My Mouse's Glow Has Gone Out Again >(
Jul. 26th, 2022 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickStopped glowing after the latest time my computer went to sleep this afternoon, and so far fiddling with the switches on the bottom has done nothing. *grumbles* I do not approve! I just wish I knew what CAUSED it. . .what I PROBABLY need to do is buy a new mouse, but it's WORKING even if it's not glowing, so. . . *shrug* We'll see when I finally get fed up with this and the "if I don't have it in the right position it double-clicks automatically" issue. In the meantime, to-do list:
Work – Quietish day – couple of calls from people looking to make payments, but that was about it. Spent the first part of my day on that project regarding gifts needing to be moved to a different year, and the latter part on obituaries. *shrug* Could have been much worse!
Beanbags – YES. THE HALFWAY DECENT WEATHER HAS RETURNED. I mean, it’s still WARM, but a nice breeze and low humidity really does make ALL the difference. So yes, we did get back out into the back yard after I got home to play – and to my own surprise, I had a really good day! I thought I’d be really rusty, but I was throwing sixes and eights pretty consistently. O.o Final scores were me 2-W-W; Dad W-3-2; Mom 3-2-3. At least you didn’t lose every game, Mom? ^^;
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure Stream “Heir Superiority!” Linton was just as much of a little shit as his description suggested, angrily ordering his adviser Gwendolyn the Wise to fetch another pillow for his throne, despite the fact he’d already thrown all the pillows already on there off and ordered them burned by royal decree, and insulting the Oxventurers as Merilwen tried to butter him up, saying they didn’t look like they could do anything. Egbert said that Dob could do a backflip, and Linton demanded he do so –
One critical one from Luke later, Dob had attempted to act like he was “down with the kids” and then basically just fallen over, SLAMMING his head and back into the floor. *wince* Linton was understandably unimpressed. Merilwen tried to play it off, and Linton decided that – after royal-mandated naptime (seriously, he sent guards out to make sure everyone got in for a nap. . .it probably says something about me that that is a royal decree that I can get behind. Especially since PRUDENCE agreed with it and lay down for the mandated naptime) – he would get the Oxventurers to take him out hunting and demanded that Merilwen sing a cool elven song about woods and such. Merilwen, put on the spot, managed to make up a song about him (with the help of the still-on-the-floor Dob playing his lute), which gained his favor, at least!
It was around this time that Egbert decided he wanted to have a look around for the fabled sword from the plinth, and Johnny informed him that it was on Linton’s lap. A quick check revealed that it was pretty damn ordinary, except for a strange hole in the middle of it (which design Linton had adopted for his royal regalia). Corazon, seeing a chance, ended up posing as sword inspector “Swordsman Jones” and – thanks to a good Charisma check regarding the “sword going off” (with Linton’s opposition roll going – well, as well as you might expect an angsty self-absorbed teen’s roll to go) and how it could go in Linton’s eye and through his brain (taking advantage of his eyepatch to claim it happened to HIM in the past) – managed to get his hands on the damn thing and get outside to examine it, while Dob managed to distract Linton by claiming he would do another backflip, then turning a guard invisible. Before panicking and saying that there might be magic assassins about and Linton should go outside. XD So Corazon didn’t have long with the sword –
But he had long enough to stick it back in the plinth and figure out the mechanism! Or, rather, what happened is ELLEN figured out the mechanism (that there’s supposed to be some sort of pin to secure the sword in the plinth that goes through the hole) and told Andy, and after some discussion about to resecure the sword in the plinth, Johnny ruled that Corazon just screwing around with it would probably figure out how it worked, even if he couldn’t get it “reset,” as it were. He also discovered that the sword is basically a cheap lawn ornament and was never intended as a weapon. :p With no better plan, Corazon jammed the sword in the plinth, claimed it had floated back in there on its own when Linton came bursting out of his mead hall, and said they needed to do the trial again. Linton, of course, went to yank out the sword –
Cue Corazon using Mage Hand (which is invisible) to hold the sword in place. And then, when Linton couldn’t pull it out, canceled it and PULLED IT FREE HIMSELF. The other Oxventurers IMMEDIATELY began hyping him up as the new king, with Prudence (having freshly woken from her nap) telling Merilwen to use her Stoneshape to make a statue and Dob instantly starting a new ballad for King Swordsman Jones. A furious Linton called for the guards, but they were VERY easily swayed by Corazon (at the suggestion of Egbert) declaring his coronation day a national holiday with free mead – and when one older guard began asking about his policies, Corazon Minor Illusioned up a royal baby as further distraction. XD The townsfolk were only too happy to rally around Corazon as the new king and to tell Linton to go be the butcher’s boy again – Egbert fired off some bomb fireworks with his crossbow (and was later grabbed by the hot dog guy to fire free sausages into the crowd), Corazon started touring all the parade routes with his fake baby, Merilwen kept working on the statue, Prudence went off to get some free mead –
And Dob, seeing the upset Linton, went over to talk to him to give him a bit of cheering up. Linton began asking for his help to get him back on the throne, saying he’d make Dob his best friend – Dob didn’t feel THAT much pity for him, but was willing to PRETEND to be friends. . .IF Linton was straight with him and told him how he became king. Linton relented and showed him the drainage tunnel in the hill that went under the plinth, and what he’d done – he’d found his way under there, figured out the metal pin dealy, and replaced it with a bone he’d gotten from the butcher’s. Everyone pulling UP couldn’t break the bone, but Linton knew if he pushed down first, then pulled, he’d snap it and get the sword and become king!
Dob. . .was actually kind of impressed! Or at least faked being impressed very well. To the point where he declared that, if this was the kind of intelligence level they were working with, the rest of the town DESERVED Linton as a king. So it seems HE may be on team “Put Linton Back On The Throne,” hmmm. Oh, but thanks to a good roll and being right beside the plinth as she makes her stature, Merilwen has heard all this. . .
First things first, though – booze! Or, rather, joining Prudence as she goes for that free mead and finds Gwendolyn the Wise drinking heavily. She sat down next to her to chat and discovered that Gwen was Linton’s old primary school teacher – and quite possibly the only person who was ever actually NICE to Linton, hence her role as his adviser. She doesn’t feel much sympathy for the little twerp, but she’s not exactly keen on “Swordsman Jones” as king either – she likes that they’ve never had a monarch, and the whole “sword-pulling” thing was just supposed to be a bit of fun at a festival, not anything they used to determine real leaders. Hmmm. . .I think this is all information Prudence can work with. :p We’ll see where this all goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – we have started the rewrite of the “Murder Angel” snippet, starting with Victor and Alice duct-taped to a fence in their skivvies courtesy of the motorcycle gang. Victor is not happy about this turn of events, as you might imagine. XD The gang’s leader, one Riggins, has just shown up and is making threats about burning the two. . .which, as you might imagine, is going to go poorly for him. Especially now that Alice has had her target confirmed by Wonderland. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy “only Gray uploaded today” day, which allowed me to grab something out of the Watch Later and something out of the Recommendeds –
A) Started with Plumbella’s latest: “I made $9,999,999 by only selling clothes in The Sims 4: High School Years!” Yes, to test the “Trendi” system (which, from what I can see, is “Plopsy but for thrifted outfits”), Plumbella made Tilly Nepotism, plonked her down in a shitty house in Copperdale, and had her start a career as a Simfluencer in order to earn the funds to start her Depop thrifting lifestyle! The first few days were a bit slow – Tilly did NOT have the money to make any proper looks (having to rely on the fact that the simplest bra counts as a top), though Plumbella did discover an interesting glitch in the process – namely, the game doesn’t actually TAKE the money when you buy and plan these looks. You have to actually HAVE the funds – no making an outfit that costs more than you can afford – but you don’t actually PAY for it. Weird. But she earned enough to get a clothing rack at home to design outfits from, and as the entire Goth family began buying her weird looks, she began to earn enough money to create bigger and – well, “better” is subjective, as Plumbella was basically doing mostly whatever she thought was funny. XD Like “Sexy Boba Fett (?)” (the Boba Fett mask paired with a sexy dress), and “Llamacore” (a bathrobe paired with those giant headphones that got added from an SDX delivery). It got to the point where she was selling some outfits for $500, so she decided to reach for the stars and list a few outfits, including “Llamacore,” for JUST UNDER the maximum amount of money you can have in this game (like, $9,999,998).
Nina Caliente bought “Llamacore” and maxed out Tilly’s money on Day 6. I think the Trendi system is a bit broken, y’all. XD I mean, the comments suggested that Plumbella was in fact lucky/smart to pair it with the Simfluencer career because other Simmers have really struggled making ANY bank with thrifted outfits, but STILL. As I said in my comment, not sure whether I should laugh or just shake my head at EA. *facepalm* Suppose I should laugh, because I have worse things to shake my head over when it comes to EA and Sims 4. . .
B) Like what Pixelade detailed in their video “EA DROPPED THE BALL.. DISTURBING/MAJOR ISSUES WITH NEW FREE PATCH UPDATE! 😱😬” What’s going on? Well, it looks like there are two major bugs with the patch:
I. Sims are randomly having their lives shortened after any sort of game loading screen. This seems to be affecting those who play with “Long” lifespans, and it happens after you go into CAS, Manage Worlds, or load the game itself – the Sims have a bunch of days added to the time they’ve already lived, prompting age-ups and deaths if the added time causes them to hit the end of their current life bar. It seems to be a case of the game not understanding the game is on “long” lifespan and trying to calculate Sim ages based on “normal” lifespans. It COULD be affecting other lifespans, but it’s most visible on “long.”
II. At least one player has had a Sim want to make their own sister their girlfriend. Also you can’t remove wants like you could whims (unless you buy the "want refresher" potion, but even then it could roll up again), so the damn thing is just stuck there. Uuuh.
*facepalm* This is why I was careful to make a back-up of my saves this morning before I went to work. And why I’m actually kind of grateful patch days happen during workdays and thus I can’t play until they’ve had a chance to release emergency patches to fix this bullshit. But for FUCK’S sake, EA. Desire to buy anything else from you is DEFINITELY dropping.
C) At least after all that we had GrayStillPlays playing more Money Rush to take our minds off things! After learning that the slot machine obstacle actually has a chance to raise your money (because it IS gambling, and in gambling you DO win every so often), he made it his business to hit the slots as often as possible in every run he did. Unlike in real life, this helped him to become a billionaire more often than not. XD He’s actually got the run down to almost a fine art here, going for the biggest stacks whenever available and always, always picking Austin Powers over his poorer counterpart when it comes to choosing a husband. XD He managed to get both other “endings” to the game (going and raving with his friends at a party, and getting a kiss from the sexy guy on the sofa), and get to the top tier where he could spend money to upgrade his house directly (giving himself a halfway-decent pool and a cool pick-up truck). He also upgraded from a princess to a cowgirl, because why not? :p Silly mobile game is silly, but Gray definitely makes it more fun. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Very solid check on both my blogs:
Victor Luvs Alice – early start this morning with grabbing a post off my dash about how couples should be “in cahoots” with each other and whisper-giggle over dark jokes and stuff for the drafts (first thought was Valicer, since Smiler DOES encourage the mischief, but I think it has vibes for Valice and Vemilicia too – plus Four Victorians Riding A Roller Coaster, aka Victor/Alice/Victoria/Emily/Smiler). Then, this evening, set up the Smiler Chill Save update (Winter Thursday, aka Skilling Day), the Fallout of Darkness “this is where I’ve decided Alice is in the Mass State House” post (the one where I explain she’s now in the basement of the place, in the storage room), and a nice reblog of a cute Piper screenshot for Friday. :) Still figuring out Song Saturday, but I have a few candidates, and some time to think about it!
