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Anger And Exhaustion
Aug. 27th, 2021 11:27 pmAKA I must be PMSing, as I have been tetchier than usual, and also more tired, especially now. At least it's the weekend. . .hopefully I can get some decent sleep and avoid too many things to make me rage!
As it stands, I have an update form for everyone:
Work – Quietish – I did hear back from one of the people I’ve been trying to contact all this week, so that’s good at least. But as usual my coworkers being chatty was getting on my nerves, and – yeah. I know part of this is PMS, but still. Very glad to be out for the next two days!
To-Do List –
1. Play more Bloodlines and finish off Plaguebearers, meet up with Heather: Check! Did indeed finish off the double plaguebearers quest – had to redo the fight with Brother Kanker because I AGAIN turned on “Blood Shield” and AGAIN discovers it lingers way longer than necessary. I should look up the stats on that, see what it takes to actually break it. . . Anyway, got past him on the second go-round, then got into the main building, where Crystal picked off most of the zombies inside with her automatic pistol and fire ax, before getting into a shotgun shoot-out with Bishop Vick – made somewhat more unfair on her side by hitting him with Blood Strike repeatedly. XD Oh man, that is seriously the best. . . Anyway, once he was sorted, Crystal reported to Strauss, taking payment in the form of the Bloodstar and asking him about the Ankaran sarcophagus, before reporting to Damsel that everyone was dead and being at least civil to the Anarchs (she may go Cam, but I see no reason to antagonize them). After that, Crystal headed back to Santa Monica to catch up with Heather and check her e-mails – nothing particularly interesting, though I did get a reminder to see Mercurio for stuff. Also need to swing by the blood bank for emergency rations. . .fighting all these disease-ridden vampires takes a lot of blood, don’t you know!
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice has successfully restored power – unfortunately, the old turbines or whatnot aren’t doing so hot, and she ended up hit by a few nasty bits of steam. Easier to heal when you’re a vampire, but she’s still pretty shirty. (Trust me, Alice, it only gets worse – repeatedly, because not only do we have the mystical fire at the end of this quest, there’s still Grout’s mansion, and the Mandarin’s final test, and. . .damn, Alice gets to have ALL the new trauma from fire, doesn’t she?) At least the lights are on. . .time to go back upstairs and see what’s actually changed as a result!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions and watch something from the Watch Later: Check – watched a bunch of stuff from the Watch Later, in fact! Which is good, as I just added a long video to it. . .
A) Started with a bit of an OX binge:
I. OXtra, “7 Toilets With a Higher K/D Ratio Than You” – a list all about lethal loos! Such as an electrified toilet trap to kill the unwary in Fallout 3 – no, you can’t use toilets in that game, you, uh, drink from them. ...YOUR LONE WANDERER HAS A ROUGH LIFE, OKAY? Also we had a toilet costume for one to use after completing the game in Saints Row The Third (yes, you are an actual toilet, wielding guns); a bit of toilet scenery in Arkham Asylum that Injustice players can either throw their opponents into, or throw at their opponents (depending on whether or not your character is blessed with super strength); and toilets littered around the Half-Life 2: Deathmatch arenas that can be yanked off the wall and launched at opponents with the Gravity Gun (hell, an icon of a toilet appears whenever you make a “physics” kill no matter what you use!). All this to say, don’t mess with your commode. And don’t always expect goodies there either.
II. OXBox, “7 Horrible Minigames You Can’t Avoid If You Want to Finish the Game” – times when the game FORCED you to play a different way than normal if you wanted to progress. Examples including having to snowboard away from danger in the original Final Fantasy VII (on a neat rainbow board while bumping into every obstacle); doing a sliding puzzle as Ashley in Resident Evil 4 in the brief interlude you’re separated from Leon (and hating every moment of it); and tailing suspects in LA Noire (because it is SO easy to get spotted and have to redo the whole stupid thing). The “managing a cabaret club” minigame from Yakuza 0 was also mentioned, but plenty of people in the comments said they LIKED that minigame and played more of it willingly – and no wonder, the damn thing is so well fleshed out it could be a game on its own. Time to release another spin-off, I think!
