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Pretty Okay Friday
Aug. 7th, 2020 11:11 pmWork was quiet, consisting of a fair amount of cleaning (my coworkers are at least good about THAT), and me managing to knock off a few more exception bundles, which made me happy. FINALLY making some truly good progress on those. Maybe by the end of next week, I can consider myself completely caught up in time to receive whatever comes back next. *nods* We'll see what happens!
For now, I'm concentrating on enjoying the long weekend. And so far, the afternoon has been good:
-->Got home in decent time and got to have oatmeal cookies as a snack, yay~
-->Played some more Fallout 4 -- installed the "Nuka-World Bottle Fix" (which stops the bottle scenery at Nuka-World from showing up at enormous, scenery-clipping sizes) with the intent of checking it out, but I got rather distracted by reorganizing my inventory now that I'm back in Level 30 territory (I have SO MANY guns and SO MANY pieces of armor just -- lying around. It's wild). Did a lot of crafting, made another backpack (this one with less carrying capacity than the one I made back in my Piper saves, bleh), stored so many things at the Red Rocket. . .I DID eventually make my way over to the Nuka-World transit station and fought the gunners there. And the bottles THERE look like they're not growing to ginormous sizes, so. . . Still, should probably actually visit Nuka-World and double-check what some of the problem areas look like before declaring this one tested! XD Especially since this is the last "small" mod I have to test in my list. The only ones that are left are "Settlers of the Commonwealth" (which adds new settlers); "Tales of the Commonwealth" and all its various patches (which adds a bunch of new quests and whatnot); "We Are The Minutemen" (which revamps the Minutemen and will probably require me to start from a pre-Preston save to properly look at); and "True Storms" (updates and adds to the weather in the Commonwealth -- I was gonna skip a weather mod, but I think I've mentioned before this is a) a very well-liked and recommended one and b) made by a guy who's already made two mods I quite enjoy, so. . .). So we're coming up on me having completed my mod journeys and doing the Official Restart of my Victor run. Exciting, no? :p
-->Watched my usual bit of YouTube:
A) Starting with a quick trip over to RT Game's channel for a look at Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout! Yes, that silly little "battle royale" where you run obstacle courses and play mini-games as adorable little bean creatures. RT Game did NOT have the same luck Kevin did (no qualifying first in any of the races!), but he got fairly far in a number of games before being eliminated. Fans and other spinny things in particular seemed to be his weakness. XD But it's lots of fun to watch, and that's the main thing!
B) Then it was on to the latest OXBox video, about seven games that made you do something in the real world to actually complete them! Yes, from well-known classics like "hit the actual reset button on the Genesis to reset the Danger Room computer in X-Men" to more obscure stuff like "scan QR codes in Fez to get Anti-Cubes." (Or the OXBox YouTube channel link, if you scan the example they put up. XD) Thimbleweed Park probably has one of the best, though, making you watch the original Kickstarter video to figure out what to do with a balloon animal so you can have the characters shut off their own game. They're sick of being point-and-click adventure characters, you see – given how that genre works, can you really blame them?
C) And then, time for more Call Me Kevin! Featuring:
1. Grounded – A survival game in the vein of the "surviving the backyard" section of Honey I Shrunk The Kids. Choose your teenager, navigate the world of giant grass, giant bugs, and strangely small technology (seriously, there's a whole LAB in an oak tree), and try to avoid the FECKING SPIDERS. Poor Kevin, he ended up choosing a spawn point that doubled as a spawn point for a spider, so he was trapped briefly in a cycle of running away and dying to spider. Eventually got away from the fecker, but damn. Makes you glad the developers were nice enough to include a "hey, this game has giant spiders, want us to make them look like something else?" option for those of us who aren't fond of the creepy-crawlies.
2. Firefighter 2014 – A simulator game about being, as you might guess, a firefighter! But not a very good one. This isn't even just because of Kevin, either – the game is set up so it's damn near impossible to figure out which truck you can get into and actually drive, and the tutorial (which he broke down and did because, well, he needed to figure out the aforementioned) is basically the world's slowest firehouse tour! Everything is about getting ripped and eating protein, not actually putting out fires! Kevin DID actually figure it out, put out a few fires, and even drove an ambulance, but it was a – bit of a journey. Not helped by him trying to figure out if firetrucks and ambulances are off-road vehicles. XD Oooh, I hope he does more of these – they're so much FUN. XD
-->Wrote some more on "Londerland Bloodlines" -- Alice has dropped in on Mercurio, and gotten briefly freaked out by his casual sort-of confession that he forced the one guy in Dennis's gang that she left alive (mostly because she was able to lure him out and just drink a bit of his blood to knock him out) to overdose. This is an actual thing that will happen in the game if you DO deal with Dennis and gang nonlethally, by the way. You don't see anything, but Mercurio tells you he did it. Alice quickly realized she was being a bit hypocritical with her own bloodied hands, though. It's just -- she doesn't really enjoy the killing, and she was hoping to get AWAY from it when she moved, so. . . And here I am, putting her on a side quest that forces her to kill a guy. Admittedly, that guy is creepy limb-obsessed serial killer Stanley Gimble, but still. She needs all the hugs. Too bad Victor isn't coming back into the story for a while yet. . .
-->And now, after catching up on webcomics, I'm finishing up my Valice Multiverse queue while preparing to start up some new Dreamwidth stuff. Oh, and rereading "The Technicolor Phase" because reasons. :p What, it's the one story I have where nothing worse than what happens to everyone in canon happens -- hell, I'd say that I make the Corpse Bride characters' lives in particular a lot better! Soulmatey polyamory will do that. :p
So yeah -- not a particularly bad start to the weekend, I feel. Tomorrow is a cleaning Saturday, but I hope to get in Sims 4, both in actually playing the game (gonna be another "building episode" as I'm moving onto Chell, Wheatley, and Geeker in their new house, which will of course need some reno) and watching it on YouTube (couple new videos from Plumbella and onlyabidoang, plus this long pair of videos from James Turner were he plays a custom board game in Sims. . .). And there may be pizza tomorrow, which is always nice. :D
For now, though -- RP stuff! And then staying up too late because that's what I always do when given the chance. XD Night all!
For now, I'm concentrating on enjoying the long weekend. And so far, the afternoon has been good:
-->Got home in decent time and got to have oatmeal cookies as a snack, yay~
-->Played some more Fallout 4 -- installed the "Nuka-World Bottle Fix" (which stops the bottle scenery at Nuka-World from showing up at enormous, scenery-clipping sizes) with the intent of checking it out, but I got rather distracted by reorganizing my inventory now that I'm back in Level 30 territory (I have SO MANY guns and SO MANY pieces of armor just -- lying around. It's wild). Did a lot of crafting, made another backpack (this one with less carrying capacity than the one I made back in my Piper saves, bleh), stored so many things at the Red Rocket. . .I DID eventually make my way over to the Nuka-World transit station and fought the gunners there. And the bottles THERE look like they're not growing to ginormous sizes, so. . . Still, should probably actually visit Nuka-World and double-check what some of the problem areas look like before declaring this one tested! XD Especially since this is the last "small" mod I have to test in my list. The only ones that are left are "Settlers of the Commonwealth" (which adds new settlers); "Tales of the Commonwealth" and all its various patches (which adds a bunch of new quests and whatnot); "We Are The Minutemen" (which revamps the Minutemen and will probably require me to start from a pre-Preston save to properly look at); and "True Storms" (updates and adds to the weather in the Commonwealth -- I was gonna skip a weather mod, but I think I've mentioned before this is a) a very well-liked and recommended one and b) made by a guy who's already made two mods I quite enjoy, so. . .). So we're coming up on me having completed my mod journeys and doing the Official Restart of my Victor run. Exciting, no? :p
-->Watched my usual bit of YouTube:
A) Starting with a quick trip over to RT Game's channel for a look at Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout! Yes, that silly little "battle royale" where you run obstacle courses and play mini-games as adorable little bean creatures. RT Game did NOT have the same luck Kevin did (no qualifying first in any of the races!), but he got fairly far in a number of games before being eliminated. Fans and other spinny things in particular seemed to be his weakness. XD But it's lots of fun to watch, and that's the main thing!
B) Then it was on to the latest OXBox video, about seven games that made you do something in the real world to actually complete them! Yes, from well-known classics like "hit the actual reset button on the Genesis to reset the Danger Room computer in X-Men" to more obscure stuff like "scan QR codes in Fez to get Anti-Cubes." (Or the OXBox YouTube channel link, if you scan the example they put up. XD) Thimbleweed Park probably has one of the best, though, making you watch the original Kickstarter video to figure out what to do with a balloon animal so you can have the characters shut off their own game. They're sick of being point-and-click adventure characters, you see – given how that genre works, can you really blame them?
C) And then, time for more Call Me Kevin! Featuring:
1. Grounded – A survival game in the vein of the "surviving the backyard" section of Honey I Shrunk The Kids. Choose your teenager, navigate the world of giant grass, giant bugs, and strangely small technology (seriously, there's a whole LAB in an oak tree), and try to avoid the FECKING SPIDERS. Poor Kevin, he ended up choosing a spawn point that doubled as a spawn point for a spider, so he was trapped briefly in a cycle of running away and dying to spider. Eventually got away from the fecker, but damn. Makes you glad the developers were nice enough to include a "hey, this game has giant spiders, want us to make them look like something else?" option for those of us who aren't fond of the creepy-crawlies.
2. Firefighter 2014 – A simulator game about being, as you might guess, a firefighter! But not a very good one. This isn't even just because of Kevin, either – the game is set up so it's damn near impossible to figure out which truck you can get into and actually drive, and the tutorial (which he broke down and did because, well, he needed to figure out the aforementioned) is basically the world's slowest firehouse tour! Everything is about getting ripped and eating protein, not actually putting out fires! Kevin DID actually figure it out, put out a few fires, and even drove an ambulance, but it was a – bit of a journey. Not helped by him trying to figure out if firetrucks and ambulances are off-road vehicles. XD Oooh, I hope he does more of these – they're so much FUN. XD
-->Wrote some more on "Londerland Bloodlines" -- Alice has dropped in on Mercurio, and gotten briefly freaked out by his casual sort-of confession that he forced the one guy in Dennis's gang that she left alive (mostly because she was able to lure him out and just drink a bit of his blood to knock him out) to overdose. This is an actual thing that will happen in the game if you DO deal with Dennis and gang nonlethally, by the way. You don't see anything, but Mercurio tells you he did it. Alice quickly realized she was being a bit hypocritical with her own bloodied hands, though. It's just -- she doesn't really enjoy the killing, and she was hoping to get AWAY from it when she moved, so. . . And here I am, putting her on a side quest that forces her to kill a guy. Admittedly, that guy is creepy limb-obsessed serial killer Stanley Gimble, but still. She needs all the hugs. Too bad Victor isn't coming back into the story for a while yet. . .
-->And now, after catching up on webcomics, I'm finishing up my Valice Multiverse queue while preparing to start up some new Dreamwidth stuff. Oh, and rereading "The Technicolor Phase" because reasons. :p What, it's the one story I have where nothing worse than what happens to everyone in canon happens -- hell, I'd say that I make the Corpse Bride characters' lives in particular a lot better! Soulmatey polyamory will do that. :p
So yeah -- not a particularly bad start to the weekend, I feel. Tomorrow is a cleaning Saturday, but I hope to get in Sims 4, both in actually playing the game (gonna be another "building episode" as I'm moving onto Chell, Wheatley, and Geeker in their new house, which will of course need some reno) and watching it on YouTube (couple new videos from Plumbella and onlyabidoang, plus this long pair of videos from James Turner were he plays a custom board game in Sims. . .). And there may be pizza tomorrow, which is always nice. :D
For now, though -- RP stuff! And then staying up too late because that's what I always do when given the chance. XD Night all!
