The Mind Of OverlordTomala
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Feels Like The First Time (Palworld Update)

The new Palworld update dropped the other day, but I didn’t have time to check it out on release day. Fortunately it’s my weekend! I spent a better part of the evening going over which mods to install and which ones to remove/disable for the best experience. So far we’ve found a new island, new pals, and a new fishing mechanic they introduced to the game! Just craft some bait, and capture pals that once used to hover over the waters.

For best results we’re starting from scratch. Fortunately for us there are mods that pretty much get us back to where we were stat-wise. We still have pals to collect and plenty to explore again, but the new content at least gives us an excuse to begin anew.

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The Weekend Plottening (Open Thread)

It was hot today, but I managed to find time to sift through some video footage. Unfortunately it wasn’t anything I found worth exporting, but that just means I freed a couple hundred gigs for something else. Also mentally preparing what I want to get for the weekend. The summer weather is looking to be visiting us for a few days, so I’m thinking this weekend I’ll have a chill breakfast that may or may not involve yogurt and fruit. At the very least it’ll be something that isn’t basic bitch cereal.

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Happy 10th Birthday Portal Stories: Mel!

Yesterday marked the ten year anniversary of Portal Stories: Mel. Last night I decided to give it the big screen treatment! I had to break out the keyboard and mouse to setup the graphics and screen resolution. Also had to play around with Steam Controller configs until I found the sweet spot, then I got to sciencing! Finished a few chambers before calling it a night. I would have done a little tonight, but I have an early work day tomorrow… Ah well.

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Online Shopping In Stupid Times

Today was an online shopping kind of day, something you can’t avoid when living in a rural area. I wanted to restock on two of my favorite cherry blossom teas from Japan, but thanks to Hair Furor and his freedom tariffs I probably won’t be for awhile. When I last bought them they were twelve dollars, and now they’re $21 even before shipping makes it into the equation. I did a lot of business with Japanese snack items too, which now also suffer from tariffs.

I miss the days where the Japanese and US currencies were on par with each other, it made buying their goods not much different than buying any of ours. Which worked out well considering they make A LOT of stuff that we either don’t or lack the ability to… seems like it was only last year.

Oh wait! It fucking was…

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Around The World In 80 Seconds

For tonight’s digital outing we settled on Resonite, where we did a long overdue round of world exploration! Plus as an added bonus one of our friends shared a small tour of the country of Norwegia. We also visited some ancient NEOS VR worlds that may have been broken, but made for some interesting museums. I’ll have to sift through the footage, along with all 175 Gigs of the remaining Resonite footage. :v

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Friday Night Open Thread

Ah, another Friday morning where I had to pilot my ass around the entire day on one hour of sleep and any caffeine I could absorb with no nap whatsoever in my future. This seems to happen at least once a week for one reason or another, and by the time my actual Friday rolls around I spend a good chunk of it absorbing all the sleep imaginable.

Until then, Open Thread.