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Got It This Time! Happy September 7th!
Sep. 7th, 2021 10:04 pmGotta get a BIT of Backie time in this year. :) I wore one of my BTTF t-shirts and some BTTF socks to work out, that's gotta count for something. :P
Anyway, not a bad September 7th this time around -- the weather was good, and I have a pretty well-filled-out to-do list here:
Work – Pretty quiet return, all things considered – I spent most of the day looking up potential duplicates and either merging or differentiating as required. Some exceptions came in late in the day to take care of, so that’s something I can handle tomorrow, but. . .slow times are slow. (Shouldn’t complain too much, though – I’d rather be a bit bored than stressed out of my mind!)
Beanbags – Got in another three rounds today – and while my mojo from yesterday deserted me, luckily for me Dad’s mojo also deserted him in the final game. Scores were me 2-3-W, Dad W-W-2, Mom 3-2-3. At least I got one!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Finished Episode 24, with Past!Jon working his way through the Silver Shroud quest. Miss Jon bribed Whitechapel Charlie at the bar to get the location of Kendra, whom she shot without even speaking to her – and then picked up the contract for Shelly Tiller and just murdered her too before realizing, hey, maybe that was an innocent civilian. Whoops. Took the caps for it though. Then she went to speak to Hancock, got my hopes up for five seconds by actually putting on the costume – but then took Hancock as her companion (sending MacCready to Sanctuary), and never used any of the dialogue options for the Shroud (hell, it never even came up). Took Hancock with her to kill Smiling Kate and Northy, where she found a holotape indicating that Kent was about to be kidnapped. She and Hancock rushed back to the Memory Den, but they were too late – Kent was gone. Irma told them about the invasion and Sinjin’s message on the radio station – Miss Jon tracked them down, took out Sinjin’s crew, then – with the help of her tuxedo – managed to convince Sinjin to focus on her first instead of killing Kent right away. That and the help of some psycho-jet allowed her to take everybody down and save Kent, yay. Even though the poor guy’s spirit was kind of broken by the whole experience – understandable, really. :( She sent him on home, got her reward from Hancock, and headed over to Sanctuary Hills to get some power armor to prep for the Glowing Sea. . .
And then, just as I suspected, the comments told Past!Jon that he’d done the quest the not-fun way, so he rewound time and did Episode 24 ¾ – Past!Jon Actually Uses The Costume And The Dialogue Options. XD And the machine gun, though given he never put any perks into automatic weapons, it was the most unwieldy thing ever for Miss Jon – she ended up resorting to “Flames of Justice” (aka Molotovs) to take out her opponents. In between bringing justice to the wasteland, she returned to her new base of the “Super Best Friends” to interview candidates for the superhero team (a lawn flamingo, the Germ-Ant Shepherd, Paladin Danse, and a suit of power armor), and build a ridiculous gravity-defying tower to serve as a base. And a good way to see trouble threatening Sanctuary when a “defend your settlement” quest popped up – though when I left it, it seems like that particular quest had glitched out because whenever Miss Jon entered Sanctuary, the marker disappeared. O.o The hell. Still, this is EXACTLY what I wanted from the last episode, and I’m really glad Past!Jon went back and did the quest with the goofy, overwrought declarations of “justice!” and whatnot. XD What’s the point of doing the quest if you’re not gonna take full advantage of the chance to play pulp superhero?
2. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check – I’ve started Chapter 4, which so far is a jump forward to Victor and Alice being a little more comfortable with each other after a few more off-screen meetings, and starts with Alice spotting Victor in the crowd after he’s had an absolutely terrible luncheon with Adelaide Kingsleigh and her family. Turns out Adelaide is NOT in favor of any potential match with Victor and is not shy about making her feelings clear. :( Fortunately Alice is only too happy to spend an hour or two with him to help him feel better – and I looked it up to confirm, Hyde Park is not too far away for them to spend a bit of time before she has to go to Houndsditch. :D So that’ll be nice.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – James still seems to be out of commission for the moment, so I had a chance to get something out of the Watch Later too –
A) First things first, we had The Spiffing Brit and his latest – “BREAKING FALLOUT 4 TO MAKE INFINITE MONEY- Fallout 4 Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With Exploits!” He’s already done ridiculous glitched weapons and whatnot with the fabulous Reanu Keeves, so I’m totally up for infinite caps. XD The Capitalist Of The Episode was Hugh Janus, a fellow with 10 Strength, 5 Endurance, 9 Charisma, and nothing else going for him. XD And what was his plan to get absurd amounts of bottle caps after the end of the world? Why, abuse Paladin Danse, of course! Because, as it turns out, when you do the ArcJet mission with Danse and get up to the whole “Danse fighting synths under the big test engine” setpiece, you can just sit back and watch him fight for however long you want, because the synths won’t stop spawning in. This one bit has infinite synths until you go out to help or fire the engine, and Spiff basically just waited around until an absurd amount of bodies coated the floor, then looted as many of them as he possibly could and dragged the lot to Diamond City. According to his calculations, the amount of Institute pistols (regular and automatic), shock batons, and fusion cells Hugh picked up was worth the equivalent of 25,140 caps – or about $123,000 American! And that’s on the LOW end of valuing bottle caps versus real-world dollars. O.o I guess if you want phat loot, abuse the fact that Danse is an essential NPC during this mission!
B) Then it was onto the Subs for Call Me Kevin and more Sims 2, and – hey, remember how a little bit ago, Plumbella did a video on the OMGWTFBBQ mod for this game? You know, the one that lets you roast and eat babies?
~Guess what Kevin has~ Apparently the community bullied him into installing it. XD And yes, he did use it – TWICE, in fact. He tricked the adoption agency into thinking he had enough money, adopted a random baby, and put it right on the BBQ. The first one was one of his own alien children returned to him, in fact! And he and the zombies ate it without issue. And the second one was SUPPOSED to be the centerpiece of his New Year’s Eve party (complete with Ritual Oblongoid), but the only person who showed up was the personification of the New Year, so. . . In between that, both Zombie Pascal and Zombie Vidcund died (the former after a fight with Kevin, who ended up smashing his urn; the latter after being scared to death by a ghost – which was a positive memory for him, wonder why); Kevin got enough money from the cats to actually buy a bed and a shower, and started his own money tree farm with Vidcund and Pascal’s old aspiration points; visited Sue’s (Secret) Kitchen and made all the grilled cheese before trying to burn the place down – and then, when that didn’t work, ruining the food contest with a burned, spoiled pie; and apparently turned General Grunt into a vampire, causing him to vanish. We’ll, uh, see how that goes later. XD Apparently this save file is running the ragged edge of corruption, so we gotta enjoy the baby-eating while we can!
C) And then of course we had GrayStillPlays and Consider It More, a game where you have to figure out the best course of action to be considerate to others. Or, if you’re Gray, you figure out the weirdest and worst things you can do to people and then spam that as much as humanly possible. Like sitting in everyone’s laps on the subway! Blowing a wind so hard a man trying to reach his lover gets blown away! Setting bees upon Isaac Newton as a weird sentient jumping tree! Punching out all the actors in a haunted house with your boyfriend! Getting stranded with said boyfriend and abandoning him for a rock concert! Cutting a cake into eight gazillion tiny pieces! Drinking ten million cocktails while a woman complains about her love life! And so on and so forth. Is it any wonder that, at the end, the game gave him an “Adulting” score of 8? XD Good times. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though between balancing two conversations it took me longer than expected. But I’ve got through Friday up in Victor Luvs Alice, and two ask replies and two reblogs of Tik-Toks I was tagged in by a friend on Valice Multiverse. Solid day!
Whew! Was hoping to get all this done sooner. . .ah well, it's done now. We'll see how the rest of the week goes. At least we're already to the halfway point tomorrow! Night all!
Anyway, not a bad September 7th this time around -- the weather was good, and I have a pretty well-filled-out to-do list here:
Work – Pretty quiet return, all things considered – I spent most of the day looking up potential duplicates and either merging or differentiating as required. Some exceptions came in late in the day to take care of, so that’s something I can handle tomorrow, but. . .slow times are slow. (Shouldn’t complain too much, though – I’d rather be a bit bored than stressed out of my mind!)
Beanbags – Got in another three rounds today – and while my mojo from yesterday deserted me, luckily for me Dad’s mojo also deserted him in the final game. Scores were me 2-3-W, Dad W-W-2, Mom 3-2-3. At least I got one!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Finished Episode 24, with Past!Jon working his way through the Silver Shroud quest. Miss Jon bribed Whitechapel Charlie at the bar to get the location of Kendra, whom she shot without even speaking to her – and then picked up the contract for Shelly Tiller and just murdered her too before realizing, hey, maybe that was an innocent civilian. Whoops. Took the caps for it though. Then she went to speak to Hancock, got my hopes up for five seconds by actually putting on the costume – but then took Hancock as her companion (sending MacCready to Sanctuary), and never used any of the dialogue options for the Shroud (hell, it never even came up). Took Hancock with her to kill Smiling Kate and Northy, where she found a holotape indicating that Kent was about to be kidnapped. She and Hancock rushed back to the Memory Den, but they were too late – Kent was gone. Irma told them about the invasion and Sinjin’s message on the radio station – Miss Jon tracked them down, took out Sinjin’s crew, then – with the help of her tuxedo – managed to convince Sinjin to focus on her first instead of killing Kent right away. That and the help of some psycho-jet allowed her to take everybody down and save Kent, yay. Even though the poor guy’s spirit was kind of broken by the whole experience – understandable, really. :( She sent him on home, got her reward from Hancock, and headed over to Sanctuary Hills to get some power armor to prep for the Glowing Sea. . .
And then, just as I suspected, the comments told Past!Jon that he’d done the quest the not-fun way, so he rewound time and did Episode 24 ¾ – Past!Jon Actually Uses The Costume And The Dialogue Options. XD And the machine gun, though given he never put any perks into automatic weapons, it was the most unwieldy thing ever for Miss Jon – she ended up resorting to “Flames of Justice” (aka Molotovs) to take out her opponents. In between bringing justice to the wasteland, she returned to her new base of the “Super Best Friends” to interview candidates for the superhero team (a lawn flamingo, the Germ-Ant Shepherd, Paladin Danse, and a suit of power armor), and build a ridiculous gravity-defying tower to serve as a base. And a good way to see trouble threatening Sanctuary when a “defend your settlement” quest popped up – though when I left it, it seems like that particular quest had glitched out because whenever Miss Jon entered Sanctuary, the marker disappeared. O.o The hell. Still, this is EXACTLY what I wanted from the last episode, and I’m really glad Past!Jon went back and did the quest with the goofy, overwrought declarations of “justice!” and whatnot. XD What’s the point of doing the quest if you’re not gonna take full advantage of the chance to play pulp superhero?
2. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check – I’ve started Chapter 4, which so far is a jump forward to Victor and Alice being a little more comfortable with each other after a few more off-screen meetings, and starts with Alice spotting Victor in the crowd after he’s had an absolutely terrible luncheon with Adelaide Kingsleigh and her family. Turns out Adelaide is NOT in favor of any potential match with Victor and is not shy about making her feelings clear. :( Fortunately Alice is only too happy to spend an hour or two with him to help him feel better – and I looked it up to confirm, Hyde Park is not too far away for them to spend a bit of time before she has to go to Houndsditch. :D So that’ll be nice.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – James still seems to be out of commission for the moment, so I had a chance to get something out of the Watch Later too –
A) First things first, we had The Spiffing Brit and his latest – “BREAKING FALLOUT 4 TO MAKE INFINITE MONEY- Fallout 4 Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With Exploits!” He’s already done ridiculous glitched weapons and whatnot with the fabulous Reanu Keeves, so I’m totally up for infinite caps. XD The Capitalist Of The Episode was Hugh Janus, a fellow with 10 Strength, 5 Endurance, 9 Charisma, and nothing else going for him. XD And what was his plan to get absurd amounts of bottle caps after the end of the world? Why, abuse Paladin Danse, of course! Because, as it turns out, when you do the ArcJet mission with Danse and get up to the whole “Danse fighting synths under the big test engine” setpiece, you can just sit back and watch him fight for however long you want, because the synths won’t stop spawning in. This one bit has infinite synths until you go out to help or fire the engine, and Spiff basically just waited around until an absurd amount of bodies coated the floor, then looted as many of them as he possibly could and dragged the lot to Diamond City. According to his calculations, the amount of Institute pistols (regular and automatic), shock batons, and fusion cells Hugh picked up was worth the equivalent of 25,140 caps – or about $123,000 American! And that’s on the LOW end of valuing bottle caps versus real-world dollars. O.o I guess if you want phat loot, abuse the fact that Danse is an essential NPC during this mission!
B) Then it was onto the Subs for Call Me Kevin and more Sims 2, and – hey, remember how a little bit ago, Plumbella did a video on the OMGWTFBBQ mod for this game? You know, the one that lets you roast and eat babies?
~Guess what Kevin has~ Apparently the community bullied him into installing it. XD And yes, he did use it – TWICE, in fact. He tricked the adoption agency into thinking he had enough money, adopted a random baby, and put it right on the BBQ. The first one was one of his own alien children returned to him, in fact! And he and the zombies ate it without issue. And the second one was SUPPOSED to be the centerpiece of his New Year’s Eve party (complete with Ritual Oblongoid), but the only person who showed up was the personification of the New Year, so. . . In between that, both Zombie Pascal and Zombie Vidcund died (the former after a fight with Kevin, who ended up smashing his urn; the latter after being scared to death by a ghost – which was a positive memory for him, wonder why); Kevin got enough money from the cats to actually buy a bed and a shower, and started his own money tree farm with Vidcund and Pascal’s old aspiration points; visited Sue’s (Secret) Kitchen and made all the grilled cheese before trying to burn the place down – and then, when that didn’t work, ruining the food contest with a burned, spoiled pie; and apparently turned General Grunt into a vampire, causing him to vanish. We’ll, uh, see how that goes later. XD Apparently this save file is running the ragged edge of corruption, so we gotta enjoy the baby-eating while we can!
C) And then of course we had GrayStillPlays and Consider It More, a game where you have to figure out the best course of action to be considerate to others. Or, if you’re Gray, you figure out the weirdest and worst things you can do to people and then spam that as much as humanly possible. Like sitting in everyone’s laps on the subway! Blowing a wind so hard a man trying to reach his lover gets blown away! Setting bees upon Isaac Newton as a weird sentient jumping tree! Punching out all the actors in a haunted house with your boyfriend! Getting stranded with said boyfriend and abandoning him for a rock concert! Cutting a cake into eight gazillion tiny pieces! Drinking ten million cocktails while a woman complains about her love life! And so on and so forth. Is it any wonder that, at the end, the game gave him an “Adulting” score of 8? XD Good times. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though between balancing two conversations it took me longer than expected. But I’ve got through Friday up in Victor Luvs Alice, and two ask replies and two reblogs of Tik-Toks I was tagged in by a friend on Valice Multiverse. Solid day!
Whew! Was hoping to get all this done sooner. . .ah well, it's done now. We'll see how the rest of the week goes. At least we're already to the halfway point tomorrow! Night all!
