As per the usual weekend tradition I’ve been taking some time to play around with different games. I checked out KaBounce and Shadwen yesterday, and ended the night with a bit of Spyro. But today I binged on Spyro in much the same way that I binged on curry. I’ve jumped ahead in the series to Year Of The Dragon, and it’s been a blast. I’ve enjoyed swimming as well as playing other characters. I even got to play as a flying penguin with a rocket launcher, so far that one is my favorite:
I’m coming for you Microsoft!
I also was not aware of the fact that Spyro: Year Of The Dragon was the game that gave birth to emojiis
I also can’t get over how surprisingly chipper the local creatures are, even when trying to be sad:
I’m glad to finally be playing this, feels like I’m making up for lost time whenever I play it, given that I was only limited to a Pizza Hut demo disc as a kid. But for now it’s time for me to shelve this one until the next play date. I’ve got other ideas for next weekend, projects, shopping, games or otherwise. Tomorrow I’m going to start preparing for the second Skyrim video. I need to record some voice lines and extract the audio clips that I’ll be animating. It’s looking like another one that I’ll be investing some time in, we have another special ending planned. I probably won’t be able to share many pictures until sometime next month.
I had a bunch of extra vegetables around, and was still in a curry kind of mood today. When lunch came around I sacrificed one of my chicken breasts for a green chicken curry with rice noodles. I made it mild, stomach hasn’t been nice to me today. Fortunately I also made the breakfast curry mild too. 😛 I’ve also been living on chai today. Started the morning off with a Canadian Maple Chai, and ended the day with some Rooibos Chai. I already have breakfast curry packed up for tomorrow morning along with some grapes, crackers and peanut butter dip. That should keep me plenty fueled tomorrow morning, even the tea has caffeine. I’m Ret 2 Go.
I’m thinking of taking the other chicken breasts and using them in a baked chicken recipe, involving some gouda cheese and prosciutto.
Been awhile since I’ve made a breakfast curry, and we were low on vegetables, so it gave me a good excuse to buy some and make a nice breakfast curry. It has bell pepper, potato, carrot, fresh green beans, onion and grated ginger. All cooked in a homemade red curry sauce poured over Jasmine Rice. I have enough to last me for the week methinks, and tomorrow if I’m up for it I want to try and make a Chinese breakfast pancake. I found a recipe recently and I want to try and make my own.
I also felt the need for a sweet snack of apples and peanut butter dip. I made it with some peanut butter, greek yogurt, vanilla, honey, cinnamon, nutmeg, fresh ginger, cayenne pepper and some coconut milk to make it a little easier to stir. Tastes nice on apples and even vegetables, like carrots or green beans for example. I made a big bowl, should also last me awhile, a good protein packed dip to accompany some chopped fruits and veggies that tastes like a dessert. I can’t argue with that.
I made it through another grueling week of work and work related depression. The first thing I did yesterday to start my weekend was clean my bedding, which would be my kryptonite come the evening. I slept for about 12 hours, and the worst part was that I got up at 8am and fell back asleep until 10am… I haven’t been getting much rest this past week and I can feel it. I’ve had a lot of freight to lift, especially yesterday… Then of course I did another Skyrim stream:
Unfortunately my restream chat decided to go tits up for me last night, so I could only see Twitch chat but not the YouTube one. I even had the YouTube chat on my tablet to try and read it, but it reloaded itself into a white screen. So to anyone on YouTube I’m sorry that I didn’t see any of your comments until after the stream. I woke up this morning and checked restream and it loads both of my chats now… I swear it did it just to spite me.
Mega Ultra Chicken
A few streams ago I turned a couple slaughter fish and some spiders into chickens, and last night when wandering a couple tombs that I hadn’t been through on this particular playthrough I had chickens randomly attacking me, and again while swimming. I think it might be reusing certain world ID’s for certain NPC’s, meaning there is always a chance that I might be attacked by chicken… and possibly another Mega Ultra Chicken in the future.
I finally finished another video! I had a couple private viewings and the consensus is that it’s good enough for release, it can be expected to release next month. Now to set plans in motion for the second installment, that one might be a faster piece to work on… it depends. I haven’t figured out how much of it I want to animate, if at all. It’s one of those videos that’s weird enough to possibly stand on its own, though at the very least I may discuss an ending. I might even release it before the one I just finished if I can put it together in time.
Today was a busy one, both at work and at home. Finally mailed off a couple packages and managed to even make myself a special work breakfast for tomorrow. Vanilla Greek yogurt mixed with matcha and honey, frozen blueberries and a crunchy topping made of organic cinnamon toast square cereal and walnuts that I crushed in a mortal and pestle. I wanted to do something different from the usual meal bars I’ve been eating during the week. I’ve also somehow managed to lose more weight despite my lack of trying. I figured with vacation and me being a human vacuum of food I would have put something on, but I’m continuing downwards. I haven’t lost a whole bunch (155 to 152), but I’m definitely at a spot I haven’t been in years, I’m at a point now where I might have to go through my wardrobe and discard some trousers, as well as buy some new ones.
Yo Dawg I heard you like steam so I got you more steam so you could steam while you steam.
