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. . .Well That Was A Surprise
Mar. 30th, 2021 11:22 pmMom, almost the moment I get up: Hey, they opened up the vaccine appointments in our ZIP code to everyone 16 and older, so I'm going to go on in just a bit to get you one!
CVS: Yeah, sure, how does tomorrow morning sound?
My Supervisor: If you want to take the whole day off for your morning vaccination, that's fine -- I understand being a little worried about side effects!
My Talky Coworker: *does not make any bitchy comments like I feared despite clearly being in a mood*
Me: . . .did -- did I slip timestreams at some point in the middle of the night?
Yeah, uh -- so. Getting the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine tomorrow, and I don't have to go to work afterwards. I -- really did not expect this. O.o Okay? I'm -- I'm happy, trust me on that, I want to get fucking vaccinated, but -- I'm a bit thrown too. Especially after how bitchy I was yesterday. Did -- did the universe look at that and go "okay, yeah, we've tortured her enough?"
*shakes head* Just go with it, Vic. You've got your first shot and an extra day off tomorrow -- ROLL WITH IT. Let's look at how I did this afternoon on the to-do list --
1. Get in a workout: Check – another 25 minutes on the bike, and with Jon's Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up with Grills as he popped open a locked door and found a Fat Man Nuke Launcher, which Jon begrudgingly admitted was better than the standard gear you get in locked cupboards. XD He continued clearing the place out, running into a little nest of Gunners, with a named character, Cruz, who had a holotape! Apparently Cruz led a patrol to try and get the Super Mutants out of Fallon’s Department Store, only to be ambushed and called back by Captain Wes. . .who then proceeded to make HIM the scapegoat for retreating and assigned him to help guard the base. How odd. . . Once the top floor was cleared out, Grills headed for the roof, where he killed a few more people, found a hidden barracks with some nice beds, and a fire escape leading down for easy, well, escape. He also found an elevator which he thought would lead back into the main building. . .
Nope, led down to a basement full of Gunners! Fortunately Grills is high enough level that they weren’t THAT much of a danger, and he slowly but surely cleared out all the Gunners lurking around the various pipes and machinery – including another named character, Ryder, who was disdainful of Cruz’s retreat – saying Gunners don’t do that – and was planning on talking to Wes to try and improve his own position from “basement guard.” No chance of that now! Jon couldn’t figure out what the hell they were guarding anyway – there’s one Master-locked safe down there, but surely two Legendary Gunners and a named character aren’t needed for that?
Anyway, Grills found another elevator that actually led into the building, and after dropping a sleepy save, cracked open the recording room with the keys he’d gotten off Cruz and Ryder and started tossing in grenades! Did a decent job of killing all the Gunners, but also did a decent job of breaking Grills’s arms, because he’d forgotten about the blast radius. He used the Legendary Slow Time of his Martyr’s gear to take out the last survivors, got himself back up to health, then looted the bodies. Wes himself didn’t have anything of particular note – his holotape, in his personal safe, just had a recording of the moment where he ordered Cruz to pull back from the ambush. Perhaps he was embarrassed and didn’t want anyone to suspect he’d ordered the retreat? *shrug* His terminal did indicate a much more successful infiltration operation of a local gang in Hyde Park, where the Raiders were turning on each other out of paranoia about Gunner spies, but nothing else on the fateful ambush. Some things will forever remainbad writing a mystery.
