The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

Quake Champions Livestream

Kicked off the weekend by Livestreaming some Quake Champions:

Despite getting our asses handed to us on a silver platter we managed to have a good time. I might even do another one tomorrow. I got some more work done on the videos, and I’m deciding to keep them as two part videos. To keep a consistent release schedule (somewhat) I’m not going to release any video until I complete both parts. But if anything good comes up (such as pictures) I’ll post it here on the blog, or on the Steam Chat or Discord.  But now that I’m on my weekend I’ll be taking a break from my project and focusing on other things… like maybe a game to play. I haven’t really done much playing apart from the last couple of multiplayer mishaps with Yutram. I haven’t had much of a chance to use my gaming laptop at work, been grocery shopping during my lunch breaks so I won’t have to do it after work when the entire place is flooded.

Now, it is time for me to meditate sideways.

All in an Overlord's day / Cat blogging1

Evening Open Thread

Not much to report tonight, but I can offer an adorable cat picture. I’m waaaaay behind on my cat posting quota. Finished some more animation work tonight, will begin pasting it together tomorrow. I need to mull it over a bit but the video may end up being a larger video instead of a two parter… Before I render the first video I’ll need to re-evaluate the second part. At this point I’m merely spitballing. I was also toying with another idea, but that will require going over some more recent footage to see if I can pull said idea off.

I had a pretty frustrating day, nothing out of the ordinary other than the typical everyday work bullshit cranked to eleven. I should probably play a game to alleviate mental pressure from the concentrated aura of stupid permeating the air these days, but I’m too tired to do even that. Maybe tomorrow night I can get a little play session together, preferably with guns, bonus if a sword is involved.

All in an Overlord's day / Food/Drink

This is now a food blog apparently

I opted to leave out the pita shell and make a salad instead for my after work lunch, turned out quite nice. I made a spicy Thai tuna salad mixture with some fish sauce, lemon and lime juice, cilantro, shallot, ginger, serrano pepper, honey roasted peanuts and some curry paste. I layered some sushi rice above some salad greens and spooned the tuna mix on top to make something like a Thai tuna sushi, but with tomato and cucumber. The nice thing about this mixture is that you can serve it in a multitude of ways/ It makes a good tuna melt, crisp sandwich or wrap… and as mentioned in the previous post pita bread. :v I also bought some pralines for snacking, they are a new addiction I’m trying not to let happen too often.

I rendered some SFM stuff earlier, still have a bit more to go. Sometimes I have to split up one file into two due to a particular bug. For some reason every once in awhile when I try to keyframe something the program will be stuck on a different scene entirely. I had to render up to a point that I hadn’t animated yet, split it off at that point and did an export. I remember this happening under Windows too awhile back, it seems to occur randomly.

Food/Drink

Food Balance

I dug out my old bento box and decided to put a chirashi sushi kit together for tomorrow. It’s in my lunch box along with some miso soup, soy sauce and some satsumas. I enjoyed my yogurt cup this morning, it satisfied. I’ll have to start coming up with other ideas for yogurt cups… I already have a few of the tropical variety I want to try. I’m contemplating either a tuna curry for after work, or a Thai Tuna Salad in some pita bread shell.

I don’t have much else to share. I worked a tiny bit more on the next video, it wasn’t much but I think I might have more time tomorrow.

Food/Drink / Gaming

More foodage and games

As planned I made a good hearty breakfast of oven fried Potatoes O’Overlord (Basically Potatoes O’Brien with some of my own spices) and some scrambled eggs and prosciutto with some tomatoes, onions and shrooms. I topped it off with a homemade white sauce, served some sourdough English muffins on the side and it was breakfast… and dinner later on. I did make a sweet and sour chicken stir fry earlier, but my stomach is feeling a little on the egg and potato side of things this eve.

I purchase a few portable yogurt parfait cups from work a couple weeks ago, and finally put together enough ingredients to create one. This is Greek strawberry and honey yogurt layered with homemade plum and nectarine sauce and some roasted mixed nuts ground with a mortar and pestle. I decided to spoil myself a little bit with some white chocolate morsels on the top of the parfait. Plus there is a little satsuma mandarin in the little dome for a juicy snack. If my stomach is up for it I’ll probably eat the leftover curry for lunch when I get home tomorrow. That was really good, but this morning it kinda killed my stomach. Fortunately I had my special candy to calm my stomach.

Played some ol Quake 3 with Yutram earlier on a whim. I even took the time to install the HD packs and did a few cfg tweaks for my own liking. We have a nice selection of custom maps that I forgot about, it was fun to play them again. Still feels more fun to play than Quake Champions, maybe it’s the old charm, maybe it’s the ability to mod it how I please… I don’t know.

One of the things I’ll have to test next time we play: Increasing the amount of frags. We seem to go through the maps too quickly, and upping the bot strength… currently they’re set to Hurt Me Plenty, but I seem to be mowing through them like a nicely sharpened blade through a watermelon. Refine things a few more and I might actually stream this at some point. Might be cool to show off some old and new mods. You can tell a games worth by how much people play it,and also by how many mods are made for it. To this day people still mod the old Doom and Quake games, and that’s something cool to see with a 20 year old game.

