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Aug. 25th, 2021 11:06 pmSeriously, it is just horribly hot and humid out there -- August is refusing to let us go without a fight! Though the temperature's just supposed to DROP by Saturday, so. . .we'll see if that actually comes to pass! *fingers crossed*
In the meantime, have the usual round of updates:
Work – A VERY quiet day – I tried to call some people regarding credit card stuff, but no one got back to me. Majority of my day was spent cleaning up duplicates and listening to my coworkers yak. *shrug* Could have been worse.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, wrapping up Episode 17 of Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Caught up with Miss Jon as she killed a Gutsy, then rocked up to Finch Farm to see what was happening. Jake Finch running off to join the Forged nearby and stealing his great-grandfather’s sword into the bargain was what was happening, natch – Miss Jon confirmed that Abraham cared more about the sword than his son (on first appearances, anyway), then headed over to Forged HQ to take out the raiders and retrieve sword – and Jake, if possible! This was somewhat hampered initially by the fact that the Forged were having one of their to-dos with the nearby gunners on the bridge, one of whom has a Fatman – poor Miss Jon got nuked twice before Past!Jon decided to fall back and take out the guys on the outside of the building from a distance. Not that going through the INSIDE was much easier, given the Forged love fire and thus love Molotov cocktails. . . She managed to kill the bastards giving her and Dogmeat grief, though, activated a Protectron friend, and worked her way to the main room, where Slag was giving Jake an ultimatum – kill the captured settler, or perish. Miss Jon slapped on her tux to try and make it through some speech checks, and actually managed to pass the second red one –
But then the game decided that Jake was going to kill the settler anyway, and she was forced to off him. The fuck, Fallout 4. *sigh* Anyway, while killing Jake and the other Forged was relatively easy with the help of Psycho-Jet, taking out Slag was rather more difficult because of his power armor – he was able to tank shots from Kellogg’s Pistol! Miss Jon was forced to rely on ten million stimpacks and another dose of Psycho-Jet before she could finally take him down, reclaim the sword, take a quick look around the roof, then go back to the Finch Farm to deliver the news. Abraham was clearly rather broken up about the loss of his son, but thanked Miss Jon for trying, let her keep the sword (the Shishkebab, a flaming blade), and signed up with the Minutemen. Miss Jon decided it was time to start handing in these quests to Preston and headed over to Sanctuary to do just that!
Preston’s AI sadly being what it is, he promptly started giving her more quests, including a kidnapping – and the option to retake the Castle! Past!Jon was reluctant at first, but then decided “Oh why the hell not” and sent Preston there to gather up some Minutemen for an assault. She ended the episode by crafting some guns – and by giving Mama Murphy a shot of Psycho, which ended up killing her. Whoops. Though, honestly, Past!Jon seemed absolutely thrilled with this turn of events, scrapping her little “cage” and chair and throwing the body over the side of the bridge toward the river. XD I think I have a type when it comes to YouTubers, and that type is “likes to pretend to be an utter bastard.”
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – with some encouragement from Cheshire, Alice got herself to look in the dryer and find the key to the boiler room instead of an unfortunate child’s head. She’s down there now, having just encountered Ed – fortunately, she’s no longer letting him intimidate her. Poor girl, she’s already thoroughly sick of this adventure, and we’re not even halfway done. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check, plus bonus! It’s nice to have a bit of time to actually watch stuff. :)
A) First a quick video from Josh Way, describing his new comics project, Sylvan Thatch, about a young girl making her own adventures in her hometown of that name. I was genuinely surprised to learn this guy was a cartoonist – apparently he’s done comic strips before! I only ever knew him from his Fun With Shorts stuff. . .hmmm. Went ahead and gave the first twelve comics a read – it’s cute stuff, slice of life-style. :) You can read it here if you’re at all interested!
