Dear Esther, I did another livestream
This time my streaming went ALOT smoother, and not just because of the new stream deck. There was one problem when I started however… For some reason my recording drive disappeared from my list of drives. It turned out my IcyDock wasn’t working for whatever reason. I swapped it to another slot and it worked fine. I did get the dock working again after the stream, for some reason even though the light on the device was on it wasn’t doing anything. Pressing the power button on the dock a couple more times got it to work again.
But anyways the stream went alright. Tonight’s victim was Dear Esther: Landmark Edition; a first person walker where you listen to narration… so basically a serious version of The Stanley Parable. I haven’t played Dear Esther in years, and felt the need to revisit it (that and Yutram suggested it last night and the idea stuck in my head ever since). It was probably the most boring let’s play I’ve ever done, but I somehow managed to have fun with it anyways. If you’re interested in watching it you can find my vid here. It’s a little over an hour if you have that kind of time to kill, and much like the Freedom Planet stream I will be working on a video highlighting the best moments… if there were any.
Like a bat out of hell
Once again I somehow manage to make it to the end of my work week without committing any sort of violent crime. That’s what I’ve decided hack n slash games are for, or perhaps my own variant of stress squeeze ball.
I’ve been replaying MGR under Linux to see if I could find any bugs (so far it still runs like a native version), but today during lunch I wanted to get back into DMC1. I defeated Phantom, a giant spider a second time. They’re not kidding about this series (aside from 2) as being hard. But now I somewhat understand how to defeat Phantom, its just getting my timing down and trying to get used to that Resident Evil style camera (its almost like they’re developed by the same company or something… :trollface: ). I guess it helps to be in the right mood, this was a rough week and I’ll enjoy the next couple days not having to endure another wretched fuckmuffin’s attitude problem. The weather is supposed to suck, not that I’ve really been getting out lately on the weekends lately (unless you count going two hours out of town to get your skin removed). I’ll get cozy and spin my roulette wheel to determine what creative brain child I’ll need to tackle.
Might also try to do another stream tomorrow, or perhaps play a multiplayer game, or both.
Only half way through the week and I already want it to end
The last few days at work have been pretty rough. I came home today and immediately passed out after eating some leftover lasagna from dinner at a friend and former co-workers house. Today wasn’t as bad, but yesterday and Tuesday were crazy busy with no rhyme or reason. I played a bit of DMC1 today during lunch, that was fun. I also tried running DMC HD Collection in Mint today. The good news is that the launcher works perfectly, the bad news is that once you choose what game you want to play it’ll just crash to desktop. Of course you can still technically play it under Linux, but you’ll have to use an emulator instead and have the necessary ROMS or disks on hand.
I’ve been collecting video footage documenting my adventures with Proton, and plan on making an introductory video showing my desktop as well as games that work under Linux via SteamPlay. I watched a couple big YouTubers about the subjects, and I can tell they’re mainly making videos about Proton and Linux gaming just to garner attention and rake in the ad revenue. I can tell especially when I compare their videos to other YouTubers who actually do use Linux on a regular basis. For example I’ve been reading and seeing others try to add their Windows Steam Library straight from their Windows game drive, which causes the desired game to download in a loop over and over again, as well as potentially corrupt your game on the Windows side.
Even though Proton uses the same install paths as Windows you can’t install or mount games from a drive that uses the ntfs file system (you can thank Microsoft for not wanting their filesystem to work properly with other operating systems). Best results are achieved if you use ext4 instead. This is one the many things inspiring me to make my own Linux videos, plus YouTube could use more Tux love. :v:
The Stream Deck Be Mine, Yo.
The hardest part was trying to get it out of the mail box, the compartment my parcel was being stored in has a dirty or rusted lock. Had to use some WD40 and elbow grease to claim my new prized possession. I have it all set up for a future stream, those are my scenes and I also have a soundboard I put together. I’ll be adding more profiles and filling more buttons as the need rises. Unfortunately at this time there isn’t much support on the Linux side… But I have seen a toolkit developed for anyone else who has an interest in making this work in a Tux friendly environment. Until then this will have to be a Windows exclusive device. I would of liked to have done a stream today, but I was hella tired. I set this up, played Fallout 4 and at some point woke up in bed when I smelled dinner. Today was a rough day…
You can use this for more than just streaming too. I plan on programming it to use Shotcut keyboard shortcuts to make things a bit easier while editing, and perhaps make a default profile that launches programs. Between this and my G510 I’ll have macros for days. I’d like to do another stream soon, though tomorrow I won’t have much time. If I do stream it’ll definitely be a surprise to everyone including me.
Got my game on today
Spent the earlier part of the morning going through my closet; it didn’t take me very long as things were already well sorted, then I had my stitches removed AND even got a phone call from my doctor telling me that I’m fine. That’s great news for me and bad for everyone else. 😛
I opted to play Hard Reset Redux in Mint today just to see if I could crash the game, made it to the 2nd level with no glitches or anything. It would still be nice if they made a native version considering the Shadow Warrior Linux Port runs quite decently given the beefy hardware. But it is nice to play the Windows version using Proton with impressive results. :happy:
I also tried a bit of Dishonored and a couple Sonic games; Dishonored works fine though it seems to pause while loading certain scenes. Sonic Generations however tried to rape my ear drums with corrupted audio, as well as possessing my controller to do weird voodoo bullshit, Mania worked fine, but the sound was a slowed down and distorted.
I’m going to be looking into getting another NVMe drive for my laptop, with how often I’ve been using Linux lately I’d like to dualboot it on my laptop and see how it performs on different hardware.
Last but not least I installed Borderlands 2 onto my laptop, thinking I’ll play it during lunch tomorrow. It’s a good thing I tested it out a bit, because for whatever reason it crashed like a drunken sailor numerous times. I think lowering PhysX may have fixed the problem, but considering that it has a 970m GPU in it that would be rather strange… I guess tomorrow will be my live test. I’ll be working full shifts every day this week, so my laptop is going to get some good usage. :happy:
Sunday Evening Open Thread
I had a good 12 hour rest, an excellent breakfast and managed to get some tidying done today. I cleaned up a few of my drawers (giggity) and got the bedding done in record time, then I worked on the video from yesterday’s stream. It seems while I was recording my mumble audio didn’t make it through, resulting in me downloading my stream and taking the audio from that and fixing things up… I combined two failures of mine and made something work! Amazing! It’s pretty much done, but I think I’ll hold onto it for the time being. I think if I might do some more tidying tomorrow, closet is in need of a fix up and I have some surfaces that need the dust knocked off of them. I also need to set some time aside to do a little online shopping. :v: I did manage to play a little bit of Bioshock Infinite, can’t be all work and no play… I’ve finished the game before but wanted to try it under Linux. It has some minor bugs but works fine for the most part. I want to do a livestream of Infinite at some point; Yutram and I have built a legacy around the the Lutece twins not long after making that one video where I redubbed random characters you guys suggested.
But for now I think I’ll lay on my clean bedding in watermelon PJ’s and try to have a good rest, as good as last night’s.
Someday I’ll get it right
I made time to do a livestream tonight across YouTube and Twitch. The good news is I didn’t have any recording issues, and the stream stayed up the entire time. The bad news is for some strange reason the quality was fuzzy. It turns out my stream didn’t downscale for whatever reason, so I’ll have to double check that next time. Sorry! If you want to watch it still you can view it here, but I have a higher quality local recording I plan to pick over hopefully not in the too distant future.
Speaking of the future; I’ve ordered an Elgato Stream Deck to make things like transitions easier during livestreams. I have a plethora of ideas already set aside for it to make my streams a little more spicy. :v: