Well, No OXBox

That's my own fault, though -- I got into watching some other videos first, and then sort of drifted away from my intended path. I did knock out some stuff from the Watch Later queue, though -- both Sims 4-related and Fallout 4-related:

A) CallMeKevin does a "soft reboot" of his Sims universe – apparently Jim Pickens got tired of everyone else stealing his spotlight and killed them all with a nuclear missile. . .but then Turg's ghost showed up, they somehow became friends, Jim restored him to life (with the help of a friendly modder making him a special hat to give him his proper face so Kevin didn't have to use the stretchy mod of doom XD), and they've both moved to Evergreen Harbor! So now it's just the adventures of Jim and Turg as they attempt to figure out how to live in a shipping container house. XD Jim's in the criminal career, while Turg is a fabricating freelancer (not that he knows how to do any fabricating yet). Also they both separately woohooed one-half of a married couple in a dumpster, and Jim's mere presence seemed to make some lady's grill catch fire and kill her. XD The chaos is still strong, even if we're down to just two characters again!

B) GrayStillPlays decides, if he can't go outside, he's going to torture a bunch of his Sims (including old favorite Tim Horton) via the world's longest and highest hedge maze. The original idea was to just let them loose on the bottom level and see who survived to make it to the top – but the sheer size of the maze made his game glitch out so bad that time kept randomly stopping and jumping forward, and during one of those jumps everyone just died from starvation. As in, they were there, then they were ghosts, then they were gone. Gray couldn't believe it. XD So he made them all immortal just to see who might actually reach the top first – and it was Tim Horton! (Okay, it was TECHNICALLY a bunch of Harvestfest gnomes, but details.) Gray promptly slaughtered the others and left Tim to his drugs and FULL LIQUOR BAR~ XD

C) I found no less than five videos from "Prestige Clips" showing off funny and weird moments from Fallout 4 – all very short, so they were easy to marathon. XD Highlights included a radroach spawning inside a wastebasket, effectively armoring itself up against the Sole Survivor; a t-posing Deathclaw that sprang back to life at the exact wrong moment for the unlucky player; Moe Cronin's infamous views on baseball as a blood sport; Danse deciding to go mental on a PC with a Gatling laser while fighting ghouls; bringing down a vertibird with a stray laser musket shot deflected off a mirelurk; and a truly awesome power armor deployment involving suspending a power armor station over a trap door. :D

D) A two-parter from Simmer Clare Siobhan where she did a sort of Fallout-inspired survival challenge with a pair of Sims, Charlie and Jacob. The storyline was that Charlie had spent her entire life inside of a vault after a nuclear incident in StrangerVille, and everyone else had died, so she was learning to survive on her own – then Jacob, who'd recently escaped another vault, showed up and started asking for shelter. Charlie was suspicious, but – despite them getting off to a bad start – couldn't just leave him out there and let him in. Unfortunately, this also let in radiation, and the vault began failing. Charlie and Jacob had to learn to work together to try and survive until they could be extracted by some people above ground. The challenge was basically an eight-day survival challenge – Sims could only eat what they grow in the food room, and once the radiation started getting into the vault, Clare activated the fatal illnesses in the "Life Tragedies" mod and slowly started speeding up how fast it worked as the days went past. The goal was to survive until the planned "extraction" – midnight on Sunday.

. . .Charlie didn't make it. Both she and Jacob ended up falling sick, but while Jacob just continually felt kind of bad, she got the confirmed deadly illness and ended up dying a couple of hours before the "extraction," while stargazing with him. And – I actually kind of regret watching it because of that, because, well, it was kind of genuinely upsetting because of how straight it was played. When Call Me Kevin or GrayStillPlays kills Sims, it's cartoony – over the top supervillain behavior from either an in-universe evil or a cruel Sim god. It's never played for anything but humor. This was. . .the mod literally has a "dying" emotion, and affected Sims pass out randomly or curl up crying, and. . .given the current crisis and my own anxieties about COVID-19. . . *sigh* I was expecting a bit of fun! I mean, it was a good two-parter, I enjoyed the vault Clare made and the whole thing with Charlie and Jacob getting off on the wrong foot, only to become good friends by the end, just – seeing a Sim die from sickness was probably NOT what I needed. Ooof. . .

So yeah, kinda had to fight off the anxiety a bit this evening with dragon cuddles (D.B. from Dave & Busters) and doing my best to focus on other stuff. Other than that, though, it's been a pretty good day:

-->Cooler and MUCH drier today, so that was nice -- though another high pollen day, so my sinuses weren't super happy about that. (Plus my mouth has been kind of dried out from many potato chips lately, sooo. . .)

-->Did some more Fallout 4 mod stuff -- installed the "CWSS Redux" mod (which allows you to craft working sinks, showers, toilets, and kitchens in your settlements) and the "Atomic Radio" mod (new radio station). Both were good, though I bemoan the fact that most of the good stuff in the CWSS mod requires screws. I have so few screws! Why do I not have any screws. . . I did find a shower that didn't require them, along with a toilet (that was basically a hole in a box) and had Victor use both. The sound that plays with toilets is -- well. Everyone is apparently constipated in the Wasteland. XD It's a nice touch of extra realism, though, and I appreciate being able to give my Victor a shower every so often. And Atomic Radio is just LOADS of fun. A little bit of music, and lots of fun commercials and radio dramas. Like the son of Hitler marrying the president's daughter while also carrying on an affair with the First Lady. XD It's so completely over the top in the best way, just like the Bloodlines radio stuff. I'm looking forward to putting in the quest mod ("Tales from the Commonwealth") from the same creator! :D

-->Played the beanbag game with the family once it became obvious it wasn't going to rain -- I managed to get second place in the first game, then I lost my groove and came in last in the second two. Mom managed to win the first one, though, which was great for her, yay! Our beanbags are officially in rough shape, though -- Mom's definitely gonna have to make some new ones. In the meantime, we're holding them together with duct tape. Whatever works!

-->Did some more with Chapter 8 of "Secundus 2" -- we're up to Buford trying to shoot Doc, only to be foiled by Marty's pie-tin-throwing skills. In this timeline, though, Marty is smart enough NOT to rise to Buford's bait, and turns down the chance of a duel because he has a wedding he'd like to survive to see, thanks. Fortunately, Strickland's due to show up before things can escalate further. . .though he's not going to be able to quite salvage the festival for them. Shame, really -- they were having fun.

-->Got my Valice Multiverse queue sorted, and already answered the stuff in the inbox, so -- I'm good for the night!

Which is good, as I do have work tomorrow and have to get at least something resembling a decent amount of sleep for it. I'll see you all tomorrow -- hope you're doing well! G'night!