B) Then, because I actually had a bit of time, I went ahead and watched the latest Atop The Fourth Wall – “Batman: Odyssey #4!” This is a series describing an incident in Batman’s past – actually, multiple incidents, there’s a framing device of Bruce telling an unknown figure about this flashback, which already had ANOTHER flashback to his earliest days – and the plot is – well, it’s not only off the rails, it has forgotten rails EXIST. We have a guy who’s apparently a hitman dressing up like the Riddler, whom Batman nearly beats to death after having what appears to be some sort of psychotic break while talking like Google Translate; we have Alfred apparently keeping secrets from Bruce while Deadman (a ghost superhero who can only be heard if he possesses people, which is not keeping him from yelling at our protagonists) screams about an upcoming disaster; and we have whatever the FUCK happened in the last few pages, where a Man-Bat who apparently is a Al-Ghul servant tries to steal a photo album, gets beat-up by a knock-off Batman and his Robin, then is SPEARED IN THE CHEST BY A MANTA RAY SENT BY AQUAMAN. I don’t – this comic was made on drugs, right? Or Bruce is on drugs? SOMEONE IS ON DRUGS IS WHAT I’M SAYING.
C) Back over to the Subs for James Turner after this, with the more-understandable final episode of the Dream Home Decorator LP! Well, I say that – the whole point of this episode was to have Hazel actually hang out with her roommates and enjoy her fully-renovated lot rather than just fleeing to the countryside. However, the moment James loaded in, he was greeted with an empty house. His roommates, while still assigned to their beds, completely glitched out. Puzzled, he decided to just live life with Hazel – but then realized she had a mere five simoleons and took a Fabulous Living Room Renovation over at Column’s to continue making over their house. Fortunately, she was not limited to the level she had already redone! Unfortunately, the budget was so small that the most she could do was whack up some walls, hang wallpaper, lay flooring, and buy a couple of beds so Column and her sister actually had somewhere to sleep. Not really a LIVING room renovation, but while it wasn’t what the sisters asked for, they still seemed to like it!
. . .Hazel got paid nothing for the gig. James was baffled and furious. And the roommates were still missing when he got her back to her home, so he sold her paintings and her photos so she’d have some money and sent her roommate-hunting again. She managed to talk around one woman, but was unable to get anyone else on board, leading James to think that the game THINKS she still has roommates despite the glitch. So he had her just try and talk to her current roommate, who WAS on the lot –
Only for the roommate to age up mid-conversation, and declare she’d be moving out because “with age comes new adventures.” James basically rage-quit at that point. XD And so ends the DHD LP, on as glitchy a note as the pack it covered. Frustrating, but oddly fitting.
D) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin for more SimCity! His city Profit Over People (now sponsored by Square Enix) was not doing so well on the gambling front anymore, so Kevin decided to pivot over to having a giant stadium to host concerts in! This, of course, required the destruction of many homes; an increase in coal mining and coal power; a truly terrible road system set up; the need to actually upgrade houses and roads (and FINALLY buy a fire station or two) to get enough citizens to “fund” the stadium, and the need to set up a bus depot, a train station, and an airport right next to the stadium – which is underneath the mountain Kevin makes his mayoral home on, sooo. . . XD And then he hosted his first concert and made like, $1,200 in profit. Kevin was annoyed, to put it mildly. Fortunately monster trucks made him much more money – unfortunately, the game bugged out and wouldn’t let him host any more events after that. Even putting in a Leaning Tower and an Empire State Building didn’t fix the money flow problems! It seems Profit Over People is on the verge of disaster. . .well. A BIGGER disaster. XD We’ll see if an episode 3 ever pops up!
E) And then, finally, we had GrayStillPlays and more Minecraft torture! Today’s horrific experiment – buffing ENDERMEN. Yes, Gray created an Enderman army that, even before they were fully upgraded, could basically burrow into the core of the earth for him and make mining for the various materials to upgrade them shockingly easy. And when they were fully upgraded. . .I believe the phrase “no survivors” just about sums it up. They were just WRECKING anything in their path with their Ender Pearls. Not to mention Gray had their ability to teleport, which he happily abused to get better angles to watch the carnage. The only thing that seemed to have any chance against them were a bunch of Magma Cubes he spawned in Creative mode. . .bets on the next creature to get ridiculous buffs?
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Reset the queue speed and found a nice Poets of the Fall reblog for Song Saturday, yay. All set there for a little while!
