Period Brain Friday
Dec. 16th, 2022 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI've managed some bursts of focus, but -- yeah, not a good night for the old brain-meats. At least it's day two of my period, and Friday to boot -- hopefully I'll be over the hump by Saturday night! And hey, dealing with this now guarantees I won't be dealing with it on Christmas or my birthday, so I'll take that.
As it stands, I was able to get through my to-do list for the day:
Work – Really quiet day – especially since neither of my coworkers were in, so I never turned the radio on. Freedom from Christmas music! XD But yeah, one of them had the day off, and the other never came in (possibly because there was a MASSIVE accident involving a rolled tractor trailer on one of the big highways around here, which led to the whole thing being shut down for a while), and in the back only one of the directors was in, so. . . Spent a good portion of the day on various little roster maintenance tasks and whatnot. Honestly, bit nice to have the place to myself to unwind some – especially since I’m on my period and it takes VERY LITTLE to annoy me right now.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and as I was out of Oxventure for the week, I instead looked at the following:
A) “BREAKING SKYRIM WITH CURSED MODS - Modded Skyrim Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits” by The Spiffing Brit! Spiff unwisely told his “admin” to take Skyrim, fill it with cursed mods, and don’t tell him any of them so he could play Cursed SkyMods blind. Cue an opening title screen covered with random brand logos and playing the worst music Spiff had ever heard. XD From there we briefly had “Plz End Me,” a SANIC character with red-rimmed empty eye sockets and a glowing red mohawk who was murdered by Spiff mere minutes in after it was discovered the Sonic music played whenever this monstrosity moved forwards, before moving onto the true hero of the game, MURDER BEAR. Who, as you might guess, was a bear with a FABULOUS hairdo. After briefly commandeering an awesome dwarven floating steamship and flying it to Windhelm, only to die when he tried to leap off it into a lake (and then the game crashed), Murder Bear proceeded to have such adventures like murdering a hunter for their awesome kit; taking on a killer mini-version of Luna from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as a companion for a while (she electrocuted EVERYTHING); rescuing his awful son Rufus from a cave of witches who found the kid too annoying to eat and taking him as a companion; fighting various monstrosities with Rufus’s “help” (small child with a wooden sword is basically only good for distraction purposes); and finding a dwarven army base and taking a fucking TANK out for a spin. In a fabulous new Russian army cap, of course. XD Communist Murder Bear and his Useless Son are out to kill your mammoths and chew bubblegum, and bubblegum hasn’t been invented yet! XD It was an absolutely bizarre video, and a lot of fun. :p
B) A pair of quick Petey Plays It videos –
I. “9 Objects You Didn't Realise You Could Put Things On In The Sims 4” – exactly what it says on the tin, unexpected objects that have decorative slots! I already knew about the pianos (though I didn’t know the special fancy one you get for being a Musician comes with three slots thanks to its closed lid) and the big suspension tube thing you get for being a Scientist, but apparently there are decorative slots on stuff like the various onsen hot spring baths, the saunas, the triangle spa tubs, and even the damn cow/llama shed! It’s pretty cool stuff. :) (In fact, I found an unexpected decorative slot recently on the video creation table from Get Famous – Smiler’s got one of their Chatter Bots there.)
II. “10 Island Living Objects You Need To Start Using | The Sims 4 Guide” – some of Petey’s choices for great Island Living objects, like the floating loungers and beach towels (great for beachside or poolside fun); the canoes and jetskis (good for traveling the waters, and you can fish off the former); the big old barbecue pit (for beachside feasts); and the kava bowl (for a little island culture). Though I think it highlights how much Island Living needed to be a game pack given how he kept grouping similar items together. . .
2. Continue writing gift fics: Check – revised my friend Newt’s fic, which is about Dirk Gently (from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) NEARLY being kidnapped by Guillermo (from What We Do In The Shadows the show, though the latter is never actually named in the fic) to be fed to vampires after being mistaken for a virgin, only for his assisfriends/boyfriends Todd and Michael to rescue him. Only for Dirk to decide this has to be a case and say they need to go to the vampire’s house anyway. XD Just a fun little between the holistic trio as Todd sums up what nearly happened and insists they get some protection before going to a vampire lair. Hopefully he finds it amusing!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Three-fourths check – Kevin was a little too long to watch today, and my hopes of watching something from the Watch Later were dashed when I had to clean off the ice cream container after taking it out of the freezer (Mom put it up against something warm, and the ice cream melted and ran out of it a bit). Ah well – tomorrow! In the meantime. . .
A) First up, today’s OXmas offering – “XMAS CHALLENGE DAY 7! Chivalry 2 Deadly Duel Challenge | Tournament of Champions 2022!” A nice simple one today – Ellen versus Andy in the Chivalry 2 servers, dueling as brave and fierce knights with halberds, swords, and knives. Jane stood by as judge and as the person keeping track of the kills – first person to a majority of five murders won! Ellen did her best, and used her halberd to get past Andy’s defenses very handily once, but Andy was more skilled with his ripostes and his handling of a knife, and killed her very thoroughly three times, securing the Christmas point. And then, after winning, was killed himself by the other people running around doing murder to score points for their teams (yellow versus green – Ellen was yellow and Andy green, for reference). XD There was also a rando who insisted on carrying an anvil into their duel and dropping it between them to see what they would do. XD And the whole thing ended with Jane – who’d gotten hit a few times trying to keep in the thick of the action – being decapitated by Andy (who got an achievement for it! “Battle of the Bastards” – kill one knight wielding a longsword with your longsword, apparently) and having her severed head thrown at Ellen. XD Great times~ So Andy is currently in the lead, points-wise! Can he be dethroned? Well, we’ve got another week to find out. . .
B) Then it was over to the Subs themselves for today’s Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Sonia from Disney's Peter and the Wolf!” Another “Duck Advent Calendar” entry, featuring the duck character from Disney’s short Peter And the Wolf cartoon (originally from Make Mine Music, an anthology film they did in the 40s). Josh likes Sonia because they’re late classic Disney – enough time for Disney’s style to have evolved, but before the real glitz and glamour of their heyday or the Renaissance. He worried, though, that people were getting bored of the ducks online (he admitted that he missed posting more varied things every day) – I left him a comment saying I’m not sick of it yet. I like his ducks, and I like his style. :)
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays with “When you spend 10,000 years on the toilet” – aka Gray plays more of Toilet Chronicles: Staff Only! This is that weird pseudo-horror game about a public bathroom, only now it has more content! Now when you step into the void, you actually make it into the hallway and get stuff like an axe! And a banana peel to slip on and die to! And a stall with a gnome in it it that you can use to annoy your friend in the next stall! And a “ladis washrum” with “scary text” written in blood on the mirror and a skeleton that died of cringe! And a staff-only room where you can take demonic pictures off the wall, turn yourself into a mouse, and use a button to glitch into the backrooms of reality! And a set of backrooms where there is an evil bloody-eyed Squidward head that will chase you unless you use a roll of toilet paper to get past him! And an ending where it is revealed there is no story and you are just a pair of legs! XD It’s completely bizarre and thus perfect for Gray to play with. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – simple night on Valice Multiverse with three ask replies. Hooray.
And that's about it! Now I'm gonna go chill out on TV Tropes for a while because brain tired and not up for much else. Hopefully tomorrow I can catch up on YouTube Subs, get some good drafting going on the old tumblr, and get those pets adopted for the Valicer Chill Save trio in Sims 4. Oh, and get some more progress on "Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland," though I may substitute that as necessary. *shrug* Night all!
As it stands, I was able to get through my to-do list for the day:
Work – Really quiet day – especially since neither of my coworkers were in, so I never turned the radio on. Freedom from Christmas music! XD But yeah, one of them had the day off, and the other never came in (possibly because there was a MASSIVE accident involving a rolled tractor trailer on one of the big highways around here, which led to the whole thing being shut down for a while), and in the back only one of the directors was in, so. . . Spent a good portion of the day on various little roster maintenance tasks and whatnot. Honestly, bit nice to have the place to myself to unwind some – especially since I’m on my period and it takes VERY LITTLE to annoy me right now.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and as I was out of Oxventure for the week, I instead looked at the following:
A) “BREAKING SKYRIM WITH CURSED MODS - Modded Skyrim Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits” by The Spiffing Brit! Spiff unwisely told his “admin” to take Skyrim, fill it with cursed mods, and don’t tell him any of them so he could play Cursed SkyMods blind. Cue an opening title screen covered with random brand logos and playing the worst music Spiff had ever heard. XD From there we briefly had “Plz End Me,” a SANIC character with red-rimmed empty eye sockets and a glowing red mohawk who was murdered by Spiff mere minutes in after it was discovered the Sonic music played whenever this monstrosity moved forwards, before moving onto the true hero of the game, MURDER BEAR. Who, as you might guess, was a bear with a FABULOUS hairdo. After briefly commandeering an awesome dwarven floating steamship and flying it to Windhelm, only to die when he tried to leap off it into a lake (and then the game crashed), Murder Bear proceeded to have such adventures like murdering a hunter for their awesome kit; taking on a killer mini-version of Luna from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as a companion for a while (she electrocuted EVERYTHING); rescuing his awful son Rufus from a cave of witches who found the kid too annoying to eat and taking him as a companion; fighting various monstrosities with Rufus’s “help” (small child with a wooden sword is basically only good for distraction purposes); and finding a dwarven army base and taking a fucking TANK out for a spin. In a fabulous new Russian army cap, of course. XD Communist Murder Bear and his Useless Son are out to kill your mammoths and chew bubblegum, and bubblegum hasn’t been invented yet! XD It was an absolutely bizarre video, and a lot of fun. :p
B) A pair of quick Petey Plays It videos –
I. “9 Objects You Didn't Realise You Could Put Things On In The Sims 4” – exactly what it says on the tin, unexpected objects that have decorative slots! I already knew about the pianos (though I didn’t know the special fancy one you get for being a Musician comes with three slots thanks to its closed lid) and the big suspension tube thing you get for being a Scientist, but apparently there are decorative slots on stuff like the various onsen hot spring baths, the saunas, the triangle spa tubs, and even the damn cow/llama shed! It’s pretty cool stuff. :) (In fact, I found an unexpected decorative slot recently on the video creation table from Get Famous – Smiler’s got one of their Chatter Bots there.)
