The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Computing

My Linux Adventures Continue

I haven’t really been in Windows much lately other than to do some animating, video editing, rendering and uploading footage with a little bit of the new Shadow Warrior on the side. Otherwise I’ve been staying in Fedora mostly for irc chats, voice chats, web surfing and gaming. Team Fortress 2 plays perfectly with OpenGL. I’m able to crank the eyecandy all the way up in the game and get no latency.

My recent adventure was getting Quake 3 Arena working under Linux. I just wasn’t figuring out why it kept installing as a demo. Then I figured out I was putting the files in the wrong folder… DUH! All of a sudden my demo install of Quake 3 was no more. I joined an interesting server too! It had permanent regeneration of health and ammo, and permanent haste (speed). It was like a bunch of Speedy Gonzaleses running around fragging each other it was so awesome.

I’ve also reinstalled Open Arena because that seems interesting. I like that it supports my native resolution without me having to edit a config. I’ll have to figure out how to do that on the Linux version of Quake 3. I’m sure I’ll figure it out if I’ve been thus far.

One complaint that I do have is the audio under Linux. I don’t like how I have to install GNOME desktop just to set a primary audio device for my programs. Under most programs in Linux it’s easy. All you do is tell the audio mixer what program gets what audio device. But if you want to get audio in Quake 3, TF2 or anything like that I have to install GNOME, go into that, and select the audio device through GNOME’S audio options. I hope Valve and other game companies focuse on getting their other game audio to run properly under other desktop environments in the future instead of just Ubuntu/Gnome style desktops.

I think later today I’ll take a break from Linux and do some Windows stuff. My voice sounds better under there anyway. 😛

All in an Overlord's day

I’m Back! Even though I never left.

As soon as my vacation started I immediately passed out then tore into my main desktop (not at the same time). I’m finally up and running on a new motherboard, with clean OS’s and nice organized drives and data. I have Fedora running perfectly, Windows 7 is almost done getting dialed in (mainly program) related, and XP is currently untouched. I’ll get around to that one when needed.

I was going to work on a project, but I think I’ll just kick back and enjoy life a bit.

Are you fucking serious?

Barilla only likes straight noodles.

There’s a boycott of Barilla noodles going on right now because the CEO of Barilla has declared they would not have a gay family in any of their ads for the following reasons:

“I would never do (a commercial) with a homosexual family, not for lack of respect but because we don’t agree with them. Ours is a classic family where the woman plays a fundamental role,” Barilla, 55, said in an interview with Radio 24 on Wednesday.

That’s right dudes. Your noodles are not worthy of touching the epicness that is a Barilla product. I’ve purchased their pasta shells and spaghetti noodles for a good number of years now. I’m not gay or transgender or anything, but that doesn’t mean that I will be the average mindless consumer and purchase something that supports this lame fuckass.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

Early Morning Open Thread

Got my extra RnR in for the last couple days. I even got some tidying up done during Monday’s rain storm. Yesterday I just kicked back, enjoyed some tea, went for a walk. enjoyed some Portal 2 with friends, trolled multiple chats, and did some voice recording for some new reviews. Yep, I have all the irons in the fire.

Epicness / Gaming

This looks like it’ll be fun.

I’m sure quite a few of you heard about the second steam announcement today.

In case you missed it here’s how you can (hopefully) participate in the beta.

THE HARDWARE BETA ELIGIBILITY QUEST:
Before October 25, log in to Steam and then visit your quest page to track your current status towards beta test eligibility
3. Make 10 Steam friends (if you haven’t already)
4. Create a public Steam Community profile (if you haven’t already)
5. Play a game using a gamepad in Big Picture mode

I’d say this is definitely worth signing up for. Especially for people interested in the hardware aspect or people who would like a more current gen gaming system. SIGN UP NAO DAMMIT!

Gaming

Steam gets their own OS. Cool!

All the fun stuff always happens when I’m at work. 😛 Apparently Steam announced today “SteamOS” their own Linux Operating System. Making it easier for people to create their own Steam based entertainment systems if they so choose to.

This is an excellent idea and Valve doesn’t really have anything to lose since this is a free Open Source platform that anyone could jump into. Unfortunately I don’t have any TV in the house to run Big Picture Mode, but that might change this winter. And when it does I’ll have to install it on my laptop along side my Win 7 install to test. 😛

All in an Overlord's day

Sunday Morning Open Thread

I said I would do nothing and that’s exactly what I did. Nothing with a capital N other than sit back, snack, drink whiskey and enjoy my own company. After 9 days that felt pretty fucking good. Wish I had one more day to myself but meh, I work two days then get another two days off. I might actually do something useful then too like work on a project or tidy up a bit. I’ve let the place go during my 9 days of insanity. Weird how that goes.

Asshat Hunting

Better watch what you say. Sony sure is.

If you play any Sony online games then you might want to stop being an asshole on your twitter, because it could come back to haunt you.

“Not only will we ban your forum account, but if it’s serious enough we’ll call up customer service and have you banned from all of our games. We do not need those individuals as customers,” Carlson says of the most offensive and anti-social players. “A very influential player, high up in a huge guild – we’ll still ban them… In our games, if you are an exploiter we don’t care who you are, how big your guild is, how many people you threaten to take with you when you go.

“We can control anybody who’s playing our games…[but] if we know who you are and you’re abusing somebody on Twitter, we will ban your game account and we will not accept you as a customer ever again. It’s not always possible to identify people [in that way], but we take that seriously.”

I say this is a good idea. There are a lot of people out there online that think they can spew any bile they want about someone or certain groups of people (racism, sexism, whatever) and think they can get away with it. You can’t do this in real life, so why should you be able to do this online? I mean for example, if you go into a grocery store and start harassing customers or employees guess what? You’re going to get thrown out no questions asked. If you start talking smack about a certain company and someone from that company happens to hear you guess what? He/She has the right to refuse service! Welcome to the world of business.

As it is businesses keep tabs (if they can find you) on your facebook/twitter feeds anyway. Do one wrong thing on them and you’ll be out of a job (or if you’re stupid enough end up in jail). This really is no different at all.

Don’t go around saying that they’re stomping on your freedom of speech. You have every right to say whatever you want no matter how ridiculously stupid it is, just like companies (like Sony in this case) have every right to kick you out for being a douchecanoe.