The Mind Of OverlordTomala

This is what happens when you give your blog sentience.

My RSS feed informed me that I made a new video post… Oh well, that’s better than the other day when I had that giant barrage of posts. O_o Again, I apologize for that…

So, to go into full detail I’ve implemented an auto poster that detects whenever I make a youtube upload. It also imports old videos. It’s supposed to only upload the main page of my YouTube channel, but for some reason it decided to randomly post “Big and Tiny Terror”.

Now that I’ve given my blog sentience I’m hoping it doesn’t pull a Drunken Robot Pornography on me and try to destroy the world. Although the explosions would be pretty cool.

It was only a matter of time.

I decided to revamp the WordPress site for my main group. Here is what it looks like now. I made a detailed announcement about it here. Basically I made it into an antisocial network just as an added feature. 😛

I still have to make a few more tweaks, like in the servers area. But other than that it’s pretty much done.

Dude, do you even mail?

I went to the post office yesterday to send off some gifts and I was met with a lady in front of me who seemed rather confused. She had some pajama bottoms crammed into a box that she pulled off one of the shelves. Then she asked me the following: “So I’ve never sent a package before. What do I have to do?”. She seemed to be in her mid to late 20’s which made this a little strange.

I was nice, but straight forward. “You go up to the counter, tell them you want to mail the package and they walk you through the rest”. Then she started asking me about how to get a printing label and how to get it packaged properly. At that point I told her to just talk to them, as I usually prepackage everything beforehand. I guess I’m lucky enough to be blessed with the knowledge of how to handle boxes.

Foxy Boxes

Off for the Holidays

For the first time in never I actually have Christmas eve off! So I’ll be spending time with the people I care about, play games and sip holiday teas and of course maybe do some holiday trolling (depending on how many trolls I encounter obviously).

Already got my TF2 Presents! I got a cool outfit for the spy, a name tag, description tag, gifta-pult etc etc. If you haven’t opened TF2 in awhile and wants some Holiday Swag you might want to go check it out. 😀

Oh, and as an off topic piece I decided to test a 1080p stream with some friends. My choice was Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. We were laughing at the fact that I could knock people out if they were climbing up or down a ladder, just by being on the ladder… The guards don’t even know what hit them! Literally. One guy got back up and was like “what was that?” then he climbed up the ladder again, he hit my butt when he got to the top, then he fell down again and knocked himself out from the fall. I’m almost tempted to alert all the guards, climb up into one of those little forts, then have them all try to climb up there to get me. Only to be met by Big Boss’ deadly arse.

Slight blog makeover

I’ve been thinking about changing the theme on the blog again since we were entering a new year. However I was unable to find any theme that I could fancy. So I decided to look closer at the options for the current one that I’m using. I’ve made the header image better and changed it to some more current creations (and plan to add more when I can), split the sidebars left and right and rearranged the widgets. I’m liking it a whole lot better!

Steam sale is go!

My first purchase was the new Metal Gear Solid. I played a bit of it. Nice graphics, steathy, sandboxy, and haven’t found any boxes to hide in… yet. The graphics are amazing so far. And for it being one map it looks like there’s a bunch of stuff to do. Definitely worth the $13.39. My only complaint was that it wasn’t $13.37.

Oh well. Let the stockpiling begin!

Wow, an actual murder simulator…

In all the time I’ve been alive I’ve played I don’t know how many games. I’ve played things that I’ve felt are good, bad and the hideous (I’m looking at you Daikatana). I play multiple genres and try to keep an open mind about new possibilities. I used to mainly play platformers and FPS in the 90’s but have also played puzzle solvers. Heck I didn’t even know I liked Hack n Slash until about a year ago.

There are also games that I don’t have any interest in buying, period. Like woodcutter simulator (or most simulators for that matter, seriously why would I want to drive a train forever it sounds friggen boring)… Or games that make me question why they even exist to begin with. Like Hatred. It’s quite the hot controversial potato. So hot that Epic Games wrote the developers of hatred ordering them to remove their logo from the game.

Epic Games isn’t involved in this project. Unreal Engine 4 is available to the general public for use ‘for any lawful purpose,’ and we explicitly don’t exert any sort of creative control or censorship over projects. However, the video is using the trademarked Unreal Engine 4 logo without permission from Epic, and we’ve asked for the removal of our logo from all marketing associated with this product.

It was on Steam Greenlight, then got taken down the other day, then got put back up again with an apology from Gabe Newell.

“Yesterday I heard that we were taking Hatred down from Greenlight. Since I wasn’t up to speed, I asked around internally to find out why we had done that. It turns out that it wasn’t a good decision, and we’ll be putting Hatred back up. My apologies to you and your team. Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers.”

So why the big deal with this game? Here’s the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV3PhvCf_Jg

Basically it’s a game about some guy that’s mad at the world, hates everyone and everything in it, and is intent on killing as many people as he possibly can. That’s the entire goal of the game. I know there have been people who have been comparing this game to games like Postal, GTA, Saints Row and so on because you know, they’re violent? No. I would class Saints Row and Postal under jokes or parody. People die in those games, but it’s so hilariously unrealistic. GTA has it’s bad moments, but the game doesn’t completely center around them like Hatred does. Say what you want about games with violence, but a lot of them have a purpose behind them. DooM has zombies and demons to kill, Carmageadon is cartoonish about killing pedestrians and other cars, in the Tomb Raider series you have to kill people who want to use artifacts for selfish needs, in the FarCry series you’re on an island and need to survive. This just goes on and on… And to compare Hatred to some of those games is just an insult.

For me the issue isn’t so much that it got back onto Greenlight on Steam. If anything this makes me question what can we define as going too far? I mean seriously, what’s next? Child Molester Simulator? Rape Simulator? I can already see people coming forward saying “Well I would never buy this game. But damn it they have every right to sell it!” Seriously if I took a shot of whiskey for every thread I’ve read on every gaming site regarding this game where the gist is basically ‘there’s nothing wrong with a little capitalism’ I’d of keeled over from alcohol on the first link.

It’s going to happen too. (Not the Whiskey part, I ran out awhile ago).