Growing Stress Wednesday
Nov. 3rd, 2021 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickDay started off okay (I even managed to answer a FF.net PM I'd discovered I'd missed -- back to not sending me e-mails, huh?), but just kinda went downhill from there. . .let me slap up the to-do list to explain. . .
Work – Started out okay, with me mainly just winding my way through a whole bunch of potential duplicates and updating information as I went. . .and then, this afternoon, I stumbled upon more credit card bullshit, and had some weird calls, and it was just – stressful. At least I didn’t have to drive today (Mom borrowed my car to see a friend of hers), but then again, we ended up having to cut through the city tonight because there was SOMETHING happening on the highway and it was just – traffic everywhere. Not fun. :(
Beanbags – Yes, because Mom ended up getting home early from her visit (they had lunch instead of supper, as planned), though I think we were skirting the edge of playability – it was pretty darn cold by the end of the third round. Very equitable day, though – 2-3-W for me, W-2-3 for Dad, 3-W-2 for Mom! So that’s nice.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, to finish up L.A. By Night, “Fear No Monsters!” X did manage to find the secret hollow where Victor had stashed the bag after shredding the carpet, and even tried to bust it open, but didn’t succeed – mostly because he realized that he’d be “violating domain” and Victor would probably punch him. So instead he ran to the dance floor, a puzzled Annabelle in pursuit and Nelli sauntering out to meet Victor (talking to his new influencer friend) on the balcony, and got the DJ to play some of the tunes he likes – which the crowd ended up eating up, so Victor was forced to acknowledge it was a good move. XD
And then Isaac showed up. With one of the thugs that tried to kill Victor the other night. And Victor’s OTHER son, Isaiah. (Yeah, uh, Mark, as it turns out, is a twin.) Victor promptly cut off the party (though as nicely and gently as possible, as, you know, good press), and had a very awkward meeting with the Baron, Bobby Blaine’s guy, and his kid – who ALSO seems to be working for Blaine, so. . . Isaac is setting up a proper meeting elsewhere at a later date. Also, worse, Victor finally got his call back from his lady JUST as this was happening, and judging by the name and what I saw on TV Tropes, I think the woman he called was his sire. So – that’s fun! And on Annabelle’s side, after having some fun dancing with X, she told him about what she’d heard, about killing one’s Sire to become human again – and he told her she was wrong and then Obfuscated off to the kitchen to get a snack. And then Ramona showed up again to play with the DJ equipment, and tell her a little more about the Anarch movement and how it got started. Annabelle was riled up by Ramona’s insistence that they’re all monsters, saying it should be possible to be a good person and to do better, and her fire impressed Ramona enough to suggest going downtown to speak to Nines Rodriguez. So we’ll see how that pans out! And all the rest of it too. . .
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – got through Lily’s attack on Phil, and coming back to herself after finally getting a chance to feed her Beast. Poor girl is freaking out a little, while Alice is out of her element with comforting her (especially since she’s a little freaked out too after that display. . .and learning that vampires cry blood). But she’s doing her best, and I can promise they both get out safely. . .and if Vandal can’t TOTALLY get his, Alice is definitely going to give him something to think about. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – another “two in, two out, bonus video” night –
A) As James remains in moving mode, I instead turned to OXBox to catch up with one of last week’s lists – “7 Games That Tried to Kill You Immediately | Part 2!” Seven games that decided “a quiet tutorial level is for squares” and instead committed copious amounts of murder upon the player. From having to escape a car crusher via quick time events in Need for Speed: The Run (you’re a street racer in debt to the mob, who are making an example out of you), to trying to escape the Nemesis in Resident Evil 3’s remake (there is a LOT of limping down burning corridors), to accidentally recreating the ending of Scarface in Scarface: The World Is Yours (aka forgetting that how Tony died in the movie was an assassin sneaking up on him, and thus not turning in time to shoot the guy and change the timeline), there’s a lot of games that want you dead at the beginning! Though sometimes that’s for a reason, as pointed out in the Bloodborne entry – if you’re good enough to fight the scourgebeast, awesome; if you’re not, well, this is how you pick up your weapons ANYWAY, so. . .also, FROM just wants you to get used to dying. A lot. :p
B) Then it was over to the actual Subs to catch up on Call Me Kevin and some Pokemon! Specifically, a team of six Caterpies. XD Yes, after taking a Bulbasaur because he had to at the beginning of the game, losing to rival Bad Guy, and then heading out into the wilderness, Kevin’s character Bug Boy proceeded to catch a team of six Caterpies (One through Six, natch) and began fighting anything that moved with a view toward defeating Brock and his goon at the Rock-type gym! Without letting his Caterpies evolve or anything like that – that would defeat the point of the challenge! . . .his team fainted SO MANY TIMES. Kevin had to cut out so much of him grinding up levels and stopping them evolving. It was torture for him in its purest form. XD But he DID actually manage to defeat Brock with his very last Caterpie! So that’s something for sure. (You know, besides the trauma.)
