The Mind Of OverlordTomala
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Two Days Later…

I still haven’t been feeling too hot lately. I’m not a morning person, but I’ve had to be one for a few years now due to my current line of work. Every morning I get up at 3am and never have the desire to eat anything… sometimes as an added bonus I get a sour stomach, though thanks to some candy I’ve been taking I’ve been able to tone it down along with some inflammation.  Today I think it was more than just an acidic stomach, there have been some bugs going around and I think I got the one that makes me shit laser raptor beams.

I had a hair appointment today, its still there! Just enough to piss off all of the old people around me that are intimidated by my white hair. While getting worked on I pretty much read through my RSS feed just to see what was happening in the rest of the world, conversed with a couple people in chats.

I was going to work on a video tonight, but I’m thinking after today’s craziness at work and having my head worked over at the salon (don’t read too far into that) I’ll just have some fun for a couple of hours.

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I swear they plan it this way

I went from feeling good on Friday to feeling like absolute shite all weekend. I pretty much spent most of Sunday and Monday in bed trying not to stab my abdomen with a sword or my other favorite eating utensils. Thankfully I can shake these feelings off with more than just advil now, but I hate that I pretty much wasted a weekend lying in bed, only feeling comfortable when the medicine kicks in.

I didn’t start moving until the afternoon, which for me is bad since I have to be a morning person 99% of the time. Of course I’m feeling better now, just in time for me to return to work… I predict things are going to suck for me tomorrow.

Gaming

This post is brought to you by someone who needs more practice

Played a little HL2DM tonight for the first time in ages. I seem to do a better job wielding the crossbow or the revolver than I do with the shotgun or the assault rifles. I did get in a good couple of gravity gun kills though, so that’s something. I only played one match (and I think I joined the server in progress, everyone was nice. Every time I’ve gone to this server I’ve never had trouble. Everyone is too busy fragging to talk shit, there were also some lol’s, oops’ and other shit being thrown around in game chat from time to time, reminds me of a more innocent time for gaming on teh interwebz.

HL2DM is simplistic in design, but somehow its nice to just come back to from time to time.

Food/Drink

Combining different parts of the world for one meal

After the holidays we’ve been having issues eating properly around the homestead due to work fatigue and everyone’s busy schedules. My stomach can only take so much emergency food, though finally we have managed to get somewhat back on track for prepping actual meals. The above is what I made for dinner last night. I took a chicken breast, cut it up and cooked it in caramelized onions and garlic, then added them to some rice cooked in butter and oil and homemade chicken broth with peas and carrots. I also have a salad with Russian dressing on the side with a little touch of chipotle, so it’s more of a Mexi-Russiantalian meal. I got the idea to make this meal from a Russian cookbook that I picked up years ago as part of Time Life’s Foods Of The World Series, and was inspired by a Lamb Pilaf recipe. But I don’t care much for lamb, so opted for chicken instead. The recipe also called for raw carrot and onion, but I opted for caramelized onions, carrots and peas for added flavor and color. For additional flavor I threw in some Italian influence by cooking the grains in butter and oil first, the rice is jasmine, giving it a little boost of flavor and overall aromatic goodness, and much more welcoming to my stomach.

It was either going to be this or panko crusted chicken breasts with fries, but we’ve had too much potato substance recently and needed a severe break (something I’d never thought I would say). Tonight we’re going to have pizza, it’s cold outside and it’s definitely a good night to either bake or get baked.

Computing / Technology

The future is Chromium based

Ever have that feeling where you wake up from a nap, or from a good night’s sleep and feel like you entered another dimension? I think I can add this to my top 10 WTF did I wake up to moments.

For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers.

Translation: Our browser has sucked since the day of its conception, fuck it let’s go open source!

As part of this, we intend to become a significant contributor to the Chromium project, in a way that can make not just Microsoft Edge — but other browsers as well — better on both PCs and other devices.

Extend, Embrace, Extinguish, EXTERMINATE!

Working with open source is not new for Microsoft Edge. Our mobile browser has been based on open source from its beginnings over a year ago.

Shorter Microsoft: We’ve been lazy longer than you think.

Ultimately, we want to make the web experience better for many different audiences. People using Microsoft Edge (and potentially other browsers) will experience improved compatibility with all web sites,

Shorter Microsoft: Our browser will offer you the greatest things that you’re already able to do on almost any browser that isn’t currently ours. INNOVATIVE!

Not that I care… I’m Waterfox master race.

Gaming2

Back in business

The power supply is in my system, safe and sound. No magic smoke has escaped my case and my system seems to be running perfectly again. To celebrate I played a game, or should I say attempted to play a game.

I’ve only played Nights Into Dreams a few times. It’s a Sega game made for the Saturn in 1996. I never knew anyone who owned that particular console, so I didn’t know much about this game until it released on Steam with a bunch of other selections from Sega’s catalog. I’ve been going into this game blind as a bat trying to figure out what to do without having to look anything up. Here is my description of the game without having done any research first:

You’re a floating gay clown that goes around stealing children from within their dreams and eats floating balls and stars, while also destroying glass crab fixtures and traveling through onion rings that were made with anal beads (what is it with Sega and rings?).

