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Tiring Thursday
Jan. 14th, 2021 11:05 pmStarted off wrong with me pulling up to the zappy thing for the parking lot at the wrong angle, and not being able to readjust because there were a bunch of cars behind me. And then most of my morning was spent dealing with more fun with our online processors, which is -- well, I guess it made the time go by. And the rest of the day was spent researching obituaries while projects happened around me. Not the worst day, but as every day is spent feeling stressed out by everyone around me. . . On the plus side, I have an extra day off next week now -- though it's not for the best reason. Namely, my parents asked me to take a personal day next Wednesday because. . .well, because I work downtown near our state house and who KNOWS if anything is gonna kick off. They'd rather have me at home and know I'm okay than worry about me not being able to get out of the city. These are fears I totally sympathize with, and I'm glad I was able to get the day with no fuss.
Afternoon has been all right too, fortunately:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Went for a longer, somewhat more intense bike ride this time, with plenty of time devoted to Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Jon went through the available mods for Grills’s new Crippling Gauss Rifle (laughing at the size of the suppressor you can slap on it), then went ahead and mixed up some drugs to get enough XP to take Gun Nut 4 so he could upgrade it to the level he wanted. Fell just short on the barrel thanks to a lack of lead and aluminum, but he put it up on a special display rack over the weapons workbench so he could finish up his upgrades later once he had his supplies!
With his loadout updated and all of his guns now packing quite the punch, Grills called in a vertibird to take him back to his new manor house in Nahant – and got three, circling around in confusion while Jon laughed his head off, also in confusion. Finally one landed while the other dropped off some knights to take care of something at Chaos Junction, and Jon headed back to his island summer home – only to land straight into danger, as the Brotherhood were here too, firing on something. Jon ran over to see what the fuss was, and found a dog taking on half an Assaultron (easily taken out with his lovely upgraded Two-Shot .44), then a small group of raiders – including TWO legendaries! One of which kept pulling weapons out nowhere and getting promptly disarmed by Grills. XD Unfortunately neither had anything Jon particularly wanted on them, though they caused some nice explosions around the place from all the rusted cars.
And then a sentry bot showed up to give Grills a bad time. XD And then, after killing that one and heading over the bridge, Jon had to run away from ANOTHER sentry bot that spawned while he was sniping off some Super Mutants. He managed to kill that one too, but it took some doing! Poor guy. . .
After that, Jon decided to take Grills to Longneck Lukowski’s Cannery, the site of a small quest to figure out what’s wrong with this one guy’s potted meat. He came in to an argument between trader Rylee and the owner of the place, Theodore Collins – turns out that meat is making more people sick than just that one sour-stomached settler Grills ran into a while back. Grills chatted with Rylee briefly (she’s from Vault 81, and helpfully marked it on Grills’s map), then explored Theodore’s cannery to see what the hell was going on. A descent into the basement led to a fight with tons of ghouls in closed quarters, and half in water (Jon said it was a decent way to make the relatively low-level enemy scary again), then the big reveal (complete with hilariously cheesy musical sting) – Collins’s regular sources of meat started to run out, so he started butchering the GHOULS. It’s a pretty creepy story, honestly! Theodore claimed that he was going to kill Grills once he emerged from the basement, but – well, Grills being Grills, he was able to take him out in a single headshot. The cannery robots also posed no problem, and soon Grills was on his way with a nice new chunk of XP.
After that, Grills swung by Finch Farm for a sleep, ran over to the slog to give Arlen Glass his toy parts, pick up a “kill the Super Mutants at a nearby hospital” quest from the leader of the place, then finally found his way to Listening Post Bravo. I left him having shot his way past most of the defenses and finishing up a read of the nice little creepy side story there, which is a secret reference to some band the developers like. :) We’ll see how he handles Danse next time!
2. Stay current on YouTube Subscriptions:: Check! Gray took his day off, and I spent my time catching up with Call Me Kevin as promised! Featuring --
1. Rust, with more of Kevin and the squad! Aaand – Kevin woke up alive, yay! XD Having a properly-constructed house with some friends to defend it will do that. XD At any rate, it was another day of adventures for him, Ziqqo, and OptimalFailure – Optimal got raided while Kevin was offline, so he took Kevin down to the caves to see his new place; Kevin got Optimal and Z to help him expand his house a little bit; Kevin went around looting and got himself a nice shotgun trap (which ended up needing repair after Kevin spent too much time picking it up and putting it down); Kevin went on a trip to see someone’s rather expansive base and got himself killed by some nasty people – only for Z and Optimal to swoop in, avenge his death, and get him at least some of his kit back before needing to retreat back to the caves because – well, the guy they were fighting has rather better gear and weapons than they do. XD But it was a fun romp, and I’m happy to see Kevin and his friends continuing to have fun. :) Good mini-series!
2. Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond on the Oculus Quest 2 – time for Kevin to go to war in VR! This was one of his sponsored videos, and he even did a cheesy intro for it. XD The actual game was fun too – basically, you’re in World War II, you’re fighting in the OSS helping the French Resistance, and you get to be a total war hero. Unless you’re Kevin, in which case you start by trying to shoot your allies the moment you get a gun, skip out on your medical checkup after telling the doctor you’re right-handed (the check-up is actually game set-up, if you’re going “wtf”), and then stab yourself with ten million health syringes after trying to kill yourself on rusty nails in the tutorial. XD Kevin’s campaign continued with him declaring lighthouses his enemies and gently tapping a man who was supposed to be punched in the face. XD He DID actually do a few competent things, of course, like shooting Germans and helping derail a Nazi train, but most of it was patented “oops I pulled the pin of this grenade without meaning to, let me chuck it real quick” Kevin chaos. Love it.
3. GTA V Chaos Mod! Yeah, speaking of chaos, we have one of the few games that has successfully fought back against Kevin’s brand of madness with its own. XD We started out with Kevin attempting to get Michael to do some random taxi mission, but when the game swapped vehicles, it kind of became a kidnapping. Of course, the real fun was watching Kevin struggle through story missions – one with Franklin tracking down some dude with a friend and his dog (and Brad, briefly) that took forever to just start because Kevin kept getting stuff that prevented him from seeing his vehicle or where he was going; one with Trevor where his attempts to follow a biker gang were stymied by things like disco weather, doomsday, and UFOs shoving him into the river; and one where Franklin did a quick assassination with a minigun, because occasionally the chaos mod is helpful. And then it killed him. XD Chaos mod giveth, chaos mod taketh away. Kevin’s talking about trying a heist in this game with the mod on – I have NO idea how that would work, but I want to see it!
3. Write on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Wrote up the bit where Alice offers up the Cathayan’s laptop to Tung in exchange for his and Knox’s help in finding Victor. Now I just have to work in her first encounter with a certain cab driver and – holy crap, I think I might actually be DONE. O.o I WAS going to take the end of this week to work more on my Valice Multiverse soft reboot, as I did last week, but – considering how close I am to wrapping up BOTH stories, I think I’ll stay on my current schedule! Wow. . .
And I just got my Valice Multiverse queue sorted, so that's all set. Just need to clear out my DW comment and I'm set for the night. Just one more day to get through, then three day weekend, yes. I hope to use it well! For now, g'night all!
Afternoon has been all right too, fortunately:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Went for a longer, somewhat more intense bike ride this time, with plenty of time devoted to Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Jon went through the available mods for Grills’s new Crippling Gauss Rifle (laughing at the size of the suppressor you can slap on it), then went ahead and mixed up some drugs to get enough XP to take Gun Nut 4 so he could upgrade it to the level he wanted. Fell just short on the barrel thanks to a lack of lead and aluminum, but he put it up on a special display rack over the weapons workbench so he could finish up his upgrades later once he had his supplies!
With his loadout updated and all of his guns now packing quite the punch, Grills called in a vertibird to take him back to his new manor house in Nahant – and got three, circling around in confusion while Jon laughed his head off, also in confusion. Finally one landed while the other dropped off some knights to take care of something at Chaos Junction, and Jon headed back to his island summer home – only to land straight into danger, as the Brotherhood were here too, firing on something. Jon ran over to see what the fuss was, and found a dog taking on half an Assaultron (easily taken out with his lovely upgraded Two-Shot .44), then a small group of raiders – including TWO legendaries! One of which kept pulling weapons out nowhere and getting promptly disarmed by Grills. XD Unfortunately neither had anything Jon particularly wanted on them, though they caused some nice explosions around the place from all the rusted cars.
And then a sentry bot showed up to give Grills a bad time. XD And then, after killing that one and heading over the bridge, Jon had to run away from ANOTHER sentry bot that spawned while he was sniping off some Super Mutants. He managed to kill that one too, but it took some doing! Poor guy. . .
After that, Jon decided to take Grills to Longneck Lukowski’s Cannery, the site of a small quest to figure out what’s wrong with this one guy’s potted meat. He came in to an argument between trader Rylee and the owner of the place, Theodore Collins – turns out that meat is making more people sick than just that one sour-stomached settler Grills ran into a while back. Grills chatted with Rylee briefly (she’s from Vault 81, and helpfully marked it on Grills’s map), then explored Theodore’s cannery to see what the hell was going on. A descent into the basement led to a fight with tons of ghouls in closed quarters, and half in water (Jon said it was a decent way to make the relatively low-level enemy scary again), then the big reveal (complete with hilariously cheesy musical sting) – Collins’s regular sources of meat started to run out, so he started butchering the GHOULS. It’s a pretty creepy story, honestly! Theodore claimed that he was going to kill Grills once he emerged from the basement, but – well, Grills being Grills, he was able to take him out in a single headshot. The cannery robots also posed no problem, and soon Grills was on his way with a nice new chunk of XP.
After that, Grills swung by Finch Farm for a sleep, ran over to the slog to give Arlen Glass his toy parts, pick up a “kill the Super Mutants at a nearby hospital” quest from the leader of the place, then finally found his way to Listening Post Bravo. I left him having shot his way past most of the defenses and finishing up a read of the nice little creepy side story there, which is a secret reference to some band the developers like. :) We’ll see how he handles Danse next time!
2. Stay current on YouTube Subscriptions:: Check! Gray took his day off, and I spent my time catching up with Call Me Kevin as promised! Featuring --
1. Rust, with more of Kevin and the squad! Aaand – Kevin woke up alive, yay! XD Having a properly-constructed house with some friends to defend it will do that. XD At any rate, it was another day of adventures for him, Ziqqo, and OptimalFailure – Optimal got raided while Kevin was offline, so he took Kevin down to the caves to see his new place; Kevin got Optimal and Z to help him expand his house a little bit; Kevin went around looting and got himself a nice shotgun trap (which ended up needing repair after Kevin spent too much time picking it up and putting it down); Kevin went on a trip to see someone’s rather expansive base and got himself killed by some nasty people – only for Z and Optimal to swoop in, avenge his death, and get him at least some of his kit back before needing to retreat back to the caves because – well, the guy they were fighting has rather better gear and weapons than they do. XD But it was a fun romp, and I’m happy to see Kevin and his friends continuing to have fun. :) Good mini-series!
2. Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond on the Oculus Quest 2 – time for Kevin to go to war in VR! This was one of his sponsored videos, and he even did a cheesy intro for it. XD The actual game was fun too – basically, you’re in World War II, you’re fighting in the OSS helping the French Resistance, and you get to be a total war hero. Unless you’re Kevin, in which case you start by trying to shoot your allies the moment you get a gun, skip out on your medical checkup after telling the doctor you’re right-handed (the check-up is actually game set-up, if you’re going “wtf”), and then stab yourself with ten million health syringes after trying to kill yourself on rusty nails in the tutorial. XD Kevin’s campaign continued with him declaring lighthouses his enemies and gently tapping a man who was supposed to be punched in the face. XD He DID actually do a few competent things, of course, like shooting Germans and helping derail a Nazi train, but most of it was patented “oops I pulled the pin of this grenade without meaning to, let me chuck it real quick” Kevin chaos. Love it.
3. GTA V Chaos Mod! Yeah, speaking of chaos, we have one of the few games that has successfully fought back against Kevin’s brand of madness with its own. XD We started out with Kevin attempting to get Michael to do some random taxi mission, but when the game swapped vehicles, it kind of became a kidnapping. Of course, the real fun was watching Kevin struggle through story missions – one with Franklin tracking down some dude with a friend and his dog (and Brad, briefly) that took forever to just start because Kevin kept getting stuff that prevented him from seeing his vehicle or where he was going; one with Trevor where his attempts to follow a biker gang were stymied by things like disco weather, doomsday, and UFOs shoving him into the river; and one where Franklin did a quick assassination with a minigun, because occasionally the chaos mod is helpful. And then it killed him. XD Chaos mod giveth, chaos mod taketh away. Kevin’s talking about trying a heist in this game with the mod on – I have NO idea how that would work, but I want to see it!
3. Write on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Wrote up the bit where Alice offers up the Cathayan’s laptop to Tung in exchange for his and Knox’s help in finding Victor. Now I just have to work in her first encounter with a certain cab driver and – holy crap, I think I might actually be DONE. O.o I WAS going to take the end of this week to work more on my Valice Multiverse soft reboot, as I did last week, but – considering how close I am to wrapping up BOTH stories, I think I’ll stay on my current schedule! Wow. . .
And I just got my Valice Multiverse queue sorted, so that's all set. Just need to clear out my DW comment and I'm set for the night. Just one more day to get through, then three day weekend, yes. I hope to use it well! For now, g'night all!