Food/Drink / Gaming / Hobbies

In Today’s Episode Of Breakfast: Bacon Will Be Played By Smoked Salmon

Eating like an Overlord

For the first time I finally made a tamago I could be proud of. I made a chirashi sushi bowl with sushi rice, cucumber, smoked salmon and a tamago omelette made in an authentic tamago pan to get the dimensions just right. I also had some pickled ginger that I haven’t torn into yet, and finally got to break it in. Then there is also a garden salad with sesame dressing, and some greek strawberry honey yogurt with mandarin oranges. For me in the morning this is quite a feast, but felt really good for most of the day.

Spicy

Then later on in the day I took the leftover tofu from yesterday, as well as the leftover scallions, sliced a bell pepper and made a noodle curry. It was really spicy, but not too sweet. I also had a nice green chai a bit ago, something sweet sounded nice after browsing Amazon for teas. My flowering teapot is already giving up the ghost after only being unboxed for a few months… so I purchased a more durable one with a better handle. While I was there I also decided to purchase a few teas. There aren’t any good blueberry teas locally, and I also wanted to see if I could hunt down a maple syrup tea, and Holy Twatwaffles Batman! I found a really good candidate. That just sounded too good to pass up, and it’s a Pu Erh! Those are great to have in the morning for a high energy tea. I also found the flavors Caramel Nougat and Apricot Amaretto to be quite intriguing… then of course there’s the original tea that I thought of. I haven’t tried this one before, but it sounded like a good blend to try.

I have a short day of work tomorrow; I’m thinking when I get home of making a scramble of eggs with some tomatoes and mushrooms… maybe some homemade Potatoes O’Overlord with a cream sauce… something hearty. Then perhaps a nap and some SFM work, did nothing but cook and play games today. Do something hearty and somewhat serious tomorrow.

All in an Overlord's day / Food/Drink / Gaming

Miso Soup And a Hidden Valley

Been awhile since I’ve made a good miso bowl, figured this morning I’d do a different kind of breakfast. It might seem weird to have miso soup for breakfast, but from what I’ve read it can be an accompaniment to breakfast. I added some shiitake mushrooms to mine and it had a nice robust flavor. I also made fixin’s for chirashi sushi (scattered in a bowl instead of pressed). Maybe I’ll use the leftover miso soup along side it at breakfast tomorrow with a tamago.

For my weekend game I decided to play Valley and a little bit of Quantum Break. I was more interested in Valley today, despite it giving me motion sickness a few times… fortunately puffing the vape pen seemed to help calm my stomach. I think I’m nearing the end of the game, but I’ve been taking my time exploring any area I could find. It’s a big place with many places to go and the more you run around the more upgrades you can find for your robo suit (or as it’s called in game a L.E.A.F Suit). It grants you the ability to give and take life to sustain your suit, and most of the life around you is vegetation.

There are also these weird spirits with horns and weird masks… I think you can consume them into your suit but I haven’t tested that theory. There are plenty of blue orbs around to sustain my suit, so I haven’t really felt the need to take life from anything. I think I’m almost to the end mainly because I’ve gotten like, 13 achievements on the game today. I wanted to play something relaxing today, and it seemed to fit the bill with keeping me thoroughly entertained. Plus it’s quite different from other games in general. I love running around (especially when on rails, you generate a nice bit of electricity for a super run), double jumping in the air, grappling from place to place when applicable, and my most recent suit upgrade lets me walk on magnetic surfaces!

Something tells me that I’ll be giving this game a thumbs up when I finally finish it.

Gaming

I’m a Sourcerer

I got quite a bit done in SFM today! Rewarded myself by getting my ass pounded in TF2 alongside Yutram… They have definitely changed the AI a considerable amount since we used to play regularly, that and the AI behavior seems a little off, the bots are really good at detecting spys to the point that the bots don’t seem to want to go spy. Last I checked the bots were set to medium difficulty, Yutram and I are wondering if Valve decided that the cool kids deserve MLG mode bots or some shit. While we were playing we were treated to an interesting message:

In TF2 you have the option of wasting $100 or some shit on a digital ring that you can give to your friend or partner as a sign of friendly gay marriage or something, and not only do you get to personalize the message, but everyone playing the game will see it regardless of server. I’ve seen quite a few of these over the years, and it’s nice to know the tradition is still going strong. I never received one myself, and hopefully never will.

Open Threads

I accidentally a nap

Got off work today, had a health shake for lunch and opted to get into working on the next SFM project, and then next thing I knew I was waking up from a nap with SFM still on the computer screen… That was productive. Well, I still managed to get one scene animated so far… so there is that. I’d give a snapshot from it, but it’s similar to some of the other ones that I’ve done recently… so here’s one of my previous ones:

I guess this can be an open thread.