The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

From Soul Calibur 6 To Yakuza 0

Even The Yakuza cannot resist the sweet taste of watermelon.

The rain convinced me to stay in pajamas today, and to play a game in bed for awhile. Leveled up a bit more in Soul Calibur IV, and I also decided to go back into Yakuza 0. I started a game of it almost a year ago and never got back to it! This ends today…. or tonight rather!

This is the first game I’ve played in the series, and while the cutscenes seem kind of long I do find them to be a nice break on my hand (all those combos); they also do a good job conveying what’s going on. Kiryu (the character you play) was hired to rough some dude up in an alley way, and you do exactly that… there’s just one problem. The guy you rough up gets shot, and you’re framed for it.

I won’t go into the story too much; other than to say that it’s one hell of a ride so far. I feel like I keep going further and further down a rabbit hole, pieces of the puzzle are in front of me, yet not enough to paint a full picture. I had to take a break from fisting an entire board room of Yakuza who wanted some of my sweet ass, as my right hand was starting to cramp up. But I had a hell of a fun time.

I found Canada!

My only complaint about the game so far is the minimap. I don’t know if its just me, but I have a difficult time following it to my destination. I keep making sure to try and stand in the right place, and looking over to the top right of the screen to make sure I can move forward. If anything I had a harder time with that than the actual gameplay.

It also dawned on me that there are a few minigames that I could play with another friend! Might have to have a Yakuza bowling night sometime!

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

Current Mood: Japan

Could you pass the wasabi?

I’ve been having a pretty zen weekend. Made some Miso soup, tamago, some rice with a rice seasoning I got for Christmas, and I also blended some yogurt and more of that monkfruit and matcha with some greek yogurt and added nuts and the homemade cherry sauce on top. It was so filling I was able to skip lunch, though that was also due to sleeping in. 😛 I had a really tiring week, and I have a feeling next week might be moreso.

I played a bit of Mark Of The Ninja (Remastered), and I have to say that I like it so far. Sadly I have no pictures of my own, but basically its a sidescrolling stealth platformer entirely in 2D with fairly decent animated 2D cutscenes. The voice acting isn’t what I would call great, but this is an indie title, and the gameplay so far makes up for it. I also progressed further into Soul Calibur VI, though I mainly did side fights. Came across someone jealous of my anal beads.

Other than that I did some online shopping for some new PJ’s and have always had a mug of green tea in one form or another, at my side the entire day. I’m thinking tomorrow I’ll make some more Japanese breakfast; followed by making tea and yogurt parfaits for the following work day(s). I actually made a nice cherry green tea one the other day but forgot to share it, had a nice color blend between the matcha and the cherry syrup.

Now if you’ll excuse me… I’m being lulled away by the scent of cherry blossoms and watermelons. :melon: Hopefully I’ll continue to come out the other side unscathed.

Server / Site Related

The Bluehost Blues

Last August I began having issues with my website provider Bluehost, when they “upgraded” my service by taking away my ability to open a process manager, and also made it impossible for me to run a murmur server due to their ridiculously low file descriptor count. In the old days I could just submit a support ticket to get a config changed, or open certain server ports for example. Now you have to either sit down and chat with them on the phone, or have an online chat with them. I’ve complained to them numerous times about my issues with no success, in fact at one point they made it even worse for me by changing my PHP version from 7.2 to 5.0, which is the equivalent of ordering a cheeseburger at a restaurant and instead having a toaster served to you on a platter with maple syrup and a hobo’s flaming scarf. What part of “Follow this wiki link and increase my file descriptors” even remotely translates into “Downgrade my PHP version plz”? PHP and Murmur don’t even have anything to do with each other!

They also managed to lock me out of FTP. Two tech support sessions and about a month later I eventually get my FTP access back… However I’m still at square one. I’ve been telling them from the beginning that I needed my file descriptors increased in order to run murmur, and I even linked instructions to them on a wiki page! After about another month I got word back basically stating what I already knew; My old server they migrated me from had a larger file descriptor count, and since I’m on shared hosting I would most likely have to pay for a dedicated server to do what I basically did before… They were going to look into things further, and said they would get back in contact with me sometime after thanksgiving… I still haven’t heard from them, at this point I decided take a friend’s advice and just go to Digital Ocean.

Now that the holidays are over and I’ve had a chance to breathe I’m proceeding with my server migration plan. I’m copying my files off of bluehost and getting ready to copy website databases, email addresses and the whole shebang to prepare for the move. I have until July to get things switched over, so while I’m not in too big of a hurry I do want to use the time to be through. It will give me plenty of time to test things properly before pulling the plug on bluehost.

It’s a shame that I have to do this after almost a decade :zorak: , but the service I got was anything but impressive. One thing I’m noticing across businesses is the lack of quality in staffing, or rather just lack of staffing in general. I wouldn’t be surprised if bluehost got rid of a bunch of their staff and only hired and trained people just enough to work with WordPress installs. As a result my questions about my Murmur server alluded them… I’ve seen a lot of companies try to take Wal-Mart’s leading business examples beyond the retail front, and it looks like Bluehost Wal-Marted their quality.

All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies / Open Threads

Evening Open Thread

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.

Until then… Open Thread!

All in an Overlord's day

My New Melon Bags

Morty Approves Of The New Bag Law…

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.

Gaming

Private Streaming Returns!

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:

Something for a more comfortable atmosphere.

Food/Drink

i kan haz taro mochi

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.

Food/Drink

All of the breakfast

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.