Valice Multiverse – Two ask replies in the queue, drafted this morning and slotted in this night. Nice and easy peasy!
All right -- and it's sort of a decent hour, so I should wrap up and get to bed. Two and a half more days before the vacation, yay~ Night all!
Work – Quietish day – couple of calls from people looking to make payments, but that was about it. Spent the first part of my day on that project regarding gifts needing to be moved to a different year, and the latter part on obituaries. *shrug* Could have been much worse!
Beanbags – YES. THE HALFWAY DECENT WEATHER HAS RETURNED. I mean, it’s still WARM, but a nice breeze and low humidity really does make ALL the difference. So yes, we did get back out into the back yard after I got home to play – and to my own surprise, I had a really good day! I thought I’d be really rusty, but I was throwing sixes and eights pretty consistently. O.o Final scores were me 2-W-W; Dad W-3-2; Mom 3-2-3. At least you didn’t lose every game, Mom? ^^;
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure Stream “Heir Superiority!” Linton was just as much of a little shit as his description suggested, angrily ordering his adviser Gwendolyn the Wise to fetch another pillow for his throne, despite the fact he’d already thrown all the pillows already on there off and ordered them burned by royal decree, and insulting the Oxventurers as Merilwen tried to butter him up, saying they didn’t look like they could do anything. Egbert said that Dob could do a backflip, and Linton demanded he do so –
One critical one from Luke later, Dob had attempted to act like he was “down with the kids” and then basically just fallen over, SLAMMING his head and back into the floor. *wince* Linton was understandably unimpressed. Merilwen tried to play it off, and Linton decided that – after royal-mandated naptime (seriously, he sent guards out to make sure everyone got in for a nap. . .it probably says something about me that that is a royal decree that I can get behind. Especially since PRUDENCE agreed with it and lay down for the mandated naptime) – he would get the Oxventurers to take him out hunting and demanded that Merilwen sing a cool elven song about woods and such. Merilwen, put on the spot, managed to make up a song about him (with the help of the still-on-the-floor Dob playing his lute), which gained his favor, at least!
It was around this time that Egbert decided he wanted to have a look around for the fabled sword from the plinth, and Johnny informed him that it was on Linton’s lap. A quick check revealed that it was pretty damn ordinary, except for a strange hole in the middle of it (which design Linton had adopted for his royal regalia). Corazon, seeing a chance, ended up posing as sword inspector “Swordsman Jones” and – thanks to a good Charisma check regarding the “sword going off” (with Linton’s opposition roll going – well, as well as you might expect an angsty self-absorbed teen’s roll to go) and how it could go in Linton’s eye and through his brain (taking advantage of his eyepatch to claim it happened to HIM in the past) – managed to get his hands on the damn thing and get outside to examine it, while Dob managed to distract Linton by claiming he would do another backflip, then turning a guard invisible. Before panicking and saying that there might be magic assassins about and Linton should go outside. XD So Corazon didn’t have long with the sword –
But he had long enough to stick it back in the plinth and figure out the mechanism! Or, rather, what happened is ELLEN figured out the mechanism (that there’s supposed to be some sort of pin to secure the sword in the plinth that goes through the hole) and told Andy, and after some discussion about to resecure the sword in the plinth, Johnny ruled that Corazon just screwing around with it would probably figure out how it worked, even if he couldn’t get it “reset,” as it were. He also discovered that the sword is basically a cheap lawn ornament and was never intended as a weapon. :p With no better plan, Corazon jammed the sword in the plinth, claimed it had floated back in there on its own when Linton came bursting out of his mead hall, and said they needed to do the trial again. Linton, of course, went to yank out the sword –
