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A Lazier Sunday
Mar. 1st, 2020 11:23 pmNo "productive adult" chores to do today, and my parents were home for lunch (barbecue chicken pizza! And then we had classic pepperoni-and-sausage pizza with roasted Brussels sprouts for dinner), so it was definitely more of a "hang around the house and do fun stuff" day. Said fun stuff included:
-->Catching up on the CallMeKevin videos in my Watch Later queue:
A) More multiplayer shooting games with Desktop Goose! In fact, with multiple Desktop Geese! First game three, second game two. In the first one, the geese so thoroughly covered his screen he could barely see any of the action, and he was slowly going mad from the constant sound of their footsteps on the desktop; in the second (Team Fortress 2), his poor character ended up spinning to win every time a goose grabbed his cursor. Or spinning to lose, more accurately -- how Kevin and his teammates kept his sanity in this chaos, I have no idea. XD
B) Kinectimals, a game where you play with a baby big cat via the Kinect. Kevin chose a black panther, and then promptly struggled with most of the controls because he was trying to do them in his small office, sitting down. XD Bottom right corner proved to be a particular challenge. . . Also, he didn't exactly react well to his screen getting covered in baby panther spit. I suspect that, if he could have punted that kitty into his backyard, like Kevin Jr., he would have. XD
C) The Dog Island, a very strange Wii game about a dog society, where your character has to go on a quest to THE DOG Island (as it is put in the game) to save their dying sibling. Kevin promptly named his character "Bitch." XD He was also rather put-off by the cutesy dogs with their oversized heads. The man who made Jim Pickens is unnerved by cartoony puppies, everyone. XD
D) Chef, a restaurant simulator where you could make your own custom dishes! Kevin promptly whipped up such classics as "Misery Meat" (which has bacon, salmon, beer, and a fuckton of butter and cream) and "Leaf This Alone" (a salad that is nothing but carrots). As you might imagine, his restaurant ended up going bankrupt -- though customers tended to leave a lot of good reviews because he had a lot of expensive paintings on his tacky, tacky walls. XD
-->Played some Sims 4 -- ended up getting into updating the McFly house and spent all my time putting up curtains, adding little bits of clutter and decoration, and making over the backyard. And then going over to the new McTest lot and downloading a nice little starter from the gallery so Chell, Wheatley, and Geeker will at least have a roof over their heads before I head over and update it! I do have pictures of the move and reno, so I have at least one update for Wednesday this week, but I'm gonna have to think of another one to fill the gap before I actually play the McFlys next Sunday.
-->Also watched some Sims videos:
A) Carl's Sim Guides going over all the stuff you can do to make a true "Super Sim," based on an LP he did recently. Turns out you can get some scary skill bonuses from stuff like clubs and childhood aspirations and the like! He even mentioned the special inheritable traits you can get, though he didn't consider any of them crucial to Super-Sim-dom. It was some pretty interesting information, and I'll be keeping it in mind if I ever do a Super Sim.
B) Carl also did a video on trying to make the worst Sim possible, with all negative traits and such. This more or less became a video complaining about how emotions in The Sims 4 kind of cancel out traits because it's too easy to become happy and override the emotions traits give you, and Sims just -- don't always put their all into being mean. His horrible Sim had no real problem getting a wife as fast as any other Sim. I like emotions, but this video does highlight that they need serious tweaking to make them truly useful/interesting gameplay elements.
C) Plumbella did a CC-only (mostly; she put in one base-game phonograph) build of a starter house to show off the cool custom content she's collected. It came out really nice, and I like the stuff she has! All sorts of neat little clutter pieces, and furniture, and proper counters and whatnot. . .people in this community make a lot of awesome content! They rock, seriously. :)
D) onlyabidoang is back with another 50 or so cute little details Sims 2 had that later installments didn't! Along with some corrections to his old list. Again, painful nostalgia trip -- I loved that game, and while I don't think I could ever go back to those graphics, I really want some of those interactions back. A variety of kisses, getting to propose at the table, broken tubs dripping water to the floor below, doing yoga on furniture, proper split-screens on games, THE FOOD SPINNING IN THE MICROWAVE. . . *sigh* I love Sims 4, but it really did need to try harder on the little things.
-->Wrote another chunk on "Secundus 2" Chapter 5 -- Doc and Marty taking the opportunity to explain how they met while Gordon's stuck in a net thanks to Doc's security system for his paddock. This whole section is an adaptation of the "how Doc and Marty met" comic, I admit -- it's one of my favorites, what do you want from me? But now we're going to get another unwelcome visitor. . .
