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Slowly Getting Better Wednesday
Sep. 4th, 2024 11:53 pmFamily Health Update: I continue to test negative for COVID, and while Mom and Dad are still testing positive, Dad is now up and doing things again (like playing cribbage with Mom), so he seems to be over the worst of it. :) Hopefully they test negative soon so life can get back to normal! Or, well, as normal as it can get these days, given Dad's surgery and all... *sigh* 2024 kinda sucks.
Anyway -- here is the to-do list:
Work – Another quiet day at work, this time without even any credit card calls to break up the day – it was pretty much all roster maintenance all the time. Kinda boring, but as I have said before and will say again, I will take that over stressful. Especially since this is the time of year when the commutes start getting shitty again – I can get all my stress from that, thanks!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike this evening, and back with the GrayStillPlays compilations, starting “Dangerous Roller Coasters in Video Games!” Which, as I probably should have guessed, features Gray playing Planet Coaster! I’d actually forgotten he’d done that when I first saw the video – I thought this was going to feature that one GTA V board of Gray taking on roller coasters. (And hell, it still might – we’ll see.) Anyway, Gray’s adventures in Planet Coaster started with what I believe was new content, featuring Gray playing with the scenario editor and figuring out how tall he could make a roller coaster and how many Gs he could inflict on innocent passengers by making as many horrible corkscrewy tracks as possible (answers were HILARIOUSLY tall – to the point where you could see the edges of the map – and A LOT – like, I’m pretty sure the highest number was 883 Gs or thereabouts), then a replay of his video where he decided to cure people of their fear of water via shark-and-tentacle-based coasters (which ended with him deciding to just fill the park with chompy shark and wriggling Cthulhu tentacle animatronics – it’s a freaking wonder the game did not crash, frankly). I left it off at the beginning of his “let’s cure people of their fear of heights by shooting them out of a Kermit-the-Frog-shaped volcano” video – I look forward to reliving THAT nonsense tomorrow. XD
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – got almost two pages on this sorted today, covering Alice returning to Confession and – after fleeing the loud music on the dance floor in favor of Venus’s office – learning what exactly Venus ACTUALLY wanted to hire her for – namely, murder! Specifically, Venus would like Alice to take out Boris, the Russian mafia boss who lent Venus the money to open Confession, and now insists on sex every time she can’t make a payment. Venus is done with him and is willing to make Alice a silent partner – guaranteeing her a cut of the club’s profits – in order to have him out of her hair. Alice, who already hates men who force women to have sex with them (for obvious reasons), was game, and – after getting the details on Boris and a reassurance from Wonderland that Venus wouldn’t screw her over – agreed to take the job. I left it with Alice about to head out and back to the Empire Arms – we’ll pick up with the assassination next week!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check plus – managed to fit in a few short bonus videos –
A) First, I watched some more Severance stuff – namely “Severance | Funny Scenes (Part 1 ) Humor,” “Severance | Funny Scenes (Part 2 ) Humor,” and “Severance | Funny Scenes (Part 3 ) Humor,” all by Artes! A collection of silly scenes and moments from the show – I’d seen Part 2 before, but I wanted to watch them all. The woman who plays Helly, Britt Lower, is a master of delightfully sarcastic facial expressions, and the rest of the cast is great too. I love Dylan trying to get a hug from Ms. Casey, or thinking that Helly and Mark saying they found baby goats in the halls was code for them having sex (it was not, there were genuinely baby goats). Not to mention Mark foiling Helly’s attempts to get a message to her Outie, and Irving claiming he loves all 9 of the core principles of the company, and Mark having to announce that people should NOT put sticky notes on their faces (and Dylan going “that one’s my fault, I do this character called ‘Stickyhead’), and – yeah, for such a dark and sad show, it has plenty of very amusing moments. Plus cute ones, like Mark and Helly hypothesizing if they’re married on the outside (they are very much not) and playacting an argument about cutting out car wash coupons wrong. XD Good stuff!
B) And then it was over to the Subs for the GrayStillPlays video of the night – “Using only myths to beat GTA 5!” A series of challenges where Gray had to make use of the knowledge of GTA V’s various glitches and weirdness he’d gained over the years of busting myths in the game (as seen in his YouTube Shorts) to complete them! In order, we had
I. Get To The Checkpoint – a simple one to start, featuring Gray having to get to a checkpoint set on a balcony you normally can’t reach (there’s nothing on the house that allows you to climb up there). So Gray had to hit the table on the lower level under that balcony JUST RIGHT to teleport through the floor so he could drive his motorcycle into it. Easy – at least, once Gray stopped accidentally driving off the sides of the patio. XD
II. Do The Homer – another reasonably simple one, Gray had to reach a checkpoint that was just too him for him to normally jump through (though he DID try by ramping himself off the stairs nearby – just resulted in him killing a pedestrian) by going into the yard of the nearby rich asshole and finding the spot where he could glitch into the shrubs ringing the guy’s house! Because they’re actually hollow inside, and Gray could follow the path and ramp up to the checkpoint at the very end. Took some doing, as his motorcycle did NOT want to stay inside the shrubs, and his first attempt didn’t go through the checkpoint correctly, but he managed it eventually!
III. Invade The Life Invador (poor spelling Alex’s) – this one featured Gray having to get into the Life Invader building in the middle of Los Santos. Normally there’s no way into the building normally, but as it turns out, at least one of the windows on the upper level is fake and can be glitched through. Alex kindly set up a ramp for Gray to use, though he ended up having more luck just launching himself off the shrubs outside. XD He then proceeded to run around figuring out which other textures inside the building (as there are a few “legit” interiors) were fake and getting his motorcycle yeeted by the hidden Weebmill blades until he found the area where the checkpoint was hidden. ...After he’d already tried the stunt again because he thought he’d done something wrong. XD Just weren’t looking hard enough, Gray! (Or walking through enough walls.)
IV. Underwater Surfing – Gray was excited for this one, and why wouldn’t he be, because it’s pretty cool. This one featured Gray having to secure a car door from a nearby car wreck scene on the beach and ride it into the ocean to help some crocodiles by shooting down their prey before it could escape. Because you can literally just stand on a car door as it glides across the bottom of the ocean and the game will act like you’re just chilling out instead of defying all physics. XD Hell, the first time he did this, one of the ladies from the scene ended up on the car door and rode with Gray through his journey. XD Anyway, the trip ended in front of a box with a plywood front Gray had to blow open – but since bullets couldn’t do the job underwater, he had to find an alternate method. AKA look again at the car wreck scene and realize one of the ladies involved was holding a grenade for him. One knocked-out woman and a lot of explosions later, he was able to blast open the box and swim to the checkpoint!
V. DIY Torpedo – another one Gray liked, this saw him having to lower a checkpoint hovering in the air by dropping the soccer ball that it was attached to – which could only be done by, naturally, murdering a guy with a rocket (Alex painted it as “help defeat rival baywatchers” XD). However, the guy was almost entirely protected by a shield around him that wouldn’t let the rocket through. Meaning the only way Gray could kill him was by shooting the rocket into the water the guy was standing in and turning it into the aforementioned “DIY Torpedo” to blow him up (since rockets for some reason fly in the water for a short distance before blowing up). Took Gray a few tries to get the angle just right so he’d actually hit the dude, but eventually he managed it and was able to run through the lowered checkpoint!
VI. Ocean Door – okay, this was a particularly weird one. Gray here had to use the rocket bike to shoot across a busy road (into which Alex had placed a flat Weebmill in order to send all the cars coming through flying) and through the fake front door of the house on the other side so he’d fall through the map and into the underworld. He then had to ride the rocket bike through said underworld to a column of water Alex had set up, which – if done correctly – would glitch him into the map again where the actual column was set up, allowing him to jump into it and swim into the checkpoint within. I’m – not even sure how the hell this one works, and I’m not going to question it – I’m just going to enjoy Gray rocketing through the gray void to reach the water. XD
VII. Too Cool For A Seatbelt – and, for the finale, we had a more classic “figure out which car can complete the board” challenge, with Gray given a selection of unusual vehicles (including the lawn mower, the airport baggage handler, a bike with fifteen million rear-view mirrors, and the golf car), a script circle to trigger intense gravity, and a bunch of plywood boards to bust through, and the instruction “get down safely.” Gray had to figure out which car would not murder him on the way down to the final checkpoint –
And shock of shocks, the golf cart did the job! Because, apparently, no matter how many times you flip the damn thing, or how much damage it takes, you never get hurt if you’re driving it, and the damn thing will STILL RUN. It was frankly amazing. XD So yes, if you were ever curious about all those myths Gray busted in his YouTube Shorts – now you have an excellent sample to enjoy. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – just Victor Luvs Alice tonight, as per usual on Wednesdays. I reset the queue speed to one and got a reblog of that post on the fire resistance of pineapples that also mentioned their role as a status symbol in Victoria London that inspired me to update one of my Valicer In The Dark scores queued up for Thursday, and some Severance fan art featuring “Sevy The Severance Chip” as an even more twisted version of Clippy for Friday. XD I also worked on my intended Song Saturday post (a Severance music video of clips of the show set to Mitski’s “Love Me More”), but didn’t get it quite done...and I’m starting to wonder if I should save it for when I do a proper write-up of my Valicer Severance AU. *shrug* We’ll see – but I’m set for the next couple of days, at least!
*nods* Good stuff -- and now I need to go to bed, because I am running late yet again. :p Night all!
Anyway -- here is the to-do list:
Work – Another quiet day at work, this time without even any credit card calls to break up the day – it was pretty much all roster maintenance all the time. Kinda boring, but as I have said before and will say again, I will take that over stressful. Especially since this is the time of year when the commutes start getting shitty again – I can get all my stress from that, thanks!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike this evening, and back with the GrayStillPlays compilations, starting “Dangerous Roller Coasters in Video Games!” Which, as I probably should have guessed, features Gray playing Planet Coaster! I’d actually forgotten he’d done that when I first saw the video – I thought this was going to feature that one GTA V board of Gray taking on roller coasters. (And hell, it still might – we’ll see.) Anyway, Gray’s adventures in Planet Coaster started with what I believe was new content, featuring Gray playing with the scenario editor and figuring out how tall he could make a roller coaster and how many Gs he could inflict on innocent passengers by making as many horrible corkscrewy tracks as possible (answers were HILARIOUSLY tall – to the point where you could see the edges of the map – and A LOT – like, I’m pretty sure the highest number was 883 Gs or thereabouts), then a replay of his video where he decided to cure people of their fear of water via shark-and-tentacle-based coasters (which ended with him deciding to just fill the park with chompy shark and wriggling Cthulhu tentacle animatronics – it’s a freaking wonder the game did not crash, frankly). I left it off at the beginning of his “let’s cure people of their fear of heights by shooting them out of a Kermit-the-Frog-shaped volcano” video – I look forward to reliving THAT nonsense tomorrow. XD
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – got almost two pages on this sorted today, covering Alice returning to Confession and – after fleeing the loud music on the dance floor in favor of Venus’s office – learning what exactly Venus ACTUALLY wanted to hire her for – namely, murder! Specifically, Venus would like Alice to take out Boris, the Russian mafia boss who lent Venus the money to open Confession, and now insists on sex every time she can’t make a payment. Venus is done with him and is willing to make Alice a silent partner – guaranteeing her a cut of the club’s profits – in order to have him out of her hair. Alice, who already hates men who force women to have sex with them (for obvious reasons), was game, and – after getting the details on Boris and a reassurance from Wonderland that Venus wouldn’t screw her over – agreed to take the job. I left it with Alice about to head out and back to the Empire Arms – we’ll pick up with the assassination next week!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check plus – managed to fit in a few short bonus videos –
A) First, I watched some more Severance stuff – namely “Severance | Funny Scenes (Part 1 ) Humor,” “Severance | Funny Scenes (Part 2 ) Humor,” and “Severance | Funny Scenes (Part 3 ) Humor,” all by Artes! A collection of silly scenes and moments from the show – I’d seen Part 2 before, but I wanted to watch them all. The woman who plays Helly, Britt Lower, is a master of delightfully sarcastic facial expressions, and the rest of the cast is great too. I love Dylan trying to get a hug from Ms. Casey, or thinking that Helly and Mark saying they found baby goats in the halls was code for them having sex (it was not, there were genuinely baby goats). Not to mention Mark foiling Helly’s attempts to get a message to her Outie, and Irving claiming he loves all 9 of the core principles of the company, and Mark having to announce that people should NOT put sticky notes on their faces (and Dylan going “that one’s my fault, I do this character called ‘Stickyhead’), and – yeah, for such a dark and sad show, it has plenty of very amusing moments. Plus cute ones, like Mark and Helly hypothesizing if they’re married on the outside (they are very much not) and playacting an argument about cutting out car wash coupons wrong. XD Good stuff!
B) And then it was over to the Subs for the GrayStillPlays video of the night – “Using only myths to beat GTA 5!” A series of challenges where Gray had to make use of the knowledge of GTA V’s various glitches and weirdness he’d gained over the years of busting myths in the game (as seen in his YouTube Shorts) to complete them! In order, we had
I. Get To The Checkpoint – a simple one to start, featuring Gray having to get to a checkpoint set on a balcony you normally can’t reach (there’s nothing on the house that allows you to climb up there). So Gray had to hit the table on the lower level under that balcony JUST RIGHT to teleport through the floor so he could drive his motorcycle into it. Easy – at least, once Gray stopped accidentally driving off the sides of the patio. XD
II. Do The Homer – another reasonably simple one, Gray had to reach a checkpoint that was just too him for him to normally jump through (though he DID try by ramping himself off the stairs nearby – just resulted in him killing a pedestrian) by going into the yard of the nearby rich asshole and finding the spot where he could glitch into the shrubs ringing the guy’s house! Because they’re actually hollow inside, and Gray could follow the path and ramp up to the checkpoint at the very end. Took some doing, as his motorcycle did NOT want to stay inside the shrubs, and his first attempt didn’t go through the checkpoint correctly, but he managed it eventually!
