Neither Wind Nor Rain Nor Random Muscle Cramps At 5:30 In The Morning...
Yeah, that's how I first woke up today -- with my leg suddenly screaming in pain because a muscle in it had cramped up. Somehow I managed to get back to sleep once the worst of it had abated. . .only to be woken up at 6 because I'd forgot to turn my main alarm off. -.- And then I went back to sleep again only to briefly wake up at 7:30. My brain, ladies and gentlemen. And my body too, come to think of it. (The back of my leg STILL aches a bit, and I've got a bit of a knot in the side of my neck. Bleh.)
Despite all that, and the generally gloomy weather today, I still made it to the mall! Report of my time there:
-->Newbury's has rearranged itself yet again -- at least it means there's always something new to look at. My trip to the comics section yielded the last two comics of the "Who Is Marty McFly?" arc I wanted, but only the second issue of "Biff To The Future," the new miniseries. Since I still need issue 1 of that, I left that one behind and just got the end of "Who Is Marty McFly?"
Summary: Marty worries that he's not the "real" Marty because his memories don't quite match up with what actually happened post-time travel. After some rather cute bonding with his father and being told by a priest that being able to alter time would be going against God's plan (Marty: So Doc and I are going to hell, great), he is contacted by one Dr. Marcus Irving, who also worked on time travel, but never actually got to the point of a working time machine. He tells Marty that there's a good chance he's going to be rewritten thanks to his meddling and gets him to summon Doc so they can do something about it. Marty does so, and there's a heartwarming scene of Doc reassuring Marty that he's not alone and that he'll never let anything happen to him --
And then, of course, it turns out Irving just wanted the flux capacitor so he could finally achieve time travel and he steals it out of the car.
And then three other Martys show up, two of which kidnap Marty and one of which attacks Doc.
And then it's revealed the other Martys are GODDAMN ROBOTS.
As it turns out, they ARE future technology -- an older version of Irving from 1997 shows up, and it's revealed he's been stealing ideas from the near-future and reverse-engineering them to "invent" them himself, which includes the bots. He considers Doc and Marty reckless "time cowboys" and is paranoid they'll take his success away from him, so he first tries to dump them off in the time of saber-toothed cats, and then -- after a comment from Doc clues him in that, hey, um, THAT COULD WRECK THE TIME STREAM -- takes them back to 1997 to be killed by a whole bevy of robotic duplicates of themselves. (Yes, Irving apparently spends much of his time constructing robot versions of Doc and Marty. Ummmmm) Doc and Marty escape via a retrieval remote for the (fixed) DeLorean Doc had hidden in his shoe (because of course) and go to figure out how to stop the younger version of Irving without wrecking the time stream.
Interestingly enough, what saves the day is Younger Irving being rather horrified by his future self when Older Irving shows up with his own time machine and some of the robots and orders them to capture his younger self -- and destroy anyone who gets in their way. Which includes some black lady and her niece who were just trying to cross the street when all the shenanigans started. Younger Irving admits that he feels like he wasted his youth on the time machine project and that he's terribly lonely -- Marty tells him said loneliness just gets WORSE in the future, because Older Irving is super paranoid and has no friends (though he does have a creepy robot "sister"). Younger Irving stops the robots and decides not to go down the path that made him Older Irving, resulting in a fade out of Older Irving (who realizes in his last moments that, yeah, he WAS kind of a dick) and all the robots and such. SOMEHOW the gang gets the lady and her niece to believe it was all holograms (headcanon that everyone in Hill Valley knows about the time machine and just is too nice to tell Doc lowkey confirmed?), and the lady even ends up going out on a date with Younger Irving.
And in all of this, Marty somehow comes to terms with the fact that, even if his memories don't match up, he's still the "right" Marty. It's all very weird. I mean, I think it's pretty great, but it's all very weird. And I do feel like they kinda derailed a legitimate concern for Marty in favor of silly Martynator antics, but eh. Still better than TAS!
-->Went to go have lunch -- and found they'd taken out the Subway! O.o I have no idea why, since I haven't been there in months. I ended up going to Charley's Philly Cheesesteaks instead, which was next to it. Had a pretty damn tasty chicken "cheesesteak" sandwich with fries and a strawberry lemonade (with bits of real strawberry in it!) Might make them my new regular for these visits.