C) And finally, GrayStillPlays with another GTA V challenge board! Today it was Gray having to compete in the Squid Game – oh, I’m sorry, the “squib ga” – because all his videos got demonetized and he was flat broke. Just to get into the game he had to flip some cars onto their roofs with an Up-And-Atomizer while standing on the roof of a parking garage – a task that is much harder than it actually appears. Gray ended up taking out his frustrations on the NPC (by making him get in the second car before flipping it), before heading off to the “ga” with some smuggled guns. Where he proceeded to absolutely wreck the very first game, “Red Light Green Light,” by pulling out said guns and using them to make a human shield for himself to protect against the shooters. XD And then, after getting teleported up onto the sides of the race course, he got to make the creepy doll girl supervising everything play the game. This involved a LOT of fucking with her with the Up-And-Atomizer. XD And one of the other contestants. Despite this, enough people wanted to stay in the games that it came down to Gray casting the deciding vote for the equally-divded NPCs – and then getting the dissenters blown up with a rocket launcher. XD Ahh, gotta love some solid Gray chaos.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – put up the final thing I needed in my Victor Luvs Alice queue, the Song Saturday (which this week is less “Song” and more “Wyrd Sisters Podcast”). So that was nice and quick, at least.
. . .well, okay, maybe it was less all downhill and more a deep valley that I started to climb out of by the end. Even still, I'm damn tired right now, and hoping tomorrow is better. We'll see, I suppose. . .night all!
Work – Started out okay, with me mainly just winding my way through a whole bunch of potential duplicates and updating information as I went. . .and then, this afternoon, I stumbled upon more credit card bullshit, and had some weird calls, and it was just – stressful. At least I didn’t have to drive today (Mom borrowed my car to see a friend of hers), but then again, we ended up having to cut through the city tonight because there was SOMETHING happening on the highway and it was just – traffic everywhere. Not fun. :(
Beanbags – Yes, because Mom ended up getting home early from her visit (they had lunch instead of supper, as planned), though I think we were skirting the edge of playability – it was pretty darn cold by the end of the third round. Very equitable day, though – 2-3-W for me, W-2-3 for Dad, 3-W-2 for Mom! So that’s nice.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, to finish up L.A. By Night, “Fear No Monsters!” X did manage to find the secret hollow where Victor had stashed the bag after shredding the carpet, and even tried to bust it open, but didn’t succeed – mostly because he realized that he’d be “violating domain” and Victor would probably punch him. So instead he ran to the dance floor, a puzzled Annabelle in pursuit and Nelli sauntering out to meet Victor (talking to his new influencer friend) on the balcony, and got the DJ to play some of the tunes he likes – which the crowd ended up eating up, so Victor was forced to acknowledge it was a good move. XD
And then Isaac showed up. With one of the thugs that tried to kill Victor the other night. And Victor’s OTHER son, Isaiah. (Yeah, uh, Mark, as it turns out, is a twin.) Victor promptly cut off the party (though as nicely and gently as possible, as, you know, good press), and had a very awkward meeting with the Baron, Bobby Blaine’s guy, and his kid – who ALSO seems to be working for Blaine, so. . . Isaac is setting up a proper meeting elsewhere at a later date. Also, worse, Victor finally got his call back from his lady JUST as this was happening, and judging by the name and what I saw on TV Tropes, I think the woman he called was his sire. So – that’s fun! And on Annabelle’s side, after having some fun dancing with X, she told him about what she’d heard, about killing one’s Sire to become human again – and he told her she was wrong and then Obfuscated off to the kitchen to get a snack. And then Ramona showed up again to play with the DJ equipment, and tell her a little more about the Anarch movement and how it got started. Annabelle was riled up by Ramona’s insistence that they’re all monsters, saying it should be possible to be a good person and to do better, and her fire impressed Ramona enough to suggest going downtown to speak to Nines Rodriguez. So we’ll see how that pans out! And all the rest of it too. . .
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – got through Lily’s attack on Phil, and coming back to herself after finally getting a chance to feed her Beast. Poor girl is freaking out a little, while Alice is out of her element with comforting her (especially since she’s a little freaked out too after that display. . .and learning that vampires cry blood). But she’s doing her best, and I can promise they both get out safely. . .and if Vandal can’t TOTALLY get his, Alice is definitely going to give him something to think about. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – another “two in, two out, bonus video” night –
A) As James remains in moving mode, I instead turned to OXBox to catch up with one of last week’s lists – “7 Games That Tried to Kill You Immediately | Part 2!” Seven games that decided “a quiet tutorial level is for squares” and instead committed copious amounts of murder upon the player. From having to escape a car crusher via quick time events in Need for Speed: The Run (you’re a street racer in debt to the mob, who are making an example out of you), to trying to escape the Nemesis in Resident Evil 3’s remake (there is a LOT of limping down burning corridors), to accidentally recreating the ending of Scarface in Scarface: The World Is Yours (aka forgetting that how Tony died in the movie was an assassin sneaking up on him, and thus not turning in time to shoot the guy and change the timeline), there’s a lot of games that want you dead at the beginning! Though sometimes that’s for a reason, as pointed out in the Bloodborne entry – if you’re good enough to fight the scourgebeast, awesome; if you’re not, well, this is how you pick up your weapons ANYWAY, so. . .also, FROM just wants you to get used to dying. A lot. :p
B) Then it was over to the actual Subs to catch up on Call Me Kevin and some Pokemon! Specifically, a team of six Caterpies. XD Yes, after taking a Bulbasaur because he had to at the beginning of the game, losing to rival Bad Guy, and then heading out into the wilderness, Kevin’s character Bug Boy proceeded to catch a team of six Caterpies (One through Six, natch) and began fighting anything that moved with a view toward defeating Brock and his goon at the Rock-type gym! Without letting his Caterpies evolve or anything like that – that would defeat the point of the challenge! . . .his team fainted SO MANY TIMES. Kevin had to cut out so much of him grinding up levels and stopping them evolving. It was torture for him in its purest form. XD But he DID actually manage to defeat Brock with his very last Caterpie! So that’s something for sure. (You know, besides the trauma.)
C) And finally, GrayStillPlays with another GTA V challenge board! Today it was Gray having to compete in the Squid Game – oh, I’m sorry, the “squib ga” – because all his videos got demonetized and he was flat broke. Just to get into the game he had to flip some cars onto their roofs with an Up-And-Atomizer while standing on the roof of a parking garage – a task that is much harder than it actually appears. Gray ended up taking out his frustrations on the NPC (by making him get in the second car before flipping it), before heading off to the “ga” with some smuggled guns. Where he proceeded to absolutely wreck the very first game, “Red Light Green Light,” by pulling out said guns and using them to make a human shield for himself to protect against the shooters. XD And then, after getting teleported up onto the sides of the race course, he got to make the creepy doll girl supervising everything play the game. This involved a LOT of fucking with her with the Up-And-Atomizer. XD And one of the other contestants. Despite this, enough people wanted to stay in the games that it came down to Gray casting the deciding vote for the equally-divded NPCs – and then getting the dissenters blown up with a rocket launcher. XD Ahh, gotta love some solid Gray chaos.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – put up the final thing I needed in my Victor Luvs Alice queue, the Song Saturday (which this week is less “Song” and more “Wyrd Sisters Podcast”). So that was nice and quick, at least.
. . .well, okay, maybe it was less all downhill and more a deep valley that I started to climb out of by the end. Even still, I'm damn tired right now, and hoping tomorrow is better. We'll see, I suppose. . .night all!
