As the sun set on another lovely lighted day, we ventured into The Underdark and completed a quest as well as a BBQ with a couple of Minotaurs. We’ve since gone topside, did some looting and called it a night. We’re planning to continue the adventure tomorrow, as is the current weekend tradition Yutram and I have decided to take on. It was a wonderful evening of Pizza and Magic that we both shared between two countries. Now it’s only a matter of time before the Watermelon Oolong Tea wears off and allows me to enter sleep mode.
Today Was Alright
Work was alright, and after work was even better when a friend and I went out to the local tea shop to enjoy some boba tea and Japanese food! It was my turn to pay this time, but he managed to surprise me with a Metal Gear shirt! Early Birthday present and all that. Took the evening off from working on any projects and just chilled with more totally normal Tomb Raider. Made it into Egypt before calling it a night. All in all it was a good day! I only wish it was my Friday… but I have that to look forward to tomorrow at least!
SFM Update: We Be Cookin’
I’ve been putting along with my animation, slowly but surely. This probably won’t be finished until April, was hoping to get it out this month but I’m pretty sure it won’t be happening. The beginning sequence has been completed, now I’m about a third of the way through the end sequence. Yesterday I didn’t have time to work on it, but I did manage to export some audio for the next bit of animation in my lineup. That one will also be a lengthy bit of animation, and the ending I have written for it will take even longer than yesterday’s two minutes that I extracted. It’ll be fun once I get to it. 🙂
Head In The Cistern
Gathered a few achievements in Tomb Raider, getting into places the devs made it hard to get into and also doing a little bit of backtracking to get a couple easy achievements. Next time I visit Lara she’ll be awaiting me in the cistern. The last time I was here I had fun shooting at Pierre while was underwater, I flooded the room and he chose that as the opportune time to strike. I wonder if I’ll be lucky enough to recreate that moment in 4K, it was such a glorious moment!
Climbed My First Tallneck!
My entire weekend may have been shrouded in rain, but as usually I made the most of it. It’s been a weekend of breakfast tostadas, PJ’s, some video creativity, and an assortment of entertainment to choose from. I ended the last bit of the evening with some Horizon Zero Dawn, and climbed my first Tallneck! Also killed a couple of Sawtooths and rescued a couple fellow Braves. Glad to see that we’ll be getting the sequel on PC! I’m sure by the time I finally finish HZD it’ll be at a good price! There’s already plenty to do in HZD to keep me tied over, along with the other things in my backlog needing to be completed. That said, I’ll probably play a different game tomorrow… I kinda want to go back to the Tomb Raider Remasters to get an achievement or two, maybe even snap some fun photo mode stuff.
The Cozy Gaming Weekend Continueth
Another rainy day where I play more than one game! I finished another Chapter in Control, and learned more about the projector and Jesse’s backstory. During my travels I found a couple jukebox tokens. Next tine I might try the challenges again, in the meantime the Underdark called me back into its void.
Last night I forged some badass armor, and tonight Yutram found some lightning robes that work well with my character. I gave the mushrooms some head (Nere’s) and collected a few fancy titles that will probably never be used on me again. They even threw me a psychedelic dance party.
It was a fun couple hours of adventure. Between yesterday and tonight I think I’ve had my fix until the next weekend. Today was perfect day to play, mostly because we had electricity. We lost power for a couple hours this morning – fortunately for me I slept through most of it. The wind was bad enough that it did wake me up a few times. Everything was up and running though once I came to life. Even did some video work! More details on that at a later date. Today was more of a chillax kind of day. Might do something a bit more productive tomorrow.
Chill Weekend Open Thread
Kicking the weekend off proper with more BG3. Finally killed the Forge Boss, and officially made a new friend at our camp!
It wasn’t entirely an evening for BG3. I made time for Whisker Squadron Survivor, haven’t checked on it in ages and they’ve made a LOT of changes since my last visit. They added a boss battle in Zone 5 on any map, unavoidable cursed choices and challenges. I’ve already completed all the easy ones, one hard, and I think one medium… Oddly enough the medium challenges are harder than the one hard challenge I unlocked.
Smol = Big Adventures
You know it’s getting serious when I’m looking at mods to make for a better experience! So far I’ve up’d the framerate, installed an HD font pack, and HD texture pack.
I found the recipe to become smol, but it makes the adventure all the bigger. I only wanted to play a little bit tonight, but with the modding and tinkering I ended up getting sucked further into Wonderland than I had originally planned to. I’ll give another lady protagonist some attention tomorrow, though it has been fun going on Alice’s adventures!
Logic and Proportion
Finished animating the intro to a video I’m working on! Celebrated the last bit of the evening by playing some more of American McGee’s Alice. I made it deeper into the Skool and found a recipe for how to become smallville. Also found a croquet mallet along my travels, so far that’s my second favorite weapon next to wield, with the first being the deck of cards.
I’m impressed with what extras they put into this version of the idTech3 engine. Having grown up with Quake III Arena it’s weird seeing characters with facial animation… perhaps John Romero should have ported Daikatana from Quake 2! :v