Meeeh-ish Monday
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crossover_chickAs is well summed up by the below:
Work – Had a rough commute in (accident that had fortunately been cleared up by the time I got to my exit, but still left me about ten minutes late), then it turned out to be one of those “quiet – BURST OF ACTIVITY – quiet” days, specifically with phone calls – we’d have a while without, and then they’d all come at once. Bit annoying, especially when we had some weirder ones that needed more research and we kept getting interrupted. But I got through the GL, got through some pledge updates, and confirmed that, as usual, the credit card company is only doing the bare minimum to stop us getting annoyed with them. *sigh* At least I didn’t have to deal with Talky Coworker too – she’s out for the week. We’ll see how things go from here!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing up the “13 Best D&D Moments: Oxventure’s Critical Hits of 2019” video! Because they were funny the first time I watched them, and they are even better with the context. XD Especially stuff like Egbert getting Jacques Darkfall to disrobe mid-battle in “Out of Order,” Corazon being completely oblivious for ages thanks to low Wisdom/Perception rolls as to how horrible Necropolis-On-Sea really was during their initial stay (drinking slime thinking it was claret, smoking a finger thinking it was a cigar, that sort of thing), and Egbert doing a salsa dance while serving salsa to the Stag Lads – and Mike actually getting up and dancing and impressing everyone with his moves. XD Ahh, delightful. Next up should be “Exhibition Impossible,” which I suspect is them trying to sell their somewhat-less-haunted manor – that should be interesting! XD
2. Keep editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – and I got farther than I anticipated, completing Alice’s first meeting with Beckett! AKA the “human-wolf version of Cheshire,” as she calls him in her head. Short but sweet, with them talking about some of the weirdness that’s supposedly haunting L.A. at the moment. It’s fun to write them together, and I’m REALLY looking forward to doing more with them in the museum. :D AND, more importantly, this takes me to a scene break in the chapter, meaning that I can actually go back and start the posting edit of Chapter 5 early! So yeah, tomorrow, we start getting ready to update the fic on AO3 for the end of the month! :)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – full three-in, three-out today –
A) First up was James Tuner with another Scenario LP – the “No Skills, No Problem” challenge, where you have to earn $400,000 simoleons with a Sim who CANNOT learn skills. They’re just incapable of skilling up. James thought the best way to beat the challenge (apart from marrying for money or just cheating) was a retail store just selling things – he took a Semaj, made him aspire to be Fabulously Wealthy, gave them the Outgoing, Neat, and Cheerful traits, and sent him to live in Britechester!
Cue a FOUR-HOUR HELL SLOG FOR JAMES TRYING TO GET THAT 400K. The beginning was all right, with Semaj going around the various worlds fishing up stuff to get the capital for his retail lot in Magnolia Promenade (living out of a tent and a cooler in the meantime), and then trying to alternatively dumpster-dive and turn his lot into a landfill for stock (only to a) not consistently get anything good out of the dumpsters and b) discover that the stuff left on the lot as landfill isn’t sellable, even if you repair it), before James finally decided “you know what? Time to just sell what random crap I can – including my own living accommodations – while working my way up to the high-ticket items.” This ultimately resulted in him having a store/house that sold two swatches of the most expensive bed in the game, and DESPERATELY plowing forward to get stuff like the cheaper restocking perk and more interested customers to get this damn challenge MOVING, y’all. He did manage in the end (selling enough beds to get himself nearly there, and THEN just deleting the entire store itself around Semaj and his remaining customer), but it took him 21 days in-game, and – as mentioned – four hours out of it. He was astonished it didn’t take longer in-game too. Lesson learned – retail stores are NOT the way to go for a challenge like this! Overpowered selling table or nothing!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin, playing the original Resident Evil 2! Yes, he was apparently playing the REmake recently and decided to see what the original 1998 version was like – and found it a bit more funny than horrifying. XD Accusing Leon of being a psychopath thanks to his rather muted reactions to the zombies; saying that Leon is both a solid, liquid, AND gas thanks to how his pixelated body vibrates constantly; calling the Licker a streaker; doing a Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song parody when he found a basketball court; mocking his own inability to find his way around the police station despite having played in the location in THREE games now (Dead By Daylight apparently has it as a map – also, Kevin, no shame, it’s harder with tank controls and fixed camera angles!); spending half his time mocking the zombies and then the other half being genuinely afraid of them; and then finally looking up original Mr. X and being deeply amused by Leon’s lack of reaction AGAIN. XD As someone who is only familiar with the REmake of RE2 thanks to LPs, this is both amusing and informative. Wonder if this is gonna become one of Kevin’s on-and-off series. . .
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and Stair Dismount – a spin-off or sequel to Turbo Dismount, where the goal was to wreck your crash test dummy across different courses in vehicles. THIS time, you only have your dummy on its own, and you have to figure out where and how hard to push it to cause maximum damage and get maximum points. In Gray’s case, the bar was a million per level, and boy did he work hard to achieve it. From just figuring out how to hit all the various bars on the warm-up level; to careening down a smashed-up traffic-filled highway; to flinging essentially a giant block of cheese with limbs down the sinking Titanic into its propellors; to bouncing that same block of cheese on a giant speaker with an EYE in the middle of it; to glitching a big-headed dummy down a flock of seagulls and straight through the ground (seriously, it kept just – shooting straight into the earth); to slapping a guy down the tunnel of deadly lasers into the cup, Gray did not quit until he had broken and severed enough limbs for his million. His dedication is an inspiration to us all. :P
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I’m pretty much mostly set for this week (though I have been reminded I have to make a post with this Saturday’s gift fic for Newt on tumblr), but I did take a moment to do some notes for the post on my Malkavian iteration of Smiler. Good to be prepared!
At least the evening went pretty well -- very happy with my progress on Chapter 6 there. :) Makes me feel like the story might be done this century. . . But thanks to that James Turner video, everything's been running a little late, so I've gotta head off to bed sooner rather than later. Night all!
Work – Had a rough commute in (accident that had fortunately been cleared up by the time I got to my exit, but still left me about ten minutes late), then it turned out to be one of those “quiet – BURST OF ACTIVITY – quiet” days, specifically with phone calls – we’d have a while without, and then they’d all come at once. Bit annoying, especially when we had some weirder ones that needed more research and we kept getting interrupted. But I got through the GL, got through some pledge updates, and confirmed that, as usual, the credit card company is only doing the bare minimum to stop us getting annoyed with them. *sigh* At least I didn’t have to deal with Talky Coworker too – she’s out for the week. We’ll see how things go from here!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing up the “13 Best D&D Moments: Oxventure’s Critical Hits of 2019” video! Because they were funny the first time I watched them, and they are even better with the context. XD Especially stuff like Egbert getting Jacques Darkfall to disrobe mid-battle in “Out of Order,” Corazon being completely oblivious for ages thanks to low Wisdom/Perception rolls as to how horrible Necropolis-On-Sea really was during their initial stay (drinking slime thinking it was claret, smoking a finger thinking it was a cigar, that sort of thing), and Egbert doing a salsa dance while serving salsa to the Stag Lads – and Mike actually getting up and dancing and impressing everyone with his moves. XD Ahh, delightful. Next up should be “Exhibition Impossible,” which I suspect is them trying to sell their somewhat-less-haunted manor – that should be interesting! XD
2. Keep editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – and I got farther than I anticipated, completing Alice’s first meeting with Beckett! AKA the “human-wolf version of Cheshire,” as she calls him in her head. Short but sweet, with them talking about some of the weirdness that’s supposedly haunting L.A. at the moment. It’s fun to write them together, and I’m REALLY looking forward to doing more with them in the museum. :D AND, more importantly, this takes me to a scene break in the chapter, meaning that I can actually go back and start the posting edit of Chapter 5 early! So yeah, tomorrow, we start getting ready to update the fic on AO3 for the end of the month! :)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – full three-in, three-out today –
A) First up was James Tuner with another Scenario LP – the “No Skills, No Problem” challenge, where you have to earn $400,000 simoleons with a Sim who CANNOT learn skills. They’re just incapable of skilling up. James thought the best way to beat the challenge (apart from marrying for money or just cheating) was a retail store just selling things – he took a Semaj, made him aspire to be Fabulously Wealthy, gave them the Outgoing, Neat, and Cheerful traits, and sent him to live in Britechester!
