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Pretty Chill Saturday
Feb. 28th, 2026 11:51 pmWell, not exactly weather-wise -- while we still have tons of snow outside, the temperature today got up into the 50s, so we had a nice little taste of warmth that melted a bit of the snow. You can see a bit of one of our garden gnomes in front of their gnome-sized moongate in the backyard again! A shame tomorrow is going to be chilly with snow showers, and Monday below freezing. *sigh* I do not like. Especially since March starts tomorrow -- come on, weather, spring's on its way, cut us a break here!
*shakehead* Anyway -- can't say I accomplished THAT much today, but I got all the things that I really wanted to get done today, done, so that's good:
Cleaning & Laundry: Welp, as usual, keeping my room clean and doing my laundry took up most of my Saturday – at least now I’ve come to expect that state of affairs, so I wasn’t too annoyed when it happened. Here’s the breakdown if you are at all interested:
A) Started the whole process a little after 10:30 AM, putting on a livestream of Jon playing Fallout 76 and talking about how he wants to do another video essay on the game and what he and Claire thought about Season 2 of the Fallout TV series to listen to – fun fact, Claire does not seem to know the plot of Fallout: New Vegas despite it being Jon’s favorite game! There may be an April Fool’s video this year where he forces her to play it XD
B) Brought my laundry (sheets, blankets, bathrobe – my pajamas got washed more recently, so they were good) down around 11:45 AM, throwing my sheets into the washer with Mom and Dad’s to start THAT process
C) Got through most of my dusting by the time we broke for lunch around 1 PM
D) Went downstairs, got the clothes Mom did earlier out of the dryer, moved the sheets into the dryer, and threw my blankets and bathrobe into the washer a little before 1:45 PM
E) Resumed dusting around 2 PM after helping dry some lunch dishes
F) Finished dusting, Swiffering, and vacuuming a little after 3 PM; promptly went downstairs, got sheets out of the dryer, and moved my blankets and bathrobe into the dryer
G) Finally got blankets and bathrobe out of dryer around 4:10 PM, right before starting Little Corners (I’d actually gone and checked on them after updating the game and saw that they were almost ready, so I waited on starting the game until I could collect them)
Yeaaaah – it’s pretty much an all-day project at this point. At least listening to Jon is fun...we’ll see if next time I can somehow convince myself to spend a little less time on the dusting, though, given my room never DOES get all that dusty. Fingers crossed!
Little Corners: As stated above, I did finally get back to this game today – and today’s foray into the virtual sticker book saw me tackling the “Ruins” corner! How’d that go? Pretty well, I’d say:
A) After folding up my blankets, I started by looking through all the stickers, then placing the broken window sticker on the right-hand wall of the ruins, and a big empty doorway surrounded by a few extra bits of crumbling masonry over on the left-hand wall. Always good to establish where the entrance to a room is early!
( Long descriptions and spoilers for sticker unlocks below )
FreeTube: I wanted to clear a few more videos out of my Subs over here, and I’m happy to say that I succeeded, watching the two OXBoxtra videos that I most wanted to catch up on this evening –
A) “We Played this Resident Evil Rip-Off So You Don't Have To” by OXBox – Mike playing terrible Resident Evil clone Outbreak: Shades Of Horror with Andy watching on, offering moral support and snark! Why did they put themselves through this? Because Mike saw that the Outbreak series kept releasing super-expensive compilations (noting that the total for the latest was like $145 American dollars), and he decided he had to part with some of his precious money and see what they were all about. Because if the collection cost that much, that meant it had to be good, right? < /sarcasm > Anyway, the game was very much NOT good, and featured:
I. An opening menu which was actually the protagonist – Discount Claire Redfield; she even had the iconic red jacket and a knife that Andy later said looked like someone had sellotaped it to her back – wandering around a strange family fun center, with various explanatory signs telling her where to go to, you know, actually play the game. Apparently the arcade machines offered minigames, the “raid mode” was in the restrooms (Mike was like “why there?!), and the game itself accessible through movie posters? It was confusing enough that I think Mike entered the multiplayer mode by accident while trying to navigate – at the very least, the posters he poked all had an additional subtitle, “Chromatic Split,” on them, and I am reasonably certain one of the explanatory signs said that was the multiplayer version...but as Mike said, you were never going to find a friend to play this with you, so… XD
II. An “Act I” that immediately dumped Discount Claire Redfield in everyone’s favorite gaming environment – a sewer level – with a rapidly-increasing infection level, and featured such nonsense as “green sprouts” (Legally Distinct from “green herbs”) for healing; a UI that randomly faded out every so often (Mike was like “I don’t know what I did!” the first time he noticed it), and was otherwise so cluttered you couldn’t see all the text on the screen; big old crocodile men for some reason; poorly animated asset pack zombies that jittered along, twisted at the waist in very unnatural ways, and went down in one hit so long as you got a headshot (and were worth DEPRESSINGLY little XP – 2 per kill!); flares that, as per the boys, looked like someone stuck a little rocket engine on a thermos (and had a very goofy “use” animation); a flashlight that you used by pressing in the right stick (Mike was very “???” about that); and a ghoul attack animation that seriously looked like a “you have just died” animation (there was a fade to black and everything!), but nope, it was just a regular attack. Mike and Andy were very much not impressed, and chose to quit and move onto Act II when Discount Claire was killed by a ghoul and Mike was forced to “interact to give up” (very helpful, game).
III. An “Act II” that immediately dumped Discount Claire into an underground factory (Mike was immediately like “this is no different from a sewer level, come on”) and featured such nonsense as a cop zombie walking up the stairs that Discount Claire had just come down, completely ignoring her (and going up the second set of stairs backwards) while a cheerleader zombie (yes, those were a thing in this game) came down and ALSO completely ignored her (Andy joked that the first zombie was clocking out for a break and that this was a “shift change”); a bunch of zombies managing to attack Discount Claire through CLOSED AND LOCKED DOORS thanks to their character models partially glitching through them (on the plus side, this meant that Discount Claire could target and kill them as well); Discount Claire getting attacked by a Discount Tyrant that breathed fire for no discernible reason (Mike exclusively shot him in the crotch just for fun – it took quite a lot of crotch shots to bring him down); the boys discovering that you could shoot individual limbs off zombies and turn them into wriggling zombie “snakes,” which was probably the one thing they honestly liked about this game (admitting they’d love to see Capcom implement something like this in RE proper); and another zombie trying to walk directly into a closed door head-first on a different level (Mike and Andy immediately compared it to that famous Gary Larson cartoon featuring the kid going to Midvale School For The Gifted pushing on a door that said “Pull”). Their time in this act came to a close when Mike found a key that could be used to open one of the many locked doors they’d encountered and used it on the door the Midvale Zombie had been walking into – only to discover it was only a safe room of sorts. And didn’t have any other keys inside. Meaning there was no way for them to progress. *shakehead* Great work, game.
IV. An “Act III” that immediately dumped Discount Claire into “Arthur’s Lair” (Mike and Andy: “Who’s Arthur??” I think you might have learned if you had managed to complete the earlier acts, guys!), which was also underground (looked like an old subway tunnel, in fact) and featured such nonsense as the reveal that, when Discount Claire is stealthing, she cannot interact with objects in the world (like a note next to the corpse of the person she was supposed to be meeting down here) or shoot enemies (like the Discount Tyrant trying to murder her); so much ivy growing around a big arena where Discount Claire was expected to fight loads of enemies that it kept getting in the way of the camera as Mike tried to navigate and shoot; Mike attempting to keep a dismembered cheerleader zombie as a “pet snake” for a bit, only to realize it wasn’t really feasible with how many enemies kept coming after him in the arena; Discount Claire dying again, but this time being allowed to come back to life via “attacking” to use the green sprout in her inventory (again, very helpful game); the croc-man enemy coming for Discount Claire using the world’s stupidest walk cycle (Mike and Andy said he walked like a Donkey Kong character, with Mike providing a silly “do do do do!” soundtrack for it); Discount Claire failing to kill a cop zombie with multiple body shots during a later trek through the tunnels, and the cop zombie choosing to just loom over her shoulder rather than attack her (he must have also been on break); a zombie in what looked like a hazmat suit just exiting the game entirely by clipping through a nearby wall when Discount Claire approached (Mike and Andy had a good laugh over that); Mike running out of ammo while fighting zombies in the tunnels and having to use the knife, which didn’t have a proper attack animation, just a big blast of light each time it hit (Mike joked it had to be doing radiant damage, while Andy suggested it was opening stargates); and a Discount Tyrant deeper in the tunnels that was just staring blankly at some pipes when Discount Claire arrived on the scene (Andy promptly began RPing him as a pipe inspector being murdered by some unknown woman XD). Their time in this act ended when Discount Claire was killed by a hillbilly zombie and they decided they didn’t need to see the rest of the lair.
V. And a “Main Street Retro” minigame, available in the Arcade, that wasn’t “retro” in the slightest – it just plonked Discount Claire down on a street and had her go around mowing down hordes of enemies while the local NPCs ran around in a panic, died to the monsters, or – occasionally – picked up a gun and helped. On the plus side, Mike got a rifle that helped him obliterate more Discount Tyrant crotches; on the minus side, rats began raining from the sky at one point near the end of the level. And then everything ended with the game straight-up crashing. Mike and Andy considered this a rather fitting end to things. :P
So, uh, yeah. Mike and Andy cannot recommend anyone spend $145 US on these games. XD Save your cash and get Resident Evil Requiem when it comes out – at least then you’re only spending $75!
B) And “Return to Silent Hill is Really, Really Bad” by OXtra – Ellen, Jane, Mike, and Andy talking about Return To Silent Hill, which is a new movie based on Silent Hill 2 that came out recently, and how it’s – well, see the title. XD Yeah, the four absolutely hated the movie (perhaps more than the Borderlands movie, but I don’t know that for sure), and their half-hour-long bitch session included:
I. Andy forcing everyone to say one nice thing about the movie before they started trashing it – his was “I liked how the lead actor, Jeremy Irvine, looked like a bedraggled Jensen Ackles” (which confused Ellen and Jane, as they had no idea who that guy was – for reference, his most famous role is probably Dean Winchester on Supernatural. Me, I was confused because, after seeing Jeremy as James Sunderland, I was like “...hang on, he looks way more like SAM Winchester” (aka Jared Padelecki)); Jane’s was “This movie made me appreciate the original Silent Hill movie from 2006 more, as it was so much better at being scary and capturing the actual atmosphere of the game;” Ellen’s was “it was under two hours long” (harsh but fair), and Mike’s was “They gave James a cool Ford Mustang muscle car instead of the boring car from the actual game, and made the final shot him doing a sick burnout in said car.” XD (After watching their video and the clips they compiled, my one nice thing is that the shot of James screaming in pain and slamming a hand onto the ground in one location, only for Silent Hill’s iconic meat moss to start growing around it and up the walls, was actually kinda cool. I’m sure it was less cool in the movie, but I liked the brief clip. :P)
( Many spoilers for movie and game past this point )
So yeah – end result, they do NOT recommend you see this movie if you can avoid it! Which, uh, is very easy for me, as I didn’t even know the movie existed until they brought it up in this video. XD And we can expect plenty more movie reviews from them as time goes on, as apparently we’re getting movies based on Street Fighter (which, according to Mike and Andy, looks like good campy fun), Mortal Kombat 2 (which will probably be VERY bloody), and Resident Evil (which Andy has high hopes for because apparently it’s attached to a talented director) this year! I will keep my fingers crossed that not all of them are as terrible as this film. :P
Yeah, I suppose I'm happy with that -- I really wanted to watch those videos and play my game, and the cleaning does need to get done, so...right now, though, I really have to go to bed, as it is much too late for me to be up again. ^^; Goals for tomorrow include doing SOMETHING with my tumblr drafts; working some more on Chapter 6 of "Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland;" playing some Portal 2; and getting in a workout, preferably to the next F:NV YOLO Remastered episode. Hopefully these are all achievable goals. *nods* Night all!