II. “10 Island Living Objects You Need To Start Using | The Sims 4 Guide” – some of Petey’s choices for great Island Living objects, like the floating loungers and beach towels (great for beachside or poolside fun); the canoes and jetskis (good for traveling the waters, and you can fish off the former); the big old barbecue pit (for beachside feasts); and the kava bowl (for a little island culture). Though I think it highlights how much Island Living needed to be a game pack given how he kept grouping similar items together. . .
2. Continue writing gift fics: Check – revised my friend Newt’s fic, which is about Dirk Gently (from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) NEARLY being kidnapped by Guillermo (from What We Do In The Shadows the show, though the latter is never actually named in the fic) to be fed to vampires after being mistaken for a virgin, only for his assisfriends/boyfriends Todd and Michael to rescue him. Only for Dirk to decide this has to be a case and say they need to go to the vampire’s house anyway. XD Just a fun little between the holistic trio as Todd sums up what nearly happened and insists they get some protection before going to a vampire lair. Hopefully he finds it amusing!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Three-fourths check – Kevin was a little too long to watch today, and my hopes of watching something from the Watch Later were dashed when I had to clean off the ice cream container after taking it out of the freezer (Mom put it up against something warm, and the ice cream melted and ran out of it a bit). Ah well – tomorrow! In the meantime. . .
A) First up, today’s OXmas offering – “XMAS CHALLENGE DAY 7! Chivalry 2 Deadly Duel Challenge | Tournament of Champions 2022!” A nice simple one today – Ellen versus Andy in the Chivalry 2 servers, dueling as brave and fierce knights with halberds, swords, and knives. Jane stood by as judge and as the person keeping track of the kills – first person to a majority of five murders won! Ellen did her best, and used her halberd to get past Andy’s defenses very handily once, but Andy was more skilled with his ripostes and his handling of a knife, and killed her very thoroughly three times, securing the Christmas point. And then, after winning, was killed himself by the other people running around doing murder to score points for their teams (yellow versus green – Ellen was yellow and Andy green, for reference). XD There was also a rando who insisted on carrying an anvil into their duel and dropping it between them to see what they would do. XD And the whole thing ended with Jane – who’d gotten hit a few times trying to keep in the thick of the action – being decapitated by Andy (who got an achievement for it! “Battle of the Bastards” – kill one knight wielding a longsword with your longsword, apparently) and having her severed head thrown at Ellen. XD Great times~ So Andy is currently in the lead, points-wise! Can he be dethroned? Well, we’ve got another week to find out. . .
B) Then it was over to the Subs themselves for today’s Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Sonia from Disney's Peter and the Wolf!” Another “Duck Advent Calendar” entry, featuring the duck character from Disney’s short Peter And the Wolf cartoon (originally from Make Mine Music, an anthology film they did in the 40s). Josh likes Sonia because they’re late classic Disney – enough time for Disney’s style to have evolved, but before the real glitz and glamour of their heyday or the Renaissance. He worried, though, that people were getting bored of the ducks online (he admitted that he missed posting more varied things every day) – I left him a comment saying I’m not sick of it yet. I like his ducks, and I like his style. :)
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays with “When you spend 10,000 years on the toilet” – aka Gray plays more of Toilet Chronicles: Staff Only! This is that weird pseudo-horror game about a public bathroom, only now it has more content! Now when you step into the void, you actually make it into the hallway and get stuff like an axe! And a banana peel to slip on and die to! And a stall with a gnome in it it that you can use to annoy your friend in the next stall! And a “ladis washrum” with “scary text” written in blood on the mirror and a skeleton that died of cringe! And a staff-only room where you can take demonic pictures off the wall, turn yourself into a mouse, and use a button to glitch into the backrooms of reality! And a set of backrooms where there is an evil bloody-eyed Squidward head that will chase you unless you use a roll of toilet paper to get past him! And an ending where it is revealed there is no story and you are just a pair of legs! XD It’s completely bizarre and thus perfect for Gray to play with. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – simple night on Valice Multiverse with three ask replies. Hooray.
And that's about it! Now I'm gonna go chill out on TV Tropes for a while because brain tired and not up for much else. Hopefully tomorrow I can catch up on YouTube Subs, get some good drafting going on the old tumblr, and get those pets adopted for the Valicer Chill Save trio in Sims 4. Oh, and get some more progress on "Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland," though I may substitute that as necessary. *shrug* Night all!