So I was minding my own business, switching over from Windows to Linux to begin working on compiling another video when I decided to launch Steam as I usually do, and ran into a random bug that causes the system to halt while the client updates (seems to happen randomly). When I regained control of the system I noticed Steam wasn’t running still, even in Task Manager. I launched the client again, and when it popped up on the screen I noticed another window on the left monitor; the update window usually seen before the steam client even launches. I was intrigued enough to see what happened next, and here it is. Two instances of Steam on the same operating system. For the hell of it I installed the Windows version of Steam via Play On Linux and managed to get a third client running for shits and giggles:
Wine can sometimes lead to multiplying
Some interesting side effects when running more than one client. You’ll notice the linux client on the right is offline, but I was actually able to type a status and then refresh the page on the left linux client. Unfortunately the client on the right froze on that status screen. What was funny was that the Windows client had the same issues, but thought of itself as online.
My only remaining question is this; can I multiply the 17 cents in my Steam wallet and place them into one client? :trollface:
The Evil Twin Of Brad Jones… Making Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall Slightly More Bearable
Sometimes I’ve played games that in one way or another hit really close to home for me, sharing some realism with current times and events. I like games like these because they pose a “what if?” scenario that begs for more questions. The Wolfenstein Series posed the question of what would happen if the Nazi’s won the war? The Bioshock Series gave us a glimpse of what a world run by drug addicts and racist religious zealots would be like, and I won’t even get into the Metal Gear series… we’d be here all night. This game brings you into an area of Montana overrun by religious zealots on steroids called “Peggies” and you have to try and liberate the land after a capture of their cult leader going awry.
This is my first Far Cry game that I’ve played, but so far I seem to be understanding the game mechanics ok. The only part I really had trouble with was the escape part in the truck. Other than that I’ve been having no issues being a stealth killer. :zorak: I’ve already got quite a few hours in, and I seem to have a similar problem with this game that I’ve also shared with Skyrim. There’s so much you can do that it’s easily to get lost in the world. I’ve just been bumming around from place to place, finding interesting ways of killing people from complete stealth to physics based accidents. I even killed a bear with C4 to finish a quest! Truly this game is as American as Apple Pies and bourbon.
I think this is one that I’ll want to stream in the future, but it will have to be Twitch exclusive. It has copyrighted music in it, and unlike YouTube Twitch doesn’t give me copyright bullshit over blurbs of music being played over a radio. I might have to pick back up on this again next week. I’ve taken enough screenshots to at least last the entire week though! :meeseeks:
From what I’ve played so far I highly recommend getting it during a sale like I did. It’s fun, but not full price fun. I’m also wanting to check out New Dawn, heard good reviews on that one.
Sorry for falling off of the earth again… Work kept me jumping most of last week between home and work work. I never even got a chance to send the damned packages off…. I wish I lived near a post office that didn’t close at 4:30pm. Will have to try it again tomorrow or the next day. Halloween was probably the busiest day, but I rocked my teeth again with style.
I was pretty tired by the end of the day, and I had to sacrifice my plans to do a Halloween livestream due to taking an earlier shift the next day. But I made up for that last night by finally streaming a fixed Bayonetta:
This easily has to be one of the craziest games I’ve ever played, and it’s so fun and bizarre. Seems to be a reoccurring style Platinum Games is known for when comparing to other titles, they’re not afraid to go over the top. I kinda want to go through all of the ones in my collection and just do comparisons between each in terms if similarities. They all have their differences, but in game mechanics and other nuanced details make their games feel almost interconnected in a way. It would be weird to get each platinum character together for a super fight, but you can somewhat do that already if you mod Smash Bros.
I also did a little sewing today. I had to fix up a couple sweaters that were losing their stitching in certain areas, then I did a little repair job on one of the many shirts I customized years ago. In the center of this V Neck used to be a clear crystal gem that broke recently from old age. I decided to replace it with one of the spare seashells from my craft collection. I really need to go through my wardrobe again and see if there’s anything that I can redecorate, been awhile since I’ve done that. It used to be one of the many things I had fun doing before entering adulthood, heh. Now that they’ve lax’d our dress code again I might have to let my creativity flow a little more.
I thought I’d also check out Far Cry 5. I plan to save that for another post, but suffice to say I’m quite happy with it despite having to make a uplay account… Runs quite nicely, got a good framerate the entire time on Ultra. Now I can relive parts of my vacation in Montana!
I managed to compile an ending for one of the upcoming videos next month. I have one more short animation and then I’ll be able to complete another video to add to my list of releases. I still plan on releasing a Bomberman video at the end of the month; The second part will be released on the first week of December and then this episode will follow shortly after. I originally wanted to complete all four videos before releasing the first one, but figured the way that I’m ending it works. I might even have another video to go by then to follow it, so who knows?
Tried to do a Bayonetta livestream tonight but it failed miserably. For some reason it turns into a black screen after a particular cutscene when starting on a new game. So instead of sciencing it out I went with Plan B (Skyrim), still unable to escape the platinum curse…. until I pick them up again next time. The weekend is over and it’s time to get back into the working mindset. My tea is prepped, my lunch is set, my clothes are laid out, and my money is where my mouth is. I’ll have my weird dreams and begin a day of productivity and errands… and that’s the story I’m sticking to. :trollface:
Something tells me that I’ll be having some fabulous dreams tonight… I know I had a dream of some sort last night, but I don’t remember it.. Judging by the cold sweat I woke up in this morning I’m not sure if I want to remember or not. :zorak:
