The Mind Of OverlordTomala
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Current Mood: Retro-ish

With all of the website tweaking and email server shenanigans I’ve been wrapped up in I haven’t had much time to really play anything lately. I finally managed to play a few games today to take the edge off. I did Okami at lunch on the new laptop, AMID EVIL in the afternoon, and finished off with Quake 3 with Yutram and a bunch of bots. I want to add more content to the main Quake 3 server, and maybe check out some other mods, maps and gamemodes.

By the way; I recently fixed the email server. For some reason I only had outgoing working but managed to science it out with some proper DNS sorting. We’re not on the new one yet, for some reason my ISP and domain don’t seem to be getting along and I think it might have something to do with the recent domain transfer from Bluehost to Network Solutions.

Anyways… you can all email an ear full now if needed (you know who you peeps are).

Gaming / Technology

I Have A Chimera!

My new portable monster arrived today. Unlike my recent return I’m really impressed with it! I already tested a few games on it this evening just to make sure it’s road ready. Didn’t even need to do an OS-Reinstall, at least on the Windows side (the Mint side has already been on my list for a reinstall to try a newer version).

This particular model (the G703GS) sports some serious RGB on both the front and the back.

I tested Crash Bandicoot among other games, and the only one that gave me any grief was Skyrim… but I’m pretty sure that’s because of my new refresh rate. The G703GS has a 144hz 1080p display (previous laptop only did 75hz) with G-Sync enabled. Skyrim is notoriously known for breaking at framerates far above 60fps thanks to the physics engine being tied to your refresh rate (at least for Oldrim, not sure about Special Edition). My version has a Coffee Lake i7-8750H 2.2 ghz hexacore processor and a GTX 1070. Packs enough of a wallop to most likely last me a few years, and by then maybe I’ll luck out and get a gaming laptop with a Ryzen. 😛

Now I just have to figure out what my lunch time game for tomorrow will be…

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming / Hobbies

Memorial Day Open Thread

Did more prepping in SFM tonight; I even exported a scene! I also went through and cut down the audio down a bit, now it’s about a minute and a half of animation. Maybe more with another scene idea I’ve been kicking around… at this rate I probably won’t release these videos until Christmas. O_o

I also played Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night a little this evening. I was disappointed to find my saves were corrupted somehow, it wasn’t too big of a deal though considering I didn’t even get past the first hentai boss. I figured it was a holiday, and I had to work today… so I might as well enjoy myself a little. I deserve that much.

On another note the world really is coming to an end, we now have emoji support in the comments… EVIL!

Site Related

Update to the comment form

I’ve updated the plugin for the comments section, so it’s a little more swank than before. We now have a rich text editor! Feel free to test it out!

Also, emails are working again! They’re still on the Bluehost side though while the sites remain on Digital Ocean, at least until the email transfer to Spectrum is completed. Slowly but surely I’m understanding how the internet works.

Food/Drink

Obligatory Food Post

It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to make a food post… I must change that.

My brother was kind and decided to buy me an entire watermelon yesterday, and I wanted to have it with a fruit themed breakfast. Over my holiday I started working on a recipe for creamsicle oatmeal, and pretty much have the ingredients down. I use milk mixed with vanilla extract, orange juice, a nut of some sort (walnuts and/or pecans do nicely), and for added sweetness I’ve been using homemade golden syrup, but honey or regular sugar would also work. I’ve made creamsicle oatmeal three times now, and I’ve really been enjoying the blend of cream with actual orange juice. Some people might think it strange to use juice with oatmeal, but this isn’t my first time.

This is a tropical blueberry oatmeal bowl I made awhile back, and instead of using water or milk as the base I used blueberry lemonade and added my blend of fruits and nuts. I didn’t need to add any sugar, it was already provided in the lemonade.

It’s been awhile since I’ve had a handcrafted lunch smoothie, and so I decided to whip up a peanut butter and apple smoothie using greek yogurt, milk, peanut butter, cinnamon, frozen apple cubes, and a small bit of golden syrup. It was good, but I’m thinking of using less milk next time… too runny for my liking.

Gaming

Evening Open Thread

Played Soul Calibur VI with Yutram tonight, with me hosting it over Remote Play. Other than some controller spazzing on Yutram’s side (either that or the overall latency between the two of us) it went rather well. It was nice to do something a little different this evening, laughing at different characters and their death/orgasm screams. I think next time we might have to play with custom made monstrosities.

All in an Overlord's day / Site Related

Managing a fire of irons

Now that I have the sites transferred over to digital ocean I can start focusing on getting back into animating. I finished a video over my holiday, but I won’t be publishing it until I finish part 4, only because I don’t want anymore cliffhangers. That said I extracted the audio I intend to animate and hoo-boy… it’s like almost two minutes worth; this’ll take awhile. I’ll be sure to post project pictures in der Discord. I already have stuff in there from a couple past projects. I also built a Discord for The Guild Of Slackers if you’d like to check a look. I’ll get around to finishing it eventually.

Oh, and if you’re having issues reaching me by email I’ve had the webmail servers down… having issues getting those transferred over to our ISP, so if you’re trying to email something to me I won’t be able to get it at the moment. I’ll look into possibly having the bluehost one accessible tomorrow hopefully while I try to get this resolved.