Saturday Before State Of Emergency
Welp, it looks like Henri's coming STRAIGHT at Rhode Island now, joy. *sigh* My area's currently in the "Tropical Storm Warning" area (meaning we'll get the lesser winds), but we'll see how the day goes tomorrow. Power outages are apparently EXTREMELY likely, so there's a good chance I will not be on tomorrow due to that. (I do have my laptop, and I'll be making sure it's fully charged before I head to bed, but even then whether or not we'll have internet is up in the air.) Ooof. . .this is just what we need. And we're not even really IN hurricane season yet! Cripes. . .
At least today was good -- hot and humid, but I was in the aircon all day, sooo. . . Got my to-do list covered too:
1. Clean my room: Check! Started around 11:20 AM, ended shortly after 2 PM – got both dusting AND Swiffering done before lunch, nice! And then vacuuming came after lunch to close this out for another couple of weeks.
2. Watch the Plumbella video in my Watch Later and keep up on YouTube Subs: Check, plus a bonus video! You shall see below –
A) Started with the Plumbella – “after 17 years, The Sims 2 now has story progression!” A short video on a mod for The Sims 2 (yes, people are still playing and modding it) which makes the game have Sims 3-style story progression – that is, inactive Sims will age, die, get jobs, go to university, have babies, all of that. Hilariously, after getting the mod, enabling it, then playing Don Lothario for a few days (forcing him to invite over all the women he was currently with and having him slapped half to death for being a cheater, then making him live in filth when he’s not going to work), it was revealed that, for whatever reason, the mod wasn’t actually working for her. She made the video anyway just because a) she likes the concept of the mod and b) she’s hoping the comments section will tell her where she went wrong. (Consensus is that she probably forgot to restart to actually PROPERLY enable the mod.) So yeah – at least it was funny to see Don constantly getting slapped, and then all of his love interests getting into fights! XD
B) Then it was onto James Turner and the next episode of the Dream Home Decorator LP! Hazel, eager to finally buy that third house and add some roommates to her life, accepted a $25,000 level addition job from James’s OTHER self Sim, who was the star of his brief “mad scientist” LP. As usual, the gig was broken (James couldn’t build anywhere because the game kept saying it was the wrong space), so James was forced to resort to freebuild to get a new level on. As Scientist!James only said he liked the color gray and the Research & Debate skill, all he got on his new level was a podium and a gray desk and chair. He was very happy with this and gave Hazel $30,000 for the job. XD Really is a money cheat at this point. . . Though not much of one, given Hazel spent pretty much the lot on bills, building the third house, and upgrading fireplaces (turns out you can make it so they don’t set random fires if stuff is too close, and so they’ll automatically light and extinguish themselves depending on if any Sims are in the room). After that was the task of tracking down roommates – her ad had no takers, so Hazel instead went out on the streets to try and recruit random people. She only got one person during her run around her own neighborhood (a random townie – James tried to recruit a visiting Agnes Crumplebottom, but a combination of a bad mood from peeing herself and living with her cousin meant she didn’t accept, even after Hazel took fifteen pictures of her in various poses), so she ended up going to the local gym and getting all the paparazzi that spawned there to live with her. XD And THEN James announced that the next step of her journey?
Going to live with Chaz and Trenton. Meaning that there was really no point to this because once she moves, the roommates will be kicked out anyway. *facepalm* Jaaaaames. . . XD Ah well – as he rightfully pointed out, we’ve probably got as far as we’re gonna get in this LP as a separate thing. Hazel’s bought all three houses, and if she’s not at the top of her career, she’s pretty damn close. Cottage Living is where it’s at these days – and hey. We gotta get started on the next generation of Bigwallets. . .
C) Then, this evening, there was a surprise trip over to OXtra for “Can You Speak Victorian Slang?! | Show of the Weekend: Ace Attorney Chronicles!” I don’t usually watch these bits of their content, but given my love of how wacky Victorian slang is, I had to check this one out. XD It was a show revolving around The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, a new entry in the Ace Attorney series that is set in the past, with at least one case in Victorian England. Naturally, this resulted in Luke quizzing Ellen about Victorian slang, including such phrases as “saucebox” (mouth), “bang up to the elephant” (perfect thing), “take the egg” (take the win), “rain-napper” (umbrella – I got this one!), and “bone-shaker” (bicycle). There was a lot of fun giggling, and it ended in Ellen having to write her own alibi for a murder case using as many of the terms as possible, which was pretty freaking epic when she actually said it all out loud. Also Luke told a story about getting in trouble in primary school for trying to take his collection of sticks to a safe place to bury with a mate when the school banned people fighting with sticks. XD Good times!
D) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin for some trash talk in Oh. . .Sir! The Hollywood Roast! This is a strange little game where you have insult battles with cheap parody versions of various fictional characters and long-dead celebrities, trying to string together sentences that are at least GRAMMATICALLY correct if not INTELLECTUALLY correct. Kevin played Dirty Potter, a cursed fusion of Dirty Harry and Harry Potter, and went up against people like “Marilyn Nomore” and “The Greasy Wizard,” hurling a variety of poorly-thought-out insults against their mom, their adopted children, and their Hollywood mansions as they did the same. Kevin quickly found out the best way to win was to just make the longest sentence, regardless of what the hell it said, and soon became a word-slinging champ, able to defeat the likes of Conan The Terminator (the game called him “Groan,” but it was very clearly a fusion of two of Ah-nold’s most famous roles, so I like my name better). Very goofy game, but a lot of fun, especially as Kevin seemed both thrilled with and horrified by some of the trash talk you could make. (The phrase “stain-ridden casting couch” was seen at one point, just let me say.)
E) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays abusing Minecraft, and finally – FINALLY – Reginald got the chance to be buffed! With the addition of iron, gold, diamond, and netherite, he grew from a tiny baby chicken to “Reginald, God of Choas!” Yes, Gray noted halfway through the process he’d misspelled “chaos.” XD It was a truly epic day of lunacy, as Reginald pooped out eggs with totally random effects (like summoning Piglins, or Withers, or giant lucky blocks) learned how to poop out arrows, clone himself, and explode himself. Gray could barely get enough ender pearls or blaze rods (even WITH tweaking the RNG) thanks to the Reginald Army just steamrolling the Piglins and the Blazes of the Nether. XD Not to mention Gray constantly getting shoved half a mile up into the sky by the eggs, getting a top hat that let him move at super speed, and eating mutton provided by his army exploding sheep that even dared to exist near them. They took out the Ender Dragon without much issue, as you might expect. XD Best part? The hint that Reginald plushies might be in the offing soon. . .
3. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check! Finished up Victor’s recap today – talking about finding Victoria again, only to discover she’d thought he killed himself after she disappeared and got married to someone else; then the whole deal with him getting Mrs. Gertrude Carter’s house because she changed the will to include him, but him not being able to live there until he’s married because of the wording and lawyers. Alice does not approve of this stupidity – Victor doesn’t either, but it’s what he’s stuck with. Next up, Alice does the cliff notes on HER adventures! This’ll be new, I don’t usually do her recapping to him.
4. Play Sims 4 and complete another day of the McTest/Redacted/Notamoron family: Check! Did this shortly after finishing the room clean – went to the hospital with Wheatley today to treat some patients! Unfortunately, it wasn’t a particularly good day for Wheatley when it came to diagnosing people – despite consulting my cheat sheet regularly, he got two wrong diagnoses in a row. I could have SWORN Clara had Llama Flu. . .fortunately he got his first one right, and had a successful house call in StrangerVille, so he still ended the day with excellent work performance. Now I just have to get better at guessing diseases and get him one that requires a surgery so he can be promoted. I need to unlock that desk for his downstairs office!
Related, I also took a moment to catch up with my screenshots – the pictures for the next two Newcrest Adventures updates (last of Emmett and Nikal, first of Chell, Geeker, and Wheatley) are ready to be drafted, as is the next Chill Save update – though I’m deliberately going to see if I can hold that one off until October, because, well, the big event of the day was Spookfest. XD Should be able to if I can keep up on my Newcrest Adventures updates – posts on those should run straight through September into mid-October, soooo. . .
Additionally:
-->Played a couple of rounds of SimsGuessr on James’s website, as the game is now live! The first round basically proved that I am as terrible at Sims geography as I am at real life geography. XD I got all pictures from Oasis Springs too, which is a neighborhood I VERY rarely visit. Damn. . .this is why I want to also try and live in every residential world for at least a season in my eventual “Super Sim” save file – I obviously need to learn some more about some of these worlds! Fortunately, for the second round I really got my thinking cap on and paid attention, and I was able to guess right world and neighborhood each time – hell, for one location on a bridge, I was able to get a mere two tiles away from the actual spot! So that was satisfying, at least.
