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As Usual, I'm Running Late
Oct. 13th, 2021 11:27 pmI don't know what happened to my ability to properly make use of the limited time I have after work. . .well, let's get the list up and get moving --
Work – UGH. It was Wednesday the 13th in full, with all sorts of issues ranging from trying to figure out how many log-ins one person had onto the credit card system, to the computer I use for credit card updates getting its clock desynced, to – *sigh* Just – annoying. I really hope the next two days aren’t going to follow the same pattern!
Beanbags – Yes, this time with a healthy application of bug-warding-off spray so we weren’t eaten alive by gnats and mosquitoes. I had a very consistent day with 2-2-2, while Dad got W-W-3, and Mom 3-3-W. At least Mom was able to pull one out today!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another half-hour on the bike, another half hour with L.A. By Night and “Mortal Stakes!” Victor, Nelli, and Jasper have managed to somewhat clean up the situation with Chris (Victor wiping his memory of the last couple of minutes) and taken Annabelle with them in Victor’s car to introduce her to the local Baron (and as they’re heading toward Hollywood, I’m guessing it’s that good old bastard Isaac). Annabelle is naturally pretty hysterical, and it’s been hard to calm her down enough to determine what’s been going on (her claiming she has a “genetic disorder” that means she needs blood – sounds like she was taking it the medical way too, so yay, Masquerade not fully breached), what happened to her (she has no idea who her Sire is – she was attacked randomly after closing up at the coffee shop, woke up in a room with a “snack,” and managed to escape out a window back to her girlfriend – who, ah, has called during this whole mess and revealed she knows about the “thing”), and tell her some of what she needs to know, especially when it comes to meeting the Baron (basically “sit down and shut up”). Also there’s some more personal tension as Annabelle was at one point dating Victor’s son Mark. So yeah, not a fun car ride over to Isaac’s, that’s for sure! This has taken us to the halfway point of the episode – next up, we see how Annabelle takes learning about the shitty little society that is Kindred government!
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check – Alice has found Lily’s Lightningbird in the parking garage, and located her diary in the trunk! She’s in the process of reading it, and getting really pissed off at Rolf Toten. :p I mean, can you blame her? The guy turned Lily and left her alone for FOUR DAYS! I also went looking on the VTMB wiki and tweaked a bit of dialogue to make sure the timeline is right – Lily and E met in April, according to her diary and his dialogue, so I had to adjust that. I AM making it so she didn’t disappear in May, but in August (just flipping the date on her last entry), as I feel that it makes more sense for Doris to have only held that purse for a couple of months rather than the better part of a year. Plus it spares Lily a good few months of torment, poor thing. I mean, she’s still pretty much completely starved when Alice finds her, but. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – a three-in, three-out kinda day –
A) Started with James Turner and the latest from the Cottage Living LP! Things remain chaotic on the farm – dealing with five Sims is no easy feat! Let’s go through the highlights of the episode:
I. Chaz’s bedroom getting a redo, with James combining it and the room right next to it to make a bedroom with a sitting area AND a walk-in wardrobe! Obviously Hazel had a hand in that upgrade. XD
II. Nina getting aged up into a toddler with no fuss on Thursday, and Angus getting aged up into a child on Saturday with ALL THE FUSS IN THE WORLD. Mostly because James tried to get everyone in Chaz’s kitchen after having him make a honey cake to celebrate the birthday, then got distracted by Trenton getting stuck behind his own bicycle, THEN discovered someone ate part of the honey cake, THEN had Trenton make a new chocolate cake, THEN raged over Nina grabbing a slice while he was trying to wrangle everyone again, and then FINALLY got a new chocolate cake made, candles on it, and Angus to it while everyone was in another room. XD Angus has the “Artistic Prodigy” aspiration, and he’s Squeamish, courtesy of James's own randomizer on his website. Fun!
III. Trenton spending a bunch of time at the store to sell various odds-and-ends, including some of Hazel’s fizzes, their old bassinet and toddler side table, and a couple of Hazel’s woodworks. Column’s rigorous cleaning of the store got her a double promotion to Executive Sales Assistant, and the game continues to be a glitchy mess by generating no less than THREE Agnes Crumplebottoms to roam the store. James found it deeply amusing, but I’m starting to get really worried about the game’s stability at this point. . .
IV. Trenton dragging himself to the Finchwick Fair after Angus’s birthday from hell, entering some enriched milk, and unsuccessfully attempting to bribe the judge. . .only for the fair to end with NO RESULT AT ALL. I mean, speaking of the game’s stability, what the FUCK. We really need that Sims 4 Unofficial Patch by this point. Poor Trenton. . .at least the episode ended on a nice spring day (after James had Trenton insta-upgrade the weather machine). Next time, apparently more landscaping, as build/buy mode is the only thing that really works in this game!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin, playing some GTA San Andreas – as a pacifist. Yup, Kevin has decided to bring his pacifistic ways to another game, and arguably the most inappropriate of the bunch for pacifism. He immediately accidentally ran over and killed someone with his bicycle. XD One reload later, and CJ was well on his way to a pacifist lifestyle – driving around with his homies getting haircuts (or hair-additions) and going out for pizza (and throwing up while his brother tried to rob the place). He even managed to complete a few missions, like chasing down a bunch of drug dealers that needed to die, or saving Sweet and his girlfriend from the gang members who had them pinned! Mostly by bringing more violent members of his gang along with him to do the actual killing. The “save Sweet” thing was particularly hard, as Sweet dies FAST in that mission, and Kevin’s tactic of leaving the cars around to get damaged and explode had a tendency to kill his backup along with the enemy. XD But hey – from drive-bys to drive-ins, as long as he was the clown driving the car, it counted as pacifism! (And he was, uh, literally the clown driving the car. Bright pink hair, Groucho Marx glasses, and heart underwear. Look, did you expect any different? XD)
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays with more Happy Wheels! We started with a pretty epic bottle flip (flippers on the bottom AND the top, plus a secret win below which involves riding the alcoholism cart of doom), then moved onto a fight against a cave monster (literal fight too – you have to beat the monster up at the end in order to clear the path to the win – Gray did so with just ONE ARM LEFT); a survival run with a spike fall and a harpoon run (you can always beat “Red Light/Green Light” if you just GO); a slide down Neon Mountain (avoiding the very stabby stalactites along the way); a staircase to hell (bounce your way past all the spikes and the harpoons and you’re golden); a homing mine survival box (so much suffering until he was finally able to just fling it away – and then his companion started creeping on him MENACINGLY); a ice-cave-themed spike fall (Gray got SO CLOSE the first time – then needed multiple attempts to win); and another run through the Squid Games (play “Red Light/Green Light,” avoid the falling shapes, play tug-of-war via clicks, and then die repeatedly to the glass bridge because the fake pieces of glass are spaced just far enough apart to really ruin your day. Eventually won killing his opponent – though, as usual, he ended up with a cleaver in his groin). Good day for both the imagination of the board creators and the tenacity of Gray!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though it was rather last-minute – reset the queue speed to one, then threw up Friday and Saturday posts (luckily I already had an idea for something I wanted to reblog). But I’m good with that for the time being, hooray.
*deep breath in* Okay, good, everything sorted there, at least. Time to get to bed and hopefully get some decent sleep. Night all!
Work – UGH. It was Wednesday the 13th in full, with all sorts of issues ranging from trying to figure out how many log-ins one person had onto the credit card system, to the computer I use for credit card updates getting its clock desynced, to – *sigh* Just – annoying. I really hope the next two days aren’t going to follow the same pattern!
Beanbags – Yes, this time with a healthy application of bug-warding-off spray so we weren’t eaten alive by gnats and mosquitoes. I had a very consistent day with 2-2-2, while Dad got W-W-3, and Mom 3-3-W. At least Mom was able to pull one out today!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another half-hour on the bike, another half hour with L.A. By Night and “Mortal Stakes!” Victor, Nelli, and Jasper have managed to somewhat clean up the situation with Chris (Victor wiping his memory of the last couple of minutes) and taken Annabelle with them in Victor’s car to introduce her to the local Baron (and as they’re heading toward Hollywood, I’m guessing it’s that good old bastard Isaac). Annabelle is naturally pretty hysterical, and it’s been hard to calm her down enough to determine what’s been going on (her claiming she has a “genetic disorder” that means she needs blood – sounds like she was taking it the medical way too, so yay, Masquerade not fully breached), what happened to her (she has no idea who her Sire is – she was attacked randomly after closing up at the coffee shop, woke up in a room with a “snack,” and managed to escape out a window back to her girlfriend – who, ah, has called during this whole mess and revealed she knows about the “thing”), and tell her some of what she needs to know, especially when it comes to meeting the Baron (basically “sit down and shut up”). Also there’s some more personal tension as Annabelle was at one point dating Victor’s son Mark. So yeah, not a fun car ride over to Isaac’s, that’s for sure! This has taken us to the halfway point of the episode – next up, we see how Annabelle takes learning about the shitty little society that is Kindred government!
