The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

Anime Souls

Maintain six feet ahead of me, or you’re going to maintain six feet under me.

This was one of the many purchases I made during the sale. CODE VEIN is basically Dark Souls with an anime skin, and I’ve really been loving it. It somehow managed to suck 4 hours away from me,and I’m pretty sure the first hour was fucking around with different character options.

Dude where’s my blood beads?

You are reborn as a Reverent; A being that uses Blood Codes which give you different fighting abilities and options. As you play you can pick and choose your play style to be more melee based, mage like, and plenty more to discover. So far in my play through I’ve obtained 4 Blood Codes, and have already maxed three of them out. You go around fighting other Reverent beings, or rather “The Lost” who are Reverent who have become bloodthirsty. You, and people you eventually meet are trying to find more blood beads, which help sustain you and your Reverent buddies. This game is indeed very souls like, with multiple partners to choose from if you want a companion to tag along of either the human or AI variety.

No one pisses off the albino SheDevil and gets away with It… unless they are one powerful muthafucka.

I think I might be a little too addicted to the photo mode. I like games where I can have creative freedom, and one of the things I’ve been digging in later years is photo mode in games; it can make for some wallpaper worthy screencaps.

I’ve been awake for almost 24 hours… this bed looks like porn to me.

So far it has been a real joy to play. I needed to play something tonight to help readjust my sleep pattern, and CODE VEIN managed to keep my intrigue. This might even have to go on the list for games to bring on my gaming laptop. Another thing to scare people with during lunch breaks! I find people are less likely to bug me if they see me stabbing something and pretending it was someone who really pissed me off earlier in my shift.

So far, I would say that if you like Dark Souls and don’t mind anime aesthetics there is a good chance you’ll enjoy this.

 

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Praise Gaben! For He Has Blessed Us With Swag

I keep zoning in and out of my new profile background. The Steam Summer Sale started today and I needed to make a few purchases (as is tradition), and I learned about tokens and free swag. I managed to obtain enough tokenage to get some free profile swag. That’s when I noticed they updated the Edit Profile section to make it a little more modern. They added a few color themes. I’m rolling with the Summer theme, which is oddly watermelon colored… I think Gabe is in on the whole melonspiracy.

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Animation Diary: Yes, there is still a couch…

I finally found some time to do a little proper SFM. It’s a slow process being made even slower by day to day life. I might even be able to tackle it a bit more tomorrow, maybe actually finish a scene. It would be nice to release these sometime this year… We’re already looking at July and I haven’t even published a video, damn you real life and having to feed myself!

Anyone else have some projects they want to share/vent about?

Gaming

Rest In Pieces Mixer

You have a new neighbor, Zune.

I knew this day would come the moment Microsoft wanted to compete with Twitch and YouTube… I’m shocked I tell you! Shocked!

Microsoft announced today that the company will be shutting down its streaming site Mixer on July 22 and will partner with Facebook Gaming moving forward.

Anyone with a basic history of Microsoft products should have seen this coming from a mile away. I mean the moment I researched Mixer and found they were Microsoft owned I knew this wasn’t something that was going to stick around, much like their history with the Zune, Microsoft Phone, Microsoft Bob (yes that was an actual thing), etc. Now, Microsoft’s streaming platform isn’t entirely dead… but it might as well be, as they’re moving their services to Facebook Gaming as mentioned above… a name alone that makes me cringe buckets. Facebook Gaming makes me think of… Farmville. Then again that image alone is lame enough for Microsoft to be a part of them.

Gaming

Red Dead Redemption 2 Runs Better Under Linux?

I stumbled across this in my RSS feed the other day, and as someone who traverses between Windows and Linux frequently I was quite happy to read about this. Apparently if you own an AMD GPU then congratulations, you’ll have better performance under Linux rather than Windows .

The fact there is no native Linux client for RDR2 and there is a considerable amount of performance compared to Windows is both hilarious and impressive at the same time. May we see more results as above.

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Weekend May Cry

I broke down and actually played a game outside of my lunch time! I’ve been so busy lately with work and other activities lately that I’ve barely had a chance to turn my computer on. I’ve done more gaming at work lately than I have at home, and that was enough for me to break down and play a game. It’s my Friday dammit! Time to pull out a sword and ready my ass for the kicking that is the original DMC. I had to remind myself how to play… ever walk away from a game for so long that you forget what was going on in the world around you where you last left off? It took me a little time to remind myself of the controls too, but I managed to make it past the “Dragon”.

That’s not a Dragon… that’s a T-Rex that shoots flaming loogies. I’ve decided.I played a bit of DMC5 today too on the new laptop. I had to reduce a few features on the old laptop, but on this laptop I have everything turned up, and it looks peachy at 144hz. I have been thinking somewhere down the road to look into selling my current monitors and going FreeSync. The only reason I haven’t done it any sooner is because a good chunk of what I play is already locked at 60 FPS, so why pay more to accommodate maybe 50% of what I play? To me the cost wasn’t worth it, but now that I’ve played around with G-Sync on a couple games I think I’m ready to make a couple new investments. I’ll just need to do some research and price things out. It isn’t a big priority right now, but I do see it in my future.

Food/Drink

More Food Porn

I took the surprise shaved beef that jumped into the fridge yesterday, made homemade Korean BBQ sauce (from this recipe), and simmered it with a bell pepper and some onion. I served it over brown jasmine rice, though this could easily go over buckwheat noodles or rice noodles (white or brown). We had an even hotter summer day today, and some form of BBQ sounded like a good idea. I don’t know what it is about higher temperatures that makes me crave steak so much. :v

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Exposing My Meat To The World

 

We finally had a nice hot summer day! That gave me a perfect excuse to buy some steaks this evening, unfortunately it was too windy to do any grilling, so I opted to make some Portuguese style steak and potatoes.

These steaks have a homemade rub of garlic, balsamic vinegar in place of red (ran out of red wine vinegar…), and some salt and pepper, and they were fried in a pan of olive oil infused with a couple garlic cloves and a bay leaf. I fried some prosciutto to top each steak, and also a homemade wine/lime juice reduction sauce. It was all kinds of flavorful, something about the saltiness of the prosciutto balancing with the garlic-y melt in your mouth steak was just out of this world.

There wasn’t much to making the potatoes, just some butter, olive oil, salt and pepper. with a topping of fresh parsley. They actually remind me of fried potatoes that I used to eat at one of the local pizza places as a snack. I ran out of balsamic vinaigrette from last week and ended up making more. I try not to make the same dressing twice, but it was about 27C today, and light dressings on a crisp salad contrast nicely with a meat and potatoes meal. I’m sensing there won’t be much in the way of leftovers… but I do have some shaved steak in the fridge that someone else put in there. I already have ideas for it. possibly involving sauces and buns.

All in an Overlord's day / Animation

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.