First Day Back On The Grind
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crossover_chick. . .should I really use that title when I'm working a short week with another day off on Thursday and a half-day on Friday? XD But yeah, it was back to work and my usual work antics today -- here's the breakdown:
Work – Quiet day – coworker was doing GL and gifts (the ones we’re allowed to put on right now, anyway – there’s gonna be a pause in processing because end-of-fiscal-year and all soon), while I was doing obituaries and duplicates for the most part. I suspect tomorrow will be more of the same.
Beanbags – Not today, mostly because it looked like it was going to rain all day. It hadn’t by the time I got home, but – you know if we’d tried it, it would have. Hopefully better weather tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back with the Oxventure Stream “Oxventure in Space #2!” We caught up with the Laserventurers mid-combat with the mole-ratoids, Egbot having just punched one into a ceiling light, where it was doing the electric jig. After a brief interruption from Johnny’s dog, Stardob decided to enlist the freaking-out Mer into helping him figure out if there was any human left in the mole-ratoids –
By grabbing and pinning one, and having her hack away at its innards with the bonesaw. This very conclusively proved there was no human left in it, and also rendered it very very dead. Especially after Stardob tore it in half to double-check. The mole-ratoid that had been attacking the coconuts saw this and went “sod this for a lark” and tried to escape into a vent, but Pru spotted it and stunned it with her laser gun, so they had a live specimen to examine. Egbot attempted to get them a second specimen by yanking the mole-ratoid currently stuck in the light and powerbombing it into the floor, but a single success and Egbot not really caring if it lived meant that he smashed it into a grate and cubed its head. Whoops.
Still, they had the single living one (and confirmation that they could “possibly” be changed back into a human – this was the result of SOMEONE’S Laser Feelings roll; thinking about it I think it was when Pru stunned it), and Pru – acting before Stardob could start doing any nonsense with “Occam’s Razor,” aka the razor he carries around to take samples off patients, or Corazon E with his “Chekov’s Gun,” aka the gun he carries around that is guaranteed to go off at some point – examined the body, getting Laser Feelings and spotting that it was still wearing part of a uniform. She also got to ask Johnny there was anyone human left – yes, one person behind a nearby bulkhead door, who she could hear accidentally knocking over a canister of something. She relayed this to the others, and while Stardob got the mole-ratoid sorted on a gurney so they could take it to a lab, Corazon went and kicked open the door with his kicking-door-open skills.
This nearly got him flamethrowered by the science officer hiding inside, Chen, but only just. Chen was relieved to see friendlies, but not so much to see a still-living mole-ratoid on the gurney, insisting that they had to kill it and that if there was a way to cure them, he would have figured it out by now (even with their medbay being crap except for a nice coffee machine). Stardob being Stardob, he prescribed ten ccs of “chill the fuck out” and dosed the poor bastard with morphine. XD The gang then proceeded with their new drugged-up friend and the unconscious mole-ratoid toward the medbay, Egbot spinning his head rapidly to keep an eye out for trouble while Corazon E crowdsurfed on everyone to watch the ceiling. A group roll got them safely to the cafeteria, which everyone immediately recognized as “ground zero” of the attack – blood, gore, gnawed-apart bodies, shredded uniforms, you name it. Corazon E and Mer had both gotten Laser Feelings on their rolls to get there, so Johnny let them ask their questions once the scene was set. From Mer was simply “could this happen to us,” and a “yes” from Johnny; from Corazon E, a “what the hell caused this?” and the response –
“Look in the recycler.”
Corazon E thus proceeded over to the recycler, which was jammed with some mysterious thing. Egbot interfaced with it (everyone look away) and got it to pop out the jam – a chemical storage flask, containing just a tiny bit of black goo.
Black goo that proved to be very much alive as it started slithering around the flask, staring at Egbot briefly before turning its attention to the fleshier members of the group. Egbot quickly stoppered up the flask with his thumb, and Corazon E asked the drugged Chen what the hell that stuff was – Chen wasn’t PRECISELY coherent, but managed to get out that they’d picked up some of the goo on a mining expedition and they’d brought it back onto the ship to study. Everyone was like “classic bad sci-fi horror move,” and with Egbot’s thumb on full stopper mode, they proceeded to the medbay! And, as promised, it was pretty shit except for the head doctor, Dr. Irving’s, incredibly nice coffee maker!
