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Quick Tuesday Update
Oct. 19th, 2021 11:35 pmAs, once again, I'm running late due to catching up on tumblr tags and the like:
Work – Another mostly quiet day, though right off the bat this morning I had to e-mail the credit card people AGAIN about an error. *grumbles* It’s getting really annoying, dealing with that. At least the rest of the day was largely obits and duplicates.
Beanbags – Yes, and I had a beautiful comeback from yesterday – 2-W-W, the last with a surprise ten at the end! :D Mom got W-3-3, and poor Dad got the 3-2-2 I had yesterday. He tried, but he only got an eight on his last throw in the last game. Maybe tomorrow we’ll each win one!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back to L.A. By Night – episode 2, “Instruments Of Darkness!” After a whole unnecessary “yadda yadda you’re all dead” intro by Jason Carl, we caught up with the gang at their Griffith College headquarters, talking about what happened last night (Jasper filling everyone in on how he got a look at one of the people chasing them – Annabelle being wowed by his athletics – and the tidbit about them supposedly being sent by MacNeil, founder of the Anarch movement around these parts, which sent Nelli and Victor into a tizzy) and doing Masquerade clean-up work (Victor has made it known that his car was “stolen” last night to the masses, and Nelli has smashed Annabelle’s phone (fortunately without looking at it, as Victor’s SON had literally just texted Annabelle for a date), causing Annabelle to freak out and call her “Mom” without thinking, which Victor and Jasper found endlessly amusing). The big thing, of course, was cleaning up Annabelle’s mess – she assured them that pretty much everybody thinks she’s just kinky or has some weird genetic disorder, but Victor pointed out that the guy last night, Chris, saw all of them and is a potential risk, so she’d better make sure his mind-wipey bullshit from last night worked. (Her girlfriend. . .they’ll figure that out later, though they did impress upon her that Eleanor is in a LOT of danger.) Apparently Nelli tried to “bug” her with something upon giving her a comforting hug, but considering she rolled no successes while Annabelle rolled two, I don’t think she succeeded very well. :p She DID manage to get someone to successfully “bug” Chris – but Annabelle and Jasper (invisible again) have just made it to his apartment, and while the bug says he’s there, an unfamiliar voice has just buzzed them up. . .Annabelle, I think Chris dead.
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check – work continues apace on the “typo skim” of Chapter 1. We’re into the meat of the tutorial now – poor Alice has picked a lock, popped a safe, gotten shot almost to pieces, snuck past a Sabbat asshole before killing him with a tire iron thanks to Jack, talked her way past a very nervous guard, and discovered she’s actually pretty good at Obfuscate already, getting a sneaky invisible kill on a different Sabbat asshole. Just gotta finish up the last few rooms of the tutorial and Alice getting picked up by Van and Terrence, and we’ll be good to go!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – two in, two out, plus a bonus!
A) No James tonight, so I caught up on Plumbella instead – “Girl Doll Dressed: The invisible virus that broke The Sims 3!” Yes, it is spoopy season, so I guess our girl Jesse decided to tell us more Sims 3 horror stories. This one was about a busted piece of custom content – a reskin of the teddy bear into a little girl doll – that ended up becoming a virus that infected Sims 3 games through the Exchange (basically, it inserted its files into EVERYTHING, including lots and Sims you might upload, and then hitched a ride on those into other Sim games – invisibly, no less, so you couldn’t just get it out of your mods folder) and made games super-laggy and crashy. Basically the creator uploaded the wrong file to The Sims Resource, and only noticed it was wrong two months in. This thing was a plague on the Sims 3 community, to the point that EA itself had to warn people to stay away from the doll and direct people to those who had figured out how to remove the crap. I gotta admit, creepy doll that infects your households and makes them run poorly? Perfect Sims creepypasta material. XD (. . .actually, if she wants to do one more Sims Spooky Season “Entire History Of,” Sims creepypastas might be a good idea. . .)
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and more L. A. Noire – this time, to accuse everyone of lying their ass off! XD Also, he’s just using the FIRST piece of evidence he grabs for this, and he admitted at the beginning of the episode he’s not even sure if this will allow him to solve a case. Fortunately he was still able to get to the bottom of a terrible factory explosion, even if the case was riddled with plot holes from Cole finding all the clues but refusing to use any of them but the laundry tag while accusing people of espionage and eliminating competitors. (Hell, the game OPENLY SAID it was a dead end when Kevin investigated the laundry service it was from. But Kevin made his rules, and he stuck by them.) He also got to ride around in a fire truck AND a garbage truck! XD Also take part in a high speed pursuit against the main villain that involved trying the same corner three times because the first time Cole tried to POLITELY take someone’s car, and the second time he tried to hijack one of the cars chasing them and ended up just running into the side. XD Delightful stuff as always, even if the game only gave Kevin one star for his performance. You’re five stars in our hearts, Kev!
