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Another Pretty Productive Day
Dec. 30th, 2021 11:44 pmFeel like I'm starting to ramp back up a bit now that the clock is really ticking on my long break -- we're down to the final three days as of tomorrow, after all. And one of those is a very necessary cleaning Saturday (since I skipped a week for Christmas -- does feel appropriate to clean the room on New Year's, though). . . But yeah, slowly but surely starting to get a bit back into the groove --
1. Continue outlining this damn "Victor and Alice use The Smiler for hypnokink" AU that won't leave me alone: Check – poked at it a bit more and got my original idea out of my head. I really don’t know if anything’s ever gonna COME of it, but – you know, it’s there, it’s something I can do little snippets of if I feel the urge. (. . .I’m not thinking of a way to design a humanized Smiler for Sims 4 just for funsies, you are. Can you tell me if you find any good spiral eyes for Sims, please?)
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, see about watching the "Presh Mems" OXtra video that just got uploaded: Check! Again, easy enough thanks to having only one Subs video I was able to watch early, but still – good to have that checked off. :)
A) Actually started with a video from a creator I don’t usually watch, PushingUpRoses, just because the title of the video is “I Did It. I Found the Movie Equivalent of Wet Cardboard.” Wouldn’t you be intrigued? As it turns out, it’s about a very bland Christmas romcom called “Dear Christmas,” starring Melissa Joan Hart as Natalie, a famous podcaster who goes back home and discovers her Christmas true love in the form of Chris Massey, who does pretty much every job ever in the little town, from changing tires to glass-blowing. XD The movie’s notable because it has pretty much no conflict apart from a last-minute panic attack from Natalie about them possibly moving too fast (prompted from a call from her boss, who recently got a new boyfriend herself), and while normally a movie where everything’s fluffy and the leads COMMUNICATE LIKE ADULTS (notably, Natalie is able to call Chris when her ability to get to the volunteer fireman’s ball is curtailed by her pregnant sister going into labor, and he politely waits for her even past the ball ending so they can have a romantic private dance) might actually be a great pushback against the usual Christmas melodrama, the leads are just too flat to make this interesting. Even coffee shop AUs have more conflict! But it made for a fun riff, and that’s the most important thing. XD
B) Then, because I’m not done with The Smiler obsession (seriously, how did this happen), watched an old video of someone doing a tour of the Smiler-themed bedroom in Alton Towers resort. Lots of optical illusions, Smiler logo faces, and even projectors putting spirals on the wall. XD Cannot fault the themeing!
C) Then it was over to the Subs for the only video of the day there – Call Me Kevin plays Call of Duty: Warzone as a pacifist! Specifically, he entered the new “Pacific” stage and played through the Battle Royale mode without actually shooting anyone (though he was willing to throw things and shoot THE GROUND to scare people). What followed was a montage of Kevin hiding in various places throughout the levels (mostly bushes, but occasionally buildings) and sometimes driving vehicles to get out of sticky situations. He ended up in some weird places too – like WAAAY on top of a smoke stack when he had a bounty put on him, meaning none of his pursuers could actually figure out where he was. (And then he got kicked off for inactivity because apparently five extra seconds of lurking was too much?) He also lurked like a mole person in the rafters of a factory, and managed to drive a car off a small cliff and got it STANDING VERTICALLY against another building. XD Kevin was very confused. But you know the best part?
Dude’s so good at hiding he actually managed to come THIRD in his last match. Granted, that was partially luck – one of his opponents near the end accidentally called an airstrike on THEMSELVES and had to run for it without noticing him – but DAMN. I am duly impressed, Kevin!
D) And then it was over to OXtra for some Presh Mems – 12 of them, in fact, for the year 2021! From the Taurus Demon accidentally yeeting itself off the bridge while trying to back up to take another swing at poor Ellen during her and Luke’s first Dark Souls Academy stream, to Andy trolling the hell out of poor Ellen as she braved the dollhouse and the monster fetus in Resident Evil Village, to Luke remixing the talking pumpkins in Goosebumps: Escape From Horrorland, to Luke having a VERY bad time with some spicy jellybeans and not enough milk, to Luke and Ellen FINALLY remembering the name of the most forgettable Pokemon (Pinsir, if you were curious), TWO HOURS after they set themselves the challenge to name all 151 originals – there’s been a lot of fun moments over the year, horrible as it has been in general. :) Hoping for an even better 2022!
3. Play some more Unpacking: Check! Got through another couple of levels today – the “moving in with your first serious relationship” level (one Jon from MATN noted does not actually have a lot of room for YOUR stuff – notably, our mysterious young lady can’t even hang up her degree on the wall (and he tried, putting in the bathroom because that was the only room that had wall space)), and the “welp, we broke up and now I’m back in my childhood bedroom” level. The puzzle element of the game is pretty fascinating, as you have SOME leeway over what goes in what space, but the game can be rather picky about what spots of the floor count as the acceptable spot to leave a file box, for example. And I got tripped up in the second level by something that seems obvious in retrospect – the picture of her and the boyfriend she broke up with? Yeah, that does NOT go on the pinboard, even if it’s funny to see your invisible character stick the pin in his face. XD On the plus side, the 2013 level shows off that she DOES get her own home the year after the breakup – complete with an office! So THAT’LL be fun to pick up on! :D
4. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, another day with the Oxventure “Spell Check!” With Dob having failed at pulling the pipe out of the ceiling, Egbert gave it a go, trying to wrench it out with sheer dragon muscle. His friends all piled on to help, and they were able to make a TINY crack on the pipe, which Corazon immediately tried to suck on for magic juice. XD Though this actually DID end up helping – Dob tested what they’d done by Healing Wounds on – Baran? I’m having a little trouble with the dwarf druid’s name, I admit – and while most of it got sucked away, a little went into Corazon and used him as a conduit, bringing the dwarf closer to health. Corazon carried him over to grab his battle ax, while the others questioned Christopher, who confirmed that the pipes all went into the room at the end of the corridor – but that Lilianna was definitely going to be in there too. After much ridiculous discussion, a plan was hatched – as the pipe was actually big enough to fit people, Corazon and Prudence volunteered to crawl along it and find the giant magical vat all the energy was getting sucked into, getting into the room by sneaky means. (OPENING the pipe enough so they could get in was a comedy of errors, admittedly, what with both the dwarf AND Egbert rolling poorly on their attempts to ax it open, but they eventually got the job done.) Egbert and Merilwen, meanwhile, chose to stand on either side of the door, ready to rush in and start causing chaos. And Dob made Christopher a pair of fake arms so he could roleplay pretending to drag in Dob as a prisoner, who would then at least TRY to seduce Lilianna, using the phrase “a poem for you, my lady!” as a signal for the pipe people to leap in, destroy the vat any way they could, and then start causing trouble. Everyone got into position (Prudence, taking a moment to check the spellwork, admiring the diabolical nature of the magic-collector), and Christopher dragged Dob in, who started babbling about Lilianna (revealed to be a drow, working on some sort of homunculus project with a bunch of mysterious technicians) and her beauty –
And, unfortunately, said “my lady, a poem for you.” Meaning Andy and Jane decided to be MEAN and have Corazon and Prudence err on the side of caution and not fuck shit up (instead talking about sandwiches of all things). XD Dob kept babbling, desperately trying to get them to fling themselves into action (fortunately, Lilianna found it all very funny), until FINALLY, after directly saying, “if you were waiting for a signal, THIS IS IT” –
EGBERT got tired of all this, stepped inside, and threw his mace at the glass vat. XD I’ve left off with him calculating damage, meaning we’ll have to see if he’s smashed it or not! One hopes he has. . .
5. Work on tumblr queues: Check – with Victor Luvs Alice good for the rest of the week, I just had to concentrate on Valice Multiverse – one ask reply I got done early, then two thread replies and one new thread start with one of my regular partners (as we just completed two other threads and she had a new idea she wanted to do). All sorted, yay!
Not bad, not bad. Now, tomorrow being New Year's, we're gonna be doing one of our "til midnight marathons" (this time concentrating on one of Lee Mack's old shows, which we hope is funny), so that's gonna change how I do my online stuff. So let's adjust the to-dos accordingly:
1. Continue my weird AU writing stuff
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs
3. Play either Sims 4 and handle Winterfest, or Fallout 4 and go visit Tenpines Bluff
4. Get in a workout
*nods* This seems reasonable for a day where I won't have most of the evening to catch up on things. Here's hoping for a good New Year's Eve, folks! Let's kick 2021 to the curb! Night all!
1. Continue outlining this damn "Victor and Alice use The Smiler for hypnokink" AU that won't leave me alone: Check – poked at it a bit more and got my original idea out of my head. I really don’t know if anything’s ever gonna COME of it, but – you know, it’s there, it’s something I can do little snippets of if I feel the urge. (. . .I’m not thinking of a way to design a humanized Smiler for Sims 4 just for funsies, you are. Can you tell me if you find any good spiral eyes for Sims, please?)
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, see about watching the "Presh Mems" OXtra video that just got uploaded: Check! Again, easy enough thanks to having only one Subs video I was able to watch early, but still – good to have that checked off. :)
A) Actually started with a video from a creator I don’t usually watch, PushingUpRoses, just because the title of the video is “I Did It. I Found the Movie Equivalent of Wet Cardboard.” Wouldn’t you be intrigued? As it turns out, it’s about a very bland Christmas romcom called “Dear Christmas,” starring Melissa Joan Hart as Natalie, a famous podcaster who goes back home and discovers her Christmas true love in the form of Chris Massey, who does pretty much every job ever in the little town, from changing tires to glass-blowing. XD The movie’s notable because it has pretty much no conflict apart from a last-minute panic attack from Natalie about them possibly moving too fast (prompted from a call from her boss, who recently got a new boyfriend herself), and while normally a movie where everything’s fluffy and the leads COMMUNICATE LIKE ADULTS (notably, Natalie is able to call Chris when her ability to get to the volunteer fireman’s ball is curtailed by her pregnant sister going into labor, and he politely waits for her even past the ball ending so they can have a romantic private dance) might actually be a great pushback against the usual Christmas melodrama, the leads are just too flat to make this interesting. Even coffee shop AUs have more conflict! But it made for a fun riff, and that’s the most important thing. XD
B) Then, because I’m not done with The Smiler obsession (seriously, how did this happen), watched an old video of someone doing a tour of the Smiler-themed bedroom in Alton Towers resort. Lots of optical illusions, Smiler logo faces, and even projectors putting spirals on the wall. XD Cannot fault the themeing!
C) Then it was over to the Subs for the only video of the day there – Call Me Kevin plays Call of Duty: Warzone as a pacifist! Specifically, he entered the new “Pacific” stage and played through the Battle Royale mode without actually shooting anyone (though he was willing to throw things and shoot THE GROUND to scare people). What followed was a montage of Kevin hiding in various places throughout the levels (mostly bushes, but occasionally buildings) and sometimes driving vehicles to get out of sticky situations. He ended up in some weird places too – like WAAAY on top of a smoke stack when he had a bounty put on him, meaning none of his pursuers could actually figure out where he was. (And then he got kicked off for inactivity because apparently five extra seconds of lurking was too much?) He also lurked like a mole person in the rafters of a factory, and managed to drive a car off a small cliff and got it STANDING VERTICALLY against another building. XD Kevin was very confused. But you know the best part?
Dude’s so good at hiding he actually managed to come THIRD in his last match. Granted, that was partially luck – one of his opponents near the end accidentally called an airstrike on THEMSELVES and had to run for it without noticing him – but DAMN. I am duly impressed, Kevin!
D) And then it was over to OXtra for some Presh Mems – 12 of them, in fact, for the year 2021! From the Taurus Demon accidentally yeeting itself off the bridge while trying to back up to take another swing at poor Ellen during her and Luke’s first Dark Souls Academy stream, to Andy trolling the hell out of poor Ellen as she braved the dollhouse and the monster fetus in Resident Evil Village, to Luke remixing the talking pumpkins in Goosebumps: Escape From Horrorland, to Luke having a VERY bad time with some spicy jellybeans and not enough milk, to Luke and Ellen FINALLY remembering the name of the most forgettable Pokemon (Pinsir, if you were curious), TWO HOURS after they set themselves the challenge to name all 151 originals – there’s been a lot of fun moments over the year, horrible as it has been in general. :) Hoping for an even better 2022!