*shakehead* Anyway -- can't say I accomplished THAT much today, but I got all the things that I really wanted to get done today, done, so that's good:
Cleaning & Laundry: Welp, as usual, keeping my room clean and doing my laundry took up most of my Saturday – at least now I’ve come to expect that state of affairs, so I wasn’t too annoyed when it happened. Here’s the breakdown if you are at all interested:
A) Started the whole process a little after 10:30 AM, putting on a livestream of Jon playing Fallout 76 and talking about how he wants to do another video essay on the game and what he and Claire thought about Season 2 of the Fallout TV series to listen to – fun fact, Claire does not seem to know the plot of Fallout: New Vegas despite it being Jon’s favorite game! There may be an April Fool’s video this year where he forces her to play it XD
B) Brought my laundry (sheets, blankets, bathrobe – my pajamas got washed more recently, so they were good) down around 11:45 AM, throwing my sheets into the washer with Mom and Dad’s to start THAT process
C) Got through most of my dusting by the time we broke for lunch around 1 PM
D) Went downstairs, got the clothes Mom did earlier out of the dryer, moved the sheets into the dryer, and threw my blankets and bathrobe into the washer a little before 1:45 PM
E) Resumed dusting around 2 PM after helping dry some lunch dishes
F) Finished dusting, Swiffering, and vacuuming a little after 3 PM; promptly went downstairs, got sheets out of the dryer, and moved my blankets and bathrobe into the dryer
G) Finally got blankets and bathrobe out of dryer around 4:10 PM, right before starting Little Corners (I’d actually gone and checked on them after updating the game and saw that they were almost ready, so I waited on starting the game until I could collect them)
Yeaaaah – it’s pretty much an all-day project at this point. At least listening to Jon is fun...we’ll see if next time I can somehow convince myself to spend a little less time on the dusting, though, given my room never DOES get all that dusty. Fingers crossed!
Little Corners: As stated above, I did finally get back to this game today – and today’s foray into the virtual sticker book saw me tackling the “Ruins” corner! How’d that go? Pretty well, I’d say:
A) After folding up my blankets, I started by looking through all the stickers, then placing the broken window sticker on the right-hand wall of the ruins, and a big empty doorway surrounded by a few extra bits of crumbling masonry over on the left-hand wall. Always good to establish where the entrance to a room is early!
( Long descriptions and spoilers for sticker unlocks below )
FreeTube: I wanted to clear a few more videos out of my Subs over here, and I’m happy to say that I succeeded, watching the two OXBoxtra videos that I most wanted to catch up on this evening –
A) “We Played this Resident Evil Rip-Off So You Don't Have To” by OXBox – Mike playing terrible Resident Evil clone Outbreak: Shades Of Horror with Andy watching on, offering moral support and snark! Why did they put themselves through this? Because Mike saw that the Outbreak series kept releasing super-expensive compilations (noting that the total for the latest was like $145 American dollars), and he decided he had to part with some of his precious money and see what they were all about. Because if the collection cost that much, that meant it had to be good, right? < /sarcasm > Anyway, the game was very much NOT good, and featured:
I. An opening menu which was actually the protagonist – Discount Claire Redfield; she even had the iconic red jacket and a knife that Andy later said looked like someone had sellotaped it to her back – wandering around a strange family fun center, with various explanatory signs telling her where to go to, you know, actually play the game. Apparently the arcade machines offered minigames, the “raid mode” was in the restrooms (Mike was like “why there?!), and the game itself accessible through movie posters? It was confusing enough that I think Mike entered the multiplayer mode by accident while trying to navigate – at the very least, the posters he poked all had an additional subtitle, “Chromatic Split,” on them, and I am reasonably certain one of the explanatory signs said that was the multiplayer version...but as Mike said, you were never going to find a friend to play this with you, so… XD
II. An “Act I” that immediately dumped Discount Claire Redfield in everyone’s favorite gaming environment – a sewer level – with a rapidly-increasing infection level, and featured such nonsense as “green sprouts” (Legally Distinct from “green herbs”) for healing; a UI that randomly faded out every so often (Mike was like “I don’t know what I did!” the first time he noticed it), and was otherwise so cluttered you couldn’t see all the text on the screen; big old crocodile men for some reason; poorly animated asset pack zombies that jittered along, twisted at the waist in very unnatural ways, and went down in one hit so long as you got a headshot (and were worth DEPRESSINGLY little XP – 2 per kill!); flares that, as per the boys, looked like someone stuck a little rocket engine on a thermos (and had a very goofy “use” animation); a flashlight that you used by pressing in the right stick (Mike was very “???” about that); and a ghoul attack animation that seriously looked like a “you have just died” animation (there was a fade to black and everything!), but nope, it was just a regular attack. Mike and Andy were very much not impressed, and chose to quit and move onto Act II when Discount Claire was killed by a ghoul and Mike was forced to “interact to give up” (very helpful, game).
III. An “Act II” that immediately dumped Discount Claire into an underground factory (Mike was immediately like “this is no different from a sewer level, come on”) and featured such nonsense as a cop zombie walking up the stairs that Discount Claire had just come down, completely ignoring her (and going up the second set of stairs backwards) while a cheerleader zombie (yes, those were a thing in this game) came down and ALSO completely ignored her (Andy joked that the first zombie was clocking out for a break and that this was a “shift change”); a bunch of zombies managing to attack Discount Claire through CLOSED AND LOCKED DOORS thanks to their character models partially glitching through them (on the plus side, this meant that Discount Claire could target and kill them as well); Discount Claire getting attacked by a Discount Tyrant that breathed fire for no discernible reason (Mike exclusively shot him in the crotch just for fun – it took quite a lot of crotch shots to bring him down); the boys discovering that you could shoot individual limbs off zombies and turn them into wriggling zombie “snakes,” which was probably the one thing they honestly liked about this game (admitting they’d love to see Capcom implement something like this in RE proper); and another zombie trying to walk directly into a closed door head-first on a different level (Mike and Andy immediately compared it to that famous Gary Larson cartoon featuring the kid going to Midvale School For The Gifted pushing on a door that said “Pull”). Their time in this act came to a close when Mike found a key that could be used to open one of the many locked doors they’d encountered and used it on the door the Midvale Zombie had been walking into – only to discover it was only a safe room of sorts. And didn’t have any other keys inside. Meaning there was no way for them to progress. *shakehead* Great work, game.
IV. An “Act III” that immediately dumped Discount Claire into “Arthur’s Lair” (Mike and Andy: “Who’s Arthur??” I think you might have learned if you had managed to complete the earlier acts, guys!), which was also underground (looked like an old subway tunnel, in fact) and featured such nonsense as the reveal that, when Discount Claire is stealthing, she cannot interact with objects in the world (like a note next to the corpse of the person she was supposed to be meeting down here) or shoot enemies (like the Discount Tyrant trying to murder her); so much ivy growing around a big arena where Discount Claire was expected to fight loads of enemies that it kept getting in the way of the camera as Mike tried to navigate and shoot; Mike attempting to keep a dismembered cheerleader zombie as a “pet snake” for a bit, only to realize it wasn’t really feasible with how many enemies kept coming after him in the arena; Discount Claire dying again, but this time being allowed to come back to life via “attacking” to use the green sprout in her inventory (again, very helpful game); the croc-man enemy coming for Discount Claire using the world’s stupidest walk cycle (Mike and Andy said he walked like a Donkey Kong character, with Mike providing a silly “do do do do!” soundtrack for it); Discount Claire failing to kill a cop zombie with multiple body shots during a later trek through the tunnels, and the cop zombie choosing to just loom over her shoulder rather than attack her (he must have also been on break); a zombie in what looked like a hazmat suit just exiting the game entirely by clipping through a nearby wall when Discount Claire approached (Mike and Andy had a good laugh over that); Mike running out of ammo while fighting zombies in the tunnels and having to use the knife, which didn’t have a proper attack animation, just a big blast of light each time it hit (Mike joked it had to be doing radiant damage, while Andy suggested it was opening stargates); and a Discount Tyrant deeper in the tunnels that was just staring blankly at some pipes when Discount Claire arrived on the scene (Andy promptly began RPing him as a pipe inspector being murdered by some unknown woman XD). Their time in this act ended when Discount Claire was killed by a hillbilly zombie and they decided they didn’t need to see the rest of the lair.
