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Unexpected Downtime

If you happened to visit the website (or any of the other connected websites) and were unable to access it I have to apologise. I woke up this morning and found that none of my WordPress sites could connect to their databases, and I couldn’t properly get to it until I got off work several hours later. Fortunately I found the problem… sorta. There was an important process that appeared to have crashed, and in one terminal command I had everything back up and running within minutes of arriving home. I’m still not too sure how or why it crashed though, the logs don’t have much to offer me for clues. This goes without saying, but I will be keeping a close watch. It doesn’t appear to be anything malicious at least.

 

***Update***

I seemed to have triggered it again when posting. This will require further experimentation.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming / Hobbies

First 4K Game Selfie

The new monitor arrived today! I spent more time configuring it than I did playing on it, but what little I’ve played so far is really nice! I’m looking forward to exporting my animations in 4K now too! Although 4K content itself will probably be a ways off since a a few terabytes of the video footage I’m digging through is in 1440p. At least the SFM cutscenes will look higher res.

Gaming

I’ve Done Some Growing Up

Played through more NieR Replicant today. Played through a bunch of quests, advanced on the main story and become the only character to age in game. In five game years time I’ve gone from being a young sword wielding child, to a young androgynous albino Raiden clone. I can already tell that I’m going to need to do a second playthrough of this… I’ve already missed some quests that I can’t go back to… not to mention there are some multi-choices I’d like to revisit. Games like these are practically designed to be replayed, which makes up for the lack of mods.

NieR has it’s share of silliness like quite a few other JRPG games, but when it gets serious it really gets serious when it tugs at the heart strings. There was a character I remembered seeing from NieR Automata called Emil, and he actually dates back to NieR (or NieR Replicant in this case). When you first encounter him he’s a young boy in NieR, and for some weird reason he remains so after you become a man… at least until you go on a quest where his body undergoes some changes — just as his sister did:

Emil allows himself to be eaten by his sister to obtain control of her powers, all in the pursuit to control his petrification ability so they can thaw out Kaine. Unfortunately, the pursuit of this knowledge lead to him looking like a smaller version of his sister.

I really like the characters, they’re all very well written. I think my fave out of all of them though has to be Kaine:

It’s rare to find a character that shares the same vocabulary as you.

All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies

All Of The Irons Are In The Fire

I broke my cardinal rule of Saturday chill to continue work on this particular scene, it’s just too ridiculous for me to leave alone. I originally wanted to work on the gameservers, but by the time I got to my computer I was too tired to mess with it. I’ll take a stab at it sometime this weekend. My first goal will be to move the Quake servers, then the srcds servers will follow. I also want to look into other gmod gamemodes, as the Cinema gamemode is dead, and the Elevator gamemode has been losing its charm… though to be honest I’m surprised people gave it the amount of attention that they did. All you do on the elevator server is enter an elevator, stop on random floors that do weird stuff, and eventually make it to the top floor where you can partake in a game of pool, watch YouTube (if you could even get it to work) or mix yourself different varieties of smoothies that will either make you see colours, or kill you. What amazed me moreso, was watching players who have previously been logged as playing reconnecting just to ride the damned elevator again…

Assuming that my body doesn’t attempt to kill me tomorrow – I might consider doing some cleaning up. It’s something that I do after each holiday, an out with the old and in with the new kind of deal.

All in an Overlord's day / Food/Drink

The Watermelon Diaries: Syrup Edition

It isn’t very often that I sweeten my tea (unless it’s a chai, or I’m sick and need a honey boost), but today I made an exception and had a little of this with some green tea. It’s like drinking sweet, sweet nectar. It was love at first sip this morning, when I added it to some mango black tea for some sweetness.

Just glancing at their website I can see they have some interesting recipes I wouldn’t mind trying in the not too distant future. I’m also trying to think of other teas that it could pair with. It can make an already refreshing tea even moreso with that alluring watermelon taste!

(This isn’t paid advertising btw… I just really love watermelon.)

All in an Overlord's day / Animation / Hobbies

Status Update Or Something

It’s a long ways to go before this project sees the finish line, but that gives me time to bounce ideas off for how to end the video. Yutram and I had a fun chat this evening, discussing a couple scenarios, and even potential ideas for future videos… when I can get to them.

I wanted to get started on moving the game servers over to AlmaLinux, but by the time I even get to my computer I’m too tired to get started. I’ve taken on extra duties at work while a friend and co-worker is on vacation, and while I’ve been handling it pretty well it’s still pretty tiring (one of the reasons why I didn’t post yesterday)… especially coming in one hour earlier, but even then I don’t mind it that much. It just means I get home sooner and it’s one hour less of assholes interrupting my shit.

All in an Overlord's day / Animation / Gaming / Hobbies

Right, Back To Porn.

I’ve returned a bit to Source Filmmaker — Making small bits of progress on a project I’m planning for October. I’m thinking it will be only one video, but the amount of animation I have planned will take some time. It’s kind of going to be all over the place. I also need to make a couple textures, it will be absolute bananas once it hits PooTube.

All in an Overlord's day / Open Threads

First Open Thread Of The New Year

Happy New Year!

I was so tired yesterday that I forgot to post. I spent a good chunk of the day taking care of things around the house, made enough breakfast sandwich material to last me an entire week, and played a bit of NieR Replicant (the watermelons made me do it). It was either going to be that or Kiwami 2. 😛 I’ve been on such a Japanese game kick lately, when I’m able to play anyway. 😛 I haven’t touched a game since last weekend.

I’ll probably do more productive things tomorrow. I just needed a little rest time today, and NieR did a good job of releasing accumulated stress… something about stabbing things.

All in an Overlord's day

New Years Resolutions No Jutsu

Someone recently asked me what my new year’s resolution was going to be… and, inventively — I had to go with the nerd 4K joke; Only to end up buying a 4K monitor tonight! 😛 It’ll be here in early Jan.I’ll be looking forward to upgrading my YouTube quality to delicious 4K! Of course that also means that the render times will be longer, though on my build that isn’t too much of a problem. 😛

Here’s to a productive 2022!