Not So Great Wednesday
Jul. 6th, 2022 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI swear, sometimes it feels like the universe deliberately TRIES to stress me out before days off. . .from the new fridge getting surprised-delivered just minutes before I had to go to work, to the usual idiots doing a million miles an hour on the commute, to getting in a late lunch at work (which shouldn't have even been a thing, it's been so quiet), to Dad being upset when I got home because we'd had some issues with the front door and he was worried about a break-in -- yeah, today had its moments. *sigh* At least they're over now -- and I was able to be decently productive too:
Work – As stated, another very quiet day – had a couple of calls that I THOUGHT were going to be credit card calls, but were in fact people taking off their credit cards so they could instead pay by check, which was just fine. Other than that, though, it was almost all obituaries – which was a slight problem, as we’re actually catching up to the present day and thus, uh, running out. I was able to find an extra project in boxing up old GLs once my coworker located a box, but yeah. Probably for the best I took tomorrow off – allows some work to pile up so I have something to do!
Beanbags – Yeah, it was a pretty nice day out, so once I’d gotten changed and Dad had calmed down about the door, we went out and played. Everyone was a little off today, though none more so than Mom – and even I wasn’t exactly scoring big until the final round. Final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-W-2; Mom 3-3-3. Ouch – hopefully she can do better tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and the final night of the Oxventure Stream “Oxventure in Space #2!” Thanks to Egbot’s scan revealing that Dr. Irving’s coffee machine was tainted with the strange mystery goo (not that this stopped Corazon E from trying to drink some, leading Pru and Mer to desperately slap it out of his hands), and Chen revealing that Dr. Irving had not been very well-liked, the gang sussed out that someone had essentially “poisoned” Dr. Irving with the goo, only to end up with a ship full of mole-ratoids. . .
And, uh, Chen REALLY didn’t seem to like the guy. Leading Pru to be very suspicious of how that goo got into the coffee machine. Chen tried to insist he had nothing to do with it. . .but he seemed very happy with the idea of having the ship and the contents in the cargo bay all to himself. And when told that the Laserventurers were going to insist on a share, he immediately began asking if anyone wanted coffee. XD The others were suspicious, but the bigger problem was seeing if any of the mole-ratoids could be cured. It was agreed that they could use the coffee machine to mix it up (especially since the smell would likely bring the mole-ratoids running), and after a brief interlude of them wondering if they could start a “Stardobucks” brand out of this (with Stardob as the sexy mermaid logo, of course, and Chen as a latte artist), it was time to science! Stardob immediately went over to the centrifuge –
And SWEPT IT ASIDE, INSTEAD DOWNING HIS DRINK, BLINDFOLDING HIMSELF, FEELING FOR WHATEVER CHEMICALS FELT RIGHT, AND MIXING THEM UP IN THE COFFEE MACHINE. XD Basically, Stardob Feelingsed THE HELL out of this so he’d have the best chance of success on his roll – and it did indeed work! The vial was handed over to Chen, who did a bit of leaf latte art –
And then pulled his pistol, with the muzzy intent of killing all the Laserventurers. Fortunately, Corazon E had Chekov’s Gun on the wall nearby – AND some help from Mer, who threw her coconut-cracking hammer at Chen’s face to distract him. With her success adding a die to his roll, Corazon E rolled four D6 and got successes on all of them, scoring a MASSIVE crit. This led to him colliding with the wall, making the gun go off straight in Chen’s face, and then Corazon E kickflipping off said wall to save the vial before it smashed. XD Pretty epic stuff! The now-headless body of Chen slumped against the nearest convenient thing, and his ID popped out of his jacket pocket. It seems that Chen’s first name was Leander? Or, as it was written on his ID –
Chen L.
THIS WHOLE THING HAS BEEN THE SPACE VERSION OF “THE SPICY RAT CAPER,” THE VERY FIRST FUCKING OXVENTURE. XD Corazon E cursed Chen, Dob emptied the lunchbox full of blood over the corpse in an attempt to “help,” then plans were made to start spreading the cure around – only for Pru to be a killjoy and insist they TEST it first. XD Stardob injected the unconscious mole-ratoid with the potential cure – then also injected himself because why not. The mole-ratoid did indeed transform back into a human, and Stardob went on a four-second ultra-trip that ended with him thinking up a new cocktail recipe. XD With proof that they did indeed have a cure, the gang began arming themselves – Corazon E wielding two large syringes; Mer anxiously taping a syringe to the end of her crowbar; Pru repurposing Chen’s flamethrower into a coffee-thrower; and Egbot – after summoning the creatures by exhaling loads of coffee smell out of his exhaust ports – hooking up his hose attachment. (Don’t look.) Stardob, meanwhile, tried to get the medbay back to its best self for all the incoming patients, which would be sweeter if it wasn’t Stardob. XD Anyway, they all made the final big roll of the game –
12 successes over the group, just enough to cure all the mole-ratoids as they came charging in! Egbot and Pru laid down suppressing coffee while Corazon E took care of a few trying to get through and Mer just blindly stabbed until she finally actually got one. XD Also, Stardob somehow got Laser Feelings during his triage set-up, and asked the most important question of all:
“What’s the easiest way for us to steal all the gold?” XD Turns out that’s leave the crew to get showered and resuited and recover a little bit while they get their spacesuits, cycle the cargo hold, float all the goodies over to their own cargo hold, then cycle that before coming back over to check on everyone (Stardob handing out free flu shots, and the others putting a bunch of their spare coconut shrimp in the cargo hold with a note claiming Chen was responsible for their stuff disappearing). The captain thanked them for their help, and said he had a hell of a report to write up (especially after learning about the brutal deaths of two of the crewmates – Corazon E quickly blamed Chen again) – good thing there’s security cameras all over the ship he can review! Egbot immediately asked to interface with the ship, but the captain said nothing doing – they had illegally-pirated episodes of Scrubs on there! Egbot tried to tempt them with more downloads of the later seasons, but the gang accidentally talked the captain out of accepting by admitting the later seasons were kind of rubbish. XD And then L1L14N4 announced it was Margarita and Coconut Shrimp time, with the usual countdown to nuclear annihilation if they didn’t hurry back, so they hurried back. XD And so they managed to escape into the stars, with a cargo hold full of gold and other minerals, and a ship that still stank of coconut shrimp. So not a perfect win. XD Oh man, that reveal, though. . . “Damn you Chen L!” to quote Andy. XD
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has successfully unlocked all the doors, then taken a look at the crime scene through the deck cams – and oooh boy, is that a lot of blood. Plus the crate containing the sarcophagus, and the sarcophagus itself, both seem to have been opened. . .worrying! Alice also took a moment to quickly read the captain’s logs and feel bad about the slow, steady massacre he and his crew suffered. :( Now it’s just a matter of getting to the record room for the cargo list, and then off this floating grave of a ship! Trust me, Alice cannot wait.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – as expected, only Gray uploaded today, allowing me to catch up on both his videos waiting in my Subs –
A) First up, from yesterday, the return of Tall Man Run! This is the game where you must make your dude very tall and very wide in order to survive a final shrinking and thinning so he can kick a giant crash dummy in the face. Gray already played this and got through the gameplay loop very effectively, so why did he return to it?
Exploits! Specifically, he found that if he closed and then immediately reopened the game, it just GAVE him ten thousand gems. XD So he abused that for a while to unlock as many levels of the width and height (and a bit of the speed) starting upgrades as possible, and became Chonkulus, the Mighty! Basically, he started out so big, and got so good at getting all the upgrades (even the ones where you’re only supposed to choose one) that he was winning each board ALMOST every time (a poor choice early on cost him one board), and basically drop-kicking the titan dummy as a mobile unit of “waterlogged Tic-Tacs,” as he put it. So much chonk. . .combined with the height, and I’m pretty sure there were moments before he ran through the final obstacles where he was indeed bigger than the guy at the end. Certainly wider. XD That’s our Gray, putting a game through its paces to please him!
B) Of course, sometimes the game is putting Gray through his paces. . . AKA, today’s episode? More myth-busting with Alex and Danny in GTA V! As usual, the comments were combed for things for Gray to try, and Alex and Danny both entered their own myths into this one! We had stuff like “you can’t fly a commercial jet through a canyon under both bridges” (took a couple of explosions, but Gray did it), “you can’t land a plane atop a moving train” (again, took a couple of explosions, but Gray did it), “you can’t fly the super-jet under ALL the bridges on the river” (it’s a lot of bridges, and thus there were a LOT of explosions (plus a stall-out), but once again, Gray did it), “you can’t fly a Ruiner across the entire map with the parachute without touching the ground at least once” (took some finagling and a time lapse, but Gray did indeed do it), “you can’t backflip a motorcycle onto a moving train” (Danny’s myth, and Gray had to chase that train a lot, but he did it), and “you can’t skydive through the D in the VINEWOOD sign and survive” (Alex’s myth, which he thought was genuinely impossible – but 100 tries later and a lucky yank of the parachute at just the right time, and GRAY DID IT). It was chaotic and ridiculous and just everything I love about Gray and GTA. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed back to one for the remaining posts in the Victor Luvs Alice queue, and added to my drafts a video I found on a blog of someone doing a cover of “Never Gonna Give You Up” in the style of Blink 182. Yes, really. I’m NOT supposed to share that with the world?
So that's all good at least. And I've got my AC blasting to get my room cool enough to sleep -- whenever I go to bed, obviously. XD Valice Anniversary tomorrow -- let's plan some to-dos:
1. Continue writing "As Long As You Love Me"
2. Keep up on YouTube Subs and finish the OXBoxtra still in the Watch Later
3. Play -- SOMETHING, I haven't decided what yet
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Yeah, third item on the list is a bit tricky at the moment -- do I play Sims 4 and more Smiler? Fallout 4 and continue around the settlements? Check out one of my older games again? Buy a new one? Superliminal, a game I've quite enjoyed watching in LPs, is on sale as far as I know. . . I'll decide tomorrow! For now, I'm going over to TV Tropes. :p Night all!
Work – As stated, another very quiet day – had a couple of calls that I THOUGHT were going to be credit card calls, but were in fact people taking off their credit cards so they could instead pay by check, which was just fine. Other than that, though, it was almost all obituaries – which was a slight problem, as we’re actually catching up to the present day and thus, uh, running out. I was able to find an extra project in boxing up old GLs once my coworker located a box, but yeah. Probably for the best I took tomorrow off – allows some work to pile up so I have something to do!
Beanbags – Yeah, it was a pretty nice day out, so once I’d gotten changed and Dad had calmed down about the door, we went out and played. Everyone was a little off today, though none more so than Mom – and even I wasn’t exactly scoring big until the final round. Final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-W-2; Mom 3-3-3. Ouch – hopefully she can do better tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and the final night of the Oxventure Stream “Oxventure in Space #2!” Thanks to Egbot’s scan revealing that Dr. Irving’s coffee machine was tainted with the strange mystery goo (not that this stopped Corazon E from trying to drink some, leading Pru and Mer to desperately slap it out of his hands), and Chen revealing that Dr. Irving had not been very well-liked, the gang sussed out that someone had essentially “poisoned” Dr. Irving with the goo, only to end up with a ship full of mole-ratoids. . .
And, uh, Chen REALLY didn’t seem to like the guy. Leading Pru to be very suspicious of how that goo got into the coffee machine. Chen tried to insist he had nothing to do with it. . .but he seemed very happy with the idea of having the ship and the contents in the cargo bay all to himself. And when told that the Laserventurers were going to insist on a share, he immediately began asking if anyone wanted coffee. XD The others were suspicious, but the bigger problem was seeing if any of the mole-ratoids could be cured. It was agreed that they could use the coffee machine to mix it up (especially since the smell would likely bring the mole-ratoids running), and after a brief interlude of them wondering if they could start a “Stardobucks” brand out of this (with Stardob as the sexy mermaid logo, of course, and Chen as a latte artist), it was time to science! Stardob immediately went over to the centrifuge –
And SWEPT IT ASIDE, INSTEAD DOWNING HIS DRINK, BLINDFOLDING HIMSELF, FEELING FOR WHATEVER CHEMICALS FELT RIGHT, AND MIXING THEM UP IN THE COFFEE MACHINE. XD Basically, Stardob Feelingsed THE HELL out of this so he’d have the best chance of success on his roll – and it did indeed work! The vial was handed over to Chen, who did a bit of leaf latte art –
And then pulled his pistol, with the muzzy intent of killing all the Laserventurers. Fortunately, Corazon E had Chekov’s Gun on the wall nearby – AND some help from Mer, who threw her coconut-cracking hammer at Chen’s face to distract him. With her success adding a die to his roll, Corazon E rolled four D6 and got successes on all of them, scoring a MASSIVE crit. This led to him colliding with the wall, making the gun go off straight in Chen’s face, and then Corazon E kickflipping off said wall to save the vial before it smashed. XD Pretty epic stuff! The now-headless body of Chen slumped against the nearest convenient thing, and his ID popped out of his jacket pocket. It seems that Chen’s first name was Leander? Or, as it was written on his ID –
Chen L.
THIS WHOLE THING HAS BEEN THE SPACE VERSION OF “THE SPICY RAT CAPER,” THE VERY FIRST FUCKING OXVENTURE. XD Corazon E cursed Chen, Dob emptied the lunchbox full of blood over the corpse in an attempt to “help,” then plans were made to start spreading the cure around – only for Pru to be a killjoy and insist they TEST it first. XD Stardob injected the unconscious mole-ratoid with the potential cure – then also injected himself because why not. The mole-ratoid did indeed transform back into a human, and Stardob went on a four-second ultra-trip that ended with him thinking up a new cocktail recipe. XD With proof that they did indeed have a cure, the gang began arming themselves – Corazon E wielding two large syringes; Mer anxiously taping a syringe to the end of her crowbar; Pru repurposing Chen’s flamethrower into a coffee-thrower; and Egbot – after summoning the creatures by exhaling loads of coffee smell out of his exhaust ports – hooking up his hose attachment. (Don’t look.) Stardob, meanwhile, tried to get the medbay back to its best self for all the incoming patients, which would be sweeter if it wasn’t Stardob. XD Anyway, they all made the final big roll of the game –
12 successes over the group, just enough to cure all the mole-ratoids as they came charging in! Egbot and Pru laid down suppressing coffee while Corazon E took care of a few trying to get through and Mer just blindly stabbed until she finally actually got one. XD Also, Stardob somehow got Laser Feelings during his triage set-up, and asked the most important question of all:
“What’s the easiest way for us to steal all the gold?” XD Turns out that’s leave the crew to get showered and resuited and recover a little bit while they get their spacesuits, cycle the cargo hold, float all the goodies over to their own cargo hold, then cycle that before coming back over to check on everyone (Stardob handing out free flu shots, and the others putting a bunch of their spare coconut shrimp in the cargo hold with a note claiming Chen was responsible for their stuff disappearing). The captain thanked them for their help, and said he had a hell of a report to write up (especially after learning about the brutal deaths of two of the crewmates – Corazon E quickly blamed Chen again) – good thing there’s security cameras all over the ship he can review! Egbot immediately asked to interface with the ship, but the captain said nothing doing – they had illegally-pirated episodes of Scrubs on there! Egbot tried to tempt them with more downloads of the later seasons, but the gang accidentally talked the captain out of accepting by admitting the later seasons were kind of rubbish. XD And then L1L14N4 announced it was Margarita and Coconut Shrimp time, with the usual countdown to nuclear annihilation if they didn’t hurry back, so they hurried back. XD And so they managed to escape into the stars, with a cargo hold full of gold and other minerals, and a ship that still stank of coconut shrimp. So not a perfect win. XD Oh man, that reveal, though. . . “Damn you Chen L!” to quote Andy. XD
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has successfully unlocked all the doors, then taken a look at the crime scene through the deck cams – and oooh boy, is that a lot of blood. Plus the crate containing the sarcophagus, and the sarcophagus itself, both seem to have been opened. . .worrying! Alice also took a moment to quickly read the captain’s logs and feel bad about the slow, steady massacre he and his crew suffered. :( Now it’s just a matter of getting to the record room for the cargo list, and then off this floating grave of a ship! Trust me, Alice cannot wait.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – as expected, only Gray uploaded today, allowing me to catch up on both his videos waiting in my Subs –
A) First up, from yesterday, the return of Tall Man Run! This is the game where you must make your dude very tall and very wide in order to survive a final shrinking and thinning so he can kick a giant crash dummy in the face. Gray already played this and got through the gameplay loop very effectively, so why did he return to it?
Exploits! Specifically, he found that if he closed and then immediately reopened the game, it just GAVE him ten thousand gems. XD So he abused that for a while to unlock as many levels of the width and height (and a bit of the speed) starting upgrades as possible, and became Chonkulus, the Mighty! Basically, he started out so big, and got so good at getting all the upgrades (even the ones where you’re only supposed to choose one) that he was winning each board ALMOST every time (a poor choice early on cost him one board), and basically drop-kicking the titan dummy as a mobile unit of “waterlogged Tic-Tacs,” as he put it. So much chonk. . .combined with the height, and I’m pretty sure there were moments before he ran through the final obstacles where he was indeed bigger than the guy at the end. Certainly wider. XD That’s our Gray, putting a game through its paces to please him!
B) Of course, sometimes the game is putting Gray through his paces. . . AKA, today’s episode? More myth-busting with Alex and Danny in GTA V! As usual, the comments were combed for things for Gray to try, and Alex and Danny both entered their own myths into this one! We had stuff like “you can’t fly a commercial jet through a canyon under both bridges” (took a couple of explosions, but Gray did it), “you can’t land a plane atop a moving train” (again, took a couple of explosions, but Gray did it), “you can’t fly the super-jet under ALL the bridges on the river” (it’s a lot of bridges, and thus there were a LOT of explosions (plus a stall-out), but once again, Gray did it), “you can’t fly a Ruiner across the entire map with the parachute without touching the ground at least once” (took some finagling and a time lapse, but Gray did indeed do it), “you can’t backflip a motorcycle onto a moving train” (Danny’s myth, and Gray had to chase that train a lot, but he did it), and “you can’t skydive through the D in the VINEWOOD sign and survive” (Alex’s myth, which he thought was genuinely impossible – but 100 tries later and a lucky yank of the parachute at just the right time, and GRAY DID IT). It was chaotic and ridiculous and just everything I love about Gray and GTA. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed back to one for the remaining posts in the Victor Luvs Alice queue, and added to my drafts a video I found on a blog of someone doing a cover of “Never Gonna Give You Up” in the style of Blink 182. Yes, really. I’m NOT supposed to share that with the world?
So that's all good at least. And I've got my AC blasting to get my room cool enough to sleep -- whenever I go to bed, obviously. XD Valice Anniversary tomorrow -- let's plan some to-dos:
1. Continue writing "As Long As You Love Me"
2. Keep up on YouTube Subs and finish the OXBoxtra still in the Watch Later
3. Play -- SOMETHING, I haven't decided what yet
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Yeah, third item on the list is a bit tricky at the moment -- do I play Sims 4 and more Smiler? Fallout 4 and continue around the settlements? Check out one of my older games again? Buy a new one? Superliminal, a game I've quite enjoyed watching in LPs, is on sale as far as I know. . . I'll decide tomorrow! For now, I'm going over to TV Tropes. :p Night all!
