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A Quiet And Chilly Tuesday
Nov. 23rd, 2021 11:37 pmYeah, temperature never really got past 40F today, which -- ugh. I know it's hardly the worst when it comes to New England winters, but it's still bleh. :( Fortunately, the rest of the day was pretty okay --
Work – Rather quiet day – credit card stuff remains in limbo, but what can one do? Other than attack a bunch of duplicates she found on the system. . .and reorganize her document keeping track of all the various fuck-ups so it’s properly organized by campaign and all that. :p Anyway, I’ll take quiet over “giant mess right before a long weekend.”
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and with The Spiffing Brit! Watched his latest video, which was a sponsored video in which he played Paradox's newest, Surviving The Aftermath – a post-apocalyptic survival simulator which has some elements I’m most familiar with from stuff like watching people play Civilization – such as trading with other societies and conquering lands on a vaguely-hexagonal-grid-map. Spiff cranked the difficulty up to the max and then struggled through various disasters (like a wave of nuclear fallout, a crushingly cold winter, a crushingly hot summer, various plagues, etc) to try and get his little colony of survivors to, well, survive. He somehow managed this despite being in a heavily-polluted corner of the map, being wracked with disease and mutations, and watching some of his best warriors die to sandworms. It was a hell of a struggle, but with the help of a fishing pier, a medical tent, and fields full of cabbages, he pulled it off. XD Not the content he’s really known for, but still a fun ride!
2. Work on final edits for Chapter 2 of “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – and as hoped for yesterday, I have actually finished the search of the document for typos and awkward phrasing! :D So tomorrow I just need to give it one final skim and then copy and paste over onto AO3! That’ll be nice. :) Hooray for being a little ahead of the curve!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – as usual, we had two in, two out, and a bonus video –
A) Started with the latest OXtra list – “7 Hilariously Cool Mounts That Make Horses Look Like Garbage!” Yes, from the trusty elephants in Far Cry 3 murdering your enemies, to sharp-toothed caragors in Shadow of Mordor climbing sheer walls, to the adorable Plessie in Bowser’s Fury zipping you from island to island, to the multitalented and customizable Palamute in Monster Hunter Rise both help you chase down your prey AND helping you kill it with a blade between its teeth, there’s a variety of cute, awesome, and cutely awesome creatures in video games to put horses to shame! At least until the next game you play where you can only ride a horse, anyway. XD
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin, where we had the return of a classic – GTA V with The Chaos Mod. :D And we started out strong with the game igniting Trevor almost the moment Kevin began. XD He did eventually manage to get past that point, and then the fun REALLY began. From being put into random vehicles trying to drive Lamar somewhere, to on-demand TV popping up while he was forced to drive upside-down, to the giant trailer truck Trevor was driving being teleported to heaven mid-mission, to the GTA 2 camera kicking in while Franklin was inside a building trying to rescue Michael from the Triad (meaning Kevin couldn’t actually SEE what was happening – top down from the outside!), to Jesus giving both Trevor and Michael lifts to their destination (well, sort of – in Michael’s case, Jesus drove him way off point and then tried to fling them both off a cliff in his pink smart car), to Michael having a dump truck spawn on him while trying to follow this one janitor, to the janitor being blocked by a whale rain. . .well, it’s a wonder Kevin was able to finish ANY missions, really. XD But he managed to get a few under his belt and get a little closer to finishing the main game. I guess without Minecraft challenges, he’ll take a GTA V one – I’m hopeful we’ll see plenty more of the madness! :D
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and Street Hustle! Another strange mobile game, with the plot that you are a homeless man and you must make friends and money while struggling to survive on the streets. This involves stealing a man’s wallet, buying yourself a bunch of Google Images food, sharing it with a dog, then shooing away a woman after proposing to her and getting decked in an alternate timeline; stealing a hot dog and sharing it with a fellow homeless guy to make friends; stealing a guy’s shopping cart, finding a guitar in the trash, doing a chicken dance in a chicken suit to a guy’s saxophone playing to make money, then using the guitar to smack a lurking gangster over the head; making your way to the beach, waiting until nightfall to take a shower, then sailing away on a raft until you come across a cruise ship and call upon POSEIDON HIMSELF to move it closer to you so you can be rescued; making friends with the captain, then using TELEKINESIS to steal his hat and masquerade as a captain to sneak off and reach shore; and then impressing a woman by the cafe by randomly becoming super-rich for no reason other than Gray had to click the weird ad option. XD Yeah, uh, whatever storyline this has, it was obviously written on drugs. Hard drugs. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – popped the house build tumblr post for tomorrow into the queue for Victor Luvs Alice after finishing up my editing pass on Chapter Two of “Londerland Bloodlines,” w000. Also answered an ask reply over on Valice Multiverse, which was the extent of the activity there today. *shrug* Fine by me -- I could use a quiet night.
