Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-1496755-20180808200517

Well, it is usually the vet that deals with this... or you can just enjoy the "concert" ;)

Not very surprising, since Metal did originate from Rock, and that happened in the 70's. In Britain, of all places. They always seemed more conservative and level-headed and then they suddenly invented the genre most associated with darkness, violence and raging emotion. They also invented punk, which is like rock, but for people who lack musical skills :P

Mmmm, an Australian band (wonder if they have that funny accent). Could be interesting, so I will look for their stuff on YouTube and see what it tastes like. It's a good way to do some reconnaissance.

Being a "friend" to someone solely for the, hmmm, entertainment seems to go hand-in-hand with this whole "There is no way you could feel bad" thing. When people only see "fun" in you, the very idea of negative experiences seems implausible. So you are undoubtedly a perpetually happy guy who smiles 24/7 and has no idea what a life struggle is. This stuff happens only to the "normal" people. (sigh) If only they knew what a dark place a "fun" person's mind can be.

Oh, there are many flavors of retro - a lot of people imagine a retro gamer as someone obsessed with the NES and Atari, but then there are people like me that are into DOS stuff, people like you that like Win 95/98 stuff from the late 90's, also people focused on early 2000's stuff. The predominant "retro" stereotype is in favor of the NES geeks, but in truth they are just one sub-group of several. As time goes on, more sub-groups will appear as well.

Well then, I can add you on Discord, if I know what name to look for... or you can add me, I'm a "Vorknkx" there as well.

The whole story was really weird... and the role that person played was that of a really nice and friendly person. But it used the photos of a member from some obscure band. And someone accidentally stumbled across a video fo the band on YouTube and saw this oddly familiar face in it. Started digging into the issue and discovered the whole charade that was going on. Once the person knew they had been exposed, they just vanished altogether.

We do have some really decent bands, but their future is always unclear because being a musician alone is hardly a way to make a livign in this part of the world, unless you are insanely good and popular, or have really good connections with all the important people. There is an old provern actually - "A musician cannot sustain a home." Speaks volumes about both our cultural attitudes towards musicians and how the economy has treated them for decades.

I think the last time we dealt with records was at least 15 years ago when my grandpa asked us to digitalize some of his old records. So we'd hook up the player to the PC and use some program to record the incoming sound, then convert it into MP3. It worked pretty well, actually.

Heh, they play all sorts of stuff, so "stay awhile and listen" as a certain Diablo character would say ;)

Preserving knowledge is its own reward - something I strongly believe in.

Even if Steam doesn't crash and burn in its entirety, a simple thing like losing your own internet connection could leave you stranded if all your games are Steam-based. The DRM of CD-based DOS games is really easy to beat with DosBox. Sometimes it needs the CD label, but that is easily fixed. So Arena and Daggerfall were both easy to convince that they were genuine retail copies. I just googled what these waits you mention are... so, the game forces you to wait to complete quests?

So genuine that it often feels like a time machine. When playing in fullscreen mode, there is no real way to distinguish it from the actual experience from the 1990's... and all the old tricks that worked back in the day would work here as well. Some even work better due to the emulated environment's greater flexibility, especially with regard to mounting. Recent SVN releases have made even more improvements to the whole mounting system, as far as I know.

Oh yes, dgVoodoo helped me get the original version of Aliens vs. Predator (1999) running properly - it uses a particularly complex mix of old technologies that cause many things to break down on a modern OS. But dgVoodoo worked like a charm. For other Glide-supporting things I generally use nGlide, though. And Diablo II has its own custom-made thing, "Sven's Wrapper", which gives much better results (image quality especially) than generic Glide wrappers.

The summer is a risky time for this sort of infections... though I usually manage to avoid them. I'm glad it passed relatively quickly.

I have no idea when I'd get around to making upgrades. But perhaps I'll have to, sooner or later...

About that editor - best approach would be to talk to him (her?). Yeah, such changes are pointless. Besides, "it is" is the more formal thing and is thus more suitable for an encyclopedia.