Cue a FOUR-HOUR HELL SLOG FOR JAMES TRYING TO GET THAT 400K. The beginning was all right, with Semaj going around the various worlds fishing up stuff to get the capital for his retail lot in Magnolia Promenade (living out of a tent and a cooler in the meantime), and then trying to alternatively dumpster-dive and turn his lot into a landfill for stock (only to a) not consistently get anything good out of the dumpsters and b) discover that the stuff left on the lot as landfill isn’t sellable, even if you repair it), before James finally decided “you know what? Time to just sell what random crap I can – including my own living accommodations – while working my way up to the high-ticket items.” This ultimately resulted in him having a store/house that sold two swatches of the most expensive bed in the game, and DESPERATELY plowing forward to get stuff like the cheaper restocking perk and more interested customers to get this damn challenge MOVING, y’all. He did manage in the end (selling enough beds to get himself nearly there, and THEN just deleting the entire store itself around Semaj and his remaining customer), but it took him 21 days in-game, and – as mentioned – four hours out of it. He was astonished it didn’t take longer in-game too. Lesson learned – retail stores are NOT the way to go for a challenge like this! Overpowered selling table or nothing!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin, playing the original Resident Evil 2! Yes, he was apparently playing the REmake recently and decided to see what the original 1998 version was like – and found it a bit more funny than horrifying. XD Accusing Leon of being a psychopath thanks to his rather muted reactions to the zombies; saying that Leon is both a solid, liquid, AND gas thanks to how his pixelated body vibrates constantly; calling the Licker a streaker; doing a Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song parody when he found a basketball court; mocking his own inability to find his way around the police station despite having played in the location in THREE games now (Dead By Daylight apparently has it as a map – also, Kevin, no shame, it’s harder with tank controls and fixed camera angles!); spending half his time mocking the zombies and then the other half being genuinely afraid of them; and then finally looking up original Mr. X and being deeply amused by Leon’s lack of reaction AGAIN. XD As someone who is only familiar with the REmake of RE2 thanks to LPs, this is both amusing and informative. Wonder if this is gonna become one of Kevin’s on-and-off series. . .
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and Stair Dismount – a spin-off or sequel to Turbo Dismount, where the goal was to wreck your crash test dummy across different courses in vehicles. THIS time, you only have your dummy on its own, and you have to figure out where and how hard to push it to cause maximum damage and get maximum points. In Gray’s case, the bar was a million per level, and boy did he work hard to achieve it. From just figuring out how to hit all the various bars on the warm-up level; to careening down a smashed-up traffic-filled highway; to flinging essentially a giant block of cheese with limbs down the sinking Titanic into its propellors; to bouncing that same block of cheese on a giant speaker with an EYE in the middle of it; to glitching a big-headed dummy down a flock of seagulls and straight through the ground (seriously, it kept just – shooting straight into the earth); to slapping a guy down the tunnel of deadly lasers into the cup, Gray did not quit until he had broken and severed enough limbs for his million. His dedication is an inspiration to us all. :P
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I’m pretty much mostly set for this week (though I have been reminded I have to make a post with this Saturday’s gift fic for Newt on tumblr), but I did take a moment to do some notes for the post on my Malkavian iteration of Smiler. Good to be prepared!
At least the evening went pretty well -- very happy with my progress on Chapter 6 there. :) Makes me feel like the story might be done this century. . . But thanks to that James Turner video, everything's been running a little late, so I've gotta head off to bed sooner rather than later. Night all!
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