevin Stardew Valley video and looking at Sims 4 and Fallout 4 mods and the like, and time got away from me. I semi-substituted “work on tumblr queues,” in that I got all my pictures ready for the next Newcrest Adventures update (the one just before the one I played above, with Wheatley still suffering job fail for whatever reason). Still gotta get them in the drafts, but I DO have a whole Monday off for that this week. . .
Additionally:
-->The weekend remains Halloweeny, in that Mom and I ordered my Halloween costume! I decided I wanted to dress up in a Fallout 4 Vault 111 jumpsuit – Mom was going to just make me one, but then it proved to be somewhat less expensive to just buy a pre-made one (kind of like my Ghostbusters: Answer The Call jumpsuit a few years ago). Took us a while to find one at a decent price and actually get the website to order it, but the order was placed! Also got a Pip-Boy replica while we were at it – a cheap one, not one of the super-expensive ones. Had good reviews, soo. . . We may have to adjust the jumpsuit a little (might run a little big, and it needs the brown “cuffs” of the one in-game), but it should definitely work as a Halloween costume! :)
And I just finished setting up my Valice Multiverse queue for tomorrow! So that's good. Also promised my friend Squid we'd do some writing tonight, so let's get a Monday to-do list going so I can get over to that.
1. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines"
2. Watch some more Oxventures, and keep up on YouTube Subs
3. Play Bloodlines and continue finishing up some side missions
4. Get in a workout
5. Work on tumblr queues
Wondering why I've got Oxventures in the YouTube section? Said friend Squid is trying to get me to watch "LA By Night" (he loves it, special interest), and I figured it might be easier to do THAT one as my "watch with my workout" video because those episodes tend to be WAY LONGER than the Oxventure stuff (which, at least in the early episodes, is broken up into more digestible bits). So yeah, Oxventure is probably going to be something I watch on weekends when the Watch Later isn't full of other things now. We'll see how it goes! Night all!
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2. Watch the one Plumbella video in my Watch Later, YouTube Subs, and Jon's FO4 YOLO episode: Check -- very easy video day, in fact. Which is good, as I was very busy being distracted by non-video things!
A) Started with the Plumbella video – “shall we talk about The Sims 5 subscription service rumour?” Apparently there’s a rumor going around about the Sims 5 being potentially a subscription service game based on a job posting – Plumbella is reasonably certain this is referring to the EA Play subscription service, but figured the model was worth discussing. Part of her thinks that a subscription service COULD work for a Simmer who doesn’t want or need a lot of expansion packs and just wants to play for a short amount of time to “test the waters,” but she falls herself on the “I want actual packs to own” side, and most of us commenters agreed. Subscriptions would be WAAAY too easy for EA to abuse – and considering that, if you’ve bought all the packs for Sims 4 at full price, you’re out 785 pounds, or roughly $1,069 US – ooof. It’s always a bit of a kick in the teeth to see the prices added up and realize just how much you’ve spent on your once-a-week hobby. *wince* At least I’ve been making good use of gift cards and sales when I can!
B) Then it was onto the Subs and Call Me Kevin for another episode of Stardew Valley with Hermit, who refuses to leave his island farm! (. . .is it just me, or did Kevin start two LPs about not moving from your original location after moving from Ireland to Spain?) Well, okay, he’ll leave ONCE – Kevin has decided that, just to get certain raw materials and other items of necessity (like a fishing rod), Hermit is allowed to leave the farm once a year. However, to get those items, he ALSO needed cashola, and so the vast majority of the video was Hermit going through the seasons, deforesting the island and smashing up all the rocks for geodes to bring to Clint in town, and desperately selling anything and everything he could get his meaty little paws on (including burgers and a care package of cookies from his mother) for cash! He did well enough to get roughly 30K in-game (mostly from become a premiere forester and thus getting more wood from every tree chopped down), but unfortunately Kevin wasn’t even able to buy the item he was looking for (a duplicator), because it wasn’t available yet. He instead loaded up on seeds (including fruit tree saplings), copper ore to make stuff like tappers (for more lovely sap), and a fishing rod. Plus a backpack upgrade, yay more inventory space! He also has a mushroom farm courtesy of one of the few people who are willing to visit HIM instead of waiting for his once-yearly visit to town. XD It’s a weird little challenge, but a very fun one. We’ll see if he does Year 2 for our amusement!
C) Then, after supper, we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started off with a bottle flip full of torment and death – not only did you have to land two bottles in two separate slots (admittedly next to each other) to unlock the standard win, you also had slots for unleashing a wave of butcher’s cleavers upon you, a couple of spiked balls and chains with a homing mine, or dropping you through the floor into a surprise rope swing followed by a ball fall (which is how Gray eventually won, simply because he KEPT getting dropped in there). This was followed by such classics as a board of “annoying things” (where you had to go up the annoying staircase, avoid the annoying arrows and people, and deal with the annoying troll win at the end – fortunately there was a real win at the beginning); a series of test chambers with various people with weapons, culminating in a very overpowered Florida Man (Gray managed to beat him by getting a cleaver stuck in an – interesting place and using the handle to tap the floating weapons so he could roll over them); a “harpoon swing” through a sideways spike fall (and into a pane of stabby glass – Gray managed to win after a few very painful tries); a drive through the various peoples of the game in a homemade tank (which lost its tread within moments, Gray was confuzzled); an impossible pogo jet fall where right above the jet were ALL the weapons (Gray not only managed to knock the weapons into the jets to clear both, he also by sheer LUCK got his pogo stick back so he could leap into the now-cleared fall); a ride through various weapons of varying danger (conjoined crossbows, a jet rail gun, a rapidly-multiplying watermelon. . .you know, all the usual fun stuff); and an epic rope swing that starts you out on an AT-AT and has you swing and spin around various goofy faces and what I think was the sun and the moon, before getting spooled onto the world’s tiniest win and getting slapped in the face for all eternity by the rope (Gray was very amused). Good times, as always!
