The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Food/Drink

Team RED Themed Breakfast

Today’s science experiment breakfast was a Quinoa Skillet Scramble with some eggs, red quinoa, red bell pepper, grape tomatoes, red onion, red potatoes, red pepper flakes, Parmesan, salt, pepper and Italian Parsley. I also used some chicken broth and balsamic vinegar. I wanted a red themed breakfast, for some reason I pondered the other day what TF2 characters would eat on each team? I collected a bunch of red themed foods for my weekend of decompression.Perhaps one of these weekends I’ll make a BLU team themed breakfast. 😀

I’m thinking RED Scout would eat this dish; it’s just enough gay hipster deliciousness to work.

Hobbies

Could Krita Be My Photoshop Replacement?

I’ve been striving for years to use more Open Source programs when applicable, especially when it comes to production purposes. I was happy when I could happily say that I no longer needed to install Premiere Pro when I stumbled onto Shotcut as a worthy free and Open Source alternative. Now I think I’ve possibly found an alternative for my Photoshopping needs.

From Krita’s Website

I’ve been bouncing back and forth between GIMP and Krita for a number of years now, and I could never really get used to GIMP, and I preferred Krita in terms of layout and additional options that are very similar to Photoshop IMO (and in some cases even better). I’ve been using it for basic image resizing, playing with filter options, and tonight I did some slight retexturing to a model in SFM. I’ve also been meaning to set aside time to try playing around with Krita and my Wacom tablet. Linux has support for Wacom drawing peripherals, and Krita seems to have a good target focus on drawing; they even have options for comic panels!

Even when I’m in Windows I’m using it Krita in place of Adobe. In fact; under Windows I don’t even have Photoshop installed; kinda funny considering I have CS5 installed and working under Manjaro. I highly recommend checking it out if you’re looking for an Open Source alternative, or if you want to ween yourself off of Adobe’s overrated swag.

All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies

SFM Diary: All Through The Night

All Aboard The Party Bus!

I’m nearing the end for the main staging scenes. There’s only clean up left to do, and then I’ll be able to finally do some rendering! I still need to stage one more scene, but I’ll come back to it when I finally figure out a few details. It feels like I’m getting near the end, but I know there’s still more to be completed. I will at least have a lot of rendering to do, and that will help warm the house a little.

Next Stop: The Isle Of Sleep.

Food/Drink

Fancy Parfait Is Fancy

Yesterday when I wasn’t feeling well I opted for a safe Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal, it was a good comfort food on a cold day. It was even colder this morning, but I had a craving for all things fruit. It’s not like me to have a yogurt parfait during my weekend, mainly in due part to bringing these to work on a regular basis. However unlike my work parfaits I can be a little more creative, and not be restricted by rules of portability. I pureed a bunch of different frozen fruits together; in this case I used red dragon fruit, peach, mango, pineapple, and blueberries with some honey and coconut milk. I was originally going to make it into a breakfast shake, but there was enough in the pitcher that I couldn’t have finished it all. So I made it part of a yogurt parfait, a mix of vanilla greek yogurt, chopped kiwi, the dragon fruit mixture, more vanilla yogurt and topped with cherry granola, mandarin oranges and honey. It felt almost like dessert!

It was packed with plenty of healthy swag that I think it helped me get through a more eventful day off. I finally had enough energy to get my care packages finalized for shipping! 😀 You’re first Florida! :v

I found out that I might be off for Valentines Day this year. I’m not sure why but I’m already contemplating a Valentines Breakfast to make for myself, gotta spoil yourself sometimes. 😛 Last year I made a portable chocolate themed breakfast parfait with candies and the whole shebang. If I’m staying home this year I’d want to do something nice, that would put me in a good mood to a start of my weekend. I’ll have plenty of time to think about it.

Gaming

Trying A Few New Games

My first day off is usually spent as a decompression day for proper recharge. I even tried a few games I got as gifts over the holidays. I played a bit of BPM: Bullets Per Minute, an indie game where you have to shoot to the beat of the music (fun and challenging), The Wonderful 101 Featuring Fun Grade A Platinum Campiness, and Borderlands 3 with Yutram.

So far it feels like Borderlands 2 but with a slightly more modern interface, and you can climb much like you can in the newer DOOM games. We both had a good time, despite coming into contact with Claptrap and Vaughn… ugh.

Regardless I think I’ll have enough energy to get some things worked out tomorrow, assuming that I’m feeling well enough to do any moving around tomorrow. I’ve been fighting pain all throughout the day, but at least the motion sickness has subsided.

All in an Overlord's day / Open Threads

Weekend Open Thread

I know I haven’t posted much lately; That’s in part due to work, work, fatigue from work, and not feeling well (nothing to do with being busy). I’m taking it easy this evening, even managed to progress a little in Trine, it was the only game I could think of that wouldn’t make me motion sick. In fact now that I think about it I haven’t even really played anything since last weekend’s TF2 romp. Heck, I haven’t even had time to break out my portable gaming machine at work, might have to make up for it a bit tomorrow. :v

I’ll hopefully be back up to speed either tomorrow or the next. I just feel like the moment my head hits the pillow I’ll explode into sleep.

Hobbies

SFM Diary: Moving Forward

Wat

I ended up doing some animation smoothing tonight instead of finishing the last bit of the scene. I need to talk a detail over with a friend regarding how to handle the ending. The ideas are pretty much drawn out, but I need to have a little powwow on something before I can roll out the final stage (for this part of the project anyway). I’ll continue trudging on it tomorrow, after earning some rest points.