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Kinda Cranky Monday
Aug. 23rd, 2021 11:18 pmI think I'm moving into PMS land, because I've had a lot of moments today where I've just been angry at the world and - yeah. I was expecting my period NEXT week sometime, but I guess now I just need to keep a sharper eye out. And not bite anyone's head off over stupid stuff. That is important too. *nods*
Anyway, let us do the usual update form:
Work – Reasonably all right day – did the GL, tried to call some people back (couldn’t even get one person’s phone to ring, bafflingly), ended up doing some obits and duplicates, then took care of some update files for one of our vendors. While having my coworkers and one of my supervisors chatting in the background. *grumbles* I know part of the reason I’m annoyed with that is because I’m probably coming up on PMS-y times, but still.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, and back with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Started Episode 16 today, which was largely Miss Jon arriving on the Prydwen (a bit upset that she never got to use her minigun along the way); meeting Lancer-Captain Kells; dressing up in her tux to meet Elder Maxson and play nice with him (well, until Maxson – whom Past!Jon keeps calling “Maxwell” – promoted her to Knight and she couldn’t resist asking “why not Paladin?” – he took it in good grace); meeting the Proctors around the Prydwen with Danse in tow (as he asked to be taken along, forcing her to crawl back to the power armor she’d abandoned by the vertibird dock until she got assigned her own BOS set by Proctor Ingram); squeeing over Quinlan’s cat and getting amused by his secret “I’m a comic book geek” holotape; asking about Teagan’s extra work and getting a mite uncomfortable at his “do whatever it takes to get food out of the Commonwealth farmers” line regarding his radiant quests (he is an asshole); before finally dismissing Danse to Sanctuary Hills, getting the “clear Fort Strong of Super Mutants” quest from Maxson, and flinging herself off the side of the Prydwen to test the “no fall damage in power armor” thing. XD From there it was a quick bounce back to Sanctuary to drop off the new armor and her junk, then over to Diamond City to get her copy of her interview (which Past!Jon was pleased to see was represented accurately) and go see Solomon about whether or not he wanted her mutated ferns. Left it off with her preparing to haggle over prices with her pretty tux. XD These LPs are always so fun. . .
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice’s ghostly adventures in the Ocean House Hotel’s basement continue, with her making the loop through some of the storage rooms and finding the newspaper detailing the fate of one of Ed’s children (I don’t know if it was his son or his daughter whose head he stuffed in the laundry room; the paper doesn’t specify I think). She’s just found the laundry room itself – and, upon asking if the child’s ghost is still lurking around, just saw one of the dryer doors pop open. . .I will forever be grateful to the creators of the game for not ACTUALLY putting a head in there! Alice’s got enough trauma.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check and double check – got through the Subs and two uploads that otherwise would have lived in the Watch Later! They are as follows –
A) No James Turner and his Sims today (I guess the daily upload days are finished), so I instead watched Plumbella’s latest – “So, The Sims team have updated the Goth family…” This was her being alerted to the fact that there was a “refreshed” version of the Goths on the Sims 4 Gallery, and wanting to check them out – turns out they just uploaded the version of the family with their new “updated looks” from the Dream Home Decorator trailer. Plumbella actually approved of the new DHD-inspired looks for Cassandra and Alexander, but didn’t like Mortimer’s more sloppy style and Bella giving up her iconic red dress. At least it’s not the official “refresh!” We’ll see what happens with that once the time comes. . .
B) Then it was over to the latest from OXBox as well – “Lawn Mowing Simulator: EXPLODING THE MOWER | Lawn Mowing Simulator Gameplay (Xbox Series X)!” AKA someone let Mike play this game with Jane watching (I guess Andy couldn’t bear to see how Mike would destroy people’s lawns). XD Mike actually did do the first job properly – mostly; he wasn’t particularly careful about not mowing flowers or not damaging the ground in the front lawn of Old Nook Cottage when he started. But he did the entire job, and well under the expected mow time of 26 minutes! Mostly because he found the whole thing so boring he didn’t want to spend much more time with it. XD Though he and Jane had some good banter, like joking about how his character somehow already has 150K in net worth so what the hell is he doing mowing lawns. Or trying to figure out if the game is boring or soothing. Or coming up with the Lawn Murderer 9000, which is basically a giant length of razor wire which snaps across the lawn to cut it all in one go, inspired by something in a horror movie they once saw. XD And then they did a challenge mode mow at Hilltop House, which was in the rain on the Knight mower (a fancy black beast Jane thought Batman would like), where they did an arty cut around the gnome in his reflecting pool, made sure to mark their territory with an OX, then Mike – seeing he’d more or less destroyed his engine by going too fast and making too many turns – decided to go whole hog, hit the client’s car, and destroy the mower. No actual explosion, but it was there in spirit. XD Aaaah. . .hey, if this is the game for you, happy for ya, but I’m content to just watch Kevin and Mike break the damn thing. XD
C) Then it was over to the Subs with Call Me Kevin and Twelve Minutes! This is an interesting little top-down puzzle game starring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe, which takes place in a single apartment over a repeating twelve-minute time span. The plot is that the main character (James) is coming home for a nice night with his wife (Daisy), only for a “policeman” (Willem) to enter, tie them up, and kill the character – except that he’s stuck in a time loop, and now he has to figure out what the hell is going on, how it ties to his wife’s father’s death and his missing pocket watch – and how many things he can flush down the toilet, as that was the absolute FIRST thing Kevin did in the game. XD As it turns out, you can flush a LOT of things, including your keys, spoons, knives. . .it took him like, the fourth or fifth go-round to actually sit down with his wife and have dessert and get a present that would help him figure out how to prove to said wife time was looping. And then Kevin killed her with a faulty light switch (admittedly, he only meant to knock her unconscious, but apparently not wearing shoes means she wasn’t insulated enough to survive?). XD He ended it after luring the “cop” into a trap and getting him to explain his life story, but was unable to actually do anything but shoot him in the leg – and naturally, after this, when he released the guy. . . I’m hoping he does a part 2, I’d like to see how this goes!
D) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and – I’m – not entirely sure WHAT this is, but it’s from GTA V, so. . . Apparently someone made a custom mod game about being a test tube baby on the moon where you have to fight your way out of your cloning facility as a toddler and child (electrocuting all the guards and scientists before getting your tiny baby hands on a minigun – and then a LASER GATLING GUN), go across to the alien-infested base as a teenager (Gray left ONE guy alive to keep working on the station, heedless of the carnage within), fight off the alien menace and defeat their king as an adult (king kinda half-defeated himself, accidentally launching himself backward repeatedly with his own physics gun), and then finally escape back to Earth, blowing up the final alien defenses (aka aliens with rocket launchers) along the way as an elder. It was – something. XD At least Gray didn’t have to complete any wall rides? Though of course there were many terrible vehicles to drive, including a couple of small flatbed trucks and two moonships. Wouldn’t be a GrayStillPlays episode without him complaining about the way something handles!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got the text done for my Newcrest Adventures update posts this week – two before dinner, one after. :) Yay being ahead of the game!
Can't say it wasn't a nice, productive day! And now I need to wrap up and head to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will feature less of me feeling a bit ragey whenever something annoys me. *sigh* Night all!
Anyway, let us do the usual update form:
Work – Reasonably all right day – did the GL, tried to call some people back (couldn’t even get one person’s phone to ring, bafflingly), ended up doing some obits and duplicates, then took care of some update files for one of our vendors. While having my coworkers and one of my supervisors chatting in the background. *grumbles* I know part of the reason I’m annoyed with that is because I’m probably coming up on PMS-y times, but still.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, and back with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Started Episode 16 today, which was largely Miss Jon arriving on the Prydwen (a bit upset that she never got to use her minigun along the way); meeting Lancer-Captain Kells; dressing up in her tux to meet Elder Maxson and play nice with him (well, until Maxson – whom Past!Jon keeps calling “Maxwell” – promoted her to Knight and she couldn’t resist asking “why not Paladin?” – he took it in good grace); meeting the Proctors around the Prydwen with Danse in tow (as he asked to be taken along, forcing her to crawl back to the power armor she’d abandoned by the vertibird dock until she got assigned her own BOS set by Proctor Ingram); squeeing over Quinlan’s cat and getting amused by his secret “I’m a comic book geek” holotape; asking about Teagan’s extra work and getting a mite uncomfortable at his “do whatever it takes to get food out of the Commonwealth farmers” line regarding his radiant quests (he is an asshole); before finally dismissing Danse to Sanctuary Hills, getting the “clear Fort Strong of Super Mutants” quest from Maxson, and flinging herself off the side of the Prydwen to test the “no fall damage in power armor” thing. XD From there it was a quick bounce back to Sanctuary to drop off the new armor and her junk, then over to Diamond City to get her copy of her interview (which Past!Jon was pleased to see was represented accurately) and go see Solomon about whether or not he wanted her mutated ferns. Left it off with her preparing to haggle over prices with her pretty tux. XD These LPs are always so fun. . .