. . .Which was missing its pot. Chen was as puzzled as anyone to see it missing, insisting only Dr. Irving ever drank from it, so Egbot did a scan and got Laser Feelings! Man, there have been Laser Feelings out the wazoo today. . . He got the exact make and model, the kind of beans Dr. Irving favored – and the knowledge that there were trace amounts of “the goo” in the machine, particularly around the spot where you’d screw in a vial of flavoring (like pumpkin spice). Egbot promptly asked the universe as to Dr. Irving’s status, and – he’s dead. Just straight up dead. That’s – probably not a good sign. We’ll see how this all concludes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check! I have now started Chapter 4, currently titled “Bullet Time” after the snippet that will make up the latter half – it’s the next day, and Victor, naturally, is still freaking out some about everything that’s happened in the past 48 hours. Alice driving him down a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, just in time for the car to break down, is not helping matters. XD He’s finally asked her how she can be so flip about everything when he’s just seen or heard her murder seven people, and she is going to admit she’s not great at social stuff anymore and uses this dark, sarcastic humor to cope. Too bad the upcoming nice moment will rapidly be ruined by Tannen. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check – James and Kevin both had longer videos today (with Kevin having one of those multi-game videos I like to take notes on), so Gray’s video is gonna have to wait until tomorrow. Ah well – at least I covered the two chonkier ones –
A) First up, James Turner with the latest episode of “Rage To Riches!” James came into the episode with three goals – get Angus and Nina (especially Nina) to become swole so they could be better prepared to challenge their packs’ respective alphas; have Angus bring Brodie over to the side of becoming a werewolf ally; and adopt Cupcake. How did he do on all of these goals?
Okay! Cupcake was only seen once out in the world, so there was no chance to adopt them – though given that Nina was in the middle of a rampage at the time, it probably wasn’t the best moment anyway. XD They did both manage to get in some decent working-out time, using both the secret bunker under the bar and the weights machine by the Wildfangs hangout, and I think they both did gain at least one point of Fitness skill, but Nina still got her butt kicked by Greg when she went to provoke him again. And when she went to challenge Vlad at his place, he ended up just leaving entirely – claiming there was no one home when Nina got Angus in to knock for her. XD So she just devoured his entire front garden, porch lights, and mailbox. XD (Hey, it DID get her up to Apex werewolf!) But the big win of the episode was Angus and Brodie – after MUCH time spent building a relationship (including getting the “Great Storyteller” trait to help with telling stories, and stargazing multiple times), Angus was able to successfully ask Brodie for werewolf sympathy, and turn him into a Werewolf Ally, aww. Werewolf diplomat Angus ahoy! :D
As for the rest of the episode, the major highlights were Nina aging up (having picked up the “Argumentative” and “Good Manners” traits from her upbringing – no, I don’t know how those two work together – and getting “Self Assured” from James because it seemed to fit her personality); Angus making Delta rank in the Moonwood Collective and learning how to pacify other werewolves (right after he successfully figured out how to regain control himself during a rampage), talking Nina down from wrecking the Moonwood Collective’s pack site; Angus and Nina picking up some body scars in CAS (which required cheating to enter CAS Full Edit mode, because for some reason you can’t add body scars from regular “Change Sim” mode – also, thanks to James not noticing werewolf and regular forms were linked, they ended up with clothes on their werewolf forms, which James didn’t want, at least for Nina); and Nina becoming an Apex werewolf, as above, and getting the “Alpha Wolf” perk to win more fights! And then promptly losing a spar to her brother. XD These two just cannot catch a break. . .but hey, now Grampire is officially on their side? It’s something? . . .Maybe they’ll feel better once they adopt Cupcake.
B) And then we had Call Me Kevin and “Trying to find the worst simulator game” on Steam! Yes, it is time for a look at the worst of the worst in the simulator genre (or at least some of the weirdest of the weirdest):
Accident: This one’s actually kind of dark, in that you play as someone who goes around investigating car crashes, saving what people you can and looking for clues as to what happened to cause the accident. Kevin played one level where a couple got killed by some loose logs falling off a logging truck (which cause two other cars to go out of control as well), and Kevin made sure to note in his review how the game makes sure to tell you their kid is now an orphan. Sad! And – familiar? I SWEAR that someone I watch has played this before, and I want to say it was Kevin himself. O.o I dunno, I just feel like it’s been in my orbit in the past.
Tree Simulator 2022: The Obvious Joke Game – you control one tree and its immediate area. You can batter the tree with high winds, you can spawn lots of birds in the sky, you can dress up the tree with a red tie – you can even invite a friend to tree it up with you! This is absolute madness and Kevin (and his friend) loved it. XD
BBQ Simulator: This one was all about having a backyard barbecue to impress the local anime girl. (No, seriously.) The character customization was weirdly in-depth (Kevin was able to make a firefighter monster who was naked from the waist down), but actually doing any barbecue was a bit jank. Though maybe that was Kevin focusing more on dumping as much charcoal into the grill as possible and then setting his anime girl guest on fire before trying to serve her raw chicken. XD
Into The Flames: After that disaster, it seemed only appropriate to follow up with a firefighter simulator! Though, once again, the actual firefighting aspect wasn’t good, both by virtue of the game being a touch jank (the usual weird clipping issues you get with this sort of thing) and by virtue of Kevin being Kevin (he kept immediately killing himself by running into smoke-filled rooms without a breathing mask, and then killing himself more slowly by jumping off the roof repeatedly once he learned the game had fall damage – took three leaps to die!). It’s probably better if you play it with some level of actual seriousness, but we don’t come to this channel for that. XD
Crowd Simulator: A game about fighting your way through crowds! Complete with a Hats DLC Kevin had to get. As Pig-Head Man, Kevin fought to get onto a busy elevator, get down a busy street, and get onto a busy subway train – the latter of which was apparently GENUINELY EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING, poor guy. But he did have some fun with it, and he enjoyed skipping to the end and dragging a safe onto a train (apparently his dude became a bank robber of some kind in the levels in between XD).
Boris the Rocket: I think this was supposed to be a simulator about being a subversive building rockets to take down the worst of KGB Russia – however, after setting off one bottle rocket, Kevin spotted the secret “no” option on the confession that would normally send you to a work camp and got Boris shot. He has now declared himself the world-record-holding speedrunner for the game. XD Welp, we’ll see if anyone can beat you, Kevin!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got my posts for Victor Luvs Alice this week all into the queue (Smiler update and Sims 4 Occult Refresh thoughts for Wednesday; masterpost of Valice wedding stuff for Thursday; Dany’s fanart for Friday; Semi-Official Valice Wedding Song for Saturday), and popped three ask replies into the Valice Multiverse one! All set for tomorrow!
Additionally:
-->Officially Dad's birthday today! I am pleased to report that he very much liked my e-card and my gift of maple syrup. :) And we had more delicious cake and ice cream before it was finally packed away in the freezer. XD
Pretty productive overall! And now I have to hit the sheets so I can do it all again tomorrow, just slightly differently. :p At least I also have a day off to look forward to right after it. Night all!
Work – Quiet day – coworker was doing GL and gifts (the ones we’re allowed to put on right now, anyway – there’s gonna be a pause in processing because end-of-fiscal-year and all soon), while I was doing obituaries and duplicates for the most part. I suspect tomorrow will be more of the same.
Beanbags – Not today, mostly because it looked like it was going to rain all day. It hadn’t by the time I got home, but – you know if we’d tried it, it would have. Hopefully better weather tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back with the Oxventure Stream “Oxventure in Space #2!” We caught up with the Laserventurers mid-combat with the mole-ratoids, Egbot having just punched one into a ceiling light, where it was doing the electric jig. After a brief interruption from Johnny’s dog, Stardob decided to enlist the freaking-out Mer into helping him figure out if there was any human left in the mole-ratoids –
By grabbing and pinning one, and having her hack away at its innards with the bonesaw. This very conclusively proved there was no human left in it, and also rendered it very very dead. Especially after Stardob tore it in half to double-check. The mole-ratoid that had been attacking the coconuts saw this and went “sod this for a lark” and tried to escape into a vent, but Pru spotted it and stunned it with her laser gun, so they had a live specimen to examine. Egbot attempted to get them a second specimen by yanking the mole-ratoid currently stuck in the light and powerbombing it into the floor, but a single success and Egbot not really caring if it lived meant that he smashed it into a grate and cubed its head. Whoops.
Still, they had the single living one (and confirmation that they could “possibly” be changed back into a human – this was the result of SOMEONE’S Laser Feelings roll; thinking about it I think it was when Pru stunned it), and Pru – acting before Stardob could start doing any nonsense with “Occam’s Razor,” aka the razor he carries around to take samples off patients, or Corazon E with his “Chekov’s Gun,” aka the gun he carries around that is guaranteed to go off at some point – examined the body, getting Laser Feelings and spotting that it was still wearing part of a uniform. She also got to ask Johnny there was anyone human left – yes, one person behind a nearby bulkhead door, who she could hear accidentally knocking over a canister of something. She relayed this to the others, and while Stardob got the mole-ratoid sorted on a gurney so they could take it to a lab, Corazon went and kicked open the door with his kicking-door-open skills.
This nearly got him flamethrowered by the science officer hiding inside, Chen, but only just. Chen was relieved to see friendlies, but not so much to see a still-living mole-ratoid on the gurney, insisting that they had to kill it and that if there was a way to cure them, he would have figured it out by now (even with their medbay being crap except for a nice coffee machine). Stardob being Stardob, he prescribed ten ccs of “chill the fuck out” and dosed the poor bastard with morphine. XD The gang then proceeded with their new drugged-up friend and the unconscious mole-ratoid toward the medbay, Egbot spinning his head rapidly to keep an eye out for trouble while Corazon E crowdsurfed on everyone to watch the ceiling. A group roll got them safely to the cafeteria, which everyone immediately recognized as “ground zero” of the attack – blood, gore, gnawed-apart bodies, shredded uniforms, you name it. Corazon E and Mer had both gotten Laser Feelings on their rolls to get there, so Johnny let them ask their questions once the scene was set. From Mer was simply “could this happen to us,” and a “yes” from Johnny; from Corazon E, a “what the hell caused this?” and the response –
“Look in the recycler.”
Corazon E thus proceeded over to the recycler, which was jammed with some mysterious thing. Egbot interfaced with it (everyone look away) and got it to pop out the jam – a chemical storage flask, containing just a tiny bit of black goo.
Black goo that proved to be very much alive as it started slithering around the flask, staring at Egbot briefly before turning its attention to the fleshier members of the group. Egbot quickly stoppered up the flask with his thumb, and Corazon E asked the drugged Chen what the hell that stuff was – Chen wasn’t PRECISELY coherent, but managed to get out that they’d picked up some of the goo on a mining expedition and they’d brought it back onto the ship to study. Everyone was like “classic bad sci-fi horror move,” and with Egbot’s thumb on full stopper mode, they proceeded to the medbay! And, as promised, it was pretty shit except for the head doctor, Dr. Irving’s, incredibly nice coffee maker!
. . .Which was missing its pot. Chen was as puzzled as anyone to see it missing, insisting only Dr. Irving ever drank from it, so Egbot did a scan and got Laser Feelings! Man, there have been Laser Feelings out the wazoo today. . . He got the exact make and model, the kind of beans Dr. Irving favored – and the knowledge that there were trace amounts of “the goo” in the machine, particularly around the spot where you’d screw in a vial of flavoring (like pumpkin spice). Egbot promptly asked the universe as to Dr. Irving’s status, and – he’s dead. Just straight up dead. That’s – probably not a good sign. We’ll see how this all concludes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check! I have now started Chapter 4, currently titled “Bullet Time” after the snippet that will make up the latter half – it’s the next day, and Victor, naturally, is still freaking out some about everything that’s happened in the past 48 hours. Alice driving him down a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, just in time for the car to break down, is not helping matters. XD He’s finally asked her how she can be so flip about everything when he’s just seen or heard her murder seven people, and she is going to admit she’s not great at social stuff anymore and uses this dark, sarcastic humor to cope. Too bad the upcoming nice moment will rapidly be ruined by Tannen. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check – James and Kevin both had longer videos today (with Kevin having one of those multi-game videos I like to take notes on), so Gray’s video is gonna have to wait until tomorrow. Ah well – at least I covered the two chonkier ones –
A) First up, James Turner with the latest episode of “Rage To Riches!” James came into the episode with three goals – get Angus and Nina (especially Nina) to become swole so they could be better prepared to challenge their packs’ respective alphas; have Angus bring Brodie over to the side of becoming a werewolf ally; and adopt Cupcake. How did he do on all of these goals?
Okay! Cupcake was only seen once out in the world, so there was no chance to adopt them – though given that Nina was in the middle of a rampage at the time, it probably wasn’t the best moment anyway. XD They did both manage to get in some decent working-out time, using both the secret bunker under the bar and the weights machine by the Wildfangs hangout, and I think they both did gain at least one point of Fitness skill, but Nina still got her butt kicked by Greg when she went to provoke him again. And when she went to challenge Vlad at his place, he ended up just leaving entirely – claiming there was no one home when Nina got Angus in to knock for her. XD So she just devoured his entire front garden, porch lights, and mailbox. XD (Hey, it DID get her up to Apex werewolf!) But the big win of the episode was Angus and Brodie – after MUCH time spent building a relationship (including getting the “Great Storyteller” trait to help with telling stories, and stargazing multiple times), Angus was able to successfully ask Brodie for werewolf sympathy, and turn him into a Werewolf Ally, aww. Werewolf diplomat Angus ahoy! :D
As for the rest of the episode, the major highlights were Nina aging up (having picked up the “Argumentative” and “Good Manners” traits from her upbringing – no, I don’t know how those two work together – and getting “Self Assured” from James because it seemed to fit her personality); Angus making Delta rank in the Moonwood Collective and learning how to pacify other werewolves (right after he successfully figured out how to regain control himself during a rampage), talking Nina down from wrecking the Moonwood Collective’s pack site; Angus and Nina picking up some body scars in CAS (which required cheating to enter CAS Full Edit mode, because for some reason you can’t add body scars from regular “Change Sim” mode – also, thanks to James not noticing werewolf and regular forms were linked, they ended up with clothes on their werewolf forms, which James didn’t want, at least for Nina); and Nina becoming an Apex werewolf, as above, and getting the “Alpha Wolf” perk to win more fights! And then promptly losing a spar to her brother. XD These two just cannot catch a break. . .but hey, now Grampire is officially on their side? It’s something? . . .Maybe they’ll feel better once they adopt Cupcake.
B) And then we had Call Me Kevin and “Trying to find the worst simulator game” on Steam! Yes, it is time for a look at the worst of the worst in the simulator genre (or at least some of the weirdest of the weirdest):
Accident: This one’s actually kind of dark, in that you play as someone who goes around investigating car crashes, saving what people you can and looking for clues as to what happened to cause the accident. Kevin played one level where a couple got killed by some loose logs falling off a logging truck (which cause two other cars to go out of control as well), and Kevin made sure to note in his review how the game makes sure to tell you their kid is now an orphan. Sad! And – familiar? I SWEAR that someone I watch has played this before, and I want to say it was Kevin himself. O.o I dunno, I just feel like it’s been in my orbit in the past.
Tree Simulator 2022: The Obvious Joke Game – you control one tree and its immediate area. You can batter the tree with high winds, you can spawn lots of birds in the sky, you can dress up the tree with a red tie – you can even invite a friend to tree it up with you! This is absolute madness and Kevin (and his friend) loved it. XD
BBQ Simulator: This one was all about having a backyard barbecue to impress the local anime girl. (No, seriously.) The character customization was weirdly in-depth (Kevin was able to make a firefighter monster who was naked from the waist down), but actually doing any barbecue was a bit jank. Though maybe that was Kevin focusing more on dumping as much charcoal into the grill as possible and then setting his anime girl guest on fire before trying to serve her raw chicken. XD
Into The Flames: After that disaster, it seemed only appropriate to follow up with a firefighter simulator! Though, once again, the actual firefighting aspect wasn’t good, both by virtue of the game being a touch jank (the usual weird clipping issues you get with this sort of thing) and by virtue of Kevin being Kevin (he kept immediately killing himself by running into smoke-filled rooms without a breathing mask, and then killing himself more slowly by jumping off the roof repeatedly once he learned the game had fall damage – took three leaps to die!). It’s probably better if you play it with some level of actual seriousness, but we don’t come to this channel for that. XD
Crowd Simulator: A game about fighting your way through crowds! Complete with a Hats DLC Kevin had to get. As Pig-Head Man, Kevin fought to get onto a busy elevator, get down a busy street, and get onto a busy subway train – the latter of which was apparently GENUINELY EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING, poor guy. But he did have some fun with it, and he enjoyed skipping to the end and dragging a safe onto a train (apparently his dude became a bank robber of some kind in the levels in between XD).
Boris the Rocket: I think this was supposed to be a simulator about being a subversive building rockets to take down the worst of KGB Russia – however, after setting off one bottle rocket, Kevin spotted the secret “no” option on the confession that would normally send you to a work camp and got Boris shot. He has now declared himself the world-record-holding speedrunner for the game. XD Welp, we’ll see if anyone can beat you, Kevin!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got my posts for Victor Luvs Alice this week all into the queue (Smiler update and Sims 4 Occult Refresh thoughts for Wednesday; masterpost of Valice wedding stuff for Thursday; Dany’s fanart for Friday; Semi-Official Valice Wedding Song for Saturday), and popped three ask replies into the Valice Multiverse one! All set for tomorrow!
Additionally:
-->Officially Dad's birthday today! I am pleased to report that he very much liked my e-card and my gift of maple syrup. :) And we had more delicious cake and ice cream before it was finally packed away in the freezer. XD
Pretty productive overall! And now I have to hit the sheets so I can do it all again tomorrow, just slightly differently. :p At least I also have a day off to look forward to right after it. Night all!
