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Lovely Warm Monday
Apr. 15th, 2024 11:49 pmWeather was pretty damn great most of the day -- occasionally cloudy, but really warm, like into the 70s warm. I didn't get much of a chance to enjoy it, being stuck at work, but I did have my window open by my desk, and I opened my windows once I got home to let a little fresh air in. Though I recently had to close them because, surprise surprise, it started raining again. *sigh* I thought it was only supposed to do that at the coast. . .freaking April weather. *shakehead*
Anyway, apart from enjoying a brief taste of early summer, here's how my day went --
Work – A fairly “eh” Monday to start the week – while the weather was beautiful, and my commute in really easy (yay school vacation weeks!), my time at work was rather annoying just because we keep discovering weird shit that the processors have done and having to correct it. Oh, and we finally got a bunch of exceptions back from them, after waiting for ages, meaning I now have all sorts of credit card shit to follow up on tomorrow. Along with a GFGP QC file waiting for me. And Easter collection stuff. And – it’s gonna be a busy week, is what I’m saying. At least I have a long weekend to look forward to at the end of it!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the GrayStillPlays compilation “I completed the hardest Roblox challenges and this happened!” I finished off his time in the “punching hero” game (where he got so strong abusing the power of Robucks and pets that, after just a few punches even in the toughest worlds, he could just straight up obliterate all walls – and people – in his path); got through the “click to race” game (where Gray abused the power of Robucks and pets to go from a sad Florida Man on foot running at mere three-digit speed numbers to an awesome Florida Man in a hot pink car with an army of click-boosting robots and a single Christmas elf rocketing through time and space at beyond lightspeed); and started the “weightlifting” game (where Gray is just starting to abuse the power of Robucks and pets to turn himself from the world’s thinnest human into a chonky strong beast). I’d actually forgotten about most of the “weightlifting” one (in particular how absurdly skinny Gray was at the start XD), so it’s nice to revisit it – looking forward to how Gray will level up in the Underworld Gym he recently unlocked! I’m sure it’ll involve abusing the power of Robucks and pets!
2. Work on “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” Chapter One posting edit: Check – I uploaded Chapter One to FF.net’s Document Manager and got to work reading it over, making a few little tweaks here and there and fixing whatever typos I came across. Made good progress too – I’m about halfway through the chapter (which is about 32 pages in LibreOffice Writer, whew), with Alice in The Last Round talking with the Anarchs. Left off with Damsel getting in her face about being a stupid Malkavian Cammy do-girl. If I can keep up the pace, I should be able to get this up by the end of the week! Wouldn’t that be nice. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just GrayStillPlays to worry about tonight, with “Testing extreme science experiments in GTA 5!” Yes, tonight we had Gray and Alex doing SCIENCE together in the game, in what was sort of an Ultimate Mythbusters episode of GTA V-based torture. :) The experiments were as follows –
Experiment 1: Can you survive a quarter of a mile fall inside of a container? – Alex set things up so Gray would get teleported inside your average shipping container, then get shoved off a tall drop by an automated car. Results? Yes, you can survive – however, getting OUT might kill you, as the shipping container doors don’t open on their own. You have to blast them open, and in such close quarters, the explosion might kill you even if the drop doesn’t. Fortunately, Gray discovered that if you shoot at the top right corner of the right door, it’ll pop open without murdering you. So yes, if you need to fall a quarter of a mile, hop inside a shipping container – it’ll save your life!
Experiment 2: Can a hydrant put out a fire in GTA? – Alex tested if basic natural laws worked in the game as expected by setting up a short tightrope with a fire spout shooting across it about halfway through, and a fire hydrant suspended over a target just past the fiery jet. Gray had to shoot down the hydrant to get the water flowing, then run across the tightrope and through the fire, hoping that the hydrant water would save him before he burned to death. Results? Well, it took a few tries because Gray ragdolled whenever he got set on fire, and oftentimes that led to him falling off the tightrope, but he was able to confirm that hydrants DO put out fires in GTA as expected. So if you have a fire that needs putting out, shoot the nearest hydrant, it’ll do the job.
