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Monday Evening Open Thread

Didn’t complete any videos today, but I did take a trip down memory lane and it lead me to some fun TF2 matches. 🙂 I collected enough footage to take a break from that for now, and shift my focus back to the Skyrim project!

I cut up the audio from our special recording session the other day, and tomorrow I’ll finish it up to export into SFM. Huzzah! I also pieced together the SFM exports I already took care of… we be lookin’ fine.

Opted for some Okami and chill this evening. I made some progress, a couple trophies/achievements worth! Speaking of gaming; I got my special golden email from Lord Gaben himself, my Steam Deck dreams will soon be a reality! Well, sometime between now and October anyway. 😛

Open Thread!

Gaming / Hobbies

Sunday Work & Play

I spent today doing some physical and digital housekeeping. My videos now mostly fit on just two hard drives! I compiled two small Shantae videos for next month! I didn’t mean to — it just sort of happened when going through the footage.

Of course, there was a little time left at the end of the evening to play a little bit of Yakuza 0. I even found a quest that I missed the first time around! It involved protecting Miracle Johnson aka Michael Jackson from “zombies”. Somehow I get the feeling that I’ll be seeing him again sometime in the not too distant future.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming / Hobbies

I Accidentally a Productive

Somehow I’ve managed to compile two GMod videos AND do a recording session for the Skyrim vid! I’m really getting through this footage and making room! The second GMod video will remain in the can for the October lineup of videos, making this one number three so far. I’ll also be releasing another tiny one on Thursday!

The original idea I had was to chill and play a game tonight. Heck, I might even do that in a little while just to relax a bit before bed. I’m thinking of visiting Sotenbori.

Hobbies

What Treasures Await Us?

BEHOLD!!! THE CHEST OF WONDERS!!!

The scene is as posed as posed gets. I worked on the script tonight, and submitted it to my partner in crime for further analysis. In the meantime I’ll piece the SFM clips I’ve already rendered into the video project, probably tomorrow. Then, once the script is done we can do a small recording session! w00t!

Now the only question remaining is: What’s in the chest?

Hobbies

Right on Schedule

Everything went according to plan; I finished up animating, even did some touching up, and left it to render! It was all done when I returned from errands. I didn’t have much time to build the final scene, but this is how far I’ve managed to get into it:

I still need to write the ending script. It won’t be very big, the video itself is going to be more than long enough for most short attention spans (about 5 minutes). I’ll have plenty of time to mull it over tomorrow while setting the next stage!

Hobbies

Read Any Good Sacraments Lately?

 

Things have been moving along at a decent enough pace on the current Skyrim video! I finished rendering all of the green screens yesterday, and today I built a new scene! I re-listened to one of the audio bits and thought it would be better to give it a scene of its own instead of overlaying it over the background. So far I’m working through it quicker than anticipated… I might actually be learning something! FUCK.

I’m hoping to finish this up either tomorrow or Thursday at the very latest. Then I can focus on building the end cutscene. Yutram and I have been floating ideas back and forth on how to end the video… decisions, decisions… 😛

Blogospheric Naval Gazing / Open Threads

Spiced Up My Weekend

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Before starting my weekend I stocked up on some emergency food on the off chance I didn’t have enough energy to make something from scratch. One of the things I bought was Poha: a flattened rice dish seasoned with turmeric, nuts and dried fruit (a common breakfast dish in India). I made some with some chai and toasted naan, and that gave me the energy to get some work done! One of these weekends I might have to try making my own Poha from scratch! It doesn’t seem to differ from other rice dishes in terms of difficulty.

I also had the pleasure of trying Oolong Chai over the weekend! Just when I thought I’ve had the full rainbow of chai I stumble upon it when going to order some Green Chai. Next thing I know I have ALL OF THE CHAI arriving on my door step a couple days later, and I finally had a weekend to enjoy it in fullest detail. 😀

All in all – I’m ready to greet the week tomorrow, at least until I won’t be. 😛

Gaming

Let Me Play Among The Stars

I pretty much marathon’d this after breakfast this morning, taking breaks from time to time. Next time I play I might actually finish the game, then I can do a new game+ the next, NEXT time that I play!I’ve heard that Bayonetta 2 emulates really well. Perhaps once I finally finish Bayonetta, and even go back and collect everything I’ve missed I’ll be at a point where I’ll want to buy the Wii U copy and emulate it. I’m about as likely to buy a Nintendo Switch as Nintendo is in allowing Platinum to make a PC Port of Bayonetta 2…