The Mind Of OverlordTomala

I Can Finally Say It

I received a phone call this evening from work notifying me of the death of a co-worker, not someone that I work closely with but did see in passing throughout each week. She was quite the Karen, and she’s dead now from COVID. She and her husband are/were antivax, antimask and believed all their problems could be solved by yelling at people they didn’t like on social media and in person! My memories of her consist mainly of bitching about people on Facebook who told her husband to put a mask on and threatening to run them out of town. She left behind young children, and a husband who probably won’t learn from this experience like many of the others I read throughout the internet these days.

May these morons embrace their easily preventable rapture. It sounds heartless, but I’m so fucking sick and tired of people like her clogging up the hospitals in the name of  “medical freedom”. I read about her ilk everyday over at r/HermanCainAward, and it amazes and saddens me how so many of these people are similar from beliefs to appearances all the way down to behaviour and atrocious grammar and spelling. I could go on, but I’m sure I’ll be writing up another one of these in the future. I know a lot of people who are firmly on the Antivax/Jesus is all the protection I need train, and they’re more than willing to throw themselves into a situation that could easily be prevented, but y’know… Murica.

Indies: Only If

I treated myself to a game this weekend… I think? I haven’t played anything in over a week and sifted through my ever expanding games collection when I came upon a game I forgot I obtained a long time ago, and so can anyone else. Only If is a first person puzzle game that isn’t afraid to kick you to the curb. Your name is Anthony, and you’re going to a party to meet a girl named Sam, and you’re such a fucking pansy that your vision fades before even opening the god damned door! Bloody Pratt.

You awake in a bedroom of the house you were too much of a wuss to quite make it into… somehow. There is a door on the right of the anime babe, all ready to engulf you (or Anthony) in Darkness. You find a light shining in a void, as you walk to it the light orb begins to move and you hear someone or something giving chase.

The light orb leads Anthony to a blocked door; he manages to get through, only to be greeted by our antagonist: An angry radio (and probably one of the few good voice actors in the game) that simultaneously threatens, helps and berates you.

You are tasked with choosing a white or black pawn; Taking a white pawn means to sacrifice yourself while taking a black pawn sacrifices Sam (the girl/plot device). You have to complete a puzzle after choosing your desired pawn, and once you succeed you’ll have a key to open the door representing the choice you made with your pawn. Each path is different, and some of the answers to some of the rooms are not what you would expect. Some of the puzzles don’t seem practically solvable without a guide. [su_spoiler title=”If you aren’t afraid of spoilers…” open=”no” style=”fancy” icon=”plus-circle”]I couldn’t even figure out how to get past the first part of the White Pawn portion in the first room where the guy over the radio, “Vinny” is asking you to name something sweet, and if you don’t type the answer you’ll die. I didn’t know I could just type! Supposedly he gives away the typing bit over the radio but it sounded unintelligible to me.[/su_spoiler]

It’s far from perfect, but for the price and the year this came out I can’t really complain too much. I need to fiddle around with it a bit more before doing one final review of it, but I can at least say that if you have an expendable amount of time you want to waste, and a computer 15 years of age you should set some time aside to check a look at this artistic brain rot. If anything it’s an artful time waster.

Vacation Day 13: Vacation Recovery

Today my body reminded me that it has anger issues with me. Having been traveling my diet consisted of whatever takeout we all agreed on for that evening — ranging from fast food to restaurants with curb side pickup, and there was also dehydration during travel. The first tea I made once setting foot in the house was Sweet Watermelon mixed with Jasmine Pearls; it was a perfect finish to a summer like evening and a nice taste of summer when the autumn fog rolled in. I didn’t get out of bed until afternoon hit. It also took me awhile to get my stomach to decide on something to eat, there was so much salt going through my body that you’d swear I drank tears from the Fortnite community or some shit. I’m finally starting to feel better, and I’m fortunate that digital shopping doesn’t require getting out of chillin’ clothes.

As predicted I’ll be jumping back into the hole come Tuesday… I should be fully recovered from my vacation to return by then. 😛

Vacation Day 12: It’s Good To Be Home

We made it home this afternoon with good weather in our midst from start to finish! As great as it was to visit I’m happy to be back in the land of Ducks. I’m already unpacked and ready to take on the world! Then I celebrated by drinking some watermelon tea and mentally going over my digital grocery list. My Surface Pro charger died during the trip, and I need to re-order some tea, among other secretive items an Overlord orders to please their people.

It’s time to get back into the swing of things… after sleeping on a mattress that doesn’t completely piss me off.

Vacation Day 10: More Successful Visits

Finished up with visiting family today. It was so nice to catch up with everyone! Tomorrow I’ll be making my way back home. I should be back on Friday, I’ll have the rest of the weekend to veg around before heading back to work. It felt good to get away from stress and anxiety for awhile, but it’ll be nice to return home. I really miss my mattress.

Vacation Day 9: Getting my R&R

Had a safe, short drive into town. Already saw some family, and even paid a visit to my Grandparents grave(s). Will be going back tomorrow to bring flowers, and visit more family. Tonight was a jalapeno burger night… it was so big that I couldn’t finish it… might have to eat more of it as a before bed snack.. :v

Vacation Day 8: Open Thread

Just been traveling today, nothing special. I’ll be back in my home timezone tomorrow. I’ll be heading to Washington state to see more vaccinated family! Been enjoying some local Italian dining, we ordered plenty of spaghetti and salad to keep us tied over until tomorrow. I hope everyone is doing alright, and staying safe. I’ve been doing my best to avoid people, and being introverted makes it pretty damn easy.

Open Thread!

Vacation Day 7: DOOM is MOOD

I was getting ready to head out to visit vaccinated family when I noted my DOOM shirt in the mirror changes to MOOD. So DOOM truly is its own mood.

Everything went well tonight. We’ll be leaving Billings tomorrow morning, sadly there were no Chuck Tingle sightings. I guess I’ll just have to try again next year. 😛

Vacation Day 6: Chilling in Billings

Made it into Billings today! I’ll be visiting vaccinated family tomorrow; I only found out today that my uncle, who I’ll be visiting tomorrow, had a heart attack last Tuesday. He sounded really tired when we called him up today to let him know we’re in town. Something tells me we will be taking it very easy with him tomorrow, and given he’s 97 there really is no hurry.

On a brighter note I can cross off eating Chipotle off my bucket list. It isn’t as good as the authentic stuff at home, but it’s waaay better than Taco Bell. They make really good fast mexican food; my only complaint would be the amount of salt they use. I had a taco salad with grilled steak. I crumbled their homemade tortilla chips and poured some of their hot sauce over it, and it was quite nom. As someone who has a PHD in hot sauce I can say it’s one of the best I’ve had, Taco Bell always had suck hot sauce, it was basically hot seasoned vinegar…

But if you’re ever near a Chipotle, you have to try it!