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?
Haven’t been at my computer much today, and sleep has come to take me on another trippy ride.
Feel free to do Open Thread things.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.