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All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies

Sunday Evening Open Thread: I’m still a nerd edition

I worked on and rendered another video using the Linux version of Shotcut today. I don’t know what it is, but to me the Linux version performs better for me than the Windows version, which itself isn’t bad by any means, but to me it seemed even snappier under Linux. I won’t uninstall it from Windows just in case I need it under there (you never know), but I have a feeling I’ll be using it under Linux more. Hooray for progress! :meeseeks:

Other than that there wasn’t much else to my day. It was a nice warm morning, followed by large gusts of wind that brought fog and cold weather by the late afternoon. I sat inside drinking tea, getting my computer work done and trying to feel better. I reinstalled DOOM 2016 on my desktop to test it with the newest version of Proton, and I can say that I now have mouse movement, but it feels a bit janky… I know I could do some tricks to get it to work, and I probably will in the future. But for now I think I’ll hold off and see if newer versions of Proton will remedy the issue. I’ve already beat the game once, and I’m already replaying it under Mint on my laptop with flying colors. I have plenty of other games that need testing. :v:

Hobbies

Finally catching up!

We had a surprise heatwave today, too hot for me to even want to take a nap. I ended up taking my laptop outside and play tested Prey on my Linux install, and surprisingly it works quite decently.

Speaking of Linux gaming I finished my first Linux related video. I’m not sure when I’ll release it, but it will probably be at the beginning of November at the very latest, with others hopefully following suit. I had to do a reinstall of Shotcut, the version I installed via my package manager decided that it didn’t want to launch anymore for whatever reason, so I tested with their portable version and that runs like a peach. It even has all of the same codecs I have under the Windows version… I’m wondering if I had an older version installed? Which is strange because it did report back the same version as Windows… Ponderous. If that’s the case I may start doing more of my video editing under Linux instead of keeping Linux and Windows recordings separate, and using Windows Shotcut to edit Windows video and Linux Shotcut for… well you get the idea. It’s kind of funny though when I think about it; Years ago when I first installed Linux to participate in the Steam Linux beta I couldn’t find any decent software to edit videos and always had to rely on Premiere Pro, among other programs that always had me going back to Windows (like game recording software for example). Fast forward to now, and we have several robust video editors to choose from, there are a couple options for game recording, and more and more everyday software being available to use. It’s amazing how much of this has grown since my early adventures of using Linux as a regular day to day desktop. Now here I am editing audio/video without having to rely as much or at all on Windows or Adobe for it. It feels good, real good.

As I’ve stated before though I’m nowhere near ready to completely ditch Windows yet, but the less time I spend under it the happier I am. I like having options.

Gaming

In tonight’s episode: The part of Gordon Freeman will be played by Spyro The Dragon

It’s comforting to know that if I ever can’t make up my mind on playing Spyro The Dragon or Half Life we can now have the best of both worlds thanks to a mod:

I watched the video, and for the most part they did a good job getting the game mechanics from the original Spyro down to a T. Magic Nipples (the creator of the mod) will be releasing it on October 26th. I might have to install this and give it a go. :happy:

All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies

Getting closer to the end

Well, I managed to complete not only the last of the animation, but I’m also very close to wrapping up the project. I need to play with audio levels, render and make a thumbnail for when I finally get to upload. Probably won’t release it until at least next month. If I can I’d like to try and focus on spooky vids, and even if I don’t get to do that I can work on other things instead.

My next projects will hopefully involve something Linux related, and also a recent Portal 2 play-date. Yutram and I played custom maps made on Steam Workshop and we had quite an interesting adventure. I’ll have to sift through the footage and see what I can come up with. 😛

Hobbies

Digital Pr0n Open Thread

Yesterday (and today) I spent more time in SFM trying to get more of my project accomplished. When I went to try and export a scene for the first time I was greeted by some living nightmare that looked like a live action Andy Warhol painting live broadcasting from Satan’s anus when opening the avi file. After doing some research it seems it’s better to just install Quicktime Alternative to add mp4 and mov codecs as an option to the export process. I just need to animate one more scene and then I should be done with SFM, then I can focus on polishing it all up in Shotcut.

Speaking of Shotcut, tried to run it on Linux the other day but it failed to launch. I uninstalled it and downloaded the portable version instead, that had no issues for some reason… Oh well, at least I have more than one way to install it. :happy:

Food/Drink1

Soup’s On

On my final night of trying to poison people that live in the same living space as me I took the steak from last night and made vegetable soup. Chopped up some carrots, bell pepper, onion, shallot and added some mashed potato from last night too, and also threw in a can of chopped tomatoes. I also wanted to try making a bechamel sauce for a bit of creaminess and additional flavor. Then of course you have your herbs and spices… more paprika! I’m not sure why I like paprika so much. I seem to go for sweet Hungarian for the most flavor.

That will be enough cooking blog posts for awhile. I’ll get back into writing other stuff tomorrow. :zorak:

Food/Drink / Hobbies

Because there wasn’t enough steak last night

Ordinarily I don’t do steak two nights in a row, but that seems to be the majority of what is in the deep freeze. I seasoned them with salt, pepper, and lemon pepper. Then I sauteed some onion with balsamic vinegar, and made homemade paprika mashed potatoes and paprika green beans.  I have to say, today’s weather combined with dinner made me feel like I was still in the summer months.

If I have enough for leftovers I’ll come up with a good dish to recycle them into tomorrow, if not I still have shrimp as a backup plan. 😛

Meanwhile, I’m making good on my SFM project for an upcoming gameplay video. I’ve segmented the audio and animated the characters, now I just need to work on lighting and camera positioning. From what it looks like I’ll probably have to perform three separate renders for particular scenes. I can’t do it all in one go because SFM doesn’t like it when you have too many keyframes on a particular model. So what I have to do is animate what I can, then split off what I need and save two different files. It’s kind of annoying, but I’ve dealt with this before and know my way around it. I spent a good few hours animating a 46 second clip, granted a good portion of it was me trying to get good positioning but, wow… it adds up after awhile..

Food/Drink1

Yin and Yang in the kitchen

I have dinner duty for the next few nights. I started early this morning by making a nice Korean/Japanese marinade, and I let them soak until the evening. This was my first time working with Gochujang (a spicy Korean chili bean paste), it has quite the kick to it. There was also lime juice, garlic cloves, sugar, soy sauce, mirin (sweet sake), rice vinegar, ginger, and Korean spice powder with just a couple touches of salt and pepper. The end result is a sweet spicy steak, in fact this would probably taste great on beef too. Of course you can’t live on meat alone…

To compliment the spiciness of the steak I made a cool Korean cucumber salad with shredded carrot, toasted black sesame seeds and a ginger sesame soy vinaigrette with garlic, spring onion, Korean and Japanese spice powders and a touch of sriracha. Then of course there was white jasmine rice, one of my all time favorite rices to use.

I would count this dinner definitely among one of my better ones, but then when it comes to Asian cuisines I always seem to get the savor and spice just right. I’m not sure what I’ll do tomorrow. I have beef fillets defrosting, if they’re not ready tomorrow I may use shrimp as a backup plan…

Open Threads

Evening Open Thread

I had a short shift today, but with company over and a couple chores I didn’t get around to everything that I would have liked to. My weekend starts tomorrow after another short shift, so maybe I’ll get some more stuff done. I’m also in charge of dinner stuffs for the next few days… perhaps I’ll share some food porn? :trollface: I’m thinking of marinading some pork chops in a Korean marinade tomorrow, maybe with some rice and a cucumber salad on the side. If I get into SFM I may progress enough to share some screenshots. :trollface: I’d also like to gather with some of you guys on the cinema server to see if we can get the video player working again, instead of that soulless HTML5 error that stares into my soul. :zorak: