The Mind Of OverlordTomala
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Sifting The Hard Drives

I actually found some time over the last couple of days to put a Resonite video together! It was from footage from literally one year ago, on one of the many days we explored user created worlds. I’ll be releasing it this Saturday!

It felt good to go through some video footage again, and even better to render it! Two and a half minutes rendering in under two minutes into a video. I would have loved to have had this technology 20 years ago when it took what felt like 20 hours to render a 1080p clip..

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It All Started With a Keyboard

While I was at work today I had the pleasure of chatting it up with a customer who was looking for a keyboard. She was looking for one that would help her delve into the world of coding. As we talked the topic shifted over to laptops. She has an old Asus ROG gaming laptop that won’t be able to carry over to Windows 11, which also happens to be the same fate that my old Asus ROG shares. I told her that I converted my laptop into a Linux machine, and recommended that if she wanted to get into coding, or even just wanted to use day to day use without Windows that she might want to consider switching to Linux. I gave her a couple names of some user friendly distros, and some food for thought. She was actually pretty excited with the idea of giving it a try!

Ten years ago I wouldn’t have recommended it, but there have been enough user friendly improvements that make it more possible these days. Especially given the irritating changes to Win 11, and not everyone being crazy about the new co-pilot feature. I already know a few people that made the switch, or switched their friends and family over to it with them not noticing much of a difference.

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Late Night Open Thread

Nature didn’t get the memo that summer is over, and I’m ok with that. It was nice to have a day of reading in the shade, and plotting my evil plans of evil; Birthdays to shop for, phone calls to make, and what feels like a never ending to-do list. The good news is that at the end of October I’ve scheduled myself a long weekend. Maybe I can finish up some projects pertaining to video or server stuff.

Open Thread!

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The Soul Searching Continues (Dawn of Sorrow)

My adventures through Dawn of Sorrow are nearing the end. I just need to gather the remaining souls and find a few more secrets before meeting with the final boss. It looks like this will be the first game in the Dominus Collection to be finished, it’s also the first one released in the DS series. Assuming I don’t take a break from it to play other games. 😛

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A Bear and a Yakuza Meet at an Aquarium

For the last couple of nights I’ve been playing a Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. I’ve mainly been keeping busy with the side quests, the kind you would expect in a Yakuza/Like a Dragon game. I went to an aquarium that wasn’t much of an aquarium, went on a weird tour lead by an idol and aced a class on being a pirate. Every time I sit down and play I always coming away from it feeling great. Plus it’s also been fun trying to recognize places in Honolulu! I went there a loooooong time ago, and it’s nice to see it again, even digitally.

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Blogospheric Tea & Gaming Post

Survived the first work day of the week. It felt nice to have the sun as my morning alarm, it’s one of the nicer perks about going to work later in the day. That and having some breakfast before work, something I don’t typically do for those super early shifts. It also gives me time to be my own barista! With an entire galaxy of tea at my fingertips I’m able to keep the caffeine headache demons away with a well sized drink. Today was a strawberry and passion fruit day for tea. I’m thinking for tomorrow of making a raspberry puerh. It’s nice to have options. 🙂

Speaking of options: I’m not sure what part of the ol’ game library I’ll tackle tonight. Not sure if I want to be a Yakuza, a Dragon, or some form of vampire or demon hunter… again, nice to have options.

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Another Week of New Beginnings and Old Games

Last week was a mixture of busy and pain, with the two typically overlapping one another. Then the weekend came where I was allowed to rest. The last couple of days have felt like Summer – I enjoyed some Steam Deck time outside this evening, continuing my Castlevania adventures. It’s still a toss up for which game I’ll finish first, but tonight I made good progress in Portrait of Ruin. I keep getting my ass handed to me by a memory of Richter Belmont, will probably come back to him after getting stronger.

In the meantime I’ll have a break, take care of a couple things and then continue exploring at the witching hour.

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Work, Play, etc…

I’ve been slowly putting together my Cyber Security CS50 project, starting with writing out the report first. I’m pretty close to finalizing it and starting on the video portion. I’m glad to be picking up a pace, it feels like I’ve been dragging for awhile. At the same time though I don’t want to rush this project and make mistakes.

I think I’ll reward myself by playing a Portal 2 mod during the witching hour. 😛

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Games of Past and Present

Over the weekend I decided to take a small break from blogging. There was a lot of rest and play after a long week – last night we did some world exploration in Resonite, and today I chilled on the couch and played a couple of games during some rainy weather. I’ve been exploring Cauldron Kappa. Of all the cauldrons I’ve explored this one is very unique; unlike the other cauldrons, Kappa is flooded with water. You have to raise and lower the water in order to advance – it actually reminded me of the Cistern level in Tomb Raider, only more futuristic.

Then I took a break from being a Playstation gamer and traveled back in time to the GBA era to check out Julius Mode in Aria of Sorrow. As fun as it was fun to play as Soma, it’s great to play as a Belmont again! One of the things I like about Julius mode is that he already comes prepared with an assortment of sub-weapons that in previous games could only be obtained individually throughout the game. Already defeated a couple of bosses without issue.

It will be awhile before I beat it though… I still want to pace myself after just finishing the game last week. Starting next month I’ll be prioritizing games that are Spooky for October. Maybe then I can rampage my way through! 😛