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Itty Bitty Snowflakes
Dec. 8th, 2021 11:13 pmAKA, it is snowing outside, but not much -- doesn't even seem to be sticking to the road, that just looks wet. *shrug* Fine by me -- it was a fairly chilly and gloomy day all around, we don't need any major accumulation on top of that. A light dusting on the grass I will accept.
Anyway -- not a bad day off in the least, I must say! Ended up getting up later than expected, admittedly -- I blame weird dreams (like falling off a highway I was walking along with my Mom after sort of glitching through the guardrail, only to land softly, with no damage?), and waking up briefly earlier than expected before getting back to sleep. *shrug* Probably needed the rest, though. . .most of the morning was spent listening to some Alanis Morrisette and reading TV Tropes (while Mom looked after my aunt's dog for about an hour while she went to try on glasses), and then for the afternoon --
1. Start editing gift fics: Check – I’m gonna try to go in the order of which I wrote them, so that means my tumblr friend Nebby’s was first! Not too much editing needed – just a few changed lines here, a few tightened-up bits of phrasing there, and a little extra beat at the end for a giggle. Hopefully they all go so smoothly!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and watch the Spiffing Brit video on Sims 4 that just uploaded: Check – though, thanks to Kevin STILL being sick according to his Twitter and thus not able to upload, it was easier to keep up with things than you might think –
A) Started this afternoon pre-gaming with Spiffing’s Sims 4 video – “THE MOST ILLEGAL GAME OF SIMS 4 - How To Print Infinite Babies and Infinite Money Challenge!” Now, when I first saw this, and had a think while in the bathroom afterwards, I thought “holy SHIT, is Spiff going to set up a retail store and sell babies because they’re technically objects tied to the bassinets?” As it turns out, no, he had a much worse scheme – he made the Sim equivalent of Jeff Bezos and three women as "interns," had them all move into a house in Windenburg, had Jeff woo and impregnate all of the women, and then – once they were with child and happy enough to go swimming – trapped them in the swimming pool. What was the point of this, you ask? Well, simple – the ladies, being pregnant, were not allowed to die by drowning. The game protects pregnant women from EVERYTHING. They could be in the foulest moods possible, but they could not actually die. But, of course, since they were walled in, they also couldn’t GET OUT of the swimming pool. Which meant they couldn’t actually complete their pregnancies – they could START labor, but they couldn’t finish it in a way that would result in a baby. So they would just keep going into labor over and over.
And that means the game would keep generating a free bassinet for their baby over and over.
A bassinet worth $150 a pop.
Yes, the whole point of the video was to trap these women in a state where the game would give them bassinets, and Jeff would sell them for money – and apparently this went on long enough for Jeff to get up to $100,000 simoleons! O.o Spiffing was cheerfully despairing over the fact that this felt like a war crime the whole video, basically. XD Oh man. . .he really finds the WEIRDEST ways to break games, I swear. I haven’t even seen this from Jim Pickens. (Though I know Kevin KNOWS Spiff, so. . .)
B) Then, this evening, we had a new OXBox list: “Hitman: 7 Most Outrageous Kills That Only Agent 47 Could Pull Off!” Basically, if you like elaborate story mission kills, this is the list for you. Want to impersonate a local shaman in Columbia, cleanse a construction site, then murder a target via blasting her into a hole with a stream of concrete? Or perhaps you’d like to take out two of your fellow ICA agents at once with a sabotaged lighting rig that you use to electrocute them while dropping the beat as a DJ. Or maybe you just want to go simple, by sneakily opening the top of an observatory, fleeing to a nearby church, and waiting for your target to peep through the telescope in confusion before sending a sniper bullet straight down the lens into his eye. No matter what, the Hitman series has a terrible and wacky kill for you! This is why I love watching people play those games. XD
C) And finally, the lonely video in my Subs, GrayStillPlays and Happy Wheels! And we had some winners today, let me tell you – how about a bottle flip in space, where the only way to win was to slide down the rainbow rectum? An “easy” board with multiple fakeouts and many explosives to dodge? A rope swing speedrun where Gray actually missed one of the falls but managed to grab the rope at the end anyway? An escape-the-box where you will be killed by a combination of shattered glass and shattered watermelons? A spike jump with Santa and his elves – the elves substituting for the reindeer, so you’d better make sure they run hard? A Segway parkour with a bottle run, a spike fall, AND a rope swing? A “mine fall” where Pogo Man must jump upon the mine at JUST the right moment to maneuver himself into the winning area? A haunted house with an embarrassing number of swinging battle axes ready to catch Gray in the head or the crotch? A jet run that has so much unfairness in the form of ridiculously hard jet walls that Gray nearly cried? Or maybe you just want to do some simplistic brain surgery. Any and all of these are possible in Happy Wheels! XD
3. Play Sims 4 (after making backups) and get through at least Harvestfest on the Chill Save: Check! Victor and Alice ended up having a very good Harvestfest indeed – Alice cooked them a Grand Breakfast (after getting some extra fruit off Victor to lower the cost) for their Grand Meal, while Victor put up some foundation bunting for the Decoration tradition (Alice latter added some flags to the eves). Two gnomes showed up to admire the garden, and Victor and Alice managed to appease one each (Victor by giving the one in the bunny costume a salad; Alice by giving the alien gnome a future cube). They also both had classes today, but nailed them both – hell, Victor maxed the Photography skill just from going to college alone. XD And, uh, I accidentally gave them a lot more academic success than expected, because – well. MC Command Center updated recently, and so I downloaded the new version for my game and upgraded while the game itself was updating. One of the new things was something to control the speed at which Sims complete their university homework. I was all for this, because I’ve always felt doing uni homework takes WAAY too much time, so I opened up MC from the computer and found the widget I wanted. The description said that setting it to “10” would make it take like a fourth of the time as usual, so I set it to “5,” saved, and restarted. Everything looked good at first – Victor breezed through his homework before going to class, and I thought everything was fine –
And then I noticed Alice’s homework was all complete, when I thought for sure she had some still to do. Okay, maybe I forgot that I’d finished all hers, so I was willing to overlook this. . .but then Victor finished his classes, and ALL of his homework was done – as was his presentation for the one class that required one, which I KNEW I hadn’t done. I was able to confirm later with Alice – SOMETHING about changing that value simply auto-completed their homework and presentations without them even doing anything (their term papers looked to be unaffected, possibly because those don’t live in a Sim’s inventory). Which was slightly annoying, as I wanted them to put in SOME effort! *shrug* I reset the value to “0” before I quit for the day, so hopefully that’ll fix the issue going forward – in the meantime, I’ll just have them do their presentations a bit early and spend the remainder of their final semester on their term papers.
Anyway, beyond that, the rest of the day was good – Victor picked up lots of seed packets off the gnomes, and after getting some winter plants, got a new planter box and planted spinach and onions for the winter season. Clement Frost also came over to chat and play the piano badly, which amuses me, given he’s the Sims version of Santa and Harvestfest is the Sims version of Thanksgiving, sooo. . . XD And Alice painted some nice new paintings, and Victor worked some more on his song and took some pictures of his wife. Life is good, even if their player is a bit put out they’re having an easier time in college than she did right now. XD Ah well, gotta roll with the punches. . .
4. Get in a workout: Check – got on the treadmill today after a long absence, and started the next Oxventure – a Live one called “Bad Chair Day!” After the events of “A Fishmas Carol,” Cthulhu brought the gang back to the Joyful Damnation (Corazon’s ship, for reference), found some sunken treasure they could use as pocket money, and sped them off to a new location, Port Fairward (Fairworth? Don’t quite recall what Johnny said now). They all happily went off to drink in one of the nicer pubs (Dob giving his share of the cash to a pelican along the way), and were all set to enjoy some rest and relaxation – and then Dob noticed his chair was breathing. As was Prudence’s. Corazon went to the bar to ask what the hell, the barman professed ignorance, and suddenly Dob and Prudence were flung off and their chairs went on a rampage. Merilwen managed to get one entangled in vines, but thanks to some poor rolling, Dob ended up riding the other like a rodeo clown while Prudence completely missed with her Eldritch Blast. Egbert came out of the toilet to save the day with his flame breath (Dob doing a sick leap onto the chandelier to escape with just a tiny bit of singeing), and an unknown stranger with an ax (implied to be a lumberjack) killed the bar itself, which had successfully gnawed on the landlord and killed him. The guy indicated he had no interest in making inquiries, so the gang began doing so on their own. Dob found an invoice in the back room, though the ink actually melted straight off the page when he tried to read it – fortunately, futzing around with a lemon somehow managed to get him a good enough image to learn that the furniture delivery came from the docks at 3AM, and that the buyer should have expected to make multiple trips. As for the chairs themselves, Corazon managed to deduce from the old wood that the chairs SHOULD have been antiques, but actually looked really new, and this jogged Prudence’s memory (she, uh, rolled REALLY poorly on a previous investigation check) and she realized that the wood the chairs were made out of was basically evil wood of evil and shouldn’t be used for furniture making. Dob was all for going down to the docks to see if any other similar deliveries would be made that night – and even hit upon the idea of disguising Corazon as a chair as a sort of trap. Corazon, drunk on the thrill of stealing from the unattended till – and also on a massive amount of rum – thought this was a BRILLIANT plan, and Dob actually made him up very convincingly as a chair and left him on the docks. Merilwen turned into a cat to sit on him as a sort of guard, and the others went up onto the rooftops to wait. When I left, it was just half-past midnight, and the warehouse workers were loading up furniture onto a ship. I remember seeing this moment on Johnny’s list video regarding how the Oxventure team screws up his plans, so I already KNOW this is going to end poorly. Mostly because Johnny JUST WANTED THEM TO ASK THE PEOPLE ON THE DOCK ABOUT THE CHAIRS, not get into shenanigans with Chairazon and whatnot. XD Oh dear. . .
5. Work on tumblr drafts: Check – cleaned up a draft I had about Londerland Bloodlines!Victor having the “Blood Empathy” merit, then put a few things from a blog I follow with some good FO4 stuff on it into the drafts as well. So I’ve got a bit more of a buffer now!
Additionally:
-->I did indeed make those backups mentioned in the Sims 4 item – actually made a bunch of them last night on my spare hard drive. And I updated my LibreOffice as well as Sims 4, so that’s good.
So yeah, a good mixture of productive and lazy! XD With my only real complaint being that, um, I've gotten twitchier and bitchier as the night's gone on. . .I think the PMS is starting to kick in. -.- I suspect mid next week I'll be dealing with the red curse, but I'll keep an eye on things should something start early. Fingers crossed, all! Night!
Anyway -- not a bad day off in the least, I must say! Ended up getting up later than expected, admittedly -- I blame weird dreams (like falling off a highway I was walking along with my Mom after sort of glitching through the guardrail, only to land softly, with no damage?), and waking up briefly earlier than expected before getting back to sleep. *shrug* Probably needed the rest, though. . .most of the morning was spent listening to some Alanis Morrisette and reading TV Tropes (while Mom looked after my aunt's dog for about an hour while she went to try on glasses), and then for the afternoon --
1. Start editing gift fics: Check – I’m gonna try to go in the order of which I wrote them, so that means my tumblr friend Nebby’s was first! Not too much editing needed – just a few changed lines here, a few tightened-up bits of phrasing there, and a little extra beat at the end for a giggle. Hopefully they all go so smoothly!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and watch the Spiffing Brit video on Sims 4 that just uploaded: Check – though, thanks to Kevin STILL being sick according to his Twitter and thus not able to upload, it was easier to keep up with things than you might think –
A) Started this afternoon pre-gaming with Spiffing’s Sims 4 video – “THE MOST ILLEGAL GAME OF SIMS 4 - How To Print Infinite Babies and Infinite Money Challenge!” Now, when I first saw this, and had a think while in the bathroom afterwards, I thought “holy SHIT, is Spiff going to set up a retail store and sell babies because they’re technically objects tied to the bassinets?” As it turns out, no, he had a much worse scheme – he made the Sim equivalent of Jeff Bezos and three women as "interns," had them all move into a house in Windenburg, had Jeff woo and impregnate all of the women, and then – once they were with child and happy enough to go swimming – trapped them in the swimming pool. What was the point of this, you ask? Well, simple – the ladies, being pregnant, were not allowed to die by drowning. The game protects pregnant women from EVERYTHING. They could be in the foulest moods possible, but they could not actually die. But, of course, since they were walled in, they also couldn’t GET OUT of the swimming pool. Which meant they couldn’t actually complete their pregnancies – they could START labor, but they couldn’t finish it in a way that would result in a baby. So they would just keep going into labor over and over.
And that means the game would keep generating a free bassinet for their baby over and over.
A bassinet worth $150 a pop.
Yes, the whole point of the video was to trap these women in a state where the game would give them bassinets, and Jeff would sell them for money – and apparently this went on long enough for Jeff to get up to $100,000 simoleons! O.o Spiffing was cheerfully despairing over the fact that this felt like a war crime the whole video, basically. XD Oh man. . .he really finds the WEIRDEST ways to break games, I swear. I haven’t even seen this from Jim Pickens. (Though I know Kevin KNOWS Spiff, so. . .)
B) Then, this evening, we had a new OXBox list: “Hitman: 7 Most Outrageous Kills That Only Agent 47 Could Pull Off!” Basically, if you like elaborate story mission kills, this is the list for you. Want to impersonate a local shaman in Columbia, cleanse a construction site, then murder a target via blasting her into a hole with a stream of concrete? Or perhaps you’d like to take out two of your fellow ICA agents at once with a sabotaged lighting rig that you use to electrocute them while dropping the beat as a DJ. Or maybe you just want to go simple, by sneakily opening the top of an observatory, fleeing to a nearby church, and waiting for your target to peep through the telescope in confusion before sending a sniper bullet straight down the lens into his eye. No matter what, the Hitman series has a terrible and wacky kill for you! This is why I love watching people play those games. XD
C) And finally, the lonely video in my Subs, GrayStillPlays and Happy Wheels! And we had some winners today, let me tell you – how about a bottle flip in space, where the only way to win was to slide down the rainbow rectum? An “easy” board with multiple fakeouts and many explosives to dodge? A rope swing speedrun where Gray actually missed one of the falls but managed to grab the rope at the end anyway? An escape-the-box where you will be killed by a combination of shattered glass and shattered watermelons? A spike jump with Santa and his elves – the elves substituting for the reindeer, so you’d better make sure they run hard? A Segway parkour with a bottle run, a spike fall, AND a rope swing? A “mine fall” where Pogo Man must jump upon the mine at JUST the right moment to maneuver himself into the winning area? A haunted house with an embarrassing number of swinging battle axes ready to catch Gray in the head or the crotch? A jet run that has so much unfairness in the form of ridiculously hard jet walls that Gray nearly cried? Or maybe you just want to do some simplistic brain surgery. Any and all of these are possible in Happy Wheels! XD
3. Play Sims 4 (after making backups) and get through at least Harvestfest on the Chill Save: Check! Victor and Alice ended up having a very good Harvestfest indeed – Alice cooked them a Grand Breakfast (after getting some extra fruit off Victor to lower the cost) for their Grand Meal, while Victor put up some foundation bunting for the Decoration tradition (Alice latter added some flags to the eves). Two gnomes showed up to admire the garden, and Victor and Alice managed to appease one each (Victor by giving the one in the bunny costume a salad; Alice by giving the alien gnome a future cube). They also both had classes today, but nailed them both – hell, Victor maxed the Photography skill just from going to college alone. XD And, uh, I accidentally gave them a lot more academic success than expected, because – well. MC Command Center updated recently, and so I downloaded the new version for my game and upgraded while the game itself was updating. One of the new things was something to control the speed at which Sims complete their university homework. I was all for this, because I’ve always felt doing uni homework takes WAAY too much time, so I opened up MC from the computer and found the widget I wanted. The description said that setting it to “10” would make it take like a fourth of the time as usual, so I set it to “5,” saved, and restarted. Everything looked good at first – Victor breezed through his homework before going to class, and I thought everything was fine –
And then I noticed Alice’s homework was all complete, when I thought for sure she had some still to do. Okay, maybe I forgot that I’d finished all hers, so I was willing to overlook this. . .but then Victor finished his classes, and ALL of his homework was done – as was his presentation for the one class that required one, which I KNEW I hadn’t done. I was able to confirm later with Alice – SOMETHING about changing that value simply auto-completed their homework and presentations without them even doing anything (their term papers looked to be unaffected, possibly because those don’t live in a Sim’s inventory). Which was slightly annoying, as I wanted them to put in SOME effort! *shrug* I reset the value to “0” before I quit for the day, so hopefully that’ll fix the issue going forward – in the meantime, I’ll just have them do their presentations a bit early and spend the remainder of their final semester on their term papers.