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check – Alice has found Lily’s Lightningbird in the parking garage, and located her diary in the trunk! She’s in the process of reading it, and getting really pissed off at Rolf Toten. :p I mean, can you blame her? The guy turned Lily and left her alone for FOUR DAYS! I also went looking on the VTMB wiki and tweaked a bit of dialogue to make sure the timeline is right – Lily and E met in April, according to her diary and his dialogue, so I had to adjust that. I AM making it so she didn’t disappear in May, but in August (just flipping the date on her last entry), as I feel that it makes more sense for Doris to have only held that purse for a couple of months rather than the better part of a year. Plus it spares Lily a good few months of torment, poor thing. I mean, she’s still pretty much completely starved when Alice finds her, but. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – a three-in, three-out kinda day –
A) Started with James Turner and the latest from the Cottage Living LP! Things remain chaotic on the farm – dealing with five Sims is no easy feat! Let’s go through the highlights of the episode:
I. Chaz’s bedroom getting a redo, with James combining it and the room right next to it to make a bedroom with a sitting area AND a walk-in wardrobe! Obviously Hazel had a hand in that upgrade. XD
II. Nina getting aged up into a toddler with no fuss on Thursday, and Angus getting aged up into a child on Saturday with ALL THE FUSS IN THE WORLD. Mostly because James tried to get everyone in Chaz’s kitchen after having him make a honey cake to celebrate the birthday, then got distracted by Trenton getting stuck behind his own bicycle, THEN discovered someone ate part of the honey cake, THEN had Trenton make a new chocolate cake, THEN raged over Nina grabbing a slice while he was trying to wrangle everyone again, and then FINALLY got a new chocolate cake made, candles on it, and Angus to it while everyone was in another room. XD Angus has the “Artistic Prodigy” aspiration, and he’s Squeamish, courtesy of James's own randomizer on his website. Fun!
III. Trenton spending a bunch of time at the store to sell various odds-and-ends, including some of Hazel’s fizzes, their old bassinet and toddler side table, and a couple of Hazel’s woodworks. Column’s rigorous cleaning of the store got her a double promotion to Executive Sales Assistant, and the game continues to be a glitchy mess by generating no less than THREE Agnes Crumplebottoms to roam the store. James found it deeply amusing, but I’m starting to get really worried about the game’s stability at this point. . .
IV. Trenton dragging himself to the Finchwick Fair after Angus’s birthday from hell, entering some enriched milk, and unsuccessfully attempting to bribe the judge. . .only for the fair to end with NO RESULT AT ALL. I mean, speaking of the game’s stability, what the FUCK. We really need that Sims 4 Unofficial Patch by this point. Poor Trenton. . .at least the episode ended on a nice spring day (after James had Trenton insta-upgrade the weather machine). Next time, apparently more landscaping, as build/buy mode is the only thing that really works in this game!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin, playing some GTA San Andreas – as a pacifist. Yup, Kevin has decided to bring his pacifistic ways to another game, and arguably the most inappropriate of the bunch for pacifism. He immediately accidentally ran over and killed someone with his bicycle. XD One reload later, and CJ was well on his way to a pacifist lifestyle – driving around with his homies getting haircuts (or hair-additions) and going out for pizza (and throwing up while his brother tried to rob the place). He even managed to complete a few missions, like chasing down a bunch of drug dealers that needed to die, or saving Sweet and his girlfriend from the gang members who had them pinned! Mostly by bringing more violent members of his gang along with him to do the actual killing. The “save Sweet” thing was particularly hard, as Sweet dies FAST in that mission, and Kevin’s tactic of leaving the cars around to get damaged and explode had a tendency to kill his backup along with the enemy. XD But hey – from drive-bys to drive-ins, as long as he was the clown driving the car, it counted as pacifism! (And he was, uh, literally the clown driving the car. Bright pink hair, Groucho Marx glasses, and heart underwear. Look, did you expect any different? XD)
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays with more Happy Wheels! We started with a pretty epic bottle flip (flippers on the bottom AND the top, plus a secret win below which involves riding the alcoholism cart of doom), then moved onto a fight against a cave monster (literal fight too – you have to beat the monster up at the end in order to clear the path to the win – Gray did so with just ONE ARM LEFT); a survival run with a spike fall and a harpoon run (you can always beat “Red Light/Green Light” if you just GO); a slide down Neon Mountain (avoiding the very stabby stalactites along the way); a staircase to hell (bounce your way past all the spikes and the harpoons and you’re golden); a homing mine survival box (so much suffering until he was finally able to just fling it away – and then his companion started creeping on him MENACINGLY); a ice-cave-themed spike fall (Gray got SO CLOSE the first time – then needed multiple attempts to win); and another run through the Squid Games (play “Red Light/Green Light,” avoid the falling shapes, play tug-of-war via clicks, and then die repeatedly to the glass bridge because the fake pieces of glass are spaced just far enough apart to really ruin your day. Eventually won killing his opponent – though, as usual, he ended up with a cleaver in his groin). Good day for both the imagination of the board creators and the tenacity of Gray!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though it was rather last-minute – reset the queue speed to one, then threw up Friday and Saturday posts (luckily I already had an idea for something I wanted to reblog). But I’m good with that for the time being, hooray.
*deep breath in* Okay, good, everything sorted there, at least. Time to get to bed and hopefully get some decent sleep. Night all!
