Nothing to really write about tonight. I’ve been doing some SFM and photoshop work the past week in my spare time, and unfortunately I don’t have anything to really produce visually at this time, however if you’ve seen my real world metal jaw mask you might have a rough idea. :melon: I’m currently working on the ending for the third Skyrim video which is going to take some time.. I’m animating a little over two minutes worth for the ending, and that shit takes awhile when this is only a hobby.
The weather is going to suck again this weekend. I’ll probably have a cozy introverted couple of days… I think I’ve earned it after the last few weekends not quite panning out as planned. I’m thinking of doing something creative tomorrow, but not quite sure what… I think I’ll take a hint from the two accidental naps that I’ve had and get a full night’s sleep before I let my brain think of anything else.
As of January 1st plastic bags have been outlawed in Oregon, we now charge 5 cents per paper bag. I already had quite a few reusable bags from when they were first becoming a thing, so it didn’t really bother me when the ban took place. I actually think it’s a good idea. I’ve seen a couple documentaries and have read plenty about plastic in the ocean to know that some things need to change for this to stop. With each change comes growing pains, and if things didn’t change we would still be in castles and villages. I mainly see older people complain about the new law, and the common complaint I hear now is “I keep leaving my bags in the car!” like somehow this was the fault of everyone else. How hard is it to keep these in a purse or something? You can get your bags to fit into tinier bags, or roll them up to fit in your pocket. I take my gaming laptop to work everyday for lunch and have decided to leave a few of these bags in my backpack just in case I need to get a few groceries.
If a stoned gamer can remember to be prepared for a shopping trip after a full day of work then you really have no excuse.
I’m happy to say that for whatever reason I’m able to stream on Steam again! I tested it while playing AMID EVIL the other day and it worked perfectly. I think I might do some private-ish streams for quick goof off sessions and one shots, or streaming Audiosurf 2 without the worry of copyright bullshit. :trollface:
One of my Christmas Presents last year from my best princess friend was a box of taro mochi. I’ve had green tea mochi before, but never tried it with taro, which is a root vegetable. I’ve had taro chips before but I’ve never had it in mochi form. I saved opening these up for a special day, and last Saturday was that day. Nothing like starting your weekend with something sweet after all.
Like most mochi, it was nice, delicious and soft. It wasn’t quite as purple as it was shown on the box. Not a big deal or anything, it already looks good enough to eat.
If I were to describe the flavor I’d say it kind of tastes like a pale sweet potato with caramel. I still think I prefer the matcha ones, but this does have a nice caramel like after taste. It would be funny to make thanksgiving mochi! Perhaps take the recipe for this and use pumpkin spice, although I wouldn’t be surprised to find that it exists.
I pretty much have breakfast mapped out for the week. I made some eggs and sausage today with a spicy tomato three pepper sauce, sadly I was too hungry to take a picture. Then later on in the day I made some raspberry and cherry sauces to mix with the parfaits. I have two of them dressed with nutella, a thick, sweet and kind of tart cherry sauce and a crunchy mix of cocoa granola and caramel cashews, the other nutella one has a tangy raspberry sauce, cocoa granola and a three nut mix of praline pecans, honey roasted peanuts and caramel cashews. The parfait in the middle is probably the most innocent. It has a mix of matcha (sweetened with monkfruit), honey, pineapple, mango, strawberries, freshly grated ginger and a mix of honey and fruit granola with my three nut mix leftover from the other parfait.
On the left I made a homemade cherry sauce with frozen cherries, sugar, lime juice, cornstarch and vanilla extract. While the raspberry sauce is runnier and mainly consists of raspberry, sugar and lime juice. These also go nice on ice cream, or if you want to strain the seeds out you could serve the raspberry sauce in some soda, tea or a cocktail. I think the raspberry sauce might even be good for milkshakes or smoothies.
It’s 2020 now. Most of us are recooperating from the hectic holidays, trying to lose all of that festive food we’ve packed on over the last couple months. Obviously it makes sense to make a chocolate shake for breakfast. :trollface:
Of course, at first glance it doesn’t look very healthy. But this actually has greek vanilla yogurt, pulverized oats and caramel cashews, one banana, a couple tablespoons of nutella spread, a tablespoon of cocoa powder and almond milk. It did a good job of keeping me full till the afternoon once pizza o clock hit. It was a good way of starting the morning, especially since cleaning was involved. Had to sweeten the morning in some way, and I’ve heard cocoa can help relieve depression symptoms, so I might as well enjoy some cocoa while doing something depressing. :v:
I’ve been reading all kinds of recipes for homemade meal shakes, and wanted to do something different for my special weekend breakfast instead of the usual bacon and eggs combo. I’m also thinking of replacing my lunch shakes with homemade ones. The same chocolate shake mix becomes quite dull after awhile.
I haven’t decided if I’ll have another breakfast shake tomorrow, or if I’ll do something with bacon involved.
No, I’m not making a bacon smoothie. Anyone who suggests that has to go eat a bag of salted dicks.
I don’t have much to write. Work has been keeping me busy, even at home with various projects. This weekend I’m planning to do some dusting, go through my closet and see if I can purge anything, or at the very least find a garment to repair. I already know one of my Hawaiian shirts is missing a button, and lately I’ve been getting an itch to do something creative with some of my clothes. I just need the right inspiration to hit me. I just finished formulating a plan for a possible yogurt parfait next week, something healthy with a touch of devilish delights.
