The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Animation / Hobbies1

Here’s A Thing

Woke up to a flat tire today… managed to get to work with a couple minutes to spare. I had a short work day, which gave me time to take care of a few things at home. Got quite a bit of animation done. I floated some additional ideas for a scene to Yutram, and I’m in the process of putting it together. Should be a fun little piece by the time it’s finished.

Also, didn’t post much yesterday due to stomach issues. I ate something that didn’t agree with me a couple days ago, and it finally let up this morning. It felt like I had a bubble in my stomach that had no clue which way to exit.

All in an Overlord's day

What Lies Beyond This Door?

I’m inching closer to my goal, didn’t have much time to pour into it this evening, but I did finish a good chunk of what lays beyond this door. I’ll work on refining it tomorrow if I can, and then turn to the next scene. I have more time off coming up around Halloween, and I had some fun plans before focusing on a depressing holiday season. I’m dreading Black Friday this year.

All in an Overlord's day / Open Threads

Evening Open Thread

Status Report: Calm Day

Work actually wasn’t too depressing today, breezed through most of my to-do list, showered and enjoyed a good dinner. The weather has been at perfect temperature these last few days, not too hot, not too cold. I can’t complain, today was my first day back after a nice weekend. I have another 4 days to be potentially disappointed. 😛

Open Thread!

Food/Drink

Oatmeal: Elvis Edition

I’ll have to backtrack what I said yesterday about oatmeal, it was cold today and I happened to have all the ingredients on hand to make some peanut butter  banana oatmeal with praline pecans and a little honey. I didn’t have to think about food for hours, it was a nutty sweet bit of landfill. I sliced half a banana and mashed the other half, similiar to how I prepared my breakfast quinoa yesterday. I wanted some natural creaminess from the banana mixed with the milk and the peanut butter.

Food/Drink

I Fed My Inner Hipster This Morning

I wanted to do something healthy this weekend, but didn’t feel like doing any oatmeal. Instead I purchased a bunch of fruits, red and white quinoa, some pralines and caramel cashews and added milk, maple syrup and vanilla. I got the idea from this Taste Of Home Recipe, and I have to say I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did; it was kind of like a sweet cereal. I’ve only ever had quinoa in savory salads and entrees, so having some sweetness with these seeds has been quite the pleasant experience! I might have to look into making more quinoa breakfast dishes, both savory and sweet.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming / Open Threads

Mouthwords 2: The Open Threadening

Work has been a mental/physical drain even moreso lately, as a result I’ve been pretty much dead these last couple days. Today was friggin hot out, about 26C. I grabbed the gaming laptop after a shower and headed outside to play a little Trine and MK9 under Linux. I played a little Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero under Windows during lunch today, the last couple days I’ve been playing Skyrim (as is tradition), one of the games I’ll probably play all the way until Skyrim Grandma’s age. I’m thinking maybe some Spyro or Sanic tomorrow, something cartoonish.

Of course, it wasn’t all fun and games after the torture; I went into Source Filmmaker and planted corn, and then I rang a doorbell… or maybe I have it backwards. I’m tired and have only been operating on 4 hours of sleep with no caffeine. I’m not even sure how I’m still sitting up tbh… At this point I’m pretty much staring blankly at the cursor, and breaking in some new headphones.

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SFM Diary: Still Doing Shit

I’ll have one more scene to work on in SFM tomorrow, not sure how long that will take to finish. My goal is to have a video out sometime in November, the earlier the better. I’ve only published two videos and I kind of have an itch to at least get one more out the door before the end of the year at the very least. 😛 Unfortunately I don’t have much to really share, the work I did  tonight will have to be saved for the final revealing, showing pictures of it would make even less sense than the other nonsense I’ve post in the past. 😛

I’ll try to post something slightly less boring tomorrow.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

Mouthwords!

Got the new device in place today, and now next time I do a stream I have the option of deploying it! Maybe one of these weekends I’ll get lucky! I did do some private streaming of Quantum Break earlier. Yutram had fun watching me break time, nothing different there really. I didn’t get much else done today, felt worse than yesterday actually… Work is going to be fun tomorrow.

Gaming

Sunday Open Thread: Doing Something While Doing Nothing

I’ve been feeling pretty under weather in and out throughout the day. I woke up feeling fine, had breakfast, and started doing the dishes when I started feeling queasy. I’ve been taking some stuff for it, but I’ve pretty much been relaxing a little more than what I wanted to… oh well. I sometimes think that’s my body’s way of telling me to sit the fuck down and relax for a minute.

I pretty much kicked back and played under Linux up until the evening to crack open Windoze to play Serious Sam 4, where surprisingly Yutram and I had a good time! I tried to get it to work under Linux, and for the most part it does!… but the textures flash in and out like crazy. I’ll have to double check to make sure but I’m pretty sure I’m running the latest Open Source drivers. I also played a little Quantum Break under Linux, and while that does work the game will crash when it tries to play a live action video, and since minor interactions can change how these scenes play it I’m going to have to exclusively play this under Windows unfortunately. Tried to get a couple Sonic games to work; All Stars Racing Transformed runs but I can’t configure the graphics, and Generations runs, but sound is completely broken and controller input is non existent. I did play a bit of Trine, as that does have a native client, only to find that the Linux version only goes up to 1080p while the Windows launcher allows me to use 1440p and also detects my proper refresh rate, whereas the Linux build does not. I’m thinking next time I fiddle with it I’ll see about configuring the text file for the Linux client to see if that makes any difference. I’d rather not run it under Proton unless I absolutely feel the need to.

I’ll see about being a little more productive tomorrow.:P

Gaming

Playing Spyro To Keep Warm

I had a nice quiet evening to myself, a bit of a cold bite in the air, and managed to have a little fun with some Proton Powered Spyro to help heat up the room. Now if I could just figure out how to get a mod manager to work properly under Proton or Wine it would be perfect. I even managed to get a couple achievements/trophies at the same time! One funny thing that did happen was finding a sleeping sky bat; usually they hang from the ceiling in the ice cave.