Quick Wednesday Update
Mar. 9th, 2022 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAs somehow the time has gotten away from me tonight --
Work – A little busier than yesterday, but not by much. Got a few things resolved, though, like a check that was hanging around. And the credit card people did a few reversals – a couple of them WRONG, of course. . .ugh. >( I’m so sick of them. Plus I felt kinda twitchy and vaguely out of sorts a lot of the day, which was annoying all on its own. *deep sigh* Just two more days!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, as per usual, and with Jon of Many A True Nerd’s “History of V.A.T.S.” video! Or, as it was originally known, “Aimed Sight” – yeah, the “Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System” designation didn’t come along until Fallout 3 and Bethesda, apparently. Learning all the things about V.A.T.S./Aimed Sight and how it’s worked across the franchise – like how in the original isometric turn-based Fallout and Fallout 2, it was mainly a way of aiming at specific body parts and got more effective with your character’s leveling, while Fallout 3 accidentally turned it into a God Mode of sorts by giving a character using it INCREDIBLE damage resistance while it was active (90%!) to offset stuff like it being kinda shit at range and eating up a lot of action points, a commodity that was not easily replenished (unless you had “Grim Reaper’s Sprint” and perfected the art of the V.A.T.S. kill). I paused it partway through the Fallout 4-era examination, with Jon saying that, hilariously, while people complain that FO4’s combat with manual aiming is all about player skill like in a standard first-person shooter, a V.A.T.S.-user is getting the reliance on character skill and perks that they all want. You could go through the game NEVER using V.A.T.S. – or do it all ALWAYS using V.A.T.S. Both are perfectly usable playstyles! It’s pretty interesting stuff, especially for someone who had no idea how it really all worked under the hood. (My own style is a mix of manual aiming and V.A.T.S. at the moment – I tend to use V.A.T.S. for enemies I’m having a hard time getting a manual shot on. Works for me!)
2. Keep editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – with Tung’s sum-up of the Anarchs (whom he thinks are kidding themselves with their ideals, even if he respects them), and the Kuei-Jin/Anarch/Camarilla war that led to the state L.A. is in now (basically, three factions holding a VERY uneasy truce, and the Sabbat nibbling at the edges of the power keg), he and Alice have reached the warehouse level! Time for Alice to receive her instructions and prepare to explode some real assholes. :P
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – simple two in, two out tonight!
A) Firstly, the latest from James Turner and the Cottage Living LP! James was HOPING to power through an entire week and get to the next fair to give Trenton another chance at winning, but unfortunately was only able to make it to Thursday in two and a half real-life hours. He did accomplish a few things of note, though:
I. Hazel doing another Dream Home Decorator gig for Column and Plahn Tayne, this time adding in a basement gym! Which, uh, required the use of cheats, because as usual the pack is broken and wouldn’t let James actually EXPAND THE BASEMENT. *sigh* But he gave them a nice gym in their preferred grays, and jazzed up the basement bathroom as well while he was at it. Which is good, because it’s currently the only bathroom in the house. XD Oh, the Realm of Magic house is such a mess. . .
II. More farm work – Trenton is working on making friends with a Golden Chicken in preparation for the Chicken Fair coming up, and all of their previous crop was harvested and sold – mainly to Agatha and Agnes Crumplebottom, as Kim has become persona non grata after making herself a little TOO at home in the house and busting up one of the bathtubs (it now only has muddy water, no matter the type of bath the person is taking – or giving to their dog). Though Chaz did buy some groceries from her so he could make stuff like tuna casserole and roast chicken. The current crop is ALL eggplants, amusingly enough – we’ll see how big any of them get! Also, interesting glitch in the game – selling the mushrooms to the Creature Keeper resulted it only ONE of each kind of mushroom actually being sold. James declined to take advantage of the glitch and instead shredded them for bits and pieces. XD
III. Angus aged up to a teenager! James forced everyone to sit in the room and watch by turning off free will. XD The newly-grown Angus had some VERY unfortunate hair and fashion choices when he first aged up, but James gave him a pretty decent makeover (including changing his skintone to match Hazel’s). He hasn’t really decided on what his fashion sense is (he has paint-splattered overalls for his everyday, a super-nerdy formalwear outfit, a sparkly gold jacket for parties, and a Carneval two-piece for hot weather), but he knows what he likes – he’s Squeamish, a Music Lover, and a Nerd Brain currently. And he looks incredibly like his mum, especially with the hair James chose. Nice!
So yeah, that sums up that episode! Next time, we should have the chicken fair and we’ll see if Trenton does any better – and he’s promised to properly do up the basement vault. That should be fun! :)
B) And secondly, time for more GrayStillPlays versus Happy Wheels! After Gray’s quickest bottle flip win in ages (and this is AFTER a deliberate death by cleaver butterflies), we proceeded to such boards as “hobo pushing a wheelbarrow” (the hobo lost both his legs and Pogo Guy and Discount Indiana had to impale some people, but they did win); a very speedy “gear parkour” (Gray got it first try!); a truly diabolical freeze wall board (Gray got it maybe fiftieth try? He had to spend some time figuring out how to defeat himself in freeze wall form); a trip across what I presume to be a desk in tiny form (knocking over pencils, going past the computer, and figuring out how to get the coins at the end without dying); a brief visit to the “ouch machine” (an apparatus that just stabs the unfortunate character within in the crotch constantly), and a trip to “StinGray Airlines” (by Dylan Synder, regular board creator for the channel at this point – we had a fully fleshed-out airport with shops – including a McDoug Dimmerdome with glass-break food, a Floridaman Coffee Co storefront, and a Kitchen Nightmares shop that drops a giant pot on you – an actual cycle onto the airplane, and then a great escape when the autopilot malfunctioned). As usual, a good show from the HW creators! XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Reset the queue to one a day on Victor Luvs Alice and got Friday and Saturday sorted (reblog of a fun Beckett gifset with a sneak peek of Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines” and a reblog of a Poets Of The Fall song respectively), yay. AND I got two more reblogs of stuff I liked in my drafts for later, which is great. :)
*nods* At least I got everything checked off that I wanted to get checked! Always good especially to get the tumblr queue sorted. . .and now it's time for bed. Night all!
Work – A little busier than yesterday, but not by much. Got a few things resolved, though, like a check that was hanging around. And the credit card people did a few reversals – a couple of them WRONG, of course. . .ugh. >( I’m so sick of them. Plus I felt kinda twitchy and vaguely out of sorts a lot of the day, which was annoying all on its own. *deep sigh* Just two more days!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, as per usual, and with Jon of Many A True Nerd’s “History of V.A.T.S.” video! Or, as it was originally known, “Aimed Sight” – yeah, the “Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System” designation didn’t come along until Fallout 3 and Bethesda, apparently. Learning all the things about V.A.T.S./Aimed Sight and how it’s worked across the franchise – like how in the original isometric turn-based Fallout and Fallout 2, it was mainly a way of aiming at specific body parts and got more effective with your character’s leveling, while Fallout 3 accidentally turned it into a God Mode of sorts by giving a character using it INCREDIBLE damage resistance while it was active (90%!) to offset stuff like it being kinda shit at range and eating up a lot of action points, a commodity that was not easily replenished (unless you had “Grim Reaper’s Sprint” and perfected the art of the V.A.T.S. kill). I paused it partway through the Fallout 4-era examination, with Jon saying that, hilariously, while people complain that FO4’s combat with manual aiming is all about player skill like in a standard first-person shooter, a V.A.T.S.-user is getting the reliance on character skill and perks that they all want. You could go through the game NEVER using V.A.T.S. – or do it all ALWAYS using V.A.T.S. Both are perfectly usable playstyles! It’s pretty interesting stuff, especially for someone who had no idea how it really all worked under the hood. (My own style is a mix of manual aiming and V.A.T.S. at the moment – I tend to use V.A.T.S. for enemies I’m having a hard time getting a manual shot on. Works for me!)
2. Keep editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – with Tung’s sum-up of the Anarchs (whom he thinks are kidding themselves with their ideals, even if he respects them), and the Kuei-Jin/Anarch/Camarilla war that led to the state L.A. is in now (basically, three factions holding a VERY uneasy truce, and the Sabbat nibbling at the edges of the power keg), he and Alice have reached the warehouse level! Time for Alice to receive her instructions and prepare to explode some real assholes. :P
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – simple two in, two out tonight!
