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Now That Was A Good Sunday
Aug. 2nd, 2020 10:46 pmWhich is good, as I had a bit of a rough time trying to get to sleep last night -- not sure why, I was trying to think of things that make me happy, but. . .anxiety. *sigh* I'm just hoping it's not too bad tonight, as I do need SOME sleep before going to work. . .
Anyway -- no parents bringing home groceries nor taking any rides equals happy Vicky today. It was a pretty chill day overall:
-->Got up around 10:30 and made myself a parfait for breakfast -- blueberries, strawberries, some tropical fruit, and granola, all with strawberry yogurt, om nom. Nice to have an alternate option for weekends!
-->Started on the YouTube a bit earlier, with a quick video before lunch, then a bunch of videos after it. And I COMPLETED MY GOAL TO WATCH THAT DAMN AT4W EPISODE – though I watched a few other things too:
A) Like a couple of videos from Call Me Kevin back in 2017:
1. Where he cracked open a 35-year-old bank safe that he had for some reason! (There was apparently an earlier video that explained this, but I didn't see it.) I'd seen it getting dragged out of its hiding spot in one of those little compilation videos I like to watch, and when the whole thing came up in my recommendeds. . .there wasn't anything super-exciting inside (old torn-up bank documents; some coins; a solar-powered hula dancer doll; and some salt), but it was still fun. :)
2. Where he gave us a few stories from his retail days! (For those not in the know, Kevin actually used to own a games and electronics store – he had to sell the place after he got hit by a car because he could no longer lift things over his head, and that's when he started doing YouTube seriously for a career.) The main story of the video was getting a phone from a guy to trade in, and when they tested it, it opened on a video of the guy – uh – "having fun" with his vacuum cleaner. O.o Kevin was – completely weirded and grossed out (turns out he has a bit of a thing about germs! . . .oh Kevin, this pandemic must have you HURTING), as were his staff. There was also a side story about a sweaty guy who was trying to get a phone without internet to kick his "online prostitute" addiction, whose phone failed the "moisture" test. . . After watching that, I think both Kevin and I are EXTREMELY glad we don't work retail anymore. I may complain about my office job, but at least I don't have to worry about that.
B) Then it was time for Heroes In Crisis! Which – OOOOF, now I get why Linkara had to make it a three-parter. I mean, this thing was BAD. A story trying to normalize mental health issues and make heroes look more human that, in its writing, accomplishes the EXACT OPPOSITE. It features the unnecessary and horrible deaths of a lot of minor superheroes, a murder mystery that relies on massive amounts of misdirection and nonsensical "logic," a take on therapy that – well, you're surprised there wasn't an incident like this SOONER (what with the idiotic AI on display), a heroic character who is genuinely going through a LOT of trauma basically getting character assassinated into someone who accidentally killed a bunch of people – and thought the correct response was to then LEAK ALL THEIR PRIVATE TRAUMA VIDEOS to the press so that other people would be inspired to get the help they need. . .ugh. I'm not even a fan of DC comics, and this pissed me off. Linkara was in FINE rage form, let me tell you – and the ending, where he explains how a) this stuff just makes mental illness look even WORSE in media, and b) you have to care about the characters who suffer and die and turn evil, because sometimes the company DOESN'T (citing his own favorite Teen Titan, who was killed back in the 90s and never resurrected because he had no fanbase). . .I kinda wanna give him a hug. He looked like he needed it after that bullshit. At least this week's upcoming episode should be more fun?
C) After that, it was time to watch a quick mod review video for a new Fallout 4 instruments mod that I ended up adding to my game, because it has a piano and I'm playing Victor Van Dort. XD It covered the mod and how you get the instruments nicely, and seeing everything in action helped convince me to download the mod and make it my playtest for the day. :) So yay!
D) Then it was onto an OXtra and OXBox video each:
1. OXtra – seven spooky bosses where you had to hide away! Includes the Xenomorph from Alien Isolation, the "Anima" ghost lady from The Evil Within 2, and randos on the internet playing the serial killers in Dead By Daylight (easily the most terrifying). Poor Ellen apparently had to get the footage for that first one – hugs for Ellen! All the hugs for Ellen. . .
2. OXBox – a sponsored video about seven ways to destroy all humans in the new Destroy All Humans remaster! AKA a video about you being the boss everyone should hide from, only this time it's in a comedy game. XD A game that involves you flinging radioactive cows at people, sucking out their brains via probes (the, ah, "traditional" sort – no, it's not explained why jabbing something in the rear end makes the head pop), and wreaking true havoc in your flying saucer. Hey, it's a way to forget reality! And all those scary bosses in the previous video!
E) And then, in the world of MODERN Call Me Kevin, it was time for Scooby Doo! Night of 100 Frights! Though, really, it was more like "Night of 100 Deaths," as poor Scooby was promptly abandoned by Velma, Fred, and Daphne as they went inside a creepy mansion to investigate the latest mystery, and Shaggy fell down a sinkhole, only to keep coming back in improbable ways to start extremely hard platforming sections. XD Scooby Doobie Doo, where are you? Getting out of here before he gets his tail scorched by another fire-breathing gargoyle! XD
F) And finally, because he's awesome, it was time for more GrayStillPlays! With:
1. Pregnant Simulator, a game about – well, being a pregnant woman! A terrible Unity game with Google Image assets and Google Translate dialogue, that is. Gray was convinced that this woman would give birth to Satan – and apparently so was the father, as we never saw HIS asset anywhere. XD It was a pretty amusing ride, especially when Gray stumbled into the operating theater of "NPCs whose aesthetics do NOT match the rest of the game at all." XD
2. Universe Sandbox 2! In the past, Gray has done many, many videos on this game where he has flung objects at the Earth at ludicrous speeds and watched the destruction (usually starting with Africa for reasons even he does not know). Today's episode involved flinging the Earth at things at ludicrous speeds and watching the destruction (this time, it generally seemed to focus on either Australia or South America). There was a point where he was smacking Earth into a line of moons where the average surface temperature of the Earth reached POSITIVE INFINITY. This game has had so much of Gray's bullshit it doesn't even try anymore, I love it. XD
Oh, and this led to something amazing – I AM FULLY CAUGHT UP ON EVERYTHING I CURRENTLY HAD IN MY SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MY WATCH LATER. I'm serious – for tonight, at least, my Watch Later is COMPLETELY EMPTY. O.O I do not expect this situation to LAST past tonight – there will always be other things I want to watch – but it is kind of nice to have just ONE NIGHT where I have done everything I wanted to do on YouTube. :)
-->As stated above, I downloaded a new mod from NexusMods for Fallout 4 that adds a bunch of playable instruments ripped from Fallout 76 into the game, along with a new guitar melee weapon that functions like the baseball bat. It caught my eye because one of the instruments is an upright piano, and after stalking the mod for a while and seeing plenty of positive comments and the like, I decided to download. Because, well, I'm sure my wasteland Victor would LIKE to have his favorite instrument back! My playsession involved going through the mod's little quest to get the plans to make the instruments and the special weapon, testing out the instruments for myself (there's a ready-to-play set of four in the quest area -- I had Victor play the piano for a bit, and Piper picked up the banjo on her own), then heading back to Sanctuary to build a piano for Victor in his house. It's honestly a nice little addition to the game! Even if Victor can only play the Fallout 4 theme on his piano, at least he HAS a piano. :p
-->Worked some more on Chapter 11 of "Secundus 2" -- the train chase is underway, and I have hopefully filled in a little plot hole I noticed (mainly, how the bad guys knew about Doc's Presto-Logs in the first place). Things have gotten bad to worse as they've realized the bad guys are headed straight for Shonash Ravine, because yeeaaaah, Barkis REALLY wanted to make a spectacle out of killing Jennifer and Clara. And as will become rapidly obvious, he doesn't give a shit if Buford survives -- just him. I'm really getting into writing this, which is good -- action scenes can be tricky for me, but apparently my brain is totally on board with a BTTF-themed train chase. Shouldn't be surprised, I guess. XD
-->And I've just finished my Valice Multiverse queue for the night (shorter than I expected because the two threads I started last night haven't been replied to yet, and in a rare turn of events I only had four asks), and put up the notice on Victor Luvs Alice that I'm skipping the queue this week. Need some time to relax a little and refresh my drafts, and I figure a week where I'm likely to already be stressed out from work is probably the best time to do it. Also gives me some time to FINALLY finish my next review of my friend's long fic -- ugh, I'm SO CLOSE to wrapping it up, but since the chapters are long, my reviews are also super long, and. . . *sigh* Good thing he's the patient and understanding sort!
