The Mind Of OverlordTomala
All in an Overlord's day2

It’s nice to feel appreciated

The dentist’s office saw my medical history template and loved every bit of it, said it was professional looking. 😛 They also really love the site. I added the testimonials for it today, there’s also a form so that people can submit their own (with moderation of course). I’d love to find more work like this, it’s right up my alley and a nice way to make some coin on one of many hobbies.

Working on it has given me some ideas for this website, and the main Guild Of Slackers one. I’ve thought about making forums again but no one seems to really use those, or shows a desire to use them since we have an IRC channel and a mumble server. As far as the WordPress side I’m not sure what to do with that other than give it a fresh new look. :

Gaming

I’m the ruler of smurf goblins

I’ve solved almost all of Solstheim, even some quests I didn’t get to on my last play through. But my biggest WTF quest had to be helping the reiklings murder the lazy nords, thus causing me to become their ruler.

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Then I wandered behind their throne (which is too tiny for my ass) and was accompanied by what one of my friends calls “twerking smurf”. You can’t tell from the pic, but that’s totally what he did. I stared in amazement.

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Yeah, that was a weird quest. The last time I did it I helped the lazy nords take back the castle, then embarrass the hell out of their leader. 😛 Nope, this time I’m the blukake goblin king queen… Would have been funnier if this took place in Labyrinthian.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

Skyrim Open Thread

After a hard day of work I decided to kill some time in Skyrim by wandering the island of Solstheim. I’ve defeated Miraak, and protected Nirnroot from the horkers.

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I love Solstheim. I’ve never played Morrowind, but I love the scenery. Tel Mithryn actually reminds me of Teledahn from Uru, those shrooms…

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I even had a small audience on Steam by having a friends only broadcast. 😀 I have witnesses for the crimes I may or may not have committed. :v Actually, my character is a goodie two heels. A murderous goodie two heels but still, not as evil as one would expect me to have it when left to my devices…

All in an Overlord's day / Hobbies

Open Thread

Almost done with the doctor’s website. I just have to take care of the testimonials and a couple other details and that will just about cover it. I’ve also taken on work creating a new medical history form from scratch, spent most of the morning/afternoon on that in MSPub. Then I’ll turn it into a PDF and put it up on their site so people can download/print it out. It’s a good thing I have all these tools on hand, haven’t touched them in years (or ever before) and now they’re being put to good use. Pays to install all of the things. 😛

Gaming

If you have Wyrmstooth you’d better hold on to it

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In case no one has heard, the creator of Wyrmstooth has taken their mod off of the Skyrim Nexus, Steam, everywhere. They also took down every website and account at other websites that they could. It’s sad, I really liked that mod. I still have copies of it though. I was actually wanting to review that mod at some point when I find time to do that sort of thing again. But it was a beautiful mod with great scenery, adventure, and brilliant humor and voice acting for something fan created. It’s a total shame this DLC sized mod was pulled. 🙁

Are you fucking serious? / Rants / Technology2

I’m not sure this is how Microsoft wanted to advertise their latest OS

One of the many reasons I’ve held off from upgrading to Windows 10 is the fact that I don’t have control over when updates occur. Some say that it isn’t so bad, but clearly they haven’t been in the middle of something when it decides that it wants to restart. Some strange occurrences have been taking place recently, from upgrade prompts showing up on local weather reports to PC Gaming streamers getting hit with updates, Microsoft is getting more of the wrong publicity.

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This guy (who already runs Windows 10) had his game session interrupted by an update even after changing the settings. I would be seriously pissed if that happened to me, especially if I was working on a project or Streaming for my friends. Of course, we all know Microsoft’s love for PC at this point, otherwise this would have been fixed before or not long after release.

Today’s weather forecast: UPGRADE BITCH!!!!

As I’ve said before, I’m not upgrading until they get rid of that problem, and a bunch of other problems… Until then Windows 7 and CentOS work swimmingly.

Work

I thought the older were wiser

I’m not sure what it is, but my last couple of work days have been a bit more interesting than usual. On Sunday I had a lady that didn’t know what the word “simplistic” meant, and yesterday I had another lady that didn’t know what a “commercial” was. Both ladies were at least in their mid to late 50’s, and native English speakers.

Here’s what happened on Sunday: I helped a lady who wanted to find a Windows 10 compatible mouse, and I told her that all the mice we sold were simplistic to install, she interrupts me and asks me “What does simplistic mean? Does it mean it’s simple?” I wanted to pull a mirror out of my pocket, have her look into it and tell her “No, I’m talking about you…” But other than that she was a nice person, but strange… She wanted to know if I knew the tax rates of all other 49 states because, you know, that’s something that I should know right? Turns out she lived in California and wanted to buy a steam gift card to get Stardew Valley for herself. More power to her, but she kept asking me math questions to try and get me to confirm answers for her…

Of course that was much more pleasant than the other lady. She was an all out total bitchface. She wanted to buy a TV, and she was looking at the commercials playing on all the TV’s assuming that what was on the TV had something to do with it… it was a commercial for Uncharted 4. I explained that to her and then she said “WHAT IS A COMMERCIAL?” Which threw me the fuck off because how can you not know? Especially since I’m pretty sure she was around when the first commercial was invented… So I explained it to her, telling her that it’s an advertisement for a Playstation 4 game “Oh, well I don’t want that.”. Already I was missing the Stardew lady… When did words like “Simplistic” and “Commercial” become too scary and confusing for people? Son of a bitch… No wonder Donald Trump won the GOP. I’m a fucking thesaurus compared to Mr “I’m good at words”.

Oh well, on the same day Stardew lady needed help I did help a friendly gay couple choose between Star Wars Battlefront and Fallout 4 by telling them that it was “Skyrim With Guns”, and we all laughed. So maybe there is still some hope for humanity…

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Tomb Raider: Linux vs Windows

Gaming On Linux did a benchmark comparison between Linux and Windows 10 showing off framerate differences.

It’s kind of depressing. Great that people on Linux have access to these titles, but sad that the OpenGL optimization can be flat out sucky. I have noticed this with most games on Linux. And it’s one of the reasons why I still keep Win 7 on my system, especially since I like to record my gameplays for video projects, and the better the framerate the better the video output… those numbers aren’t good. We need games to move over to Vulkan… badly. We don’t want Microsoft to control our PC gaming realm, and Linux needs to fight the good fight.