The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming / Hobbies

It’s good to have hobbies

The temperature was much cooler today, resulting me staying in , resulting in me spending several hours editing over three hours of footage into a seven minute clip, took me the whole afternoon but it’s all cut up. All I need to do is refine it and add some finishing touches, then I’ll have another one in the can. I’m starting to get low on video footage again, gonna have to fix that. I already have another video lined up for tomorrow; I’m sure some of you can guess what it’ll be. :melon:

Of course it wasn’t all work on my day off! I played a bit of Okami HD. I’m not sure if it’s the art style, music, or the whole environment in general but playing it is very relaxing. It felt good to play while listening to the wind flow through the tree outside my window. The only thing that might complete my immersion would be putting it on my laptop and playing it in the middle of a forest… though that would just make me look like an ass. :assy: Although other people enjoy their smart phones and other handhelds; why deny me some balanced time with nature and technology? If it were warmer today I probably would have done something of that caliber.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

First Open Thread Of Summer

Today’s 30C weather didn’t put me in much of a mood for gaming today, that and I was worn out by the time I got home today. I took one of those accidental naps that seem to happen from time to time. I’m not sure what I’ll do tomorrow, the weather is supposed to be about the same. I may take my gaming laptop outside and play in the front lawn. :trollface: At work today I played some classic Tomb Raider (because that’s what you do when you buy a gaming laptop with an i7 6700-HQ and a GTX 970m, you kick it old school obviously), actually had someone ask me if I used Steam… which was funny because I was playing using the Steam Controller. Kind of got into an argument with them over Ark Survival, they seem to think that it’s $100 when off sale? Maybe in another country, but not here… yet.

I did play a bit of Alpha Protocol tonight. Controls seem to take a little getting used to, may even remap them or make an attempt playing with the Steam Controller instead. Seems similar to Deus Ex in some cases, especially when hacking alarm systems… and the computer hacking? That’s going to take some getting used to. It also has dialogue options similar to Deus Ex but on a faaaaaar more simplistic scale. Seems to have the basics for your typical espionage game, it’s a bit early in the game for me to offer much of an opinion on it though. Good or not it was a freebie though, so I can’t complain too much. :v:

All in an Overlord's day / Technology

My brain continues to somehow make me money

I took the liberty of doing a factory reset of a Samsung Galaxy tablet this afternoon for one of my Dad’s computer customers, my Dad doesn’t play with Android and with my $1 experience with an Amazon Fire 7 I figured I could use some extra pocket change. The hardest part was gaining access to the interface after doing a factory reset as per his request, though in about an hour I had it up and running again with him and his daughter’s help (thankfully she remembered the password for her Samsung account). Reconfigured and installed some apps for him, now it just needs a good polish to get the finger prints off and he’ll be ready for his business trip come Monday. This could be the start of another type of service I could offer, website building, computers and now Android service. :v: The funny thing is this will actually cover a good chunk of what I bought during the Steam Sale. :trollface:

All in an Overlord's day

Mission Accomplished

A Fantasy my co-worker bud had…

It has been decided that if my fellow co-worker still lives in the area by October that I will have full permission to do his makeup for a Bayonetta costume. He’s been fighting it ever since everyone at work decided he was Bayonetta, and now we have reached an agreement. It may not happen due to other reasons now but hey, it is something. :v:

All in an Overlord's day / Open Threads

Sunday Evening Open Thread

I hope everyone is having a good weekend. I woke up to the sound of a random rooster, had a good brunch type sandwich, trimmed the claws, updated dedicated servers then fixed them afterwards, edited some video footage and played a couple games. I don’t have anything slated to release this week. I have some projects in the pipeline, and depending on how things are scheduled I’m not sure when I’ll be able to roll the next one out. I have more Revengeance, Phantom Pain, Quake Champions and more that either need to be edited, require more video or require final polishing.

I’m looking forward to experimenting with some newer codec options they added to Shotcut recently, apparently you can now use your GPU encoder (assuming you have a newer graphics card with the latest drivers) for both AMD and NVidia GPU’s. When I get to a certain point I’ll have to see how well these stack up to libx264 and libx265. I originally planned to start encoding in H.265 for the additional compression, but I need to know how all of these codecs stack up against each other for my own education and amusement. :v:

Gaming

We are the Quake Champions, my friends.

I haven’t played Quake Champions in quite some time, they’ve made great improvements since the early beta stages. I can tell they’ve optimized it quite a bit, no random lag spikes. No freezes while opening my ungodly collection of free loot boxes. I had a good time, even though I was stuck in third place at the end of each round I played. I was soooo close to staying at the top too. I blame fatigue and lack of multiplayer FPS’s outside of Gmod… My schedule has made me quite the introverted gamer.

Remember that you can still pick this up for free until the 19th, you just have to play one round. :zorak: