The Mind Of OverlordTomala
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Sunday Evening Open Thread

On October 26th a mod that I wrote about “Half Life: Year Of The Dragon” was released, and I only remembered that today. I downloaded the game and was bummed to see that it was Windows only. For the hell of it I tried launching it as I already have Wine installed, and aside from there being no in game audio and there being some missing pieces on the HUD it was near flawless. I’ll be sure to play it under Windows at a later date for the full experience. :v:

I also fiddled with epsxe under Linux, as well as another emulator… and I’m kinda bummed by the lack of controller plugins to get my Steam Controller working with it. Granted I have a Dualshock 3 that I could setup but I like the additional buttons I get with the Steam Controller. I haven’t tried it yet, but I heard that there is a PS2 emulator that lets you use both PS1 and PS2 roms, so perhaps some of my old discs and ROMS can be put to the test. I’ll save that for another time… I can only nerd so much in one day.

 

Animation

More content in the pipeline

Surprisingly we had another nice sunny day today, though still a bit balmy… I finished video project #3, animation and everything. I can’t wait to release this one, probably one of my favorites so far due to some particular scenes.

I experimented with Source Filmmaker under Linux via Proton, and I’m both amazed and disappointed. For the most part it works! But you can only export in AVI and much like under Windows it’s just as broken and requires Quicktime (or Quicktime Alternative) in order for it to export as an mp4. I couldn’t seem to figure out how to get around it, or even any information on the subject, which is a shame because as far as running the application things went smoothly.

I guess that means I’m caught up on editing video footage for now… I’ll probably record more tomorrow. 😛

 

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming / Hobbies

Productive day is productive

Got quite a bit accomplished today. Birthday packages have been mailed, my share of the rent has been paid, and I even managed to progress in Shadow Of The Tomb Raider AND get some animating done in SFM. I don’t want to go into details on what it was but I was laughing my ass off at the animation… I don’t know if its because of how stupid it looks, but I like it enough that I’ll be keeping the style in the final product. If I start up again tomorrow I should have all the animation portions sorted tomorrow.

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My week of me time begins

I’m officially on vacation now. The weather was nice, and for my first day of vacation I decided to clean the bedding and take it easy. I even played a bit on the couch today, and even got back to my old roots in TF2. I even got enough junk to craft this butt pirate hat!

I have to say that TF2 has aged considerably well over the years. Hard to believe that it’s over a decade old, though the deliberately cartoony graphics make it timeless.

I also had a nice quiet Halloween. People at work liked my costume, quite a few were baffled by it at the same time. What baffled me though were people telling me my costume was “cute”. I fail to see what is cute about me wearing a metal jaw with a sombrero and poncho. :rick:

As for the rest of the week I haven’t really planned anything special. I just wanted to get away into my own world for awhile. Probably tackle some errands tomorrow, then do something evil. :zorak:

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There isn’t enough time in a day

I had plans to head to the post office today, but the weather had other plans. I only had time to take a stroll down to the bank to make deposits, I’ll probably try tomorrow… and if I don’t get them mailed out then I’ll definitely do it during vacation when I have a large amount of time. :happy:

I did spend some time in SFM this evening, readying myself for some additional animated segments for another upcoming video, I have a lot of ideas for how I want to go about it… but I think this particular project will involve at least talking it over with another person…

I know I’ve said quite a bit that I’m working on videos and haven’t really published anything yet, but that’ll change next week for sure. I already have a video set aside to release on Sunday or Monday, and some others to follow… hopefully. :trollface:

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Amazing what a little sleep will do

I rested so well that I ended up popping out of bed, finally finishing up packages that I need to mail of the birthday variety, did some tidying, took a shower, had a nice brunch, worked on a video and rewarded myself with some more Shadow Of The Tomb Raider. I haven’t had a chance to really play much apart from lunch breaks lately, can’t be all work and no play… It would make me duller than I already am, and we don’t need that. :morty:

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I’ve been busy

The last few days have been particularly soul draining. Work has been wearing me out more mentally than physically lately, and I had to finish up after getting confirmation to pick up an SSD to replace a damaged 5400RPM drive. I have a feeling they’ll be really happy with it,

I had quite a bit that I had planned to do today, but do you ever decide to take a nap to prepare for it, only to find you pretty much into the early evening? Yeah, that happened… and on accident. I came home, made up my bed, had breakfast then went from watching a youtube video to waking up in a cocoon of covers. Of course it did rain today, and something about that particular form of weather places me at a sense of calm.

Of course, now it’s the weekend. Next week I only work two days, then I’ll have vacation to look forward to. I’m not really planning to go anywhere, just need to detox a bit from work is all. Will probably marathon blog all of the stupid shit I plan to do. :rick:

Gaming

A Series Of Tombs

With the weather being cold today it felt nice sitting indoors, drinking a hot beverage, and playing games to keep warm. Shadow Of The Tomb Raider does a good job of making my fans spin much like the other two games in the trilogy.

I’ve also been wanting to play Tomb Raider 3 again, but every time I try to play it I run into one problem or another. During my last attempt I could only look left to right, and the forward button was the number two for some reason with there being no button to go backwards… and when I try to change the key bindings the game just crashes despite trying out different compatibility modes. For the hell of it I tried to run the game under Linux via Proton and surprisingly had better results (though the cutscenes never play properly). I was even able to run it with the proper widescreen patch at 1440p, making old Lara look less stretched out on the screen. Speaking of old Lara I didn’t know it was possible to mod the original game:

This person has a bunch of other mods on their YouTube channel that replace the regular Lara with other versions of her, as well as some other abominations. Definitely worth a look, I might even have to install some of them for my own personal enjoyment. 😛 Would probably be fun to stream/record too.