A) Firstly, the latest from James Turner and the Cottage Living LP! James was HOPING to power through an entire week and get to the next fair to give Trenton another chance at winning, but unfortunately was only able to make it to Thursday in two and a half real-life hours. He did accomplish a few things of note, though:
I. Hazel doing another Dream Home Decorator gig for Column and Plahn Tayne, this time adding in a basement gym! Which, uh, required the use of cheats, because as usual the pack is broken and wouldn’t let James actually EXPAND THE BASEMENT. *sigh* But he gave them a nice gym in their preferred grays, and jazzed up the basement bathroom as well while he was at it. Which is good, because it’s currently the only bathroom in the house. XD Oh, the Realm of Magic house is such a mess. . .
II. More farm work – Trenton is working on making friends with a Golden Chicken in preparation for the Chicken Fair coming up, and all of their previous crop was harvested and sold – mainly to Agatha and Agnes Crumplebottom, as Kim has become persona non grata after making herself a little TOO at home in the house and busting up one of the bathtubs (it now only has muddy water, no matter the type of bath the person is taking – or giving to their dog). Though Chaz did buy some groceries from her so he could make stuff like tuna casserole and roast chicken. The current crop is ALL eggplants, amusingly enough – we’ll see how big any of them get! Also, interesting glitch in the game – selling the mushrooms to the Creature Keeper resulted it only ONE of each kind of mushroom actually being sold. James declined to take advantage of the glitch and instead shredded them for bits and pieces. XD
III. Angus aged up to a teenager! James forced everyone to sit in the room and watch by turning off free will. XD The newly-grown Angus had some VERY unfortunate hair and fashion choices when he first aged up, but James gave him a pretty decent makeover (including changing his skintone to match Hazel’s). He hasn’t really decided on what his fashion sense is (he has paint-splattered overalls for his everyday, a super-nerdy formalwear outfit, a sparkly gold jacket for parties, and a Carneval two-piece for hot weather), but he knows what he likes – he’s Squeamish, a Music Lover, and a Nerd Brain currently. And he looks incredibly like his mum, especially with the hair James chose. Nice!
So yeah, that sums up that episode! Next time, we should have the chicken fair and we’ll see if Trenton does any better – and he’s promised to properly do up the basement vault. That should be fun! :)
B) And secondly, time for more GrayStillPlays versus Happy Wheels! After Gray’s quickest bottle flip win in ages (and this is AFTER a deliberate death by cleaver butterflies), we proceeded to such boards as “hobo pushing a wheelbarrow” (the hobo lost both his legs and Pogo Guy and Discount Indiana had to impale some people, but they did win); a very speedy “gear parkour” (Gray got it first try!); a truly diabolical freeze wall board (Gray got it maybe fiftieth try? He had to spend some time figuring out how to defeat himself in freeze wall form); a trip across what I presume to be a desk in tiny form (knocking over pencils, going past the computer, and figuring out how to get the coins at the end without dying); a brief visit to the “ouch machine” (an apparatus that just stabs the unfortunate character within in the crotch constantly), and a trip to “StinGray Airlines” (by Dylan Synder, regular board creator for the channel at this point – we had a fully fleshed-out airport with shops – including a McDoug Dimmerdome with glass-break food, a Floridaman Coffee Co storefront, and a Kitchen Nightmares shop that drops a giant pot on you – an actual cycle onto the airplane, and then a great escape when the autopilot malfunctioned). As usual, a good show from the HW creators! XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Reset the queue to one a day on Victor Luvs Alice and got Friday and Saturday sorted (reblog of a fun Beckett gifset with a sneak peek of Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines” and a reblog of a Poets Of The Fall song respectively), yay. AND I got two more reblogs of stuff I liked in my drafts for later, which is great. :)
*nods* At least I got everything checked off that I wanted to get checked! Always good especially to get the tumblr queue sorted. . .and now it's time for bed. Night all!
