Less Jittery Today, At Least
Sep. 1st, 2022 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickThough I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing at the moment, because I don't know how close the red curse is. . .I know it's coming, I just can't pin down WHEN. Ugh. At least if it shows up this weekend I have a few days to just laze around!
As it stands, I managed to be productive tonight:
Work – Another vaguely quiet day, where I got a few phone calls about credit card stuff and then sought out obituaries online to fill the time in-between. At least the GL tomorrow looks meaty enough to take up an hour, hour and a half of the final half-day Friday and save me from crushing boredom!
Beanbags – Another nice day, another three rounds out in the yard! And while today wasn’t quite as equal as yesterday, we still all managed a win (though it was pretty damn close a lot of the time). Final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-3-3; Mom 3-W-2. Not too shabby!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to James Turner’s Early Access time with High School Years! Reginald got through a few more days of busy lonesome teenagerhood, and his life can be summed up as follows:
Entrepreneur Life – Improving! James has unlocked how to hype up clothes by having Reginald wear them and take selfies, meaning his outfits now generate more hype and sell quicker. He sold his Y2K preppy look and a cowboy outfit he put together this episode, and ended it by getting two more preppy outfits (one more masculine, one more feminine) put together and ready for sale! Plus his actual job is going well – he regained his passion and managed to push through his fears about being stuck in a dead-end job, and is now barista-ing like he’s never baristaed before! Unfortunately he did get that pop-up about weird beans again, and turns out blending them isn’t the answer either, but still. On his way to a promotion! He even earned enough to get himself a bike, which is very useful for both getting around and getting him some damn fun.
School Life – Staying maddeningly the same – James is absolutely baffled as to why Reginald can’t get above a “C” as a student, despite making a distinct effort to get the “golden desk” every day when it comes to fulfilling his school tasks. Reginald does not make it easy for him with his constant desire to go sit in the principal’s office whenever he has a spare moment to eat or study. (Though it did allow us to learn that Mei plays video games in there – not so different from her prankster daughter after all!) At least he’s doing reasonably well in Cheer – he’s got the Fitness points, now he just has to get the next rank!
Social Life – Oooooh, that’s going downhill fast. Reginald tried a few flirts out early on with a couple of girls down in the basement who seemed to be interested, but was rapidly rejected. Then Sidney didn’t show up for the next couple of days of school – Reginald kept in touch via texts, but James couldn’t help but feel like Sidney was avoiding him after the prom date. THEN some random kid that Reginald barely knew (thanks to warning him about a kick-me sign put on his back) tried asking him to prom, and James had to turn him down because he wanted Reginald to go with Sidney again. THEN Reginald made a promposal sign and tried to ask Sidney out on a date to present it, but was rejected. THEN he tried just taking Sidney to the park, bringing him to a romantic spot, and presenting it, but Sidney turned him down (rather rudely as per the pop-up too). And THEN James forced him to publicly declare his love before having him bike sadly home. XD It’s rough being Reginald, these days. And I’m not sure when things are gonna turn around for him, social-wise. . . Guess we’ll see what happens in the next episode tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – we have come to the end of the rewrite of the “Not Your Murder Buddy” segment, featuring Victor having an understandable freak-out about having killed someone and yelling the title of the scene at Alice before asking to be taken home. Also Victoria and Emily have escaped the basement and are having a HELL of a time processing the scene before them, as you might imagine. Even Alice isn’t doing well thanks to the slice in her shoulder. . .basically everything is bad right now. Scene break next time, then a bit of set-up before moving to the next snippet, which is more depressing chit-chat for Victor and Alice, unfortunately. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – caught up with the video I missed yesterday and grabbed a bonus while I was at it –
A) Started with another OXBox list: “7 Weird Ways Games Punished You for Going Slow: Commenter Edition!” Yes, today it was time to look at those games that did not appreciate you taking your time in a level. Examples ranged from a mysterious wind literally blowing you out of a dungeon in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, to the main baddie of the game showing up and wrecking your protagonist in Shenmue (to be fair, that one has the most GENEROUS time limit – an invisible counter of twenty in-game weeks), to being pursued by a murderous skeleton whale monster in Bubble Bobble! Plus the classic among so many genres – changing the music to something more upsetting. Normally this involves making it faster, but in Spelunky, it actually gets slower! To signal that the horrible murder-ghost is coming after you, so GET A MOVE ON. Bottom line, if the music gets funky, move your ass!
B) And then it was time to catch up with yesterday’s GrayStillPlays – “Jumping MOON RAMP With WORLD'S FASTEST CAR in GTA 5!” Inspired by people managing to jump the entire map with a car in GTA V, Alex made Gray a challenge board where, by figuring out where to park his 666-mobile (no, seriously, the car had the license plate 666 and the top speed was 666), he could fall into various unlock orbs and unlock faster and faster cars to get himself farther and farther across the map. Plus one Flappy Bird car at the beginning, just as a joke. XD Gray found himself having to hit platforms and figure out their challenges in order to get himself on the all-important green bits before the rest of the platforms vanished – ranging from “just hit the slow sticks so you don’t just drive off” to “you have park on an ANGLE because it’s on the side” to “do this half-pipe onto a platform with bowling pins and do it QUICKLY” to “hey we’re changing it up this time and taking advantage of the fact your name is a color.” XD But it was all worth it, as he got a variety of cars that just went faster and faster and faster. A few had their quirks – the race car proved damn near impossible to control, and the car right after it just launched itself into the stratosphere whenever it hit the slightest bump – but the last two? YOLO went so fast that Gray was easily able to make it across the entire map, while YEET went so fast that it essentially snapped out of existence. Seriously – with infinite boost, you can leave the map and the skybox so far behind your car just gets yeeted into the void. XD Gray was EXTREMELY pleased.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – two ask replies in the queue for Valice Multiverse, nice and easy. :)
Plus I answered my latest messages and kept up on comics and all the things. :p Tomorrow -- last half-day of the summer! Hopefully it's decent. . .and hopefully I sleep a bit better tonight and don't wake up because half my face is covered in drool or whatnot. *facepalm* Night all!
As it stands, I managed to be productive tonight:
Work – Another vaguely quiet day, where I got a few phone calls about credit card stuff and then sought out obituaries online to fill the time in-between. At least the GL tomorrow looks meaty enough to take up an hour, hour and a half of the final half-day Friday and save me from crushing boredom!
Beanbags – Another nice day, another three rounds out in the yard! And while today wasn’t quite as equal as yesterday, we still all managed a win (though it was pretty damn close a lot of the time). Final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-3-3; Mom 3-W-2. Not too shabby!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to James Turner’s Early Access time with High School Years! Reginald got through a few more days of busy lonesome teenagerhood, and his life can be summed up as follows:
Entrepreneur Life – Improving! James has unlocked how to hype up clothes by having Reginald wear them and take selfies, meaning his outfits now generate more hype and sell quicker. He sold his Y2K preppy look and a cowboy outfit he put together this episode, and ended it by getting two more preppy outfits (one more masculine, one more feminine) put together and ready for sale! Plus his actual job is going well – he regained his passion and managed to push through his fears about being stuck in a dead-end job, and is now barista-ing like he’s never baristaed before! Unfortunately he did get that pop-up about weird beans again, and turns out blending them isn’t the answer either, but still. On his way to a promotion! He even earned enough to get himself a bike, which is very useful for both getting around and getting him some damn fun.
School Life – Staying maddeningly the same – James is absolutely baffled as to why Reginald can’t get above a “C” as a student, despite making a distinct effort to get the “golden desk” every day when it comes to fulfilling his school tasks. Reginald does not make it easy for him with his constant desire to go sit in the principal’s office whenever he has a spare moment to eat or study. (Though it did allow us to learn that Mei plays video games in there – not so different from her prankster daughter after all!) At least he’s doing reasonably well in Cheer – he’s got the Fitness points, now he just has to get the next rank!
Social Life – Oooooh, that’s going downhill fast. Reginald tried a few flirts out early on with a couple of girls down in the basement who seemed to be interested, but was rapidly rejected. Then Sidney didn’t show up for the next couple of days of school – Reginald kept in touch via texts, but James couldn’t help but feel like Sidney was avoiding him after the prom date. THEN some random kid that Reginald barely knew (thanks to warning him about a kick-me sign put on his back) tried asking him to prom, and James had to turn him down because he wanted Reginald to go with Sidney again. THEN Reginald made a promposal sign and tried to ask Sidney out on a date to present it, but was rejected. THEN he tried just taking Sidney to the park, bringing him to a romantic spot, and presenting it, but Sidney turned him down (rather rudely as per the pop-up too). And THEN James forced him to publicly declare his love before having him bike sadly home. XD It’s rough being Reginald, these days. And I’m not sure when things are gonna turn around for him, social-wise. . . Guess we’ll see what happens in the next episode tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – we have come to the end of the rewrite of the “Not Your Murder Buddy” segment, featuring Victor having an understandable freak-out about having killed someone and yelling the title of the scene at Alice before asking to be taken home. Also Victoria and Emily have escaped the basement and are having a HELL of a time processing the scene before them, as you might imagine. Even Alice isn’t doing well thanks to the slice in her shoulder. . .basically everything is bad right now. Scene break next time, then a bit of set-up before moving to the next snippet, which is more depressing chit-chat for Victor and Alice, unfortunately. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – caught up with the video I missed yesterday and grabbed a bonus while I was at it –
A) Started with another OXBox list: “7 Weird Ways Games Punished You for Going Slow: Commenter Edition!” Yes, today it was time to look at those games that did not appreciate you taking your time in a level. Examples ranged from a mysterious wind literally blowing you out of a dungeon in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, to the main baddie of the game showing up and wrecking your protagonist in Shenmue (to be fair, that one has the most GENEROUS time limit – an invisible counter of twenty in-game weeks), to being pursued by a murderous skeleton whale monster in Bubble Bobble! Plus the classic among so many genres – changing the music to something more upsetting. Normally this involves making it faster, but in Spelunky, it actually gets slower! To signal that the horrible murder-ghost is coming after you, so GET A MOVE ON. Bottom line, if the music gets funky, move your ass!
B) And then it was time to catch up with yesterday’s GrayStillPlays – “Jumping MOON RAMP With WORLD'S FASTEST CAR in GTA 5!” Inspired by people managing to jump the entire map with a car in GTA V, Alex made Gray a challenge board where, by figuring out where to park his 666-mobile (no, seriously, the car had the license plate 666 and the top speed was 666), he could fall into various unlock orbs and unlock faster and faster cars to get himself farther and farther across the map. Plus one Flappy Bird car at the beginning, just as a joke. XD Gray found himself having to hit platforms and figure out their challenges in order to get himself on the all-important green bits before the rest of the platforms vanished – ranging from “just hit the slow sticks so you don’t just drive off” to “you have park on an ANGLE because it’s on the side” to “do this half-pipe onto a platform with bowling pins and do it QUICKLY” to “hey we’re changing it up this time and taking advantage of the fact your name is a color.” XD But it was all worth it, as he got a variety of cars that just went faster and faster and faster. A few had their quirks – the race car proved damn near impossible to control, and the car right after it just launched itself into the stratosphere whenever it hit the slightest bump – but the last two? YOLO went so fast that Gray was easily able to make it across the entire map, while YEET went so fast that it essentially snapped out of existence. Seriously – with infinite boost, you can leave the map and the skybox so far behind your car just gets yeeted into the void. XD Gray was EXTREMELY pleased.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – two ask replies in the queue for Valice Multiverse, nice and easy. :)
Plus I answered my latest messages and kept up on comics and all the things. :p Tomorrow -- last half-day of the summer! Hopefully it's decent. . .and hopefully I sleep a bit better tonight and don't wake up because half my face is covered in drool or whatnot. *facepalm* Night all!
