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Oh Dear, The PMS Is Kicking In
Mar. 17th, 2021 11:14 pmI can actually FEEL my damn brain power trying to go. >.< I mean, I knew it was coming, it's the right time of the month, but damn. Do you really have to lay me out like this already, hormones? Good thing it's not a cleaning weekend this weekend; I think I'm gonna need lots of lazing around time. And good thing it was a pretty quiet day today at work! Bringing some new problems to people's attention, yes, but I was also able to FINALLY put some stuff on that I just haven't gotten to because of other crises, and even some low-energy roster maintenance stuff. Hopefully the trend continues, because ugh. Brain.
Fortunately this didn't start REALLY kicking in until this evening, so I was still able to make decent progress on the standard to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Another round on the bike, and another twenty-five minutes spent with Grills in Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught back up with him as he finished clearing out the main plaza of raiders – and meeting up with Sierra Petrovita, a Nuka-Cola addict who’s wandering around the park having escaped from Fallout 3. Apparently the raiders tolerate her antics so long as she doesn’t get in their way – and now that they’re all dead, it’s a non-issue! Jon was pleased she was still alive and non-hostile, as he wanted to do her quest (and NIRA the park robot’s too, which I think has to do with medallions like the one he got out of the Galactic Zone earlier) once he was done with all his murder.
Of course, clearing out the plaza was only the second part of his murder plan (after “Kill Nisha and deal with the Disciples outside Fizztop Mountain”). Step three? Head back up to the Fizztop Grille to kill Gage, arguably the most dangerous combatant outside of the bosses themselves! Grills made his way up there, prepared for the fight of his life –
Gage was non-hostile. Grills couldn’t actually talk to him, but he also didn’t attack him. Jon was very confused, but decided to make the best of it and just shot Gage in the back of his head before stealing his armor. Bethesda games, everybody! But it did free up a lot of time for Jon to figure out how to take out the remaining raider bosses. He decided to go after the Black siblings, Mags and William, and their Operators (the gang obsessed with making money) next – mostly because they and their gang are holed up in a very tight room, and lobbing grenades over the counter into the gang was a viable strategy. So viable, in fact, that Grills wasn’t even in danger until after he’d successfully killed the siblings! XD Bethesda games! At any rate, he successfully killed the lot, and even took another rank of the Hacker perk to break into Mags’s Expert-locked terminal. Turned out to be full of notes on other important characters and how they might be manipulated to the Operators’ ends. Interesting stuff!
After that, all that remained was to kill Mason – which Grills did similarly to the first time he attempted “Open Season,” only with less being swarmed by angry raiders and dying – kill the remaining stragglers in the market, then report back to Mackenzie and let her know the traders now own the park! (Well, in theory. . .in practice, since your goals are to kill the raider BOSSES, Grills left quite a few of the Pack and the Disciples alive in their little indoor areas. . .) Mackenzie was very grateful, and Grills reported back to his “Overboss” quarters to drop off his badly-damaged power armor and get some rest before his next adventure – turning the power back on! Normally, this is a big important event in the questline, involving the betrayal of one of the gangs and mustering the other two to fight them. . .but if you complete “Open Season,” then everything’s just open to you. XD Grills set out on his journey at the beginning of Episode 65, making his way over to the plant. He didn’t expect anything but easily-taken-out ghouls, but – well, turns out the building holds a few surprises! Like a secret room with a cute sloth toy and a set of X-01 power armor. And a couple of random raiders, because the game just likes throwing a fight at Jon. One of them was even a Legendary – and SUPER TOUGH, to Jon’s surprise. Poor Grills ended up activating his Martyr’s slow-time effect from all the damage he took, though he got the bastard in the end. On the plus side, he got a Hitman’s Combat Sniper Rifle out of it – better damage while aiming is always good for a sniping weapon! But now he has to clear out any other surprises the game might throw his way. . .
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! I have indeed made it rain on Victor and Alice to encourage them up the path to the Conservatory. Not hard – it’s just a bit of a passing sprinkle – but it’s enough to have Victor do an aside glance at the fourth wall. XD Currently they’re just starting the DDR section, which I have revised to them recreating their waltz from the ending of “Finding You” rather than doing separate dances to the same tune. I’ve actually stuffed a fair bit into this section, weirdly enough – ah, well, music IS Victor’s big thing in the movie, so I guess it makes sense this might be the longest chapter. :p
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check, even if I ended up interrupting myself halfway through to look up more information on “Expedition: Back To The Future” – showed the trailer to my parents, and then forgot to look it up for more details when I got back on my computer. Totally blaming that on pre-period brain. Didn’t realize it was a four-part miniseries – I thought it was an episode of a longer, different series! That complicates matters slightly. . . Anyway, the day’s videos –
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and more GTA V Chaos Mod! Today he did the Merryweather Heist, a difficult mission made even more difficult when the game is spawning Griefer Jesus right at the start. XD It was on an insta-kill streak with Kevin all episode, actually – randomly teleporting Trevor out of the vehicles he was supposed to be in, making said vehicles invisible when he was supposed to be moving big old shipping containers with them, turning all his companions into poorly-rendered t-posing dolls, launching him up into the sky (either alone or with whatever he was currently driving), giving him a forcefield to jam his crane, spawning enemies (like the infamous Blue Sultan) to kill him before he could even move after respawning, making it rain vehicles while Trevor was stealing a sub, removing all his weapons except for a cat gun, spawning a tank on top of Franklin during the actual heist, spawning Brad with an RPG (though that actually turned out to be pretty useful, given how good he was with it). . . Ooh, Kevin suffered today. And all for a heist where you can’t even keep the loot, because Trevor ended up targeting a nuclear bomb by accident, which if it doesn’t end up in the right place before anyone misses it. . .yeaaaah. I think Trevor’s final “FUCK!” summed up Kevin’s own feelings very nicely.
B) Then onto GrayStillPlays for more GTA V – in his case, more stunt races! Today’s offering was a very long race of evil, featuring a car with no traction taking on multiple jumps, a few different wall rides into tubes (the last of which forces you to go UP), a few rings of fire to circumnavigate, Satan’s Boobs (aka tilted curvy bits of road that it’s very easy to fall off of), numerous tightrope sections from hell, going down into the water a couple of times (having to time it JUUUST right so you don’t flood your car), and INVISIBLE GLITCH MAZES MADE BY FORCING YOU TO GO INSIDE A FAKE WALL INTO AN INVISIBLE ASSET. XD Again, prime suffering for the YouTuber today. Gray of course beat the course, no matter how sparse the checkpoints were, but you gotta think that this is doing a number on his sanity at this point. XD
C) And then another trailer I found for “Expedition: Back To The Future,” which seems to be setting up the plot (finding a DeLorean and taking it to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to be auctioned off). This one gives me some extra hope for watching this – because apparently, in two weeks’ time, it’ll be airing on regular Discovery too. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – though I’m glad I only had Victor Luvs Alice and not Valice Multiverse as well today, with the period stuff kicking in like it is. But I managed to add to my Fallout of Darkness post a bit, and get posts up for Friday (“In A World Of His Own” progress report) and Saturday (another song recommended to me by a friend), so at least I don’t have to worry about that going forward. One less thing to think about is good right now!
And yeah, that's about it for the night -- time to finish up my last comment and then head to bed. Hopefully I'll at least sleep a little better if I'm already in groggy mode. . .man, two more days to get through as well. Well, I've survived work on my period before so. . . Night all!
Fortunately this didn't start REALLY kicking in until this evening, so I was still able to make decent progress on the standard to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Another round on the bike, and another twenty-five minutes spent with Grills in Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught back up with him as he finished clearing out the main plaza of raiders – and meeting up with Sierra Petrovita, a Nuka-Cola addict who’s wandering around the park having escaped from Fallout 3. Apparently the raiders tolerate her antics so long as she doesn’t get in their way – and now that they’re all dead, it’s a non-issue! Jon was pleased she was still alive and non-hostile, as he wanted to do her quest (and NIRA the park robot’s too, which I think has to do with medallions like the one he got out of the Galactic Zone earlier) once he was done with all his murder.
Of course, clearing out the plaza was only the second part of his murder plan (after “Kill Nisha and deal with the Disciples outside Fizztop Mountain”). Step three? Head back up to the Fizztop Grille to kill Gage, arguably the most dangerous combatant outside of the bosses themselves! Grills made his way up there, prepared for the fight of his life –
Gage was non-hostile. Grills couldn’t actually talk to him, but he also didn’t attack him. Jon was very confused, but decided to make the best of it and just shot Gage in the back of his head before stealing his armor. Bethesda games, everybody! But it did free up a lot of time for Jon to figure out how to take out the remaining raider bosses. He decided to go after the Black siblings, Mags and William, and their Operators (the gang obsessed with making money) next – mostly because they and their gang are holed up in a very tight room, and lobbing grenades over the counter into the gang was a viable strategy. So viable, in fact, that Grills wasn’t even in danger until after he’d successfully killed the siblings! XD Bethesda games! At any rate, he successfully killed the lot, and even took another rank of the Hacker perk to break into Mags’s Expert-locked terminal. Turned out to be full of notes on other important characters and how they might be manipulated to the Operators’ ends. Interesting stuff!
