Open Thread!
Project Status: Code Purple
Today was definitely a “Drink chai and work under a blanket” kind of day. Fortunately, my kind of animation warms both my heart and the entire house. I’m currently 8 seconds in to the current scene, and taking it all one day at a time until the end of the year.
But now… I’ve arrived at the end of my weekend of chill and solitary. It was nice to get a good couple days of happy time, the bare minimum I need to keep half sane.
All In A Day’s Rest
After a long week I made today an official self care day. Complete with a self spa day, premium teas, a good breakfast sandvich, and some holiday shopping! I even renovated some old jeans of mine, well, turned them into shorts. Also played a bit of Yakuza 0! It helps keep my hands warm. 😛 Speaking of keeping warm – I’ve got a little more SFM rendering done! I still don’t know if I’ll finish it before the new year, but I’m trying my best!
It was nice to take a bit of a break today, but I’ll probably tear back into it tomorrow… after more holiday shopping. :v
I Got The Biggest Snowball Of em’ All
This game… One moment I’m fighting demons, and the next moment a kid convinces me to make a humungo snowball.
I played a bit of Okami on my SteamDeck during lunch today, and I accidentally progressed enough to continue the adventure when I got home!
Spanksgiving Open Thread
Too tired to post. Long work day with Turkey at the end of it. Then it’s coma for awhile to go back to work to prepare things for the people that want to set camp in front of the store at around midnight just so they can be the first ones in the building to get some AirPods for three bucks off.
Steam Deck Game Of The Day: Okami HD
Did a little treasure hunting in Okami today on Steam Deck! Always one of my favorites to play during lunch breaks.
Meanwhile… In SFM
Slowly getting through animating my current project. I’m approaching that time of year where I’m uncertain if I’ll finish it before my personal deadline. I have til the end of next month, so I stand a chance of finishing on time. But at the same time the holiday season can also be time consuming. Worst case scenario is that I have a mostly finished project for the end of next year. As it is I already have a bunch of videos releasing next month, so if I miss a New Years video it won’t be too big of a deal with all the holiday themed ones I already have rolling out next month. Some of them even include animation! We’re all doomed. 😛
I Have Achieved Blogception
I’ve added an RSS feed from my Mastodon to my WordPress! If you look to your left on desktop, or scroll to the bottom on mobile – you’ll find my Mastodon feed! I’m starting to get a modest follower base on there! Lots of fellow users of the Deck of Steam, and Linux nerds. So far my overall experience with it has been good, even boosted a celebrity or two. 😉
Dreaming of Dreamfall
It’s been quite awhile since I picked back up on Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. I actually got pretty far tonight! Even got into my first anticlimactic battle!
The story is really starting to get interesting! A friend of mine has mysteriously vanished after sending me on a delivery errand for him. I had to rescue the person I was making the delivery to, and after returning to my friend’s apartment I find it has been left unlocked and included a dead girl absolutely free, followed by getting arrested by the local authorities AKA “The EYE”. My only complaint so far is the inability to do cloud saves in between my desktop and Steam Deck, but the save files are located in the root game folder for easy copying. Small wonders.
This was another one of those games that I would start over and over again after leaving it for long periods of time… maybe installing it on my Steam Deck will help me plink away at this adventure. It doesn’t have official controller support, but it has no problems with a community imported config.
I know this game would be considered a relic in this day and age, but I have to admit that I’m impressed that it can do full 4K at 144 plus. So many older games are limited to 30 and 60 (usually due to engine restraints) and it isn’t everyday that you see something so future-proofed.