Slightly Less Cold And Windy Friday
Jan. 10th, 2025 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickIt touched 40F today, imagine that! Fucking balmy after the weather we've been having. Though it's not predicted to last -- after a brief dalliance with above-freezing temps this weekend, next week it starts getting cold again. Blah. >( Hate this time of year, seriously. At least I have nowhere I need to go this weekend!
Anyway -- here is the write-up for this Friday:
Work – A final quiet, boring day to end out the week – one of my coworkers was away at doctor appointments most of the day, so there wasn’t a lot of chatter behind me, fortunately. I did the GL; I looked at the failed credit cards; and I spent pretty much all of the rest of the day finishing off my latest page of parish updates. *shrug* Could have been worse!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – final night on the bike this week, pedaling my way through the following:
A) The end of “The last Sim in the Tiny Town Challenge! - Part 13” by James Turner! Featuring James finishing up Silas’s “starter home” with all the essentials – while taking periodic breaks to make Silas take loads of random pictures of his siblings and the electronic backdrop he bought and the town itself from the roof of the town hall. Because he needed Silas to skill up to get better gigs, and he needed the money from the photographs to make sure Silas had important things like a railing on his staircase! And his very own indoor bathroom! (Which for some reason he built as a weird long room sticking into the kitchen area instead of doing what I would have done, which was MOVE THE STAIRS AND PUT IT AT THE BACK BEHIND THE KITCHEN. *shakehead* Oh James – sometimes I do wonder about your design choices.) But he did get all the essentials in place so Silas would be comfortable while he played his siblings, AND he learned that, if you take pictures using the tripod on the roof of the town hall, you can get some pretty damn EPIC shots thanks to the rotation. Seriously, he was able to take a picture of the town hall FROM ATOP THE TOWN HALL. Cheap and easy flight, just add tripod. :P But that finally means that all of the Sims have had their first episode – next week, we get to see one of the residents have their third and last one! Should be fun. :)
B) The entirety of “7 Best Upcoming New Games We Can't Wait To Play in 2025” by OXBox! Their first list video of the year, with Mike and Andy talking about those games coming out in the first half of 2025 that the gang is eagerly anticipating! Including Civilization 7 (which has you controlling three civilizations, one for each distinct era of history, instead of the traditional one), Like A Dragon Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii (a spin-off of Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth that sees noted-and-beloved series weirdo Goro Majima wake up amnesiac on a beach and promptly become a classic pirate captain despite this series being set in the modern day), and Two Point Museum (the latest in the “build this institution and keep it running” series, with you getting to build a variety of museums as experts discover new finds and pick up fun curses in the background). Hopefully they’re all good – we need some good stuff to happen here in 2025!
C) And the song “Jolene, but she's an H. P. Lovecraft monster” by Laura Currie to round out the session! This song being one my friend WeirdKev shared with me on tumblr a couple of days ago, which is technically a cover of the Dolly Parton song but with the lyrics changed to suggest Jolene is a Cthulhu-creature. It’s oddly beautiful – Laura’s a good singer. And ukulele player. :p
2. Continue working on “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: No check – while I technically had the time after Game Night (The Great Blizzard Game – Dad won the first round, I won the second), I just didn’t have the inclination. Mostly because I didn’t really want to continue with the LB stuff… Gonna have to find something else to work on tomorrow! Probably more Valicer In The Dark worldbuilding, that’s always a good go-to in situations like this...
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just GrayStillPlays tonight, with “I was paid to lie in court,” aka Gray plays Sketchy Individuals! This is a game where you play as a police sketch artist, interviewing people and sketching the criminals who have wronged them via picking the correct option from the choices the game gives you (face shape, skin color, eye style, eye color, hairstyle, hair color, etc etc). Once you have gotten all the details, you then move to a line-up of various criminals that at least vaguely fit the description, and you have to pick which one is the guilty party, with the goal being to arrest as few innocent people as possible. Now, you think that this is a game that Gray would happily deliberately lose, right?
WRONG. Gray was determined to get a high score because he didn’t have to screw anything up – the game was going to screw it up for him. For you see, the people he was interviewing weren’t always the most accurate or attentive. Like, some people gave good descriptions – the grandma who had her purse stolen, or the police officer who was distracted by donuts. But THEN you had people like the motorcyclist who only saw the person who jacked their bike briefly, mostly from behind; the small child tattling on their babysitter for using up all the green ink in the printer (printing fake money) who was more interested in talking about dinosaurs; and the colorblind man who saw someone streaking when he didn’t have his glasses on. Gray was very annoyed at how unhelpful they were. XD But he did his best, picking whatever option felt the most right to him, and in the end, he got six out of ten actual criminals! Which he noted was a “D” by the American grading system, but hey – at least he didn’t fail? XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A – didn’t really have anything to do on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), and nothing going on over on Valice Multiverse. *shrug* I was already being pulled toward the old TV Tropes anyway, so this suited me fine.
Yeah, kind of an anticlimatic end to the week, but -- eh, I'm tired, and I wanted the time to chill. I can try being productive again tomorrow! Speaking of which, my goals for Saturday include working on some drafts on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler); working some more on the Polyheart House in Sims 4; doing some form of writing (like I said, might be some VITD worldbuilding); and keeping up with the YouTube Subs and maybe getting the latest Petey Plays It video out of my Watch Later. We'll see how it all shakes out! Night all!
