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Gaming

MGS1 And MGS2 Are Being Re-Released On PC!

I did a double take when going through my RSS feed this morning. After all these years the PC versions of MGS1 and MGS2 will finally reappear, along with other older classic titles from Konami’s catalog.

This ‘re-release’ is in all likelihood intended to make older Konami games playable on next-gen consoles. Given the somewhat limited backwards compatibility of the PS5, we can expect this practice of re-releasing to become more commonplace, and hopefully PC gamers can also reap the benefits!

The first PC releases for both games were pretty buggy (though thanks to a fan patch improves the port immensely). The cutscenes in MGS1 were broken, and MGS2 had some graphical issues when running vanilla. It would also be nice to have more modern resolutions, the highest resolution I could achieve in MGS1’s PC port to go was 1024×768 with no patches or tweaks like I can find for MGS2. Perhaps in the future we might even see MGS3 and 4 officially come to PC! Think of the possibilities!

I wonder what modding would be like, if at all.

Gaming

Microsoft Purchases Todd Howard’s Soul For $7.5 Billion Dollars (pinky to the lip)

In case you haven’t heard… this happened.

Microsoft’s priciest video game acquisition, a $7.5 billion purchase of Bethesda Softworks parent company ZeniMax Media, shocked the industry on Monday. The deal puts Bethesda, one of the industry’s biggest publishers and owners of some of the most successful gaming series, under the Xbox brand.

Does this mean that all future Bethesda titles like Elder Scrolls, DOOM, Wolfenstein are going to be exclusive to only Windows and XBox? There would be a lot of franchises that would become exclusive under one platform… if I were a Playstation gamer I would be a little worried right about now. I know the article makes light of Microsoft not being interested in exclusivity anymore as they used to be… but this is Microsoft, and while I may use their products when needed, it doesn’t mean that I trust them.

Zune is all I have to say.

Food/Drink

Let’s Try This Again… Hello World!

Today was a grab whatever the hell is around the house and make breakfast with it kind of weekend. I made strawberry banana oatmeal with dried cranberries, and tangerine chipotle cashews… it sounds weird but it was a nice sweet/zesty flavor combo, especially with the brown sugar and maple syrup.

Mainly focused on household stuff today; like clean bedding, sewing a garment that was losing a pocket, spending moneys on evil birthday things for two months worth of birthday friends (you know who you are 😛 ), etc.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming2

Can We Make Half Life VR Canon?

These new Half Life VR videos have been making me think back to the old Gmod meme days. My current fave is Half Life VR but the AI is self aware:

I’m trying not to spoil myself too much. I want to have a weekend with some cinema time with this and maybe a few other things.It’s been awhile since the we’ve had a cinema day.

All in an Overlord's day

Hello World! (rv2)

Sorry for lack of posts; I’ve been feeling ill since Tuesday and I’m just feeling better enough to write something. Work has been keeping me busy as per usual, in fact I’ll be kind of all over the place next week. One of my co-workers is taking some time off, and I’ll be running the helm.

I’ll try to write more mouthwords tomorrow.

Open Threads

Sunday Evening Open Thread

Not much to write. Taking things easy, been fog and a little smoky outside. Played a few games, even did some multiplayer Serious Sam. I do have topics I would like to discuss, but with all the cleaning these last couple of days plus regular work it’s been a busy one. In the meantime here are some text words to read.

All in an Overlord's day

Current Mood: A Different Kind Of Hell

McDonalds is its own circle of hell.

I took some time out of my evening to continue working on this, so far so good. I probably won’t be able to get as much done on it as I’d like, as we are expecting the landlord to come and inspect the property on Sunday. Fortunately I already did a little cleaning towards the tail end of vacation. I mainly wandered around throwing away boxes I no longer needed, put away some USB cables that I haven’t used in awhile. I think tomorrow I’ll start doing some dusting after work, among other errands.

The wildfires are continuing to rage on, the town is packed with evacuees with quite a few of them having lost their homes; and for some reason we have fewer firefighters this fire season to fight these massive . I do see more people wearing masks now, if there is a god perhaps this is his method of telling worshipers of the Great Orange Scrotum to wear a fucking mask, and even then I still see people refusing to dawn one, even yesterday when the sky was as black as night with no shortage of smoke to breathe in.

Unlike the previous big fire we have, I no longer have my good mask. I gave it back to my boss back in the spring after being told it wasn’t within company guidelines (figure that one the fuck out). I have a couple cloth ones with a semi decent filter, but it doesn’t work nearly as well as the P95. I’ve been getting dizzy spells once in awhile at work, even at home it has been hard to breathe sometimes. I’ve only been cracking my window open a little at night to get rid of any mugginess, only to be greeted in the morning with ash. Perhaps I’ll wait to dust near the window til Saturday…