The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Computing / Hobbies

Production Diary: Linux Bromance

I’m almost done sorting through the Broforce footage. I have about another half hour’s worth to sort through and then I can move onto tearing up the Crash Bandicoot Trilogy footage. I’m stopping myself now because I know that once I continue I’ll be up later than I should be. :v:

On the subject of my own productions I’ve done some more testing,and I’m pretty much ready to start my next set of SFM animations under Linux. I’ll probably complete the Linux setup of it after I move my install over to a new SSD. I’ve been planning it for awhile now, but since I’ve been spending more time under Linux I wanted to get it off of a mechanical drive and onto something faster. I love Linux on my NVMe, and while Mint boots up pretty quickly on my 7200rpm drive, it is beginning to show it’s old age. I’ll probably do a clean reinstall when the drive arrives then move everything over to it at my leisure… gotta love hot-swap.

It’s kinda funny… All these years I’ve been wanting to move my editing suite to Linux, and after all these years of people telling me that it wouldn’t happen I’m almost right where I want to be. Now if I could just ween myself off of Ye Olde Photoshoppe things would be cherry. All my audio and video work is done under Linux now, and now thanks to Proton Source Filmmaker too… just so long as I don’t run into any graphical glitches during rendering. I did a test image sequence earlier and it imported just as fast as it did under Windows, and from what I can tell it’s about as stable as it is under Windows too. If this works out I’ll have one large and one less reason not to use Windows anymore…

Oh don’t worry Microsoft, you’re still somewhat useful; it’s just that your list of useful properties shrinks a little more as time passes each day.

All in an Overlord's day

Memorial Day Open Thread

I’ve had a pretty relaxing weekend. Went to the fair yesterday and picked up a couple of nice alpaca wool hoodies from Peru. There wasn’t really much else noteworthy from the fair, and it seemed rather light. I’m thinking they may have split the fair up into two different points this year? I dunno…

Other than that I did a little game modding today, and got a couple scenes prepped for future SFM projects.  I also played a game called Valley. I may have to stream that one. :zorak:

Food/Drink

Another way to breakfast

I was reading one of my cookbooks the other day, coming up with some ideas… and I found a neat breakfast type dish called Eggs Hussarde. I didn’t have all the ingredients needed to make it, but still wanted to have something of a similar vain. It did serve to inspire me to make this though:

I bought some sourdough English muffins and some back bacon (or Canadian bacon as we call it in the states). There was also a bunch of tomatoes that were heavily discounted, so I bought them all up and made them into a balsamic tomato sauce, and instead of Hollandaise I made a white sauce with Parmesan and Marsala. I lightly seared the bacon on both sides  in a pan and made the poached eggs using a microwave. It’s really good, but also really rich in flavor. I don’t think this is something that I would make every weekend, but as a treat every so often to take a break from the traditional weekend omelette I seem to do every so often.

Now, I wonder what I’ll call this dish. Eggs Tomala? Eggs ala Overlord?

Hobbies

Video Editing Diary: Bromantic Edition

I’ve slashed my way through the Borderlands Pre-Sequel footage and have about 4 videos worth of content with plenty of plans for additional animation. Now I’m going through my Broforce files and have now confirmed that I have enough for not one, but possibly 3 or 4 videos. I’ll probably continue at it some more tomorrow, my weekend starts early. My notepad is filling with all kinds of imaginative things that I can’t wait to animate… some of these ideas are tempting enough to be their own standalone videos.

All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies

My brain is doing things again

I was contemplating a release of a video I finished recently, but now I’m thinking I may hold off until I sort through the current selection of video footage I’ve got. I need to cut up some more film and write down more goofy idea, then I can properly calculate what would be a good video to follow (or possibly proceed ahead of if I can find anything good in recent streams). I’ve been going through my Borderlands Pre-Sequel gameplay and have enough fodder for two episodes so far, and I’m not done going through all of the footage yet. My current list for that and other games is as follows:

  1. Borderlands The Pre-Sequel
  2. Broforce
  3. Crash Bandicoot
  4. Deadpool (Unlikely due to making fun of itself better than we could)
  5. DOSBox
  6. Fallout 4 (Need more footage)
  7. Garry’s Mod
  8. Left 4 Dead 2
  9. Linux Gaming
  10. No Man’s Sky (Need more footage)
  11. Okami
  12. Serious Sam HD SE
  13. Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
  14. Skyrim (which might spread out as long as game of thrones at this point)
  15. MGSV: The Phantom Pain (Needs more footage)

Going through the Pre-Sequel stuff alone I can tell I have a lot cut out for me in the animation dept. With my latest render I’m thinking I might experiment with SFM under Linux again. For one of my scenes in the upcoming video I have planned I experimented with making an image sequence instead of an mp4 file and it didn’t take as long as I thought it would. If I can do that in the same amount of time as I can under Windows I’ll gladly start using SFM under Linux. Moving all of my production to Linux would be pleasing. The less reasons I have to go into Windows the better, the nightmare.

I’ll be less likely to live that nightmare again…

Computing / Technology

DOSBox: In Color

I forgot to post this from the other night:

We traveled back in time to an era where the internet was close to being a thing, the start menu hadn’t been invented yet, and people didn’t have smartphones to distract themselves with while driving. I had fun showing off a really old install of Windows with some After Dark screensavers. I kinda wish these would make a comeback, it was always fun to have something silly to look at in the background.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

Work Induces Coma

I’ve had a pretty busy week. Between being sleep deprived and having to play catch up I wore myself out to a point that I took a nap in the afternoon and woke up at 6:00am. I did get the last bits of my SFM stuff taken care of, now I’m ready to finish up under Linux and I’ll have an abomination for the world to see. All I really need to do is polish the audio and I’ll be able to have a complete video.

I also volunteered some time to help a friend pack up the belongings of someone else, they are not much longer for the world and they needed help with packing everything up and gathering it all in one place for moving.

Came home and played some Borderlands Pre-Sequel and a little Broforce. I’m kind of surprised how buggy and long winded Pre-Sequel turned out to be, there are so many good concepts in the game, but you have to do so much backtracking in the beginning that it makes one’s head spin after awhile. Broforce was also annoying, but slightly less buggy. There was only one bugged level in multiplayer, rather than explain it I’ll probably save it for another video. I probably have a good bug/glitch blooper reel for Pre-Sequel as well. :v: