Longplay Saturday
Jul. 23rd, 2022 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickWhat do I mean by that title? Just that most of my Saturday that wasn't cleaning was video gaming, as detailed in the to-do list below:
1. Clean my room and do the monthly laundry: Check – started the room clean at about 10:50 AM, finished up at 1:45 PM (with a break just after 1 PM for lunch). The laundry got folded into the stuff Mom was doing herself, so that took a little longer, but it was all back with me by about 4 PM or so. Nice to have that all sorted again!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and Plumbella, watch a James Turner video if possible: Two-thirds check – though it wasn’t James Turner I missed, it was Plumbella! Yeah, instead of hitting my Watch Later this evening with her video. . .
A) I instead started with the video that made me unsubscribe from James last week simply because it was super-long and I did NOT have the mental capacity to deal with it at the time – “The Sims 4 High School Build & Buy Overview!” One hour and nine minutes of James taking us through pretty much every build/buy item in the pack, from the TEN BEDS to the FIVE DIFFERENT DESKS to the boba tea stuff to the clutter to the – there is a LOT in this pack. A lot of variants, a lot of interesting things to give rooms personality, a lot of fun colors and patterns.
. . .Guys? I think he might have sold me on this. I’ve mentioned before I’m not that interested in the “high school” experience, but holy CRAP this build/buy. I just – it looks so much fun? There’s so many awesome colors and whatnot? ONE OF THE DESKS HAS AN ANIMATED RAINBOW LIGHT STRIP?? I don’t – I mean, obviously I’m not buying a pack that has busted gameplay, that’s for certain, which means we have to check how it actually plays when it officially comes out. (Functional graduations a must, Sims Team!) But HOLY CRAP. James, I don’t know how the fuck you did it, but I am actually a little bit hype. Wow.
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and “I lived a terrible double life in Bitlife!” Yes, we are back to the BitLife nonsense, this time with Chaos The Kind, whose schtick was he alternated between good and evil yearly – I think it worked out that he was good on odd years, and evil on even years. This led to a truly chaotic life – I mean, right from the start, an evil year when he was a kid led to him ACCIDENTALLY KILLING A CLASSMATE FOR STEALING CALCULATORS. He was promptly sent to juvie, where he spent the first year crying because it was a good year. XD This became something of a pattern in his life – good year? He’ll help out at the animal shelter and pay his sworn enemy compliments. Bad year? He’ll attack said enemy and attempt to find evil jobs ruining lives (like a marriage counselor). This – came back to bite him when he tried to chat with his supervisor (named Loretta Slaughter of all things) about tacos and burritos on a good year, was told to shut up, and promptly decided to murder her the next evil year. Only to get caught and get the death penalty. Whoops. Chaos dying at 27 obviously wasn’t Kevin’s plan, so he rewound time five years –
And promptly had Chaos join the Irish Mafia, because obviously DISorganized crime didn’t work out for him. XD Strangely enough, though, this life ended up working out better for him. It was a little rough at the beginning – while he had a good start with the Family thanks to being on an evil year, the minute he swapped back to good he turned informant, and then a little later got caught and ended up getting life in prison. He joined the Tattletale Gang and ended up alternating between crying in his cell and starting prison riots before managing to escape. He pulled off a decent score during a burglary, but that didn’t make his Family like him any better – and a “I’m good this year so I must refuse fixing this election” choice ended with him being beat up and ejected from the mafia. Which Kevin admitted was a better ending than he expected, because, well, he expected them to KILL him. Chaos promptly ran away to Spain and tried to become a Mall Santa, but that didn’t work out, and after a brief stay in a Spanish jail was deported back to the States, where he was forced to escape from prison AGAIN. After murdering everyone he ever knew, he stole a few things to raise the cash to emigrate again, and ended up in Monaco!
