I Guess An All Right Wednesday
Dec. 1st, 2021 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI mean -- just look at the to-dos --
Work – Eh – better traffic in and out, at least. And most of the day was fairly quiet, doing stuff like catching up on the obituaries. But we’re still having trouble with a credit card issue that I THOUGHT might actually finally be fixed, and one of my supervisors can’t seem to get his head around what the problem is. *sigh* I dunno. Just glad we’re past Wednesday and now the weekend’s looming large.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – a half-hour climbing pyramids on the bike, and finishing up the Oxventure “Plunder Siege!” Prudence basically Agonizing Blasted the goblin-thief they’d been fighting into a fine paste, and the two remaining thieves were like “screw this” and fled for the library. But not before Egbert, wanting in on the action and figuring they’d ate a little too heartily, made the guy in front vomit. Causing the guy behind him to slip in it and be sick himself. XD Oh man. . . With enemies defeated, Dob used his Prestidigitation skills to retrieve Prudence’s grimoire, clean it, and even give it a nice hot sauce twang. And since they were running low on time, Johnny ruled that Prudence licking the book to test that it was appropriately twangy opened up a secret staircase shortcut to the Duke’s quarters. XD Corazon promptly claimed credit for finding it, and thus was made to go first. *giggles* Fortunately, they made it to the Duke’s room without issue, where he congratulated them on finding the “book-licking” secret passage, shook them all by the hand, and toasted to their health. . .
Only to turn into a rat. And lo and behold, from a hidden door beyond, emerged the gnome M. Channail! Turns out the brigands the gang met on the way in were his spies, and he was looking for revenge for ruining his potion business and his logging operation. He grew a few grasping vines that managed to ensnare Dob, Merilwen, and Corazon, but Prudence slipped free, and the vines just looked at Egbert and went “nah.” XD Dob somehow got highest initiative despite his predicament, and – with the help of the audience convincing Johnny he should be allowed to – cast Hideous Laughter on Channail with the help of his very expressive eyebrows, telling a mansplaining joke. XD Prudence, next up, promptly hit the guy with Vicious Mockery (“ya basic!”) – and then, because the con they were at was closing, Egbert decided to not only flame him, but DIVINE SMITE flame him. XD The REAL Mike Channel reduced the imitation to a mere skeleton. Which Corazon promptly stole. XD The brigands decided they were NOT up for a fight against this lot; the Duke’s quarters were very thoroughly looted; Egbert shield-surfed down the stairs; and Dob insisted on letting everyone into the room afterward, though he allowed Corazon a five-minute head start with his booty. And then they rushed off the stage – and rushed back again for a quick selfie with the audience, because that was cool. XD Good times, good times. . . Looks like the next one in line is “A Fishmas Carol,” which feels seasonally appropriate. :p
2. Continue drafting gift fics: Check – got another one done for one of my tumblr buddies, with a rough draft of a scene that’s actually been running through my head ever since he got into the TV series “What We Do In The Shadows” – namely, how Alice would react to Guillermo and Nandor, and the fact that the sexual and romantic tension between them is rather high. Her reaction is “there are less stupid vampires you could fuck, Guillermo.” XD It’s just a fun bit of script-based silliness, and I’m happy to do it!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – though, surprisingly, I only had one Subs video today instead of the usual two. For whatever reason, Call Me Kevin didn’t upload. O.o Hope he’s feeling all right! But fortunately I had two other videos upload today that I wanted to watch, so. . .
A) Started with Plumbella and “the story progression update is out and is a *lil* bit weird lmao” – a video on the new Neighborhood Stories update that came with the patch! It’s – well, pretty basic. Plumbella grabbed Harry Styles, moved him into Willow Creek, had him befriend the Goths, and then give them life advice, encouraging Bella to expand her family and Mortimer to pursue his dream career. Bella also later called him for career advice – he told her to follow her heart, and she was like “but I wanted you to tell me what to do?” She did end up changing careers (I think she became a lawyer) and so did Mortimer (becoming an artist)! And she did get pregnant too, though at the time Plumbella didn’t think she had, simply because Bella wasn’t showing by the time she ended her recording session. It seems all right for now, but Plumbella’s all for fine-tuning it so you could choose just how much NPC Sims do on their own, and how much they’ll ask for your played Sims’ advice, which I am all for. I just want the option to exclude certain families if you’re doing round-robin stuff, or like make it so only Sims you haven’t actually played will ask about this kind of thing. I may be done with Newcrest for the moment, but I may go back in future, and I don’t want any of my five families getting up to shenanigans while I’m not there to supervise! The regular townies. . .I care less about. *shrug* We’ll see how it goes!
B) Then it was over to OXBox for a video from Andy – “7 Unique Fighting Game Characters That Don’t Fight Like Anyone Else!” Andy taking us through some unusual fighting game characters – such as Injustice 2 having, through DLC, all four Ninja Turtles for you to play with (you pick which one at the start by equipping their iconic weapon, and then their brothers come in for special moves, which may involve breaking your opponent’s jaw with a skateboard). Or Super Smash Bros Ultimate bringing in Steve from Minecraft and allowing him to mine blocks from stages and use them to build walls or improve his weapons – or blow up his opponents with TNT. Or Frank West from Marvel Vs Capcom Ultimate 3, who can scrap with the best of them, but can also level himself up via taking pictures of his opponents, gaining access to all those weird and wonderful craftable weapons he gets in his own games. Good fun if you enjoy playing unique characters – bad fun if you don’t like playing AGAINST one. XD
C) And finally we went over to the Subs to find GrayStillPlays doing another GTA V board – to my delight, a sequel to the last BTTF board he did! Having accidentally wrecked the timeline by inadvertently saving a bunch of dinosaurs who should have died, Doc, Marty, and Gray needed to somehow fix things. Fortunately, the time portal to the original future was open for non-reasons (think of it in terms of Old Biff apparently coming back to the original future he left despite REALLY changing things in the past), and Doc figured that they can steal their technology to fix the time machine, make a portal to the past, and set things right. This involved luring the future police into a literal Trojan Horse and BURNING them; forcing Gray to pilot a DeLorean-sub through an underwater maze full of horrible fans to retrieve some tech (and then discovering that Marty already grabbed said tech as, of course, THE DELOREAN CAN FLY); and then heading back to the past to kill the anussaurs and dicksaurs themselves because of course Gray left the egg they needed to hatch in the Trojan Horse with the burning cops. And then, once all the dinos were dead, heading back to the present with Marty and his new pet T-Rex. Who, naturally, was only too happy to snack on pedestrians. And all accompanied by his new friend, Meaty Bits the deer! Everyone in the comments has already adopted Meaty Bits as part of the GrayStillPlays family (along with Spleens the Sims 4 cat and Reginald the Minecraft chicken). And someone already mentioned wanting to see Gray have to do a parkour board on Meaty. . . >D
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Kind of N/A today – while I do have to finish up the Song Saturday post I want to reblog, since there is a small but nonzero chance I’ll get to listen to the Wyrd Sisters Podcast on “Going Postal” and get that up this Saturday instead, I’m gonna leave it in my drafts and see what happens tomorrow first. (Basically, if there’s only one new video, or possibly NO new videos, in my Subs, I might listen to the podcast instead – we’ll see!) And I did get another tumblr person telling me what they wanted for Xmas fic, so that's good. :)
And that's about it for tonight -- less stressful than yesterday, that's for damn certain. Time to hit the sheets -- night all!
Work – Eh – better traffic in and out, at least. And most of the day was fairly quiet, doing stuff like catching up on the obituaries. But we’re still having trouble with a credit card issue that I THOUGHT might actually finally be fixed, and one of my supervisors can’t seem to get his head around what the problem is. *sigh* I dunno. Just glad we’re past Wednesday and now the weekend’s looming large.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – a half-hour climbing pyramids on the bike, and finishing up the Oxventure “Plunder Siege!” Prudence basically Agonizing Blasted the goblin-thief they’d been fighting into a fine paste, and the two remaining thieves were like “screw this” and fled for the library. But not before Egbert, wanting in on the action and figuring they’d ate a little too heartily, made the guy in front vomit. Causing the guy behind him to slip in it and be sick himself. XD Oh man. . . With enemies defeated, Dob used his Prestidigitation skills to retrieve Prudence’s grimoire, clean it, and even give it a nice hot sauce twang. And since they were running low on time, Johnny ruled that Prudence licking the book to test that it was appropriately twangy opened up a secret staircase shortcut to the Duke’s quarters. XD Corazon promptly claimed credit for finding it, and thus was made to go first. *giggles* Fortunately, they made it to the Duke’s room without issue, where he congratulated them on finding the “book-licking” secret passage, shook them all by the hand, and toasted to their health. . .
Only to turn into a rat. And lo and behold, from a hidden door beyond, emerged the gnome M. Channail! Turns out the brigands the gang met on the way in were his spies, and he was looking for revenge for ruining his potion business and his logging operation. He grew a few grasping vines that managed to ensnare Dob, Merilwen, and Corazon, but Prudence slipped free, and the vines just looked at Egbert and went “nah.” XD Dob somehow got highest initiative despite his predicament, and – with the help of the audience convincing Johnny he should be allowed to – cast Hideous Laughter on Channail with the help of his very expressive eyebrows, telling a mansplaining joke. XD Prudence, next up, promptly hit the guy with Vicious Mockery (“ya basic!”) – and then, because the con they were at was closing, Egbert decided to not only flame him, but DIVINE SMITE flame him. XD The REAL Mike Channel reduced the imitation to a mere skeleton. Which Corazon promptly stole. XD The brigands decided they were NOT up for a fight against this lot; the Duke’s quarters were very thoroughly looted; Egbert shield-surfed down the stairs; and Dob insisted on letting everyone into the room afterward, though he allowed Corazon a five-minute head start with his booty. And then they rushed off the stage – and rushed back again for a quick selfie with the audience, because that was cool. XD Good times, good times. . . Looks like the next one in line is “A Fishmas Carol,” which feels seasonally appropriate. :p
2. Continue drafting gift fics: Check – got another one done for one of my tumblr buddies, with a rough draft of a scene that’s actually been running through my head ever since he got into the TV series “What We Do In The Shadows” – namely, how Alice would react to Guillermo and Nandor, and the fact that the sexual and romantic tension between them is rather high. Her reaction is “there are less stupid vampires you could fuck, Guillermo.” XD It’s just a fun bit of script-based silliness, and I’m happy to do it!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – though, surprisingly, I only had one Subs video today instead of the usual two. For whatever reason, Call Me Kevin didn’t upload. O.o Hope he’s feeling all right! But fortunately I had two other videos upload today that I wanted to watch, so. . .
