The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Gaming

Welcome To The Machine

We played one of the newer Quake campaigns tonight, and I have to admit that despite the bugs there is a certain beauty within Quake’s official and final campaign; Dimension of the Machine. We’re back on the hunt for runes, but at least one of the portals we took lead us to a place that isn’t totally boxed in and dark. It’s rare to find a level that looks like a nice sunny day, or as close to a nice sunny day as the game will allow. I kinda want to play this in the older versions of Quake to see how it compares. It feels out of place and yet at home at the same time. They also cram a bunch of enemies into each level, there were many deaths, both us and them.

There were only two realms remaining for us to traverse before opening the gates to the final battle, but it grew too late for us to finish. At least we can look forward to another evening where we are guaranteed to never be bored. 😉

Gaming

Achievement Hunting On The Shores of Hell

Did a small bit of achievement hunting in DOOM tonight. Went on a punching spree, shot a couple hundred bullets with a chain gun, and washed it down by chainsawing a hundred demons. I made it four episodes in before calling it a night. I’m not sure why, but I had a need for badass music and old school demon murderin’. So many other games in my collection, and yet I keep replaying the classics… I blame Bethesda this time. 😛

Gaming

Walking The Sun’s Path To Chaos

Finally got around to unwinding more of the plot for Horizon Zero Dawn. I almost thought I finished the game… but there’s more! Which is good because if it ended here it would still feel too soon, even after the several hours I’ve poured into the game. It has the same effect as Skyrim, once you start playing it’s hard to put back down. I have to keep telling myself there’s a real world to return to that may someday achieve the amount of sheer stupidity that human intelligence can pour into their autonomous creatures.

Hobbies / Open Threads

Evening Open Thread

Waking up is always difficult during the autumn/winter months. The rain and darkness make for a want to hibernate. I had to fight myself to get out of bed to get ready for another day of work. I don’t care much for the later shifts, but at least it does give me some extra time to eat a bit of breakfast. Also been preparing for an upgrade to my desktop build. Gonna swap out the motherboard and processor and RAM. I’ll be upgrading to the Ryzen 9 9900X. The GPU is currently a 6800XT, which I’m still fine with. I do need to replace a few hard drives, some of them are showing signs of wear and tear after several years of film abuse.  The new motherboard will be able to hold 3 NVMe drives – I’m thinking about getting a few 4 TB drives to really ramp up my storage. The more the merrier, especially since I have quite a few games that play nicer on faster drives. Plus SSD drives are great for rendering 4K footage on. My older 2 TB spinners take an eternity and a half to properly export 4K footage. I’ll probably restructure my files and programs once I have everything setup.

Either way I’m looking forward to it! It’ll be one of my winter projects.

Gaming

Tonight’s Brief Escape: Freedom Planet

Prince Dail has seen some shit… like me kicking his ass a second time.

It’s been an eternity and a half since I last touched Freedom Planet, or so it feels like. I remember getting stuck on a boss fight and then just buggering off onto the next thing(s). This time I used a little patience and overcame a couple boss battles. 🙂 Now I’ll have to do it again in Adventure Mode to see the dialogue I missed. It was also nice to listen to the soundtrack again – I almost forgot how much it slaps!

Gaming

From Our Kingdom of Pals

It’s hard to believe that I’ve already captured 30 Pals this evening! Even took down some larger ones, and a boss! We also crafted an incubator, we’ve found quite a few unhatched Pal eggs in our travels and this allows us to hatch them and get new Pals in the process. Our base did get invaded, but we had enough Pals to destroy them! A nice carefree way to end the evening, and my time off.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming / Hobbies

Making a List of Lists

Still feeling a bit under the weather. Don’t have much energy to work on anything, but I’ve been doing some small stuff like making various lists. To Do Lists, Shopping/Christmas Gift Lists, and a less boring end of the year games I’ve finished list! It’s currently sitting at twelve if I count a couple of mods found through Steam, not bad! Maybe I can get another one or two in the bag before the end of the year? I am pretty close to finishing Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, DOOM Eternal and a couple of others… Miiiight still have some time to squeeze a game or two out. We shall see.

Gaming

Feeling Catty

It’s been a catty couple of days. I picked back up on Little Kitty Big City! I haven’t touched it in quite awhile, so decided to wander the city and complete a few quests. I also took the time to check out another cat indie game called Copycat.

These two games are like two different ends of a spectrum. Little Kitty Big City is a lighthearted game about accidentally falling out of your window and into the big city. You meet other animals, hats and other things along the way. Meanwhile Copycat is more of a realistic interactive story about how shitty people can be to cats. After finishing Copycat I had to chase it off with some Little Kitty Big City to raise my mood back up. I’ll cover both of them in more detail when I’m feeling better. Been kind of out of it the last couple days. Nothing a little rest can’t cure.

Gaming

Making Nintendo Cry

We spent part of our vacations on the Palpagos Islands of Palworld tonight. This game is surprisingly good! I went into this thinking this would be a direct troll to Nintendo but actually came to find a proper game instead! I can only go by what my friend Yutram said: That Palworld feels like a cross between Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Pokemon Arceus. You’re stranded on an island where you have to gather materials, kill and/or befriend Pals who are the Pokemon of this universe. We’re still early into the development of our home base, but we made it to Level 10 tonight!

Team Slackers won’t be blasting off anytime soon.

We both explored the land together quite a bit tonight. Though Yutram did most of the base work I did forge clothes and gathered materials we could both use for the base, and for food. I’m surprisingly having even more fun than expected! No wonder Nintendo is suing Pocket Pair.