If possible I might livestream tomorrow. I’ll sleep on what game I want to do, waaaaay past my bedtimeu.
Anyways, feel free to contribute to the first Open Thread of the year!
If you play Death Stranding online and approach the Cosplayer’s shelter, you’ll likely find large mushroom patches littering its entryway. This means that other players have recently piloted their Normans Reedus (correct plural) to that region and given them the command to whip out their own tiny Reeduses to fire defiant blasts of urine onto Conan O’Brien’s doorstep. This has been a tradition since shortly after Death Stranding came out in November, based on Reddit posts on the subject. Impressively, it persists to this day.
Such strange rituals always seem to happen under the House Of Kojima.:rick: As for Conan there has been no response yet, though I have a feeling if there is it will probably be hilarious. Perhaps once Death Stranding arrives on PC someone will make a mod to replace Conan with The Flaming C. :morty:
Sunset Overdrive is a stylish third person shooter set in a world where the zombie apocalypse was caused by a new energy drink, so it basically predicted the development process for Death Stranding in much the same way the Metal Gear universe predicted how our government currently functions. It’s a blast, though it takes some getting used to. I’ve been mainly playing it with a controller, and have had to tweak a few things to my liking, but so far it’s quite the stitch.
The overall attitude the game presents you with is very reminiscent of the Borderlands, or the newer Saint’s Row games in terms of how it presents itself. The gameplay is vastly different, but the overall tone from the characters to the art style seems to take some inspiration from Borderlands, not fearing to tell you how the world is.
The objective of the game is to kill ODers (Over Drivers, energy drink zombies) with your arsenal of weapons while grinding around on telephone poles and railings as well as jumping from car to car while performing style moves that you unlock after awhile. I’m kinda bummed they didn’t include a multiplayer mode like the one that came with the original XBox One release, as it would have been to play with or against other players, though at the time when they released it on PC they did discount it a but to make up for the lack of multiplayer… then again the game also had been out for quite awhile before Microsoft got desperate to get PC Gamers to pay attention to them again and ported half the game to PC, so all in all I’m glad I waited for a sale. :v:
As you progress through the game you’ll find more weaponry. My first present was a musket with testicles, and I recently purchased a gun that shoots records.
All in all it isn’t a bad game, for what I’ve played of it anyway. It’s kind of funny to think this was one of the exclusives that Microsoft used to try and get people to play on XBox, and I knew a lot of XBox gamers at work, and not one of them really said much about Sunset Overdrive… Then again they mainly fixated on anything Halo or Destiny related.
Happy New Year! I’ve been too busy to write, lots of work and real world related stuff. I wasn’t feeling too particularly well yesterday either. I ended up mostly making comfort foods like Breakfast Curry and Pad Thai, played a couple games to relax, enjoy a breakfast in bed for a change, etc. I didn’t feel as bad today; I even tidied things up a bit, moved my Christmas stuff to the pantry. I got a lot of teas, sauce mixes and soup mixes among a bunch of other stuff that I haven’t even touched yet, but when I do I’ll be sure to write about it. So far all the Asian stuff I’ve made has been from scratch. I also want to go over the packaging details, as I’ve found a few things of the Engrish variety on certain products that are quite amusing.
DOGGO
I updated The Phantom Pain recently, both the game and the mod manager. I’ve installed some mods that will make for fun future gameplay. I just felt the call to go back and Cardboard Box sled again and invite Russian soldiers to my slumber party in the middle east. I’m very close to inviting Huey to my party, and I have a special place set aside for him.
Gonna fuk sum sheet uwp.
Revisited SOTR for a little too. A bunch of my friends bought it during the steam sale, or have waited for the Definitive Edition update to roll out before playing it and I started to get a bit of the itch to go back again and play. I finished a challenge tomb, but now I’m stumped on how to get to the next waypoint. I’ll have to ponder at it awhile and return to it later.
This is what eye cancer looks like kids.
While I wasn’t well enough to stream last night; Yutram and I did spend some time together playing in Doom SnapMap. There were both great and terrible maps to play from “This isn’t half bad” to “Did they even try?” to “What were they snorting when they made this?”.
I found a new universe.
I decided to try Sunset Overdrive today. I bought it a couple sales ago but never had a chance to try it. I remember watching one of my co-workers play a demo of it at work while stress testing a TV, and it looked fun enough for me to try. I think I’ll save this one for a thread of its own, but for now if you’re on my Steam friends list you’ll see I took some porntography of the game.
I’ve also been entertaining the idea of upgrading my CPU to a 3rd gen Ryzen and my monitors to FreeSync. I got a surprise bonus check last month from work, and the extra holiday pay and overtime are going to help pay for it. The 3950x looks pretty slick, and it would bump up my current setup by 50%. Livestreaming, gaming and video rendering would load much faster, especially now that I’ve found that I can increase the amount of threads to use when exporting in Source Filmmaker. Such an upgrade would be quite beneficial, and I can sell my Dad the old processor, and they can finally get off of x58 and live happily ever after. :melon:
