The Mind Of OverlordTomala
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This site just became a bit more random

If you go to the top of the blog you’ll notice a page called “Random Page”. Clicking it will show random pages, kinda like what people do on Wikipedia when they’re bored, high, or bored and high. I’ve been reading old old old posts I did a long time ago. Wow, I’ve changed quite a bit.Sometimes it’s interesting to look on your past and see how you’ve changed, what you’ve become, what you used to be like. I really didn’t know the difference between Categories and Tags back in the early days. I guess at some point I should probably go through random posts and see if I need to properly categorize and tag them.

On another note I’ve been building a new website for my brother. He turned 21 yesterday and as part of a couple things I gave him for his birthday, I agreed to help him setup a website and delve into posting random things and stuff. We took care of most of it, I’m letting him handle the decorating.

Technology

The Malware Museum

This is your computer, this is your computer on drugs.
This is your computer on drugs.

Want to look at some old viruses for nostalgia sake? There is a Malware Museum with neutered old MSDOS viruses that run in DOSBox within your browser, or you can download them as keepsakes if you have DOSBox installed on your system. Some of them are pretty trippy like LSD.COM, or weird like this virus featuring some old guy walking across the DOS screen. There’s even an interactive one that gives you the option to play one armed bandit to save your data, heh.

I remember a few of the ones on that page, but by the time I saw any of them they were gutted and turned into joke viruses. These truly are some fine examples of early trolling in the 80’s and 90’s.

Animation / Gaming

There is a video on the way… eventually.

I decided to be productive-ish and work on a video I’ve been meaning to finish (I also made homemade mac n cheese, it was gooood). I’m still not close to being done, maybe 1/4th of the way if anything. But I want this to be more than just a “lets play”. I said earlier this month that I wanted to add character representations of myself (and others if available) into my future projects instead of just doing straight recordings. To whet some appetites I did take make a couple pics to share.

ProjectOsiris

I have a little more of “myself” to animate, but I have over half of THAT portion done. Then it’s onto Yutram and DG who will be easy in the sense that they have limbs to operate but no face. Which compliments my character who is all eye and no body, but that’ll change for a couple seconds later into the video. I experimented with cloaking and particles to make a magical transformation scene.

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As clearly detailed by that picture, I’m morphing from one ball into two balls. Actually once the video is done you’ll be able to see what model those two balls belong to… Heh, don’t worry. It’s not like that at all. I mean c’mon, this isn’t RedTube.

Gaming

John Romero is at it again.

With my lack of blogging lately I’ve decided to make up for it a bit… kinda.

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John Romero has been back in the news a bit. He released a DooM WAD which I’ve heard excellent things about, and now he’s talking about making a new FPS.

“I’m really excited to start making it because it’s just a great idea. Instead of just pumping out game after game after game, it’s like waiting to come up with something that’s really unique, that no-one’s seen before, and enables you to make something that you hope will be really amazing. So, we’ll see. It’s got a pretty cool fiction around it. It’s got an interesting story.”

I hope he learned from Daikatana 2. Because that was a disaster… I will have to check out his new DooM level though, I’ve been hearing excellent things about it.

Gaming / Technology

Final Conclusion: Steam Controller is all kinds of awesome

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I posted my Steam Controller review the other day via Steam (What a shocker). In case anyone didn’t see it I’ve decided to put a link to it here. Surprisingly I was 99% serious in my review. But considering a broken clock is right twice a day I guess it was bound to happen. Here’s the the review.