Am I right? Let us consult Wikipedia:

The story follows teenagers Claris and Elliot, who enter Nightopia, a dream world where all dreams take place. With the help of Nights, an exiled “Nightmaren”, they begin a journey to stop the evil ruler Wizeman from destroying Nightopia and consequently the real world. Players control Nights flying through Claris and Elliot’s dreams to gather enough energy to defeat Wizeman and save Nightopia.

 

Well I was close.

I’ve made it to what I think is the first boss? It’s a giant clown sperm fish snake thing I’m not entirely sure how I’m supposed to get through that point. I’ll attempt it again sometime, but if I can’t progress I may have to consult the Youtube’s to see wtf I have to do. Feels kinda silly to need to do that so soon on what is basically the first level… Other than that I really like the game! It’s fun zipping through the air, flying across bright colorful worlds and taking in the sights. The controls are a little wonky when moving as the children, mainly the camera… that might be curable with the Steam Controller though. Perhaps I’ll contemplate this in my dreams… they have better graphics but sometimes the controls are also pretty wonked out. I can fly in my dreams too, but I don’t dress like that. 😛 At least not yet…

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Baking and kitties

Managed to snap a couple quick pix of Stewie and Morty early in the morning chillaxin’ in their natural habitats.

Also did a little baking today to heat up the house AND have something to snack on.

Every year around this time of year I buy whole fresh cranberries to make muffins with. Unfortunately all I had on hand were dried ones, but those are still nice in their own way. I also modified the recipe a bit to include pecans and holiday spices. Would of loved to have made an orange glaze to top them off, but no oranges…

My power supply arrived today. I should be back running normal tomorrow, just in time to start another work week! Ugh…

Technology

A Game Of Musical Hard Drives

I’ve been playing with 8TB of disc space today. I’ve been transferring my primary Steam drive since early this morning in alphabetical segments. I have almost every single part of my library installed on Windows (which makes it equally handy to just copy games over for quick Proton tests, life’s good being your own Steam game repository for other computers on the network) and it takes awhile to move 2TB of shit into a 4TB space, currently on the letter T as I write this.

I’m going to do a little digital house keeping and rearrange my drive structure, take out two of my 1TB drives and replace them with two 4TB’s, and just use 1TB drives for hot swapping or OS tests, any other mad act of science I can think of…

The rest of my day has been pretty quiet and mundane, the weather has been keeping me indoors sipping tea poured from my flowering teapot. Been awhile since I’ve had a flowering tea, its creme brulee green tea, highly recommend it.

Also would like to mention that I think I’ve confirmed that my crashing issues are the power supply. We plugged my Vega into my Dad’s gaming setup and it ran with flying colors. Played for well over an hour without a single crash or screen tear. He was happy for more than that reason though. He’s still on an x58 chipset and my RX Vega64 ran in his system without choking, apparently it is possible depending on the motherboard and BIOS you’re using. He updated his BIOS recently and it gave him UEFI support, which I think made it possible to run my GPU in his system. Yesterday was a good day all around, and it’ll be better when that damned power supply shows up, here’s to tomorrow I guess.

I also got some more of my Christmas shopping done. I’m thinking all that’s left will be gifts of the digital variety…

 

News

Don’t pay Newegg for fast shipping

I recently wrote that I ordered a power supply from Newegg, and that I paid a little extra for it to arrive early. Unfortunately it hasn’t arrived yet, though I can’t say that I’m entirely surprised. Ever since Newegg was sold off to the Chinese market they just haven’t been the same quality. One of the largest complaints that I read about was paying for fast delivery and still getting it later, late enough that they should of just stuck with the cheap or free shipping. At the same time I also heard other people claim that they’ve gotten their packages on time, sometimes earlier than expected… so it’s more of a gamble if you think about it, which isn’t exactly a great business model to have when your competition offers better shipping service.

I’m pissed to have paid for the additional service and not get my item on time, but at least I’m more privy to how Newegg conducts their business, and will be less likely to use their website anymore. it looks like from now on if I need to order an emergency item I’ll have to depend on Amazon Prime or a really good Ebay seller. I used to use Newegg constantly when ordering parts, now I’ll only use them if they have the cheapest deal and I’m not in any hurry to get it.

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Personal Stuff Open Thread

Did a little holiday shopping today after getting off work. Just need to pick a few things up online and I should be good. Also paid a few hundred dollars in medical bills, and this was all before noon! Ended up falling into an unintentional coma. Got more video editing done today too. Should have quite a lot of content to release come January. If I have time tomorrow I’ll go through my edits and refine things further, and take notes for additional elements to add to the video… like if any of them call for Cigarette Snake.

Chances are though that I’ll be busy tomorrow if my power supply arrives on time… determine once and for all if it’s a power related issue or a faulty GPU causing my system to die whenever I put the pedal to the metal. Fortunately editing and rendering video game pornography doesn’t cause that to happen.