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Been An Angry Sort Of Day
Jun. 24th, 2022 11:52 pmI mean, if you've seen the latest nonsense from the Supreme Court, you know a bit of it, but there was some stress at work (below), the usual idiots on my commute, and I made the mistake of looking at something that pissed me off, and it hasn't fully worked its way out of my system. Which hasn't done great things for my concentration, let me tell you. But I've gotten some stuff done --
Work – Morning was almost dead quiet, with me just moving along through one of my spreadsheets, but then the afternoon proved more stressful, with trying to look up things for Fiscal and figure out where certain payments and refunds were or weren’t. *sigh* At least it’s all done for the week now!
Beanbags – Not today – when I got home, it seriously looked like it might pour any second, and the radar showed we might get tagged with some rain, if not a thunderstorm, so the game went in the garage. As it turned out, it never really did more than sprinkle before clearing up (we must have been just on the edge of it), so *shrug* Not like there won’t be other opportunities to play!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike to finish off the Oxventure Stream “Snow Mercy!” After learning all the various points of ingress for the pub, the Oxventurers proceeded to do an awesomely cinematic “breach and clear” on the place – Dob slid down the chimney and landed in the classic three-point superhero pose, embers flying around him (and smashed the Dex save to avoid being set on fire – and yes, he knew that he was coming down a chimney that was currently in use, but insisted on doing so anyway XD); Prudence kicked in the front door so hard it literally flew off its hinges, and Egbert shot a flash-bang bomb into the room behind the bar with his crossbow (yes, he has a crossbow – even has proficiency in it, which is good, as that’s all that allowed the flash-bang to work correctly XD); Corazon smashed through the window, and even got a chance to slow-motion run his fingers through his hair; and Merilwen just threw open the back door into the cellar and strode in like the nature goddess she is amongst the chaos.
As you might imagine, Dana was – rather taken aback. XD And then was even more taken aback when Corazon just straight up tackled her and tied her up in his hempen rope. Doing such a good job that he managed to tie her in a boat-hitch knot. XD Dana was like “was the service not good?” and the others were like “service was adequate, we’re here about the ZOMBIE KOBOLDS” There was some arguing as Dana tried to claim she had no idea what they were talking about (and also tried to offer them her knock-off Marsh-Merlots, which they were PARTICULARLY furious about), and Dob ran downstairs, decapitated one of the zombolds with his knife, and brought it back up to use Speak With Dead on it and ask who its master was. This – was not particularly conclusive, as the zombold head managed one vague nod in Dana’s direction before falling out of Dob’s hand and smashing like a melon on the floor, but it was enough to get Dana to confess, at least. XD She said she hated the kobolds coming in and taking human jobs, and she particularly hated that they had plans to build their own tavern and potentially create a rival business. Egbert asked if they shouldn’t get someone from the law to come in and hear this, but Prudence said they were the law. Corazon said that she should be turned into a kobold and have to live like them from now on, did anyone have some spells like that –
Oooh, yeah, Egbert has that cursed mace, doesn’t he? XD Fortunately it only took a couple of prods this time to transform Dana, as opposed to the fifty million to make Seal Gaiman. XD She ended up not a kobold, but a lizard-folk, which everyone agreed was close enough (and was appropriate anyway, as they’re know for being territorial xenophobes). Merilwen was then all for throwing her in her own basement with the zombies and Stoneshaping the door shut, but everyone managed to convince her that they were trying for an ironic punishment, not a weird, murdery “Cask Of Amontillado” situation. They were attempting to have some moral high ground here! That being said, they did not untie Dana when they let her loose, forcing her to wriggle her way to the door to leave the tavern and try her luck in her new shape. Egbert was at least nice enough to give her the pants he bought. XD And, just to add insult to injury, they then proceeded to find the deed and hand it over to Snicket the kobold so they could make it a place for all, awww. :) Nice!
That left them with eight minutes in the stream, though (finished a bit early this time!), so they threw around a few questions to answer. Key ones were how far did they go off Johnny’s script (not very – they were playing it fast and loose this time; hadn’t even come up with the market idea beforehand); is Merilwen going to turn into a zombie kobold (no, these were purely Reanimate Dead beings, they’re not infectious – though that may change depending on how many more puns Merilwen makes XD); and should Corazon continue using his crossbow (no, because it sucks; conversely, Egbert’s really gotta start using his more). Also a lot of joking about Dale and his accent, and how it actually goes well with the Wizards of the Coast. XD Good times! Though I wish the quality of the stream had been better – there was a LOT of stuttering and little drops. Shame.
Bonus bit – there was still a few minutes left in my workout when the stream ended, so I checked out a mod video for Sims 4: Werewolves by itsmetroi. Only got about halfway through, but that was fine – the only one that vaguely interested me was the one about making Fury rise a bit slower so your werewolves aren’t rampaging constantly. Personally, the one I want is one to guarantee that werewolves and vampires start with neutral or only slightly-in-the-red relationships, instead of insta-enemies, since that’s kind of relevant to my Victor/Alice/Smiler polycule. . . That being said, I also want to see what happens when Smiler, who has every bonus imaginable for making friends (they can literally become instantly good friends with a Sim from a Cheerful Greeting) says hello to a werewolf. How much would their Pristine Reputation, maxed Charisma, and Incredibly Friendly trait cancel out any instinctive hatred? Questions, questions. . .
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has managed to talk Copper out of doing anything stupid to get himself cured of vampirism, and he’s actually having a potentially-productive conversation with Mercurio now about exchanging labor for blood from the blood bank (without having to risk getting it from Vandal directly). Alice herself is in the boat and on her way to find the Dane, which – thanks to her being quick-witted and having invisibility – is going to be pretty easy, all things considered. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half-check – I got one video from yesterday, one video from today. This weekend is definitely gonna have to be all about catching up on my YouTubery. . .as it stands, we had –
A) First up, my Call Me Kevin from yesterday – “I tried to get the worst ending in The Quarry!” Yup, it’s time to wrap up his chaos run of The Quarry, with camp counselors versus werewolves. . .and hilariously, his terrible choices did not result in a total party kill! Oh, plenty of people died, and I’m pretty sure everyone who lived was infected with this game’s weird-ass version of lycanthropy, but it wasn’t the massacre that I think he was hoping for. That being said, he did turn the girl from the prologue (who comes back with a badass eye patch in the regular game) into an idiot who kept trying to steal Officer Travis’s gun during her escape attempts from the cell he imprisoned her and her friend in and NEVER succeeded until the plot went “FINE THIS IS A FLASHBACK HERE’S YOUR PLOT ARMOR;” had her and Ryan (the kid who blind-shot his other friend in the face) become the worst team-up ever as they went after the Hacketts; accidentally spared one of the other characters by not letting the prologue girl, Laura, shoot him in the face when she mistook his werewolf form for that of Chris, the guy who infected her friend (rare instance of him intervening!); got Laura and Ryan killed in a fight with the Hacketts and wereChris (Ryan getting stabbed, then pulling out the knife to bleed all over the place before showing off his terrible shooting skills again and getting HALF HIS FACE YANKED OFF by wereChris; Laura, meanwhile got stabbed with a silver-backed mirror by Travis the cop, but not before she SWIPED HIS HEAD OFF after transforming); refused to smash a werewolf attacking the two remaining counselors Dylan and Kaitlin in the scrapyard (trying to find a new ride) with a car on a crane until the game forced the issue; let Kaitlin succeed on ONE quick-time event to get into the kitchen, then refused to help her again as the latest werewolf attacked her (she was only spared because she got infected during the junkyard scrap); and upset the weird narrator lady by not finishing off the Hacketts in the end. Basically it’s the worst ending because most people are dead; those who are alive are either werewolves or have to watch their loved ones become werewolves next full moon; and the narrator lady didn’t get to see her enemies the Hacketts slaughtered to a man. Nobody wins, yay~ XD Good job, Kevin!
B) And secondly, this week’s Fun With Shorts – “The Black Knight of Death!” More terrible Lone Ranger cartoons, everybody! :D This one featured the Ranger and Tonto going up against The Black Knight, a guy who built a literal medieval castle in the middle of an Old West valley and then started threatening the townspeople with high taxes because he wanted to own the whole place. Tonto actually got hurt this episode, forcing the Ranger to actually do something for a change. XD And Josh’s riffs were on point, complete with plenty of Monty Python and the Holy Grail riffs. And a joke about the very first murder victim looking like Dmitri from the animated Anastasia movie, which for some reason I just loved. *shrug* Good stuff!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: This one is check-in-progress – two asks to answer on Valice Multiverse, but I will be sure to get them done before the night’s out. Just been busy catching up on webcomics and social stuff.
Not great, but not terrible -- still, I'm going into this weekend feeling like I've got a lot of shit to catch up on. At least now I'm moving into that time of year where I have more time to do all this catch-up. . . But for now, let's focus on what I need to get done on Saturday:
1. Clean my room and do the monthly wash
2. Catch up on all YouTube Subs videos
3. Either play Sims 4 and do a building project (coffee shop) or watch some of the Sims videos in my Watch Later
4. Work on tumblr drafts
Yes, I'm giving myself the option to either play the game or watch other people play it. XD Look, I have a LOT of Plumbella in my Watch Later, and I'm still waiting to see if some of my mods are actually going to get an "okay" from the creators or not. Might be better to skip another Saturday. We'll see what happens!
Right now, though, I'm juggling the social stuff again, and I gotta get to answering some stuff -- night all!
Work – Morning was almost dead quiet, with me just moving along through one of my spreadsheets, but then the afternoon proved more stressful, with trying to look up things for Fiscal and figure out where certain payments and refunds were or weren’t. *sigh* At least it’s all done for the week now!
Beanbags – Not today – when I got home, it seriously looked like it might pour any second, and the radar showed we might get tagged with some rain, if not a thunderstorm, so the game went in the garage. As it turned out, it never really did more than sprinkle before clearing up (we must have been just on the edge of it), so *shrug* Not like there won’t be other opportunities to play!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike to finish off the Oxventure Stream “Snow Mercy!” After learning all the various points of ingress for the pub, the Oxventurers proceeded to do an awesomely cinematic “breach and clear” on the place – Dob slid down the chimney and landed in the classic three-point superhero pose, embers flying around him (and smashed the Dex save to avoid being set on fire – and yes, he knew that he was coming down a chimney that was currently in use, but insisted on doing so anyway XD); Prudence kicked in the front door so hard it literally flew off its hinges, and Egbert shot a flash-bang bomb into the room behind the bar with his crossbow (yes, he has a crossbow – even has proficiency in it, which is good, as that’s all that allowed the flash-bang to work correctly XD); Corazon smashed through the window, and even got a chance to slow-motion run his fingers through his hair; and Merilwen just threw open the back door into the cellar and strode in like the nature goddess she is amongst the chaos.
As you might imagine, Dana was – rather taken aback. XD And then was even more taken aback when Corazon just straight up tackled her and tied her up in his hempen rope. Doing such a good job that he managed to tie her in a boat-hitch knot. XD Dana was like “was the service not good?” and the others were like “service was adequate, we’re here about the ZOMBIE KOBOLDS” There was some arguing as Dana tried to claim she had no idea what they were talking about (and also tried to offer them her knock-off Marsh-Merlots, which they were PARTICULARLY furious about), and Dob ran downstairs, decapitated one of the zombolds with his knife, and brought it back up to use Speak With Dead on it and ask who its master was. This – was not particularly conclusive, as the zombold head managed one vague nod in Dana’s direction before falling out of Dob’s hand and smashing like a melon on the floor, but it was enough to get Dana to confess, at least. XD She said she hated the kobolds coming in and taking human jobs, and she particularly hated that they had plans to build their own tavern and potentially create a rival business. Egbert asked if they shouldn’t get someone from the law to come in and hear this, but Prudence said they were the law. Corazon said that she should be turned into a kobold and have to live like them from now on, did anyone have some spells like that –
Oooh, yeah, Egbert has that cursed mace, doesn’t he? XD Fortunately it only took a couple of prods this time to transform Dana, as opposed to the fifty million to make Seal Gaiman. XD She ended up not a kobold, but a lizard-folk, which everyone agreed was close enough (and was appropriate anyway, as they’re know for being territorial xenophobes). Merilwen was then all for throwing her in her own basement with the zombies and Stoneshaping the door shut, but everyone managed to convince her that they were trying for an ironic punishment, not a weird, murdery “Cask Of Amontillado” situation. They were attempting to have some moral high ground here! That being said, they did not untie Dana when they let her loose, forcing her to wriggle her way to the door to leave the tavern and try her luck in her new shape. Egbert was at least nice enough to give her the pants he bought. XD And, just to add insult to injury, they then proceeded to find the deed and hand it over to Snicket the kobold so they could make it a place for all, awww. :) Nice!
That left them with eight minutes in the stream, though (finished a bit early this time!), so they threw around a few questions to answer. Key ones were how far did they go off Johnny’s script (not very – they were playing it fast and loose this time; hadn’t even come up with the market idea beforehand); is Merilwen going to turn into a zombie kobold (no, these were purely Reanimate Dead beings, they’re not infectious – though that may change depending on how many more puns Merilwen makes XD); and should Corazon continue using his crossbow (no, because it sucks; conversely, Egbert’s really gotta start using his more). Also a lot of joking about Dale and his accent, and how it actually goes well with the Wizards of the Coast. XD Good times! Though I wish the quality of the stream had been better – there was a LOT of stuttering and little drops. Shame.
Bonus bit – there was still a few minutes left in my workout when the stream ended, so I checked out a mod video for Sims 4: Werewolves by itsmetroi. Only got about halfway through, but that was fine – the only one that vaguely interested me was the one about making Fury rise a bit slower so your werewolves aren’t rampaging constantly. Personally, the one I want is one to guarantee that werewolves and vampires start with neutral or only slightly-in-the-red relationships, instead of insta-enemies, since that’s kind of relevant to my Victor/Alice/Smiler polycule. . . That being said, I also want to see what happens when Smiler, who has every bonus imaginable for making friends (they can literally become instantly good friends with a Sim from a Cheerful Greeting) says hello to a werewolf. How much would their Pristine Reputation, maxed Charisma, and Incredibly Friendly trait cancel out any instinctive hatred? Questions, questions. . .
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has managed to talk Copper out of doing anything stupid to get himself cured of vampirism, and he’s actually having a potentially-productive conversation with Mercurio now about exchanging labor for blood from the blood bank (without having to risk getting it from Vandal directly). Alice herself is in the boat and on her way to find the Dane, which – thanks to her being quick-witted and having invisibility – is going to be pretty easy, all things considered. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half-check – I got one video from yesterday, one video from today. This weekend is definitely gonna have to be all about catching up on my YouTubery. . .as it stands, we had –
A) First up, my Call Me Kevin from yesterday – “I tried to get the worst ending in The Quarry!” Yup, it’s time to wrap up his chaos run of The Quarry, with camp counselors versus werewolves. . .and hilariously, his terrible choices did not result in a total party kill! Oh, plenty of people died, and I’m pretty sure everyone who lived was infected with this game’s weird-ass version of lycanthropy, but it wasn’t the massacre that I think he was hoping for. That being said, he did turn the girl from the prologue (who comes back with a badass eye patch in the regular game) into an idiot who kept trying to steal Officer Travis’s gun during her escape attempts from the cell he imprisoned her and her friend in and NEVER succeeded until the plot went “FINE THIS IS A FLASHBACK HERE’S YOUR PLOT ARMOR;” had her and Ryan (the kid who blind-shot his other friend in the face) become the worst team-up ever as they went after the Hacketts; accidentally spared one of the other characters by not letting the prologue girl, Laura, shoot him in the face when she mistook his werewolf form for that of Chris, the guy who infected her friend (rare instance of him intervening!); got Laura and Ryan killed in a fight with the Hacketts and wereChris (Ryan getting stabbed, then pulling out the knife to bleed all over the place before showing off his terrible shooting skills again and getting HALF HIS FACE YANKED OFF by wereChris; Laura, meanwhile got stabbed with a silver-backed mirror by Travis the cop, but not before she SWIPED HIS HEAD OFF after transforming); refused to smash a werewolf attacking the two remaining counselors Dylan and Kaitlin in the scrapyard (trying to find a new ride) with a car on a crane until the game forced the issue; let Kaitlin succeed on ONE quick-time event to get into the kitchen, then refused to help her again as the latest werewolf attacked her (she was only spared because she got infected during the junkyard scrap); and upset the weird narrator lady by not finishing off the Hacketts in the end. Basically it’s the worst ending because most people are dead; those who are alive are either werewolves or have to watch their loved ones become werewolves next full moon; and the narrator lady didn’t get to see her enemies the Hacketts slaughtered to a man. Nobody wins, yay~ XD Good job, Kevin!
B) And secondly, this week’s Fun With Shorts – “The Black Knight of Death!” More terrible Lone Ranger cartoons, everybody! :D This one featured the Ranger and Tonto going up against The Black Knight, a guy who built a literal medieval castle in the middle of an Old West valley and then started threatening the townspeople with high taxes because he wanted to own the whole place. Tonto actually got hurt this episode, forcing the Ranger to actually do something for a change. XD And Josh’s riffs were on point, complete with plenty of Monty Python and the Holy Grail riffs. And a joke about the very first murder victim looking like Dmitri from the animated Anastasia movie, which for some reason I just loved. *shrug* Good stuff!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: This one is check-in-progress – two asks to answer on Valice Multiverse, but I will be sure to get them done before the night’s out. Just been busy catching up on webcomics and social stuff.
Not great, but not terrible -- still, I'm going into this weekend feeling like I've got a lot of shit to catch up on. At least now I'm moving into that time of year where I have more time to do all this catch-up. . . But for now, let's focus on what I need to get done on Saturday:
1. Clean my room and do the monthly wash
2. Catch up on all YouTube Subs videos
3. Either play Sims 4 and do a building project (coffee shop) or watch some of the Sims videos in my Watch Later
4. Work on tumblr drafts
Yes, I'm giving myself the option to either play the game or watch other people play it. XD Look, I have a LOT of Plumbella in my Watch Later, and I'm still waiting to see if some of my mods are actually going to get an "okay" from the creators or not. Might be better to skip another Saturday. We'll see what happens!
Right now, though, I'm juggling the social stuff again, and I gotta get to answering some stuff -- night all!
