The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

The Power Of Imagination and Turkey Coma

The last couple work days have pretty much left me in a stupor. I’ve felt like I’ve only lived in work and bed, and while doing so I read an article a guest poster over at Kotaku wrote about game related dreams, which kind of piqued my interest as I suffer from an overactive imagination that I’m pretty sure is trying to kill me. When I was little I dreamed about Doom a lot, and since I modded the game they would sometimes appear in the dream. For example; if I were to play a game of classic Doom with the pinky demons being replaced by Barney the Dinosaur, and replace all the floating hellspawn with Sam Kinison yelling in the background there would be a good chance it would appear in my sleep. Yes, even at the age of 5 I not only modded, but had a really bizarre taste for how my Doom played. :zorak: The other kids didn’t like my appreciation of Barney.

Of course that’s nothing compared to the other surroundings that have corrupted my brain over the last few years. Having known a few people throughout the years that have these dreams on occasion makes me wonder what other imaginations have come up with. She’s one of the few people to have survived my imagination.

Speaking of; you’ll see some imagination tomorrow. :trollface:

All in an Overlord's day1

I’m Insane

I woke up this morning to $5 Steam Controllers and had a few accidentally fall into my steam cart, which I accidentally paid for with my PayPal, which I accidentally entered my name and password for, and accidentally purchased. The accidental emails I received on the incident have foretold such tales.

I probably won’t post tomorrow. Busy work day, and have to get to bed early for Black Friday. I have to be to work at midnight to prep things, which I volunteered to do. Half of my shift will be out of the way of angry screaming asshats that have nothing better to do with their lives other than wait outside in freezing weather just to buy a pair of shoes for ten dollars less, or buy a TV that has been the same price since August, but we changed the sign to emphasize that it’s a Black Friday deal, and somehow feel satisfied about that for some reason.

All in an Overlord's day / Food/Drink

No, these aren’t moldy

I treated myself to a beef and lettuce sandwich wrap today instead of the usual diet shake. I made a Korean inspired sauce and poured it over some cooked ground beef, a little jasmine rice and green onion, wrapped with some bibb lettuce and spinach wraps. I wanted to do something different, and not only did I achieve that, it tastes really good! I think next time I’ll chop up some tomato and cook some bell pepper or carrot along with it.

All in an Overlord's day / Blogospheric Naval Gazing

This Post Is Rated M For All Of The Melons

I basically came home on Saturday, and accidentally fell into a 12 hour nap. Hell even through Sunday I felt jet lagged, pretty much spent all of yesterday in chill mode. I made up for some lost animation time, and even made time to play a couple other things:

I played some single sessions of Melon Simulator yesterday, good game to play if you want to do something silly for a few minutes. It also has a level editor and a workshop. It reminds me of survival mode in the Left 4 Dead games, or any game where the goal is just to survive as long as possible. You can collect weapons, and even beat up melons with dead melon gibs, and feed upon them to regain your strength. Best played with a watermelon candle lit, some watermelon tea, and if you live in the appropriate state watermelon vape. :melon: I also played a bit of Far Cry 5 when taking animation breaks. I haven’t decided if I’ll continue animating today, or if I’ll wait til tomorrow. I’m anticipating this week to be more brutal than last week, and last week was already quite brutal… and I’m not just saying that because of my watermelon tourmaline gemstone falling off of my ring. I’m hoping it fell in a tote somewhere. Oddly enough I was contemplating buying another ring for the other hand about a week or so ago, and now I kinda had to move that up a bit it looks like.

No, I don’t plan on wearing all of them at once… The two in the top pic were a couple of cheap cocktail rings I got off of ebay, and the other one is a custom ring I got off of Etsy! I made sure to keep the cost under $75. I don’t buy jewelry for myself very often, in fact I think the last time I bought myself any jewelry it was the ring that broke recently… Guilt absolved. I also got some watermelon tourmaline earrings on the way, oh and early Christmas gifts for people persons. :trollface:

I’m anticipating another ballbuster week, so if I go radio silent I think you’ll know why. But on the plus side if I survive Black Friday there will be a video the next day. :melon:

Projects

Come To My Window

I got a late start in yesterday with one of the videos I plan to release further down the pipeline. I’ve also been mentally going over some of the things I might have to do in order to keep YouTube off of my arse. In case you haven’t heard YouTube is changing their rules due to COPPA and YouTube’s inability to keep their shit together. Channel creators now have to declare their channels as for kids or not for kids (but neither of the 4Kids), or do it on a video by video basis. I’ve pretty much marked my channel as a “not kids” channel; but in future videos I might start including warning intros to make it clear that my videos don’t target kids in any way whatsoever. One must be of a mature age before they can view my melon laden content.

Gaming2

Resident Evil 6: Double The Revengeance

Yutram and I tested the new Steam couch co-op feature recently released by Steam. It allows you to play a local co-op game with a friend (assuming the game is supported). The nice thing about this new feature is the ability to play with a friend who doesn’t own the game, and since it’s your computer they’re connected to they’ll see your nightmarish mods:

There really is no escape… why did I have to find this while looking for Bayonetta mods?

I’ll have to progress through my library and see what works and what doesn’t, even keep my eyes peeled for some local co-op games in the upcoming sale. I like where this is going!

 

Open Threads

Here We Are At Weekend

So, this week’s excuse for why I haven’t been posting much lately is because once again work has collected most of my attention. I got to basically write my own schedule last week, and made myself work a full 40. I might be lucky enough to do that next week too, always willing to make more money when I can. With Christmas coming up I’ll need every penny that I can get to send out my usual gifts, fucking tariffs can go die in a pile of flaming dicks.

I tidied up a bit, did a little shopping for Christmas, and played a bit more Bayonetta. I even decided to check out Resident Evil 6 for the first time. While looking for Bayonetta mods I found a Bayonetta mod for RE6, and then a rabbit hole of other mods to choose from.

Pretty sure this will haunt my nightmares.

I’ve already made some changes to my game, should be fun to do couch co-op with. 😛 Possibly stream too if I can defeat the Quick Time Events… my worst enemy in those games.

I continued to progress through my animation during the week. I just need to record some dialogue with Yutram and find a good way to close the scene; then I can begin piecing together another disasterpiece.  We’re coming up with so many characters that we’ve been in discussion of whether or not we should build a wiki to keep track of events and “lore”.

Food/Drink

Your Food Porn For The Evening

I pitched in for dinner this evening. Took a couple chicken breasts, sliced them thin, and combined them with some prosciutto and gouda. Then I ran out of gouda and prosciutto and substituted swiss and regular ham as an alternative. It kind of reminds me of Chicken Cordon Bleu. I might have to make a sauce to accompany it next time, but the addition of the ham and prosciutto and cheeses gave the chicken a nice flavor palate. I also cooked up some fresh green beans and made some buttery mashed garlic potatoes. I think we finally have enough leftovers that I won’t have to worry about food for the next few days.

Think I’m feeling the itis now, time to coma.

Gaming

Dragons and Penguins and Sun Emojiis oh my!

Bitch I’m Fabulous

As per the usual weekend tradition I’ve been taking some time to play around with different games. I checked out KaBounce and Shadwen yesterday, and ended the night with a bit of Spyro. But today I binged on Spyro in much the same way that I binged on curry. I’ve jumped ahead in the series to Year Of The Dragon, and it’s been a blast. I’ve enjoyed swimming as well as playing other characters. I even got to play as a flying penguin with a rocket launcher, so far that one is my favorite:

I’m coming for you Microsoft!

I also was not aware of the fact that Spyro: Year Of The Dragon was the game that gave birth to emojiis

I also can’t get over how surprisingly chipper the local creatures are, even when trying to be sad:

I’m glad to finally be playing this, feels like I’m making up for lost time whenever I play it, given that I was only limited to a Pizza Hut demo disc as a kid. But for now it’s time for me to shelve this one until the next play date. I’ve got other ideas for next weekend, projects, shopping, games or otherwise. Tomorrow I’m going to start preparing for the second Skyrim video. I need to record some voice lines and extract the audio clips that I’ll be animating. It’s looking like another one that I’ll be investing some time in, we have another special ending planned. I probably won’t be able to share many pictures until sometime next month.

Food/Drink

From The Creator of Breakfast Curry: Lunch Curry

I had a bunch of extra vegetables around, and was still in a curry kind of mood today. When lunch came around I sacrificed one of my chicken breasts for a green chicken curry with rice noodles. I made it mild, stomach hasn’t been nice to me today. Fortunately I also made the breakfast curry mild too. 😛 I’ve also been living on chai today. Started the morning off with a Canadian Maple Chai, and ended the day with some Rooibos Chai. I already have breakfast curry packed up for tomorrow morning along with some grapes, crackers and peanut butter dip. That should keep me plenty fueled tomorrow morning, even the tea has caffeine. I’m Ret 2 Go.

I’m thinking of taking the other chicken breasts and using them in a baked chicken recipe, involving some gouda cheese and prosciutto.