With the Plaza cleared out, Grills’s next target was Vault 95 (though Jon kept misremembering it as Vault 75), the other non-Quincy location held by the Gunners. He took the long way around as Jon was kind of curious about what would happen if he followed the rail line south – turned out to be encountering a Super Mutant Suicider and a bunch of Rust Devils in an abandoned train, and an abandoned Minuteman outpost overlooking some Mirelurks and Feral Ghouls out in the swamps. Nothing major, but it was an interesting little side diversion! Grills looted what he could (his many heavy guns are making him go over capacity a LOT), then continued on until he heard the sounds of fighting and located the vault. The Gunners and the Assaultrons were apparently distracted by some local wildlife, allowing Jon to sneak up, claim the high ground, and use grenades and some lucky shots (and some lucky misses by the Assaultrons!) to clear out the gunners around the entrance. I left it with him making his way past some mannequins to breach the interior. Only vault in the game Jon hasn’t visited, apparently – exciting!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice has gotten down into the basement of – uh – wherever it is you go to kill that one Sabbat guy (I think it’s a garage? Leads to a warehouse, that’s all I know), and gotten past the rent-a-cop guard that’s down there, at least in the Plus Patch (he demonstrates the different dialogue options you can get to persuade people). Now she’s on the verge of the Sneak Attack tutorial, though it’s rapidly going to become an Obfuscate one. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Still haven’t listed to Wyrd Sisters Podcast, but – well. I’ll have time for that tomorrow. In the meantime –
A) Started with James Turner and his new Sims 3 LP in that world he discovered in his “pursuing Sims reddits” video – Boroughsburg! It’s a New York City-style world full of various goodies, like an underground subway station with mats to all the rabbit holes, a fire station, a gym, a bar – and, most importantly, an abandoned resort lot ripe for the taking. James dropped in the Sims 3 version of his self-Sim, Semaj, to buy said lot and turn it into a swanky hotel! Which – is going to take more capital than Semaj, a simple apartment dweller, has on-hand at the moment. So he’s currently working at the local fire station, putting out small fires and trying to get swole. XD He’s also possibly found love – a girl at the gym was surprisingly attracted to his stupid muscle shirt, and they had a reasonably successful date at the local watering hole (helped by Semaj being able to pull flowers out of his butt). A very solid start to the LP. . .
Except for the fact that holy hell this game lags. You know what, I don’t want to hear a word said against the Sims 4 on this issue ever again – this iteration of the franchise was losing frames constantly! Not to mention all the various texture pop-ins as James’s computer struggled to load in the lots. . .yeah, perhaps he doesn’t have the best rig, but CRIPES. If there ever a video to convince me that I’m better off sticking with the sequel I’ve got, it’s this. Great gameplay doesn’t mean too much if you can’t properly see the game! Or interact with it, given how long it took Semaj’s AI to kick into gear sometimes. . .
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin, who has returned to Fall Guys to check out the latest “season” (as sponsored by Epic Games)! They’re up to Season 4, apparently, with new maps with a “rainbow technology” theme (lots of colorful lights and vaguely computery/classic games aesthetics, complete with pinball flippers) and a new “squad show” mode where you play as part of a team! It’s not like the ACTUAL team challenges of the main game – more a case of you all play individually to earn points for your squad and go up the rankings until a certain squad wins. Kevin played a few of these – and rather than being his typical troll self, actually tried! Really hard too – he put pedal to the metal in all the obstacle courses, and worked hard to stop others (namely this one ninja) from helping their squads. Didn’t help him much in the first game, but his next two squads actually managed victory! I mean, mostly WITHOUT Kevin’s help, as he was pretty well battered by most of the obstacle courses, but still. XD It was a fun, chaotic ride, and I wouldn’t mind seeing more.
C) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and more GTA V Stunt Races! Today’s offering was a truly masochistic obstacle course full of tricky yeets, careful platforming, and LSD tunnels. You know, the kind of thing that’s perfect for Gray’s impatient ass! XD You know a board is going to be good when it starts with a wall ride, and that’s the EASY part. We had “navigate this super-thin rim of a cylinder,” we had “yeet yourself at JUST THE RIGHT SPEED off this ramp,” we had “go across these platforms JUST fast enough to make it across each gap without falling off,” we had “do a full flip to get above this platform – or just land on your roof, that’s fine too.” XD Gray was really suffering with this one, to the point where he started his intro with “Checkpoint!” instead of his usual “All right, we’re checking out the only game. . .” XD Dude’s developing Stockholm Syndrome at this point.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I’ve got the Wednesday Newcrest update, plus posts for Thursday and Friday in the Victor Luvs Alice queue, and the two asks that showed up for Valice Multiverse in its queue. Nothing major, but it’s done!
So yeah, that was all nice and productive. And I even get to stay up a little later tonight to finish off my things (though not THAT much later -- the appointment's at 10:45 in the morning, and it'll take a bit to get to the CVS my appointment is at, so I have to get up by like 8:30 to give myself time for breakfast and whatnot). So yay. Let's set up tomorrow's to-do, shall we?
1. Catch up on the Wyrd Sisters Podcast, stay current with other YouTube subs, and try to watch the two Hitman 3 videos from OXBox still in my Watch Later
2. Write some more on "In A World Of His Own"
3. Play Alice: Madness Returns and get some more progress made on the Mysterious East
4. Get in a workout
5. Keep current on tumblr queues
Sounds reasonable, right? And that last one should be pretty easy after I get done with the first sub-item in one. . . But yeah, time to answer my other DW comment, then get my alarm set for tomorrow. Night all!
CVS: Yeah, sure, how does tomorrow morning sound?
My Supervisor: If you want to take the whole day off for your morning vaccination, that's fine -- I understand being a little worried about side effects!
My Talky Coworker: *does not make any bitchy comments like I feared despite clearly being in a mood*
Me: . . .did -- did I slip timestreams at some point in the middle of the night?
Yeah, uh -- so. Getting the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine tomorrow, and I don't have to go to work afterwards. I -- really did not expect this. O.o Okay? I'm -- I'm happy, trust me on that, I want to get fucking vaccinated, but -- I'm a bit thrown too. Especially after how bitchy I was yesterday. Did -- did the universe look at that and go "okay, yeah, we've tortured her enough?"
*shakes head* Just go with it, Vic. You've got your first shot and an extra day off tomorrow -- ROLL WITH IT. Let's look at how I did this afternoon on the to-do list --
1. Get in a workout: Check – another 25 minutes on the bike, and with Jon's Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up with Grills as he popped open a locked door and found a Fat Man Nuke Launcher, which Jon begrudgingly admitted was better than the standard gear you get in locked cupboards. XD He continued clearing the place out, running into a little nest of Gunners, with a named character, Cruz, who had a holotape! Apparently Cruz led a patrol to try and get the Super Mutants out of Fallon’s Department Store, only to be ambushed and called back by Captain Wes. . .who then proceeded to make HIM the scapegoat for retreating and assigned him to help guard the base. How odd. . . Once the top floor was cleared out, Grills headed for the roof, where he killed a few more people, found a hidden barracks with some nice beds, and a fire escape leading down for easy, well, escape. He also found an elevator which he thought would lead back into the main building. . .
Nope, led down to a basement full of Gunners! Fortunately Grills is high enough level that they weren’t THAT much of a danger, and he slowly but surely cleared out all the Gunners lurking around the various pipes and machinery – including another named character, Ryder, who was disdainful of Cruz’s retreat – saying Gunners don’t do that – and was planning on talking to Wes to try and improve his own position from “basement guard.” No chance of that now! Jon couldn’t figure out what the hell they were guarding anyway – there’s one Master-locked safe down there, but surely two Legendary Gunners and a named character aren’t needed for that?
Anyway, Grills found another elevator that actually led into the building, and after dropping a sleepy save, cracked open the recording room with the keys he’d gotten off Cruz and Ryder and started tossing in grenades! Did a decent job of killing all the Gunners, but also did a decent job of breaking Grills’s arms, because he’d forgotten about the blast radius. He used the Legendary Slow Time of his Martyr’s gear to take out the last survivors, got himself back up to health, then looted the bodies. Wes himself didn’t have anything of particular note – his holotape, in his personal safe, just had a recording of the moment where he ordered Cruz to pull back from the ambush. Perhaps he was embarrassed and didn’t want anyone to suspect he’d ordered the retreat? *shrug* His terminal did indicate a much more successful infiltration operation of a local gang in Hyde Park, where the Raiders were turning on each other out of paranoia about Gunner spies, but nothing else on the fateful ambush. Some things will forever remain
With the Plaza cleared out, Grills’s next target was Vault 95 (though Jon kept misremembering it as Vault 75), the other non-Quincy location held by the Gunners. He took the long way around as Jon was kind of curious about what would happen if he followed the rail line south – turned out to be encountering a Super Mutant Suicider and a bunch of Rust Devils in an abandoned train, and an abandoned Minuteman outpost overlooking some Mirelurks and Feral Ghouls out in the swamps. Nothing major, but it was an interesting little side diversion! Grills looted what he could (his many heavy guns are making him go over capacity a LOT), then continued on until he heard the sounds of fighting and located the vault. The Gunners and the Assaultrons were apparently distracted by some local wildlife, allowing Jon to sneak up, claim the high ground, and use grenades and some lucky shots (and some lucky misses by the Assaultrons!) to clear out the gunners around the entrance. I left it with him making his way past some mannequins to breach the interior. Only vault in the game Jon hasn’t visited, apparently – exciting!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice has gotten down into the basement of – uh – wherever it is you go to kill that one Sabbat guy (I think it’s a garage? Leads to a warehouse, that’s all I know), and gotten past the rent-a-cop guard that’s down there, at least in the Plus Patch (he demonstrates the different dialogue options you can get to persuade people). Now she’s on the verge of the Sneak Attack tutorial, though it’s rapidly going to become an Obfuscate one. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Still haven’t listed to Wyrd Sisters Podcast, but – well. I’ll have time for that tomorrow. In the meantime –
A) Started with James Turner and his new Sims 3 LP in that world he discovered in his “pursuing Sims reddits” video – Boroughsburg! It’s a New York City-style world full of various goodies, like an underground subway station with mats to all the rabbit holes, a fire station, a gym, a bar – and, most importantly, an abandoned resort lot ripe for the taking. James dropped in the Sims 3 version of his self-Sim, Semaj, to buy said lot and turn it into a swanky hotel! Which – is going to take more capital than Semaj, a simple apartment dweller, has on-hand at the moment. So he’s currently working at the local fire station, putting out small fires and trying to get swole. XD He’s also possibly found love – a girl at the gym was surprisingly attracted to his stupid muscle shirt, and they had a reasonably successful date at the local watering hole (helped by Semaj being able to pull flowers out of his butt). A very solid start to the LP. . .
