The Mind Of OverlordTomala

Promotion is in motion.

OverlordTomala October 27, 2015 October 27, 2015

I found out today that our freight person got demoted, which I’m surprised actually happened. I figured it would be happening at some point but this was pretty soon. He wasn’t a bad person, but he couldn’t keep self motivated. In fact he slept a lot when left alone, or he would do something stupid like take some adhesive tags and fashion them into armor… Since I’ve worked freight before and covered for this guy while he was on vacation they have found that I do a real bang up job, self motivated and efficient. I’ll be completely taking that position in a week or so. It’ll take some adjusting but I’ll find some way to manage. I’m usually up at those hours anyway, except I’m goofing off instead. 😛

Looks like I’ll be needing a weekly supply of gatorade for the road ahead. It’s a thirsty job and I needz my electrolytes.

Gaming

OverlordTomala and Yutram’s Bromantic Getaway: Part 2

OverlordTomala October 26, 2015 October 26, 2015

Technology

Microsoft’s attempt to make PC Gamers happy

OverlordTomala October 25, 2015 October 25, 2015

Microsoft is developing a Surface Notebook for gamers!

This low-end, gamer-friendly Surface Book, which includes 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, costs $1,699 (£1,100 or AU$2,350). That’s $200 more than the same model without the GeForce chip. This new version is set for release Monday, the official launch date for all Surface Book models, but is not available for preorder. All other models are showing at least four-week to seven-week waits before shipping, according to Microsoft’s site.

$1,699 for a laptop with an i5 processor? That’s a lot of money for a game of solitaire. Jeez, my laptop didn’t even cost that much and it has an overclockable i7 Haswell in it with a GTX 870m, 16 GB of RAM and 1TB + 256GB for disk space. Somehow I get the feeling they haven’t looked at Asus, MSI and co’s gaming laptops to see what the competition is like.

Gaming

Descent Underground looks promising

OverlordTomala October 23, 2015 October 23, 2015

I found a new game project to follow. I used to play some Descent back in the day, which is a space game (SPACE!) where you have to kill enemy ships and destroy reactor cores, etc etc. Somehow this slipped passed my not so watchful eye.

Oddly enough it’s being developed by some people who left the Star Citizen project last year, and the person leading this project also worked on Wing Commander 4 among other titles. Apparently they had a successful kickstarter. Already it looks much more promising. They say there will be a Linux release as well. I might have to chip in and check out the Early Access at some point. I really, REALLY needed to see this after watching the drama in certain other Kickstarters and Projects unfold.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

Early Morning Open Thread

OverlordTomala October 21, 2015 October 21, 2015

I’ve been pretty out of it the last few days due to having to rise earlier than usual. Fortunately for me I return to my usual swing shift schedule tomorrow which I’m glad about. I’ve literally been coming home and crashing in bed, eating, then crashing again. I basically made a nest in my bed and enjoyed big picture mode for whenever I was awake enough to play something. Because of this I’ve been having fun playing sidescrollers lately, which you might have noticed with BroForce. 😛

By the way, there will be more BroForce videos released every Sunday for the next few weeks. I’ve also started uploading my videos using 60 FPS instead of 30. Took some careful studying but I have a few nice presets for rendering in Premiere.

I don’t have much else to write. There’s a particular project I’ve been following for awhile now. I won’t go into detail about it or how I feel about what’s been taking place since after all I didn’t pay the proper 5 digit amount to really have a say about anything. Besides. I have other games and hobbies to keep myself busy with as per the instructions.

Technology