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And So The Long "Saturday" Ends. . .
Jan. 2nd, 2023 11:44 pmIt's been a pretty nice twelve days off, I must say, despite a few blips here and there. Maybe I didn't get everything I hoped to get done, done, but I got a good amount accomplished, I received some nice presents, and I'm going back in a pretty good mood with an almost clean slate. Let's see what happened on my final day off of this long end-of-year vacation:
Tumblr: Did the dash-and-tags catch-up on Victor Luvs Alice, then did the text on one and a half of the Chill Save update posts for this Wednesday (going over Fall Wednesday and Alice’s missed promotion, among other things) before lunch. Finished those up after lunch, meaning, if nothing else, THAT is all sorted. :)
Sims 4: I wasn’t sure if I was going to pop into Sims 4 or not today – I didn’t have any building projects in mind, and I didn’t want to resume the Valicer Chill Save until Saturday because, while I like having a buffer, I don’t want to get TOO far ahead and get confused as to where I am when it comes to doing the screenshots. (Trust me, this will happen as we get farther and farther away from when I played a particular session!) However, I remembered that there was something that I wanted to try in the game – namely, seeing if curing Smiler of vampirism via MC Command Center’s cheats would work better for keeping them the way they should look versus curing them via the in-game drink? AKA, would doing it via the mod allow them to keep their yellow eyes because, after what happened on Thursday, I now find Smiler with a “natural” eye color to be weird and wrong. XD
So! Having already tried the “let’s cure Smiler using the in-game drink” method in a variation on my main building save, I instead loaded up my “Plaice Holder” save (aka a save I have for testing the game vanilla post patches if I need to, with a Sim I made through CAS Stories called – well, guess), chose a lot in Newcrest, and hopped into CAS to get my new “Alton” Smiler saved household (using their “canon” last name instead of the “Always” I used for the original version) –
And then figured “you know what, might as well make a pre-set Valicer household for my Library while I’m here” and merged in the “Sole Survivor Victor” household (Victor in my CC Vault 111 suit and with a Dogmeat I found on the Gallery) and “Bloodlines Alice” (Alice in outfits I felt were appropriate to her Bloodlines self and a Cheshire Cat I found on the Gallery) household that I made a little while back. Removed the pets as their textures were not rendering properly (thanks game), set the preferences of Alice and Victor, got a shot of Smiler’s face so I could compare it to their “regular cured” self’s face (it really is JUST the eyes that changed when they were cured normally, but it is AMAZING how much of a difference that makes! Possibly because the yellow eyes I chose glow, but still. . .), and then – after realizing the gang had more money as there was three of them – ended up moving them into a starter house in Windenburg! And then, with them standing in the rain in front of their new place, I clicked on Smiler, opened up the MC Command Center menu, found the Cheats section, found the Occult section under that, and clicked “Human-ize Sim.”
Success! Smiler was turned to an ordinary Sim and kept their yellow eyes! :D So if I want a human Smiler for any reason, that is the way to do it. :) There was some weirdness with their job panel not showing them as properly unemployed, but I was able to successfully get them a job as a barista with no problems, so. . . *shrug* I set Victor and Alice to be polyamorous through Wonderful Whims (Smiler already was, because this particular version of the household was saved a little while after I started actually playing them in the Chill Save – also, yes, this was literally just testing, but you never know), and then, just for funsies, had Alice go in and activate the “change their outfits only” version of CAS through the dresser and designed a few extra looks for Smiler. XD Because it’s fun to dress them up. Though this made me realize there is NOT a lot in this game that has proper stripes in it, and black-and-white stripes are one of the Key Smiler Looks if you take a gander at the coaster’s staff. If I get any more CC clothes, that’s something I will have to rectify.
Anyway! Had fun with that (and giving Alice one other warm weather look), then realized it had been about an hour, saved the household as its own save file, then took one last look for interesting things on the Gallery before signing off. :) Not a bad way to end my long vacation, video-game-wise! Even if it does make me eager to get back to my regular Chill Save trio. :)
Writing: Ended up revising my “how Alice and Smiler met Victor” snippet for the Blades in the Dark Valicer AU that lives in the back of my head! I wanted to do something relating to that during my time off, so I’m pleased to have finally accomplished that goal. And I added in a header for fanfic bits so I can easily get back to that section in the future now. Hooray for writing and improved document navigation!
YouTube: Kept up on Subs, got something out of my Watch Later, got something out of my Recommendeds, so I’m going back to work with only one longish video in the old WL. Life is pretty good. :P
A) Started this afternoon while making backups (see below) with the latest AT4W – “Top 15 Goofiest Superheroes of AT4W - Atop the Fourth Wall!” Featuring such classics as The Future Five (a bunch of dicks designed to encourage people to go to college), Sultry Teenage Super Foxes (who mutated themselves to get the attention of hot pilots), Captain Tax Time (who at least will take out organized crime to try and get Canadians a break from new taxes), NFL Superpro (a player in an NFL supersuit and also the first comic on the show to make me absolutely crack up), and of course Ulysses Solomon Archer and US-1 (our favorite goofy trucker super hero who deals with aliens and ghost truckers). Also featuring a recap of 2022 and its ups and downs (how it was the year of Superman and Mr. T, but also the year that his schedule slip became the worst it’s ever been and he got like nothing done on Contest of Champions so he’s wrapping it up soon without the damn race whose special effects are just not done). A good way to ring in 2023 on the show!
B) Then it was over to OXtra for “Show of the Weekend: 10 Best Bits of 2022!” In addition to Presh Mems, seems the OXtra pair were keen to share some specific favorite bits from their weekly Saturday show! Featuring such moments as them doing Gollum impressions for Cameraman James to judge (and being WEIRDLY GOOD, to the point where James had trouble picking); building a LEGO AT-AT together (and cracking up when Ellen put it on its belly to make it look like it was having a nice slide); having an archery contest at an Elder Scrolls Online event (with Ellen getting an early bullseye but then whiffing her other shots, while Luke did pretty well overall); spraying Mike with the NEEEUM White fragrance from F1 (the “Chemical Brothers” tried hard to hype it up as the new sonic identity of F1, but Mike just thought it smelled like soap); and Luke hitting Andy with the horrible loose rubbery part of a hand-grabber as part of a scavenger hunt (the category for that round was “things Jane would use to dominate the world,” and Luke very aptly demonstrated how it could be used annoy nuclear launch codes out of world leaders with its awful creepy texture). More fun to ring in the new year!
C) Then, this evening, we had Call Me Kevin’s latest – “I ruined the new Bitlife Stock Market update!” Because it doesn’t just allow you to invest in stocks, but also in CRYPTO. XD Accordingly, Kevin created Satoshi Iamajokey to become the world’s best crypto bro! He had a bit of a hard start in life – a childhood attempt at insurance fraud by falling on a neighbor’s driveway did not workout, his first job was as a porn set janitor, and upon realizing that in order to be blessed by the BitLife devs he had to watch an ad, he cursed them instead (twice) and had all his stats and such set to ZERO. It was only through the intervention of going to the gym that his life was saved. He eventually started doing better as he began investing in crypto – he moved up in the world to Porn Historian; he got a botched penis job and was able to sue the doctor for loads; he found himself a surprisingly rich mail-order bride and dumped all her money into various “coins” and stocks – but then he decided to sell a bag of PCP he found on the street, got busted, got sent to jail for five years, lost his job and his wife –
And made ABSOLUTE LOADS on his portfolio while he was in jail. It was LITERALLY the only time his various coins and stocks and bonds performed that well. XD Once he was out, Kevin had him cash out, only to realize he now had to pay loads in income tax, so he had the guy emigrate to the Bahamas with his new wealth. He then proceeded to bounce between the US and the Bahamas as he attempted to get more plastic surgery (most of which was botched) and run for office (which he was denied because of his criminal record). He also did a little light insider trading after getting various stock tips from his parents about companies their friends worked at. This worked out fine for a while, to the point where he was able to buy himself a pirate ship to live on, but eventually, after calling the police to try and stop a biker from killing a guy, he was busted for the insider trading and ended up in jail again, where his stocks began to tank. And everyone he knew died. And then, after he got out, he took a cruise on his deteriorating boat, had a speedboat crash into him, and died trying to get the damaged ship back to shore. (Isn’t this like the third time this has happened to one of his BitLife characters?) So the moral of the story is, if you SOMEHOW make money on crypto, don’t buy a pirate ship, it won’t end well. XD
D) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and “When you grow your fingernails 948,601,001 miles long,” aka Gray plays Hand Evolution Runner! Yup, silly mobile game about running a course picking up certain items to “evolve” your character and avoiding obstacles like spike mats, spike pillars, and random table saws – this time, the character was a hand, the items were nail polishes, nail files, and hand cream, and occasionally you had to slap various people/animals/fruit to continue on through the board. The idea was to get the fanciest, most bejeweled and hennaed hand in existence with the longest nails – and trust me, your nails could get LONG. Once Gray figured out the tricks of the trade (like getting a little cat paw to come with you and grab random gems), he was regularly giving himself nails in a variety of colors that allowed him to screeeeech down the ending wall to depths of at least 300 meters. And that was BEFORE he let his friend Outwit hack the game and bring everything up to absolutely ridiculous levels. . .hand with nails that LITERALLY WENT OFF THE SCREEN? You got it! XD As usual, Gray makes the fairly stupid thing fun to watch, and we are all grateful.
