Blah… too tired to brain.
Entering sleep mode.
Things that float fabulously in the night
I opted to take a break from SFM tonight, and wanted to do a livestream. NIGHTS is both a game that is as annoying as it is fabulous. I can’t really say this is something that I’ll repeat playing for an audience… or myself unless I’m in the right mood to take on these weird bosses.
Back at it again!
I did treat myself to some more Crash today, but I was still motivated enough to get started on the next video. I already had some creative help and discussions earlier with Yut and DG on the next as well as some other upcoming videos. I don’t want to say what, but there are going to be some substantial changes continuing in my videos. Now that my body is confirmed to have a brain that means I might be able to do a little body shopping. :v:
Also, as I continue to do this I feel myself getting a better rhythm for it, far greater than what I’ve had in the past. I’d like to get the next video ready by Monday, but the next couple of days are going to be busy for me (and in a fun way too) but we’ll see. This is why I don’t give myself strict schedules, especially when it comes to art. :rick:
This was one of the few scenes I worked on today, and I’m looking forward to the rest of it. I’m not sure if it’ll be as good as the Ronald McDonald scene, but I plan to aim big.
OverlordTomala and Yutram Play: Brain4Dead Part 1 (L4D1)
In this episode we get back to our roots, Batman unlocks an ancient power, and more hallucinations.
The Overlord Uses Imagination: It is SUPER EFFECTIVE
Got more animating done tonight, enough to render some footage. I’ll have one separate scene to render and then I can continue the rest of my work in Shotcut, and hopefully release it tomorrow or sometime later in the week. It was fun to work on, so many ideas pouring in as I was working on animations. It’s amazing what happens when you’re chillaxin’ like a bawler and listening to you and your friend going on about stupid shit in a game, and you take this unstaged mess and turn it into some form of entertainment for lack of a better term. I think some of my inspiration comes from those old SNL TV Funhouse skits, where they took real audio and animated a cartoon around it, adding as much ridiculousness as possible… and I’m someone who loves to deal in ridiculousness. :melon:
I’m thinking I might relax in bed and play a little Crash Bandicoot before knocking off for the night. I haven’t really played much of anything these last few days, animating takes time, among other things that require my attention. :melon:
Weekend Open Thread
Once again I ate my whole dinner before managing to snap a pic. I blame sleep deprivation. :zorak: I made Seafood Chow Mein; consisting of Shrimp, Scallops, Sugar Snap Peas, Red Bell Pepper, Scallions and a light sauce with a tomato cucumber salad on the side. It was a refreshing end to a quiet day and work week. Now I can spend three days not thinking about work drama and a village of idiots. It all had a nice clean taste to it, which has been refreshing after things like Swedish meatballs, ribs, pizza etc. On the bright side it has all been homemade at the very least.
I promised myself more SFM crafting, and I did get more accomplished tonight. I finished animating another scene, another five and I can call it good for the beginning of this little saga we recorded.
By The Seven McNuggets Of Cerberus We Transport!
I’ve been working on my next video over the last couple of days, and as I keep continuing I get more ideas such as this particular scene. What is happening in this scene is anyone’s guess. I still have a ways to go, and this is going to be a multi part video series due to the amount of really good moments, so I’ll have my work cut out for me on this one.
I’m not sure how much I’ll get done tomorrow. I have a full work day ahead of me tomorrow, and I’m volunteering to make dinner tomorrow night. Hopefully I’ll remember to take a picture before I eat my plate first. :zorak: I’m contemplating some Shrimp Chow Mein and a Chinese Tomato Salad. We’ve been eating lots of comfort food and it would be nice to have something light on the palette. I’ll be making my grocery list and heading to bed soon.
I do have a three day weekend at least, so I’m sure I’ll get something accomplished.
Wondertea
Over the holidays I got a nice haul of tea thanks to a long time best friend of mine, and one of the many teas I got was from a nice pack of Disney’s Alice In Wonderland tea collection. It cones with six flavors total, and the one I’ve mainly been sucking on so far has been the blueberry one, and also a bit of the medley tea… that stuff is like sweet nectar. :melon:
On the inside of each triangle there are instructions for either brewing hot or iced tea as if it were written by the characters themselves. It puts a nice bit of imagination to tea time. I’m not sure what it is but I’ve mainly been drinking blueberry tea or coconut vanilla iced tea for the last few days, something about those flavors leaves me coming back for more as if it were watermelon. I have a feeling the blueberry will be going very quickly. :v:
What in god’s name have I done?
For quite a few things I usually have to extract models from Garry’s Mod Workshop to place into SFM, and I wanted this particular version of Geralt for an image I was making. I’m not sure why but no matter what I did the torso just didn’t want to give up its ultimate bromance with Geralt’s neck. That’s ok… I didn’t want to sleep tonight anyway!
I did work on another video tonight (the above image doesn’t reflect on it in any way, this was just some last minute brainfart that needed to be expelled) and managed to get a scene done. I’ll probably continue onto the next one after I get off work tomorrow. I’m looking forward to this particular one, its a Left 4 Dead campaign Yutram and I played not too long ago, and there is enough footage for me to make quite a few fun videos. I contemplated on making one large video instead, but I find keeping things short for a short attention span world.
Imaginary Super Highway
News like this should not be a surprise to anyone.
How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”
I still remember when these bots were in their infancy back in the early 2000’s, when my family and I ran a phpBB2 forum at the time and we were invaded by tons and tons of bots several times throughout the day. The concept was still fairly new, as the bots never typed anything but only made tons and tons of accounts usually ending in Petrov or something. It was annoying back then because there were no captcha’s, there was no need for them because nothing like this happened. I ended up having to disable account creation temporarily as a result while having to clean up warzone and block all the account names from ever being used again, as well as any IP address. These days its much more advanced just as described in the article. Their programing is sophisticated enough that they can join all these social media websites and go about the internet as actual people, and these trolls keep taking it steps further when creating websites to further mask their intent. It is so easy in this day and age to come up with a straight up legit looking business or news media site, and people fall for it hook line and sinker. I could easily build a website that looks like a local news rag, or with the right amount of words and pump a straight up legit looking news website that talks about important things, like why the boogieman won’t come out of the closet.
I’ve loved the internet since the day of its conception, but at the same time I always knew that like anything else in life it can be manipulated to cause harm instead of good. I just never could have predicted how far it has come, and I have a feeling we haven’t even scratched the surface yet.