The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

Arkham Knight is back! Sadly not for the better.

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I heard that Arkham Knight made a triumphant return on Steam, and I figured by a couple of the reviews I saw on my friends status list things may have improved… apparently not. Negative reviews are still popping up like unwanted hemorrhoids, some out of spite and some with good reasoning.

For example if you’re running SLi or Crossfire there is a good chance that you won’t be too fond of the performance. However, some are saying that if you have Windows 10 with 12 GB of RAM the game will play butter smooth. Meanwhile on Windows 7 if you run into any stuttering the best solution is to restart the game every time it happens. >:(

I also had a good laugh when I read this:

Batman™: Arkham Knight coming to Mac and Linux in Spring 2016

If the optimization is as awesome as it is under windows then maybe they’ll market the game as an OpenGL slideshow… No, that would be too honest.

All in an Overlord's day / Work3

Promotion is in motion.

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.

Technology

Microsoft’s attempt to make PC Gamers happy

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

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

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

From SeaMonkey to Firefox to Waterfox with a side of Thunderbird

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After reading some of the usual tech sites I decided to give Waterfox a try. It’s like Firefox, but it’s 64 bit and has telemetry disabled (unlike Firefox which has been turned back on, sneaky bastards). If you already have Firefox installed it will automatically have all your settings and addons in place. So if you feel like giving it a looking over I highly recommend it. I haven’t had any problems with it so far.

I also decided to look into using Thunderbird for my email, which is really familiar to SeaMonkey’s in browser email client. In fact it imported my emails from SeaMonkey which I thought was awesome. It also comes with a calendar addon which I might be able to make use of. Now I just need to move my old emails over to my new email address since my old one was taken down by Charter Residential, because they’re a bunch of fucking morons…