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From The Overlord’s Corner

Continuing to inch forward on “Operation Batman Diary” with success…? I’m thinking another week or two will be spent on this before adding it to the final composition. Aside from SFM work I did go through Part 1 of my wardrobe getting rid of things. I put together a tiny pile of things I’ve barely even used, and I’m going to see if a couple friends of mine want them. No sense throwing perfectly good things away if I can give them a good home. I’m sure I’ll have more to add, but I’ll save that for another weekend.

Otherwise I’ll probably accumulate so much junk that I’d have to deliver it via treasure chest. 😛

Gaming

Aperture Desk Job Did Not Disappoint

Can I Ride It?

If you’re a Portal fan and haven’t played Aperture Desk Job, that needs to change STAT! It’s mainly made for the Steam Deck in mind, but you can still play it if you have a controller. It’s a thirty minute sit behind a desk simulator, and you play a newly hired employee tasked with performing QC work on… toilets? Your boss is a Personality Sphere by the name of Grady, who is just about as insane as any other employee you would meet at Aperture. Cave Johnson also makes a return!

I don’t want to go much in to detail, it’s like Jazzpunk or The Stanley Parable in a sense. It’s one of those things that is best experienced yourself.

Gaming

Fucking The Time Egg

Enjoyed Quantum Break in glorious 4K this evening! I kept thinking about this one while playing around in Control, and how I should try and maybe finish it? Like a bunch of other games in my library? Although I’m finding things I missed the first time going through these levels, mainly skill points. I wish I could write more about it, but it was just a happy gunfight with time breaking powers. 😛 I had fun though!

I’m not sure if I’ll continue my adventures, or go on another path entirely… I kinda wanna check out Aperture Desk Job.

All in an Overlord's day / Blogospheric Naval Gazing / Food/Drink

Cherry Blossoms On The Brain

One of my fave blogs to read is SoraNews24 when I want to read about all things Japan. Lately, they’ve been filling my RSS feed with tantalizing images of cherry blossom inspired beverages and desserts, usually from their Starbucks. They are very inspirational to look at, especially during the gray winter. I even had to treat myself after work today to a homemade Sakura Latte! With whipped cream even! I also have some cherry blossom syrup for teas, and for sakura sake. I might consider making a cherry blossom themed food substance over the weekend.

Gaming

Konami? That’s Not How SteamOS Works…

I’m not sure what compelled Konami to make this announcement; other than maybe other developers prepping their games to be Steam Deck friendly… But they released an announcement the other day about the Castlevania Advance Collection stating the following:

Before purchasing this software, please be advised that it cannot be played on Steam Deck as it does not support SteamOS.

For the record, it does run under Linux/SteamOS just fine with Proton. It’s quite evident that Konami has no idea how Proton works under SteamOS/Linux. Hell, they didn’t even bother to try testing it themselves with a Linux distro, or ask a third party to verify that it works. Also, out of all of the games they’ve released on Steam, why did Konami choose the Castlevania Advance Collection? Quite a few of their other games have been verified to run on the Steam Deck (the Metal Gear games being among them) and they just randomly choose to post an announcement about a game that doesn’t work on Steam Deck… even though it does?

I haven’t played much of it myself, but I can verify that it runs under Manjaro on my Linux powered Surface Pro, which is very similar to current SteamOS. It would have almost made sense if they posted an announcement about a more resource demanding game not working on SteamOS. It would still have been wrong, but at least Konami would have been aiming a little higher, a little more graphically demanding.

Sometimes if you don’t know about how something works, it’s best not to say anything at all.

Blogospheric Naval Gazing

No Wonder I’m Always Tired

Ever since purchasing my PineTime Smart Watch I’ve been keeping track of my steps. I seem to range anywhere between 15k to 20k, usually in the hundreds on the weekends. Today ended at 18,974 steps. I didn’t really think I did a lot of moving around, at least until monitoring my tracks.

Gaming / Open Threads

Sunday Night Open Thread

I don’t have much to write. It’s been a cold blustery day perfect for trying new blends of tea, and enjoying good food and gaming. I played a little more of Postal 4, did a few quests and quit to prevent motion sickness. There was also some server tinkering in Garry’s Mod, and I even played a little bit of the Shadow Warrior games — they look gorgeous in 4K! Looking forward to the third installment! If it’s like the other two games it’ll be a graphical ball buster. 😛

I might have enough energy to go back to making horrifying things tomorrow, perhaps something sharable? 😛

Open Thread!

Gaming

Starting The Weekend By Going Postal

I was in a mood for something stupid this evening, some mindless mayhem to kick off the weekend. So, I scanned through my seemingly infinite library of entertainment, and Postal 4 won my undivided attention. There I went, wandering the deserts of Arizona in a quest for ridiculous amusement, and I was not disappointed by my findings.

The Postal games are basically an over the top comedically horrible open world exploration game, and it’s so bad that it’s good. It’s an open world game featuring innuendos and crude humour from start to finish.

Played for a little over an hour before calling it quits. It was pretty much what I expected in terms of quality (as evidenced in the top left of the screenshots). It’s quite an interesting universe, somehow able to be both beautiful and ugly at the same time.

Even the game knows it can go as low as buttsauce!

Aaaaaaand now it’s the perfect game.