Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-1496755-20180806192451

Oh, I am well familiar with the sounds of a cat in heat. A problem easily solved by neutering. We did this a bit late with our first cat because the procedure was expensive at the time, so I got to enjoy the sounds quite a few times. Occasionally I can hear it nowadays too, courtesy of the numerous stray cats around the neighborhood.

Interesting comparison... I usually associate 70's metal with Black Sabbath and similar bands.

"You're such a fun guy, how could you possibly be sad? Stop exaggerating!" - heard this before?

I have been experiencing this disconnect in interests since elementary school - 90% of the stuff that got the other boys excited was rather boring to me. Boys like cars? I couldn't care less about them. Gaming was still quite unavailable and consoles were the more accessible thing, and they just aren't my realm. And nowadays people'd be like "How can you call yourself a retro gamer, if you haven't played all NES games out there?" Well, I could just as easily ask them how they can call themselves retro gamers, if they haven't written at least one memory configuration for DOS :P

Sure, this is an efficient means of communication, though I guess it would be nice to have an IM option too, in case we get in the mood. There's always Skype too - updated it recently after getting a notification that my current version is no longer supported.

I often talk to some people on Facebook, but this is hardly friendship - we have some shared interests but that's pretty much it. Would have been total strangers otherwise. I should mention that I've heard two of them on the phone, which was quite a breakthrough. Here's the really weird thing - most of us were actually brought together by this really fun guy, a true metalhead, also the owner of a tattoo studio and a real party animal. But wait, there is a creepy plot twist. At some point this guy disappeared mysteriously... some time later we learned that he didn't even exist. It was a fake account, just a role that someone was playing. The good thing is this guy (or woman, who knows) never used their fake account for any malicious purposes, but it was still quite a shock. So after he disappeared, the group of friends fragmented and the whole thing pretty much died. He may have been fake... but he really knew how to bring people together and keep them together.

Ah, good, I will prepare a selection at some point and share it with you...

Beside Creeping Death, one fo the first Metallica songs to catch my attention was Until It Sleeps, probably because of its dark and mystical feel. Heh, I know how to use records - my folks taught me as a kid. It's the epitome of analog technology... based on grooves on a vinyl surface. Sounds so simple and even primitive as a concept, yet worked so well. It still has its uses nowadays. I haven't operated one of those tape recorders but I have a general idea how it's done. They were outclassed by casettes pretty quickly, so I doubt they're used anymore.

So this is the melodic death metal sub-channel but there are a bunch more - there is a menu at the top. It's free to use, you just to make an account. Oh, there's a Black metal channel too, lucky you :P

I'm sure it would be worth the wait for you to... rip. Deathsrtalker the Ripper - this could be your tyrant nickname some day.

Oh yes, contemporary DRM is just so stupid and restrictive. Sometimes I think pirates would be better off in the long run - they'd be able to play some games even after their DRM has stopped functioning properly for one reason or another (e.g. SecuROM doesn't work on many modern systems, forcing legitimate users to look for cracks). Sometimes I aks people "What would you do if Steam goes down?" but the typical response is "Your so duumb, it can't possibly go down, their is so many backup servers." (I tried to preserve their spelling style too). But I'm not so sure about this - every technology is fallible. And even if it doesn't fail, it starts having compatibility issues over time (as is the case with SecuROM).

Yeah, I know that feel - using the original thing. ZDoom might have spoiled me a bit, but eventually I did redicover the joy of vanilla Doom, despite its pixellation, lack of convenient stats to see if you're missing an item or a monster, or the occasional glitch. It may be flawed, but it's the original - it's the pure thing, the same thing I grew up with. Some people would say "But DosBox is an emulator, you should use Chocolate Doom!" True, it is an emulator, but I'm still running the original and authentic game executable within it, and that's genuine enough for me (and I can play any version I want, even the obscure Alphas). Oh yes, all DDraw programs get the weird colors problem ever since Windows Vista... but this little thing usually fixes it. Works very well with Winquake, Quake 2 (in software renderer mode), Diablo and a number of others. Just make sure you edit the little config file thingie to enable color correction.

In other news, last weekend served me a lovely surprise in the form of a stomach virus or something of this sort... I am getting better now but still feel pretty exhausted from all the dehydration I experienced. I think I've lost at least 3 kilos (approx. 6.6 pounds) from the whole ordeal.