The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming / Open Threads

Late Night Open Thread

My original plan to tear into my web stuff had to be put on hold… just didn’t have the energy today after getting home. Work really made me tired today and I don’t really feel like going into the details.

Played some Cards Against Humanity with some friends, and played a bit of Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, an offshoot game from Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I felt sadistic enough to try it out this evening and… I’m glad I bought it during a sale.

You would have to be crazy to buy this shit at full price.

The best way I can describe this game is like Bioshock but boring. I’m currently 3 or 4 levels in and all I’ve basically done is follow my creepy ghost children in a weird game of hide n seek. Reading material and audio recordings telling you about your environment are found throughout the game giving you clues about the whole premise, and a discount version of Atlas (Bioshock Atlas, not Portal 2 Atlas) informs you through random ringing telephones about how your children are trapped somewhere in cages, yet somehow you can still hear them giggle, cry and tell you to follow them. Between the scenery in the children’s’ bedroom, the creepy ringing phones and the eerie sounds it gave me an old school Max Payne vibe. I’ve had to solve some puzzles, but other than that I pretty much walked around waiting to get scared… and here we are four levels in and I think I might be getting somewhere? I had to stop though, as it was getting late and the game was starting to microstutter even worse than Obduction, and that shit hurts my eyesight after awhile. It uses an older version of Unity Engine, which most earlier game titles using that engine weren’t exactly well known for their optimization. I’ll pick it up again at a later date, but I’m not overly impressed with it.

All in an Overlord's day / Open Threads

IT’S ALIIIIIIIVE!!!!!

I once again have a mumble server! I’m thinking of working on transferring some of the WordPress installs over this weekend. There will soon come a time where I will have to freeze my Website; but I’ll be sure to provide the IP address to guide people to my work in progress while I get things sorted. I’d share it now but all you would see is a screen telling you that some idiot managed to install Apache with flying colors (among other dependencies needed to power my corner of the internet). :v:

Once I have everything settled on the new host I will look into redesigning the blog (I’ve been putting it off for too long). I also have plans for putting together a wiki still; which will basically document all the strange characters and other stuff that takes place in the YouTube videos. I’m mainly doing this just so I can keep track of any form of “continuity” we have going on (such as making a list of how many people Ronald McDonald abducted), though it will be public (it is a wiki for fucks sake) so if anyone is bored enough to read a bizarre story from an entire network of overactive imaginations they are more than welcome to do so. :rick:

All in an Overlord's day

How do you like my melons?

People like mah melons.

The melon craziness has been invading my wardrobe moar as of late. I had some extra bonus money last month and thought I’d get myself a themed hoodie. My Mum is even in on the trend, she knitted me this:

Also having white hair always seems to throw people off even though I’ve pretty much kept it that way since the accident almost 4 years ago. Older women seem to like it. Most men either think I’m trying to bag someone in their 70’s or question why it is that way, or if its natural (and in some cases they think its a fucking wig).

This hair color has basically become my ultimate bullshit detector.

Animation / Gaming1

The Crash Bandicoot Intro That Never Was

This was another treasure I found while surfing the nerdier parts of YouTube awhile back, and I thought about it again today while playing Crash during my lunch break. Just think; Somewhere in an alternate universe this would have been the intro and outro for the original Crash Bandicoot game… The production quality is actually quite good, to the grade of even being a Saturday Morning cartoon, and they even got Jim Cummings to sing it! But it wouldn’t have meshed well with the game being a 3D platformer.

Gaming

Such Alpha Much Wow

I always like seeing the development process and background stuff that goes into crafting a game. This video displays every alpha for DOOM; which you can download here from this website if you want an up close and personal glimpse of the past.

It’s always interesting seeing how they pieced things together, what didn’t make the cut, etc.

All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies

Sunday Night Open Thread

I’ve been keeping myself preoccupied between SFM, cooking a kick ass breakfast this morning, and finally getting things together for the Digital Ocean transition. The first project is setting up the mumble server, which is pretty much done other than having to tweak a few settings and manually putting in a startup service to auto launch the server after a reboot. I setup a droplet with the latest version of CentOS. Once I have that completely setup I’ll look into moving the websites and additional files I plan to fast host for Quake 3 and TF2.

I’ll go over it again with a fresh set of eyes tomorrow.

Food/Drink

Miso Hungry

wtf even is this shit

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.

Animation / Hobbies

Yes this is still going on

I’m just as confused as you are.

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.

Gaming

Adventures in modding DMC5

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.