Anyway, beyond that, the rest of the day was good – Victor picked up lots of seed packets off the gnomes, and after getting some winter plants, got a new planter box and planted spinach and onions for the winter season. Clement Frost also came over to chat and play the piano badly, which amuses me, given he’s the Sims version of Santa and Harvestfest is the Sims version of Thanksgiving, sooo. . . XD And Alice painted some nice new paintings, and Victor worked some more on his song and took some pictures of his wife. Life is good, even if their player is a bit put out they’re having an easier time in college than she did right now. XD Ah well, gotta roll with the punches. . .
4. Get in a workout: Check – got on the treadmill today after a long absence, and started the next Oxventure – a Live one called “Bad Chair Day!” After the events of “A Fishmas Carol,” Cthulhu brought the gang back to the Joyful Damnation (Corazon’s ship, for reference), found some sunken treasure they could use as pocket money, and sped them off to a new location, Port Fairward (Fairworth? Don’t quite recall what Johnny said now). They all happily went off to drink in one of the nicer pubs (Dob giving his share of the cash to a pelican along the way), and were all set to enjoy some rest and relaxation – and then Dob noticed his chair was breathing. As was Prudence’s. Corazon went to the bar to ask what the hell, the barman professed ignorance, and suddenly Dob and Prudence were flung off and their chairs went on a rampage. Merilwen managed to get one entangled in vines, but thanks to some poor rolling, Dob ended up riding the other like a rodeo clown while Prudence completely missed with her Eldritch Blast. Egbert came out of the toilet to save the day with his flame breath (Dob doing a sick leap onto the chandelier to escape with just a tiny bit of singeing), and an unknown stranger with an ax (implied to be a lumberjack) killed the bar itself, which had successfully gnawed on the landlord and killed him. The guy indicated he had no interest in making inquiries, so the gang began doing so on their own. Dob found an invoice in the back room, though the ink actually melted straight off the page when he tried to read it – fortunately, futzing around with a lemon somehow managed to get him a good enough image to learn that the furniture delivery came from the docks at 3AM, and that the buyer should have expected to make multiple trips. As for the chairs themselves, Corazon managed to deduce from the old wood that the chairs SHOULD have been antiques, but actually looked really new, and this jogged Prudence’s memory (she, uh, rolled REALLY poorly on a previous investigation check) and she realized that the wood the chairs were made out of was basically evil wood of evil and shouldn’t be used for furniture making. Dob was all for going down to the docks to see if any other similar deliveries would be made that night – and even hit upon the idea of disguising Corazon as a chair as a sort of trap. Corazon, drunk on the thrill of stealing from the unattended till – and also on a massive amount of rum – thought this was a BRILLIANT plan, and Dob actually made him up very convincingly as a chair and left him on the docks. Merilwen turned into a cat to sit on him as a sort of guard, and the others went up onto the rooftops to wait. When I left, it was just half-past midnight, and the warehouse workers were loading up furniture onto a ship. I remember seeing this moment on Johnny’s list video regarding how the Oxventure team screws up his plans, so I already KNOW this is going to end poorly. Mostly because Johnny JUST WANTED THEM TO ASK THE PEOPLE ON THE DOCK ABOUT THE CHAIRS, not get into shenanigans with Chairazon and whatnot. XD Oh dear. . .
5. Work on tumblr drafts: Check – cleaned up a draft I had about Londerland Bloodlines!Victor having the “Blood Empathy” merit, then put a few things from a blog I follow with some good FO4 stuff on it into the drafts as well. So I’ve got a bit more of a buffer now!
Additionally:
-->I did indeed make those backups mentioned in the Sims 4 item – actually made a bunch of them last night on my spare hard drive. And I updated my LibreOffice as well as Sims 4, so that’s good.
So yeah, a good mixture of productive and lazy! XD With my only real complaint being that, um, I've gotten twitchier and bitchier as the night's gone on. . .I think the PMS is starting to kick in. -.- I suspect mid next week I'll be dealing with the red curse, but I'll keep an eye on things should something start early. Fingers crossed, all! Night!
