Windy Rainy Saturday
Mar. 12th, 2022 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickThough it actually took longer than expected for either to arrive -- the rain didn't really start going until shortly after I woke up this morning, and the wind only started whistling this evening. . .granted, now that it's here, it's REALLY going, and we've got some nasty arctic wind chill out there. Gonna be a cold one tomorrow too -- meeh.
But even if the weather is still in the "lion" phase of March, I have to say, I had a very good and productive Saturday:
1. Clean my room: Check – though I had a bit of surprise laundry just because the hamper was full and Mom suggested I just wash my sheets and pajamas. The actual room cleaning portion took from roughly 10:50 AM to 1:05 PM – again, done before lunch! :) Laundry took a little longer, of course, but I got everything out of the dryer and folded by about 3:15 PM, which isn’t too bad. Done for another couple of weeks, yay!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, watch at least Plumbella in the Watch Later: Check, plus a bonus, w000 –
A) Started this afternoon with that Plumbella in the Watch Later – “I tried to speedrun the Astronaut career and...the game fought back,” one of her “spin the wheel and see what happens” videos. “Speedrun becoming an Astronaut” is what came up, so she made herself a lady named “Astro Naught” in CAS, made her a Geek, Noncommittal, and a Genius, gave her the “Nerd Brain” aspiration, then set her up in Oasis Springs, bought her the steampunk rocket, and got to work!
. . .the poor girl went four days without a promotion despite having the golden tick, doing all her chess playing daily, and building up her rocket all the while (thanks to cheated needs). Plumbella actually went ahead and used MC Command Center to get her to Level 2 because she thought the career was bugged! But things started going better after that – the rocket was completed, and Astro started on all the upgrades (along with a few accidental brief trips to space because Plumbella kept clicking the wrong option), got a LEGIT promotion, and even left the house to hit the gym to get fit! Plumbella was so pleased that she decided that, instead of forcing Astro to eat quick-meal edamame all the time, Astro could have a grilled cheese sandwich.
. . .Astro set herself on fire cooking it and died. Plumbella was absolutely STUNNED. XD Like, she’s NEVER just had this happen before – all her deaths from fire were DELIBERATE previously! Sheesh, what a way to go. . .I have already put “resurrect poor Astro” as a suggestion for the wheel in my comment, because that poor Sim deserves a second chance! Even if she’s got a My First Pet Stuff haircut. XD
B) Then, this evening, started with the OXBox video in my Watch Later – “Elden Ring Co-op Gameplay: NOOB BODYGUARD SERVICE! | Andy Protects Mike in Boss Fight But Not Really” AKA Mike summons Andy into his game for a little test of the Co-Op, only to find that Andy has been REALLY grinding his way to awesomeness. XD Fancy “look like death” armor, enchanted two-handed twin blade, the works. And Mike’s just running around as a knight with his sword and shield, doing fat rolls because he’s at heavy weight and horrifying Andy with his disregard of the invincibility-frames. . . XD While the co-op proved to be a bit fiddly (you can’t fast travel, or rest at Sites Of Grace (this game’s equivalent of a bonfire)), it was still enjoyable. The boys roamed the countryside looking for things to kill – and occasionally running away from them, like the Tree Sentinel, or the Night Calvary. Don’t go after the men on massive horses! But they did successfully defeat a giant writhing mass of tentacles to get a Land Octopus Ovary out of it! Yaay? XD And they tried to rob a caravan by quietly backstabbing all the people following it, but it disappeared on them. Shame. Anyway, the end of the video was them trying to take on the boss of the area (after Mike triggered the cutscene that would allow Andy to actually HELP him – he couldn’t pass through the fog gate until that happened), Margit the Fell Omen – and he was a fell omen indeed, felling Mike and Andy repeatedly. The combination of some fast jumps and swinging around his massive tail was what spelled their doom – hell, not even Mike taking off his shirt to reduce his load to medium and speed up his rolls helped! And they came SO CLOSE to kiting the bastard off the edge of the cliff he fights near too. . .in the end, they had to be satisfied with working him down to half-health and the second stage of his boss battle. Ah well – that’s not bad for a Soulsborne!
C) Then it was onto the Subs for Call Me Kevin and some Dead By Daylight shenanigans! Dead By Daylight is one of those cooperative “four survivors versus one killer” games, where the survivors have to open up a path out of the level before the killer kills them. Kevin, on the other hand, wasn’t exactly interested in doing all that much killing. Instead, he wanted to make some friends, yay! XD And so we saw some very unconventional playstyles as a killer from him. Like playing as Nemesis and trying to lure everyone into his basement without killing them, to the point of using his tentacle arm to take down his own zombies to protect them. Or subverting his own murderous The Shape/Michael Myers antics because he couldn’t off a survivor in cute pajamas or their friend. Or becoming a terrible vomiting plague woman but refusing to vomit on people, instead vomiting on objects and infecting people that way. . .and STILL letting a survivor crawl to the exit. It got to the point where, by the end of the video, the survivors were starting to realize that Kevin wasn’t that deadly (or possibly someone recognized it was KEVIN and wanted to be in the inevitable video) – he tried playing the Huntress as a crazy bunny lady holed up in her house, only for a couple of the survivors to show up and help him out with “target practice,” showing him where to launch his axes at the others; and then in his final playthrough, he played the Twins (a dual killer where you use one to grab people and the other to take them down), but only the smaller one that can only pounce on people, and the survivors ended up basically adopting him as a pet. XD It was great fun and showed how hilarious a game about serial killers stalking unfortunate people trapped in a hell dimension can really be.
D) And finally, it was time for GrayStillPlays and another GTA V parkour “roller coaster” of doom! This one started with a loop-de-loop wall ride of doom, with numerous twists, turns, and boosts, PLUS a helicopter and a windmill that JUMPED from one side to another for Gray to jump, with his only solace getting an RPG launcher after making the windmill jump so he could blow up the helicopter. XD Then it was up into a launch where his Florida Man had to skydive onto a target, then slide down a pool and go through the four-point ring, then use a bike to navigate the ledge on the side of the pool while avoiding the various killer windmills everywhere (he went through a lot of bikes, and the local bike club ended up very, very dead), then finally do a chassis slide on an ATV down a series of ramps while using his flare gun to kill all the people firing either their own flare guns or the terrible physics gun at him so he could make it down to the winning pool party. Where he promptly killed himself and everyone else by firing an RPG into the pool. XD Looot of blood, sweat, and tears went into this one, that’s for sure – totally worth, though. :D
3. Play Sims 4 and either do some more with Smiler or do some building/save renovation: Double check – I did both! Had an extra-long playsession today because I could and went to town –
I. Save Renovation – Downloaded a couple of new lots for Del Sol Valley! Specifically, I now have an improved Studio PBP, made by Whyeverr, and Orchid-A-Go-Go has been replaced by Orchid Pictures & Bar by Plumbella! Though the latter I ended up making some edits too – changed up the bathrooms (uh, Plumbella, why did your combo bar/cafe/movie theater have SHOWERS in the bathrooms? Mine are now the more standard “stall” type), then combined two of the cinemas upstairs into one and turned the other into a performance room with a microphone, keyboard, and guitar on a little platform stage (mostly to fulfill the lot requirements to keep it a lounge). I also used platforms to make a proper “staggered” seating area in the combined cinema, which forced me to make the wall height on the second floor a little taller, but hey – worth it! :) I’ll have to have Smiler swing by one of them later.
II. Smiler Always – First things first – in the interest of having a source of income while they work on getting into university, Smiler now has a part time job – they’re a Fisherman, working the 9 PM to 1 AM shift Mondays through Fridays! :) I figured this would work well with their eventual class schedule and whatnot – also their vampireness. XD From there, they went back to studying their vampire lore, and then I had them invite Lilith over for some stargazing, chatting, and a friendly spar – Smiler lost, but hey, it’s all XP.
From there – well, Smiler had a lot of people over! Partly to fulfill the requirements of the pop-up holiday “Talk Like A Pirate Day,” partly because people kept inviting themselves to their door. And in one case to update their “Wonderful Whims” preferences – hey Alice, how are you? Though I discovered SMILER’S had been reset again too. *grumbles* I’m assuming THIS has something to do with me deleting my localthumbcache file because I put in some new custom content (found some Smiler clothing: see here) – that’s what they tell me to do!), so I just made them think everyone is attractive and awesome again. They also strengthened their friendship with Alice – they even showered in the rain together! Seriously, both of them got naked to do that at the same time. XD Damn Erratic Sims. . .anyway, they’re getting along good enough that Alice gave Smiler permission to drink from her, which was nice. :) I may not see them getting together romantically in this “Valicer” threesome I’ve got in my head, but they’re supposed to be good friends, and I’m glad that’s working out.
Anyway, once she and Lilith had headed off (and Victor briefly appeared, only to nope out immediately when I tried to invite him in), Smiler went to talk to their acquaintance Becca at the edge of the neighborhood (detecting her personality as well), then flew back to their house to meet Angela Pleasant, who came over for a visit. And then, midway through that, Brant Hecking showed up for no reason. O.o Well, Smiler needs more friends – they invited him in, and managed to make buddies before he said goodbye. And then NALANI, Smiler’s FIRST friend, asked to come over, so I let her drop by for a quick chat –
And THEN Victor called Smiler and asked them on a date to the Windenburg Island Bluffs.
Couldn’t resist. It was absolutely POURING there, but they still had a great time – Smiler got Victor to go skinny-dipping, they had some cute romantic interactions, and Victor agreed to be Smiler’s boyfriend! :) Aaaaand, thanks to a “Compel for a Small Drink,” Smiler leveled up to Master Vampire! And, after some thought, I spent all their power points on the first two levels of Sun Resistance. They lucked out today – cloudy and raining both in Britechester and Windenburg – but this is a good investment. Weakness was upgrading Fitful Sleep to Nightmarish Sleep – again, this is a great weakness because Smiler isn’t going to sleep anyway. :p Had them get some collectibles, then head home to practice debate. And get dressed up in their new Smiler clothes. :p Dark form needed an alternate outfit anyway! Next time – maybe another party? Hmmm. . .
4. Write my next gift fic: Check – my friend Newt’s birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, so I want to keep on top of the gift fic! He didn’t have any SPECIFIC requests when I asked, just maybe something sweet or silly, so I’ve ended up doing a sequel to my “Malk!Alice and Ghoul!Victor in the WWDITS TV Show timeline” story from Christmas, with Alice and Victor again talking about Guillermo’s weird crush on Nandor, and Alice wondering how anyone could be that attracted to vampires. . .only for Victor to remind her of his “neck thing.” XD (His “neck thing,” for the unaware, being that if you kiss or suck on his neck, especially if you give him a little bite, he gets REALLY excited thanks to a lot of his early wet dreams being vampire-themed.) I think it’ll fit the bill of sweet and silly. I’ll give it some polish next Saturday, and then it’ll be ready for posting the Saturday after that!
Not bad at all! It was nice to have the extra-long Sims session, I must say. :) Ah, the pleasures of a long weekend. . .speaking of which, gotta set up the Sunday to-dos now:
1. Keep up with the FO4 Playthrough Progression
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, the latest AT4W, and Jon's F:NV "Utter Chaos" video
3. Steam Sunday -- get and play through Aperture Desk Job, then play Fallout 4 and start working on getting Victor toward Diamond City
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
I think that'll do nicely -- even if we're losing an hour soon because of Daylight Savings. Ah well -- that gets the sun out of my freaking eyes on my commute home, and that is something I appreciate. For now, I gotta keep up on convos and anything that might pop up on tumblr. Night all!
But even if the weather is still in the "lion" phase of March, I have to say, I had a very good and productive Saturday:
1. Clean my room: Check – though I had a bit of surprise laundry just because the hamper was full and Mom suggested I just wash my sheets and pajamas. The actual room cleaning portion took from roughly 10:50 AM to 1:05 PM – again, done before lunch! :) Laundry took a little longer, of course, but I got everything out of the dryer and folded by about 3:15 PM, which isn’t too bad. Done for another couple of weeks, yay!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, watch at least Plumbella in the Watch Later: Check, plus a bonus, w000 –
A) Started this afternoon with that Plumbella in the Watch Later – “I tried to speedrun the Astronaut career and...the game fought back,” one of her “spin the wheel and see what happens” videos. “Speedrun becoming an Astronaut” is what came up, so she made herself a lady named “Astro Naught” in CAS, made her a Geek, Noncommittal, and a Genius, gave her the “Nerd Brain” aspiration, then set her up in Oasis Springs, bought her the steampunk rocket, and got to work!
. . .the poor girl went four days without a promotion despite having the golden tick, doing all her chess playing daily, and building up her rocket all the while (thanks to cheated needs). Plumbella actually went ahead and used MC Command Center to get her to Level 2 because she thought the career was bugged! But things started going better after that – the rocket was completed, and Astro started on all the upgrades (along with a few accidental brief trips to space because Plumbella kept clicking the wrong option), got a LEGIT promotion, and even left the house to hit the gym to get fit! Plumbella was so pleased that she decided that, instead of forcing Astro to eat quick-meal edamame all the time, Astro could have a grilled cheese sandwich.
. . .Astro set herself on fire cooking it and died. Plumbella was absolutely STUNNED. XD Like, she’s NEVER just had this happen before – all her deaths from fire were DELIBERATE previously! Sheesh, what a way to go. . .I have already put “resurrect poor Astro” as a suggestion for the wheel in my comment, because that poor Sim deserves a second chance! Even if she’s got a My First Pet Stuff haircut. XD
B) Then, this evening, started with the OXBox video in my Watch Later – “Elden Ring Co-op Gameplay: NOOB BODYGUARD SERVICE! | Andy Protects Mike in Boss Fight But Not Really” AKA Mike summons Andy into his game for a little test of the Co-Op, only to find that Andy has been REALLY grinding his way to awesomeness. XD Fancy “look like death” armor, enchanted two-handed twin blade, the works. And Mike’s just running around as a knight with his sword and shield, doing fat rolls because he’s at heavy weight and horrifying Andy with his disregard of the invincibility-frames. . . XD While the co-op proved to be a bit fiddly (you can’t fast travel, or rest at Sites Of Grace (this game’s equivalent of a bonfire)), it was still enjoyable. The boys roamed the countryside looking for things to kill – and occasionally running away from them, like the Tree Sentinel, or the Night Calvary. Don’t go after the men on massive horses! But they did successfully defeat a giant writhing mass of tentacles to get a Land Octopus Ovary out of it! Yaay? XD And they tried to rob a caravan by quietly backstabbing all the people following it, but it disappeared on them. Shame. Anyway, the end of the video was them trying to take on the boss of the area (after Mike triggered the cutscene that would allow Andy to actually HELP him – he couldn’t pass through the fog gate until that happened), Margit the Fell Omen – and he was a fell omen indeed, felling Mike and Andy repeatedly. The combination of some fast jumps and swinging around his massive tail was what spelled their doom – hell, not even Mike taking off his shirt to reduce his load to medium and speed up his rolls helped! And they came SO CLOSE to kiting the bastard off the edge of the cliff he fights near too. . .in the end, they had to be satisfied with working him down to half-health and the second stage of his boss battle. Ah well – that’s not bad for a Soulsborne!
C) Then it was onto the Subs for Call Me Kevin and some Dead By Daylight shenanigans! Dead By Daylight is one of those cooperative “four survivors versus one killer” games, where the survivors have to open up a path out of the level before the killer kills them. Kevin, on the other hand, wasn’t exactly interested in doing all that much killing. Instead, he wanted to make some friends, yay! XD And so we saw some very unconventional playstyles as a killer from him. Like playing as Nemesis and trying to lure everyone into his basement without killing them, to the point of using his tentacle arm to take down his own zombies to protect them. Or subverting his own murderous The Shape/Michael Myers antics because he couldn’t off a survivor in cute pajamas or their friend. Or becoming a terrible vomiting plague woman but refusing to vomit on people, instead vomiting on objects and infecting people that way. . .and STILL letting a survivor crawl to the exit. It got to the point where, by the end of the video, the survivors were starting to realize that Kevin wasn’t that deadly (or possibly someone recognized it was KEVIN and wanted to be in the inevitable video) – he tried playing the Huntress as a crazy bunny lady holed up in her house, only for a couple of the survivors to show up and help him out with “target practice,” showing him where to launch his axes at the others; and then in his final playthrough, he played the Twins (a dual killer where you use one to grab people and the other to take them down), but only the smaller one that can only pounce on people, and the survivors ended up basically adopting him as a pet. XD It was great fun and showed how hilarious a game about serial killers stalking unfortunate people trapped in a hell dimension can really be.
D) And finally, it was time for GrayStillPlays and another GTA V parkour “roller coaster” of doom! This one started with a loop-de-loop wall ride of doom, with numerous twists, turns, and boosts, PLUS a helicopter and a windmill that JUMPED from one side to another for Gray to jump, with his only solace getting an RPG launcher after making the windmill jump so he could blow up the helicopter. XD Then it was up into a launch where his Florida Man had to skydive onto a target, then slide down a pool and go through the four-point ring, then use a bike to navigate the ledge on the side of the pool while avoiding the various killer windmills everywhere (he went through a lot of bikes, and the local bike club ended up very, very dead), then finally do a chassis slide on an ATV down a series of ramps while using his flare gun to kill all the people firing either their own flare guns or the terrible physics gun at him so he could make it down to the winning pool party. Where he promptly killed himself and everyone else by firing an RPG into the pool. XD Looot of blood, sweat, and tears went into this one, that’s for sure – totally worth, though. :D
3. Play Sims 4 and either do some more with Smiler or do some building/save renovation: Double check – I did both! Had an extra-long playsession today because I could and went to town –
I. Save Renovation – Downloaded a couple of new lots for Del Sol Valley! Specifically, I now have an improved Studio PBP, made by Whyeverr, and Orchid-A-Go-Go has been replaced by Orchid Pictures & Bar by Plumbella! Though the latter I ended up making some edits too – changed up the bathrooms (uh, Plumbella, why did your combo bar/cafe/movie theater have SHOWERS in the bathrooms? Mine are now the more standard “stall” type), then combined two of the cinemas upstairs into one and turned the other into a performance room with a microphone, keyboard, and guitar on a little platform stage (mostly to fulfill the lot requirements to keep it a lounge). I also used platforms to make a proper “staggered” seating area in the combined cinema, which forced me to make the wall height on the second floor a little taller, but hey – worth it! :) I’ll have to have Smiler swing by one of them later.
II. Smiler Always – First things first – in the interest of having a source of income while they work on getting into university, Smiler now has a part time job – they’re a Fisherman, working the 9 PM to 1 AM shift Mondays through Fridays! :) I figured this would work well with their eventual class schedule and whatnot – also their vampireness. XD From there, they went back to studying their vampire lore, and then I had them invite Lilith over for some stargazing, chatting, and a friendly spar – Smiler lost, but hey, it’s all XP.
From there – well, Smiler had a lot of people over! Partly to fulfill the requirements of the pop-up holiday “Talk Like A Pirate Day,” partly because people kept inviting themselves to their door. And in one case to update their “Wonderful Whims” preferences – hey Alice, how are you? Though I discovered SMILER’S had been reset again too. *grumbles* I’m assuming THIS has something to do with me deleting my localthumbcache file because I put in some new custom content (found some Smiler clothing: see here) – that’s what they tell me to do!), so I just made them think everyone is attractive and awesome again. They also strengthened their friendship with Alice – they even showered in the rain together! Seriously, both of them got naked to do that at the same time. XD Damn Erratic Sims. . .anyway, they’re getting along good enough that Alice gave Smiler permission to drink from her, which was nice. :) I may not see them getting together romantically in this “Valicer” threesome I’ve got in my head, but they’re supposed to be good friends, and I’m glad that’s working out.
Anyway, once she and Lilith had headed off (and Victor briefly appeared, only to nope out immediately when I tried to invite him in), Smiler went to talk to their acquaintance Becca at the edge of the neighborhood (detecting her personality as well), then flew back to their house to meet Angela Pleasant, who came over for a visit. And then, midway through that, Brant Hecking showed up for no reason. O.o Well, Smiler needs more friends – they invited him in, and managed to make buddies before he said goodbye. And then NALANI, Smiler’s FIRST friend, asked to come over, so I let her drop by for a quick chat –
And THEN Victor called Smiler and asked them on a date to the Windenburg Island Bluffs.
Couldn’t resist. It was absolutely POURING there, but they still had a great time – Smiler got Victor to go skinny-dipping, they had some cute romantic interactions, and Victor agreed to be Smiler’s boyfriend! :) Aaaaand, thanks to a “Compel for a Small Drink,” Smiler leveled up to Master Vampire! And, after some thought, I spent all their power points on the first two levels of Sun Resistance. They lucked out today – cloudy and raining both in Britechester and Windenburg – but this is a good investment. Weakness was upgrading Fitful Sleep to Nightmarish Sleep – again, this is a great weakness because Smiler isn’t going to sleep anyway. :p Had them get some collectibles, then head home to practice debate. And get dressed up in their new Smiler clothes. :p Dark form needed an alternate outfit anyway! Next time – maybe another party? Hmmm. . .
4. Write my next gift fic: Check – my friend Newt’s birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, so I want to keep on top of the gift fic! He didn’t have any SPECIFIC requests when I asked, just maybe something sweet or silly, so I’ve ended up doing a sequel to my “Malk!Alice and Ghoul!Victor in the WWDITS TV Show timeline” story from Christmas, with Alice and Victor again talking about Guillermo’s weird crush on Nandor, and Alice wondering how anyone could be that attracted to vampires. . .only for Victor to remind her of his “neck thing.” XD (His “neck thing,” for the unaware, being that if you kiss or suck on his neck, especially if you give him a little bite, he gets REALLY excited thanks to a lot of his early wet dreams being vampire-themed.) I think it’ll fit the bill of sweet and silly. I’ll give it some polish next Saturday, and then it’ll be ready for posting the Saturday after that!
Not bad at all! It was nice to have the extra-long Sims session, I must say. :) Ah, the pleasures of a long weekend. . .speaking of which, gotta set up the Sunday to-dos now:
1. Keep up with the FO4 Playthrough Progression
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, the latest AT4W, and Jon's F:NV "Utter Chaos" video
3. Steam Sunday -- get and play through Aperture Desk Job, then play Fallout 4 and start working on getting Victor toward Diamond City
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
I think that'll do nicely -- even if we're losing an hour soon because of Daylight Savings. Ah well -- that gets the sun out of my freaking eyes on my commute home, and that is something I appreciate. For now, I gotta keep up on convos and anything that might pop up on tumblr. Night all!