-->And I just finished up my queue on Valice Multiverse (tis quiet today), so it's time to finish answering inbox comments and hit the sack. Another week of work awaits. . .hopefully not a bad one. *fingers crossed* Night all!
-->Catching up on the CallMeKevin videos in my Watch Later queue:
A) More multiplayer shooting games with Desktop Goose! In fact, with multiple Desktop Geese! First game three, second game two. In the first one, the geese so thoroughly covered his screen he could barely see any of the action, and he was slowly going mad from the constant sound of their footsteps on the desktop; in the second (Team Fortress 2), his poor character ended up spinning to win every time a goose grabbed his cursor. Or spinning to lose, more accurately -- how Kevin and his teammates kept his sanity in this chaos, I have no idea. XD
B) Kinectimals, a game where you play with a baby big cat via the Kinect. Kevin chose a black panther, and then promptly struggled with most of the controls because he was trying to do them in his small office, sitting down. XD Bottom right corner proved to be a particular challenge. . . Also, he didn't exactly react well to his screen getting covered in baby panther spit. I suspect that, if he could have punted that kitty into his backyard, like Kevin Jr., he would have. XD
C) The Dog Island, a very strange Wii game about a dog society, where your character has to go on a quest to THE DOG Island (as it is put in the game) to save their dying sibling. Kevin promptly named his character "Bitch." XD He was also rather put-off by the cutesy dogs with their oversized heads. The man who made Jim Pickens is unnerved by cartoony puppies, everyone. XD
D) Chef, a restaurant simulator where you could make your own custom dishes! Kevin promptly whipped up such classics as "Misery Meat" (which has bacon, salmon, beer, and a fuckton of butter and cream) and "Leaf This Alone" (a salad that is nothing but carrots). As you might imagine, his restaurant ended up going bankrupt -- though customers tended to leave a lot of good reviews because he had a lot of expensive paintings on his tacky, tacky walls. XD
-->Played some Sims 4 -- ended up getting into updating the McFly house and spent all my time putting up curtains, adding little bits of clutter and decoration, and making over the backyard. And then going over to the new McTest lot and downloading a nice little starter from the gallery so Chell, Wheatley, and Geeker will at least have a roof over their heads before I head over and update it! I do have pictures of the move and reno, so I have at least one update for Wednesday this week, but I'm gonna have to think of another one to fill the gap before I actually play the McFlys next Sunday.
-->Also watched some Sims videos:
A) Carl's Sim Guides going over all the stuff you can do to make a true "Super Sim," based on an LP he did recently. Turns out you can get some scary skill bonuses from stuff like clubs and childhood aspirations and the like! He even mentioned the special inheritable traits you can get, though he didn't consider any of them crucial to Super-Sim-dom. It was some pretty interesting information, and I'll be keeping it in mind if I ever do a Super Sim.
B) Carl also did a video on trying to make the worst Sim possible, with all negative traits and such. This more or less became a video complaining about how emotions in The Sims 4 kind of cancel out traits because it's too easy to become happy and override the emotions traits give you, and Sims just -- don't always put their all into being mean. His horrible Sim had no real problem getting a wife as fast as any other Sim. I like emotions, but this video does highlight that they need serious tweaking to make them truly useful/interesting gameplay elements.
C) Plumbella did a CC-only (mostly; she put in one base-game phonograph) build of a starter house to show off the cool custom content she's collected. It came out really nice, and I like the stuff she has! All sorts of neat little clutter pieces, and furniture, and proper counters and whatnot. . .people in this community make a lot of awesome content! They rock, seriously. :)
D) onlyabidoang is back with another 50 or so cute little details Sims 2 had that later installments didn't! Along with some corrections to his old list. Again, painful nostalgia trip -- I loved that game, and while I don't think I could ever go back to those graphics, I really want some of those interactions back. A variety of kisses, getting to propose at the table, broken tubs dripping water to the floor below, doing yoga on furniture, proper split-screens on games, THE FOOD SPINNING IN THE MICROWAVE. . . *sigh* I love Sims 4, but it really did need to try harder on the little things.
-->Wrote another chunk on "Secundus 2" Chapter 5 -- Doc and Marty taking the opportunity to explain how they met while Gordon's stuck in a net thanks to Doc's security system for his paddock. This whole section is an adaptation of the "how Doc and Marty met" comic, I admit -- it's one of my favorites, what do you want from me? But now we're going to get another unwelcome visitor. . .
-->And I just finished up my queue on Valice Multiverse (tis quiet today), so it's time to finish answering inbox comments and hit the sack. Another week of work awaits. . .hopefully not a bad one. *fingers crossed* Night all!