Workout: Back on the bike tonight, and back to the Call Me Kevin “Rewind 2022” video! Finished off “The WORST GAMES” section with Together BnB (that glitchy mess that tries to be ten games at once) and Accident (which put Kevin into the role of the world’s most incompetent accident response person), and moved into “One Shot Playthroughs” (aka when Kevin betrayed me by suddenly putting up hour+ videos without any warning). Including Shrek 2 (where Shrek has been replaced by a robot reading his lines in the dullest voice imaginable), Spider-Man 2 (where “Spoderman” will attempt to kick car thieves all the way to the river for “hero points”), and when I left off, Simpsons Hit & Run (where Kevin will happily run over children to get to the Kwik-E-Mart faster). I have exactly 58 minutes left of this mega Rewind, hooray! Love you Kevin but this IS a lot.
Other:
-->Made a backup of my computer! Because that was overdue and I’m trying to start 2023 off right. *nods*
-->Finally answered Moose’s latest messages! And with minimal having to trim the fat, hooray. XD
*nods* Not bad, not bad. And now, having finished catching up on webcomics, I am off to bed. Hopefully I sleep decently and don't find getting up at 7 AM again too much of a chore. -.- At least it's a short week! Night all!
Tumblr: Did the dash-and-tags catch-up on Victor Luvs Alice, then did the text on one and a half of the Chill Save update posts for this Wednesday (going over Fall Wednesday and Alice’s missed promotion, among other things) before lunch. Finished those up after lunch, meaning, if nothing else, THAT is all sorted. :)
Sims 4: I wasn’t sure if I was going to pop into Sims 4 or not today – I didn’t have any building projects in mind, and I didn’t want to resume the Valicer Chill Save until Saturday because, while I like having a buffer, I don’t want to get TOO far ahead and get confused as to where I am when it comes to doing the screenshots. (Trust me, this will happen as we get farther and farther away from when I played a particular session!) However, I remembered that there was something that I wanted to try in the game – namely, seeing if curing Smiler of vampirism via MC Command Center’s cheats would work better for keeping them the way they should look versus curing them via the in-game drink? AKA, would doing it via the mod allow them to keep their yellow eyes because, after what happened on Thursday, I now find Smiler with a “natural” eye color to be weird and wrong. XD
So! Having already tried the “let’s cure Smiler using the in-game drink” method in a variation on my main building save, I instead loaded up my “Plaice Holder” save (aka a save I have for testing the game vanilla post patches if I need to, with a Sim I made through CAS Stories called – well, guess), chose a lot in Newcrest, and hopped into CAS to get my new “Alton” Smiler saved household (using their “canon” last name instead of the “Always” I used for the original version) –
And then figured “you know what, might as well make a pre-set Valicer household for my Library while I’m here” and merged in the “Sole Survivor Victor” household (Victor in my CC Vault 111 suit and with a Dogmeat I found on the Gallery) and “Bloodlines Alice” (Alice in outfits I felt were appropriate to her Bloodlines self and a Cheshire Cat I found on the Gallery) household that I made a little while back. Removed the pets as their textures were not rendering properly (thanks game), set the preferences of Alice and Victor, got a shot of Smiler’s face so I could compare it to their “regular cured” self’s face (it really is JUST the eyes that changed when they were cured normally, but it is AMAZING how much of a difference that makes! Possibly because the yellow eyes I chose glow, but still. . .), and then – after realizing the gang had more money as there was three of them – ended up moving them into a starter house in Windenburg! And then, with them standing in the rain in front of their new place, I clicked on Smiler, opened up the MC Command Center menu, found the Cheats section, found the Occult section under that, and clicked “Human-ize Sim.”
Success! Smiler was turned to an ordinary Sim and kept their yellow eyes! :D So if I want a human Smiler for any reason, that is the way to do it. :) There was some weirdness with their job panel not showing them as properly unemployed, but I was able to successfully get them a job as a barista with no problems, so. . . *shrug* I set Victor and Alice to be polyamorous through Wonderful Whims (Smiler already was, because this particular version of the household was saved a little while after I started actually playing them in the Chill Save – also, yes, this was literally just testing, but you never know), and then, just for funsies, had Alice go in and activate the “change their outfits only” version of CAS through the dresser and designed a few extra looks for Smiler. XD Because it’s fun to dress them up. Though this made me realize there is NOT a lot in this game that has proper stripes in it, and black-and-white stripes are one of the Key Smiler Looks if you take a gander at the coaster’s staff. If I get any more CC clothes, that’s something I will have to rectify.
Anyway! Had fun with that (and giving Alice one other warm weather look), then realized it had been about an hour, saved the household as its own save file, then took one last look for interesting things on the Gallery before signing off. :) Not a bad way to end my long vacation, video-game-wise! Even if it does make me eager to get back to my regular Chill Save trio. :)
Writing: Ended up revising my “how Alice and Smiler met Victor” snippet for the Blades in the Dark Valicer AU that lives in the back of my head! I wanted to do something relating to that during my time off, so I’m pleased to have finally accomplished that goal. And I added in a header for fanfic bits so I can easily get back to that section in the future now. Hooray for writing and improved document navigation!
YouTube: Kept up on Subs, got something out of my Watch Later, got something out of my Recommendeds, so I’m going back to work with only one longish video in the old WL. Life is pretty good. :P
A) Started this afternoon while making backups (see below) with the latest AT4W – “Top 15 Goofiest Superheroes of AT4W - Atop the Fourth Wall!” Featuring such classics as The Future Five (a bunch of dicks designed to encourage people to go to college), Sultry Teenage Super Foxes (who mutated themselves to get the attention of hot pilots), Captain Tax Time (who at least will take out organized crime to try and get Canadians a break from new taxes), NFL Superpro (a player in an NFL supersuit and also the first comic on the show to make me absolutely crack up), and of course Ulysses Solomon Archer and US-1 (our favorite goofy trucker super hero who deals with aliens and ghost truckers). Also featuring a recap of 2022 and its ups and downs (how it was the year of Superman and Mr. T, but also the year that his schedule slip became the worst it’s ever been and he got like nothing done on Contest of Champions so he’s wrapping it up soon without the damn race whose special effects are just not done). A good way to ring in 2023 on the show!
B) Then it was over to OXtra for “Show of the Weekend: 10 Best Bits of 2022!” In addition to Presh Mems, seems the OXtra pair were keen to share some specific favorite bits from their weekly Saturday show! Featuring such moments as them doing Gollum impressions for Cameraman James to judge (and being WEIRDLY GOOD, to the point where James had trouble picking); building a LEGO AT-AT together (and cracking up when Ellen put it on its belly to make it look like it was having a nice slide); having an archery contest at an Elder Scrolls Online event (with Ellen getting an early bullseye but then whiffing her other shots, while Luke did pretty well overall); spraying Mike with the NEEEUM White fragrance from F1 (the “Chemical Brothers” tried hard to hype it up as the new sonic identity of F1, but Mike just thought it smelled like soap); and Luke hitting Andy with the horrible loose rubbery part of a hand-grabber as part of a scavenger hunt (the category for that round was “things Jane would use to dominate the world,” and Luke very aptly demonstrated how it could be used annoy nuclear launch codes out of world leaders with its awful creepy texture). More fun to ring in the new year!