Monaco LOVED HIM. Seriously – dude ran for the school board, won, had a MASSIVE approval rating, got bribed OVER TWO MILLION to look the other way on something, ran for mayor after a few years and won that too, adopted and then abandoned a kid, MURDERED A RANDOM NUN ON AN EVIL YEAR just to prove he could do no wrong, sent his abandoned kid Hans a yodeling pickle on a good one, eventually resigned from being mayor, beat a charge on illegal immigration and bribery because everyone liked him so much. . .and then died on an evil year because he found a bag of PCP and ate the entire thing. XD I mean – this is a new record for chaos in one of Kevin’s lives, I think. XD
C) And finally we moved onto GrayStillPlays and “Busting 1000 IQ myths in GTA 5!” Time again for Gray to put himself through hell busting myths suggested by his commenters in GTA V! Myths today included “you can’t skydive through this one weird blocky monument in the game and survive” (you can if you crash into it enough times to learn EXACTLY when to pull your parachute); “you can’t shoot down a helicopter in a floating Ruiner with unguided missiles” (you can if you’re stupid lucky while falling to earth after your parachute runs out); “you can’t wallride through multiple thumbnail holes” (you can if you’re furious enough with Alex for putting THIRTEEN of them on the course that you just won’t give him the satisfaction); “you can’t blow up a helicopter by attaching a sticky bomb to the prop of a wind turbine and setting it off at just the right moment” (you can if you use a dump truck to get yourself high enough to actually get the sticky bomb attached to the prop); and “you can’t fire a missile at a hoverbike, then outrun it with the Super Run, get on the bike, and fly it away before the missile hits you” (you can if you’re stupidly stubborn and get in a LOT of practice with the Super Run). Usual “Gray curses his comment section, Alex and Danny, and his own stupidity” GTA V video – in other words, excellent. XD
3. Play Sims 4 and get Smiler, Victor, and Alice all living in the same house in time for New Year's Eve: Check, though it took a LOT more of the afternoon than I was expecting! Mostly because a) I am now unused to controlling more than one Sim at a time, and had to readjust from going to one to three, and b) cleaning out Smiler’s house and then merging all their stuff into Victor and Alice’s place took a while, and I didn’t even get everything in – the Liddell-Van Dort Victorian starter is smaller than I remembered! Oh, and unfortunately, I lost Smiler’s painting and their photos of themselves with Victor and Alice at the Romance Festival – turns out those don’t survive a trip to a new place in the household inventory. I should have put them in their own personal inventory. :( Live and learn!
Even with that, though, my Valicer trio ended up having a very nice day! Smiler leveled up their Handiness through fixing their broken laptop (damn thing conked out on them while they were working on their term paper), then leveled up their dancing while waiting for a good moment to call Victor and ask to join his and Alice’s household. Once they were all in Willow Creek and as much of Smiler’s stuff as I could fit was put in the house (with unnecessary duplicate items sold), I had Smiler grab a drink of Victor’s plasma, Victor and Alice grab a drink of Potion of Youth (yeah, yeah, I know, but I dun want them to age up), then everybody started chatting together in the little office area and working on the New Year’s “Festive Spirit” tradition! Smiler’s friend Siya dropped by and joined the chat – she and Smiler ended up making a snowpal together outside while Alice and Victor made their resolutions – Alice is going to write a book, and Victor is going to raise a skill! Smiler took care of the garden and also resolved to raise a skill while Alice made some food and Siya and Victor had a New Year’s toast (and I took a moment to reset Victor and Alice’s attractiveness preferences) –
And then the pop-up for the “Festival of Snow” over in Mt. Komorebi popped up in the corner. I was like “you know, that’s probably very appropriate for New Year’s Eve – let’s go!” And once Siya cleared out, that’s exactly what Victor, Alice, and Smiler did!
One loading screen later, I had a minor moment of panic when I realized they’d ended up at the Onsen lot. That lot is broken in some saves and can make it so you basically lose a family because you can’t complete the travel to the location, but you can’t go anywhere ELSE either. Fortunately my game was fine and everything functioned like it should, but yikes. O.o I really hope the Sims team figures out that bug sooner rather than later!
Anyway, once I realized “oh, wait, the lot LOADED, that means I’m probably good,” the gang headed down to the snow festival! There’s not a HECK of a lot to it – a couple of food stalls, some vending machines, and of course the snow sculptures – but it was still fun to visit! Alice got the special “snow festival” outfit and an Izzy Fabulous Simmi; Victor tried some vending machine canned tea and some grilled squid, then shared a New Year’s toast with Geeker McTest (yes, also in this save – he’s a minor celeb in this one!); and Smiler met and friended Roxane and did the “mountain move” with Yamma-chan. :D And of course there was plenty of playing in the snow – everybody made snowpals (though it took Victor a bit longer to actually MAKE one than Alice and Smiler – I dunno why the interaction will regularly cancel itself out now), Alice and Smiler made some snow angels, and the three of them had a snowball fight! In which Alice and Smiler basically ganged up on Victor. XD There was also some flirting between both Victor and Smiler and Victor and Alice, both of which made me very happy. <3
All of that was quite exhausting for the two mortals, though, so they ended up leaving around 10:30 PM so Victor and Alice could get in a quick nap before they all watched the Countdown to Midnight together. And then it was off to bed for real for the married couple, while Smiler stayed up to edit and submit their term paper. :) Successful holiday for all! This is exactly the note that I wanted to leave them on before the big patch next week. :)
. . .well, that and knowing that they can indeed afford the “2 Olde Mill Lane Haunted” lot I made for them to move into in Henford-On-Bagley. :) I took a moment to place that in the world right before quitting for the day – the total value of the lot is $40,989, which is JUST under what they have in loose cash. So they’ll be struggling with the bills for a little bit, but on the plus side, they should be able to bring all their furnishings! So that’ll be nice, and guarantee they have a decent kitchen and bedroom and whatnot. *nods* So yeah, once my mods are clear after the patch, the Big Move is on! And THEN we start getting occulty too. . .
4.Work on tumblr drafts Continue writing on “As Long As You Love Me”: Substitution here with the thing I actually meant to put last night – look, I was tired and item 4 is almost always “work on tumblr drafts.” But yes, Victor and Alice’s attempt at carpool karaoke has been rudely interrupted by the Blackwing motorcycle gang, which has now tracked them down after Alice’s murder of their member Icarus back in the diner. I’ve gotten them up to the mid-chapter break that will start the next snippet – “Murder Angel!” Guess what happens during that. XD
Though, to be fair, I did just do something related to tumblr drafts – getting my pictures ready for the upcoming Chill Save update on Wednesday (Smiler’s Thursday, where they spent most of their day fishing and doing robotics). So perhaps I can call this check plus now. :)
Yeah, LITERALLY just finished the picture thing, by the way. I just really wanted to have it done for when I do the actual posts tomorrow. :p But yeah, productive enough day, even if it was mostly in Sims 4. :p Look, I'm just happy to have Smiler, Victor, and Alice all together in the same house now -- it gives me the serotonin. XD
But as I'm doing the social thing and whatnot, it's time to wrap this up with the Sunday to-dos:
1. Keep up with the FO4 Playthrough Progression
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, Plumbella, Jon's FO4 "Legendary Roulette" video
3. Play Fallout 4 and get Victor and Piper on the road to Finch Farm
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Yes, that fourth one is for real this time. XD Night all!
1. Clean my room and do the monthly laundry: Check – started the room clean at about 10:50 AM, finished up at 1:45 PM (with a break just after 1 PM for lunch). The laundry got folded into the stuff Mom was doing herself, so that took a little longer, but it was all back with me by about 4 PM or so. Nice to have that all sorted again!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and Plumbella, watch a James Turner video if possible: Two-thirds check – though it wasn’t James Turner I missed, it was Plumbella! Yeah, instead of hitting my Watch Later this evening with her video. . .
A) I instead started with the video that made me unsubscribe from James last week simply because it was super-long and I did NOT have the mental capacity to deal with it at the time – “The Sims 4 High School Build & Buy Overview!” One hour and nine minutes of James taking us through pretty much every build/buy item in the pack, from the TEN BEDS to the FIVE DIFFERENT DESKS to the boba tea stuff to the clutter to the – there is a LOT in this pack. A lot of variants, a lot of interesting things to give rooms personality, a lot of fun colors and patterns.
. . .Guys? I think he might have sold me on this. I’ve mentioned before I’m not that interested in the “high school” experience, but holy CRAP this build/buy. I just – it looks so much fun? There’s so many awesome colors and whatnot? ONE OF THE DESKS HAS AN ANIMATED RAINBOW LIGHT STRIP?? I don’t – I mean, obviously I’m not buying a pack that has busted gameplay, that’s for certain, which means we have to check how it actually plays when it officially comes out. (Functional graduations a must, Sims Team!) But HOLY CRAP. James, I don’t know how the fuck you did it, but I am actually a little bit hype. Wow.
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and “I lived a terrible double life in Bitlife!” Yes, we are back to the BitLife nonsense, this time with Chaos The Kind, whose schtick was he alternated between good and evil yearly – I think it worked out that he was good on odd years, and evil on even years. This led to a truly chaotic life – I mean, right from the start, an evil year when he was a kid led to him ACCIDENTALLY KILLING A CLASSMATE FOR STEALING CALCULATORS. He was promptly sent to juvie, where he spent the first year crying because it was a good year. XD This became something of a pattern in his life – good year? He’ll help out at the animal shelter and pay his sworn enemy compliments. Bad year? He’ll attack said enemy and attempt to find evil jobs ruining lives (like a marriage counselor). This – came back to bite him when he tried to chat with his supervisor (named Loretta Slaughter of all things) about tacos and burritos on a good year, was told to shut up, and promptly decided to murder her the next evil year. Only to get caught and get the death penalty. Whoops. Chaos dying at 27 obviously wasn’t Kevin’s plan, so he rewound time five years –
And promptly had Chaos join the Irish Mafia, because obviously DISorganized crime didn’t work out for him. XD Strangely enough, though, this life ended up working out better for him. It was a little rough at the beginning – while he had a good start with the Family thanks to being on an evil year, the minute he swapped back to good he turned informant, and then a little later got caught and ended up getting life in prison. He joined the Tattletale Gang and ended up alternating between crying in his cell and starting prison riots before managing to escape. He pulled off a decent score during a burglary, but that didn’t make his Family like him any better – and a “I’m good this year so I must refuse fixing this election” choice ended with him being beat up and ejected from the mafia. Which Kevin admitted was a better ending than he expected, because, well, he expected them to KILL him. Chaos promptly ran away to Spain and tried to become a Mall Santa, but that didn’t work out, and after a brief stay in a Spanish jail was deported back to the States, where he was forced to escape from prison AGAIN. After murdering everyone he ever knew, he stole a few things to raise the cash to emigrate again, and ended up in Monaco!
Monaco LOVED HIM. Seriously – dude ran for the school board, won, had a MASSIVE approval rating, got bribed OVER TWO MILLION to look the other way on something, ran for mayor after a few years and won that too, adopted and then abandoned a kid, MURDERED A RANDOM NUN ON AN EVIL YEAR just to prove he could do no wrong, sent his abandoned kid Hans a yodeling pickle on a good one, eventually resigned from being mayor, beat a charge on illegal immigration and bribery because everyone liked him so much. . .and then died on an evil year because he found a bag of PCP and ate the entire thing. XD I mean – this is a new record for chaos in one of Kevin’s lives, I think. XD
C) And finally we moved onto GrayStillPlays and “Busting 1000 IQ myths in GTA 5!” Time again for Gray to put himself through hell busting myths suggested by his commenters in GTA V! Myths today included “you can’t skydive through this one weird blocky monument in the game and survive” (you can if you crash into it enough times to learn EXACTLY when to pull your parachute); “you can’t shoot down a helicopter in a floating Ruiner with unguided missiles” (you can if you’re stupid lucky while falling to earth after your parachute runs out); “you can’t wallride through multiple thumbnail holes” (you can if you’re furious enough with Alex for putting THIRTEEN of them on the course that you just won’t give him the satisfaction); “you can’t blow up a helicopter by attaching a sticky bomb to the prop of a wind turbine and setting it off at just the right moment” (you can if you use a dump truck to get yourself high enough to actually get the sticky bomb attached to the prop); and “you can’t fire a missile at a hoverbike, then outrun it with the Super Run, get on the bike, and fly it away before the missile hits you” (you can if you’re stupidly stubborn and get in a LOT of practice with the Super Run). Usual “Gray curses his comment section, Alex and Danny, and his own stupidity” GTA V video – in other words, excellent. XD
3. Play Sims 4 and get Smiler, Victor, and Alice all living in the same house in time for New Year's Eve: Check, though it took a LOT more of the afternoon than I was expecting! Mostly because a) I am now unused to controlling more than one Sim at a time, and had to readjust from going to one to three, and b) cleaning out Smiler’s house and then merging all their stuff into Victor and Alice’s place took a while, and I didn’t even get everything in – the Liddell-Van Dort Victorian starter is smaller than I remembered! Oh, and unfortunately, I lost Smiler’s painting and their photos of themselves with Victor and Alice at the Romance Festival – turns out those don’t survive a trip to a new place in the household inventory. I should have put them in their own personal inventory. :( Live and learn!
Even with that, though, my Valicer trio ended up having a very nice day! Smiler leveled up their Handiness through fixing their broken laptop (damn thing conked out on them while they were working on their term paper), then leveled up their dancing while waiting for a good moment to call Victor and ask to join his and Alice’s household. Once they were all in Willow Creek and as much of Smiler’s stuff as I could fit was put in the house (with unnecessary duplicate items sold), I had Smiler grab a drink of Victor’s plasma, Victor and Alice grab a drink of Potion of Youth (yeah, yeah, I know, but I dun want them to age up), then everybody started chatting together in the little office area and working on the New Year’s “Festive Spirit” tradition! Smiler’s friend Siya dropped by and joined the chat – she and Smiler ended up making a snowpal together outside while Alice and Victor made their resolutions – Alice is going to write a book, and Victor is going to raise a skill! Smiler took care of the garden and also resolved to raise a skill while Alice made some food and Siya and Victor had a New Year’s toast (and I took a moment to reset Victor and Alice’s attractiveness preferences) –
And then the pop-up for the “Festival of Snow” over in Mt. Komorebi popped up in the corner. I was like “you know, that’s probably very appropriate for New Year’s Eve – let’s go!” And once Siya cleared out, that’s exactly what Victor, Alice, and Smiler did!
One loading screen later, I had a minor moment of panic when I realized they’d ended up at the Onsen lot. That lot is broken in some saves and can make it so you basically lose a family because you can’t complete the travel to the location, but you can’t go anywhere ELSE either. Fortunately my game was fine and everything functioned like it should, but yikes. O.o I really hope the Sims team figures out that bug sooner rather than later!
Anyway, once I realized “oh, wait, the lot LOADED, that means I’m probably good,” the gang headed down to the snow festival! There’s not a HECK of a lot to it – a couple of food stalls, some vending machines, and of course the snow sculptures – but it was still fun to visit! Alice got the special “snow festival” outfit and an Izzy Fabulous Simmi; Victor tried some vending machine canned tea and some grilled squid, then shared a New Year’s toast with Geeker McTest (yes, also in this save – he’s a minor celeb in this one!); and Smiler met and friended Roxane and did the “mountain move” with Yamma-chan. :D And of course there was plenty of playing in the snow – everybody made snowpals (though it took Victor a bit longer to actually MAKE one than Alice and Smiler – I dunno why the interaction will regularly cancel itself out now), Alice and Smiler made some snow angels, and the three of them had a snowball fight! In which Alice and Smiler basically ganged up on Victor. XD There was also some flirting between both Victor and Smiler and Victor and Alice, both of which made me very happy. <3
All of that was quite exhausting for the two mortals, though, so they ended up leaving around 10:30 PM so Victor and Alice could get in a quick nap before they all watched the Countdown to Midnight together. And then it was off to bed for real for the married couple, while Smiler stayed up to edit and submit their term paper. :) Successful holiday for all! This is exactly the note that I wanted to leave them on before the big patch next week. :)
. . .well, that and knowing that they can indeed afford the “2 Olde Mill Lane Haunted” lot I made for them to move into in Henford-On-Bagley. :) I took a moment to place that in the world right before quitting for the day – the total value of the lot is $40,989, which is JUST under what they have in loose cash. So they’ll be struggling with the bills for a little bit, but on the plus side, they should be able to bring all their furnishings! So that’ll be nice, and guarantee they have a decent kitchen and bedroom and whatnot. *nods* So yeah, once my mods are clear after the patch, the Big Move is on! And THEN we start getting occulty too. . .
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Though, to be fair, I did just do something related to tumblr drafts – getting my pictures ready for the upcoming Chill Save update on Wednesday (Smiler’s Thursday, where they spent most of their day fishing and doing robotics). So perhaps I can call this check plus now. :)
Yeah, LITERALLY just finished the picture thing, by the way. I just really wanted to have it done for when I do the actual posts tomorrow. :p But yeah, productive enough day, even if it was mostly in Sims 4. :p Look, I'm just happy to have Smiler, Victor, and Alice all together in the same house now -- it gives me the serotonin. XD
But as I'm doing the social thing and whatnot, it's time to wrap this up with the Sunday to-dos:
1. Keep up with the FO4 Playthrough Progression
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, Plumbella, Jon's FO4 "Legendary Roulette" video
3. Play Fallout 4 and get Victor and Piper on the road to Finch Farm
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Yes, that fourth one is for real this time. XD Night all!