After that, all that remained was to kill Mason – which Grills did similarly to the first time he attempted “Open Season,” only with less being swarmed by angry raiders and dying – kill the remaining stragglers in the market, then report back to Mackenzie and let her know the traders now own the park! (Well, in theory. . .in practice, since your goals are to kill the raider BOSSES, Grills left quite a few of the Pack and the Disciples alive in their little indoor areas. . .) Mackenzie was very grateful, and Grills reported back to his “Overboss” quarters to drop off his badly-damaged power armor and get some rest before his next adventure – turning the power back on! Normally, this is a big important event in the questline, involving the betrayal of one of the gangs and mustering the other two to fight them. . .but if you complete “Open Season,” then everything’s just open to you. XD Grills set out on his journey at the beginning of Episode 65, making his way over to the plant. He didn’t expect anything but easily-taken-out ghouls, but – well, turns out the building holds a few surprises! Like a secret room with a cute sloth toy and a set of X-01 power armor. And a couple of random raiders, because the game just likes throwing a fight at Jon. One of them was even a Legendary – and SUPER TOUGH, to Jon’s surprise. Poor Grills ended up activating his Martyr’s slow-time effect from all the damage he took, though he got the bastard in the end. On the plus side, he got a Hitman’s Combat Sniper Rifle out of it – better damage while aiming is always good for a sniping weapon! But now he has to clear out any other surprises the game might throw his way. . .
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! I have indeed made it rain on Victor and Alice to encourage them up the path to the Conservatory. Not hard – it’s just a bit of a passing sprinkle – but it’s enough to have Victor do an aside glance at the fourth wall. XD Currently they’re just starting the DDR section, which I have revised to them recreating their waltz from the ending of “Finding You” rather than doing separate dances to the same tune. I’ve actually stuffed a fair bit into this section, weirdly enough – ah, well, music IS Victor’s big thing in the movie, so I guess it makes sense this might be the longest chapter. :p
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check, even if I ended up interrupting myself halfway through to look up more information on “Expedition: Back To The Future” – showed the trailer to my parents, and then forgot to look it up for more details when I got back on my computer. Totally blaming that on pre-period brain. Didn’t realize it was a four-part miniseries – I thought it was an episode of a longer, different series! That complicates matters slightly. . . Anyway, the day’s videos –
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and more GTA V Chaos Mod! Today he did the Merryweather Heist, a difficult mission made even more difficult when the game is spawning Griefer Jesus right at the start. XD It was on an insta-kill streak with Kevin all episode, actually – randomly teleporting Trevor out of the vehicles he was supposed to be in, making said vehicles invisible when he was supposed to be moving big old shipping containers with them, turning all his companions into poorly-rendered t-posing dolls, launching him up into the sky (either alone or with whatever he was currently driving), giving him a forcefield to jam his crane, spawning enemies (like the infamous Blue Sultan) to kill him before he could even move after respawning, making it rain vehicles while Trevor was stealing a sub, removing all his weapons except for a cat gun, spawning a tank on top of Franklin during the actual heist, spawning Brad with an RPG (though that actually turned out to be pretty useful, given how good he was with it). . . Ooh, Kevin suffered today. And all for a heist where you can’t even keep the loot, because Trevor ended up targeting a nuclear bomb by accident, which if it doesn’t end up in the right place before anyone misses it. . .yeaaaah. I think Trevor’s final “FUCK!” summed up Kevin’s own feelings very nicely.
B) Then onto GrayStillPlays for more GTA V – in his case, more stunt races! Today’s offering was a very long race of evil, featuring a car with no traction taking on multiple jumps, a few different wall rides into tubes (the last of which forces you to go UP), a few rings of fire to circumnavigate, Satan’s Boobs (aka tilted curvy bits of road that it’s very easy to fall off of), numerous tightrope sections from hell, going down into the water a couple of times (having to time it JUUUST right so you don’t flood your car), and INVISIBLE GLITCH MAZES MADE BY FORCING YOU TO GO INSIDE A FAKE WALL INTO AN INVISIBLE ASSET. XD Again, prime suffering for the YouTuber today. Gray of course beat the course, no matter how sparse the checkpoints were, but you gotta think that this is doing a number on his sanity at this point. XD
C) And then another trailer I found for “Expedition: Back To The Future,” which seems to be setting up the plot (finding a DeLorean and taking it to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to be auctioned off). This one gives me some extra hope for watching this – because apparently, in two weeks’ time, it’ll be airing on regular Discovery too. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – though I’m glad I only had Victor Luvs Alice and not Valice Multiverse as well today, with the period stuff kicking in like it is. But I managed to add to my Fallout of Darkness post a bit, and get posts up for Friday (“In A World Of His Own” progress report) and Saturday (another song recommended to me by a friend), so at least I don’t have to worry about that going forward. One less thing to think about is good right now!
And yeah, that's about it for the night -- time to finish up my last comment and then head to bed. Hopefully I'll at least sleep a little better if I'm already in groggy mode. . .man, two more days to get through as well. Well, I've survived work on my period before so. . . Night all!
