After tons of editing and refining, I finally have 3 minutes and 40 seconds of footage that I can share with the world to kick off another year of fun and youtubing.
It’s 2019 and we’re still movin, groovin and shootin’.
Microsoft Wants To Improve Windows 10 Gaming Through “XBox Ideas”
Everything about this from wording to the execution is just wrong on so many levels…
Team Xbox would love to hear how you’d like to see gaming on Windows improved. How can Windows 10 enhance your gaming experience? What features would you like added or changed to make gaming on Windows 10 even better? Create suggestions, vote for suggestions, and leave comments below!
Right, because when I think PC Gaming I think of chatting in the XBox section… I’m guessing they’re doing it this way because of the way they want to tie XBox and Windows 10 gaming into each other to a certain degree while also trying to reclaim the gaming market they lost when they began neglecting it in the early or mid 2000’s when XBox became their main gaming priority. Right now there are 500 games that have been confirmed to work under Proton, something tells me that Linux is starting to catch up enough that Microsoft may want to start considering them a threat. Microsoft has always had Playstation to compete with, and Microsoft needs an OS equivalent on PC to do the same.
Of course, as someone who does still use Windows a couple times a week, my only request would be to turn off telemetry and automatic updates without the need to jump through several hoops, and stop including Candy Crush with your OS for fucks sake.
Weekend Open Thread
Well, I was going to share a picture of the Swedish Meatballs and noodles I made tonight, but I got a little too hungry and forgot to take a picture… oh well. I still have some leftovers, though I didn’t feel like making a 2nd plate just to take a picture of some high quality food porn. But I had those with some corn and it made for a nice meal, and it definitely kept the house warm. 😀 I recently found out that I have Swedish heritage in my bloodline in two different branches of my family, among other interesting discoveries. It’s really interesting to see how many people it took to get you where you are now.
I was reminded recently to work on some real life video footage I took just after Christmas at the local lights festival; a friend of ours in Australia wants to see it. I’ll probably have a video up in a day or two. In fact I think I’ll dedicate most of tomorrow to projects I need to finish, maybe a little playtime before I start. I haven’t really played much of anything this week, unless we’re counting lunch breaks… :trollface:
Rain and risotto
Today was best spent indoors out of the blustery weather, mainly doing some laundry and video work. After primary work this morning I picked up some ingredients for tonight’s dinner I volunteered to make. One of the things I like about winter is comfort food. For me a good Italian risotto can fall into that category, and there are so many ways you can prepare it. In the past I’ve added chicken, beef, ham and of course sausage of any of them as the meaty part of the dish. This time around I gave tuna a shot instead, as I haven’t partaken of any recently. Originally I tried to follow a recipe in one of my cookbooks, but due to not being able to find certain ingredients and discovering too late that some of them were missing I had no choice but to improvise. I have to say it turned out to be quite a savory dish with a nice texture given to it by the pecans.
First I was low on chicken stock, both the fresh stuff and the bullion cubes; fortunately I still had some Mexican chicken/tomato granules for a rich broth. Next came the rice preparation which went smoothly as always, mixing the uncooked rice in melted butter and olive oil with browned onions to give it a nice nutty aroma and flavor, and of course adding the stock bit by bit until I gained the desired creamy consistency that makes risotto so delicious. In a bowl I combined some tuna, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, chopped pimento, olives and then a mix of marjoram and parsley. In my broth pan I added some more butter and oil and fried some garlic and chopped pecans, which sounds weird but surprisingly tastes really good mixed in with everything else. Of course I had to add some fire roasted tomato to the mix, and made green beans for the side vegetable. Overall I was happy with the results considering I pretty much measured and improvised the ingredients to make up for the actual missing ingredients. I’ll definitely have more tomorrow. I’ll have enough for an after work lunch, and then I can plot tomorrow’s dinner menu. I’m thinking something Scandinavian inspired.
When your imagination has a stroke
I had a weird dream last night. Everyone on Steam became their avatars in real life, and Valve had some sort of hunger games competition with Gabe overseeing everything whilst sitting on a fainting couch being fed sub sandwiches with a toga draping over his frame. The winner would gain a copy of Half Life 2: Episode 3.
Well I know what I’ll want to do in a couple weeks
I heard through the grapevine that another Skyrim multiplayer mod is in the works, and it looks fairly interesting!
I remember when some friends and I attempted another mod that was aiming to be multiplayer, but during our testing I ended up between two naked men with man voices and a never ending amount of dragon souls being absorbed for no apparent reason. I mentioned on stream recently that I would love a more successful mod, and this could possibly be that mod! It’s currently in a closed beta stage at the moment, but in a week or two it will be releasing to the public. If anyone else is interested they might want to stay tuned to this particular Twitter for more details… although with a mod like this I wouldn’t be surprised if all the big gaming news sites decided to cover this a little more extensively.
If this works out it would be a dream come true for me, and I’m sure other Dragonborn that got tired of sitting in chairs and thrones all by their lonesome.
We can all go the the spa together, and I can introduce my friends to my friend corpse buddy! We could adventure together! Sit around the campfire telling stories about the love affair between Nazeem and Jarl Balgruuf’s backside. Bonus points if it’s more stable than Fallout76, though I’m aiming for the sky at this point. :v:
The Important Things
It has been brought to my attention that I have wasted an entire month on Gmod, and it only took me a little over a decade.
Time travel is a weird thing.
Evening Open Thread
I treated myself to a nice bath bomb this morning. We finally had our tub fixed recently, and I figured I would silver wash my hair and bathe in cherry blossoms at the same time…. typing that out loud just made me think how annoyingly anime that sentence is. Yikes. :zorak: Then I made some Pad Thai and pretty much camped in Source Filmmaker for most of the day. I played a bit more with the special ring just to get a good feel of where everything should go. Then I worked some more on my current project, still have a small bit to go. I keep getting distracted. It has taken me like, three hours to write this post.
Mah dude.
If you want this carry weight you’ll have to put a ring on it!
I worked on cutting footage from last night’s broadcast this morning, still have a ways to go in getting it cleaned up and I might even have to split it into two videos. Then I took a break from that and did some work in Source Filmmaker; Yutram was kind enough to spend a couple of days porting a ring he made for me in Skyrim to Source.
Somewhere down the line it will make an appearance in future videos, though probably not right away. Instead I’ll share a sneak peek of what I’m working on!
I’m not going to explain what the hell is going on in this shot, nor will I divulge what game Yutram and I were playing when we decided to get down with our bad selves. Any guesses are welcome. :melon:
Now for your viewing pleasure: My melons
I streamed Skyrim this evening, now with more melons! I’ve discovered a watermelon atronach spell and just HAD to install it. You can either watch my VOD on Twitch, or watch my YouTube video below:
With help from Yutram we explored realms of Skyrim not meant for mere mortals (or console peasants in this case). We went to secret or forgotten levels that Bethesda never took out of Skyrim’s game files. I don’t even think we’re even halfway through the list of different cells, which means we’ll have more streaming of Skyrim in hopefully the not too distant future. 😀
I did manage to score a higher res copy of the stream for future editing. Will get to that as soon as I finish up my other works, though I can already tell this is going to be a fun one to go through, and animating it… 😛