The Mind Of OverlordTomala

Ruining It For Everyone Else Since 2004
The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Are you fucking serious?

This is why you don’t tell people you’re a girl… or a gamer… or use dating sites… or breathe…

This is from a webseries called “OKCupid is the best!” where the hostess solikebasically shares the strangest things she finds in her OKCupid inbox. In this particular episode some guy discovers that she likes games, the awkwardness is soon followed with morbid disgust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXoTu5fMqM

Was that really necessary? Usually when someone doesn’t respond to you that means you move on, you know… more fish in the sea and all that jazz? Of course, she’s also getting criticized for doing the unthinkable and posting his messages to her in public for all to hear. Just think, this could have been avoided if he just dropped it after the first post.

All in an Overlord's day

More fun in SFM

Valve added some new features to SFM yesterday. The ability to shrink and embiggen (yes, I have decided that will be an actual word) any model. Here is something I came up with while playing around. Tremble in horror at the thought of there being more than one of “me”.

procreate

Of course that scares me too. Thankfully I’m the only one. 😀

Are you fucking serious?

Idiot of the day

Damn, she was soooo close to being a candidate for the Darwin Awards… 🙄

A “female tourist” has been rescued by police in Melbourne, Australia after walking off a pier. It wasn’t a suicide attempt. She was just too busy looking at Facebook on her phone.

Victoria Police say the woman – who couldn’t swim – walked off the famous St. Kilda pier at 11:30pm last night after becoming “engrossed in social media”.

Sigh

Are you fucking serious?

YouTube’s new content ID system SUCKS

Youtube-Sucks

If you haven’t been following YouTube’s rollout of their brand new content ID system and happen to like doing your own lets plays/videos with monetezation enabled you miiiiiight not like what’s been going down.

The new content ID system is so sensitive that it picks up on music from within your game. Once it detects a match you’ll get a copyright flagged, normally automatically done by a youtube bot. This has caused some big YouTubers like AngryJoe and Total Biscuit to stand up and say something.

The whole thing is ridiculous. Even to the point of small companies getting flagged over music in their OWN game trailers.

twitter

If YouTube doesn’t do something soon they might have people march off and vote with their own feet. Remember, MySpace used to be the most popular website out there until Facebook came along. YouTube may be owned by Google, but there are alternatives out there, and if you’re going to alienate some of your users then it might be time to set sail to a different location. Even I’m looking into other options.

All in an Overlord's day / Computing / Rants

I’ve made contact.

Well I received a message (FINALLY) regarding why my payment for my R9 290 hasn’t cleared. Turns out they ran out and I’ve been put on back order status… lovely. They did say though that they would ship it out later this week. Hopefully. It would be my luck to make my purchase RIGHT when they ran out. At least they messaged me back about it… even though it took 3 tries. I was getting a bit rough around the edges since I’m trying to sell my parts off to someone who could put them to great use… ugh.

When they get that to me I’ll put my new CPU and GPU in, then I can rock and roll. I’ll have to see how much it’ll improve under Linux, and under windows I’ll have to see how much I can crank Tomb Raider up, and finally run Shadow Warrior at a framerate above 30. Wouldn’t that be nice!

Rants

Black Friday: The After Math

I’m kinda bummed. I ordered some stuff either on black friday/cyber monday and most of my stuff still hasn’t arrived. Although one thing did arrive today (which I ordered two weeks ago) and it arrived with someone elses order. Yeah, I got their invoice and address. I’ve contacted the company (World Market in this case) and am waiting for a reply back. One hell of a mistake too man, someone ordered three glass pillars and the shipment is worth $119.

Then of course I ordered a R9 290 a few days ago via TigerDirect (selling my 6950 and decided to upgrade) and my payment STILL hasn’t been processed. I have lots of stuff I ordered two weeks ago and the only thing I got was that stupid package today, plus my new CPU and two hard drives. What the hell? Did NewEgg, WorldMarket, TigerDirect etc etc pull a Wal-Mart and deliberately under staff themselves? This is bullshit! This is grade A 100% bullshit. Of course I’ve received emails from places like NewEgg saying “Your order may be slightly late due to the volume of Black Friday”. No, I think companies are deliberately under staffing their employees and it’s causing trouble for the few people who are scrambling to get anything done, and the customer waiting on the other end. I didn’t have problems like this at any other time of the year, so why now? I’m not the only one complaining about slow mail. There are lots of people out there who have ordered new parts and presents and the services have been slow as hell.

I regret waiting to buy that card. I didn’t expect the latest coin craze to cause such a drought on the GPU marketplace. I never could have predicted litecoin.

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