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Mostly because I kept feeling like I was off my schedule thanks to late mealtimes and whatnot. . .doesn't help that my parents had to re-caulk the shower because the stuff they used the first time started peeling off. *sigh* So no shower tonight, meaning I feel a little bit gross on top of everything else. Meeeh. But I did get stuff done, at least --
1. Clean my room: Check – got started a little earlier than usual this morning (mostly because I woke up a bit earlier than usual, because I had to shut my computer off earlier than usual last night because of a thunderstorm that blew in), and actually got it all done before lunchtime! . . .partly because lunch wasn’t until 2 PM today because my aunt was visiting to pick up some bread and have a chat. At least I made use of the pre-lunch computer time I had to make some fresh backups and update some drivers?
2. Watch all the Hitman-related OXBox content in my Watch Later and do my best to keep up with YouTube Subs: Check, only because I said “do my best” – I wasn’t able to get to James Turner at all today, which is a small problem as he’s uploading regularly and the videos are steadily getting longer. But I did at least get through the other videos I wanted to watch, including –
A) Okay, actually started with someone's 16-minute speedrun of Portal Reloaded – I'd just finished the game (see below) and was looking up stuff on it, and – I had to. Speedruns are fascinating to me, given that I often struggle with games that require you to shoot things (either with regular or portal guns) super-quickly – I tend to need a moment to line up the shot correctly! The speedrunner Can’t Even, though? Damn, they were just FLYING through the chambers! Occasionally literally. XD (Must be some sort of trick with the excursion funnels. . .) It’s awesome and I hope they enjoy holding the World Record for now!
B) Then it was time for the Great OXBox Hitman marathon! Consisting of:
I. “7 Over the Top Hitman Kills Straight Out of a Horror Movie” – because might as well start the fun with a related list video! From killing an author by shoving his face into his own pen while dressed in a fan-made costume of the serial killer from his books, to tricking an antsy bioengineer into thinking his mother’s ghost has it out for him (in fairness, he DID murder her), to killing a member of Providence who thinks she’s paying her last respects/gloating to the corpse you’ve disguised yourself as because Providence is all about the stupid costumes even for the dead, to deliberately holding the door closed on a Yakuza lawyer as she broils to death in a sabotaged steam room. . .yeah, some of 47’s kills can get PRETTY horrifying. And awesome. XD
II. “Hitman 3 SCREWY'S REVENGE! | Mike Plays Jane's OX Featured Contract in Hitman 3” – just what it says on the tin! Each of the OXBox team has made a special contract featuring some take on their signature playstyles for the “Season of Sloth” currently active on Hitman 3 (it’s for their Seven Deadly Sins DLC) and one of the others has to play it! Mike, as noted, is taking on Jane’s contract, which has her requesting that 47 take out the Undertaker and Mr. Fernsby in the Dartmoor level, by throwing a screwdriver (her favorite weapon) into their heads while dressed as the Undertaker. (Sloth connection: Jane explicitly says in the brief she’s too lazy to take out the guys herself, so she’s hiring someone to do it.) Yes, you have to get the Undertaker’s clothes first BEFORE killing him. This proved a little difficult for the very chaotic Mike – first, he insisted on showing up in his “Green Streak” suit and didn’t change out of it until much coaxing from Andy and Jane; then, after finally changing, he forgot to put his screwdriver away and accidentally stabbed the Undertaker instead of choking him out to take his clothes first. Mike, ashamed, insisted on doing the mission over – and this time got spotted. Twice. The first time was only one guy and Mike was able to get his outfit as a disguise without issue; the second was multiple people noticing him choking out a gardener and him having to do constant loop-de-loops through the bushes near the graveyard to avoid getting shot to death. “Trust the process” was bandied about a lot. XD Mike DID eventually get his hands on a brick, a clear line of sight on the Undertaker, and a moment where nobody was watching, and was able to bean the guy, get his clothes, and fling the screwdriver into his head. And then he went up to the mansion, infiltrated it like a pro, killed Fernsby, and escaped – at Jane and Andy’s insistence – in the hearse. Though he refused to actually put the Undertaker’s body in the grave and bury him, saying it would cost Jane extra. XD Two stars and “Versatile Hands-On Assassin” for Mike, and “well, you followed the LETTER of my contract, at least – and how did you make the easy part look hard and the hard part look easy” from Jane. XD
