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Animation Diary: It Gives You Wings

I’ve been making some serious progress on the Skyrim Part 4 video. I’ve rendered a couple scenes, and I’m covering quite a bit of ground in what I would call the “main scene” which I’ve estimated to be about 90 seconds worth of animation, and I’m currently 20 seconds in. Yutram and I have already gone over Part 3, and we can’t wait to release it! I just want to finish Part 4 first so that we can have a consistent release between the two parts, and then I can go on to work on another set of videos for Broforce, fortunately that will only be a two parter by the looks of it.

Food/Drink1

Dessert For Breakfast

It might look the same way going out, but going in tastes better.

I revamped my mint chocolate oatmeal bowl recipe this morning to include straight up chocolate chips, walnuts  and brown sugar. It tasted like I was eating a bowl of liquid oatmeal cookie, it was bliss. If you need guidance in making your own:

  • One scoop of oatmeal
  • 1 1/2 cups of milk or milk substitute
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • A few drops of vanilla and mint extract
  • Walnuts: chopped or ground
  • 1/4 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips or to taste

Mix both extracts into the milk, pour milk over oatmeal in saucepan. Set heat to medium and heat through. Add sugar and walnuts, lower heat to medium low. Once the oatmeal has thickened stir in the chocolate chips. I decided to save them for last just so I could get a good mix of milk chocolate oatmeal, and have some semi melted chocolate chip pieces to savor in an otherwise already decadent bowl of gruel. This will definitely give you the energy to finish building up an email server, or anything else you fucking need to do.

Food/Drink

Watermelon Oatmeal is a thing now… I’ve decided

Out of morbid curiosity I wanted to see if I could make a particular oatmeal with an infusion of juice and tea. Waters and milks are frequently used in making oatmeal, so why not juice, tea or both? After all tea is basically water with tasty plants. So this little experiment consists of green tea with ginseng, watermelon juice, honey, and walnuts. I might have to look into making an overnight oats version to enjoy the taste of cold watermelon, although it did taste good warm as well.

Gaming

You Got Team Fortress 2 In My Serious Sam!

I wanted to start this weekend with some silliness. Yutram and I went onto one of the Serious Sam Workshops (Fusion 2017 specifically) and decided to mix things up by playing with TF2 weapons in survival and co-op. It was fun, and in some ways really educational.

Aside from having a couple TF2 mods installed I also have a separate double jump mod, and as an added side effect I can somewhat jump infinitely around any map. It isn’t perfect; sometimes the jump button will stop working, but since there is no fall damage you can just jump back up to your heart’s content.

I mainly played with the Scout and Engineer modes. There was something about jumping around the map avoiding enemies that seemed fun to me, as well as dropping sentries in certain areas while I ate my ice cream and watched Mental’s minions die.

I anticipate that we will have to stream this.

Open Threads2

Evening Open Thread

It’s been an exhausting week. I’ve prepped another yogurt parfait for tomorrow (strawberries n creme). I’m up later than I should be, but I’ve been working on more SFM stuff. I even managed to render a couple cutscenes! If I have time tomorrow I’ll jump back into it, lately my time has been extremely limited.

Feel free to post some keyboard words. It’ll give me something to wake up to.

Food/Drink

Maple Chai Yogurt Concoction

I’ve been having a hankering for chai pudding lately. I’ve searched the internet but haven’t found many results. Instead of making a dessert though I opted to make a yogurt cup with chai spices instead. I took oatmeal, vanilla greek yogurt, milk, chia seeds, fresh ginger, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar, and maple syrup to make something like a maple chai. For the crunch topper I have chocolate granola with dried red berries. I’ve already had a little taste, and I’m already looking forward to lunch breakfast tomorrow!

Food/Drink

Holy Shit I Made Dinner

I pretty much lived in the kitchen today after coming home from work… There were plenty of dishes to do, leftovers to be eaten, and dinner to be made. I made a balsamic vinaigrette to top over some greens, tomatoes, feta and walnuts. The feta doesn’t stop at the salad either…

I made this recipe for feta cheese stuffed chicken breasts and they turned out excellent. I used smoked sundried tomatoes for another element of flavor, if you’ve never had smoked sundried tomatoes it’s basically tomato bacon. I oven roasted some red potatoes with garlic and Italian herbs. I think I’ll have to remember the chicken recipe, it’s really good!

Anyone else wanna share some food stuffs?

Gaming

Getting Skyrim (Oldrim) to run on a 144hz G-Sync Display

I sat down today and put some time aside to fix my Skyrim on the new laptop. My new ROG has a 144hz G Sync display, and Skyrim doesn’t play nice with high frame or refresh rates. I followed this guide and it did the trick. The local wildlife no longer has seizures around me, and I no longer randomly swim in midair.

Gaming

Leeeeeoooooonnnnn

I took a little time aside to play a bit of the Resident Evil 2 remake. I’m almost an hour and a half in but I’m really liking it, and I’ve already got a ton of achievements. Doing my first playthrough as Leon Kennedy. My graphics card is running balls out on this game, and the framerate continues to still be amazing. These last few Capcom games I’ve played have been really good ports. They’ve definitely come a long way since the DMC3 port that I can almost forgive them for now. I also found there are quite a few mods on the nexus that I might have to install, so far I’m running vanilla. Can anyone recommend me some mods? I’m already planning to install the one that increases the zombie framerate above 30. I think I might also try The Witcher mods.