The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Work

Back to my irregularly scheduled blogging

Well, I’ve done my parts both at work and designing the website. Looks like I might be doing an overhaul already, on Thursday I’ll know for sure. The Doc wants lots and lots of buttons and beach scenery, one way or another he’ll be getting those. 😀

Freight was extremely small even for a Tuesday. It was all in an extremely small shopping cart, and half of it was stuff we can’t release until next month (movies) and the other half was power cables that we already have plenty of, so I mostly worked the backstock. Which worked out nicely since it appears no one else is really working anything to the shelf it seems. I don’t want to go into detail, but we have ten employees. Three of them are guys who don’t know when to stop screwing off, one that is extremely unaware of her surroundings (and she’s kinda pervy towards one of the managers), one that doesn’t know when to stop talking and get the job done, and a manager that is too busy with his head between a couple of Russian funbags to communicate things properly with the rest of the staff. So it’s no wonder things look like shite when I arrive in the morning lately. Ugh…

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Another Open Thread

Spent most of the day in the Gmod Cinema with friends. I don’t really have much else to write about. I’ll probably focus on website stuff tomorrow, I have it all planned out. They want me to work on pictures and buttons. I updated pictures on the site yesterday, so there was some work involved. 😛 I’m not in too big of a hurry… I have until Thursday to get it all done.

This week is actually going to be a pretty busy one. Between normal work, website work, some errands and a doctors appointment I’ll be jumpin’. I’m hoping it all goes well.

All in an Overlord's day

Open Thread

Too much has been going on. Yesterday it was a busy work day at both my primary job and at the dentists office. Heck, yesterday my boss wanted to know if I would be on call for today in case one of our flakier employees decided to be a no show, but since I haven’t been feeling well I decided to decline. Good thing too, I woke up feeling pretty sick this morning. But I’m better now, so it isn’t like it’s the worst birthday ever.

Speaking of that, I did get some gifts in the mail today. 😀 Plus the webcam I ordered arrived! I played with that a bit using facerig. Now I really am ready to do some livestreaming. Which of course I did with a bit of Serious Sam.

I’ll try to remain active, but I have some serious web related work lining up for me this weekend. So if I don’t write anything it probably means I’m busy… or just playing Skyrim.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming / Streams

Ready to stream!

After numerous experiments I think I’m finally ready to do some serious-ish streaming. Did some final experiments earlier with some friends watching once again. Even got FaceRig setup so people could see my… face? 😛 I will need a better camera for it though, the one I currently use is an old Sony Handycam that takes old digital tapes. You can tell it’s old because it still uses FireWire. 😛 Still a good camera though! But unfortunately I don’t use it anymore since it’s low res. I’ll probably get a 1080p Logitech of some kind so that I’ll have better face tracking and overall better clarity.

Gaming

What you’ll need to run Tomb Raider on Linux

Minimum and Recommended specs were released for the Linux port of Tomb Raider, they are as follows:

Minimum
OS Ubuntu 14.04 or SteamOS 2.0 (64-bit)
Processor Intel i3 or AMD FX-6300
RAM 4GB
Graphics card 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce 640 (driver version 364.12) or 2GB AMD 5770 (driver version MESA 11.2)

Recommended
OS Ubuntu 14.04 or SteamOS 2.0 (64-bit)
Processor Intel i5
RAM 8GB
Graphics card 3GB
NVIDIA GeForce 760 (Driver version 364.12)

Of course just about any flavor of Linux will do, obviously. 😛

Gaming / Streams

Twitchbound

I’ve been experimenting with Twitch streaming over the last couple of days, if you haven’t noticed I’ve even built a Twitch streaming page into my blog. I’m going to experiment a bit more, but overall I think I have it all ready for the most part. I did a long Skyrim stream for a couple friends (I even made a logo!), one of them buffered a bit and the other viewed it ok. I’d like to stream at 60fps if possible. I have the equipment to do so, just need to use one computer to stream and the other to game. Not hard to do. I’ll also try to set my stream to 1080p instead of 720p. I won’t go any lower than 720…

I do wish Twitch used HTML5 instead of Flash for video… : I had to reinstall flash so I could see what I was doing.

All in an Overlord's day / Food/Drink / Gaming / Work

Open Thread

Yesterday I was too busy/tired to write anything. My main job wiped my ass out, and after work I went over to the doc’s office to take care of their SSL certs. I’ll be heading over there again next week to discuss other things involving the site, and also I’ll be doing some photography for them. They wanted to take pics of the offices using a smartphone, I volunteered my camera for the job. It has more megapixels. 😛

Then when I got home I played around a bit in Skyrim and made dinner. We had a nice chicken potato curry, and there’s lots of leftovers which will ensure that I’ll have plenty of food for work. 😛

So today I decided to relax instead with the usual activities. I’ve been following the Path Of The Druid quest and gained the ability to become an ice wolf.

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There are other abilities I can obtain, like fire and earth. Right now I just think it’s funny being able to shapeshift into an ice breathing wolf at will. 😛

Oh, and I had a scary occurrence.

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This guy… He looks like Tommy Wiseau. HOW?!?!?!?!

Gaming

To anyone who has played Skyrim, I have this question.

This is my second time playing through the Queen Potema quest, and the last time I played it I had this weird bug where the Ritual Master wouldn’t leave her summoning animation despite seeing me. Here I am doing it again and nothing has changed:

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Mrs Ritual Master, I think you’re trying to seduce me.

Has this happened to anyone else? 😛

Gaming

This hasn’t been a really exciting year for new PC Game titles.

It’s a good thing I haven’t actively planned on buying any brand new releases so far. Because all the releases so far seem to be extremely poor ports, ESPECIALLY on the UWP platform. The new Tomb Raider (UWP version), Gears Of War and now even Quantum Break have been total flubs. I mean, it’s pretty bad when you release a game for PC and don’t even include an exit button.

One of the most popular complaints – the lack of an option to quit from the main menu – is being added in an upcoming update. Until then, Remedy recommends using alt-F4

Simple question, how do you forget an exit button?!?!?! Did they not do any testing for the PC version? I’ve played Alpha’s that had exit buttons, what’s their fucking excuse? Maybe they never want you to leave their game? I mean Microsoft already kinda does this with Windows 10, and since these developers seem to be heavily in bed with them it wouldn’t be too hard to imagine. 😛 Of course that’s just one of many issues with the PC version. Other issues include not getting a full proper refresh rate among other issues discussed in the article.

It’s pretty bad, we have these consoles that basically run the same architecture as PC. The only thing separating us is their Operating Systems, and yet somehow the PC ends up getting screwed over because developers are going to go where the money is, console. Which Microsoft is trying to turn the PC into… You know, if these titles didn’t release on the Windows Store and people actually had access to the game’s files, they could apply their own tweaks and patches to get it to run more properly… But noooo.