III. “Hitman 3 LAZY BONES! | Jane Plays Andy's OX Featured Contract in Hitman 3” – onto the next notch in the round robin, we have Jane playing 47 for Andy, who has demanded that the dead wood be cleared out of Dartmoor – basically, all staff visibly taking breaks? KILL THEM. (Sloth connection: obviously the targets are being slothful!) Also she may ONLY kill her targets, and not be recorded by any security cameras (not actually an issue in Dartmoor, but as Andy is the consummate professional of the group, he included it). Jane chose to start already disguised as a gardener (Mike jokingly called this “cheating”), and while Andy didn’t specify any particular method of murder for any of them, Jane decided she wanted to do “fun” murders (all the while blaming Andy for these poor people getting offed, while Andy desperately kept repeating “they asked us to theme the contracts around the sin of sloth!”). Therefore the gardener watching his buddy fix a generator got knocked out, then drowned; one of the servants lounging in the break room got lured into Fernsby’s office and had an ornamental saber put in his head; the other gardener in the break room had his coffee poisoned and was subsequently drowned in the toilet; the canoodling body guards had a garden fork slammed in his skull (Andy’s choice); and the canoodling maid was lured into a bathroom and had her throat slit with an old-fashioned straight razor. Along the way, Jane got spotted quite a fair bit, had to change costumes a few times (from gardener to valet back to gardener to finally the detective, since he has the run of the place) and had to choke out quite a few people. Only one body found, but that and the fact that it took her quite a bit of time to do it all meant that she too was a two-star “Skillful ICA Assassin.” At least we got Andy’s delightfully goofy “Cryptkeeper” impression out of it all!
III. “Hitman 3 IT'S ALL GONE A BIT MIKE! | Andy Plays Mike's OX Featured Contract in Hitman 3” – and, of course, the pièce de résistance of the whole thing, the one I was waiting for – Mike tortures Andy in Hitman 3 with his featured contract. :D Andy plays 47 to Mike’s jester, who has insisted that he go to Dartmoor, eliminate the entire Carlisle family with a shotgun, and do it all dressed as a clown. XD Well, okay, TECHNICALLY the stipulation was “don’t change out of your starting outfit,” but Andy kind of talked himself into dressing as a clown as it’s Mike’s favorite disguise. (Sloth connection: Playing the game as a sneaky assassin is too much work – better to take the easy way out with a loud shotgun! As Andy pointed out, though, this actually makes the whole thing MUCH HARDER. Hilariously, it might have worked better with the PREVIOUS deadly sin to come out, Pride, as the official DLC there had a “take the easy way or hard way to kill people” conceit.) And to Andy’s credit, he did a really good job on the contract! He got a shotgun off one of the outside security guards, got into the mansion without being noticed, then started the actual murders loud and proud by shotgunning one of Alexa’s sons in the face in the dining room before hopping into a box. This method served him very well as he continued going around shotgunning people in various locations (namely the library for one son, then the parlor/breakfast room for the remaining three) – he WAS found by a couple of people, but he promptly knocked them unconscious before they could actually raise an alarm or do any damage to his person. Yes, it pained Andy to do all those loud and obnoxious kills in a loud and obnoxious suit, but he took his time, coined away guards, hid lots of unconscious people around the level, and managed to get the job done and get out again! Though not with a score any better than his fellows – two stars, “Refined Shotgun Assassin.” At least he also received Mike’s respect, who expected this contract to be a lot harder for his “consummate professional” friend. XD
C) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and The Greatest Penguin Heist Of All Time! Which – is basically what it says on the in. You are a penguin (a BABY penguin no less), and you commit the greatest heists of all time! For penguins, anyway. Your starter heist is stealing a boat from some mysterious dock, and then you can unlock further heists like rescuing the mayor and “liberating” a bunch of fish from Pongo City, or getting your own personal chef from Cuba! Your weapons are a gun, a first aid kit, a lockpick, and a bonking stick – the last being the thing Kevin got the most use out of, as his aim with the gun was terrible. XD It’s a deeply silly game that involves penguins jiggling, flapping, and nooting in the most ridiculous ways, and allows you to dress them up in capes, pirate hats, clown noses, and frog costumes. Game of the Year, definitely. XD
D) And we finished with GrayStillPlays and more torturing Minecraft! Today we had extreme weather and geological events – tornadoes, strong winds, blizzards, sinkholes, geysers, you name it! And they all happened faster and faster and faster until there was one happening every second! This one had absolutely NO benefit to Gray himself, mind – he was completely at the mercy of the weather, and he died a fair amount to it! The best part was probably about mid-video when extremely strong winds swept him and Reginald across the world FASTER THAN IT COULD SPAWN. He also repeatedly lost contact with his server because tornadoes kept sweeping him up and the server “wasn’t enabled for flying.” Like, how the hell could he help it?! Not to mention the LAVA GEYSER that happened in the Nether. . .SOMEHOW he managed to get to the Ender Dragon, and they both eventually got caught in a tornado that killed her – and then the game crashed again because of the flying thing, and Gray just couldn’t get back to properly complete the game. It’s a technical win, buddy! Also, the Black Plague was apparently just running rampant in the background, and to please a sponsor he fired rocks at a tablet with a slingshot. You know, just another day in Gray-land.
3. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check! Alice has finished looking at Danny Boyle’s e-mails and knows where her blood is and how to get it! Well, how to get it out of the cabinet it’s in, anyway – getting around the guard patrolling the second floor will be a bit trickier! But she’s not willing to try the Queen’s method of removing such obstacles, so looks like she’ll be relying on sneak and Obfuscate. Should be tense!
4.Either play Sims 4 Newcrest Adventures and follow Emmett to work for a day, or finish up Portal Reloaded: Check on the latter! I decided I wanted to finish off the game and booted it up mid-afternoon. Chamber 25 required a walkthrough, as per usual (these puzzles are tough, even if you get an idea of what you need to be doing with each element), but I managed to stumble into the ending without any help.
( For Spoilers )
So yeah -- maybe not the best Saturday, but at least it was a pretty productive one! And now I have to answer my DW comment -- and make a good faith effort to answer my FF.net PM too. Sick of having that hanging out in my inbox. . .so yeah, let me get on that after setting up my to-dos for tomorrow:
1. Start "Learn To Love Again" from the You Belong To Me Verse
2. Catch up on James Turner, attempt to keep up on other YouTube Subs, watch Jon's FO4 YOLO episode
3. Play Sims 4 Newcrest Adventures and follow Emmett to work
4. Start sorting out tumblr queues for the upcoming week
5. [OPTIONAL] Get in a workout
I say "optional" because I need to know what exactly the bathing situation will be tomorrow first. I'd LIKE to, but let's make sure I can first.
And that's about it from me for now -- night all!
1. Clean my room: Check – got started a little earlier than usual this morning (mostly because I woke up a bit earlier than usual, because I had to shut my computer off earlier than usual last night because of a thunderstorm that blew in), and actually got it all done before lunchtime! . . .partly because lunch wasn’t until 2 PM today because my aunt was visiting to pick up some bread and have a chat. At least I made use of the pre-lunch computer time I had to make some fresh backups and update some drivers?
2. Watch all the Hitman-related OXBox content in my Watch Later and do my best to keep up with YouTube Subs: Check, only because I said “do my best” – I wasn’t able to get to James Turner at all today, which is a small problem as he’s uploading regularly and the videos are steadily getting longer. But I did at least get through the other videos I wanted to watch, including –
A) Okay, actually started with someone's 16-minute speedrun of Portal Reloaded – I'd just finished the game (see below) and was looking up stuff on it, and – I had to. Speedruns are fascinating to me, given that I often struggle with games that require you to shoot things (either with regular or portal guns) super-quickly – I tend to need a moment to line up the shot correctly! The speedrunner Can’t Even, though? Damn, they were just FLYING through the chambers! Occasionally literally. XD (Must be some sort of trick with the excursion funnels. . .) It’s awesome and I hope they enjoy holding the World Record for now!
