The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

A Ghost In A 3D Printed Shell

I decided to try one of the many games I haven’t touched in my library, and my magical dartboard of destiny landed on Ghost 1.0, a metroidvania meets megaman type of game that isn’t afraid to make fun of itself:

Your name is Ghost, and you’re on a mission to steal the greatest electronic secret ever hidden on the Nakamura Space Station. Primarily you remote control an android that can be rebuilt via 3D Printing should you die. You can also use your mysterious unexplained digital ghost powers to possess different robots and androids on the Space Station to solve puzzles, or clear things out ahead of time.

Anything Ghost possesses will turn slightly blue

It handles nicely under Linux, even on my Linux Surface Tablet! It runs as if it were made for it!

Aside from your typical powerups and weapons, you also have upgrades and… geeks? I found a geek item while playing a little bit ago, and equipping it seems to emit a weird scream anytime you’re damaged by an enemy.

You can also collect skill points to apply to certain skill trees. You can improve your chassis or your ghost abilities. You can also level up Jacker and Boogan, the ones that hired you to take on this cray cray adventure. Boogan is your technical specialist, and Jacker is a hacker . 😛 You can also improve things for yourself around the space station, but so far I’ve mainly focused on chassis upgrades.

So far the game has been fun, challenging, and funny enough for me to forgive the voice acting in certain spots. Perhaps I’ll will myself through this game on another weekend, and maybe also during a long trip on my tablet! I can finally tell the co-worker that gifted this to me that I love it! 😛 If you like metroidvania style games you might want to consider looking this one up.

Food/Drink

Smoked Salmon: Bacon Of The Sea

This weekend’s Brunch was a Frittata! I was actually going to make this recipe, but decided to change a couple ingredients, as well as add some extras. I still had leftover spinach that needed to be used, along with some grape tomatoes. I traded the cream cheese for feta, and used kalamata olives instead of typical black. I also added a garlic clove and cooked it in a little remaining marsala at the bottom of a wine bottle. I had it along side some sourdough bread and it was real flavourful. The smoked salmon with the feta and olives really paired well. It looks like I’ll have a fancy breakfast to pack for work for at least a couple of days! 😛

Hobbies

I Can Finally Share Something

You wouldn’t know this was for a Bayonetta livestream recap… or wtf is even going on

I did some re-rendering in Shotcut today to pre-render certain elements into the hologram (text and some other filters) to save time and resources while working in AE. I’ll continue work on it in a day or two…

It’s been a long day, and I’m in need of a little R&R.

All in an Overlord's day / Open Threads

Evening Open Thread

Not much to write. Spent the last couple hours playing around in After Effects trying to tweak the proper colour of a hologram. I’m thinking I might re-render the source video for the hologram in to include some refinements just to save some time in AE, either tomorrow or wait until Monday. I could brainstorm what additional elements to add, and what they would look like. But now comes the part of the evening where I lay back in bed, and plot what my private weekend Breakfast/Brunch will include. I’m kind of curious to see if there are any breakfast recipes that would involve fish (apart from Japanese breakfasts of course). I was also thinking of doing a little online shopping over the weekend. I need to restock on some British Nesquik, some tea, and maybe some other random things.

Maybe if I’m feeling good enough I’ll buy myself some Jaffa Cakes. 😛

All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies

Stage 3 Is Go!

I had to re-render those scenes from last night due to using an incorrect framerate, so my time in After Effects was a little limited this evening. I did get things prepped in After Effects though, so there is that. As much as I would like to share a picture it’s still a little too barebones for me to want to share it just yet, and I still need to get used to using it again. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to use anything from Adobe… it feels weird.

Animation / Hobbies

From Stage 1 To Stage 2

I successfully rendered the first part of my animation yesterday, and now I’m working on the other half of the scenes. Yutram was away from his usual computer when I was doing this particular livestream, thus he had to rely on his laptop microphone, which is better than nothing but a bit of an obstacle when thinking about how to animate it, fortunately my imagination is always working on overtime. The audio quality is such that it wouldn’t look right if we were both in the same room, so I’ve opted to have us both in different locations.

I have more animating to pick up on tomorrow. Fortunately Yutram’s Minecraft body is easy to work with (and less creepier than Steve, fuck Steve), at least for now. 😛

Food/Drink

Bowls 4 Breakfast

It’s funny how breakfast can be many different things. In China they love their rice congees, noodles, dumplings and more. I decided to try making a spicy pork bowl with some leftover spinach, red bell pepper, ground pork and homemade Shanghai Red Pepper Sauce from one of my favourite cookbooks… which I topped with some diced cucumber. I had it with some egg flower soup and a tangy cucumber tomato salad on the side. It’ll make a nice work breakfast, and maybe some after work lunch too. I also washed it down with some Oolong tea I recently ordered, in fact I’ve been experimenting with different types of Oolong, though I’ll probably save that for a different post. Tea can be it’s own topic when it comes to my collection. 😛

Gaming

Sunday Linux Gaming Sessions: Japanese Game Appreciation Edition

Today was a definate decompression day. I made myself a Chinese brunch, washed my bedding, and played Japanese games under Linux for the fun therapeutic fun of it. Some Metal Gear, and Yakuza 0. I finally got the game to not crash! The only problem I really have with it is with saving, it doesn’t always want to. In Yakuza Kiwami this issue exists too, but if you spam the save button it eventually does save. Apart from that I’m at least glad it doesn’t die when I press the Y button anymore.