Experiment 3: Can electricity hurt you under water in GTA? – This was the first part of a three-part experiment where Gray had to make his way through a “water tightrope” of sorts, swimming through various elemental obstacles to see if they would harm him. If he left the water, he got set on fire and died horribly. XD This challenge involved Gray swimming through a pair of thumbnail holes underwater, each edged by electrical zappy things. Results? Yes, electricity will hurt you under water – in fact, as Gray discovered, it will just one-hit kill you, even if you just get a little shocked by the same object on dry land. Natural laws still working as expected, avoid electricity under water at all costs!
Experiment 4: Can fire hurt you under water in GTA? – The next part of the “water tightrope,” this saw Gray swimming through a plume of underwater fire before having to duck through a small opening at the bottom of a tall block and get up to the surface before he drowned. Results? No, fire will not do a THING to you under water – you can swim through flame and be perfectly fine. Gray was in fact in much more danger from drowning from not successfully doing his Flappy Birds thing afterward. So don’t fear fire when you are in the sea!
Experiment 5: Can water hurt you under water in GTA? – The final part of the “water tightrope,” Gray had 19 seconds to swim through a series of thumbnail holes while NPCs on the side shot apart the hydrants by said holes to create water jets to make Gray’s life harder. Results? Water jets will sort of hurt you under water – Gray was not DIRECTLY harmed by them, but he was shoved around, meaning he either ran out of time to do the challenge or was shoved out of the “water tightrope” and thus was set on fire to die. It took an absolutely perfect run on the verge of drowning for him to beat the time limit and make it to the teleporter for the next experiment. So don’t fear water jets underwater like you might fear electricity, but try to avoid them regardless, it’ll make your life easier.
Experiment 6: Can a tank shoot under water? – Alex set up a new area for this one, with a tank in a box, and a column of water for boats to shoot at in the middle of said box. Gray had thirty seconds to drive through the water column, shooting boats until he could bring down the teleporter boat, before the tank “unfriended” him and disappeared. Results? Yes, surprisingly enough, the tank CAN shoot underwater! It in fact has a pretty decent tolerance for operating underwater, especially if you drive it back and forth through a water column, as Gray did. He was very surprised and impressed. The thirty-second time limit did make things harder, but he did manage to get all the boats and get to the next challenge before the tank vanished on him. So yeah, go ahead and take a tank into the water – it won’t work FOREVER, but you’ll get to use the gun at least a few times before it dies!
Experiment 7: What animals can outrun a proximity mine? – Alex set up a bunch of transformers next to a little course where Animal!Gray had to run down a narrow corridor and get away from the proximity mine the NPC above tossed down before being blown to bits, then duck through a small hole into the cylinder with the teleporter to the next challenge. Results? Gray tried a few different animals, including a bunny, a husky, a mountain lion, a coyote, and a cow, and got exploded with all of them. The only ones that could make it away from the mine in time were Meaty Bits the deer (which Gray expected, as he has plenty of experience with deer in this game and how fast they are) and Chop the Rottweiler (which Gray also kind of expected since Chop is a Protagonist Dog in this game). And of those two, only Chop was short enough to make it under the gap to the teleporter. So if you need to get away from a proximity mine, hop aboard the nearest deer or Rottweiler! What could go wrong? :p
Experiment 8: What animals can run in between human legs? – More Gray transforming times as Gray endeavored to find out which two animals could go through a pair of human legs (specifically, those of the three humans Alex had provided to stand in the testing area) without knocking them aside or otherwise getting blocked, so he could choose the right teleporter among all the possible results and not get insta-killed. Results? Gray first tried the rat form and found that easily got between everyone’s legs – in fact, it could just phase right through people’s feet with a lack of collision. The other animals he tried, though – including a bunny, a cat, a chicken, and a pug – all proved weirdly unable to make it through human legs without bumping into them. Interestingly enough, the other correct answer was the form that Gray arrived at the challenge in – Chop! Yes, he will collide with people if he runs into them, but if you line him up just right, the Rottweiler WILL fit through people’s legs. Which makes him an even better steed for getting you away from a proximity mine. XD
Experiment 9: Can fire hurt you mid air? – Alex sent Gray into the sky (and returned him to his Florida Man form) for a two-part test of this question! Part one saw Gray skydiving through a thumbnail hole with a fire jet right next to it in order to reach a teleporter ball before the cylinder it was in came up over it; part two saw Gray having to parachute over a fire jet to reach a platform with the teleporter to the final experiment. Results? Well:
I. If you skydive THROUGH a fire jet, you WILL get set on fire, but it probably WON’T be an immediate kill – Gray managed to recover every time he got set on fire, with most of his deaths coming from hitting the ground at speed. It DOES make you ragdoll, though, making getting through that thumbnail hole difficult – Gray actually had to shoot the invisible walls around the visible thumbnail hole to find a SECOND thumbnail hole that would allow him to avoid the flames and actually reach the teleporter in time.
II. If you parachute OVER a fire jet – you’re absolutely fine. The fire never touches you. It WILL set your PARACHUTE on fire, but hilariously this does not stop the parachute from working. Gray was both stunned and amused, to the point of missing the platform on his first go because he was paying more attention to the flaming parachute than he was to where he was going. XD So yeah – not advisable to skydive through flame, but you can definitely parachute over it in this verse!
Experiment 10: Can a car withstand a highly corrosive pee pool for 30 seconds? – And for the finale, Alex set up one of his classic vehicle challenges, having Gray test out which of a cloth-topped car, the Viper roadster with its two tires on the back, or a tank could withstand a corrosive pool of piss he’d set up for thirty seconds, and still manage to drive down the final length of platform into the finish line. Results? Neither car was able to drive after their time in the pee pool (though oddly, despite taking more damage, the cloth-top car actually did better than the Viper in that it’s engine didn’t immediately quit), but the tank could keep going – it was spewing black smoke and had bits missing, but it made it through the finish circle! So I guess the answer to the question is no, a car can’t, but a military vehicle can. So don’t try to corrode it with your piss. XD Very informative day in GTA V!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – just Victor Luvs Alice to worry about tonight, so I focused my attention on that “Smiler’s Otherland: Outfits” post that I want to put up this week! It’s ALMOST done now – I’ve completed the section on Smiler’s own outfits (having moved most of the Victor’s Otherland stuff into “Still In Progress” because, well, it is), leaving just the “Still In Progress” section for Victor and Alice (which will be me admitting I’m not sure what I want them to wear for Musical Mayhem, just that I want it to be glittery) and the tags. Should be able to finish it off tomorrow so it’s ready to post on Thursday!
So yeah, work remains not-great, but at least the afternoon was pretty solid. *nods* And now I must be off to bed, so I can get back to it all tomorrow. Hopefully work won't be TOO stressful. . .night all!
Anyway, apart from enjoying a brief taste of early summer, here's how my day went --
Work – A fairly “eh” Monday to start the week – while the weather was beautiful, and my commute in really easy (yay school vacation weeks!), my time at work was rather annoying just because we keep discovering weird shit that the processors have done and having to correct it. Oh, and we finally got a bunch of exceptions back from them, after waiting for ages, meaning I now have all sorts of credit card shit to follow up on tomorrow. Along with a GFGP QC file waiting for me. And Easter collection stuff. And – it’s gonna be a busy week, is what I’m saying. At least I have a long weekend to look forward to at the end of it!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the GrayStillPlays compilation “I completed the hardest Roblox challenges and this happened!” I finished off his time in the “punching hero” game (where he got so strong abusing the power of Robucks and pets that, after just a few punches even in the toughest worlds, he could just straight up obliterate all walls – and people – in his path); got through the “click to race” game (where Gray abused the power of Robucks and pets to go from a sad Florida Man on foot running at mere three-digit speed numbers to an awesome Florida Man in a hot pink car with an army of click-boosting robots and a single Christmas elf rocketing through time and space at beyond lightspeed); and started the “weightlifting” game (where Gray is just starting to abuse the power of Robucks and pets to turn himself from the world’s thinnest human into a chonky strong beast). I’d actually forgotten about most of the “weightlifting” one (in particular how absurdly skinny Gray was at the start XD), so it’s nice to revisit it – looking forward to how Gray will level up in the Underworld Gym he recently unlocked! I’m sure it’ll involve abusing the power of Robucks and pets!
