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YouTube Suddenly No Worky?
May. 18th, 2021 11:08 pmSeriously -- every video I try to play suddenly just refuses to keep loading after a certain point. And it seems to be a specifically YouTube problem, as every other website I'm on is working fine, and I'm not noticing any wifi signal drops. The hell? O.o Doesn't help that I just noticed that some of my favorite reading music (Animal Crossing: New Horizons themes extended, especially 2 AM) has been deleted because the YouTube account that uploaded them was terminated. :( Ugh. . .
Anyway -- work was a little on the stressful side, as I discovered a bit of a problem. Related to the credit cards, natch. Looks like it has to do with how our database talks to theirs, and -- I have e-mailed the appropriate people, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. No surprise. Spent most of the day working on a QC file after that, with occasional interruptions -- at least I got it done, without having to sacrifice all my break time! Hate when that happens. . .
Getting home was better -- traffic was fairly miserable, but any day where I don't have to stop for gas is a good day. And we had a nice afternoon game of beanbags too -- 2-3-2 for me, with Dad winning the first game and Mom winning the second two. My problem seems to be throwing with JUST enough momentum so the bag bounces or slides off the board. . .we'll see how I go over the rest of the summer!
As for the to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back with “Nuka-World Level One Survival!” Caught up with Minnie as she finished off the last of the eggs in the actual World of Refreshment ride, then slipped in through a convenient hole in the wall to access the backstage area. Jon proceeded very slowly through all the various tunnels and control rooms, taking out turrets with his Hardened Sniper and keeping a wary eye out for the Assaultrons he knew were lurking somewhere within. . .
They, uh, never showed up. Jon was as confused as any of us. Normally there’s like three in the big Nuka-Quantum bottling area, but – nothing doing. Jon eventually decided that the Assaultrons he’d found in the main ride, dead from fighting the Nukalurks, must have been the ones he was so fearing – and they must have been leveled to Minnie, meaning they could be taken out by overgrown seafood. Well, all right then! Time to loot all the Nukalurk meat and Nuka-Cola Quantums he could carry!
Unfortunately, Minnie couldn’t get the main prize of the area, by virtue of the fact that the computer she needed to crack needed an expert hacker, and the person with the passcode was on the roof. And Minnie didn’t want to go to the roof yet, because the roof (and out back in general) means fighting more Nukalurks, including a Queen. (I mean, it’s better than going through the wastepipe, as Grills would happily tell you, but still.) And she wasn’t about to do that without some better firepower. . .
So it was back out the front door and through a radstorm to meet back up with Sierra in the main park! Sierra happily decoded the scramble of letters into “Refreshing,” and Minnie punched in the appropriate numbers into the keypad by Bradberton’s office (yeah, I’ve apparently been spelling his name wrong – “e”, not “u”) to get them inside! From there, Minnie found the secret button that opened up the hidden elevator shaft, and together they descended into Bradberton’s personal mini-vault!
Or, rather, Bradberton’s HEAD’S personal mini-vault! Yup, dude was still alive down there as a preserved head – turned out he’d made a deal with the US Military to help provide them a weapon with Nuka-Quantum as the base, and they gave him life-extension tech! He was actually forewarned that he was just going to be a head (as you will learn if you read his private terminal entries), but went through with it anyway. Two hundred years later, he was suffering extreme “buyer’s remorse,” so to speak, and bargained with Minnie – turn his life support off, and the door to the room with the “Nuka-Nuke” prototypes (mini-nukes with cola-based enhancements) and formula would open, and she could take what she liked. A horrified Sierra, starstruck from meeting her idol, tried to convince Minnie to let her stay with Bradberton and keep him company (as he mentioned loneliness being one of the big reasons he wanted to finally die) in exchange for her beloved Nuka-Cola jumpsuit – but Minnie was there for firepower, and fulfilled Bradberton’s wishes. She gave Sierra the Nuka-Cola formula also stored in the safe room as an apology, which Sierra took with limited grace – though if Minnie talked her down, it was off-camera, as Jon promptly skipped to finishing the quest and picking up the Nuka-Nukes and their launcher. Ended just shy of finishing off Episode 14 – I’ll do that tomorrow, and pick up Episode 15 – which I assume will start with Jon obliterating a Nukalurk Queen with Nuka-Nukes. XD
2. Edit some more on “In A World Of His Own” Chapter 4: Check! Completed the last page of edits today, in fact, wrapping up the fight, officially naming the Orphica, and having Victor and Alice settle in for another concert – after Victor gets some paper to write with, that is. XD I actually only ended up cutting a single page from the length – went from 11 to 10 – but I think the pacing is a lot better after getting rid of the extra “steampunk DDR” section, and it makes sense for it to be the longest chapter, since it has the longest fight sequence. So now we’re in a better place for posting, yay~
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – even got in a third video from the WL, go me –
A) Actually started with the latest from Plumbella – a look at the new Courtyard Oasis Kit that released today for Sims 4. She likes the items in the kit – apart from being a little annoyed with having yet another giant coffee table, and a tea set that is purely decorative – but remains iffy on the concept of kits themselves. Mostly because she’s a PC gamer and thus can find custom content of similar quality for free. This is basically my view on all this too – did we really need a MICRO-expansion tier? And while this building set looks nice, it’s not enough to sway me to buy any of them. My line in the sand remains firm!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and – Chair Simulator. No, you are not a chair – you are some random character (or YouTuber, apparently), and you spend your time sitting to earn “sitpoints” with which to buy new, more comfortable chairs. But don’t sit too long, because you will lose your sitpoints and eventually die. Yes, this is a real game. With real reviews and everything (including “spin chair doesn’t spin.” 0/10 for me then!). Kevin chose Mr. Beast and sat around in the local chair store, trying to find ways to glitch out the game – he eventually accidentally sent Beast and his new throne toppling out of the world, and let him die from oversitting in the void. Kevin, where the hell do you find these things. XD
C) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and more GTA V stunt races! Today’s offering – a board all about yeeting yourself to various difficult platforms, using the car that comes with bouncy tires and a parachute. The various elements of the board were often spaced so far apart Gray wasn’t even sure where the hell he was going. XD There was a decent amount of suffering as Gray flew himself between various platforms of increasing height and width apart – plus a wall ride. Because we can’t have a painful GTA board without a wall ride. XD Rather like these parachute boards, though – they’re something new and interesting in all the pain. Hope he does more! :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the Wednesday Newcrest Update, a Fallout 4 headcanon post, and a “20 Opening Sentences” meme queued up on VictorLuvsAlice, and two asks in the queue for Valice Multiverse! So that’s settled, w000~
So yeah -- up until YouTube suddenly started having playback errors, decent enough night. *shrug* Guess there isn't much more to do except answer my DW comment and hit the sheets. And hope that YouTube is behaving itself better in the morning. And that maybe someone will have uploaded replacements for the music I lost. *grumbles* Night all!
Anyway -- work was a little on the stressful side, as I discovered a bit of a problem. Related to the credit cards, natch. Looks like it has to do with how our database talks to theirs, and -- I have e-mailed the appropriate people, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. No surprise. Spent most of the day working on a QC file after that, with occasional interruptions -- at least I got it done, without having to sacrifice all my break time! Hate when that happens. . .
Getting home was better -- traffic was fairly miserable, but any day where I don't have to stop for gas is a good day. And we had a nice afternoon game of beanbags too -- 2-3-2 for me, with Dad winning the first game and Mom winning the second two. My problem seems to be throwing with JUST enough momentum so the bag bounces or slides off the board. . .we'll see how I go over the rest of the summer!
As for the to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back with “Nuka-World Level One Survival!” Caught up with Minnie as she finished off the last of the eggs in the actual World of Refreshment ride, then slipped in through a convenient hole in the wall to access the backstage area. Jon proceeded very slowly through all the various tunnels and control rooms, taking out turrets with his Hardened Sniper and keeping a wary eye out for the Assaultrons he knew were lurking somewhere within. . .
They, uh, never showed up. Jon was as confused as any of us. Normally there’s like three in the big Nuka-Quantum bottling area, but – nothing doing. Jon eventually decided that the Assaultrons he’d found in the main ride, dead from fighting the Nukalurks, must have been the ones he was so fearing – and they must have been leveled to Minnie, meaning they could be taken out by overgrown seafood. Well, all right then! Time to loot all the Nukalurk meat and Nuka-Cola Quantums he could carry!
Unfortunately, Minnie couldn’t get the main prize of the area, by virtue of the fact that the computer she needed to crack needed an expert hacker, and the person with the passcode was on the roof. And Minnie didn’t want to go to the roof yet, because the roof (and out back in general) means fighting more Nukalurks, including a Queen. (I mean, it’s better than going through the wastepipe, as Grills would happily tell you, but still.) And she wasn’t about to do that without some better firepower. . .