B) Then it was time for the Great OXBox Hitman marathon! Consisting of:
I. “7 Over the Top Hitman Kills Straight Out of a Horror Movie” – because might as well start the fun with a related list video! From killing an author by shoving his face into his own pen while dressed in a fan-made costume of the serial killer from his books, to tricking an antsy bioengineer into thinking his mother’s ghost has it out for him (in fairness, he DID murder her), to killing a member of Providence who thinks she’s paying her last respects/gloating to the corpse you’ve disguised yourself as because Providence is all about the stupid costumes even for the dead, to deliberately holding the door closed on a Yakuza lawyer as she broils to death in a sabotaged steam room. . .yeah, some of 47’s kills can get PRETTY horrifying. And awesome. XD
II. “Hitman 3 SCREWY'S REVENGE! | Mike Plays Jane's OX Featured Contract in Hitman 3” – just what it says on the tin! Each of the OXBox team has made a special contract featuring some take on their signature playstyles for the “Season of Sloth” currently active on Hitman 3 (it’s for their Seven Deadly Sins DLC) and one of the others has to play it! Mike, as noted, is taking on Jane’s contract, which has her requesting that 47 take out the Undertaker and Mr. Fernsby in the Dartmoor level, by throwing a screwdriver (her favorite weapon) into their heads while dressed as the Undertaker. (Sloth connection: Jane explicitly says in the brief she’s too lazy to take out the guys herself, so she’s hiring someone to do it.) Yes, you have to get the Undertaker’s clothes first BEFORE killing him. This proved a little difficult for the very chaotic Mike – first, he insisted on showing up in his “Green Streak” suit and didn’t change out of it until much coaxing from Andy and Jane; then, after finally changing, he forgot to put his screwdriver away and accidentally stabbed the Undertaker instead of choking him out to take his clothes first. Mike, ashamed, insisted on doing the mission over – and this time got spotted. Twice. The first time was only one guy and Mike was able to get his outfit as a disguise without issue; the second was multiple people noticing him choking out a gardener and him having to do constant loop-de-loops through the bushes near the graveyard to avoid getting shot to death. “Trust the process” was bandied about a lot. XD Mike DID eventually get his hands on a brick, a clear line of sight on the Undertaker, and a moment where nobody was watching, and was able to bean the guy, get his clothes, and fling the screwdriver into his head. And then he went up to the mansion, infiltrated it like a pro, killed Fernsby, and escaped – at Jane and Andy’s insistence – in the hearse. Though he refused to actually put the Undertaker’s body in the grave and bury him, saying it would cost Jane extra. XD Two stars and “Versatile Hands-On Assassin” for Mike, and “well, you followed the LETTER of my contract, at least – and how did you make the easy part look hard and the hard part look easy” from Jane. XD
III. “Hitman 3 LAZY BONES! | Jane Plays Andy's OX Featured Contract in Hitman 3” – onto the next notch in the round robin, we have Jane playing 47 for Andy, who has demanded that the dead wood be cleared out of Dartmoor – basically, all staff visibly taking breaks? KILL THEM. (Sloth connection: obviously the targets are being slothful!) Also she may ONLY kill her targets, and not be recorded by any security cameras (not actually an issue in Dartmoor, but as Andy is the consummate professional of the group, he included it). Jane chose to start already disguised as a gardener (Mike jokingly called this “cheating”), and while Andy didn’t specify any particular method of murder for any of them, Jane decided she wanted to do “fun” murders (all the while blaming Andy for these poor people getting offed, while Andy desperately kept repeating “they asked us to theme the contracts around the sin of sloth!”). Therefore the gardener watching his buddy fix a generator got knocked out, then drowned; one of the servants lounging in the break room got lured into Fernsby’s office and had an ornamental saber put in his head; the other gardener in the break room had his coffee poisoned and was subsequently drowned in the toilet; the canoodling body guards had a garden fork slammed in his skull (Andy’s choice); and the canoodling maid was lured into a bathroom and had her throat slit with an old-fashioned straight razor. Along the way, Jane got spotted quite a fair bit, had to change costumes a few times (from gardener to valet back to gardener to finally the detective, since he has the run of the place) and had to choke out quite a few people. Only one body found, but that and the fact that it took her quite a bit of time to do it all meant that she too was a two-star “Skillful ICA Assassin.” At least we got Andy’s delightfully goofy “Cryptkeeper” impression out of it all!
