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crossover_chickNot sure what happened there other than me getting distracted by stuff -- it's been kind of one of those nights. Fighting with my own brain here and there... But I did get most of my to-do list sorted, which was good --
Work – Somewhat better today – my coworkers spent a lot of time whispering to each other, which was annoying and distracting, but it wasn’t so stressful in general – just a few phone calls about credit card stuff, getting a few things off my plate, and working on the duplicates. I will take that over the hellish shit from yesterday.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and back for the moment to James Turner’s High School Years Rags To Riches, Episode 17! “We’ve gone corporate. . .” says the title, and that is entirely accurate – this episode was all about Reginald Bigwallet returning to his house (which James built in a separate video after having an AI design it – he liked the slightly shabby interior until he discovered that the stairs inside didn’t work if he put a desk under them, and then he grumped his way through replacing them with a ladder) and getting started on his career! And, thanks to all of his various bonuses from being such a good high school and college student, he immediately got into the “Investor” branch of the Business career as a “Hedge Fund Manager,” with a hefty signing bonus! James decided this event deserved a makeover and had Reginald “thrift” a new suit and give himself a more corporate haircut. XD He also paid back the loan his mother gave him with his first paycheck; became famous through some HORRIBLE investments in the stock market (that is, as per one of those job chance card pop-ups, he shorted the market expecting a stock bubble, which did NOT burst on schedule and got him on TV as someone who lost a lot); got a promotion after two days of work (plus a new friend thanks to a chance card); and went out (just as friends) with potential love interest Kevin to Chez Semaj, only for things to get a bit awkward when Kevin insisted on trying to sit by the edge of the pool with his drink instead of with Reginald. Though, to be fair, Kevin’s fashion sense is so bad that he looks better the more clothes he takes off, so. . . Also, thanks to the power of cheaty building (making a “room” by adding one side wall to three other walls), Reginald was able to add a “greenhouse” addition to the back of his house to grow grapes his neighbor gave him in. XD Will finish that episode off tomorrow and see where the next one takes us!
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen:” Check – the fact that Victor is the Van Dorts’ missing son has been revealed, and everyone has had a “blink blink” moment. XD Which is seguing into talk about everyone’s families, as my backstory for Th13teen has her and her older sister Prudence kicked out of their house as teenagers by their overly-Christian parents for daring to be interested in the occult. Fortunately the others have nicer backstories. . .well, I assume, as I haven’t actually come up with parents for Wickerman yet. Gonna be flying by the seat of my pants with him! Though I have already come up with a name for his mom, Danielle. . .and I suppose he needs to grow up somewhere without a lot of tech to justify his technophobe attitudes. . . *thinking* I’ll get it sorted!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check – as usual, I was rather late coming to the YouTubes, so I had to skip Gray’s offering today. But I did manage to watch the following –
A) First up, we had a quick one from Josh Way – “SKETCHY: The Ducks from A Wish For Wings That Work (Opus and Bill)!” One of the final entries from his 2022 Cartoon Duck advent calendar, and kind of a last-minute substitution for a different Hanna Barbera duck he was gonna draw, but then realized its design was too similar to another duck he’d already drawn (Little Quacker from Tom and Jerry). So yeah, instead we got the trio of ducks from the Bloom County animated Christmas Special! Which I have never seen, but Josh assures me it’s good. XD
B) And then it was over to Call Me Kevin and “I tried being a civilian in Red Dead Redemption 2!” Yes, Kevin got himself a bunch of mods that lets him, as John Marston (which I assume is a reskinned Arthur, as this is the PREQUEL to John’s game), make an honest day’s living by doing various jobs scattered around the map! He also got his own hot air balloon, which could fly sideways. XD And which had a tendency to clip through the map. But Kevin did not let that deter him, and set about trying to be an honest man, earning an honest living!
He – pretty much failed UTTERLY. His attempts to be a train conductor ended in him constantly falling out of his own train, or having to drive his train BACKWARDS to its destination because he tried to engineer a train crash, only for the game to not allow that. His attempts to be a bartender only led to him cleaning the same glass fifteen times and finally pulling his gun on everyone because he couldn’t take someone’s order. He did manage to successfully chop wood and buy a gunsmith shop (by selling his hot air balloon), but he had to stock the shop himself, and it only made him a little bit of money. His attempt to stop a train robbery ended in him gunning down civilians in error; his attempt to become a miner ended in him accidentally vandalizing the mine with his gun and having to shoot most of the staff; his attempt to become a dockworker ended in him being heckled by the local NPCs; his attempt to delivery a bounty ended in tragedy when Kevin tried a mod to make his horse fly to get there faster, only for John to kick off his bounty and dismount himself half a mile up because they were near his camp. XD Even fishing resulted in him only getting one tiny fish, and his attempt to deliver something for the shopkeep on the swamp’s edge ended in him getting mugged, getting attacked by random police, going back and tying up his mugger (killing a witness in the process), discovering he couldn’t take the boat around the way he wanted because there was a bridge in the way, and then running away from alligators (leaving the mugger to get eaten in the process). Even BOUNTY HUNTING glitched out, with his partner Sadie shooting loads of civilians on their way out of town, then just sitting behind a rock for ages while John tried to shoot the actual bad guys. XD Literally the only thing that went according to plan is when John went and helped that one inventor guy with his weird toy boat, and then later helped him animate his robot son with the help of lightning. . .and even THEN, the inventor guy ended up dead, because that’s just how his quest GOES. But on the plus side, Kevin got to steal all his stuff and use it to buy a house with invisible furniture! So there was a happy ending to this after all. XD Moral of the story: trying to be an honest man will result in more chaos than the chaos mod, so maybe just play Red Dead Redemption 2 like it was meant to be played. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – actually got this one done early! Reset the queue speed and got my Friday post (just some gifs someone made of their LaCroix-styled Bloodhunt (that multiplayer battle game featuring vampires going at each other in Camarilla vs Anarch death battles) doing silly emotes) set before my workout, then went looking at old Song Saturdays after supper and found an AWESOME OK Go song and video (“The One Moment,” a video where most of it took place in a mere 4.2 SECONDS) to reblog for this Saturday. :) So I’m golden on Victor Luvs Alice, hooray!
*nods* Acceptable for a Wednesday, certainly! And now it's time to head to bed and get some sleep so I can get through Thursday. Hopefully my brain lets me sleep! Night all!
Work – Somewhat better today – my coworkers spent a lot of time whispering to each other, which was annoying and distracting, but it wasn’t so stressful in general – just a few phone calls about credit card stuff, getting a few things off my plate, and working on the duplicates. I will take that over the hellish shit from yesterday.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and back for the moment to James Turner’s High School Years Rags To Riches, Episode 17! “We’ve gone corporate. . .” says the title, and that is entirely accurate – this episode was all about Reginald Bigwallet returning to his house (which James built in a separate video after having an AI design it – he liked the slightly shabby interior until he discovered that the stairs inside didn’t work if he put a desk under them, and then he grumped his way through replacing them with a ladder) and getting started on his career! And, thanks to all of his various bonuses from being such a good high school and college student, he immediately got into the “Investor” branch of the Business career as a “Hedge Fund Manager,” with a hefty signing bonus! James decided this event deserved a makeover and had Reginald “thrift” a new suit and give himself a more corporate haircut. XD He also paid back the loan his mother gave him with his first paycheck; became famous through some HORRIBLE investments in the stock market (that is, as per one of those job chance card pop-ups, he shorted the market expecting a stock bubble, which did NOT burst on schedule and got him on TV as someone who lost a lot); got a promotion after two days of work (plus a new friend thanks to a chance card); and went out (just as friends) with potential love interest Kevin to Chez Semaj, only for things to get a bit awkward when Kevin insisted on trying to sit by the edge of the pool with his drink instead of with Reginald. Though, to be fair, Kevin’s fashion sense is so bad that he looks better the more clothes he takes off, so. . . Also, thanks to the power of cheaty building (making a “room” by adding one side wall to three other walls), Reginald was able to add a “greenhouse” addition to the back of his house to grow grapes his neighbor gave him in. XD Will finish that episode off tomorrow and see where the next one takes us!
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen:” Check – the fact that Victor is the Van Dorts’ missing son has been revealed, and everyone has had a “blink blink” moment. XD Which is seguing into talk about everyone’s families, as my backstory for Th13teen has her and her older sister Prudence kicked out of their house as teenagers by their overly-Christian parents for daring to be interested in the occult. Fortunately the others have nicer backstories. . .well, I assume, as I haven’t actually come up with parents for Wickerman yet. Gonna be flying by the seat of my pants with him! Though I have already come up with a name for his mom, Danielle. . .and I suppose he needs to grow up somewhere without a lot of tech to justify his technophobe attitudes. . . *thinking* I’ll get it sorted!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check – as usual, I was rather late coming to the YouTubes, so I had to skip Gray’s offering today. But I did manage to watch the following –
A) First up, we had a quick one from Josh Way – “SKETCHY: The Ducks from A Wish For Wings That Work (Opus and Bill)!” One of the final entries from his 2022 Cartoon Duck advent calendar, and kind of a last-minute substitution for a different Hanna Barbera duck he was gonna draw, but then realized its design was too similar to another duck he’d already drawn (Little Quacker from Tom and Jerry). So yeah, instead we got the trio of ducks from the Bloom County animated Christmas Special! Which I have never seen, but Josh assures me it’s good. XD
B) And then it was over to Call Me Kevin and “I tried being a civilian in Red Dead Redemption 2!” Yes, Kevin got himself a bunch of mods that lets him, as John Marston (which I assume is a reskinned Arthur, as this is the PREQUEL to John’s game), make an honest day’s living by doing various jobs scattered around the map! He also got his own hot air balloon, which could fly sideways. XD And which had a tendency to clip through the map. But Kevin did not let that deter him, and set about trying to be an honest man, earning an honest living!
He – pretty much failed UTTERLY. His attempts to be a train conductor ended in him constantly falling out of his own train, or having to drive his train BACKWARDS to its destination because he tried to engineer a train crash, only for the game to not allow that. His attempts to be a bartender only led to him cleaning the same glass fifteen times and finally pulling his gun on everyone because he couldn’t take someone’s order. He did manage to successfully chop wood and buy a gunsmith shop (by selling his hot air balloon), but he had to stock the shop himself, and it only made him a little bit of money. His attempt to stop a train robbery ended in him gunning down civilians in error; his attempt to become a miner ended in him accidentally vandalizing the mine with his gun and having to shoot most of the staff; his attempt to become a dockworker ended in him being heckled by the local NPCs; his attempt to delivery a bounty ended in tragedy when Kevin tried a mod to make his horse fly to get there faster, only for John to kick off his bounty and dismount himself half a mile up because they were near his camp. XD Even fishing resulted in him only getting one tiny fish, and his attempt to deliver something for the shopkeep on the swamp’s edge ended in him getting mugged, getting attacked by random police, going back and tying up his mugger (killing a witness in the process), discovering he couldn’t take the boat around the way he wanted because there was a bridge in the way, and then running away from alligators (leaving the mugger to get eaten in the process). Even BOUNTY HUNTING glitched out, with his partner Sadie shooting loads of civilians on their way out of town, then just sitting behind a rock for ages while John tried to shoot the actual bad guys. XD Literally the only thing that went according to plan is when John went and helped that one inventor guy with his weird toy boat, and then later helped him animate his robot son with the help of lightning. . .and even THEN, the inventor guy ended up dead, because that’s just how his quest GOES. But on the plus side, Kevin got to steal all his stuff and use it to buy a house with invisible furniture! So there was a happy ending to this after all. XD Moral of the story: trying to be an honest man will result in more chaos than the chaos mod, so maybe just play Red Dead Redemption 2 like it was meant to be played. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – actually got this one done early! Reset the queue speed and got my Friday post (just some gifs someone made of their LaCroix-styled Bloodhunt (that multiplayer battle game featuring vampires going at each other in Camarilla vs Anarch death battles) doing silly emotes) set before my workout, then went looking at old Song Saturdays after supper and found an AWESOME OK Go song and video (“The One Moment,” a video where most of it took place in a mere 4.2 SECONDS) to reblog for this Saturday. :) So I’m golden on Victor Luvs Alice, hooray!
*nods* Acceptable for a Wednesday, certainly! And now it's time to head to bed and get some sleep so I can get through Thursday. Hopefully my brain lets me sleep! Night all!