So it was back out the front door and through a radstorm to meet back up with Sierra in the main park! Sierra happily decoded the scramble of letters into “Refreshing,” and Minnie punched in the appropriate numbers into the keypad by Bradberton’s office (yeah, I’ve apparently been spelling his name wrong – “e”, not “u”) to get them inside! From there, Minnie found the secret button that opened up the hidden elevator shaft, and together they descended into Bradberton’s personal mini-vault!
Or, rather, Bradberton’s HEAD’S personal mini-vault! Yup, dude was still alive down there as a preserved head – turned out he’d made a deal with the US Military to help provide them a weapon with Nuka-Quantum as the base, and they gave him life-extension tech! He was actually forewarned that he was just going to be a head (as you will learn if you read his private terminal entries), but went through with it anyway. Two hundred years later, he was suffering extreme “buyer’s remorse,” so to speak, and bargained with Minnie – turn his life support off, and the door to the room with the “Nuka-Nuke” prototypes (mini-nukes with cola-based enhancements) and formula would open, and she could take what she liked. A horrified Sierra, starstruck from meeting her idol, tried to convince Minnie to let her stay with Bradberton and keep him company (as he mentioned loneliness being one of the big reasons he wanted to finally die) in exchange for her beloved Nuka-Cola jumpsuit – but Minnie was there for firepower, and fulfilled Bradberton’s wishes. She gave Sierra the Nuka-Cola formula also stored in the safe room as an apology, which Sierra took with limited grace – though if Minnie talked her down, it was off-camera, as Jon promptly skipped to finishing the quest and picking up the Nuka-Nukes and their launcher. Ended just shy of finishing off Episode 14 – I’ll do that tomorrow, and pick up Episode 15 – which I assume will start with Jon obliterating a Nukalurk Queen with Nuka-Nukes. XD
2. Edit some more on “In A World Of His Own” Chapter 4: Check! Completed the last page of edits today, in fact, wrapping up the fight, officially naming the Orphica, and having Victor and Alice settle in for another concert – after Victor gets some paper to write with, that is. XD I actually only ended up cutting a single page from the length – went from 11 to 10 – but I think the pacing is a lot better after getting rid of the extra “steampunk DDR” section, and it makes sense for it to be the longest chapter, since it has the longest fight sequence. So now we’re in a better place for posting, yay~
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – even got in a third video from the WL, go me –
A) Actually started with the latest from Plumbella – a look at the new Courtyard Oasis Kit that released today for Sims 4. She likes the items in the kit – apart from being a little annoyed with having yet another giant coffee table, and a tea set that is purely decorative – but remains iffy on the concept of kits themselves. Mostly because she’s a PC gamer and thus can find custom content of similar quality for free. This is basically my view on all this too – did we really need a MICRO-expansion tier? And while this building set looks nice, it’s not enough to sway me to buy any of them. My line in the sand remains firm!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and – Chair Simulator. No, you are not a chair – you are some random character (or YouTuber, apparently), and you spend your time sitting to earn “sitpoints” with which to buy new, more comfortable chairs. But don’t sit too long, because you will lose your sitpoints and eventually die. Yes, this is a real game. With real reviews and everything (including “spin chair doesn’t spin.” 0/10 for me then!). Kevin chose Mr. Beast and sat around in the local chair store, trying to find ways to glitch out the game – he eventually accidentally sent Beast and his new throne toppling out of the world, and let him die from oversitting in the void. Kevin, where the hell do you find these things. XD
C) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and more GTA V stunt races! Today’s offering – a board all about yeeting yourself to various difficult platforms, using the car that comes with bouncy tires and a parachute. The various elements of the board were often spaced so far apart Gray wasn’t even sure where the hell he was going. XD There was a decent amount of suffering as Gray flew himself between various platforms of increasing height and width apart – plus a wall ride. Because we can’t have a painful GTA board without a wall ride. XD Rather like these parachute boards, though – they’re something new and interesting in all the pain. Hope he does more! :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the Wednesday Newcrest Update, a Fallout 4 headcanon post, and a “20 Opening Sentences” meme queued up on VictorLuvsAlice, and two asks in the queue for Valice Multiverse! So that’s settled, w000~
So yeah -- up until YouTube suddenly started having playback errors, decent enough night. *shrug* Guess there isn't much more to do except answer my DW comment and hit the sheets. And hope that YouTube is behaving itself better in the morning. And that maybe someone will have uploaded replacements for the music I lost. *grumbles* Night all!