So yeah, that just leaves me with having to answer my DW comment, and I can head to bed! Seriously hoping I have a decent night tonight, and a decent week coming up. Just have to remember, I get another long weekend at the end of it, thanks to that holiday only RI celebrates anymore. *deep breath in, then out* Okay. Finishing up. Night all!
Anyway -- no parents bringing home groceries nor taking any rides equals happy Vicky today. It was a pretty chill day overall:
-->Got up around 10:30 and made myself a parfait for breakfast -- blueberries, strawberries, some tropical fruit, and granola, all with strawberry yogurt, om nom. Nice to have an alternate option for weekends!
-->Started on the YouTube a bit earlier, with a quick video before lunch, then a bunch of videos after it. And I COMPLETED MY GOAL TO WATCH THAT DAMN AT4W EPISODE – though I watched a few other things too:
A) Like a couple of videos from Call Me Kevin back in 2017:
1. Where he cracked open a 35-year-old bank safe that he had for some reason! (There was apparently an earlier video that explained this, but I didn't see it.) I'd seen it getting dragged out of its hiding spot in one of those little compilation videos I like to watch, and when the whole thing came up in my recommendeds. . .there wasn't anything super-exciting inside (old torn-up bank documents; some coins; a solar-powered hula dancer doll; and some salt), but it was still fun. :)
2. Where he gave us a few stories from his retail days! (For those not in the know, Kevin actually used to own a games and electronics store – he had to sell the place after he got hit by a car because he could no longer lift things over his head, and that's when he started doing YouTube seriously for a career.) The main story of the video was getting a phone from a guy to trade in, and when they tested it, it opened on a video of the guy – uh – "having fun" with his vacuum cleaner. O.o Kevin was – completely weirded and grossed out (turns out he has a bit of a thing about germs! . . .oh Kevin, this pandemic must have you HURTING), as were his staff. There was also a side story about a sweaty guy who was trying to get a phone without internet to kick his "online prostitute" addiction, whose phone failed the "moisture" test. . . After watching that, I think both Kevin and I are EXTREMELY glad we don't work retail anymore. I may complain about my office job, but at least I don't have to worry about that.
B) Then it was time for Heroes In Crisis! Which – OOOOF, now I get why Linkara had to make it a three-parter. I mean, this thing was BAD. A story trying to normalize mental health issues and make heroes look more human that, in its writing, accomplishes the EXACT OPPOSITE. It features the unnecessary and horrible deaths of a lot of minor superheroes, a murder mystery that relies on massive amounts of misdirection and nonsensical "logic," a take on therapy that – well, you're surprised there wasn't an incident like this SOONER (what with the idiotic AI on display), a heroic character who is genuinely going through a LOT of trauma basically getting character assassinated into someone who accidentally killed a bunch of people – and thought the correct response was to then LEAK ALL THEIR PRIVATE TRAUMA VIDEOS to the press so that other people would be inspired to get the help they need. . .ugh. I'm not even a fan of DC comics, and this pissed me off. Linkara was in FINE rage form, let me tell you – and the ending, where he explains how a) this stuff just makes mental illness look even WORSE in media, and b) you have to care about the characters who suffer and die and turn evil, because sometimes the company DOESN'T (citing his own favorite Teen Titan, who was killed back in the 90s and never resurrected because he had no fanbase). . .I kinda wanna give him a hug. He looked like he needed it after that bullshit. At least this week's upcoming episode should be more fun?
C) After that, it was time to watch a quick mod review video for a new Fallout 4 instruments mod that I ended up adding to my game, because it has a piano and I'm playing Victor Van Dort. XD It covered the mod and how you get the instruments nicely, and seeing everything in action helped convince me to download the mod and make it my playtest for the day. :) So yay!
D) Then it was onto an OXtra and OXBox video each:
1. OXtra – seven spooky bosses where you had to hide away! Includes the Xenomorph from Alien Isolation, the "Anima" ghost lady from The Evil Within 2, and randos on the internet playing the serial killers in Dead By Daylight (easily the most terrifying). Poor Ellen apparently had to get the footage for that first one – hugs for Ellen! All the hugs for Ellen. . .
2. OXBox – a sponsored video about seven ways to destroy all humans in the new Destroy All Humans remaster! AKA a video about you being the boss everyone should hide from, only this time it's in a comedy game. XD A game that involves you flinging radioactive cows at people, sucking out their brains via probes (the, ah, "traditional" sort – no, it's not explained why jabbing something in the rear end makes the head pop), and wreaking true havoc in your flying saucer. Hey, it's a way to forget reality! And all those scary bosses in the previous video!
E) And then, in the world of MODERN Call Me Kevin, it was time for Scooby Doo! Night of 100 Frights! Though, really, it was more like "Night of 100 Deaths," as poor Scooby was promptly abandoned by Velma, Fred, and Daphne as they went inside a creepy mansion to investigate the latest mystery, and Shaggy fell down a sinkhole, only to keep coming back in improbable ways to start extremely hard platforming sections. XD Scooby Doobie Doo, where are you? Getting out of here before he gets his tail scorched by another fire-breathing gargoyle! XD
F) And finally, because he's awesome, it was time for more GrayStillPlays! With:
1. Pregnant Simulator, a game about – well, being a pregnant woman! A terrible Unity game with Google Image assets and Google Translate dialogue, that is. Gray was convinced that this woman would give birth to Satan – and apparently so was the father, as we never saw HIS asset anywhere. XD It was a pretty amusing ride, especially when Gray stumbled into the operating theater of "NPCs whose aesthetics do NOT match the rest of the game at all." XD
2. Universe Sandbox 2! In the past, Gray has done many, many videos on this game where he has flung objects at the Earth at ludicrous speeds and watched the destruction (usually starting with Africa for reasons even he does not know). Today's episode involved flinging the Earth at things at ludicrous speeds and watching the destruction (this time, it generally seemed to focus on either Australia or South America). There was a point where he was smacking Earth into a line of moons where the average surface temperature of the Earth reached POSITIVE INFINITY. This game has had so much of Gray's bullshit it doesn't even try anymore, I love it. XD
Oh, and this led to something amazing – I AM FULLY CAUGHT UP ON EVERYTHING I CURRENTLY HAD IN MY SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MY WATCH LATER. I'm serious – for tonight, at least, my Watch Later is COMPLETELY EMPTY. O.O I do not expect this situation to LAST past tonight – there will always be other things I want to watch – but it is kind of nice to have just ONE NIGHT where I have done everything I wanted to do on YouTube. :)
-->As stated above, I downloaded a new mod from NexusMods for Fallout 4 that adds a bunch of playable instruments ripped from Fallout 76 into the game, along with a new guitar melee weapon that functions like the baseball bat. It caught my eye because one of the instruments is an upright piano, and after stalking the mod for a while and seeing plenty of positive comments and the like, I decided to download. Because, well, I'm sure my wasteland Victor would LIKE to have his favorite instrument back! My playsession involved going through the mod's little quest to get the plans to make the instruments and the special weapon, testing out the instruments for myself (there's a ready-to-play set of four in the quest area -- I had Victor play the piano for a bit, and Piper picked up the banjo on her own), then heading back to Sanctuary to build a piano for Victor in his house. It's honestly a nice little addition to the game! Even if Victor can only play the Fallout 4 theme on his piano, at least he HAS a piano. :p
-->Worked some more on Chapter 11 of "Secundus 2" -- the train chase is underway, and I have hopefully filled in a little plot hole I noticed (mainly, how the bad guys knew about Doc's Presto-Logs in the first place). Things have gotten bad to worse as they've realized the bad guys are headed straight for Shonash Ravine, because yeeaaaah, Barkis REALLY wanted to make a spectacle out of killing Jennifer and Clara. And as will become rapidly obvious, he doesn't give a shit if Buford survives -- just him. I'm really getting into writing this, which is good -- action scenes can be tricky for me, but apparently my brain is totally on board with a BTTF-themed train chase. Shouldn't be surprised, I guess. XD
-->And I've just finished my Valice Multiverse queue for the night (shorter than I expected because the two threads I started last night haven't been replied to yet, and in a rare turn of events I only had four asks), and put up the notice on Victor Luvs Alice that I'm skipping the queue this week. Need some time to relax a little and refresh my drafts, and I figure a week where I'm likely to already be stressed out from work is probably the best time to do it. Also gives me some time to FINALLY finish my next review of my friend's long fic -- ugh, I'm SO CLOSE to wrapping it up, but since the chapters are long, my reviews are also super long, and. . . *sigh* Good thing he's the patient and understanding sort!
So yeah, that just leaves me with having to answer my DW comment, and I can head to bed! Seriously hoping I have a decent night tonight, and a decent week coming up. Just have to remember, I get another long weekend at the end of it, thanks to that holiday only RI celebrates anymore. *deep breath in, then out* Okay. Finishing up. Night all!