III. OXBox, “Hitman 3 Garden Show | THE WORST THING I'VE EVER SEEN - New Hitman 3 Escalation” – the OXBox team play the new Garden Show escalation! I already watched Jon from Many A True Nerd take this on, but it’s always a treat to see the gang do Hitman stuff as well. :D Andy was on the controller, to eliminate his gardener’s (Ken’s) rivals (Manon, Gulshan, Evelyn), and the rival judges (Cornelia and Sebastian; Lucy is on Ken’s side). It proceeded like so:
1. First level – after checking out her and Ken’s gardens and observing her loop, the crew determined the best way to kill Manon would be by car battery water trap. Trying to just leave the battery by a convenient hose and then turning it on proved to be insufficient, though – you HAVE to toss the battery, presumably to damage it enough to spark off the electrocution trap. The battery was retrieved from the puddle, 47 hid in a nearby bush, they waited until Manon came back around, then tossed the battery. One fried Manon later, they left via the bridge. Five stars, Silent Assassin – classic Andy.
2. Second level – the gang checked out the remaining gardens (no one seemed particularly impressed by Evelyn’s) and the remaining rivals. Gulshan was observed to use a hookah in his garden – after distracting an annoying selfie-taking woman nearby, 47 was able to poison it with the emetic poison he had stashed in the graveyard and get Gulshan to head over to the port-o-potties around the hedge.
At the same time as the garden staff member who is scripted to go there and pee every so often. You would think that someone puking in his chosen port-o-potty would interrupt his routine.
NOPE. Dude just clips right through and goes to town! The OX team were absolutely horrified and apologized to the target for drowning him in a combination of his own puke and someone else’s piss. But drown him they did, without being noticed. They also attempted to poison Evelyn after observing she drinks from a teacup in her exhibit and obtaining more emetic poison from the mansion’s trash bins – but poor timing meant she spotted them and chased them out to a hedge where they were trying to hide. So 47 ended up just shooting her with a silenced gun, dragging her into the hedge, and roaring away on his motorcycle. As you might imagine, this got four stars and Clean ICA assassin, which Andy was willing to take.
3. Third level – time to take out the judges. After observing Cornelia stands right underneath the hanging cage in Ken’s garden, it was determined that 47 should shoot that down to kill her. So he went scouting out around the garden to find a good vantage point. Unfortunately, the best one he could find that was nearby had two guests lounging by it, so 47 tried to coin one away so he could quietly knock out the other one.
The guest noticed him and he ended up with unconscious witnesses. Fortunately he was able to drag them into a bush and out of sight, though his tied-across-the-shoulders sweater ended up quite alarmed by it all (aka it glitched out and stood up straight for a while XD). He successfully shot down the cage onto Cornelia, then – after confirming Sebastian goes onto the stage – knocked out the peeing staff member in a bush and stole his uniform to swap out the microphone for a faulty version and then overload the power. Sebastian got fried, 47 got his haunted sweater back, and again made his escape over the bridge. Sadly, the game did not consider any of this impressive – two stars and an Accident-Prone Assassin rating. Andy was miffed. XD Still a boatload of fun, though! Or perhaps a garden-load. :P
B) Then it was onto Jon from Many A True Nerd and his playthrough of Twelve Minutes! Being unsure if Kevin will continue his playthrough or not (I hope he will!), I decided Jon was my best bet of seeing a possibly-complete run of the game. Aaaaand – no, he actually got to about the same place Kevin got in the end, as he ended up not wanting to spoil the game. Though he turned out to be much more murderous than Kevin, defaulting to STABBING his wife to try and break the cop sequence over putting her to sleep with the sleeping pills. And he did this multiple times. XD Oh Jon. . .not to mention the time where he took out the desserts, put them on the table, and started eating one without her – and when she got miffed and moved into the bedroom, decided to eat hers as well as his. XD He DID eventually figure out the “get the cop to knock himself out with the faulty light switch after drugging the wife” puzzle and learned he was a friend of her father’s and his daughter has cancer, but like I said, that’s about as far as he got. At least he only flushed one set of house keys down the toilet instead of literally everything like Kevin did? XD
C) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and a look at the original Borderlands! Yes, it’s twelve years old this year, apparently, so Kevin decided to boot it up and play a little bit. He chose the musclebound hunk of beef, gave him all black clothes and beer goggles, and called him Goth Brick! And then proceeded to send him flailing around the map chased by monsters for most of the episode. When he wasn’t being ripped off by the local doctor for killing bandits, or ripped off by the local vending machines, or being forced to help robots, or killing a guy called Nine-Toes with nipple spikes via berserk punching because no other methods worked. XD Good, goofy fun from our boy Kevin.
D) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and Save The Baby! This is a ridiculous mobile game where you play as Anna, who discovers she is pregnant after getting sick while clubbing and needs to figure out who the father is and what’s going to happen. This involves ordering a DNA test online; getting DNA from her friend’s boyfriend Steve; briefly dating a married man while she waits for the results (and who leaves her when he catches her in a lie about the pregnancy test); learning Steve is not the father; moving onto Steve’s father Jim; ending up the third wheel in a relationship battle between him and his wife Mary; getting into a car accident and abandoned by them at the hospital; ending up in a THREESOME with them – only to discover Jim has robbed her and is fleeing to Mexico with his wife; going after them with a gun (bought off the internet) and leaving her apartment with a sitter (bought off the internet); learning the sitter has wrecked her apartment and supposedly burned the latest DNA test; getting involved with some criminal to get across the border; ending up briefly in jail, getting broken out by said criminal, named Conrad, and telling him her woes (he promises to pay Jim a visit); coming back and using the security footage of the sitter using drugs to get money and the DNA test back; finding out Jim IS the father; getting a call from the hospital and finding Conrad has made good on his promise to rough Jim up; taking Jim to court to get $10k a month in child support; and finally having a healthy baby boy. I don’t know HOW, but it happened. XD Baby successfully saved, I guess!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Again, Victor Luvs Alice is sorted, so just had to take care of the three ask replies on Valice Multiverse, yay.
Additionally:
-->I also got my FF.net PM out of my inbox, yay! So that’s another thing off any potential future to-do lists. :)
-->Played another game of SimsGuessr, just for fun – completely fluffed my first round (thought something was in the fancy area of Oasis Springs, when it was in Willow Creek), but did much better in the second and third – and absolutely NAILED the fourth with one of the new Newcrest locations! Zero tiles away! :D And then I did poorly on the final round – right world (Oasis Springs), wrong neighborhood. final score of 11,424 out of 20,000, which isn’t bad. I think this mostly proves I have no idea what Oasis Springs actually looks like. XD I barely go there!
Well, can't say I didn't get plenty done before the tiredness started rolling over me. And tomorrow is a non-cleaning Saturday, yay! Let's get my plans sorted:
1. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again" OR work some more on my Fallout 4 Sims Challenge
2. Watch the three videos in my Watch Later and do my best to keep up with YouTube Subs
3. Play Sims 4 and follow Chell to the bakery for a day
4. Get in a workout
I feel like this is all reasonable, especially with giving myself a choice on what I want to work on for writing. Especially if my period shows up! We'll see what happens. . .in the meantime, I need to finish catching up on tumblr tags and the like. Night all!
As it stands, I have an update form for everyone:
Work – Quietish – I did hear back from one of the people I’ve been trying to contact all this week, so that’s good at least. But as usual my coworkers being chatty was getting on my nerves, and – yeah. I know part of this is PMS, but still. Very glad to be out for the next two days!
To-Do List –
1. Play more Bloodlines and finish off Plaguebearers, meet up with Heather: Check! Did indeed finish off the double plaguebearers quest – had to redo the fight with Brother Kanker because I AGAIN turned on “Blood Shield” and AGAIN discovers it lingers way longer than necessary. I should look up the stats on that, see what it takes to actually break it. . . Anyway, got past him on the second go-round, then got into the main building, where Crystal picked off most of the zombies inside with her automatic pistol and fire ax, before getting into a shotgun shoot-out with Bishop Vick – made somewhat more unfair on her side by hitting him with Blood Strike repeatedly. XD Oh man, that is seriously the best. . . Anyway, once he was sorted, Crystal reported to Strauss, taking payment in the form of the Bloodstar and asking him about the Ankaran sarcophagus, before reporting to Damsel that everyone was dead and being at least civil to the Anarchs (she may go Cam, but I see no reason to antagonize them). After that, Crystal headed back to Santa Monica to catch up with Heather and check her e-mails – nothing particularly interesting, though I did get a reminder to see Mercurio for stuff. Also need to swing by the blood bank for emergency rations. . .fighting all these disease-ridden vampires takes a lot of blood, don’t you know!
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice has successfully restored power – unfortunately, the old turbines or whatnot aren’t doing so hot, and she ended up hit by a few nasty bits of steam. Easier to heal when you’re a vampire, but she’s still pretty shirty. (Trust me, Alice, it only gets worse – repeatedly, because not only do we have the mystical fire at the end of this quest, there’s still Grout’s mansion, and the Mandarin’s final test, and. . .damn, Alice gets to have ALL the new trauma from fire, doesn’t she?) At least the lights are on. . .time to go back upstairs and see what’s actually changed as a result!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions and watch something from the Watch Later: Check – watched a bunch of stuff from the Watch Later, in fact! Which is good, as I just added a long video to it. . .
A) Started with a bit of an OX binge:
I. OXtra, “7 Toilets With a Higher K/D Ratio Than You” – a list all about lethal loos! Such as an electrified toilet trap to kill the unwary in Fallout 3 – no, you can’t use toilets in that game, you, uh, drink from them. ...YOUR LONE WANDERER HAS A ROUGH LIFE, OKAY? Also we had a toilet costume for one to use after completing the game in Saints Row The Third (yes, you are an actual toilet, wielding guns); a bit of toilet scenery in Arkham Asylum that Injustice players can either throw their opponents into, or throw at their opponents (depending on whether or not your character is blessed with super strength); and toilets littered around the Half-Life 2: Deathmatch arenas that can be yanked off the wall and launched at opponents with the Gravity Gun (hell, an icon of a toilet appears whenever you make a “physics” kill no matter what you use!). All this to say, don’t mess with your commode. And don’t always expect goodies there either.
II. OXBox, “7 Horrible Minigames You Can’t Avoid If You Want to Finish the Game” – times when the game FORCED you to play a different way than normal if you wanted to progress. Examples including having to snowboard away from danger in the original Final Fantasy VII (on a neat rainbow board while bumping into every obstacle); doing a sliding puzzle as Ashley in Resident Evil 4 in the brief interlude you’re separated from Leon (and hating every moment of it); and tailing suspects in LA Noire (because it is SO easy to get spotted and have to redo the whole stupid thing). The “managing a cabaret club” minigame from Yakuza 0 was also mentioned, but plenty of people in the comments said they LIKED that minigame and played more of it willingly – and no wonder, the damn thing is so well fleshed out it could be a game on its own. Time to release another spin-off, I think!
III. OXBox, “Hitman 3 Garden Show | THE WORST THING I'VE EVER SEEN - New Hitman 3 Escalation” – the OXBox team play the new Garden Show escalation! I already watched Jon from Many A True Nerd take this on, but it’s always a treat to see the gang do Hitman stuff as well. :D Andy was on the controller, to eliminate his gardener’s (Ken’s) rivals (Manon, Gulshan, Evelyn), and the rival judges (Cornelia and Sebastian; Lucy is on Ken’s side). It proceeded like so:
1. First level – after checking out her and Ken’s gardens and observing her loop, the crew determined the best way to kill Manon would be by car battery water trap. Trying to just leave the battery by a convenient hose and then turning it on proved to be insufficient, though – you HAVE to toss the battery, presumably to damage it enough to spark off the electrocution trap. The battery was retrieved from the puddle, 47 hid in a nearby bush, they waited until Manon came back around, then tossed the battery. One fried Manon later, they left via the bridge. Five stars, Silent Assassin – classic Andy.
2. Second level – the gang checked out the remaining gardens (no one seemed particularly impressed by Evelyn’s) and the remaining rivals. Gulshan was observed to use a hookah in his garden – after distracting an annoying selfie-taking woman nearby, 47 was able to poison it with the emetic poison he had stashed in the graveyard and get Gulshan to head over to the port-o-potties around the hedge.
At the same time as the garden staff member who is scripted to go there and pee every so often. You would think that someone puking in his chosen port-o-potty would interrupt his routine.
NOPE. Dude just clips right through and goes to town! The OX team were absolutely horrified and apologized to the target for drowning him in a combination of his own puke and someone else’s piss. But drown him they did, without being noticed. They also attempted to poison Evelyn after observing she drinks from a teacup in her exhibit and obtaining more emetic poison from the mansion’s trash bins – but poor timing meant she spotted them and chased them out to a hedge where they were trying to hide. So 47 ended up just shooting her with a silenced gun, dragging her into the hedge, and roaring away on his motorcycle. As you might imagine, this got four stars and Clean ICA assassin, which Andy was willing to take.
3. Third level – time to take out the judges. After observing Cornelia stands right underneath the hanging cage in Ken’s garden, it was determined that 47 should shoot that down to kill her. So he went scouting out around the garden to find a good vantage point. Unfortunately, the best one he could find that was nearby had two guests lounging by it, so 47 tried to coin one away so he could quietly knock out the other one.
The guest noticed him and he ended up with unconscious witnesses. Fortunately he was able to drag them into a bush and out of sight, though his tied-across-the-shoulders sweater ended up quite alarmed by it all (aka it glitched out and stood up straight for a while XD). He successfully shot down the cage onto Cornelia, then – after confirming Sebastian goes onto the stage – knocked out the peeing staff member in a bush and stole his uniform to swap out the microphone for a faulty version and then overload the power. Sebastian got fried, 47 got his haunted sweater back, and again made his escape over the bridge. Sadly, the game did not consider any of this impressive – two stars and an Accident-Prone Assassin rating. Andy was miffed. XD Still a boatload of fun, though! Or perhaps a garden-load. :P
B) Then it was onto Jon from Many A True Nerd and his playthrough of Twelve Minutes! Being unsure if Kevin will continue his playthrough or not (I hope he will!), I decided Jon was my best bet of seeing a possibly-complete run of the game. Aaaaand – no, he actually got to about the same place Kevin got in the end, as he ended up not wanting to spoil the game. Though he turned out to be much more murderous than Kevin, defaulting to STABBING his wife to try and break the cop sequence over putting her to sleep with the sleeping pills. And he did this multiple times. XD Oh Jon. . .not to mention the time where he took out the desserts, put them on the table, and started eating one without her – and when she got miffed and moved into the bedroom, decided to eat hers as well as his. XD He DID eventually figure out the “get the cop to knock himself out with the faulty light switch after drugging the wife” puzzle and learned he was a friend of her father’s and his daughter has cancer, but like I said, that’s about as far as he got. At least he only flushed one set of house keys down the toilet instead of literally everything like Kevin did? XD
C) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and a look at the original Borderlands! Yes, it’s twelve years old this year, apparently, so Kevin decided to boot it up and play a little bit. He chose the musclebound hunk of beef, gave him all black clothes and beer goggles, and called him Goth Brick! And then proceeded to send him flailing around the map chased by monsters for most of the episode. When he wasn’t being ripped off by the local doctor for killing bandits, or ripped off by the local vending machines, or being forced to help robots, or killing a guy called Nine-Toes with nipple spikes via berserk punching because no other methods worked. XD Good, goofy fun from our boy Kevin.
D) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and Save The Baby! This is a ridiculous mobile game where you play as Anna, who discovers she is pregnant after getting sick while clubbing and needs to figure out who the father is and what’s going to happen. This involves ordering a DNA test online; getting DNA from her friend’s boyfriend Steve; briefly dating a married man while she waits for the results (and who leaves her when he catches her in a lie about the pregnancy test); learning Steve is not the father; moving onto Steve’s father Jim; ending up the third wheel in a relationship battle between him and his wife Mary; getting into a car accident and abandoned by them at the hospital; ending up in a THREESOME with them – only to discover Jim has robbed her and is fleeing to Mexico with his wife; going after them with a gun (bought off the internet) and leaving her apartment with a sitter (bought off the internet); learning the sitter has wrecked her apartment and supposedly burned the latest DNA test; getting involved with some criminal to get across the border; ending up briefly in jail, getting broken out by said criminal, named Conrad, and telling him her woes (he promises to pay Jim a visit); coming back and using the security footage of the sitter using drugs to get money and the DNA test back; finding out Jim IS the father; getting a call from the hospital and finding Conrad has made good on his promise to rough Jim up; taking Jim to court to get $10k a month in child support; and finally having a healthy baby boy. I don’t know HOW, but it happened. XD Baby successfully saved, I guess!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Again, Victor Luvs Alice is sorted, so just had to take care of the three ask replies on Valice Multiverse, yay.
Additionally:
-->I also got my FF.net PM out of my inbox, yay! So that’s another thing off any potential future to-do lists. :)
-->Played another game of SimsGuessr, just for fun – completely fluffed my first round (thought something was in the fancy area of Oasis Springs, when it was in Willow Creek), but did much better in the second and third – and absolutely NAILED the fourth with one of the new Newcrest locations! Zero tiles away! :D And then I did poorly on the final round – right world (Oasis Springs), wrong neighborhood. final score of 11,424 out of 20,000, which isn’t bad. I think this mostly proves I have no idea what Oasis Springs actually looks like. XD I barely go there!
Well, can't say I didn't get plenty done before the tiredness started rolling over me. And tomorrow is a non-cleaning Saturday, yay! Let's get my plans sorted:
1. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again" OR work some more on my Fallout 4 Sims Challenge
2. Watch the three videos in my Watch Later and do my best to keep up with YouTube Subs
3. Play Sims 4 and follow Chell to the bakery for a day
4. Get in a workout
I feel like this is all reasonable, especially with giving myself a choice on what I want to work on for writing. Especially if my period shows up! We'll see what happens. . .in the meantime, I need to finish catching up on tumblr tags and the like. Night all!