III. Invade The Life Invador (poor spelling Alex’s) – this one featured Gray having to get into the Life Invader building in the middle of Los Santos. Normally there’s no way into the building normally, but as it turns out, at least one of the windows on the upper level is fake and can be glitched through. Alex kindly set up a ramp for Gray to use, though he ended up having more luck just launching himself off the shrubs outside. XD He then proceeded to run around figuring out which other textures inside the building (as there are a few “legit” interiors) were fake and getting his motorcycle yeeted by the hidden Weebmill blades until he found the area where the checkpoint was hidden. ...After he’d already tried the stunt again because he thought he’d done something wrong. XD Just weren’t looking hard enough, Gray! (Or walking through enough walls.)
IV. Underwater Surfing – Gray was excited for this one, and why wouldn’t he be, because it’s pretty cool. This one featured Gray having to secure a car door from a nearby car wreck scene on the beach and ride it into the ocean to help some crocodiles by shooting down their prey before it could escape. Because you can literally just stand on a car door as it glides across the bottom of the ocean and the game will act like you’re just chilling out instead of defying all physics. XD Hell, the first time he did this, one of the ladies from the scene ended up on the car door and rode with Gray through his journey. XD Anyway, the trip ended in front of a box with a plywood front Gray had to blow open – but since bullets couldn’t do the job underwater, he had to find an alternate method. AKA look again at the car wreck scene and realize one of the ladies involved was holding a grenade for him. One knocked-out woman and a lot of explosions later, he was able to blast open the box and swim to the checkpoint!
V. DIY Torpedo – another one Gray liked, this saw him having to lower a checkpoint hovering in the air by dropping the soccer ball that it was attached to – which could only be done by, naturally, murdering a guy with a rocket (Alex painted it as “help defeat rival baywatchers” XD). However, the guy was almost entirely protected by a shield around him that wouldn’t let the rocket through. Meaning the only way Gray could kill him was by shooting the rocket into the water the guy was standing in and turning it into the aforementioned “DIY Torpedo” to blow him up (since rockets for some reason fly in the water for a short distance before blowing up). Took Gray a few tries to get the angle just right so he’d actually hit the dude, but eventually he managed it and was able to run through the lowered checkpoint!
VI. Ocean Door – okay, this was a particularly weird one. Gray here had to use the rocket bike to shoot across a busy road (into which Alex had placed a flat Weebmill in order to send all the cars coming through flying) and through the fake front door of the house on the other side so he’d fall through the map and into the underworld. He then had to ride the rocket bike through said underworld to a column of water Alex had set up, which – if done correctly – would glitch him into the map again where the actual column was set up, allowing him to jump into it and swim into the checkpoint within. I’m – not even sure how the hell this one works, and I’m not going to question it – I’m just going to enjoy Gray rocketing through the gray void to reach the water. XD
VII. Too Cool For A Seatbelt – and, for the finale, we had a more classic “figure out which car can complete the board” challenge, with Gray given a selection of unusual vehicles (including the lawn mower, the airport baggage handler, a bike with fifteen million rear-view mirrors, and the golf car), a script circle to trigger intense gravity, and a bunch of plywood boards to bust through, and the instruction “get down safely.” Gray had to figure out which car would not murder him on the way down to the final checkpoint –
And shock of shocks, the golf cart did the job! Because, apparently, no matter how many times you flip the damn thing, or how much damage it takes, you never get hurt if you’re driving it, and the damn thing will STILL RUN. It was frankly amazing. XD So yes, if you were ever curious about all those myths Gray busted in his YouTube Shorts – now you have an excellent sample to enjoy. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – just Victor Luvs Alice tonight, as per usual on Wednesdays. I reset the queue speed to one and got a reblog of that post on the fire resistance of pineapples that also mentioned their role as a status symbol in Victoria London that inspired me to update one of my Valicer In The Dark scores queued up for Thursday, and some Severance fan art featuring “Sevy The Severance Chip” as an even more twisted version of Clippy for Friday. XD I also worked on my intended Song Saturday post (a Severance music video of clips of the show set to Mitski’s “Love Me More”), but didn’t get it quite done...and I’m starting to wonder if I should save it for when I do a proper write-up of my Valicer Severance AU. *shrug* We’ll see – but I’m set for the next couple of days, at least!
*nods* Good stuff -- and now I need to go to bed, because I am running late yet again. :p Night all!
