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Monday Evening Open Thread

Another weekend comes to pass, and I’m refreshed enough to begin taking a week’s worth of listening to verbal abuse… This morning I awoke and thought to myself that I should consider taking some time off soon, perhaps next month. Until then: Cocoa on a cold day is an excellent antidepressant, south of the border omelettes are a great way to spend the weekend, tea is always legal, games are a good stress release, and I can celebrate that one of my renders for my current Skyrim project just completed!

One of the many other smaller transitions to follow. More on that tomorrow!

Gaming

Stray Sunday

My cat adventures are officially over… for now. I beat Stray! I still need to go back and find some missing memories and some other achievements/trophies, but I finished the game AND had fun trying out a couple of mods:

One of the mods you can get from Stray’s Nexus is photo mode! Which is something that should have shipped with the game. It’s a little buggy, and I did crash the game a couple of times, but that only seemed to occur if I Alt-Tabbed one too many times. This mod alone will make my next playthrough of the game all the more worthwhile! Now I can go through the game pretending to be tourist cat. 😛

I also tested the split screen co-op mod. It looks really nice on a big 4K TV! But it’s even buggier than photo mode; If you walk into an area you’re not supposed to the second controller will stop functioning partially, and only Player 1 has the robot and HUD button prompts. It was fun to play with, but this mod still needs some time to mature. It has really been nice seeing all of the different mods popping onto the Nexus for Stray! Now if someone could just add a level editor so people could make their own platforming puzzles that would be purr-fect.

One of these days I’ll play through it again, perhaps when my Steam Deck finally arrives! Until then it’s back to fighting off the rest of my gaming backlog! 😛

Food/Drink

You Got Mint Chocolate On My Chicken

As I was making my way through my RSS feed this morning to make my lunch break slightly entertaining — I happened upon this article about a new sauce at KFC South Korea that can only be obtained if you order it online.

But is it worth it?

The article is an interesting read. If I could afford to travel the world I’d love to try not just what each country had to offer as traditional cuisine, but also experience places like KFC, and even McDonalds JUST to taste their own style of Murican’ cuisine!

Hobbies

Let Me Guess… Someone Stole Your Sweet Roll

I might have an idea of who…

Spent the evening wading through Skyrim footage, and finding possibilities! I have 45 minutes left to cut through; by tomorrow evening I should have a better idea of what will go into the next, next video. Until then I’ll just have to put some of mah sweet rolls up on display, uh-hut!

Gaming / Hobbies

When You’re Hot, You’re Hot

I got through this a lot faster than expected. All trimmed down, one small bit of animation, and just enough editing to make it into something somewhat worth sharing. I should also have enough for a second video, but that one might take a bit longer. 😛 That’ll give me an excuse to release the smaller videos in the meantime! There will at least be some activity planned for a little while. 😀

So, there will be a video release to look forward to this weekend! Y33t!

Gaming

Everybody Wants To Be a Cat

I made some time to play Stray! Or as other people have been calling it: The Cat Game. Since I’m playing on PC I have the abillity to make my own “cat-sona”. The game runs pretty well at 4K on my system, but every once in awhile I experience some stuttering (thanks Unreal Engine). This seems to be happening to everyone on PC, while on Playstation it doesn’t have this issue. Given the choice though I have to have my mods, and like I said prior, it doesn’t happen enough for me to want to rage quit. In fact, I really love how unique this game is.

Quite a few people I know at work have been playing it on Playstation, and a couple friends of mine were telling me about how their cat kept trying to paw at the screen while they were playing. I have the game ready to go on the living room PC! I just need to play it out there on a day when I have a captive kitty audience, they were all doing cat things outside today while I was inside doing cat things. I’ve been having a fun time being catatonic today! 😛