Room’s finally decluttered enough for the indoor workouts, but I still have just a little bit left to change to make recording easy. Namely I still have to relocate my monitor to that (now sufficiently cleared off) side table.

But any games I’m not recording are now fair game just to get in the workout. No pun intended.

Case in point, after going so long without playing Beat Saber that I’d completely lost track of which DLC I’d gotten full combos in with each speed modifier (the scoring system only tells you if you’ve done it for that difficulty level), I’d simply given up on trying that method of tracking my progress and just made sure to FC all of them on easy before moving onto Normal.

Having completed that goal… I finally discovered how to reset my progress so I could just start my personal tracking method over again. Two things you want to do to accomplish this: you have to delete your cloud backup for whichever game you want to reset (no point deleting it off the local system if it’s just going to restore it the next time you get online); and you need to go into the Quest’s storage and “Clear App Data” from there.

I spent a while afterwards tracking down songs I’d added to my favorites list but thankfully didn’t have to redownload any DLC. This should also mean repeating whichever campaign levels I’ve already recorded so I can pick up my YouTube channel more or less where I left off.

Once my progress was reset, I proceeded in a single workout session to play Bones (Imagine Dragons) on Easy mode on regular, “faster,” and “fastest” mode, not moving up in speed until I’d full comboed each one. Two days later, my thighs were still sore from ducking walls.

I also have my “charging station” set up to my liking. Well, “to my liking” if you don’t count wanting another 4 foot GoPro branded cord for my Volta charger, when they don’t sell the cords on their own…. Anyway, this means I can keep my headphones for outdoor walks charged on a regular basis, and after buying a new pair of shoes (oof! Tradehome is not cheap) I decided to break them in with Zombies Run before attempting to wear them to work.

I once again selected my mission of choice based on which collectibles I still haven’t collected (the first episode of Rule Britannia from the Venture/alt universe side of things this time). AI pronunciation being what it is, I spent about half a mile trying to figure out what I “collected” in the app that sounds like “Pote uh Smoze.” Story-themed items being what they are, it’s got to be the “Apodesmos.”

I also notice they still haven’t fixed the issue with the playlist. Nope, not going to accept “It’s a Google issue.” Maybe it was caused by Google changing things, once upon a time, but short of downloading thirty bazillion apps just to test a theory, I can honestly say that this is the only allegedly music-capable app on my phone that can’t recognize my playlists internally (I mean, how would I play them externally in another player without that other player recognizing my music?), which makes it a “this app” problem unless Google is blatantly forbidding them the same access that other apps have. Still, since all my music is instrumental, letting it play in the background via an external app without it ever cutting out when the story picks up isn’t too big an annoyance… just a workaround in the absence of an included function actually functioning.

(Also no longer functioning? The demonstrating images when you do any homefront/bodyweight workouts. Just shows a map as if you were on a distance mission. I suspect it simply never occurred to them to continue supporting those once lockdown was long over, but the bodyweight stuff works way better for me when I get home from work and confine myself to my bedroom, and I was looking forward to trying them using my computer for screen mirroring/private listening purposes. But… I’ve acquired all the mission-specific collectibles for those missions and I have VR.)