Day Three Of The Plague
Jan. 31st, 2023 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickToday's Covid Update: Seeing some improvement -- not quite as stuffy again, though I am getting more throat tickles and thus coughing more, which annoys me. But I'm not feeling particularly miserable except for that, so I will count that as a win. Parents still doing fine so far. Testing shall resume Thursday or Friday (or, more likely, Thursday AND Friday).
As for the other tasks of the day --
Tumblr: Did a nice dash-and-tags catch-up on Victor Luvs Alice before and during my lunch, drafting anything that I intended to respond to later/slap in my queue in future. Then, after my gaming (below) and some time catching up on other blogs, I went back and slapped my six Chill/Valicer Save update posts into the VLA queue; finally finished the explanatory text for my first Valicer OT3 meme and queued that up; threw one of the “my OT3 is like” posts I found recently into the queue after it; then popped over to Valice Multiverse and put two ask replies in THAT queue, all before my shower. And then, just now, I popped one last ask reply on Valice Multiverse into its queue. So, yeah, pretty productive day on the old tumblrs! And I hope to do even more tomorrow! Fingers crossed!
Gaming: Well, turns out the much-anticipated-and-feared Infants Patch for Sims 4 isn’t coming until MARCH, according to today’s “Behind The Sims” livestream, and today’s update was actually “we are attempting to be more trans and disabled friendly with new CAS assets; also here are some updates for console players and a handful more bug fixes.” That being said, that still means a bit of a wait for modders to check the mods for anything that might need poking at, so I went ahead and played a couple of hours of Unpacking today! Started my third album under the name “Monica” (*waves at Moose* :p) and did the first four levels – kid’s room, uni dorm, house with the DnD mates, and moving in with the boyfriend. It was a fun, pretty chill time. :) Needed something like that while I’m still fighting this stupid disease.
Writing: More Blades in the Dark Valicer stuff – setting up their Crew character sheet this time! Yes, the group as a whole has a character sheet as well in BitD – it’s for tracking stuff like what other gangs in the area think of you, how much attention you’re getting from the authorities, and what kind of upgrades the whole crew gets as they get more and more powerful. I have decided the Valicer trio are a group of Shadows – thieves, spies, and saboteurs, mostly – with maybe a touch of Hawker on the side just from Smiler’s activities. :p Their group name is The Three Pillars (which in-universe is something Victor just blurted out when asked by someone – inspired by the fact that they live in a place called Six Towers, and there’s three of them – and they just rolled with it), and their lair is the old home of Elder Gutknecht, based off the building we see in Corpse Bride briefly (basically a big rectangle with a tower on the side). The lair comes with something that allows them to train their “prowess” (have to figure out what that is), is kinda hidden (or at least known to be abandoned so people don’t come knocking), has Elder Gutknecht’s old workshop and library – oh, and Elder Gutknecht himself, the spirit of an old Whisper who figured out out-of-body travel, only for his mortal shell to die while he was out on a walk. Fortunately he’s a Reconciled (read: non-malicious and sane) ghost and only too happy to help them out in exchange for the company. I’m still deciding on their starting special ability. . .and it occurs to me that I imagine the crew LIVING there, which means they need the “Quarters” upgrade. . .hmmm. Things to consider another night!
YouTube: Didn’t start watching anything until late, but I got through pretty much all the videos I wanted to get through without issue, so. . . *thumbs up*
A) Started with a pair of OXBoxtra lists –
I. “7 Villains Who Saved Your Butt” – Luke and Ellen talking about those villains whom, for whatever reason, ended up saving the hero’s life in their respective games. Reasons including “these alien bastards betrayed me, and if I sacrifice myself to help you escape, I can assure they get taken down” (Cassandra De Vries, Perfect Dark), “we had to work together to take out the moron in charge of the facility, and while I don’t want to admit that I may like you now, I WILL admit that killing you is way too hard and I should just let you go” (GLaDOS, Portal 2), and “FUCK I DIDN’T REALIZE THAT RANDOM PRISONER ABOUT TO BE BEHEADED IN THE EXECUTION I CRASHED WAS THE DRAGONBORN DO OVER DO OVER” (Alduin, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim). Yeah, poor Alduin’s actually unique in the list for saving the protagonist ACCIDENTALLY instead of deliberately, and not even to further his own goals. I get the feeling he gets made fun of a lot at the villain parties. :p
II. “7 Best Games You'll Never Ever Play” – Andy talking about those games that, for whatever reason, never made to an actual playable state. Reasons including “we refused to hire enough developers, insisted on making the developers we did have use an engine that wasn’t suited to third-person gaming, and after seeing the markets changed, shut down the studio making it entirely” (the death of Project Ragtag, a Star Wars game that was supposed to be like Uncharted, by EA), “zombie and zombie-type games have been done to death and the developers can’t actually advance the story (never mind WE’RE not advancing the story either by never releasing Episode 3)” (the death of Ravenholm, a fourth episode/spin-off for Half-Life 2 from Arkane centering on the spooky town, by Valve), and “I HAD A FIGHT WITH A GAMES JOURNALIST ON TWITTER AND SO NOW I AM GOING TO THROW A TANTRUM AND CANCEL MY PLANNED SEQUEL TO A BELOVED PUZZLE GAME” (the death of Fez 2, the sequel to the 2-D rotating puzzle platformer, by its creator Phil Fish). *sigh* Always sad when a hoped-for game never reaches the public – isn’t it, Paradox (aka the people who are supposedly helping make Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2)?
B) And then it was time for the Subs upload – GrayStillPlays vs Alex again in GTA V with “When you cross a bridge with 100% death rate!” Alex created two challenge bridge boards for Gray to take on in this video, and BOY were they painful:
I. Bridge one – the “hydra” bridge made of twitching, glitching jets (frozen in place so they couldn’t actually take off, as Gray found out when he tried to hijack one), with a few jets made to rotate (at various speeds) and one hanging out near the end shooting rockets at the spot where two of its brothers sat nose-to-nose, creating the world’s most dangerous tightrope. There WAS a checkpoint, but it was near the end – near this tightrope, in fact. Gray tried all of the vehicles given to him (ranging from a military jeep to a child’s bike), but eventually figured out that the board had to be traversed on FOOT, taking advantage of the fact that the jet engines could blast you through the air and that certain jets (marked by superheroes Spider-Man and Superman) had working ejector seats to fly you upwards toward higher jets or convenient cliffsides. This one took a LOT of attempts to avoid ragdolling on top of jet engines or just generally falling off at inconvenient moments, but eventually, through the power of first person, Gray was able to blast himself onto the cliff and climb toward the teleporter to Part II!
II. Bridge two – the bridge to Hell itself, a fiendish monstrosity made up of dozens upon dozens of overlapping wind turbines. Alex couldn’t actually spawn him too close to it or the game would crash, and the first time Gray looked at it, he literally fell through the world in his horror. XD Cue Gray desperately trying whatever vehicle looked like it might work – from a full-on party bus with speakers and a face-shaped light-show, to a motorcycle, to his own feet – to try and get across it to the win. He eventually did make it with a beat-up SUV-type deal covered in mud, but not before his attempts to parkour it on foot led to his Florida Man avatar getting glitched out so badly he basically MELTED as he slid down the mountainside below, his head lolling around and THROUGH his body. It was very disturbing. I’m sure Alex was extremely proud. XD
Not too shabby, huh? :) It's good to accomplish things while I'm stuck in here. And tomorrow. . .well, now that I've caught up on tumblr a bit, hoping I can get some more done on ship memes or Valicetines/Valicertines. Haven't decided on gaming yet -- might just do more Unpacking, it's pretty chill. As it stands, though, I'd better wrap up and get to bed so I can continue getting a decent amount of sleep for fighting this stupid thing off. Night all!
As for the other tasks of the day --
Tumblr: Did a nice dash-and-tags catch-up on Victor Luvs Alice before and during my lunch, drafting anything that I intended to respond to later/slap in my queue in future. Then, after my gaming (below) and some time catching up on other blogs, I went back and slapped my six Chill/Valicer Save update posts into the VLA queue; finally finished the explanatory text for my first Valicer OT3 meme and queued that up; threw one of the “my OT3 is like” posts I found recently into the queue after it; then popped over to Valice Multiverse and put two ask replies in THAT queue, all before my shower. And then, just now, I popped one last ask reply on Valice Multiverse into its queue. So, yeah, pretty productive day on the old tumblrs! And I hope to do even more tomorrow! Fingers crossed!
Gaming: Well, turns out the much-anticipated-and-feared Infants Patch for Sims 4 isn’t coming until MARCH, according to today’s “Behind The Sims” livestream, and today’s update was actually “we are attempting to be more trans and disabled friendly with new CAS assets; also here are some updates for console players and a handful more bug fixes.” That being said, that still means a bit of a wait for modders to check the mods for anything that might need poking at, so I went ahead and played a couple of hours of Unpacking today! Started my third album under the name “Monica” (*waves at Moose* :p) and did the first four levels – kid’s room, uni dorm, house with the DnD mates, and moving in with the boyfriend. It was a fun, pretty chill time. :) Needed something like that while I’m still fighting this stupid disease.
Writing: More Blades in the Dark Valicer stuff – setting up their Crew character sheet this time! Yes, the group as a whole has a character sheet as well in BitD – it’s for tracking stuff like what other gangs in the area think of you, how much attention you’re getting from the authorities, and what kind of upgrades the whole crew gets as they get more and more powerful. I have decided the Valicer trio are a group of Shadows – thieves, spies, and saboteurs, mostly – with maybe a touch of Hawker on the side just from Smiler’s activities. :p Their group name is The Three Pillars (which in-universe is something Victor just blurted out when asked by someone – inspired by the fact that they live in a place called Six Towers, and there’s three of them – and they just rolled with it), and their lair is the old home of Elder Gutknecht, based off the building we see in Corpse Bride briefly (basically a big rectangle with a tower on the side). The lair comes with something that allows them to train their “prowess” (have to figure out what that is), is kinda hidden (or at least known to be abandoned so people don’t come knocking), has Elder Gutknecht’s old workshop and library – oh, and Elder Gutknecht himself, the spirit of an old Whisper who figured out out-of-body travel, only for his mortal shell to die while he was out on a walk. Fortunately he’s a Reconciled (read: non-malicious and sane) ghost and only too happy to help them out in exchange for the company. I’m still deciding on their starting special ability. . .and it occurs to me that I imagine the crew LIVING there, which means they need the “Quarters” upgrade. . .hmmm. Things to consider another night!
YouTube: Didn’t start watching anything until late, but I got through pretty much all the videos I wanted to get through without issue, so. . . *thumbs up*
A) Started with a pair of OXBoxtra lists –
I. “7 Villains Who Saved Your Butt” – Luke and Ellen talking about those villains whom, for whatever reason, ended up saving the hero’s life in their respective games. Reasons including “these alien bastards betrayed me, and if I sacrifice myself to help you escape, I can assure they get taken down” (Cassandra De Vries, Perfect Dark), “we had to work together to take out the moron in charge of the facility, and while I don’t want to admit that I may like you now, I WILL admit that killing you is way too hard and I should just let you go” (GLaDOS, Portal 2), and “FUCK I DIDN’T REALIZE THAT RANDOM PRISONER ABOUT TO BE BEHEADED IN THE EXECUTION I CRASHED WAS THE DRAGONBORN DO OVER DO OVER” (Alduin, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim). Yeah, poor Alduin’s actually unique in the list for saving the protagonist ACCIDENTALLY instead of deliberately, and not even to further his own goals. I get the feeling he gets made fun of a lot at the villain parties. :p
II. “7 Best Games You'll Never Ever Play” – Andy talking about those games that, for whatever reason, never made to an actual playable state. Reasons including “we refused to hire enough developers, insisted on making the developers we did have use an engine that wasn’t suited to third-person gaming, and after seeing the markets changed, shut down the studio making it entirely” (the death of Project Ragtag, a Star Wars game that was supposed to be like Uncharted, by EA), “zombie and zombie-type games have been done to death and the developers can’t actually advance the story (never mind WE’RE not advancing the story either by never releasing Episode 3)” (the death of Ravenholm, a fourth episode/spin-off for Half-Life 2 from Arkane centering on the spooky town, by Valve), and “I HAD A FIGHT WITH A GAMES JOURNALIST ON TWITTER AND SO NOW I AM GOING TO THROW A TANTRUM AND CANCEL MY PLANNED SEQUEL TO A BELOVED PUZZLE GAME” (the death of Fez 2, the sequel to the 2-D rotating puzzle platformer, by its creator Phil Fish). *sigh* Always sad when a hoped-for game never reaches the public – isn’t it, Paradox (aka the people who are supposedly helping make Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2)?
B) And then it was time for the Subs upload – GrayStillPlays vs Alex again in GTA V with “When you cross a bridge with 100% death rate!” Alex created two challenge bridge boards for Gray to take on in this video, and BOY were they painful:
I. Bridge one – the “hydra” bridge made of twitching, glitching jets (frozen in place so they couldn’t actually take off, as Gray found out when he tried to hijack one), with a few jets made to rotate (at various speeds) and one hanging out near the end shooting rockets at the spot where two of its brothers sat nose-to-nose, creating the world’s most dangerous tightrope. There WAS a checkpoint, but it was near the end – near this tightrope, in fact. Gray tried all of the vehicles given to him (ranging from a military jeep to a child’s bike), but eventually figured out that the board had to be traversed on FOOT, taking advantage of the fact that the jet engines could blast you through the air and that certain jets (marked by superheroes Spider-Man and Superman) had working ejector seats to fly you upwards toward higher jets or convenient cliffsides. This one took a LOT of attempts to avoid ragdolling on top of jet engines or just generally falling off at inconvenient moments, but eventually, through the power of first person, Gray was able to blast himself onto the cliff and climb toward the teleporter to Part II!
II. Bridge two – the bridge to Hell itself, a fiendish monstrosity made up of dozens upon dozens of overlapping wind turbines. Alex couldn’t actually spawn him too close to it or the game would crash, and the first time Gray looked at it, he literally fell through the world in his horror. XD Cue Gray desperately trying whatever vehicle looked like it might work – from a full-on party bus with speakers and a face-shaped light-show, to a motorcycle, to his own feet – to try and get across it to the win. He eventually did make it with a beat-up SUV-type deal covered in mud, but not before his attempts to parkour it on foot led to his Florida Man avatar getting glitched out so badly he basically MELTED as he slid down the mountainside below, his head lolling around and THROUGH his body. It was very disturbing. I’m sure Alex was extremely proud. XD
Not too shabby, huh? :) It's good to accomplish things while I'm stuck in here. And tomorrow. . .well, now that I've caught up on tumblr a bit, hoping I can get some more done on ship memes or Valicetines/Valicertines. Haven't decided on gaming yet -- might just do more Unpacking, it's pretty chill. As it stands, though, I'd better wrap up and get to bed so I can continue getting a decent amount of sleep for fighting this stupid thing off. Night all!