A) Started with Plumbella and “the story progression update is out and is a *lil* bit weird lmao” – a video on the new Neighborhood Stories update that came with the patch! It’s – well, pretty basic. Plumbella grabbed Harry Styles, moved him into Willow Creek, had him befriend the Goths, and then give them life advice, encouraging Bella to expand her family and Mortimer to pursue his dream career. Bella also later called him for career advice – he told her to follow her heart, and she was like “but I wanted you to tell me what to do?” She did end up changing careers (I think she became a lawyer) and so did Mortimer (becoming an artist)! And she did get pregnant too, though at the time Plumbella didn’t think she had, simply because Bella wasn’t showing by the time she ended her recording session. It seems all right for now, but Plumbella’s all for fine-tuning it so you could choose just how much NPC Sims do on their own, and how much they’ll ask for your played Sims’ advice, which I am all for. I just want the option to exclude certain families if you’re doing round-robin stuff, or like make it so only Sims you haven’t actually played will ask about this kind of thing. I may be done with Newcrest for the moment, but I may go back in future, and I don’t want any of my five families getting up to shenanigans while I’m not there to supervise! The regular townies. . .I care less about. *shrug* We’ll see how it goes!
B) Then it was over to OXBox for a video from Andy – “7 Unique Fighting Game Characters That Don’t Fight Like Anyone Else!” Andy taking us through some unusual fighting game characters – such as Injustice 2 having, through DLC, all four Ninja Turtles for you to play with (you pick which one at the start by equipping their iconic weapon, and then their brothers come in for special moves, which may involve breaking your opponent’s jaw with a skateboard). Or Super Smash Bros Ultimate bringing in Steve from Minecraft and allowing him to mine blocks from stages and use them to build walls or improve his weapons – or blow up his opponents with TNT. Or Frank West from Marvel Vs Capcom Ultimate 3, who can scrap with the best of them, but can also level himself up via taking pictures of his opponents, gaining access to all those weird and wonderful craftable weapons he gets in his own games. Good fun if you enjoy playing unique characters – bad fun if you don’t like playing AGAINST one. XD
C) And finally we went over to the Subs to find GrayStillPlays doing another GTA V board – to my delight, a sequel to the last BTTF board he did! Having accidentally wrecked the timeline by inadvertently saving a bunch of dinosaurs who should have died, Doc, Marty, and Gray needed to somehow fix things. Fortunately, the time portal to the original future was open for non-reasons (think of it in terms of Old Biff apparently coming back to the original future he left despite REALLY changing things in the past), and Doc figured that they can steal their technology to fix the time machine, make a portal to the past, and set things right. This involved luring the future police into a literal Trojan Horse and BURNING them; forcing Gray to pilot a DeLorean-sub through an underwater maze full of horrible fans to retrieve some tech (and then discovering that Marty already grabbed said tech as, of course, THE DELOREAN CAN FLY); and then heading back to the past to kill the anussaurs and dicksaurs themselves because of course Gray left the egg they needed to hatch in the Trojan Horse with the burning cops. And then, once all the dinos were dead, heading back to the present with Marty and his new pet T-Rex. Who, naturally, was only too happy to snack on pedestrians. And all accompanied by his new friend, Meaty Bits the deer! Everyone in the comments has already adopted Meaty Bits as part of the GrayStillPlays family (along with Spleens the Sims 4 cat and Reginald the Minecraft chicken). And someone already mentioned wanting to see Gray have to do a parkour board on Meaty. . . >D
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Kind of N/A today – while I do have to finish up the Song Saturday post I want to reblog, since there is a small but nonzero chance I’ll get to listen to the Wyrd Sisters Podcast on “Going Postal” and get that up this Saturday instead, I’m gonna leave it in my drafts and see what happens tomorrow first. (Basically, if there’s only one new video, or possibly NO new videos, in my Subs, I might listen to the podcast instead – we’ll see!) And I did get another tumblr person telling me what they wanted for Xmas fic, so that's good. :)
And that's about it for tonight -- less stressful than yesterday, that's for damn certain. Time to hit the sheets -- night all!