Anyway -- here is the write-up for this Friday:
Work – A final quiet, boring day to end out the week – one of my coworkers was away at doctor appointments most of the day, so there wasn’t a lot of chatter behind me, fortunately. I did the GL; I looked at the failed credit cards; and I spent pretty much all of the rest of the day finishing off my latest page of parish updates. *shrug* Could have been worse!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – final night on the bike this week, pedaling my way through the following:
A) The end of “The last Sim in the Tiny Town Challenge! - Part 13” by James Turner! Featuring James finishing up Silas’s “starter home” with all the essentials – while taking periodic breaks to make Silas take loads of random pictures of his siblings and the electronic backdrop he bought and the town itself from the roof of the town hall. Because he needed Silas to skill up to get better gigs, and he needed the money from the photographs to make sure Silas had important things like a railing on his staircase! And his very own indoor bathroom! (Which for some reason he built as a weird long room sticking into the kitchen area instead of doing what I would have done, which was MOVE THE STAIRS AND PUT IT AT THE BACK BEHIND THE KITCHEN. *shakehead* Oh James – sometimes I do wonder about your design choices.) But he did get all the essentials in place so Silas would be comfortable while he played his siblings, AND he learned that, if you take pictures using the tripod on the roof of the town hall, you can get some pretty damn EPIC shots thanks to the rotation. Seriously, he was able to take a picture of the town hall FROM ATOP THE TOWN HALL. Cheap and easy flight, just add tripod. :P But that finally means that all of the Sims have had their first episode – next week, we get to see one of the residents have their third and last one! Should be fun. :)
B) The entirety of “7 Best Upcoming New Games We Can't Wait To Play in 2025” by OXBox! Their first list video of the year, with Mike and Andy talking about those games coming out in the first half of 2025 that the gang is eagerly anticipating! Including Civilization 7 (which has you controlling three civilizations, one for each distinct era of history, instead of the traditional one), Like A Dragon Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii (a spin-off of Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth that sees noted-and-beloved series weirdo Goro Majima wake up amnesiac on a beach and promptly become a classic pirate captain despite this series being set in the modern day), and Two Point Museum (the latest in the “build this institution and keep it running” series, with you getting to build a variety of museums as experts discover new finds and pick up fun curses in the background). Hopefully they’re all good – we need some good stuff to happen here in 2025!
C) And the song “Jolene, but she's an H. P. Lovecraft monster” by Laura Currie to round out the session! This song being one my friend WeirdKev shared with me on tumblr a couple of days ago, which is technically a cover of the Dolly Parton song but with the lyrics changed to suggest Jolene is a Cthulhu-creature. It’s oddly beautiful – Laura’s a good singer. And ukulele player. :p
2. Continue working on “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: No check – while I technically had the time after Game Night (The Great Blizzard Game – Dad won the first round, I won the second), I just didn’t have the inclination. Mostly because I didn’t really want to continue with the LB stuff… Gonna have to find something else to work on tomorrow! Probably more Valicer In The Dark worldbuilding, that’s always a good go-to in situations like this...
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just GrayStillPlays tonight, with “I was paid to lie in court,” aka Gray plays Sketchy Individuals! This is a game where you play as a police sketch artist, interviewing people and sketching the criminals who have wronged them via picking the correct option from the choices the game gives you (face shape, skin color, eye style, eye color, hairstyle, hair color, etc etc). Once you have gotten all the details, you then move to a line-up of various criminals that at least vaguely fit the description, and you have to pick which one is the guilty party, with the goal being to arrest as few innocent people as possible. Now, you think that this is a game that Gray would happily deliberately lose, right?
WRONG. Gray was determined to get a high score because he didn’t have to screw anything up – the game was going to screw it up for him. For you see, the people he was interviewing weren’t always the most accurate or attentive. Like, some people gave good descriptions – the grandma who had her purse stolen, or the police officer who was distracted by donuts. But THEN you had people like the motorcyclist who only saw the person who jacked their bike briefly, mostly from behind; the small child tattling on their babysitter for using up all the green ink in the printer (printing fake money) who was more interested in talking about dinosaurs; and the colorblind man who saw someone streaking when he didn’t have his glasses on. Gray was very annoyed at how unhelpful they were. XD But he did his best, picking whatever option felt the most right to him, and in the end, he got six out of ten actual criminals! Which he noted was a “D” by the American grading system, but hey – at least he didn’t fail? XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A – didn’t really have anything to do on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), and nothing going on over on Valice Multiverse. *shrug* I was already being pulled toward the old TV Tropes anyway, so this suited me fine.
Yeah, kind of an anticlimatic end to the week, but -- eh, I'm tired, and I wanted the time to chill. I can try being productive again tomorrow! Speaking of which, my goals for Saturday include working on some drafts on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler); working some more on the Polyheart House in Sims 4; doing some form of writing (like I said, might be some VITD worldbuilding); and keeping up with the YouTube Subs and maybe getting the latest Petey Plays It video out of my Watch Later. We'll see how it all shakes out! Night all!