III. “Hitman 3 IT'S ALL GONE A BIT MIKE! | Andy Plays Mike's OX Featured Contract in Hitman 3” – and, of course, the pièce de résistance of the whole thing, the one I was waiting for – Mike tortures Andy in Hitman 3 with his featured contract. :D Andy plays 47 to Mike’s jester, who has insisted that he go to Dartmoor, eliminate the entire Carlisle family with a shotgun, and do it all dressed as a clown. XD Well, okay, TECHNICALLY the stipulation was “don’t change out of your starting outfit,” but Andy kind of talked himself into dressing as a clown as it’s Mike’s favorite disguise. (Sloth connection: Playing the game as a sneaky assassin is too much work – better to take the easy way out with a loud shotgun! As Andy pointed out, though, this actually makes the whole thing MUCH HARDER. Hilariously, it might have worked better with the PREVIOUS deadly sin to come out, Pride, as the official DLC there had a “take the easy way or hard way to kill people” conceit.) And to Andy’s credit, he did a really good job on the contract! He got a shotgun off one of the outside security guards, got into the mansion without being noticed, then started the actual murders loud and proud by shotgunning one of Alexa’s sons in the face in the dining room before hopping into a box. This method served him very well as he continued going around shotgunning people in various locations (namely the library for one son, then the parlor/breakfast room for the remaining three) – he WAS found by a couple of people, but he promptly knocked them unconscious before they could actually raise an alarm or do any damage to his person. Yes, it pained Andy to do all those loud and obnoxious kills in a loud and obnoxious suit, but he took his time, coined away guards, hid lots of unconscious people around the level, and managed to get the job done and get out again! Though not with a score any better than his fellows – two stars, “Refined Shotgun Assassin.” At least he also received Mike’s respect, who expected this contract to be a lot harder for his “consummate professional” friend. XD
C) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and The Greatest Penguin Heist Of All Time! Which – is basically what it says on the in. You are a penguin (a BABY penguin no less), and you commit the greatest heists of all time! For penguins, anyway. Your starter heist is stealing a boat from some mysterious dock, and then you can unlock further heists like rescuing the mayor and “liberating” a bunch of fish from Pongo City, or getting your own personal chef from Cuba! Your weapons are a gun, a first aid kit, a lockpick, and a bonking stick – the last being the thing Kevin got the most use out of, as his aim with the gun was terrible. XD It’s a deeply silly game that involves penguins jiggling, flapping, and nooting in the most ridiculous ways, and allows you to dress them up in capes, pirate hats, clown noses, and frog costumes. Game of the Year, definitely. XD
D) And we finished with GrayStillPlays and more torturing Minecraft! Today we had extreme weather and geological events – tornadoes, strong winds, blizzards, sinkholes, geysers, you name it! And they all happened faster and faster and faster until there was one happening every second! This one had absolutely NO benefit to Gray himself, mind – he was completely at the mercy of the weather, and he died a fair amount to it! The best part was probably about mid-video when extremely strong winds swept him and Reginald across the world FASTER THAN IT COULD SPAWN. He also repeatedly lost contact with his server because tornadoes kept sweeping him up and the server “wasn’t enabled for flying.” Like, how the hell could he help it?! Not to mention the LAVA GEYSER that happened in the Nether. . .SOMEHOW he managed to get to the Ender Dragon, and they both eventually got caught in a tornado that killed her – and then the game crashed again because of the flying thing, and Gray just couldn’t get back to properly complete the game. It’s a technical win, buddy! Also, the Black Plague was apparently just running rampant in the background, and to please a sponsor he fired rocks at a tablet with a slingshot. You know, just another day in Gray-land.
3. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check! Alice has finished looking at Danny Boyle’s e-mails and knows where her blood is and how to get it! Well, how to get it out of the cabinet it’s in, anyway – getting around the guard patrolling the second floor will be a bit trickier! But she’s not willing to try the Queen’s method of removing such obstacles, so looks like she’ll be relying on sneak and Obfuscate. Should be tense!
4.
( For Spoilers )
So yeah -- maybe not the best Saturday, but at least it was a pretty productive one! And now I have to answer my DW comment -- and make a good faith effort to answer my FF.net PM too. Sick of having that hanging out in my inbox. . .so yeah, let me get on that after setting up my to-dos for tomorrow:
1. Start "Learn To Love Again" from the You Belong To Me Verse
2. Catch up on James Turner, attempt to keep up on other YouTube Subs, watch Jon's FO4 YOLO episode
3. Play Sims 4 Newcrest Adventures and follow Emmett to work
4. Start sorting out tumblr queues for the upcoming week
5. [OPTIONAL] Get in a workout
I say "optional" because I need to know what exactly the bathing situation will be tomorrow first. I'd LIKE to, but let's make sure I can first.
And that's about it from me for now -- night all!