V. And a “Main Street Retro” minigame, available in the Arcade, that wasn’t “retro” in the slightest – it just plonked Discount Claire down on a street and had her go around mowing down hordes of enemies while the local NPCs ran around in a panic, died to the monsters, or – occasionally – picked up a gun and helped. On the plus side, Mike got a rifle that helped him obliterate more Discount Tyrant crotches; on the minus side, rats began raining from the sky at one point near the end of the level. And then everything ended with the game straight-up crashing. Mike and Andy considered this a rather fitting end to things. :P
So, uh, yeah. Mike and Andy cannot recommend anyone spend $145 US on these games. XD Save your cash and get Resident Evil Requiem when it comes out – at least then you’re only spending $75!
B) And “Return to Silent Hill is Really, Really Bad” by OXtra – Ellen, Jane, Mike, and Andy talking about Return To Silent Hill, which is a new movie based on Silent Hill 2 that came out recently, and how it’s – well, see the title. XD Yeah, the four absolutely hated the movie (perhaps more than the Borderlands movie, but I don’t know that for sure), and their half-hour-long bitch session included:
I. Andy forcing everyone to say one nice thing about the movie before they started trashing it – his was “I liked how the lead actor, Jeremy Irvine, looked like a bedraggled Jensen Ackles” (which confused Ellen and Jane, as they had no idea who that guy was – for reference, his most famous role is probably Dean Winchester on Supernatural. Me, I was confused because, after seeing Jeremy as James Sunderland, I was like “...hang on, he looks way more like SAM Winchester” (aka Jared Padelecki)); Jane’s was “This movie made me appreciate the original Silent Hill movie from 2006 more, as it was so much better at being scary and capturing the actual atmosphere of the game;” Ellen’s was “it was under two hours long” (harsh but fair), and Mike’s was “They gave James a cool Ford Mustang muscle car instead of the boring car from the actual game, and made the final shot him doing a sick burnout in said car.” XD (After watching their video and the clips they compiled, my one nice thing is that the shot of James screaming in pain and slamming a hand onto the ground in one location, only for Silent Hill’s iconic meat moss to start growing around it and up the walls, was actually kinda cool. I’m sure it was less cool in the movie, but I liked the brief clip. :P)
( Many spoilers for movie and game past this point )
So yeah – end result, they do NOT recommend you see this movie if you can avoid it! Which, uh, is very easy for me, as I didn’t even know the movie existed until they brought it up in this video. XD And we can expect plenty more movie reviews from them as time goes on, as apparently we’re getting movies based on Street Fighter (which, according to Mike and Andy, looks like good campy fun), Mortal Kombat 2 (which will probably be VERY bloody), and Resident Evil (which Andy has high hopes for because apparently it’s attached to a talented director) this year! I will keep my fingers crossed that not all of them are as terrible as this film. :P
Yeah, I suppose I'm happy with that -- I really wanted to watch those videos and play my game, and the cleaning does need to get done, so...right now, though, I really have to go to bed, as it is much too late for me to be up again. ^^; Goals for tomorrow include doing SOMETHING with my tumblr drafts; working some more on Chapter 6 of "Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland;" playing some Portal 2; and getting in a workout, preferably to the next F:NV YOLO Remastered episode. Hopefully these are all achievable goals. *nods* Night all!