C) Then, this evening, we had Call Me Kevin’s latest – “I ruined the new Bitlife Stock Market update!” Because it doesn’t just allow you to invest in stocks, but also in CRYPTO. XD Accordingly, Kevin created Satoshi Iamajokey to become the world’s best crypto bro! He had a bit of a hard start in life – a childhood attempt at insurance fraud by falling on a neighbor’s driveway did not workout, his first job was as a porn set janitor, and upon realizing that in order to be blessed by the BitLife devs he had to watch an ad, he cursed them instead (twice) and had all his stats and such set to ZERO. It was only through the intervention of going to the gym that his life was saved. He eventually started doing better as he began investing in crypto – he moved up in the world to Porn Historian; he got a botched penis job and was able to sue the doctor for loads; he found himself a surprisingly rich mail-order bride and dumped all her money into various “coins” and stocks – but then he decided to sell a bag of PCP he found on the street, got busted, got sent to jail for five years, lost his job and his wife –
And made ABSOLUTE LOADS on his portfolio while he was in jail. It was LITERALLY the only time his various coins and stocks and bonds performed that well. XD Once he was out, Kevin had him cash out, only to realize he now had to pay loads in income tax, so he had the guy emigrate to the Bahamas with his new wealth. He then proceeded to bounce between the US and the Bahamas as he attempted to get more plastic surgery (most of which was botched) and run for office (which he was denied because of his criminal record). He also did a little light insider trading after getting various stock tips from his parents about companies their friends worked at. This worked out fine for a while, to the point where he was able to buy himself a pirate ship to live on, but eventually, after calling the police to try and stop a biker from killing a guy, he was busted for the insider trading and ended up in jail again, where his stocks began to tank. And everyone he knew died. And then, after he got out, he took a cruise on his deteriorating boat, had a speedboat crash into him, and died trying to get the damaged ship back to shore. (Isn’t this like the third time this has happened to one of his BitLife characters?) So the moral of the story is, if you SOMEHOW make money on crypto, don’t buy a pirate ship, it won’t end well. XD
D) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and “When you grow your fingernails 948,601,001 miles long,” aka Gray plays Hand Evolution Runner! Yup, silly mobile game about running a course picking up certain items to “evolve” your character and avoiding obstacles like spike mats, spike pillars, and random table saws – this time, the character was a hand, the items were nail polishes, nail files, and hand cream, and occasionally you had to slap various people/animals/fruit to continue on through the board. The idea was to get the fanciest, most bejeweled and hennaed hand in existence with the longest nails – and trust me, your nails could get LONG. Once Gray figured out the tricks of the trade (like getting a little cat paw to come with you and grab random gems), he was regularly giving himself nails in a variety of colors that allowed him to screeeeech down the ending wall to depths of at least 300 meters. And that was BEFORE he let his friend Outwit hack the game and bring everything up to absolutely ridiculous levels. . .hand with nails that LITERALLY WENT OFF THE SCREEN? You got it! XD As usual, Gray makes the fairly stupid thing fun to watch, and we are all grateful.
Workout: Back on the bike tonight, and back to the Call Me Kevin “Rewind 2022” video! Finished off “The WORST GAMES” section with Together BnB (that glitchy mess that tries to be ten games at once) and Accident (which put Kevin into the role of the world’s most incompetent accident response person), and moved into “One Shot Playthroughs” (aka when Kevin betrayed me by suddenly putting up hour+ videos without any warning). Including Shrek 2 (where Shrek has been replaced by a robot reading his lines in the dullest voice imaginable), Spider-Man 2 (where “Spoderman” will attempt to kick car thieves all the way to the river for “hero points”), and when I left off, Simpsons Hit & Run (where Kevin will happily run over children to get to the Kwik-E-Mart faster). I have exactly 58 minutes left of this mega Rewind, hooray! Love you Kevin but this IS a lot.
Other:
-->Made a backup of my computer! Because that was overdue and I’m trying to start 2023 off right. *nods*
-->Finally answered Moose’s latest messages! And with minimal having to trim the fat, hooray. XD
*nods* Not bad, not bad. And now, having finished catching up on webcomics, I am off to bed. Hopefully I sleep decently and don't find getting up at 7 AM again too much of a chore. -.- At least it's a short week! Night all!