Cue Corazon using Mage Hand (which is invisible) to hold the sword in place. And then, when Linton couldn’t pull it out, canceled it and PULLED IT FREE HIMSELF. The other Oxventurers IMMEDIATELY began hyping him up as the new king, with Prudence (having freshly woken from her nap) telling Merilwen to use her Stoneshape to make a statue and Dob instantly starting a new ballad for King Swordsman Jones. A furious Linton called for the guards, but they were VERY easily swayed by Corazon (at the suggestion of Egbert) declaring his coronation day a national holiday with free mead – and when one older guard began asking about his policies, Corazon Minor Illusioned up a royal baby as further distraction. XD The townsfolk were only too happy to rally around Corazon as the new king and to tell Linton to go be the butcher’s boy again – Egbert fired off some bomb fireworks with his crossbow (and was later grabbed by the hot dog guy to fire free sausages into the crowd), Corazon started touring all the parade routes with his fake baby, Merilwen kept working on the statue, Prudence went off to get some free mead –
And Dob, seeing the upset Linton, went over to talk to him to give him a bit of cheering up. Linton began asking for his help to get him back on the throne, saying he’d make Dob his best friend – Dob didn’t feel THAT much pity for him, but was willing to PRETEND to be friends. . .IF Linton was straight with him and told him how he became king. Linton relented and showed him the drainage tunnel in the hill that went under the plinth, and what he’d done – he’d found his way under there, figured out the metal pin dealy, and replaced it with a bone he’d gotten from the butcher’s. Everyone pulling UP couldn’t break the bone, but Linton knew if he pushed down first, then pulled, he’d snap it and get the sword and become king!
Dob. . .was actually kind of impressed! Or at least faked being impressed very well. To the point where he declared that, if this was the kind of intelligence level they were working with, the rest of the town DESERVED Linton as a king. So it seems HE may be on team “Put Linton Back On The Throne,” hmmm. Oh, but thanks to a good roll and being right beside the plinth as she makes her stature, Merilwen has heard all this. . .
First things first, though – booze! Or, rather, joining Prudence as she goes for that free mead and finds Gwendolyn the Wise drinking heavily. She sat down next to her to chat and discovered that Gwen was Linton’s old primary school teacher – and quite possibly the only person who was ever actually NICE to Linton, hence her role as his adviser. She doesn’t feel much sympathy for the little twerp, but she’s not exactly keen on “Swordsman Jones” as king either – she likes that they’ve never had a monarch, and the whole “sword-pulling” thing was just supposed to be a bit of fun at a festival, not anything they used to determine real leaders. Hmmm. . .I think this is all information Prudence can work with. :p We’ll see where this all goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – we have started the rewrite of the “Murder Angel” snippet, starting with Victor and Alice duct-taped to a fence in their skivvies courtesy of the motorcycle gang. Victor is not happy about this turn of events, as you might imagine. XD The gang’s leader, one Riggins, has just shown up and is making threats about burning the two. . .which, as you might imagine, is going to go poorly for him. Especially now that Alice has had her target confirmed by Wonderland. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy “only Gray uploaded today” day, which allowed me to grab something out of the Watch Later and something out of the Recommendeds –
A) Started with Plumbella’s latest: “I made $9,999,999 by only selling clothes in The Sims 4: High School Years!” Yes, to test the “Trendi” system (which, from what I can see, is “Plopsy but for thrifted outfits”), Plumbella made Tilly Nepotism, plonked her down in a shitty house in Copperdale, and had her start a career as a Simfluencer in order to earn the funds to start her Depop thrifting lifestyle! The first few days were a bit slow – Tilly did NOT have the money to make any proper looks (having to rely on the fact that the simplest bra counts as a top), though Plumbella did discover an interesting glitch in the process – namely, the game doesn’t actually TAKE the money when you buy and plan these looks. You have to actually HAVE the funds – no making an outfit that costs more than you can afford – but you don’t actually PAY for it. Weird. But she earned enough to get a clothing rack at home to design outfits from, and as the entire Goth family began buying her weird looks, she began to earn enough money to create bigger and – well, “better” is subjective, as Plumbella was basically doing mostly whatever she thought was funny. XD Like “Sexy Boba Fett (?)” (the Boba Fett mask paired with a sexy dress), and “Llamacore” (a bathrobe paired with those giant headphones that got added from an SDX delivery). It got to the point where she was selling some outfits for $500, so she decided to reach for the stars and list a few outfits, including “Llamacore,” for JUST UNDER the maximum amount of money you can have in this game (like, $9,999,998).
