Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-3547390-20180804020839

Hard time to record sadly. We have a cat in heat. I hate those things as they never shut up and my system is just so sensitive it would pick it up.

Yeah, power metal is definitely something I can't get behind sadly. Those vocals are just too grating and the instruments too much like classic rock. Admittedly, the song sounded like something from the 70s.

I am pretty apathetic to opinions around me. My curse is that I self-inflict constantly. People get angry with how often I appear sad.

Oh, I have been here longer, but everyone is older than me. As said before, it isn't normal for someone of my age to be in this sort of career. There also is no real middle ground between me and people, even the average person, because everything I like tends to be on the obscure side. Not many people are going to talk about Quake 1 more than memories they can barely remember. If I was playing Rocket League or Overwatch, I would have plenty more to discuss with people. It is also a radio place, so usually people get into it that are interested with radios, which isn't me at all. They tend to be more like my father than me. Radios, motorcycles, fast cars, women... all stuff that I just can't connect with. Nobody here even knows Nightwish, so it is pretty much hopeless for them to know anything I like.

I still have my account, though I don't really know what group you could be added to, especially as I am not really part of any myself. It is nice when people are around... but nobody ever is. So we could IM each other, but then I am not sure why we just don't talk here.

That is precisely it. I have a collection of friends on Skype and Discord. I have this curse where I am usually popular with people initially. The problem is that it wears off quickly as they realize we share nothing in common. I only have one friend that doesn't believe me some insane individual. But they tend to disappear most of the time to the point I feel alone. Two days after the cancellation, I haven't gotten a message from anyone. I might eventually, but it would also not surprise me if nobody ever said anything. If I am not enough of a friend to you for you to bother saying hello, then what type of friend am I? And as for regular contact, outside of talking to Dominus about the recording, I haven't had contact with another human being besides you online.

Gladly, I would definitely be willing to try out some music. This sad'n'roll torture is definitely getting to me.

Metallica mostly came about for me because I was looking for some popular metal band and Metallica grabbed my interest with metal in their name. I remember listening to King Nothing and All Nightmare Long as the ones I tried out before going deeper into their discography. I must admit, I really don't like Fight Fire with Fire, the chorus was very barebones. The titular song also bored me for reasons I can't remember right now. But the rest of the album is enjoyable, though Trapped Under Ice was one I had to grow on and is one I still feel is a weaker point of the songs I like. The Call of Ktulu is the best instrumental track, in fact it is the only instrumental I can enjoy listening to as it is the only one with real emotion. Creeping Death is decent, but not something I would sing songs of praise about myself. I would much prefer The Shortest Straw or Frayed Ends of Sanity. And yes, most people don't really get Saint Anger, but I have successfully turned my guitar teacher onto it when I insisted on playing Frantic. Oh, I have seen tape recorders, but I wouldn't know how to use them or records. The oldest technology I saw end was floppy disks, I do remember my father having some for storage, but even those were mostly being replaced by cds by the early 2000s.

Online radio... definitely worth checking out. Even though Tristania is definitely gothic metal, NOT symphonic metal, though they do have some slight influences due to choirs. Most of it is gothic definitely, the difference is in the emotion. Symphonic metal tends to be dry, done mostly to be some classical style metal song. Gothic tends to be more about emotions, the instruments are designed to further convey the image, and it just usually is that classical instruments work well. Violins in gothic metal are far more distinct and emotional than anything you could hear in symphonic metal, one reason I prefer the former, though you run into plenty of duds like sad'n'roll or The Gathering.

Knowing me, it will be a long time before I get there, but I would definitely rip into things in a similar method. The way I see it, those games have enough popularity for them to be liked and looked into a bit. I rather dig into all the obscure shovelware and find what treasures most people don't even notice exist are found.

Sounds rather curious that an important part of the software is missing, or why another program needed to be included for settings. I remember Dark Forces having such a tool, but I am glad that I generally don't have to care about this as I live in Quake. Steam is something I have touched lately as I have been trying to set up Skyrim (I also, out of curiosity, got Quake for steam), which actually requires a Steam account to play, as stupid as that sounds. What I have learned is that I really dislike Steam. You could make a shortcut for the folder, so navigation isn't much of a problem, and the games can be modded without issue. But each game requires you to log in to Steam to play it, not logging in means the game cannot start. Simple enough, start Steam with computer. But then Steam will update, meaning you need to wait to play the game, and there is a hesitation anyway for the game to start. I assume most people are used to it, but I would rather play things without a DRM any day.

I feel old for disliking not just having direct access to a game. It is a minor thing to wait a few seconds for Quake to start. But it is enough to bug me, since I rather just have the game work when I want it to work, not need to wait for updates. This is why Windows 10 is garbage, waiting for updates is not something I like to do, nor do I even like the idea of getting an update I decide I don't want. I like control over the updating process, I like looking at changelogs and seeing that I want to actually bother upgrading. This is one thing Linux does better, I really like that every program can have updates, but they all include lengthy changelogs that I can read at my leisure and decide to ignore or install. Of course, my obsession for Thief means I could never use Linux, since the best I could get is an unstable WINE version. Oh, unofficial patches fix it, but then I am the one person in the world who refuses to upgrade and wants to play the original unpatched version of the game. I am pretty insane to most people due to my wish to play unpatched versions of games. Playing Quake on DOSBox in 2018 is probably insanity to most, I have gotten quite a few comments mocking how pixelated it is. I can't even claim nostalgia for most things, I just like that feeling of using the software that all these mods were designed for. Even GLQuake manages to break certain mods and files; especially custom models, which tend to get distorted in GLQuake, and there are two cases of levels that won't even load in GLQuake. WinQuake could be a useful alternative, I haven't tried it on Windows 8.1, but memories from Windows 7 meant I got color distortion which required me to background flash quite a bit. It might be for just minimizing the program, which could be annoying as I tend to jump back and forth between programs. I will try it out when I hit 1997, though then I can use GLQuake 0.95 anyway.