I was craving a bowl of Miso Soup today. Something nice to slurp on after another long day of throwing cardboard boxes and lifting televisions and other shit. I made a basic Miso Soup with the addition of some baby bella mushrooms and a shredded carrot with some ginger. I poured it over some soba noodles, it was quite earthy. I also prepared some more overnight oats for tomorrow, doing matcha strawberry yogurt, blueberries and coconut milk.
I didn’t really touch SFM much last week… however I did manage to make it up a little over the weekend, and these last few days I’ve made more progress on animation. Tonight I mainly focused on refining some of the already existing project animation and played with camera placement, something that I still think I need to work on for my material in general. I’ve been paying closer attention to camera work in commercials, movies, you name it. Just to get ideas for how to handle certain scenes on the off chance I need something a little more cinematic.
I’ll be happy when I finally get this finished.
On and off these last few weeks I’ve been tinkering with loading DMC5 through Vortex Mod Manager. Everything was going soooooo well until it deletes my save data every time I launch DMC5 through it. My NG+ stuff is gone and everything. I’m not entirely butthurt though because I didn’t get too far into my 2nd playthrough, that and I’ve been having fun with mods. Here are a few that I can recommend starting with the Ichigo reskin featured above:
I gave V a Saint’s Row type of reskin, and also gave him a Death Note book, after all this is basically Kylo Ren in his more upbeat years (this is my universe and I can deem it as such dammit).
I also replaced the Style Announcer with Solid Snake, and they actually got David Hayter to record custom lines for this mod! How cool is that?!?! When I first downloaded the mod I thought it was just audio ripped from other games (as that tends to be the trend with these announcer mods) but was surprised when Snake said my style was “Dummy Thicc”. That is just too awesome for words. I could almost picture Snake sitting on the couch next to me just randomly yelling these lines while I play… almost.
Since I indulged myself on caramel with my breakfast I went with ALL OF THE FRUIT!!! plus some maple syrup and brown sugar. This and some toast held me over til lunch, which I actually made today!
I had some kielbasa and peppers with onion and garlic mixed with quinoa. It was so good that I had to have seconds. Should have enough for some after work munch tomorrow too. My stomach is feeling much better, just in time for me to go back to work I guess. :assy:
I have made another attempt to have portable oatmeal for my work adventure tomorrow… This week I’ve decided will mostly be overnight oats in the morning. Aside from Caramel Banana Mach II I’ve also made a cherry vanilla matcha and mexicocoa cherry oatmeals to enjoy!
I wasn’t feeling too well last night. Around lunch time yesterday I couldn’t find my overnight oatmeal breakfast. At first I thought I left it in my backpack but it wasn’t there, and I doubled checked the fridge at work but couldn’t find it either. I automatically assumed that I left it at home by mistake and decided to buy some sushi for myself and figured I would have my breakfast lunch for actual lunch when I get home… but at the end of the work day when I got my groceries out of the fridge I noticed it was in there at the forefront ready to be consumed :morty: . I know I didn’t miss it at lunch, there was hardly anything in the fridge taking up residence. My first thought was that maybe I left it on the ground in the locker room by mistake (not that it would matter since it was insulated) or one of the asshats at work tried to pull some form of prank (as is tradition among asshats at work they refuse to fire due to poor hiring rates). I reluctantly disposed of it… always hate seeing food go to waste but I didn’t want to take any chances.
My meal choices weren’t really that… great yesterday. The sushi tasted good, but it was too spicy for my work morning, lunch was homemade nachos from the night before, and for dinner we were too tired to make anything and ordered Burger King. That was enough for my stomach to flip me off this morning; sleeping was terrible… I got about 6 hours on and off due to waking up with stomach pain constantly. I finally got over it after making myself some caramel banana oatmeal to make myself feel better after losing out on trying the overnight version. That cured my belly and caused me to go into a two hour coma to make up for lost sleep. I started my day later than I wanted to, but hey at least I felt better. Not so much now though. :zorak: I might have to do more oatmeal therapy in the morning.
Decided to chill in the cinema tonight. We usually have a small “after party” after we finish watching videos with activities; such as riding a crazy couch from the lobby. It was nice just to chill tonight after a rough week of dealing with mental and physical agony. I look forward to being unconscious for as long as possible. :zorak:
Hope everyone else is having a good weekend.
I didn’t have enough yogurt to make a parfait and felt now would be a good time to start experimenting with that whole “overnight oats” concept I’ve been hearing about. I currently have this particular experiment sleeping in the fridge til morning. I didn’t include the protein powder, although I did add some peanut butter on top. I also used frozen blueberries, grated frozen ginger, three berry granola and shredded coconut. It smells really good, and I added enough matcha to satisfy both the palate and the eye. I’m thinking of getting some bananas tomorrow and making this caramel banana one for Saturday.
Anyone else try making overnight oats?
I played ECHO over the weekend. It has been on my to do list of games to play for quite some time. I bought it during one of many sales, as the gameplay footage and trailer intrigued me. Here’s the rundown of what I’ve experienced thus far:
You (or En as the character is called) wake up inside of a spaceship after a looooong rest; greeted by a soul(?) within a cube that doesn’t particular care much for you. After a walk that feels like an eternity we begin the game!
En lands her ship on a strange palace planet in search of another one of her companion cubes. Armed with only a cybernetic stealth suit, a disabled pistol and an annoyed companion cube attached; En makes her way further into these ruins that seen to go on forever.
Eventually En finds her way inside the palace and discovers there is no electricity. What follows is a lot of wandering around in the dark and random tuning forks she calls “Voices”. Your suit is able to decrypt the message contained within each one you find.
Eventually you are able to get the power to come back online… sort of. The power keeps going out, and your suit freezes every time it happens. Each time the power resets things in the environment change. Flowers are suddenly decorating your surroundings, more elegant furniture appears, and eventually you start to see more and more of these strange melty beings. With each rolling blackout they start to look more and more like you. They first appear to be dead, but then another blackout rolls around and their standing up just to fall down, then another blackout, and eventually they go from staggering around like a bunch of albino drunkards to being quite nimble but afraid of water.
It’s important to stay out of their site when you can. You leave imprints of your movements around the environment that your echoes mimic every time the power resets. In other words if you’re not careful you could be done in by your own past movements. It’s quite a trippy concept. It should also be noted that ECHO runs on Unreal Engine 4, just like Death Stranding! Somehow this looks more promising though… you at least get the walking simulator part out of the way eventually. :trollface:
As of writing this I’ve only put two hours into it. While I think the intro into the game felt longer than it should have been I am really intrigued by the stealth mechanic, and I want to see what more lies to this place, these copies of En, the rolling blackouts, and what lies within this planet sized palace. Sadly this is where my journey ends for now, or until another weekend rolls around.
