Just Another Manic Monday
Mar. 7th, 2022 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI'm sure I've probably used that subject line before, but it also fits today, sooo --
Work – Busy! Not only was there a thick GL thanks to some large batches from the credit card people, there were a lot of calls coming in, and a lot of things I had to try and keep track of – write-offs, billing requests, credit card nonsense, stuff like that. It was not exactly pleasant. :( At least the rides in and home weren’t too bad. . .but we’ll see how that goes as the week progresses. On the other hand, got my Monday off approved, so I just gotta battle through this, then I get a three-day weekend, yay. :)
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and over to Jon of Many A True Nerd – but not his “History of VATS” video, as I said I might do yesterday. While I was looking for that, I stumbled across a video he did for a different game – Superliminal, that puzzle game where you use perspective to resize objects. I have fond memories of Call Me Kevin playing his way through it, so I wanted to see how Jon tackled the puzzles!
With a lot of hilarious complaining! XD To be fair, that’s what I was hoping for, so I’m happy. Yeah, he’s already getting mildly freaked out by the wibbly “optical illusion” nature of the game, and frustrated when he comes across an “exit” that is actually a painted protrusion sticking INTO the hallway he’s trapped in, for example. And he doesn’t trust literally anything, because despite the fact this game is not a horror game (it’s psychological, sure, but it’s not meant to out-and-out scare you) he keeps expecting to be jumpscared or something. He’s gotten through a couple of levels now, manipulating his environment and wondering what the fuck is going on with the levels of dream he’s stuck in. The video’s an hour long, and I didn’t see any “sequels,” so I guess I’ll finish the game with him tomorrow! Fun!
2. Keep editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Tung is now filling Alice in on the sects, such as the Camarilla – though today’s writing was mainly a digression into explaining what Caitiff vampires are (vampires with no clan; often overlaps with thin-bloods but not always) and the definition of “frenzy” (Alice has seen it happen but I don’t think she knew the word for it before now). We’ll get into more discussion about the actual vampire government – and those who want to take it down – tomorrow! Slowly but surely working our way toward that warehouse. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – three in, three out this evening –
A) Started with a late Fun With Shorts – another terrible Lone Ranger cartoon, “Puppet Master!” Yes, someone is using puppets to try and commit art theft, and lures the Lone Ranger into an overly complicated trap to try and kill him with said puppets. Includes puppets that are SUPPOSEDLY being controlled by technology and a big old control board, but based on the first scene it’s CLEARLY magic; the main villain, Shandar, cosplaying as a gladiator for no particular reason; Tonto getting confused as to who’s the real one between the real Lone Ranger AND AN OBVIOUS PUPPET; the Lone Ranger defeating Shandar by getting his own puppets to beat him up; and on Josh’s side, multiple Muppet Show riffs. XD Oh, I always love a terrible Lone Ranger cartoon on this show. They’re always so delightfully deranged.
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and Skyrim, with a special mod that – well, it was SUPPOSED to spawn just ONE enemy every time he got hurt, a la the GTA V mod. He managed to break it, so it – spawns a LOT of enemies instead. Also food spawns when he jumps (and he can run on it, creating food rains a la Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs), cheese spawns when he sprints, and all horses become My Little Ponies when he tries to ride them. And equipping armor and weapons costs gold, because why not? XD Kevin ATTEMPTED to complete some quests under this ruleset, but – well. It doesn’t take that much to tick off people in the game, and any form of damage – either to himself OR to someone else – spawned in those enemies, so any combat (or even just a hunk of cheese hitting him accidentally) was basically just an invitation for the game to break down in perpetual enemy spawn dubstep. He made a go of killing a bandit leader for one of the jailers in Solitude, but his poor archery combined with enemy spawns meant that he could barely get past the entrance – and forget trying to kill his actual target. He had to resort to console commands to complete the quest! Making a boat run aground for a lizard-man and his sister worked a little better, up until he tried to abuse his “I can run on floating food” powers and kept hurting himself accidentally. And then the siblings betrayed him and – yeaaah. Kevin almost got away before a stray arrow or something started summoning all the dragons. Kevin admitted this one was a challenge he could not beat and fled the game. XD (And yet, all this STILL feels less broken than My Wedding Stories. . .)