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Some fun boards today – the resquite bottle flip with weird stuff to get (including a multiplying bottle Gray used for delightful cheatus times – also a cursed Yoshi); a wheel of pain with swords and mines (Gray actually OVERSHOT the winning area and had to crawl backwards to get it); a particularly painful rainbow rope swing where precision grabbing and timing was everything (took Gray a while to complete this one as a result XD); a thumbnail hole jump (that he won despite being torn in half when he hit the winning area); a harpoon run down some unfair stairs (again, he won in pieces, but he did indeed win); a heart run board where Gray told a story about a heart’s journey across the board (the board turned out to be longer than he thought, and a story about a disillusioned man in a cubicle became one about becoming a demon lord and conquering Earth); the “explosive underwear” board that – was just a simple parkour board with no explosions or underwear (Gray: “wat”); the rainbow stairs (Gray essentially just flew down them to victory); the baby fling and crawl 2 (fling the baby through the hole and crawl to get the coin – first time Gray accidentally went backwards and sent baby hurtling into the void XD); another impossible pojo jump with spikes and crossbows and harpoons (and again, by sheer luck, Gray proved the word “impossible” has no meaning for him); a “bottle run?” where you drive a bottle over a bunch of people (bottle handled like shit, but Gray loved it anyway); and a pogo coin heist with so many harpoons and explosives it was painful (literally – Gray actually found a secret win up top, but refused to quit until he’d gathered all the coins too). Solid stuff! Especially the absurdly long heart board, where Gray kept asking how freaking long it was. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – the four posts with my final episode of Newcrest Adventures are in my Victor Luvs Alice queue, and the one ask reply I had in the Valice Multiverse one. All sorted for Wednesday, at least!
So productive night, at least! And I got to break some fun news about one of his favorite web series to a friend, so that was satisfying. :) Now it's time to head to bed and get some sleep. At least tomorrow it's supposed to warm up for a little bit! Night all!
Work – Another mostly quiet day, though right off the bat this morning I had to e-mail the credit card people AGAIN about an error. *grumbles* It’s getting really annoying, dealing with that. At least the rest of the day was largely obits and duplicates.
Beanbags – Yes, and I had a beautiful comeback from yesterday – 2-W-W, the last with a surprise ten at the end! :D Mom got W-3-3, and poor Dad got the 3-2-2 I had yesterday. He tried, but he only got an eight on his last throw in the last game. Maybe tomorrow we’ll each win one!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back to L.A. By Night – episode 2, “Instruments Of Darkness!” After a whole unnecessary “yadda yadda you’re all dead” intro by Jason Carl, we caught up with the gang at their Griffith College headquarters, talking about what happened last night (Jasper filling everyone in on how he got a look at one of the people chasing them – Annabelle being wowed by his athletics – and the tidbit about them supposedly being sent by MacNeil, founder of the Anarch movement around these parts, which sent Nelli and Victor into a tizzy) and doing Masquerade clean-up work (Victor has made it known that his car was “stolen” last night to the masses, and Nelli has smashed Annabelle’s phone (fortunately without looking at it, as Victor’s SON had literally just texted Annabelle for a date), causing Annabelle to freak out and call her “Mom” without thinking, which Victor and Jasper found endlessly amusing). The big thing, of course, was cleaning up Annabelle’s mess – she assured them that pretty much everybody thinks she’s just kinky or has some weird genetic disorder, but Victor pointed out that the guy last night, Chris, saw all of them and is a potential risk, so she’d better make sure his mind-wipey bullshit from last night worked. (Her girlfriend. . .they’ll figure that out later, though they did impress upon her that Eleanor is in a LOT of danger.) Apparently Nelli tried to “bug” her with something upon giving her a comforting hug, but considering she rolled no successes while Annabelle rolled two, I don’t think she succeeded very well. :p She DID manage to get someone to successfully “bug” Chris – but Annabelle and Jasper (invisible again) have just made it to his apartment, and while the bug says he’s there, an unfamiliar voice has just buzzed them up. . .Annabelle, I think Chris dead.
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check – work continues apace on the “typo skim” of Chapter 1. We’re into the meat of the tutorial now – poor Alice has picked a lock, popped a safe, gotten shot almost to pieces, snuck past a Sabbat asshole before killing him with a tire iron thanks to Jack, talked her way past a very nervous guard, and discovered she’s actually pretty good at Obfuscate already, getting a sneaky invisible kill on a different Sabbat asshole. Just gotta finish up the last few rooms of the tutorial and Alice getting picked up by Van and Terrence, and we’ll be good to go!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – two in, two out, plus a bonus!
A) No James tonight, so I caught up on Plumbella instead – “Girl Doll Dressed: The invisible virus that broke The Sims 3!” Yes, it is spoopy season, so I guess our girl Jesse decided to tell us more Sims 3 horror stories. This one was about a busted piece of custom content – a reskin of the teddy bear into a little girl doll – that ended up becoming a virus that infected Sims 3 games through the Exchange (basically, it inserted its files into EVERYTHING, including lots and Sims you might upload, and then hitched a ride on those into other Sim games – invisibly, no less, so you couldn’t just get it out of your mods folder) and made games super-laggy and crashy. Basically the creator uploaded the wrong file to The Sims Resource, and only noticed it was wrong two months in. This thing was a plague on the Sims 3 community, to the point that EA itself had to warn people to stay away from the doll and direct people to those who had figured out how to remove the crap. I gotta admit, creepy doll that infects your households and makes them run poorly? Perfect Sims creepypasta material. XD (. . .actually, if she wants to do one more Sims Spooky Season “Entire History Of,” Sims creepypastas might be a good idea. . .)
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and more L. A. Noire – this time, to accuse everyone of lying their ass off! XD Also, he’s just using the FIRST piece of evidence he grabs for this, and he admitted at the beginning of the episode he’s not even sure if this will allow him to solve a case. Fortunately he was still able to get to the bottom of a terrible factory explosion, even if the case was riddled with plot holes from Cole finding all the clues but refusing to use any of them but the laundry tag while accusing people of espionage and eliminating competitors. (Hell, the game OPENLY SAID it was a dead end when Kevin investigated the laundry service it was from. But Kevin made his rules, and he stuck by them.) He also got to ride around in a fire truck AND a garbage truck! XD Also take part in a high speed pursuit against the main villain that involved trying the same corner three times because the first time Cole tried to POLITELY take someone’s car, and the second time he tried to hijack one of the cars chasing them and ended up just running into the side. XD Delightful stuff as always, even if the game only gave Kevin one star for his performance. You’re five stars in our hearts, Kev!
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Some fun boards today – the resquite bottle flip with weird stuff to get (including a multiplying bottle Gray used for delightful cheatus times – also a cursed Yoshi); a wheel of pain with swords and mines (Gray actually OVERSHOT the winning area and had to crawl backwards to get it); a particularly painful rainbow rope swing where precision grabbing and timing was everything (took Gray a while to complete this one as a result XD); a thumbnail hole jump (that he won despite being torn in half when he hit the winning area); a harpoon run down some unfair stairs (again, he won in pieces, but he did indeed win); a heart run board where Gray told a story about a heart’s journey across the board (the board turned out to be longer than he thought, and a story about a disillusioned man in a cubicle became one about becoming a demon lord and conquering Earth); the “explosive underwear” board that – was just a simple parkour board with no explosions or underwear (Gray: “wat”); the rainbow stairs (Gray essentially just flew down them to victory); the baby fling and crawl 2 (fling the baby through the hole and crawl to get the coin – first time Gray accidentally went backwards and sent baby hurtling into the void XD); another impossible pojo jump with spikes and crossbows and harpoons (and again, by sheer luck, Gray proved the word “impossible” has no meaning for him); a “bottle run?” where you drive a bottle over a bunch of people (bottle handled like shit, but Gray loved it anyway); and a pogo coin heist with so many harpoons and explosives it was painful (literally – Gray actually found a secret win up top, but refused to quit until he’d gathered all the coins too). Solid stuff! Especially the absurdly long heart board, where Gray kept asking how freaking long it was. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – the four posts with my final episode of Newcrest Adventures are in my Victor Luvs Alice queue, and the one ask reply I had in the Valice Multiverse one. All sorted for Wednesday, at least!
So productive night, at least! And I got to break some fun news about one of his favorite web series to a friend, so that was satisfying. :) Now it's time to head to bed and get some sleep. At least tomorrow it's supposed to warm up for a little bit! Night all!
