The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

The Self Care Continues

My original plan was to do a livestream tonight (had a lot of fun on Twitch last week and wanted to continue!), but with current circumstances I’ve just been taking care of myself. I still have a knot in my neck, but if I keep popping it I seem to be able to get around better, while my hand/wrist that might be another problem entirely. As I’ve mentioned in some of my more recent posts I’ve been keeping it either wrapped or braced, and I have even gone as far as to switch to my left hand for typical day to day for mouse use to help take the stress off of it.

I was talking with Yutram last night about gaming chairs, and we got on the topic of desks and layouts. He gave me the idea of moving my keyboard to the very top of my desk, outside of the drawer you would ordinarily store your keyboard and mouse in. So far, between the wrappings and placing my keyboard and mouse topside seem to help relieve the tension on my arm. I can use the empty space below now to store small things, like my drawing tablet, tablet tablet when I’m not using it… etc.

Catherine?

Sometimes laughter is the best medicine though– and this series hasn’t let me down yet! Nor has the haptic feedback going into my wrist, that can also be quite therapeutic. This game is doing a good job both entertaining me, making me laugh, and giving me wrist a break… something that Kiryu and co probably wouldn’t let me do right now… not without feeling electricity go through my hand anyway.

Maybe I’ll finish off the night with a bite to eat and maybe a little sake… I have some cherry blossom syrup I want to try with it, and a little bit of alcohol would help loosen up my muscles for a good night’s sleep! 😛

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Pain Management & Yakuza

I haven’t played a game since my last livestream, and my neck/shoulder/hand still hasn’t let up. Fortunately, Yakuza: Like a Dragon doesn’t require a bunch of movement from my hands, just some button presses on a controller for the most part. I made a little progress, and the only real workout I experienced was riding a bicycle to obtain cans. I’m having fun with it!

I’ve been being good; doing my stretches, switching to my left hand at the computer and researching gaming chairs, a back massager, and I’ve already got an ergonomic mousepad with a gel wrist on its way. I’m still on the lookout for a new mattress… only been able to find a twin, too small for my ass. I’ve added padding to the bed to make up enough of the difference to last me for the time being. Hopefully I start to see some results, so far that pinch has shown no sign of going away.

I’m still waiting to hear back on my MRI appointment; it’s going to be a few hours out of town, but even traveling makes it cheaper than going to any local hospital… On the bright side I can at least sit down at the dinner table without having to lie down on the ground to get the pressure to go away.

Cat blogging

He Has The Right Idea

I woke up and found Morty inside his little kitty cat tree condo just lying down looking awesome. I wish I could have gotten a picture of Stewie taking up the entire kitty condo, but unfortunately I didn’t wake up in time to see it. He’s a bigger cat, and having him in that tiny space would have been a fun pic to grab.

All in an Overlord's day

That Escalated Quickly

Went to the Doc today; they’re scheduling an MRI for me, and I’m off of work until next week with plenty of time to heat, massage, and stretch the affected area. I literally have a pain in the neck! A pain in the neck that’s being a pain in the neck to the rest of my right arm… I’ve had to wrap my wrist or wear an arm brace to stop random shocks from happening. It’s like literal electricity flowing through my arm, and with that sharp coldness it makes it extremely annoying to go about my day to day routine of scaring people with my mad lifting skillz.

As a result of recent events I’m currently operating in left hand mode for basic computer usage, and so far that seems to help alleviate the pain. I don’t think I’d be able to game with my left hand, but for my own personal work usage I have no problems getting by. I even got a small bit of work done in SFM tonight! I’m a bit slower, but working with the other hand causes my whole arm to freeze and go numb… I’d rather go a little slower on a project and have happy limbs than go fast and regret it later. I’m just hoping some time off and a little medication will help get things back to normal; I really don’t want to go into surgery unless it’s a last resort.

All in an Overlord's day / Animation

Lost in Sleep and Imagination

During my time in bed most of yesterday I pretty much kept to myself, with my Linux Surface at my side. It’s really nice for reading, watching videos, spying on my corner of the internet, etc… I’ve been watching all kinds of music videos recently, to both see what the songs I grew up listening to were like in video form, and to also study the cinematography of each video. I’ve been kind of playing a game of “if I were to recreate this music video in SFM, what game would it represent?”. I’ve already come up with a few ideas!… that will never fully see the life of day thanks to YouTube’s copyright bot demons. Maybe I can get away with using them in future cutscenes? Speaking of cutscenes, here’s a WIP:

Goodnight everybody!

All in an Overlord's day / Open Threads3

Memorial Day/Night Open Thread

Happy Memorial Day!… evening.

I’ve pretty much spent the day in bed. My shoulder is continuing to give me grief, in fact parts of my hand and arm get a strange cold numb feeling. It’s at the point now where I’ve had to use a sick day to see a doctor tomorrow. I know it’s just a pinched nerve, but two days off of work doesn’t seem to be enough to get my shoulder to stop yelling at me.

I think a couple things that would help would be to replace my old mattress, and get a new computer chair. Something comfortable but ergonomic perhaps.

Food/Drink

Memorial Day Brunch With a French Twist

I wanted to make a more fancier brunch than usual, being it’s a holiday and everything… I made an omelette filled with blue cheese, and topped with grape tomatoes and onions cooked in oil and balsamic vinegar. I also bought some French Bread made with cranberries and blueberries, layered with some sweetened cream cheese and berries. The bacon is there by default. 😛 With their powers combined, they gave me Memorial Day Itis.

All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies

Sometimes I Wish I Could Factory Reset Myself

I haven’t been feeling well these last couple days… or rather the whole week. It’s been a fight with a stiff shoulder/back/ limbs etc. I think my body needs another vacation, and a new mattress. I’ve pretty much been sore one way or the other since my last weekend; hopefully I can use this upcoming one to work out these kinks.

On a brighter note I’ve finished my After Effects render! This brings me to Stage 4: Staging/Animating the end of the video. I might work on that a bit tomorrow, maybe if I don’t feel thrashed I’ll attempt to do a livestream.

No promises though.

Animation / Hobbies

Meanwhile, in After Effects

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I’m almost done animating the hologram/codec call in AE. I just have some other tweaks to perform to it, possibly add another layer on top of a couple of points, then I’ll have something to render. I’ve forgotten how fun it is to play around in After Effects. It makes me wish there was something available in Open Source software…

I’ll have to sit down one of these evenings to see if there is something that could give AE a run for its money. I never use Premiere Pro anymore, and Photoshop is getting less use thanks to Krita. The less Adobe I use the less I have to use Windows. 😛