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more organ harvesting in GTA V! Today was taking the spinal column out of Trevor himself! This was rather more involved than the standard organ run too – not only did Gray have to track down Trevor (which involved a high speed chase shooting out his tires, getting across a body of water via the medium of INCREDIBLY fiddly wall ride transfers – six in all! – and quite a lot of gun play), he also had to be shrunken down to perform the surgery himself, running a death course up Trevor’s spine to the nape of his neck to cut the cord. Trevor being Trevor, his spine was guarded by people with rocket launchers, people with physics guns, a variety of difficult parkour platforms (including riding one of the spinny things like an elevator to a high platform, which he was very impressed by), and fifty million windmills. At least Gray got a grenade launcher at one point! XD And then, of course, came the hand-off – Gray killed the initial guys chatting by the explosive propane tanks about how they’re going broke buying red containers to trap Gray in, then got trapped in a red container, only to punch his way out, save his beloved deer, then shoot down all the goons while Meaty Bits drove their getaway tugboat. Before heading home and discovering Meaty buying himself a sweet new ride and a girlfriend. XD These boards are completely mental and I love them. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – while this week is largely good when it comes to drafts, I did get a quick start on another post that I’d like to get up in the future, detailing some of the pertinent facts about my human!Smiler OC (as opposed to the Sims version, or the “Londerland Bloodlines” version, or the “Fallout of Darkness” version). I’ve been meaning to get some of these down on virtual paper for a while, so that felt like a good start. :)
Well, at least it was a productive evening. Still a bit worried about what this week's gonna be like, but at least I have a few fun things to occupy my time. And three days off to look forward to. *deep breath* And now it's time for bed -- night all!
Work – Busy! Not only was there a thick GL thanks to some large batches from the credit card people, there were a lot of calls coming in, and a lot of things I had to try and keep track of – write-offs, billing requests, credit card nonsense, stuff like that. It was not exactly pleasant. :( At least the rides in and home weren’t too bad. . .but we’ll see how that goes as the week progresses. On the other hand, got my Monday off approved, so I just gotta battle through this, then I get a three-day weekend, yay. :)
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and over to Jon of Many A True Nerd – but not his “History of VATS” video, as I said I might do yesterday. While I was looking for that, I stumbled across a video he did for a different game – Superliminal, that puzzle game where you use perspective to resize objects. I have fond memories of Call Me Kevin playing his way through it, so I wanted to see how Jon tackled the puzzles!
With a lot of hilarious complaining! XD To be fair, that’s what I was hoping for, so I’m happy. Yeah, he’s already getting mildly freaked out by the wibbly “optical illusion” nature of the game, and frustrated when he comes across an “exit” that is actually a painted protrusion sticking INTO the hallway he’s trapped in, for example. And he doesn’t trust literally anything, because despite the fact this game is not a horror game (it’s psychological, sure, but it’s not meant to out-and-out scare you) he keeps expecting to be jumpscared or something. He’s gotten through a couple of levels now, manipulating his environment and wondering what the fuck is going on with the levels of dream he’s stuck in. The video’s an hour long, and I didn’t see any “sequels,” so I guess I’ll finish the game with him tomorrow! Fun!
