Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-3547390-20190806234215

Oh wow... I still view Doom 3 as being an extremely recent as well. My mind still pictures it as one of the most demanding titles, that there is no way you could ever get a computer that could handle that level of demand. Quite scary to think about.

You know, you make a very good point. And as we naturally change, this means even finding perfection is impossible. I guess that is optimistic for the future at least, perhaps my high standards will change. What we love today may be something we find good for the memories tomorrow, but also not something we generally prefer to bother with.


 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUK8gQ2aGxY - Weird to think this is what I was listening to in 2008/2009, something that nowadays I would find heavily bothersome in both vocal range and instrument quality. Just a decade ago. This is the only stuff I can't stand to listen to today, then again after I discovered metal I didn't like this music at all. You could say this was mostly due to following my mother's trends, while metal was me searching for music I actually could call my own in preference.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evMe9SKmb-w - And yet, by 2010, I was pretty much listening to this on a daily basis. St Anger was so emotional... I realized intensity and passion was important, that metal was the way to go because it had a broader range of feelings.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5LL_Y6ml14 - By 2011 I had a broader collection, yet it was still pretty "normal" stuff. Disturbed, FFDP, Rammstein, some music that was enjoyable but I also found somewhat lacking. Then we had this, which in a way gave a hint towards the direction I would eventually take in just the general tones.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_j1AHJlBw4 - And I remember getting into this song and wanting to cover it by 2012/2013. Really the point where I feel my music gained more "life" if you will. I liked some death metal and growling, but sadly most music just had a boring generic sound to it. Sad, one of my favorites was a fictional band.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybE8RQsZKuU - By 2014 I was getting more melodic and pessimistic, it was a dark time. Still quite a standout song 5 years later.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wDrweZe7iM - And then by 2015 I decided to avoid metal as it sucked, so I went neue deutsche harte and German. Rammstein helped a lot, not sure why it took so long to go more into the genre, I guess I was fed up with all the terrible metal.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPLhWkS3rsw - 2016 still saw me doing German stuff, but I turned from loving Eisbrecher and that sound to really loving this album. I remember starting my job and having this play almost every day as this was just one of my choice things. I swear there is a gothic flare here, definitely more negative than the standard stuff of 2015. I also started realizing I liked early 2000s music the most, stuff after that just would drop in quality.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PODGg2AKYkA - Yet somehow in 2017 I ran into symphonic metal and ran into my craze for it, even though previously metal sucked. I realized I just hated a lot of the conventional choice stuff like Gothenburg, Thrash, power, and all of that. Anything that is in someone's normal list. Yet true metal was great, the riffs were more standout and memorable than the predictable nature of Neue Deutsche Harte. Plus I felt uncomfortable doing German stuff frequently since I didn't even know the language, so it felt like music I could never learn the lyrics for and sing along to. Note 2015-mid 2017 I didn't do much due to wanting to avoid a bunch of German songs, even if I felt I would love Neue Deutsche Harte stuff. Of course, when I checked it out in 2017 out of curiosity, I found it boring anyway.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_ku1oeN2o - 2018 saw me evolving yet again, going from symphonic to more gothic. I realized while I loved After Forever's Prison of Desire, the genre was mostly just filled with pop bands, and it all felt so generic and bland. I remember torturing myself to endless symphonic bands that sounded the same. When I first heard Ashes, I wasn't a fan, yet by 2018 it became one of the albums I would listen to on end. Before this point, I loved choruses more as they held structure in a song, 2018 started showing me that I preferred compositional. Lacrimosa, Estatic Fear, heavy gothic that oriented towards the melodic side. Gothic held intense emotions, something I have been seeking since 2010 but been finding only in limited doses, gothic was the first real avenue I felt had a genre I could generally aim towards, even if the more well known goth stuff like Type O Negative (Pink Floyd v2) or Sopor Aeternus (transvestite sings about his pains with the same singing style in each song while midi music plays in the background) sucks.
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofgpp9brWEc - 2019 is seeing me now embracing more and more black metal vocals, something I just didn't get before. I hated black metal and still hate most conventional black metal, but avant-garde gothic hybrids worth great. Somehow now I am finding metal albums where I am loving most songs, if not every song a band made somehow as with Farsot (perhaps this is a sign of finding myself and what I like, or just gaining greater acceptance for music in general, not sure since I still hate a lot of the conventional stuff I try to listen to). I am going back to German (since it seems they make the best music in general and I rather listen to quality than stuff you can sing along to), yet now with gothic or a depressive flair, and a lot more varied than the days of old. A decade later and I have gone from Kelly Clarkson to avant-garde German black metal that lasts 20 minutes. Dornenreich during the 2001 era before they went acoustic, Samsas Traum (youtube links suck for some bands like this one since I know Europeans can't hear the links I post if using "Topic")... there is just a sort of craze for German inspired black metal/gothic oriented metal. Essentially everything in the last nine years combined, but probably takes a specific ear to love.

Most definitely. I hope to one day gather the most complete list we can muster of all Quake content, a preservation like Doomworld. Quaddicted is pretty good here, but there is one major flaw, specifically that most files are buried in giant archives that I doubt anyone has gone through, especially due to the lack of any clear ordering. The Wikia's benefit, at the core, is just how organized we can make it all. We can link things together that are Doom inspired, use idBase textures only, and were made using THRED. This is why I have so many general categories for levels, it just is a great ability that most places don't have the ability to have.

Here we can search for a random keyword and find the author who made some random level that we never knew the real name of. This is the type of stuff that just gives this place the strength it does, nobody on the internet is quite focusing on things like we do here, even for other games.

Quite agreed there. Some of my favorite parts of the standard series is when I get more experimental, even if a lot is just grabbing a camera and doing some random things. My vodka musical number, my craze with apricots, me pretending to be Ranger in a blurry room as to make it a sense of delirium... it just feels quite special when I add that bit extra. In any event, I got inspired to try tackling it tonight, so lets see how it works. Should be online shortly.