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice’s ghostly adventures in the Ocean House Hotel’s basement continue, with her making the loop through some of the storage rooms and finding the newspaper detailing the fate of one of Ed’s children (I don’t know if it was his son or his daughter whose head he stuffed in the laundry room; the paper doesn’t specify I think). She’s just found the laundry room itself – and, upon asking if the child’s ghost is still lurking around, just saw one of the dryer doors pop open. . .I will forever be grateful to the creators of the game for not ACTUALLY putting a head in there! Alice’s got enough trauma.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check and double check – got through the Subs and two uploads that otherwise would have lived in the Watch Later! They are as follows –
A) No James Turner and his Sims today (I guess the daily upload days are finished), so I instead watched Plumbella’s latest – “So, The Sims team have updated the Goth family…” This was her being alerted to the fact that there was a “refreshed” version of the Goths on the Sims 4 Gallery, and wanting to check them out – turns out they just uploaded the version of the family with their new “updated looks” from the Dream Home Decorator trailer. Plumbella actually approved of the new DHD-inspired looks for Cassandra and Alexander, but didn’t like Mortimer’s more sloppy style and Bella giving up her iconic red dress. At least it’s not the official “refresh!” We’ll see what happens with that once the time comes. . .
B) Then it was over to the latest from OXBox as well – “Lawn Mowing Simulator: EXPLODING THE MOWER | Lawn Mowing Simulator Gameplay (Xbox Series X)!” AKA someone let Mike play this game with Jane watching (I guess Andy couldn’t bear to see how Mike would destroy people’s lawns). XD Mike actually did do the first job properly – mostly; he wasn’t particularly careful about not mowing flowers or not damaging the ground in the front lawn of Old Nook Cottage when he started. But he did the entire job, and well under the expected mow time of 26 minutes! Mostly because he found the whole thing so boring he didn’t want to spend much more time with it. XD Though he and Jane had some good banter, like joking about how his character somehow already has 150K in net worth so what the hell is he doing mowing lawns. Or trying to figure out if the game is boring or soothing. Or coming up with the Lawn Murderer 9000, which is basically a giant length of razor wire which snaps across the lawn to cut it all in one go, inspired by something in a horror movie they once saw. XD And then they did a challenge mode mow at Hilltop House, which was in the rain on the Knight mower (a fancy black beast Jane thought Batman would like), where they did an arty cut around the gnome in his reflecting pool, made sure to mark their territory with an OX, then Mike – seeing he’d more or less destroyed his engine by going too fast and making too many turns – decided to go whole hog, hit the client’s car, and destroy the mower. No actual explosion, but it was there in spirit. XD Aaaah. . .hey, if this is the game for you, happy for ya, but I’m content to just watch Kevin and Mike break the damn thing. XD
C) Then it was over to the Subs with Call Me Kevin and Twelve Minutes! This is an interesting little top-down puzzle game starring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe, which takes place in a single apartment over a repeating twelve-minute time span. The plot is that the main character (James) is coming home for a nice night with his wife (Daisy), only for a “policeman” (Willem) to enter, tie them up, and kill the character – except that he’s stuck in a time loop, and now he has to figure out what the hell is going on, how it ties to his wife’s father’s death and his missing pocket watch – and how many things he can flush down the toilet, as that was the absolute FIRST thing Kevin did in the game. XD As it turns out, you can flush a LOT of things, including your keys, spoons, knives. . .it took him like, the fourth or fifth go-round to actually sit down with his wife and have dessert and get a present that would help him figure out how to prove to said wife time was looping. And then Kevin killed her with a faulty light switch (admittedly, he only meant to knock her unconscious, but apparently not wearing shoes means she wasn’t insulated enough to survive?). XD He ended it after luring the “cop” into a trap and getting him to explain his life story, but was unable to actually do anything but shoot him in the leg – and naturally, after this, when he released the guy. . . I’m hoping he does a part 2, I’d like to see how this goes!
D) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and – I’m – not entirely sure WHAT this is, but it’s from GTA V, so. . . Apparently someone made a custom mod game about being a test tube baby on the moon where you have to fight your way out of your cloning facility as a toddler and child (electrocuting all the guards and scientists before getting your tiny baby hands on a minigun – and then a LASER GATLING GUN), go across to the alien-infested base as a teenager (Gray left ONE guy alive to keep working on the station, heedless of the carnage within), fight off the alien menace and defeat their king as an adult (king kinda half-defeated himself, accidentally launching himself backward repeatedly with his own physics gun), and then finally escape back to Earth, blowing up the final alien defenses (aka aliens with rocket launchers) along the way as an elder. It was – something. XD At least Gray didn’t have to complete any wall rides? Though of course there were many terrible vehicles to drive, including a couple of small flatbed trucks and two moonships. Wouldn’t be a GrayStillPlays episode without him complaining about the way something handles!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got the text done for my Newcrest Adventures update posts this week – two before dinner, one after. :) Yay being ahead of the game!
Can't say it wasn't a nice, productive day! And now I need to wrap up and head to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will feature less of me feeling a bit ragey whenever something annoys me. *sigh* Night all!
