Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-3547390-20180806201743

Sadly I am not in control of most things in my life, so a cat being neutered is one of those things I can't do. I just have to bear with it.

Not 70s metal, more like 70s rock and roll. It all sounds like your classic rock vocalists or some King Diamond or something.

Speaking of music, I know you are a fan of Therion, so you might want to give Virgin Black a try. Not my particular taste, I hate the male operatic vocal style, but it is classical and grandiose. Closest I can think of is a heavier Therion.

...that sounds way too familiar. Or how about "Don't give me the self-pity routine, your life is perfect. People would kill for your life, so I think you are actually happy, you just aren't showing it for some reason. There is obviously something wrong if you are upset, you just don't want to tell me for whatever reason. Stop being depressed and be happy. Nothing I say is working, we should see a therapist. Therapists just would confirm your hypochondria, you need to figure this out on your own."

I have no idea if I can even consider myself a retro gamer, since I hate most retro games people would acknowledge as some of the greatest titles. Yet I pretty much live in the 90s beyond some rare exceptions. I really cannot stand the NES in particular, platformers are frustrating to no end. Shrugs, I have no real way to connect with other retro gamers except to say I really hate their games and that most of my knowledge is on random shovelware nobody but me would ever touch.

That was the main thing I was thinking of, IM is nice since it means more than one message per day, and it could help me feel a lot less alone if you were around. Skype is less ideal, I moved mostly away from it as it requires a dedicated install. Discord you can just launch in your browser. So it would be a lot easier to contact me there.

A fake account where a guy used it to get people together who would have otherwise not been together. Really curious and odd scenario indeed. I know what you mean though, there is always that feeling of crippling loneliness even around others as nobody REALLY cares that you are there. Like your role could be replaced easily by an extra or just disappear entirely.

Wonderful, sounds like something to try at least. Could be useful to kill time.

Until It Sleeps is a relatively good song, one of the better ones off the Load era actually. Records and cassettes just serve no real purpose to me, I don't really like older music so it isn't like I would luck out by finding some obscure band on a record.

Loaded symphonic metal channel. Got Tristania... but Tristania from 2010, the joke Tristania. This is not a good sign.

Sounds rather useful of a name at least. And yes, I consider it worth it to add all these obscure details. Quake 2, you can get most if not all details anywhere on the internet. Obscure 1996 packs? We are the only place to offer the in-depth coverage we do. Only place on the internet which can tell you about Psionic Slugs and Willy the Spider.

You know, I have had the same fear on a frequent basis. "What if Steam goes down" is quite the legitimate question, since it is a service that can at any time fail for short periods or even long expanses. If your entire library relies on Steam, I pity you for this reason, as you lose the ability to play said game. Plus, yes, I also agree that piracy can be better in certain circumstances just because it gets around such restrictive DRM. One good thing is that GOG is DRM free, so most old games and even some more modern ones are supported. Oblivion is DRM free that way and includes the DLC that would otherwise be landlocked to Steam. Sadly Skyrim hasn't had such yet. The Elder Scrolls series has been an odd one for me, traveling from game to game in the hopes of finding one that won't frustrate me to no end while loving the concept of a sandbox world. Oblivion was close, but those 5 hour waits just killed the enjoyment. There is a certain level of waiting that is tolerable, but the waiting time should definitely be far lower than the playing time. On work days, 5 hour waits just killed most of my night because of one stat drain.

Yes, it is an emulator, but as you said it is the authentic executable and thus the true experience. You are also right about authenticity; it isn't as fancy or polished, plus it includes headaches that would be removed elsewhere (like the Rotfish glitch or some of the maps not being broken), but it just feels nice to play that original experience. The server has that special compromise of keeping mostly vanilla, but adding some community mods from 1996 for that pre-WinQuake/Armagon experience. It is like living the game in late 1996, adding some interactivity and improvements while not getting too crazy (except for the Shrek mod, which I had to add for that personal touch).

I always have used dgVoodoo2 with success. Works perfectly with Thief, though it does require some setup. Main thing is to ensure the resolution is being managed by the program, scaling the menus will result in it being too small to select things. Not really sure what the difference between these two wrappers are.

Sounds like a lot of fun. Sorry to hear you had to deal with that.

My main thing has been focusing on upgrading my computer a bit more. Recently swapped out my 7700k for a 8086k so I could go from 4 to 6 core without losing single-thread performance (in fact it is slightly better). Mainly this will be useful if I try to stream again or do any other process that could benefit from multiple cores. My RAM is actually working a lot better than it was before; I wasn't able to use its full potential before. Still need to get some thermal paste (it has been ordered, but won't be here until the end of the week) since I only had some old dried tube that just managed to make this work. Also, I chose a motherboard that was a bit faster, but didn't realize it was missing a row of USBs. So I have also gotten a 13 USB hub that should be coming any day. No more worries about that.

Also, this editor confuses me. Lower-casing Monsters is bad enough, when it is a proper noun as we have a dedicated page for it. But what is the point of changing it is to it's? As far as I see, the grammar wasn't flawed to begin with, essentially meaning the information was shifted without purpose. The edits aren't bad, beyond the removal of capital Monsters, but the changes just seem fruitless as both seem as grammatically correct.