2. Work on “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” Chapter One posting edit: Check – I uploaded Chapter One to FF.net’s Document Manager and got to work reading it over, making a few little tweaks here and there and fixing whatever typos I came across. Made good progress too – I’m about halfway through the chapter (which is about 32 pages in LibreOffice Writer, whew), with Alice in The Last Round talking with the Anarchs. Left off with Damsel getting in her face about being a stupid Malkavian Cammy do-girl. If I can keep up the pace, I should be able to get this up by the end of the week! Wouldn’t that be nice. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just GrayStillPlays to worry about tonight, with “Testing extreme science experiments in GTA 5!” Yes, tonight we had Gray and Alex doing SCIENCE together in the game, in what was sort of an Ultimate Mythbusters episode of GTA V-based torture. :) The experiments were as follows –
Experiment 1: Can you survive a quarter of a mile fall inside of a container? – Alex set things up so Gray would get teleported inside your average shipping container, then get shoved off a tall drop by an automated car. Results? Yes, you can survive – however, getting OUT might kill you, as the shipping container doors don’t open on their own. You have to blast them open, and in such close quarters, the explosion might kill you even if the drop doesn’t. Fortunately, Gray discovered that if you shoot at the top right corner of the right door, it’ll pop open without murdering you. So yes, if you need to fall a quarter of a mile, hop inside a shipping container – it’ll save your life!
Experiment 2: Can a hydrant put out a fire in GTA? – Alex tested if basic natural laws worked in the game as expected by setting up a short tightrope with a fire spout shooting across it about halfway through, and a fire hydrant suspended over a target just past the fiery jet. Gray had to shoot down the hydrant to get the water flowing, then run across the tightrope and through the fire, hoping that the hydrant water would save him before he burned to death. Results? Well, it took a few tries because Gray ragdolled whenever he got set on fire, and oftentimes that led to him falling off the tightrope, but he was able to confirm that hydrants DO put out fires in GTA as expected. So if you have a fire that needs putting out, shoot the nearest hydrant, it’ll do the job.
Experiment 3: Can electricity hurt you under water in GTA? – This was the first part of a three-part experiment where Gray had to make his way through a “water tightrope” of sorts, swimming through various elemental obstacles to see if they would harm him. If he left the water, he got set on fire and died horribly. XD This challenge involved Gray swimming through a pair of thumbnail holes underwater, each edged by electrical zappy things. Results? Yes, electricity will hurt you under water – in fact, as Gray discovered, it will just one-hit kill you, even if you just get a little shocked by the same object on dry land. Natural laws still working as expected, avoid electricity under water at all costs!
Experiment 4: Can fire hurt you under water in GTA? – The next part of the “water tightrope,” this saw Gray swimming through a plume of underwater fire before having to duck through a small opening at the bottom of a tall block and get up to the surface before he drowned. Results? No, fire will not do a THING to you under water – you can swim through flame and be perfectly fine. Gray was in fact in much more danger from drowning from not successfully doing his Flappy Birds thing afterward. So don’t fear fire when you are in the sea!
Experiment 5: Can water hurt you under water in GTA? – The final part of the “water tightrope,” Gray had 19 seconds to swim through a series of thumbnail holes while NPCs on the side shot apart the hydrants by said holes to create water jets to make Gray’s life harder. Results? Water jets will sort of hurt you under water – Gray was not DIRECTLY harmed by them, but he was shoved around, meaning he either ran out of time to do the challenge or was shoved out of the “water tightrope” and thus was set on fire to die. It took an absolutely perfect run on the verge of drowning for him to beat the time limit and make it to the teleporter for the next experiment. So don’t fear water jets underwater like you might fear electricity, but try to avoid them regardless, it’ll make your life easier.
Experiment 6: Can a tank shoot under water? – Alex set up a new area for this one, with a tank in a box, and a column of water for boats to shoot at in the middle of said box. Gray had thirty seconds to drive through the water column, shooting boats until he could bring down the teleporter boat, before the tank “unfriended” him and disappeared. Results? Yes, surprisingly enough, the tank CAN shoot underwater! It in fact has a pretty decent tolerance for operating underwater, especially if you drive it back and forth through a water column, as Gray did. He was very surprised and impressed. The thirty-second time limit did make things harder, but he did manage to get all the boats and get to the next challenge before the tank vanished on him. So yeah, go ahead and take a tank into the water – it won’t work FOREVER, but you’ll get to use the gun at least a few times before it dies!
