Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-26005008-20160407215658/@comment-3547390-20160625150848

It was miserable to play games back then, I had a CRT monitor (of course due to the time) that reflected light due to being located in the middle of a room with a lot of windows. It was impossible to see in dark areas, meaning that anything dark in a game quickly became torture to me. Thief II, Doom 3, I had some painful experiences with not being able to see a thing I was doing. Then you add in a bunch of lag for the sound of Doom 3 and the inability to play cutscenes on Thief II. I think this is why I started really loving the night time, it was when I could actually see what I was doing. However, it was a family computer and everyone would be in the living room, so I also didn't enjoy the people being around. So I learned my best time was when my mother was still sleeping in the very early morning, I would throw a blanket over the monitor and continue playing when the sun came up. Needless to say, I often would go until it became scorching hot under there, since of course CRT monitors generated heat.

Yeah, but there is also better. You are playing modern stuff you enjoy, not torturing yourself with ASCII games. Raadec is playing the new Doom. Everyone seems to be enjoying modern gaming beyond me, who is stuck doing stuff in 1994. It just sometimes gets depressing when you think of the stuff you are limiting yourself to and what you could otherwise be doing. This is why I got fed up with the series of Doom engine stuff, there is so much out there I can actually enjoy and yet I am trying to look at stuff I admit I am not a big fan of. Yes, they are tolerable and even have their entertaining points, but shouldn't I be doing something that I actually find fun? That has been my situation for the last month, before that I was stuck reading books and playing other terrible games. I stopped working on the Wikia in 2012 because I needed to play Atari games that required 2 people to play and yet I needed to play each one by myself.

Well, that is what VMs are for, even if I haven't used many in the last few months due to sticking to the same few games that only needed to be thrown on my computer.