Except for the fact that holy hell this game lags. You know what, I don’t want to hear a word said against the Sims 4 on this issue ever again – this iteration of the franchise was losing frames constantly! Not to mention all the various texture pop-ins as James’s computer struggled to load in the lots. . .yeah, perhaps he doesn’t have the best rig, but CRIPES. If there ever a video to convince me that I’m better off sticking with the sequel I’ve got, it’s this. Great gameplay doesn’t mean too much if you can’t properly see the game! Or interact with it, given how long it took Semaj’s AI to kick into gear sometimes. . .
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin, who has returned to Fall Guys to check out the latest “season” (as sponsored by Epic Games)! They’re up to Season 4, apparently, with new maps with a “rainbow technology” theme (lots of colorful lights and vaguely computery/classic games aesthetics, complete with pinball flippers) and a new “squad show” mode where you play as part of a team! It’s not like the ACTUAL team challenges of the main game – more a case of you all play individually to earn points for your squad and go up the rankings until a certain squad wins. Kevin played a few of these – and rather than being his typical troll self, actually tried! Really hard too – he put pedal to the metal in all the obstacle courses, and worked hard to stop others (namely this one ninja) from helping their squads. Didn’t help him much in the first game, but his next two squads actually managed victory! I mean, mostly WITHOUT Kevin’s help, as he was pretty well battered by most of the obstacle courses, but still. XD It was a fun, chaotic ride, and I wouldn’t mind seeing more.
C) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and more GTA V Stunt Races! Today’s offering was a truly masochistic obstacle course full of tricky yeets, careful platforming, and LSD tunnels. You know, the kind of thing that’s perfect for Gray’s impatient ass! XD You know a board is going to be good when it starts with a wall ride, and that’s the EASY part. We had “navigate this super-thin rim of a cylinder,” we had “yeet yourself at JUST THE RIGHT SPEED off this ramp,” we had “go across these platforms JUST fast enough to make it across each gap without falling off,” we had “do a full flip to get above this platform – or just land on your roof, that’s fine too.” XD Gray was really suffering with this one, to the point where he started his intro with “Checkpoint!” instead of his usual “All right, we’re checking out the only game. . .” XD Dude’s developing Stockholm Syndrome at this point.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I’ve got the Wednesday Newcrest update, plus posts for Thursday and Friday in the Victor Luvs Alice queue, and the two asks that showed up for Valice Multiverse in its queue. Nothing major, but it’s done!
So yeah, that was all nice and productive. And I even get to stay up a little later tonight to finish off my things (though not THAT much later -- the appointment's at 10:45 in the morning, and it'll take a bit to get to the CVS my appointment is at, so I have to get up by like 8:30 to give myself time for breakfast and whatnot). So yay. Let's set up tomorrow's to-do, shall we?
1. Catch up on the Wyrd Sisters Podcast, stay current with other YouTube subs, and try to watch the two Hitman 3 videos from OXBox still in my Watch Later
2. Write some more on "In A World Of His Own"
3. Play Alice: Madness Returns and get some more progress made on the Mysterious East
4. Get in a workout
5. Keep current on tumblr queues
Sounds reasonable, right? And that last one should be pretty easy after I get done with the first sub-item in one. . . But yeah, time to answer my other DW comment, then get my alarm set for tomorrow. Night all!
