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All in an Overlord's day / Computing / Hobbies

Pressing Forward, Laying Backwards

Did more server work this evening. I made a backup of the current gameserver files, and got Samba up and running under AlmaLinux to perform the file transfer. It was fun trying to remember how it all worked — I haven’t setup a Samba share in an eternity. One of the problems with setting up a Linux server is that once you have it deployed it remains reliable (when configured properly) enough that when it comes time to upgrade or switch OS’s it’s fun trying to remember what to setup, what to give permissions to, etc.

Tomorrow’s goal will be to boot the Quake III Servers. It’ll give me a potential excuse to shoot some shit, and old school! Shit… that means I’m gonna have to mod Quake to run in 4K! XD

Hobbies

And So It Begins

I’ve started work on a new VM today! I’ve only setup a blank AlmaLinux install so far, but the building blocks are there for me to continue another day, hopefully tomorrow. I don’t have much else to write, as that was most of my evening. I’d like to get started on transferring files over to start the Quake 3 Servers, then I can focus on the Gmod and L4D VM’s.

Gaming

Returning To Another Fantasy

The planets aligned in such a way that Yutram and I were able to play a game together! We settled on Borderlands 2, as we remembered we were playing the Tiny Tina’s Assault On Dragon Keep DLC being a barrel o’ laughs. Other than a glitch with one of the boss battles tonight we not only had a good time, but finished it! Well, the main storyline in the DLC anyway… there are still some sidequests to finish/pick up. My only other complaint about the DLC would probably be the credits, they felt longer than the actual content.

Gaming

Saturday Night Open Thread

Just a couple nights ago I did a 4K recording test of NieR Replicant, all the while doing a private livestream of it to a couple friends just to see if I could make my computer explode. I’m quite happy to say that the magic smoke didn’t escape! I’ve really been hooked on this game, even played a bit more tonight! I’m thinking I’ll try and take a break from it this weekend, maybe play something else in my ever expanding library. I’ll pretty much have the place to myself tomorrow, that might mean taking over the couch to do some big screen playtime!

Gaming / Hobbies

Work & Play

Did a little bit of work and a little bit of play tonight. I’ve been doing my best to complete at least one scene in SFM per night, and tonight I decided to play a little more NieR Replicant to end the evening. It gave me an excuse to break in the monitor a little more. 🙂

I talked about the game a little at work today with one of my work buds. He’s only played the northern console version, which is actually the same game, but with Papa NieR as the protagonist saving his daughter, instead of Brother NieR trying to save his younger sister.

Both games are pretty much the same, with only the lead character being the only main difference (and a slight change of dialogue). Replicant was originally exclusive to Japan, and Gestalt was marketed towards the Japanese XBox 360 (which wasn’t very popular in Japan) and was known as the main protagonist to the rest of the western world. This game has a really interesting history.

Site Related

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.