-->Dave and Buster's next -- recharged my card and hit all my usual games. Just the same good fun that I usually have there. :)
-->And I ended with a stop at Dairy Queen for a mini Ultimate Chocolate Brownie blizzard -- chocolate ice cream, chocolate chips, brownie bits, and a squirt of fudge. Om nom nom.
So yeah, that was fun. :) I needed a day like that, I think. Just something where I could sit back and relax for change.
Things I accomplished after my trip:
-->Another bit of "Fixing You" -- Victor and Alice have gone down the slide and are now splashing around together in one of the pools. Unfortunately a Slithering Ruin is about to chomp on Victor, so Alice will be needing the Vorpal Blade shortly. After that -- montage!
-->Got through the last of the "Tangled Web" quest in Bloodlines -- Harry successfully raided Kamikaze Zen and set up the network hub without being noticed. I actually managed to sneak around the legs of a guard without setting him off! Also grabbed a special name plate from the vault for an extra experience point and got Mitnick to let me out through the air vent. Back to the main quest next time, entering the obvious "Fu Syndicate" trap!
-->Watched the next of Helloween's RE7 sets -- more glop monsters, more futzing around, no big deal. One minor jumpscare that Hells knew was coming and thus was unaffected by. Seriously, the difference between this section and everything that came before is night and day. You could see some campiness sneaking in with Lucas's stuff, but that remained fairly tense for the most part. This is just standard Resident Evil goofy. Not that I mind that much -- makes it easier to watch.
-->Watched The Sim Supply build a bowling alley, because he builds neat stuff. :) While he likes the pack (less for the actual bowling and more for the furniture and wallpapers and such), he and LGR seem to agree that more aracadey stuff (like the games you'd see at Dave & Busters, actually) should have been included. I'm in full agreement -- I miss the old pinball machines and such. Hoping those will come back in some future update!
-->Got my queue set up for The Valice Multiverse -- it's not much of a muse day for me, RPing-wise (going to the mall tends to send my mind in non-RP directions), but I had enough to at least get some stuff prepped. And I did get a nice piece of fanart to put up: Queen Wins Victor is not having a good day :)
*claps hands* All right -- need to catch up on my main tumblr and answer a couple of messages. Tomorrow, weather is supposed to remain shitty, so my main plan is to do a Helloween Nier: Automata marathon (he has three sets plus a side mission video up now, and they're all pretty long). May fit in either his DS3 co-op LP with Rufert or Linkara's latest review depending on time. We'll see. I also have a lot of WhatCulture gaming videos I'd like to watch too -- probably should get those out of the way tonight. *nods* So yeah, let me get on that. Night all!
Despite all that, and the generally gloomy weather today, I still made it to the mall! Report of my time there:
-->Newbury's has rearranged itself yet again -- at least it means there's always something new to look at. My trip to the comics section yielded the last two comics of the "Who Is Marty McFly?" arc I wanted, but only the second issue of "Biff To The Future," the new miniseries. Since I still need issue 1 of that, I left that one behind and just got the end of "Who Is Marty McFly?"
Summary: Marty worries that he's not the "real" Marty because his memories don't quite match up with what actually happened post-time travel. After some rather cute bonding with his father and being told by a priest that being able to alter time would be going against God's plan (Marty: So Doc and I are going to hell, great), he is contacted by one Dr. Marcus Irving, who also worked on time travel, but never actually got to the point of a working time machine. He tells Marty that there's a good chance he's going to be rewritten thanks to his meddling and gets him to summon Doc so they can do something about it. Marty does so, and there's a heartwarming scene of Doc reassuring Marty that he's not alone and that he'll never let anything happen to him --
And then, of course, it turns out Irving just wanted the flux capacitor so he could finally achieve time travel and he steals it out of the car.
And then three other Martys show up, two of which kidnap Marty and one of which attacks Doc.
And then it's revealed the other Martys are GODDAMN ROBOTS.
As it turns out, they ARE future technology -- an older version of Irving from 1997 shows up, and it's revealed he's been stealing ideas from the near-future and reverse-engineering them to "invent" them himself, which includes the bots. He considers Doc and Marty reckless "time cowboys" and is paranoid they'll take his success away from him, so he first tries to dump them off in the time of saber-toothed cats, and then -- after a comment from Doc clues him in that, hey, um, THAT COULD WRECK THE TIME STREAM -- takes them back to 1997 to be killed by a whole bevy of robotic duplicates of themselves. (Yes, Irving apparently spends much of his time constructing robot versions of Doc and Marty. Ummmmm) Doc and Marty escape via a retrieval remote for the (fixed) DeLorean Doc had hidden in his shoe (because of course) and go to figure out how to stop the younger version of Irving without wrecking the time stream.
Interestingly enough, what saves the day is Younger Irving being rather horrified by his future self when Older Irving shows up with his own time machine and some of the robots and orders them to capture his younger self -- and destroy anyone who gets in their way. Which includes some black lady and her niece who were just trying to cross the street when all the shenanigans started. Younger Irving admits that he feels like he wasted his youth on the time machine project and that he's terribly lonely -- Marty tells him said loneliness just gets WORSE in the future, because Older Irving is super paranoid and has no friends (though he does have a creepy robot "sister"). Younger Irving stops the robots and decides not to go down the path that made him Older Irving, resulting in a fade out of Older Irving (who realizes in his last moments that, yeah, he WAS kind of a dick) and all the robots and such. SOMEHOW the gang gets the lady and her niece to believe it was all holograms (headcanon that everyone in Hill Valley knows about the time machine and just is too nice to tell Doc lowkey confirmed?), and the lady even ends up going out on a date with Younger Irving.
And in all of this, Marty somehow comes to terms with the fact that, even if his memories don't match up, he's still the "right" Marty. It's all very weird. I mean, I think it's pretty great, but it's all very weird. And I do feel like they kinda derailed a legitimate concern for Marty in favor of silly Martynator antics, but eh. Still better than TAS!
-->Went to go have lunch -- and found they'd taken out the Subway! O.o I have no idea why, since I haven't been there in months. I ended up going to Charley's Philly Cheesesteaks instead, which was next to it. Had a pretty damn tasty chicken "cheesesteak" sandwich with fries and a strawberry lemonade (with bits of real strawberry in it!) Might make them my new regular for these visits.
-->Dave and Buster's next -- recharged my card and hit all my usual games. Just the same good fun that I usually have there. :)
-->And I ended with a stop at Dairy Queen for a mini Ultimate Chocolate Brownie blizzard -- chocolate ice cream, chocolate chips, brownie bits, and a squirt of fudge. Om nom nom.
So yeah, that was fun. :) I needed a day like that, I think. Just something where I could sit back and relax for change.
Things I accomplished after my trip:
-->Another bit of "Fixing You" -- Victor and Alice have gone down the slide and are now splashing around together in one of the pools. Unfortunately a Slithering Ruin is about to chomp on Victor, so Alice will be needing the Vorpal Blade shortly. After that -- montage!
-->Got through the last of the "Tangled Web" quest in Bloodlines -- Harry successfully raided Kamikaze Zen and set up the network hub without being noticed. I actually managed to sneak around the legs of a guard without setting him off! Also grabbed a special name plate from the vault for an extra experience point and got Mitnick to let me out through the air vent. Back to the main quest next time, entering the obvious "Fu Syndicate" trap!
-->Watched the next of Helloween's RE7 sets -- more glop monsters, more futzing around, no big deal. One minor jumpscare that Hells knew was coming and thus was unaffected by. Seriously, the difference between this section and everything that came before is night and day. You could see some campiness sneaking in with Lucas's stuff, but that remained fairly tense for the most part. This is just standard Resident Evil goofy. Not that I mind that much -- makes it easier to watch.
-->Watched The Sim Supply build a bowling alley, because he builds neat stuff. :) While he likes the pack (less for the actual bowling and more for the furniture and wallpapers and such), he and LGR seem to agree that more aracadey stuff (like the games you'd see at Dave & Busters, actually) should have been included. I'm in full agreement -- I miss the old pinball machines and such. Hoping those will come back in some future update!
-->Got my queue set up for The Valice Multiverse -- it's not much of a muse day for me, RPing-wise (going to the mall tends to send my mind in non-RP directions), but I had enough to at least get some stuff prepped. And I did get a nice piece of fanart to put up: Queen Wins Victor is not having a good day :)
*claps hands* All right -- need to catch up on my main tumblr and answer a couple of messages. Tomorrow, weather is supposed to remain shitty, so my main plan is to do a Helloween Nier: Automata marathon (he has three sets plus a side mission video up now, and they're all pretty long). May fit in either his DS3 co-op LP with Rufert or Linkara's latest review depending on time. We'll see. I also have a lot of WhatCulture gaming videos I'd like to watch too -- probably should get those out of the way tonight. *nods* So yeah, let me get on that. Night all!