Yeah, not a bad Saturday by any stretch of the imagination. I'm glad, because -- well. We all know what's coming tomorrow. I'm not gonna bother making a to-do list, as I'm not sure what I'll actually be able to do tomorrow, online or otherwise. Ugh, I really hope this thing gets knocked even further off-course. . .keep your fingers crossed, people! Night all!
At least today was good -- hot and humid, but I was in the aircon all day, sooo. . . Got my to-do list covered too:
1. Clean my room: Check! Started around 11:20 AM, ended shortly after 2 PM – got both dusting AND Swiffering done before lunch, nice! And then vacuuming came after lunch to close this out for another couple of weeks.
2. Watch the Plumbella video in my Watch Later and keep up on YouTube Subs: Check, plus a bonus video! You shall see below –
A) Started with the Plumbella – “after 17 years, The Sims 2 now has story progression!” A short video on a mod for The Sims 2 (yes, people are still playing and modding it) which makes the game have Sims 3-style story progression – that is, inactive Sims will age, die, get jobs, go to university, have babies, all of that. Hilariously, after getting the mod, enabling it, then playing Don Lothario for a few days (forcing him to invite over all the women he was currently with and having him slapped half to death for being a cheater, then making him live in filth when he’s not going to work), it was revealed that, for whatever reason, the mod wasn’t actually working for her. She made the video anyway just because a) she likes the concept of the mod and b) she’s hoping the comments section will tell her where she went wrong. (Consensus is that she probably forgot to restart to actually PROPERLY enable the mod.) So yeah – at least it was funny to see Don constantly getting slapped, and then all of his love interests getting into fights! XD
B) Then it was onto James Turner and the next episode of the Dream Home Decorator LP! Hazel, eager to finally buy that third house and add some roommates to her life, accepted a $25,000 level addition job from James’s OTHER self Sim, who was the star of his brief “mad scientist” LP. As usual, the gig was broken (James couldn’t build anywhere because the game kept saying it was the wrong space), so James was forced to resort to freebuild to get a new level on. As Scientist!James only said he liked the color gray and the Research & Debate skill, all he got on his new level was a podium and a gray desk and chair. He was very happy with this and gave Hazel $30,000 for the job. XD Really is a money cheat at this point. . . Though not much of one, given Hazel spent pretty much the lot on bills, building the third house, and upgrading fireplaces (turns out you can make it so they don’t set random fires if stuff is too close, and so they’ll automatically light and extinguish themselves depending on if any Sims are in the room). After that was the task of tracking down roommates – her ad had no takers, so Hazel instead went out on the streets to try and recruit random people. She only got one person during her run around her own neighborhood (a random townie – James tried to recruit a visiting Agnes Crumplebottom, but a combination of a bad mood from peeing herself and living with her cousin meant she didn’t accept, even after Hazel took fifteen pictures of her in various poses), so she ended up going to the local gym and getting all the paparazzi that spawned there to live with her. XD And THEN James announced that the next step of her journey?
Going to live with Chaz and Trenton. Meaning that there was really no point to this because once she moves, the roommates will be kicked out anyway. *facepalm* Jaaaaames. . . XD Ah well – as he rightfully pointed out, we’ve probably got as far as we’re gonna get in this LP as a separate thing. Hazel’s bought all three houses, and if she’s not at the top of her career, she’s pretty damn close. Cottage Living is where it’s at these days – and hey. We gotta get started on the next generation of Bigwallets. . .
C) Then, this evening, there was a surprise trip over to OXtra for “Can You Speak Victorian Slang?! | Show of the Weekend: Ace Attorney Chronicles!” I don’t usually watch these bits of their content, but given my love of how wacky Victorian slang is, I had to check this one out. XD It was a show revolving around The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, a new entry in the Ace Attorney series that is set in the past, with at least one case in Victorian England. Naturally, this resulted in Luke quizzing Ellen about Victorian slang, including such phrases as “saucebox” (mouth), “bang up to the elephant” (perfect thing), “take the egg” (take the win), “rain-napper” (umbrella – I got this one!), and “bone-shaker” (bicycle). There was a lot of fun giggling, and it ended in Ellen having to write her own alibi for a murder case using as many of the terms as possible, which was pretty freaking epic when she actually said it all out loud. Also Luke told a story about getting in trouble in primary school for trying to take his collection of sticks to a safe place to bury with a mate when the school banned people fighting with sticks. XD Good times!
D) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin for some trash talk in Oh. . .Sir! The Hollywood Roast! This is a strange little game where you have insult battles with cheap parody versions of various fictional characters and long-dead celebrities, trying to string together sentences that are at least GRAMMATICALLY correct if not INTELLECTUALLY correct. Kevin played Dirty Potter, a cursed fusion of Dirty Harry and Harry Potter, and went up against people like “Marilyn Nomore” and “The Greasy Wizard,” hurling a variety of poorly-thought-out insults against their mom, their adopted children, and their Hollywood mansions as they did the same. Kevin quickly found out the best way to win was to just make the longest sentence, regardless of what the hell it said, and soon became a word-slinging champ, able to defeat the likes of Conan The Terminator (the game called him “Groan,” but it was very clearly a fusion of two of Ah-nold’s most famous roles, so I like my name better). Very goofy game, but a lot of fun, especially as Kevin seemed both thrilled with and horrified by some of the trash talk you could make. (The phrase “stain-ridden casting couch” was seen at one point, just let me say.)
E) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays abusing Minecraft, and finally – FINALLY – Reginald got the chance to be buffed! With the addition of iron, gold, diamond, and netherite, he grew from a tiny baby chicken to “Reginald, God of Choas!” Yes, Gray noted halfway through the process he’d misspelled “chaos.” XD It was a truly epic day of lunacy, as Reginald pooped out eggs with totally random effects (like summoning Piglins, or Withers, or giant lucky blocks) learned how to poop out arrows, clone himself, and explode himself. Gray could barely get enough ender pearls or blaze rods (even WITH tweaking the RNG) thanks to the Reginald Army just steamrolling the Piglins and the Blazes of the Nether. XD Not to mention Gray constantly getting shoved half a mile up into the sky by the eggs, getting a top hat that let him move at super speed, and eating mutton provided by his army exploding sheep that even dared to exist near them. They took out the Ender Dragon without much issue, as you might expect. XD Best part? The hint that Reginald plushies might be in the offing soon. . .
3. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check! Finished up Victor’s recap today – talking about finding Victoria again, only to discover she’d thought he killed himself after she disappeared and got married to someone else; then the whole deal with him getting Mrs. Gertrude Carter’s house because she changed the will to include him, but him not being able to live there until he’s married because of the wording and lawyers. Alice does not approve of this stupidity – Victor doesn’t either, but it’s what he’s stuck with. Next up, Alice does the cliff notes on HER adventures! This’ll be new, I don’t usually do her recapping to him.
4. Play Sims 4 and complete another day of the McTest/Redacted/Notamoron family: Check! Did this shortly after finishing the room clean – went to the hospital with Wheatley today to treat some patients! Unfortunately, it wasn’t a particularly good day for Wheatley when it came to diagnosing people – despite consulting my cheat sheet regularly, he got two wrong diagnoses in a row. I could have SWORN Clara had Llama Flu. . .fortunately he got his first one right, and had a successful house call in StrangerVille, so he still ended the day with excellent work performance. Now I just have to get better at guessing diseases and get him one that requires a surgery so he can be promoted. I need to unlock that desk for his downstairs office!
Related, I also took a moment to catch up with my screenshots – the pictures for the next two Newcrest Adventures updates (last of Emmett and Nikal, first of Chell, Geeker, and Wheatley) are ready to be drafted, as is the next Chill Save update – though I’m deliberately going to see if I can hold that one off until October, because, well, the big event of the day was Spookfest. XD Should be able to if I can keep up on my Newcrest Adventures updates – posts on those should run straight through September into mid-October, soooo. . .
Additionally:
-->Played a couple of rounds of SimsGuessr on James’s website, as the game is now live! The first round basically proved that I am as terrible at Sims geography as I am at real life geography. XD I got all pictures from Oasis Springs too, which is a neighborhood I VERY rarely visit. Damn. . .this is why I want to also try and live in every residential world for at least a season in my eventual “Super Sim” save file – I obviously need to learn some more about some of these worlds! Fortunately, for the second round I really got my thinking cap on and paid attention, and I was able to guess right world and neighborhood each time – hell, for one location on a bridge, I was able to get a mere two tiles away from the actual spot! So that was satisfying, at least.
Yeah, not a bad Saturday by any stretch of the imagination. I'm glad, because -- well. We all know what's coming tomorrow. I'm not gonna bother making a to-do list, as I'm not sure what I'll actually be able to do tomorrow, online or otherwise. Ugh, I really hope this thing gets knocked even further off-course. . .keep your fingers crossed, people! Night all!