3. Play some more Unpacking: Check! Got through another couple of levels today – the “moving in with your first serious relationship” level (one Jon from MATN noted does not actually have a lot of room for YOUR stuff – notably, our mysterious young lady can’t even hang up her degree on the wall (and he tried, putting in the bathroom because that was the only room that had wall space)), and the “welp, we broke up and now I’m back in my childhood bedroom” level. The puzzle element of the game is pretty fascinating, as you have SOME leeway over what goes in what space, but the game can be rather picky about what spots of the floor count as the acceptable spot to leave a file box, for example. And I got tripped up in the second level by something that seems obvious in retrospect – the picture of her and the boyfriend she broke up with? Yeah, that does NOT go on the pinboard, even if it’s funny to see your invisible character stick the pin in his face. XD On the plus side, the 2013 level shows off that she DOES get her own home the year after the breakup – complete with an office! So THAT’LL be fun to pick up on! :D
4. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, another day with the Oxventure “Spell Check!” With Dob having failed at pulling the pipe out of the ceiling, Egbert gave it a go, trying to wrench it out with sheer dragon muscle. His friends all piled on to help, and they were able to make a TINY crack on the pipe, which Corazon immediately tried to suck on for magic juice. XD Though this actually DID end up helping – Dob tested what they’d done by Healing Wounds on – Baran? I’m having a little trouble with the dwarf druid’s name, I admit – and while most of it got sucked away, a little went into Corazon and used him as a conduit, bringing the dwarf closer to health. Corazon carried him over to grab his battle ax, while the others questioned Christopher, who confirmed that the pipes all went into the room at the end of the corridor – but that Lilianna was definitely going to be in there too. After much ridiculous discussion, a plan was hatched – as the pipe was actually big enough to fit people, Corazon and Prudence volunteered to crawl along it and find the giant magical vat all the energy was getting sucked into, getting into the room by sneaky means. (OPENING the pipe enough so they could get in was a comedy of errors, admittedly, what with both the dwarf AND Egbert rolling poorly on their attempts to ax it open, but they eventually got the job done.) Egbert and Merilwen, meanwhile, chose to stand on either side of the door, ready to rush in and start causing chaos. And Dob made Christopher a pair of fake arms so he could roleplay pretending to drag in Dob as a prisoner, who would then at least TRY to seduce Lilianna, using the phrase “a poem for you, my lady!” as a signal for the pipe people to leap in, destroy the vat any way they could, and then start causing trouble. Everyone got into position (Prudence, taking a moment to check the spellwork, admiring the diabolical nature of the magic-collector), and Christopher dragged Dob in, who started babbling about Lilianna (revealed to be a drow, working on some sort of homunculus project with a bunch of mysterious technicians) and her beauty –
And, unfortunately, said “my lady, a poem for you.” Meaning Andy and Jane decided to be MEAN and have Corazon and Prudence err on the side of caution and not fuck shit up (instead talking about sandwiches of all things). XD Dob kept babbling, desperately trying to get them to fling themselves into action (fortunately, Lilianna found it all very funny), until FINALLY, after directly saying, “if you were waiting for a signal, THIS IS IT” –
EGBERT got tired of all this, stepped inside, and threw his mace at the glass vat. XD I’ve left off with him calculating damage, meaning we’ll have to see if he’s smashed it or not! One hopes he has. . .
5. Work on tumblr queues: Check – with Victor Luvs Alice good for the rest of the week, I just had to concentrate on Valice Multiverse – one ask reply I got done early, then two thread replies and one new thread start with one of my regular partners (as we just completed two other threads and she had a new idea she wanted to do). All sorted, yay!
Not bad, not bad. Now, tomorrow being New Year's, we're gonna be doing one of our "til midnight marathons" (this time concentrating on one of Lee Mack's old shows, which we hope is funny), so that's gonna change how I do my online stuff. So let's adjust the to-dos accordingly:
1. Continue my weird AU writing stuff
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs
3. Play either Sims 4 and handle Winterfest, or Fallout 4 and go visit Tenpines Bluff
4. Get in a workout
*nods* This seems reasonable for a day where I won't have most of the evening to catch up on things. Here's hoping for a good New Year's Eve, folks! Let's kick 2021 to the curb! Night all!
