Not My Best Saturday
May. 6th, 2023 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickJust -- woke up a bit earlier than I wanted from the parents banging around a bit (getting ready to do yardwork since it was a nice day today), and didn't get as much as I wanted done in some areas. I mean, I DID manage to at least tick all the boxes I wanted to tick yesterday, just -- not very equally:
Cleaning: As usual, took longer than I wanted, even if it wasn’t even that dusty. *grumbles* Started dusting around 10:45 PM, finished that and the Swiffering by the time we had lunch, which I WANT to say was around 1:10 PM due to replacing my Buford Minimate’s gun when the original got flung by the duster to parts unknown (fortunately I have a few spare Minimate props in a bag under my bed), getting pulled into helping with the laundry, and letting out a flying ant that had somehow gotten into one of my windows. Resumed with the vacuuming at about 2 PM, and happily finished that in about ten minutes. My sheets-pjs-and-bathrobe load of laundry went downstairs and into the washing machine around 11:50 AM, and after needing a short “second dry” because one of the pillowcases wasn’t fully dry, finally got taken out, folded up, and put away around 3:30 PM. At least it’s done for another week.
Tumblr: Most of the action here was on Valice Multiverse tonight – handful of ask replies to answer (or in one case, reblog, as Satirical Demon was explaining something he’d referenced in a recent ask). I am trying to at least get the pictures for the next Chill Valicer Save sorted tonight before I go to bed, though – it should be a shorter update, so hoping I can manage!
Sims 4: Okay, between the cleaning taking longer than expected, me waiting a good chunk of the afternoon on Mom to clean out my closet with me (see below), and me getting involved with playing Merge Dragon’s latest event (I have cracked the code to get all the rewards I want out of these things each weekend, but it does take a bit of grinding to get the high-level “object collectibles” I need), I barely had any time in the game at all. *sigh* I forewent visiting the Valicer save to instead drop in on the Tranquil Circle Spa build as a result, and I got one fairly significant thing done in it – namely, while trying to rearrange the lockers in the shower room so they made the most sense without actually blocking the showers, I decided “okay, the room needs to be larger” and ended up expanding it by one tile’s width (adding an additional shower stall in the process). Which meant all the other corner rooms had to be bigger by one tile’s width. Obviously, this just gave the kitchen some of its stolen floorspace back (I will see if and how I wish to rearrange it later, though I did already move the bar so it goes across the room instead of running parallel to the wall), but it did mean that I had to fiddle with the sizes and the placement of the objects in the two massage rooms to keep them the right sizes and adjust for the doors shifting position. Wasn’t anything too major, just had to shuffle some decorations along and rearrange a few things. This means both “mud bath” rooms are now a little bigger, though. . .maybe I’ll build them each a private toilet area now? Feels like an idea. . . (Also, I CONSIDERED going back to the game after beanbags (below), but the EA app decided to be a little bitch and not accept my password when I tried to sign in. Not really feeling fighting with it today – I’ll check it again tomorrow and reset things as necessary. Meh.)
. . .and you know what, in looking at the screenshots that I’m currently sorting through for the Chill Valicer save update, I wanna share a couple of the Smiler Looks I made. So here, Smiler in what I’ve come to think of as their “Victorian/Valicer In The Dark” look, and their new nonbinary flag shirt:
Looks good, right? :) I really wanna do more outfits for them. . .and figure out what do about their “standard” shirt. Because I love the pattern, it just needs different colors. . .
Writing: Okay, this was a shining star today – mostly because I dedicated over an hour to it. :p Look, I really wanted some “comfort fic” writing, and with the EA app being a little bitch. . . But yes, spent a lot of time writing down a “just for me” scene of Victor getting faux-kidnapped and lovingly marmalised by Alice and Smiler after a tough day with his parents. Coming along well, quite enjoying it. :) Sometimes it’s good to be totally self-indulgent!
YouTube: Took me longer than I expected, but I DID end up watching both of the videos I wanted to watch today –
A) From the Watch Later, we had OXBox and “Resident Evil 4 Remake: Your Tap Dancing Days Are Over | Let's Play Resident Evil 4 Ep. 6!” Featuring Leon and Ashley trying to escape from the village after Luis wandered off (and ended up meeting up with Ada Wong, who said that he wasn’t due any “protection” until he produced the “Amber”), only to keep running into heavily-fortified little fortresses full of infected people, chainsaw-wielding women with bandages over their eyes, and Monster Priest Mendez who turned into a horrible scorpion-man thing in a burning building, prompting Leon to comment – well, the title of the video. XD Also featuring Andy and Mike hatching a scheme to kill the Merchant and pretend to be him so avoid all this fighting; Andy getting VERY excited over Leon buying a riot gun and Leon suplexing an old woman plaga zombie; Andy managing to lure Ashley into walking into a bear trap just to see if it would catch her (it did); Andy making up a little ditty about RE4 stealth kills to the tune of “Mambo Number Five” (it actually sounded quite good); Jane commenting that they would have to do a “Physical Challenge” and see if they could make Andy kick apart actual barrels like Leon; Jane looking up the cost of oak barrels and determining that Leon was essentially kicking apart thousands of dollars worth of work every time he broke one open; Andy forcing Ashley to hide in a locker just for fun, only to trigger the Chainsaw Sisters boss fight – and then being shocked when Ashley teleported out of her locker once the fighting was over (Mike suggesting Ashley heard the music end and thus knew it was safe to come out); everyone cracking up over the “guess your tap-dancing days are over” line; Andy being slammed with exploding barrels in the second stage of the Mendez scorpion-man boss fight every time he stopped to try and reload his guns; and Andy getting VERY sour with Ashley playfully going “you’re welcome?” after smashing open a window for Leon to escape the burning building that was the site of the Mendez boss fight, pointing out that she still owed him for all this nonsense. XD Good times, and a particularly funny episode, even if Andy thinks this bit is one of the weaker sections of the game. Next time – the start of castle shenanigans!
B) And from the Subs, we had GrayStillPlays and “Every time I crash parts are randomized in GTA 5!” A particularly interesting Alex and Petey torture board where Gray had to first escape a truly chaotic cityscape (with cars flying around every which way, police barricades and rusted-out buses blocking key paths, a Central Park you couldn’t escape because doing so required running over a dog, and various people running around throwing molotovs and trying to get you to run into random obstacles), then get through the world’s most random color-coded obstacle course (featuring such things as spinning tree planters, various teleporting blocks, windmills, and thumbnail holes, magnet-like barriers that slid all over the shop, and just to be mean some bouncing teleporters at the very end). However, as per the title, every time Gray crashed, his vehicle got randomized – that is, Alex’s script would pull out a vehicle, and Gray would be auto-teleported into it. And the vehicles ranged from perfectly normal cars, to unusual car-like objects (jetskis, trains, jets, and helicopters with wheels), to animal cars (deer, cows, and once a dead shark), to object cars (Gray had great fun driving around the cityscape on a toilet for a while), to WHAT THE HELL EVEN cars (a jet merged with a UFO! A yacht that flew thanks to attached windmills! THE ENTIRE FIB BUILDING!). And no, there was no considerations for if the vehicle would even fit in the course – though Gray was ALMOST able to use that to cheat the second board near the end (aka, exploit that most of the FIB building isn’t real and could just clip through the board without “crashing” to fly it ALMOST to the end – the teleporters got him before he could cross the finish line though). But he did finally finish both parts legit, ending in a helicopter-with-wheels on the first part (after multiple crashes put him in multiple cars in quick succession) and the roller coaster “car” on the second (which proved JUST small enough to get around most of the final obstacles). Fun random-ass times for all, I love it. XD
Other:
-->Mom and I took a few minutes to clear out my summer work clothes to see what actually still fit – answer was “not much.” Boobs and hips are a bit of a problem these days, unfortunately. I still have a few tops and one skirt that works, but it appears that on Wednesday, before we drop the car off for its inspection, we’ll be going out and buying some new clothes!
-->We played beanbags this afternoon, once Dad was done with his workout – and I ended up having a surprisingly good day! I would say Dad did better OVERALL, since I lost the first game and he always came second or first, but I definitely got the most wins. :) Whereas Mom. . .well, she tried. :p Final scores were me 3-W-W-2-W; Dad W-2-2-W-2; Mom 2-3-3-3-3. We’ll see how it all shakes out tomorrow!
So yeah -- great day for the writing, which I'm glad of, and a good day for the old YouTubes, but -- ugh. I did NOT appreciate the whole "waiting around to do the closet" thing (nor some of Mom's comments about my weight/the clothes as we cleaned them out), and I'm sick of stuff keeping me from playing a proper session of my Sims game. :( I miss my Valicer trio. Maybe I can get in some time Wednesday afternoon. . .we'll see. As for tomorrow -- gotta catch up on Victor Luvs Alice and do drafts for the Chill Valicer Save update; play some Fallout 4 (reporting back to Nordhagen!) and update the Playthrough Progression; and keep up with Gray and Jon. I shan't make any more plans in case further curve balls are thrown my way. Night all!
Cleaning: As usual, took longer than I wanted, even if it wasn’t even that dusty. *grumbles* Started dusting around 10:45 PM, finished that and the Swiffering by the time we had lunch, which I WANT to say was around 1:10 PM due to replacing my Buford Minimate’s gun when the original got flung by the duster to parts unknown (fortunately I have a few spare Minimate props in a bag under my bed), getting pulled into helping with the laundry, and letting out a flying ant that had somehow gotten into one of my windows. Resumed with the vacuuming at about 2 PM, and happily finished that in about ten minutes. My sheets-pjs-and-bathrobe load of laundry went downstairs and into the washing machine around 11:50 AM, and after needing a short “second dry” because one of the pillowcases wasn’t fully dry, finally got taken out, folded up, and put away around 3:30 PM. At least it’s done for another week.
Tumblr: Most of the action here was on Valice Multiverse tonight – handful of ask replies to answer (or in one case, reblog, as Satirical Demon was explaining something he’d referenced in a recent ask). I am trying to at least get the pictures for the next Chill Valicer Save sorted tonight before I go to bed, though – it should be a shorter update, so hoping I can manage!
Sims 4: Okay, between the cleaning taking longer than expected, me waiting a good chunk of the afternoon on Mom to clean out my closet with me (see below), and me getting involved with playing Merge Dragon’s latest event (I have cracked the code to get all the rewards I want out of these things each weekend, but it does take a bit of grinding to get the high-level “object collectibles” I need), I barely had any time in the game at all. *sigh* I forewent visiting the Valicer save to instead drop in on the Tranquil Circle Spa build as a result, and I got one fairly significant thing done in it – namely, while trying to rearrange the lockers in the shower room so they made the most sense without actually blocking the showers, I decided “okay, the room needs to be larger” and ended up expanding it by one tile’s width (adding an additional shower stall in the process). Which meant all the other corner rooms had to be bigger by one tile’s width. Obviously, this just gave the kitchen some of its stolen floorspace back (I will see if and how I wish to rearrange it later, though I did already move the bar so it goes across the room instead of running parallel to the wall), but it did mean that I had to fiddle with the sizes and the placement of the objects in the two massage rooms to keep them the right sizes and adjust for the doors shifting position. Wasn’t anything too major, just had to shuffle some decorations along and rearrange a few things. This means both “mud bath” rooms are now a little bigger, though. . .maybe I’ll build them each a private toilet area now? Feels like an idea. . . (Also, I CONSIDERED going back to the game after beanbags (below), but the EA app decided to be a little bitch and not accept my password when I tried to sign in. Not really feeling fighting with it today – I’ll check it again tomorrow and reset things as necessary. Meh.)
. . .and you know what, in looking at the screenshots that I’m currently sorting through for the Chill Valicer save update, I wanna share a couple of the Smiler Looks I made. So here, Smiler in what I’ve come to think of as their “Victorian/Valicer In The Dark” look, and their new nonbinary flag shirt:
Looks good, right? :) I really wanna do more outfits for them. . .and figure out what do about their “standard” shirt. Because I love the pattern, it just needs different colors. . .
Writing: Okay, this was a shining star today – mostly because I dedicated over an hour to it. :p Look, I really wanted some “comfort fic” writing, and with the EA app being a little bitch. . . But yes, spent a lot of time writing down a “just for me” scene of Victor getting faux-kidnapped and lovingly marmalised by Alice and Smiler after a tough day with his parents. Coming along well, quite enjoying it. :) Sometimes it’s good to be totally self-indulgent!
YouTube: Took me longer than I expected, but I DID end up watching both of the videos I wanted to watch today –
A) From the Watch Later, we had OXBox and “Resident Evil 4 Remake: Your Tap Dancing Days Are Over | Let's Play Resident Evil 4 Ep. 6!” Featuring Leon and Ashley trying to escape from the village after Luis wandered off (and ended up meeting up with Ada Wong, who said that he wasn’t due any “protection” until he produced the “Amber”), only to keep running into heavily-fortified little fortresses full of infected people, chainsaw-wielding women with bandages over their eyes, and Monster Priest Mendez who turned into a horrible scorpion-man thing in a burning building, prompting Leon to comment – well, the title of the video. XD Also featuring Andy and Mike hatching a scheme to kill the Merchant and pretend to be him so avoid all this fighting; Andy getting VERY excited over Leon buying a riot gun and Leon suplexing an old woman plaga zombie; Andy managing to lure Ashley into walking into a bear trap just to see if it would catch her (it did); Andy making up a little ditty about RE4 stealth kills to the tune of “Mambo Number Five” (it actually sounded quite good); Jane commenting that they would have to do a “Physical Challenge” and see if they could make Andy kick apart actual barrels like Leon; Jane looking up the cost of oak barrels and determining that Leon was essentially kicking apart thousands of dollars worth of work every time he broke one open; Andy forcing Ashley to hide in a locker just for fun, only to trigger the Chainsaw Sisters boss fight – and then being shocked when Ashley teleported out of her locker once the fighting was over (Mike suggesting Ashley heard the music end and thus knew it was safe to come out); everyone cracking up over the “guess your tap-dancing days are over” line; Andy being slammed with exploding barrels in the second stage of the Mendez scorpion-man boss fight every time he stopped to try and reload his guns; and Andy getting VERY sour with Ashley playfully going “you’re welcome?” after smashing open a window for Leon to escape the burning building that was the site of the Mendez boss fight, pointing out that she still owed him for all this nonsense. XD Good times, and a particularly funny episode, even if Andy thinks this bit is one of the weaker sections of the game. Next time – the start of castle shenanigans!
B) And from the Subs, we had GrayStillPlays and “Every time I crash parts are randomized in GTA 5!” A particularly interesting Alex and Petey torture board where Gray had to first escape a truly chaotic cityscape (with cars flying around every which way, police barricades and rusted-out buses blocking key paths, a Central Park you couldn’t escape because doing so required running over a dog, and various people running around throwing molotovs and trying to get you to run into random obstacles), then get through the world’s most random color-coded obstacle course (featuring such things as spinning tree planters, various teleporting blocks, windmills, and thumbnail holes, magnet-like barriers that slid all over the shop, and just to be mean some bouncing teleporters at the very end). However, as per the title, every time Gray crashed, his vehicle got randomized – that is, Alex’s script would pull out a vehicle, and Gray would be auto-teleported into it. And the vehicles ranged from perfectly normal cars, to unusual car-like objects (jetskis, trains, jets, and helicopters with wheels), to animal cars (deer, cows, and once a dead shark), to object cars (Gray had great fun driving around the cityscape on a toilet for a while), to WHAT THE HELL EVEN cars (a jet merged with a UFO! A yacht that flew thanks to attached windmills! THE ENTIRE FIB BUILDING!). And no, there was no considerations for if the vehicle would even fit in the course – though Gray was ALMOST able to use that to cheat the second board near the end (aka, exploit that most of the FIB building isn’t real and could just clip through the board without “crashing” to fly it ALMOST to the end – the teleporters got him before he could cross the finish line though). But he did finally finish both parts legit, ending in a helicopter-with-wheels on the first part (after multiple crashes put him in multiple cars in quick succession) and the roller coaster “car” on the second (which proved JUST small enough to get around most of the final obstacles). Fun random-ass times for all, I love it. XD
Other:
-->Mom and I took a few minutes to clear out my summer work clothes to see what actually still fit – answer was “not much.” Boobs and hips are a bit of a problem these days, unfortunately. I still have a few tops and one skirt that works, but it appears that on Wednesday, before we drop the car off for its inspection, we’ll be going out and buying some new clothes!
-->We played beanbags this afternoon, once Dad was done with his workout – and I ended up having a surprisingly good day! I would say Dad did better OVERALL, since I lost the first game and he always came second or first, but I definitely got the most wins. :) Whereas Mom. . .well, she tried. :p Final scores were me 3-W-W-2-W; Dad W-2-2-W-2; Mom 2-3-3-3-3. We’ll see how it all shakes out tomorrow!
So yeah -- great day for the writing, which I'm glad of, and a good day for the old YouTubes, but -- ugh. I did NOT appreciate the whole "waiting around to do the closet" thing (nor some of Mom's comments about my weight/the clothes as we cleaned them out), and I'm sick of stuff keeping me from playing a proper session of my Sims game. :( I miss my Valicer trio. Maybe I can get in some time Wednesday afternoon. . .we'll see. As for tomorrow -- gotta catch up on Victor Luvs Alice and do drafts for the Chill Valicer Save update; play some Fallout 4 (reporting back to Nordhagen!) and update the Playthrough Progression; and keep up with Gray and Jon. I shan't make any more plans in case further curve balls are thrown my way. Night all!
