The Mind Of OverlordTomala
All in an Overlord's day

Misbehaving Desktop

I woke up this morning and decided to do a little bit of video editing, and powered the system down before going off to work. When I got home tonight I turned my computer on and… nothing, it didn’t post. After messing around with it for a couple hours I finally got it back up and running thanks to a BIOS flash. Thankfully my mobo has the option for doing BIOS flashes without even turning the system on.

Here’s hoping it doesn’t happen again. This build is barely a month old and I’d hate to have it break down already…

Gaming

There Is No Closet Big Enough For This Skeleton

On nights that I get home late I’ve mainly been using my desktop for working on AV projects, then during my wind down time I’ve either been reading about Nazi Amerikkka, and playing a random game on my Steam Deck. Last night I conquered the Second Boss in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. Shanoa has a special ability that allows her to utilize magnetic fixtures to fling herself in different directions, which can be handy for getting up into hard reach areas, or in this case evading a large fucking skeleton. Like with many boss battles, this one took a lot of retries. Again, I’m happy that they allow you to save whenever you like. In the original I wouldn’t have had far to walk to get to the boss battle, but it would get irritating after the first 20 deaths.

The design choice for Ecclesia is an interesting one. Most of the Castlevania games have a somewhat anime look to them. Whereas they went with less of an anime look and more of a gothic one, and it works really well. It definitely stands out in the Dominus Collection, which have more of an anime look. Of course, I like all the variations. 🙂

Hobbies

Playing With Vinyl In Audacity

The project of choice this evening was some video work, as per usual. What was not per usual though was that I had to do some special audio work for it. There’s a scene in an upcoming video that takes place in Black and White, and I wanted the audio to match the old look I’m going for – like an old time radio effect. For the most part I used what already came with Audacity, but to make it a little extra I found this free VST plugin by iZotope called “Vinyl” that allows you to add vinyl effects, and has presets for different eras going all the way back to the 1930’s. It’s a pretty cool find! Unfortunately it doesn’t have Linux support, only Mac and Windoze…

I’ll have to see if I can get something to happen using Wine, another time perhaps, when I have time for that kind of science. 😀

Gaming

Reaching The End Of Quake II

Another game I can check off of my To Finish List, at least in Multiplayer. We finished Quake II tonight! Next time we play it’ll be the additional expansion packs, and then beyond that we’ll start playing with mods.

I like finding secrets like these in older games. They are literally time capsules that tell a story in their own way. Seeing developers from a whole other era, frozen in this point in time all its own. There’s just something magical about it. 🙂

All in an Overlord's day / Blogospheric Naval Gazing

The Struggle Is Real

The good news is that our new TV arrived today! The bad news is that it arrived with a cracked screen… I’m already having fun trying to get a prepaid shipping label for it. They claimed to have sent one, but the label they provided says I need to use my own postage. What’s even stranger was that I thought I bought it through Amazon, it even says Amazon ships it right on the store page, but when I go through my purchase history it was sent by a third party that I have to resolve my return through.

I already sent them an email requesting another shipping label. Hopefully things go smoothly. For some reason I have this feeling that things are going to get annoying.

Gaming

You Can Do This, Madeline

Made it to Chapter 2 in Celeste tonight! I put the game down quite awhile ago after struggling with the climb.

Celeste is about a girl named Madeline (or whatever you want to name her in the beginning) who has big ambitions to climb Mt. Celeste. There isn’t much to the controls, but the climb itself takes many deaths and skill to overcome if you’re a n00b like me.

Along your journey you bump into, yourself? You have an inner demon that doesn’t think you have what it takes to climb this mountain, and I left off trying to literally run away from myself. At this point it felt right to take a break. While the controls themselves are simple, you have to use impeccable timing in order to get to your target to not die. I might try again later on my Steam Deck, right now I need to give my fingers a break.