Status Quo Friday
Sep. 6th, 2024 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickParents still positive, me still negative, we're all just in a holding pattern for now. Mom's hoping that she and Dad test negative on Sunday so we can still have our game night, just a bit latter than usual -- we will have to cross our fingers and see! In the meantime, here is my to-do list:
Work – Another pretty standard day of roster maintenance this Friday, with a couple of credit-card-related calls to break things up. I did have to deal with some irritation from my yapping coworkers (politics and talking about my parents’ health situation), but other than that, nothing special. Still glad it’s the weekend, though.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – last night on the bike this week, getting through –
A) The end of the GrayStillPlays compilation “Dangerous Roller Coasters in Video Games!” Which consisted of the second half or so of the video on Gray’s attempts to create the slowest, longest roller coaster in Planet Coaster (which involved him breaking the game by laying down so much track his FPS was down to like 12, then doing tons of math to figure out how long it took to go around the finished monstrosity – turns out it was just over eleven years, damn) – and, as I had originally predicted, Gray doing a GTA V board that was apparently themed around roller coasters! Though not the one I was thinking about – this one forced Gray to do a ton of nasty wall-ride-themed challenges (including starting going down a 90-degree drop and having to dodge ramps before picking the CORRECT path to take at the bottom) before doing a final section in a roller coaster car where Gray had to avoid being decapitated by the bars that kept popping into existence in front of all the boosts. XD Good stuff all around!
B) And a pair of short Severance-themed videos –
I. “Severance: Helly's Loop scenes (Innie and Outie sides)” by Artes, which showcased Helly’s attempts to leave the Severed Floor via the door to the stairwell from the perspective of Helly the Innie (who, due to the nature of how the severance chip works, kept feeling like she was looping right back into the same hallway every time she opened the door); Helena the Outie (who kept being met by the guard Milchick in the actual stairwell and being assured that this is a normal part of the orientation process, it’s not like your Innie is trying to escape, go right back in); and then the two merged together so we could see how Helly turned into Helena and back again each time they went through the door. Neat stuff!
II. “Severance -Everything they told you about severance is a lie” by Movie Time, which showcased basically the final minute-and-a-half of the final episode, with the Innie characters having managed to escape into the real world briefly via the Overtime Contingency. As per the title, it showed off Helly revealing to the people gathered for Helena’s big speech on severance that she was the Innie and telling them that they’d been lied to and that severed workers are not happy, but it also showed Innie!Irving pounding on the door of his former love’s house (having discovered the Outie version of said love is apparently in a relationship but deciding he needed to speak to him anyway), and Innie!Mark discovering that Outie!Mark’s apparently-late wife Gemma is his former wellness counselor Ms. Casey and running to tell his sister Devon – and Dylan, the guy making all this happen by physically keeping the switches of the machine making it happen set to “on,” being tackled by Milchick and thus all the Outies taking control again in the last moments of the show. Very dramatic! One day I will find a way to watch full episodes of this show.
2. Continue final posting edits on “Start At The Beginning...Sort Of” Chapter 5: Check – I have made it through the gang discovering Elder Gutknecht’s house; starting to explore it; Smiler explaining the whole deal with their glowing yellow eyes (and why they’re one of the few to be blessed by Mar-Mal); and the gang discovering the fancy bed in the bedroom and Victor explaining the deal with him and his parents (mainly, he grew up physically well-taken-care-of but emotionally neglected as HELL). I left off with the gang discovering the music room – we’ll get through Victor and Smiler getting to geek out about their hobbies (Alice doesn’t get a chance to because she draws and there’s nothing in the house facilitating that, sadly) and them discovering the top of the tower and Elder Gutknecht tomorrow!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just GrayStillPlays tonight, with “I made debates 1000x more dangerous,” aka Gray plays more Happy Wheels! We started with the usual bottle flip, which saw Gray surrounded by various forms of Yeet as he tried to get the green “Nice Throw!” just underneath the bouncer (he ended up accidentally turning a couple of other bottles into a sort of funnel down there while trying desperately to get the right angle on his throw), then proceeded through –
I. A long orange bottle run (Bike Dad made it, Tom Hardy did not)
II. Pogo Guy having to go on quite the journey to save his grandpa (featuring a bad ending where he just drove away after leaving GSP Park, and a good ending where he climbed a building; avoided trash cans, crossbows, and random people with weapons; headed up a mountain; lost his feet avoiding a falling log; and finally tracked down grandpa and – well, kinda flung himself into the abyss after him once the kidnapper dropped him, but the game insisted he saved him and brought him to the hospital)
III. Pogo Guy getting a break with a “bad ball fall” (by which the creator meant it was made badly and thus very easy to win XD)
IV. The Hobo having to figure out how to collect all the coins while clinging to the revolving Circle (this involved having to strategically climb onto a van for the coins placed higher up, then back to ground level for the ones placed lower, all without falling into the abyss – took a few tries, but Gray managed it!)
V. Pogo Guy having to go up against the Steampunk Killer and his merry band (featuring a lot of weapons with gears glued to them, a bunch of free-floating gears for Pogo Guy to avoid, and slightly-bouncy platforms that had a tendency to wiggle Gray off them – plus a storyline indicating Pogo Guy did all this to recover a stolen watch XD)
VI. The Motorbike Couple having to drive along the top of a red ball over a pit of spikes, then jump off just right to get the coin at the end (Gray, who has problems with patience, struggled with this one a bit)
VII. Bike Dad and Tom Hardy having to ride on the top of a meteor to the win area, similar to the above (fortunately this one did not require so much patience, and Tom actually survived to the end)
VIII. And Segway Nixon getting a look at the current American Electoral Process with Dylan Snider’s board “TRUMP vs HARRIS” (featuring both candidates falling down a pit full of jets, spiky stars, and bouncers; both candidates being shot out of a cannon to break glass with their heads; and both candidates standing atop Rock-Em-Sock-Em robots, with Nixon having to unseat them by bopping the robots’ heads – amusingly, while Trump fell off Nixon’s back, Harris landed right on top of Nixon’s handlebars, folded in a perfect V, and thus got carried to the win. Yay! XD) Good stuff as always!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – there wasn’t really anything to do on Victor Luvs Alice, but on Valice Multiverse, I had a reblog from Satirical regarding our little thread about the Clown Registry in the BABS verse (basically, they have the normal egg one and another one for “domesticated clowns” – having learned the DC registry is just molds of heads, VITD Smiler is asking why the performer clown registry is on eggs (because the dude who accidentally started everything painted clown faces on eggs as a hobby, incidentally) while Alice asks if they’re real eggs (they were at first but I’m pretty sure the ones today are ceramic)) and a new ask from Toonsisters, comparing Cuddlepile!Alice to the 1951 animated Disney Alice; Victor to Victor Frankenstein from Frankenweenie, and Smiler to the LEGO Batman Movie Joker (Alice was like “heh, yes, obvious;” Victor was like “yeah, I’ve heard this a lot;” and Smiler was like “congrats on comparing me to the one Joker I actually LIKE – oh, and here is what I look like, since you mentioned not knowing”). So that’s all good!
So yeah, at least I'm keeping on top of some stuff. Now, tomorrow is a cleaning Saturday, so that's my morning taken care of, and I am DETERMINED to get back to the damn Chill Valicer Save and get through Harvestfest, so that'll be most of my afternoon. I also plan to try and finish off the posting edit on the final chapter of "Start At The Beginning...Sort Of" and keep up with Gray, Jon, and -- if I'm lucky -- that OXBox list that's still sitting my Watch Later (oh, how I miss my Friday afternoons off already). We'll see what I can get through! Night all!
Work – Another pretty standard day of roster maintenance this Friday, with a couple of credit-card-related calls to break things up. I did have to deal with some irritation from my yapping coworkers (politics and talking about my parents’ health situation), but other than that, nothing special. Still glad it’s the weekend, though.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – last night on the bike this week, getting through –
A) The end of the GrayStillPlays compilation “Dangerous Roller Coasters in Video Games!” Which consisted of the second half or so of the video on Gray’s attempts to create the slowest, longest roller coaster in Planet Coaster (which involved him breaking the game by laying down so much track his FPS was down to like 12, then doing tons of math to figure out how long it took to go around the finished monstrosity – turns out it was just over eleven years, damn) – and, as I had originally predicted, Gray doing a GTA V board that was apparently themed around roller coasters! Though not the one I was thinking about – this one forced Gray to do a ton of nasty wall-ride-themed challenges (including starting going down a 90-degree drop and having to dodge ramps before picking the CORRECT path to take at the bottom) before doing a final section in a roller coaster car where Gray had to avoid being decapitated by the bars that kept popping into existence in front of all the boosts. XD Good stuff all around!
B) And a pair of short Severance-themed videos –
I. “Severance: Helly's Loop scenes (Innie and Outie sides)” by Artes, which showcased Helly’s attempts to leave the Severed Floor via the door to the stairwell from the perspective of Helly the Innie (who, due to the nature of how the severance chip works, kept feeling like she was looping right back into the same hallway every time she opened the door); Helena the Outie (who kept being met by the guard Milchick in the actual stairwell and being assured that this is a normal part of the orientation process, it’s not like your Innie is trying to escape, go right back in); and then the two merged together so we could see how Helly turned into Helena and back again each time they went through the door. Neat stuff!
II. “Severance -Everything they told you about severance is a lie” by Movie Time, which showcased basically the final minute-and-a-half of the final episode, with the Innie characters having managed to escape into the real world briefly via the Overtime Contingency. As per the title, it showed off Helly revealing to the people gathered for Helena’s big speech on severance that she was the Innie and telling them that they’d been lied to and that severed workers are not happy, but it also showed Innie!Irving pounding on the door of his former love’s house (having discovered the Outie version of said love is apparently in a relationship but deciding he needed to speak to him anyway), and Innie!Mark discovering that Outie!Mark’s apparently-late wife Gemma is his former wellness counselor Ms. Casey and running to tell his sister Devon – and Dylan, the guy making all this happen by physically keeping the switches of the machine making it happen set to “on,” being tackled by Milchick and thus all the Outies taking control again in the last moments of the show. Very dramatic! One day I will find a way to watch full episodes of this show.
2. Continue final posting edits on “Start At The Beginning...Sort Of” Chapter 5: Check – I have made it through the gang discovering Elder Gutknecht’s house; starting to explore it; Smiler explaining the whole deal with their glowing yellow eyes (and why they’re one of the few to be blessed by Mar-Mal); and the gang discovering the fancy bed in the bedroom and Victor explaining the deal with him and his parents (mainly, he grew up physically well-taken-care-of but emotionally neglected as HELL). I left off with the gang discovering the music room – we’ll get through Victor and Smiler getting to geek out about their hobbies (Alice doesn’t get a chance to because she draws and there’s nothing in the house facilitating that, sadly) and them discovering the top of the tower and Elder Gutknecht tomorrow!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just GrayStillPlays tonight, with “I made debates 1000x more dangerous,” aka Gray plays more Happy Wheels! We started with the usual bottle flip, which saw Gray surrounded by various forms of Yeet as he tried to get the green “Nice Throw!” just underneath the bouncer (he ended up accidentally turning a couple of other bottles into a sort of funnel down there while trying desperately to get the right angle on his throw), then proceeded through –
I. A long orange bottle run (Bike Dad made it, Tom Hardy did not)
II. Pogo Guy having to go on quite the journey to save his grandpa (featuring a bad ending where he just drove away after leaving GSP Park, and a good ending where he climbed a building; avoided trash cans, crossbows, and random people with weapons; headed up a mountain; lost his feet avoiding a falling log; and finally tracked down grandpa and – well, kinda flung himself into the abyss after him once the kidnapper dropped him, but the game insisted he saved him and brought him to the hospital)
III. Pogo Guy getting a break with a “bad ball fall” (by which the creator meant it was made badly and thus very easy to win XD)
IV. The Hobo having to figure out how to collect all the coins while clinging to the revolving Circle (this involved having to strategically climb onto a van for the coins placed higher up, then back to ground level for the ones placed lower, all without falling into the abyss – took a few tries, but Gray managed it!)
V. Pogo Guy having to go up against the Steampunk Killer and his merry band (featuring a lot of weapons with gears glued to them, a bunch of free-floating gears for Pogo Guy to avoid, and slightly-bouncy platforms that had a tendency to wiggle Gray off them – plus a storyline indicating Pogo Guy did all this to recover a stolen watch XD)
VI. The Motorbike Couple having to drive along the top of a red ball over a pit of spikes, then jump off just right to get the coin at the end (Gray, who has problems with patience, struggled with this one a bit)
VII. Bike Dad and Tom Hardy having to ride on the top of a meteor to the win area, similar to the above (fortunately this one did not require so much patience, and Tom actually survived to the end)
VIII. And Segway Nixon getting a look at the current American Electoral Process with Dylan Snider’s board “TRUMP vs HARRIS” (featuring both candidates falling down a pit full of jets, spiky stars, and bouncers; both candidates being shot out of a cannon to break glass with their heads; and both candidates standing atop Rock-Em-Sock-Em robots, with Nixon having to unseat them by bopping the robots’ heads – amusingly, while Trump fell off Nixon’s back, Harris landed right on top of Nixon’s handlebars, folded in a perfect V, and thus got carried to the win. Yay! XD) Good stuff as always!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – there wasn’t really anything to do on Victor Luvs Alice, but on Valice Multiverse, I had a reblog from Satirical regarding our little thread about the Clown Registry in the BABS verse (basically, they have the normal egg one and another one for “domesticated clowns” – having learned the DC registry is just molds of heads, VITD Smiler is asking why the performer clown registry is on eggs (because the dude who accidentally started everything painted clown faces on eggs as a hobby, incidentally) while Alice asks if they’re real eggs (they were at first but I’m pretty sure the ones today are ceramic)) and a new ask from Toonsisters, comparing Cuddlepile!Alice to the 1951 animated Disney Alice; Victor to Victor Frankenstein from Frankenweenie, and Smiler to the LEGO Batman Movie Joker (Alice was like “heh, yes, obvious;” Victor was like “yeah, I’ve heard this a lot;” and Smiler was like “congrats on comparing me to the one Joker I actually LIKE – oh, and here is what I look like, since you mentioned not knowing”). So that’s all good!
So yeah, at least I'm keeping on top of some stuff. Now, tomorrow is a cleaning Saturday, so that's my morning taken care of, and I am DETERMINED to get back to the damn Chill Valicer Save and get through Harvestfest, so that'll be most of my afternoon. I also plan to try and finish off the posting edit on the final chapter of "Start At The Beginning...Sort Of" and keep up with Gray, Jon, and -- if I'm lucky -- that OXBox list that's still sitting my Watch Later (oh, how I miss my Friday afternoons off already). We'll see what I can get through! Night all!