Experiment 7: What animals can outrun a proximity mine? – Alex set up a bunch of transformers next to a little course where Animal!Gray had to run down a narrow corridor and get away from the proximity mine the NPC above tossed down before being blown to bits, then duck through a small hole into the cylinder with the teleporter to the next challenge. Results? Gray tried a few different animals, including a bunny, a husky, a mountain lion, a coyote, and a cow, and got exploded with all of them. The only ones that could make it away from the mine in time were Meaty Bits the deer (which Gray expected, as he has plenty of experience with deer in this game and how fast they are) and Chop the Rottweiler (which Gray also kind of expected since Chop is a Protagonist Dog in this game). And of those two, only Chop was short enough to make it under the gap to the teleporter. So if you need to get away from a proximity mine, hop aboard the nearest deer or Rottweiler! What could go wrong? :p
Experiment 8: What animals can run in between human legs? – More Gray transforming times as Gray endeavored to find out which two animals could go through a pair of human legs (specifically, those of the three humans Alex had provided to stand in the testing area) without knocking them aside or otherwise getting blocked, so he could choose the right teleporter among all the possible results and not get insta-killed. Results? Gray first tried the rat form and found that easily got between everyone’s legs – in fact, it could just phase right through people’s feet with a lack of collision. The other animals he tried, though – including a bunny, a cat, a chicken, and a pug – all proved weirdly unable to make it through human legs without bumping into them. Interestingly enough, the other correct answer was the form that Gray arrived at the challenge in – Chop! Yes, he will collide with people if he runs into them, but if you line him up just right, the Rottweiler WILL fit through people’s legs. Which makes him an even better steed for getting you away from a proximity mine. XD
Experiment 9: Can fire hurt you mid air? – Alex sent Gray into the sky (and returned him to his Florida Man form) for a two-part test of this question! Part one saw Gray skydiving through a thumbnail hole with a fire jet right next to it in order to reach a teleporter ball before the cylinder it was in came up over it; part two saw Gray having to parachute over a fire jet to reach a platform with the teleporter to the final experiment. Results? Well:
I. If you skydive THROUGH a fire jet, you WILL get set on fire, but it probably WON’T be an immediate kill – Gray managed to recover every time he got set on fire, with most of his deaths coming from hitting the ground at speed. It DOES make you ragdoll, though, making getting through that thumbnail hole difficult – Gray actually had to shoot the invisible walls around the visible thumbnail hole to find a SECOND thumbnail hole that would allow him to avoid the flames and actually reach the teleporter in time.
II. If you parachute OVER a fire jet – you’re absolutely fine. The fire never touches you. It WILL set your PARACHUTE on fire, but hilariously this does not stop the parachute from working. Gray was both stunned and amused, to the point of missing the platform on his first go because he was paying more attention to the flaming parachute than he was to where he was going. XD So yeah – not advisable to skydive through flame, but you can definitely parachute over it in this verse!
Experiment 10: Can a car withstand a highly corrosive pee pool for 30 seconds? – And for the finale, Alex set up one of his classic vehicle challenges, having Gray test out which of a cloth-topped car, the Viper roadster with its two tires on the back, or a tank could withstand a corrosive pool of piss he’d set up for thirty seconds, and still manage to drive down the final length of platform into the finish line. Results? Neither car was able to drive after their time in the pee pool (though oddly, despite taking more damage, the cloth-top car actually did better than the Viper in that it’s engine didn’t immediately quit), but the tank could keep going – it was spewing black smoke and had bits missing, but it made it through the finish circle! So I guess the answer to the question is no, a car can’t, but a military vehicle can. So don’t try to corrode it with your piss. XD Very informative day in GTA V!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – just Victor Luvs Alice to worry about tonight, so I focused my attention on that “Smiler’s Otherland: Outfits” post that I want to put up this week! It’s ALMOST done now – I’ve completed the section on Smiler’s own outfits (having moved most of the Victor’s Otherland stuff into “Still In Progress” because, well, it is), leaving just the “Still In Progress” section for Victor and Alice (which will be me admitting I’m not sure what I want them to wear for Musical Mayhem, just that I want it to be glittery) and the tags. Should be able to finish it off tomorrow so it’s ready to post on Thursday!
So yeah, work remains not-great, but at least the afternoon was pretty solid. *nods* And now I must be off to bed, so I can get back to it all tomorrow. Hopefully work won't be TOO stressful. . .night all!
