I spent the morning making cat toys with my daughter’s old, worn out Fallout socks. There’s a kicker, a Vault 111 mouse and a Vault Boy catnip pillow, all stuffed with dryer lint.
Buddy plays with the Fallout kicker
~ J.L. Hilton
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Whitethorn Games just gave me Steam keys for their games Apico, Calico, Teacup and Wytchwood to give away during my 2000 subscriber celebration!
The Steam key giveaways are open to anyone inside or outside the US. Just leave a comment on any of my YouTube videos, letting me know that you’d like to enter.
I’ve passed my goal of 2,022 YouTube subscribers so the celebration will go on for another two days before I select and announce the winners! Don’t miss out!
My YouTube channel recently reached the 2,000 subscriber milestone, and I want to thank each and every one of you who joined me on my adventures, liked, subscribed, and cheered me along the way. Your support makes this channel possible. Thank you!
Extra special shout out to my Patreon, Twitch and YouTube contributors: BJ, Celtic Granny, IceStella, Patrick, Ronin, Sulfur Furious and TaSwavo … and to my long-time Fallout Friday sponsor Jesike Biking.
I also want to thank Starfish_central gaming for being a friend to the channel since early days, and to Herman for convincing me to replay Fallout 4. Rose the Raider and her rocket-powered baseball bat Granny’s Kiss were a big part of the growth of my channel.
But most of all, I have to thank my husband, who talked me into live streaming. Without his support and encouragement I would not be here.
To celebrate this milestone and thank all of you, I’m giving away a big pile of real-life loot, inspired by the games I’ve played over the years, including jewelry and prop replicas I made myself!
There are Skyrim, Fallout, Outer Worlds, Stardew Valley, BioShock, Wytchwood, Calico and other prize bundles, as well as masks from Dishonored and If On a Winter’s Night Four Travelers. Check out the video to see it all!
If you can’t wait for the giveaway, similar items are also available for purchase on my website JLHjewelry.com or you can contact me through Patreon, Twitch or Twitter, to inquire about any goodies that catch your eye.
The giveaways are free to enter and open to anyone, not just patrons or subscribers. All you need to do is comment on my corresponding YouTube videos.
For example, if you’d like to win the Skyrim goodies, leave a comment on any one of my Skyrim videos.
Or to try for the Fallout prize package, leave a comment on any Fallout 3, Fallout 4, or Fallout Shelter video.
For the Wytchwood witch’s kit, comment on my Wytchwood videos. You get the idea.
Just make sure to mention the 2022 Celebration. You can say something like “I’d love to win the cat mask in your 2022 sub celebration” or “please enter me in the giveaway for the teacup” so I know you’d like to participate and aren’t just leaving a random friendly comment.
And YES you can absolutely try for more than one prize. But limit one comment per video, please – if you want to increase your chances of winning, comment on more than one video. Most of these games have several, and some have 100s, of videos on my channel.
Unfortunately, due to high shipping costs, postal restrictions, the pandemic, and other worldwide shipping issues, physical items can only be mailed to addresses within the US.
HOWEVER … I will do one special giveaway open only to my viewers who live outside the United States. Leave a comment on ANY video for ANY game I’ve played in the past year, and you will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a copy of that game on Steam! (Some restrictions may apply. Not all games are available in all countries.)
Make sure to mention that you are an international viewer in your comment. For example, you can say something like, “Congrats from Germany on reaching 2000 subs!” or “Please enter me to win Calico on Steam in the international giveaway.”
OFFICIAL RULES & CONDITIONS
1. Must be 18 to participate. If you enter the giveaway, you are claiming to be 18 or older. Anyone found to be underage will be disqualified.
2. You must provide a US mailing address in order to receive physical gifts.
3. The Steam digital game giveaway is only open to viewers outside the United States. Only one Steam game will be given away, chosen at random from all 2022-sub celebration comments left by viewers located outside the US.
4. Giveaways will occur after I reach 2022 subscribers but no sooner than one week after I post this video. That means if I reach 2022 subs tomorrow, you will still have six days more to participate.
5. Recipients will be chosen from comments that clearly mention the 2022 celebration and are made during the celebration.
6. One comment per person per video. If you want to increase your chances of winning a particular prize, comment on other videos of the same game.
7. Fake accounts, duplicate accounts, bots, or any other artificial means of increasing subscriber count or giveaway entries will result in disqualification.
8. I will contact winners by replying to their YouTube comments and posting a video announcement. US recipients will need to provide a valid US mailing address via email or DM me via Twitter, Twitch or Patreon. The international recipient will need to make arrangements with me on Steam.
9. If a recipient does not respond within 72 hours (3 days), cannot provide a shipping address, or for any other reason is unable to accept the prize, a new recipient will be selected and contacted as described above.
10. Participants understand that I am not responsible for shipping delays, internet problems or other issues that are beyond my control.
11. Participants grant permission to use their YouTube names in my announcement video and on social media, if they win.
12. All participants must comply with the YouTube Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.
13. I reserve the right to disqualify anyone who cheats, spams or in any way acts like a jerkface. I also reserve the right to define “jerkface” behavior.
14. Void where prohibited by law.
15. YouTube does not sponsor nor endorse this celebration and is released from all liability related to the giveaway.
So raise a glass, steal a sweetroll, and would you kindly join me in celebrating over 2,000 subscribers in 2022!
~ J.L. Hilton
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Found an original 1972 Master Mind in a local thrift store for $4. I used to play this in elementary school in the ’70s. Game mechanics are similar to Wordle or hacking computers in Fallout. Box is beat up but all the pieces are here, including the instruction booklet.
As a kid, I remember being intrigued by the Bond villain, his paramour (?) henchwoman (?) & the many languages on the box. As if to say, “Forget chess, Master Mind is the international standard for measuring evil genius!”
The game maker, Invicta, discusses accessibility issues in the instructions. In 1972. (ADA was passed in 1990.) Master Mind could be played by anyone with hearing or speech issues & they produced a Braille version, too. That’s pretty cool.
~ J.L. Hilton
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Watched “River of No Return” (1954) for free on YouTube, starring Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum. I love Westerns but hadn’t heard of this one before. It was one of the first films to use a blood squib to simulate a gunshot wound.
Marilyn Monroe, who nearly drowned during filming, claimed River of No Return was her worst movie, but I thought she was great in it. She even did her own singing.
Filmed in Canada on a budget of $2.2 million, it was considered a box office hit by taking in $3.8 million. Wow, how times have changed.
~ J.L. Hilton
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Hey, looky what I found! It’s a souvenir coin from the Winchester Mystery House, one of the inspirations for Grandchester Mystery Mansion in the Fallout 4 Nuka World DLC.
I visited the place back in the 1990s. That’s when I bought the coin. I was in my 20s at the time, and I’d wanted to visit ever since I’d first learned about the place in 4th grade, because of it’s association with the Old West, ghosts and Victorian Era seances.
To be honest, it was kind of a drag. I’m glad I went, it was an interesting place, but I felt sorry for Sarah Winchester. She’d lost a baby in 1866, never had any more children, and then lost her mother and husband in 1880-1881. A lock of her baby’s hair was found in her safe, after she died.
The overall vibe of the house was much less “haunted mansion” and much more “sad old woman being scammed out of her fortune.”
The story goes that Sarah Winchester, widow of firearms magnate William Winchester, believed the angry spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles were haunting her. The constant ongoing renovations and strange architecture of her home were intended to confuse the spirits.
This is also the basic plot of the 2018 supernatural horror film Winchester starring Helen Mirren.
Rumors and urban legends included tales of nightly seances, an obsession with the number 13, and the belief that she would die if renovations were ever completed. The San Jose Evening News dismissed such rumors as “foolish superstition” in 1897, and none of her former employees, servants or relatives ever claimed she was mad or superstitious.
But those stories were later played up when the place was turned into a tourist attraction, shortly after her death in 1922. Later renovations and the installation of a Winchester rifle museum in the 1970s and 1980s also took advantage of the rumors to attract visitors.
Like me. Maybe I was actually the one scammed out of money?
~ J.L. Hilton
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Here’s the thing. I just wanted rotisserie chicken. It’s been a long, long goddamn week. There are so many things I can’t eat anymore because of celiac, so many things I can’t do because of age and health problems. My garage door & the world are broken, too. I just wanted one rotisserie chicken, Harris Teeter. Fuck.
I bought a chicken. It was under the hot lights and I was careful to keep it separate from everything else in the cart, because I didn’t want it to melt the ice cream or spoil the milk and I didn’t want it to get cold. But when I opened it at home, it was raw inside.
I took the half-baked chicken back to the store because it was an $8 chicken because everything is getting so expensive because greed rules the world and I got my $8 back but I’d rather just be eating rotisserie chicken right now and pretending everything is okay.
~ J.L. Hilton
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