D) Then, of course, it was time for Jon’s Fallout 4 You Only Live Once episode! Which – was only 36 minutes today. I was baffled (and worried) for a moment, but it turns out there was a good reason for the short episode –
It’s the episode covering “Home Sweet Home,” the quest where you set up raider outposts in the Commonwealth for Nuka-World. AKA, Jon’s least-favorite quest in the game. Both because it’s a) surprisingly boring (especially if you’re focusing on speech checks like Jon is) and b) because it’s artificially long, due to the fact that you have to go back to Shank in Nuka-World for pretty much each step. And it’s worse in Survival thanks to the fact that you can’t fast-travel to the settlements you’re taking over. You have to walk. And, naturally, Jon has to be careful whenever he travels anywhere because he has no idea what enemies are around and what might happen, so – apparently this 36 minute episode showing Finalley taking over the Red Rocket near Sanctuary as her “tutorial” settlement (for the Operators, of course), bullying Abernathy into providing it food, sending some settlers over to Sunshine Tidings from Starlight Drive-In so she could take over both easily with some speech checks, hitting up Diamond City for whiskey and mentats so she could make more Grape Mentats to help with all this (and killing the scavenger hiding in the Colonial Taphouse along the way for Mason, because why not at this point), going back and forth on the unskippable cutscene train to Nuka-World all the while –
TOOK JON FOUR FUCKING HOURS.
Yeah, I was slightly sad that I didn’t get a longer episode on my long weekend until I heard THAT. Poor Jon! No wonder he loathes this quest. . .ah well, it’s over with now – now he just has to make it through the enforced violence of “Power Play.” Let’s see if his plan for handling that holds up as well as his plan for handling the Galactic Zone! (Come on, Jon, Finalley can’t die before we actually hit the day the bombs drop!)
3. Play Sims 4 and finish off my Newcrest Adventures cycle: Check – and hallelujah, I GOT WHEATLEY HIS PROMOTION! My goal today was really just to get the final day of Newcrest done before I put it on hiatus in favor of the Chill Save and setting up my Challenge save – I didn’t have any expectations of actually getting Wheatley to the next level of his job. Both because a) of all the trouble I’ve suddenly had diagnosing Sims past the first one, and b) because he needed to complete one last surgery to even be ELIGIBLE for a promotion, despite his excellent work record. So I was just having him bum around the hospital, analyzing sample swabs for easy work performance, wondering if I dared diagnose a Sim with Burning Belly on the off-chance it would be right and allow me a chance at surgery –
And then I saw it pop up in the work goals: “Attend to Collapsed Sim.”
This is a GUARANTEED surgery, folks. I was on TENTERHOOKS waiting for the Sim to actually show up. And when she did – well, I don’t know what the hell is going on with hospitals these days, but surgeries of any sort are glitchy as hell. I’d seen it with James Turner when he’s gone to have babies there recently, and now I saw it with my own game, with the patient regularly rotating 180 degrees out of the surgery tube and Wheatley continually t-posing for dominance. But despite all this, the surgery completed successfully, and when the end of the day came, Wheatley made Medical Specialist! Giving him a bonus, the “Sickness Resistance” trait, and that new desk I wanted! I promptly set up his office downstairs with the computer Geeker won them and saved (for the fifth time). :D w000, that was satisfying!
As for the other two – well, Geeker DEFINITELY had his work progress bar go up today, so that’s something. No promotion for him, but at least it’s working! And Chell got to have one last club gathering with the Powerhouses, so that was nice. :) A very good note to end my Newcrest days on!
4. Get in a workout: Ah – no check. I MEANT to, but I got caught up in stuff like watching the Call Me Kevin Stardew Valley video and looking at Sims 4 and Fallout 4 mods and the like, and time got away from me. I semi-substituted “work on tumblr queues,” in that I got all my pictures ready for the next Newcrest Adventures update (the one just before the one I played above, with Wheatley still suffering job fail for whatever reason). Still gotta get them in the drafts, but I DO have a whole Monday off for that this week. . .
Additionally:
-->The weekend remains Halloweeny, in that Mom and I ordered my Halloween costume! I decided I wanted to dress up in a Fallout 4 Vault 111 jumpsuit – Mom was going to just make me one, but then it proved to be somewhat less expensive to just buy a pre-made one (kind of like my Ghostbusters: Answer The Call jumpsuit a few years ago). Took us a while to find one at a decent price and actually get the website to order it, but the order was placed! Also got a Pip-Boy replica while we were at it – a cheap one, not one of the super-expensive ones. Had good reviews, soo. . . We may have to adjust the jumpsuit a little (might run a little big, and it needs the brown “cuffs” of the one in-game), but it should definitely work as a Halloween costume! :)
And I just finished setting up my Valice Multiverse queue for tomorrow! So that's good. Also promised my friend Squid we'd do some writing tonight, so let's get a Monday to-do list going so I can get over to that.
1. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines"
2. Watch some more Oxventures, and keep up on YouTube Subs
3. Play Bloodlines and continue finishing up some side missions
4. Get in a workout
5. Work on tumblr queues
Wondering why I've got Oxventures in the YouTube section? Said friend Squid is trying to get me to watch "LA By Night" (he loves it, special interest), and I figured it might be easier to do THAT one as my "watch with my workout" video because those episodes tend to be WAY LONGER than the Oxventure stuff (which, at least in the early episodes, is broken up into more digestible bits). So yeah, Oxventure is probably going to be something I watch on weekends when the Watch Later isn't full of other things now. We'll see how it goes! Night all!