2. Keep editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Tung is now filling Alice in on the sects, such as the Camarilla – though today’s writing was mainly a digression into explaining what Caitiff vampires are (vampires with no clan; often overlaps with thin-bloods but not always) and the definition of “frenzy” (Alice has seen it happen but I don’t think she knew the word for it before now). We’ll get into more discussion about the actual vampire government – and those who want to take it down – tomorrow! Slowly but surely working our way toward that warehouse. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – three in, three out this evening –
A) Started with a late Fun With Shorts – another terrible Lone Ranger cartoon, “Puppet Master!” Yes, someone is using puppets to try and commit art theft, and lures the Lone Ranger into an overly complicated trap to try and kill him with said puppets. Includes puppets that are SUPPOSEDLY being controlled by technology and a big old control board, but based on the first scene it’s CLEARLY magic; the main villain, Shandar, cosplaying as a gladiator for no particular reason; Tonto getting confused as to who’s the real one between the real Lone Ranger AND AN OBVIOUS PUPPET; the Lone Ranger defeating Shandar by getting his own puppets to beat him up; and on Josh’s side, multiple Muppet Show riffs. XD Oh, I always love a terrible Lone Ranger cartoon on this show. They’re always so delightfully deranged.
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and Skyrim, with a special mod that – well, it was SUPPOSED to spawn just ONE enemy every time he got hurt, a la the GTA V mod. He managed to break it, so it – spawns a LOT of enemies instead. Also food spawns when he jumps (and he can run on it, creating food rains a la Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs), cheese spawns when he sprints, and all horses become My Little Ponies when he tries to ride them. And equipping armor and weapons costs gold, because why not? XD Kevin ATTEMPTED to complete some quests under this ruleset, but – well. It doesn’t take that much to tick off people in the game, and any form of damage – either to himself OR to someone else – spawned in those enemies, so any combat (or even just a hunk of cheese hitting him accidentally) was basically just an invitation for the game to break down in perpetual enemy spawn dubstep. He made a go of killing a bandit leader for one of the jailers in Solitude, but his poor archery combined with enemy spawns meant that he could barely get past the entrance – and forget trying to kill his actual target. He had to resort to console commands to complete the quest! Making a boat run aground for a lizard-man and his sister worked a little better, up until he tried to abuse his “I can run on floating food” powers and kept hurting himself accidentally. And then the siblings betrayed him and – yeaaah. Kevin almost got away before a stray arrow or something started summoning all the dragons. Kevin admitted this one was a challenge he could not beat and fled the game. XD (And yet, all this STILL feels less broken than My Wedding Stories. . .)
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more organ harvesting in GTA V! Today was taking the spinal column out of Trevor himself! This was rather more involved than the standard organ run too – not only did Gray have to track down Trevor (which involved a high speed chase shooting out his tires, getting across a body of water via the medium of INCREDIBLY fiddly wall ride transfers – six in all! – and quite a lot of gun play), he also had to be shrunken down to perform the surgery himself, running a death course up Trevor’s spine to the nape of his neck to cut the cord. Trevor being Trevor, his spine was guarded by people with rocket launchers, people with physics guns, a variety of difficult parkour platforms (including riding one of the spinny things like an elevator to a high platform, which he was very impressed by), and fifty million windmills. At least Gray got a grenade launcher at one point! XD And then, of course, came the hand-off – Gray killed the initial guys chatting by the explosive propane tanks about how they’re going broke buying red containers to trap Gray in, then got trapped in a red container, only to punch his way out, save his beloved deer, then shoot down all the goons while Meaty Bits drove their getaway tugboat. Before heading home and discovering Meaty buying himself a sweet new ride and a girlfriend. XD These boards are completely mental and I love them. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – while this week is largely good when it comes to drafts, I did get a quick start on another post that I’d like to get up in the future, detailing some of the pertinent facts about my human!Smiler OC (as opposed to the Sims version, or the “Londerland Bloodlines” version, or the “Fallout of Darkness” version). I’ve been meaning to get some of these down on virtual paper for a while, so that felt like a good start. :)
Well, at least it was a productive evening. Still a bit worried about what this week's gonna be like, but at least I have a few fun things to occupy my time. And three days off to look forward to. *deep breath* And now it's time for bed -- night all!