And that's really about it, honestly. Just four and a half hours to go tomorrow! Fingers crossed they aren't a clusterfuck. . .night all!
Work – Rather quiet day – credit card stuff remains in limbo, but what can one do? Other than attack a bunch of duplicates she found on the system. . .and reorganize her document keeping track of all the various fuck-ups so it’s properly organized by campaign and all that. :p Anyway, I’ll take quiet over “giant mess right before a long weekend.”
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and with The Spiffing Brit! Watched his latest video, which was a sponsored video in which he played Paradox's newest, Surviving The Aftermath – a post-apocalyptic survival simulator which has some elements I’m most familiar with from stuff like watching people play Civilization – such as trading with other societies and conquering lands on a vaguely-hexagonal-grid-map. Spiff cranked the difficulty up to the max and then struggled through various disasters (like a wave of nuclear fallout, a crushingly cold winter, a crushingly hot summer, various plagues, etc) to try and get his little colony of survivors to, well, survive. He somehow managed this despite being in a heavily-polluted corner of the map, being wracked with disease and mutations, and watching some of his best warriors die to sandworms. It was a hell of a struggle, but with the help of a fishing pier, a medical tent, and fields full of cabbages, he pulled it off. XD Not the content he’s really known for, but still a fun ride!
2. Work on final edits for Chapter 2 of “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – and as hoped for yesterday, I have actually finished the search of the document for typos and awkward phrasing! :D So tomorrow I just need to give it one final skim and then copy and paste over onto AO3! That’ll be nice. :) Hooray for being a little ahead of the curve!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – as usual, we had two in, two out, and a bonus video –
A) Started with the latest OXtra list – “7 Hilariously Cool Mounts That Make Horses Look Like Garbage!” Yes, from the trusty elephants in Far Cry 3 murdering your enemies, to sharp-toothed caragors in Shadow of Mordor climbing sheer walls, to the adorable Plessie in Bowser’s Fury zipping you from island to island, to the multitalented and customizable Palamute in Monster Hunter Rise both help you chase down your prey AND helping you kill it with a blade between its teeth, there’s a variety of cute, awesome, and cutely awesome creatures in video games to put horses to shame! At least until the next game you play where you can only ride a horse, anyway. XD
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin, where we had the return of a classic – GTA V with The Chaos Mod. :D And we started out strong with the game igniting Trevor almost the moment Kevin began. XD He did eventually manage to get past that point, and then the fun REALLY began. From being put into random vehicles trying to drive Lamar somewhere, to on-demand TV popping up while he was forced to drive upside-down, to the giant trailer truck Trevor was driving being teleported to heaven mid-mission, to the GTA 2 camera kicking in while Franklin was inside a building trying to rescue Michael from the Triad (meaning Kevin couldn’t actually SEE what was happening – top down from the outside!), to Jesus giving both Trevor and Michael lifts to their destination (well, sort of – in Michael’s case, Jesus drove him way off point and then tried to fling them both off a cliff in his pink smart car), to Michael having a dump truck spawn on him while trying to follow this one janitor, to the janitor being blocked by a whale rain. . .well, it’s a wonder Kevin was able to finish ANY missions, really. XD But he managed to get a few under his belt and get a little closer to finishing the main game. I guess without Minecraft challenges, he’ll take a GTA V one – I’m hopeful we’ll see plenty more of the madness! :D
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and Street Hustle! Another strange mobile game, with the plot that you are a homeless man and you must make friends and money while struggling to survive on the streets. This involves stealing a man’s wallet, buying yourself a bunch of Google Images food, sharing it with a dog, then shooing away a woman after proposing to her and getting decked in an alternate timeline; stealing a hot dog and sharing it with a fellow homeless guy to make friends; stealing a guy’s shopping cart, finding a guitar in the trash, doing a chicken dance in a chicken suit to a guy’s saxophone playing to make money, then using the guitar to smack a lurking gangster over the head; making your way to the beach, waiting until nightfall to take a shower, then sailing away on a raft until you come across a cruise ship and call upon POSEIDON HIMSELF to move it closer to you so you can be rescued; making friends with the captain, then using TELEKINESIS to steal his hat and masquerade as a captain to sneak off and reach shore; and then impressing a woman by the cafe by randomly becoming super-rich for no reason other than Gray had to click the weird ad option. XD Yeah, uh, whatever storyline this has, it was obviously written on drugs. Hard drugs. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – popped the house build tumblr post for tomorrow into the queue for Victor Luvs Alice after finishing up my editing pass on Chapter Two of “Londerland Bloodlines,” w000. Also answered an ask reply over on Valice Multiverse, which was the extent of the activity there today. *shrug* Fine by me -- I could use a quiet night.
And that's really about it, honestly. Just four and a half hours to go tomorrow! Fingers crossed they aren't a clusterfuck. . .night all!