Nina Caliente bought “Llamacore” and maxed out Tilly’s money on Day 6. I think the Trendi system is a bit broken, y’all. XD I mean, the comments suggested that Plumbella was in fact lucky/smart to pair it with the Simfluencer career because other Simmers have really struggled making ANY bank with thrifted outfits, but STILL. As I said in my comment, not sure whether I should laugh or just shake my head at EA. *facepalm* Suppose I should laugh, because I have worse things to shake my head over when it comes to EA and Sims 4. . .
B) Like what Pixelade detailed in their video “EA DROPPED THE BALL.. DISTURBING/MAJOR ISSUES WITH NEW FREE PATCH UPDATE! 😱😬” What’s going on? Well, it looks like there are two major bugs with the patch:
I. Sims are randomly having their lives shortened after any sort of game loading screen. This seems to be affecting those who play with “Long” lifespans, and it happens after you go into CAS, Manage Worlds, or load the game itself – the Sims have a bunch of days added to the time they’ve already lived, prompting age-ups and deaths if the added time causes them to hit the end of their current life bar. It seems to be a case of the game not understanding the game is on “long” lifespan and trying to calculate Sim ages based on “normal” lifespans. It COULD be affecting other lifespans, but it’s most visible on “long.”
II. At least one player has had a Sim want to make their own sister their girlfriend. Also you can’t remove wants like you could whims (unless you buy the "want refresher" potion, but even then it could roll up again), so the damn thing is just stuck there. Uuuh.
*facepalm* This is why I was careful to make a back-up of my saves this morning before I went to work. And why I’m actually kind of grateful patch days happen during workdays and thus I can’t play until they’ve had a chance to release emergency patches to fix this bullshit. But for FUCK’S sake, EA. Desire to buy anything else from you is DEFINITELY dropping.
C) At least after all that we had GrayStillPlays playing more Money Rush to take our minds off things! After learning that the slot machine obstacle actually has a chance to raise your money (because it IS gambling, and in gambling you DO win every so often), he made it his business to hit the slots as often as possible in every run he did. Unlike in real life, this helped him to become a billionaire more often than not. XD He’s actually got the run down to almost a fine art here, going for the biggest stacks whenever available and always, always picking Austin Powers over his poorer counterpart when it comes to choosing a husband. XD He managed to get both other “endings” to the game (going and raving with his friends at a party, and getting a kiss from the sexy guy on the sofa), and get to the top tier where he could spend money to upgrade his house directly (giving himself a halfway-decent pool and a cool pick-up truck). He also upgraded from a princess to a cowgirl, because why not? :p Silly mobile game is silly, but Gray definitely makes it more fun. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Very solid check on both my blogs:
Victor Luvs Alice – early start this morning with grabbing a post off my dash about how couples should be “in cahoots” with each other and whisper-giggle over dark jokes and stuff for the drafts (first thought was Valicer, since Smiler DOES encourage the mischief, but I think it has vibes for Valice and Vemilicia too – plus Four Victorians Riding A Roller Coaster, aka Victor/Alice/Victoria/Emily/Smiler). Then, this evening, set up the Smiler Chill Save update (Winter Thursday, aka Skilling Day), the Fallout of Darkness “this is where I’ve decided Alice is in the Mass State House” post (the one where I explain she’s now in the basement of the place, in the storage room), and a nice reblog of a cute Piper screenshot for Friday. :) Still figuring out Song Saturday, but I have a few candidates, and some time to think about it!
Valice Multiverse – Two ask replies in the queue, drafted this morning and slotted in this night. Nice and easy peasy!
All right -- and it's sort of a decent hour, so I should wrap up and get to bed. Two and a half more days before the vacation, yay~ Night all!