Well, can't say I didn't get everything I wanted to get done, done. That's always nice. And now it's time to hit the sheets. One full day, one half day to go! Hopefully no disasters hit before the weekend. . .night all!
In the meantime, have the usual round of updates:
Work – A VERY quiet day – I tried to call some people regarding credit card stuff, but no one got back to me. Majority of my day was spent cleaning up duplicates and listening to my coworkers yak. *shrug* Could have been worse.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, wrapping up Episode 17 of Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Caught up with Miss Jon as she killed a Gutsy, then rocked up to Finch Farm to see what was happening. Jake Finch running off to join the Forged nearby and stealing his great-grandfather’s sword into the bargain was what was happening, natch – Miss Jon confirmed that Abraham cared more about the sword than his son (on first appearances, anyway), then headed over to Forged HQ to take out the raiders and retrieve sword – and Jake, if possible! This was somewhat hampered initially by the fact that the Forged were having one of their to-dos with the nearby gunners on the bridge, one of whom has a Fatman – poor Miss Jon got nuked twice before Past!Jon decided to fall back and take out the guys on the outside of the building from a distance. Not that going through the INSIDE was much easier, given the Forged love fire and thus love Molotov cocktails. . . She managed to kill the bastards giving her and Dogmeat grief, though, activated a Protectron friend, and worked her way to the main room, where Slag was giving Jake an ultimatum – kill the captured settler, or perish. Miss Jon slapped on her tux to try and make it through some speech checks, and actually managed to pass the second red one –
But then the game decided that Jake was going to kill the settler anyway, and she was forced to off him. The fuck, Fallout 4. *sigh* Anyway, while killing Jake and the other Forged was relatively easy with the help of Psycho-Jet, taking out Slag was rather more difficult because of his power armor – he was able to tank shots from Kellogg’s Pistol! Miss Jon was forced to rely on ten million stimpacks and another dose of Psycho-Jet before she could finally take him down, reclaim the sword, take a quick look around the roof, then go back to the Finch Farm to deliver the news. Abraham was clearly rather broken up about the loss of his son, but thanked Miss Jon for trying, let her keep the sword (the Shishkebab, a flaming blade), and signed up with the Minutemen. Miss Jon decided it was time to start handing in these quests to Preston and headed over to Sanctuary to do just that!
Preston’s AI sadly being what it is, he promptly started giving her more quests, including a kidnapping – and the option to retake the Castle! Past!Jon was reluctant at first, but then decided “Oh why the hell not” and sent Preston there to gather up some Minutemen for an assault. She ended the episode by crafting some guns – and by giving Mama Murphy a shot of Psycho, which ended up killing her. Whoops. Though, honestly, Past!Jon seemed absolutely thrilled with this turn of events, scrapping her little “cage” and chair and throwing the body over the side of the bridge toward the river. XD I think I have a type when it comes to YouTubers, and that type is “likes to pretend to be an utter bastard.”
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – with some encouragement from Cheshire, Alice got herself to look in the dryer and find the key to the boiler room instead of an unfortunate child’s head. She’s down there now, having just encountered Ed – fortunately, she’s no longer letting him intimidate her. Poor girl, she’s already thoroughly sick of this adventure, and we’re not even halfway done. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check, plus bonus! It’s nice to have a bit of time to actually watch stuff. :)
A) First a quick video from Josh Way, describing his new comics project, Sylvan Thatch, about a young girl making her own adventures in her hometown of that name. I was genuinely surprised to learn this guy was a cartoonist – apparently he’s done comic strips before! I only ever knew him from his Fun With Shorts stuff. . .hmmm. Went ahead and gave the first twelve comics a read – it’s cute stuff, slice of life-style. :) You can read it here if you’re at all interested!
B) Then, because I actually had a bit of time, I went ahead and watched the latest Atop The Fourth Wall – “Batman: Odyssey #4!” This is a series describing an incident in Batman’s past – actually, multiple incidents, there’s a framing device of Bruce telling an unknown figure about this flashback, which already had ANOTHER flashback to his earliest days – and the plot is – well, it’s not only off the rails, it has forgotten rails EXIST. We have a guy who’s apparently a hitman dressing up like the Riddler, whom Batman nearly beats to death after having what appears to be some sort of psychotic break while talking like Google Translate; we have Alfred apparently keeping secrets from Bruce while Deadman (a ghost superhero who can only be heard if he possesses people, which is not keeping him from yelling at our protagonists) screams about an upcoming disaster; and we have whatever the FUCK happened in the last few pages, where a Man-Bat who apparently is a Al-Ghul servant tries to steal a photo album, gets beat-up by a knock-off Batman and his Robin, then is SPEARED IN THE CHEST BY A MANTA RAY SENT BY AQUAMAN. I don’t – this comic was made on drugs, right? Or Bruce is on drugs? SOMEONE IS ON DRUGS IS WHAT I’M SAYING.
C) Back over to the Subs for James Turner after this, with the more-understandable final episode of the Dream Home Decorator LP! Well, I say that – the whole point of this episode was to have Hazel actually hang out with her roommates and enjoy her fully-renovated lot rather than just fleeing to the countryside. However, the moment James loaded in, he was greeted with an empty house. His roommates, while still assigned to their beds, completely glitched out. Puzzled, he decided to just live life with Hazel – but then realized she had a mere five simoleons and took a Fabulous Living Room Renovation over at Column’s to continue making over their house. Fortunately, she was not limited to the level she had already redone! Unfortunately, the budget was so small that the most she could do was whack up some walls, hang wallpaper, lay flooring, and buy a couple of beds so Column and her sister actually had somewhere to sleep. Not really a LIVING room renovation, but while it wasn’t what the sisters asked for, they still seemed to like it!
. . .Hazel got paid nothing for the gig. James was baffled and furious. And the roommates were still missing when he got her back to her home, so he sold her paintings and her photos so she’d have some money and sent her roommate-hunting again. She managed to talk around one woman, but was unable to get anyone else on board, leading James to think that the game THINKS she still has roommates despite the glitch. So he had her just try and talk to her current roommate, who WAS on the lot –
Only for the roommate to age up mid-conversation, and declare she’d be moving out because “with age comes new adventures.” James basically rage-quit at that point. XD And so ends the DHD LP, on as glitchy a note as the pack it covered. Frustrating, but oddly fitting.
D) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin for more SimCity! His city Profit Over People (now sponsored by Square Enix) was not doing so well on the gambling front anymore, so Kevin decided to pivot over to having a giant stadium to host concerts in! This, of course, required the destruction of many homes; an increase in coal mining and coal power; a truly terrible road system set up; the need to actually upgrade houses and roads (and FINALLY buy a fire station or two) to get enough citizens to “fund” the stadium, and the need to set up a bus depot, a train station, and an airport right next to the stadium – which is underneath the mountain Kevin makes his mayoral home on, sooo. . . XD And then he hosted his first concert and made like, $1,200 in profit. Kevin was annoyed, to put it mildly. Fortunately monster trucks made him much more money – unfortunately, the game bugged out and wouldn’t let him host any more events after that. Even putting in a Leaning Tower and an Empire State Building didn’t fix the money flow problems! It seems Profit Over People is on the verge of disaster. . .well. A BIGGER disaster. XD We’ll see if an episode 3 ever pops up!
E) And then, finally, we had GrayStillPlays and more Minecraft torture! Today’s horrific experiment – buffing ENDERMEN. Yes, Gray created an Enderman army that, even before they were fully upgraded, could basically burrow into the core of the earth for him and make mining for the various materials to upgrade them shockingly easy. And when they were fully upgraded. . .I believe the phrase “no survivors” just about sums it up. They were just WRECKING anything in their path with their Ender Pearls. Not to mention Gray had their ability to teleport, which he happily abused to get better angles to watch the carnage. The only thing that seemed to have any chance against them were a bunch of Magma Cubes he spawned in Creative mode. . .bets on the next creature to get ridiculous buffs?
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Reset the queue speed and found a nice Poets of the Fall reblog for Song Saturday, yay. All set there for a little while!
Well, can't say I didn't get everything I wanted to get done, done. That's always nice. And now it's time to hit the sheets. One full day, one half day to go! Hopefully no disasters hit before the weekend. . .night all!
