Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-1496755-20171023204524

Ah yes, I definitely don't want to be stressed, but everyone around me seems to think otherwise.

I remember the inner struggle - being eager to play something during the day vs. waiting for the evening when the sun was finally gone. Our crazy monitor (or perhaps the video card) made things more complicated under certain settings - I remember Tomb Raider 3 could be run at 320x200 or 400x300 resolutions (higher ones were too choppy), so I'd naturally choose 400x300, right? Nope, this resolution made the game noticeably darker for some weird reason, often forcing me to use the blurrier 320x200. That was a really annoying issue. A few other titles were also daylight-unfriendly. For Quake 2, I was sometimes forced to use r_fullbright to make things manageable.

Wow, this is so ancient. Discussing Quake when it was still a new and fresh game. Seems kind of sad nowadays, a shadow from an age long gone... Well, for some reason I can't recall having any weird effects related to saving/loadfing in 1.06, though, of course, my memory might be hiding these bad things due to its inclination towards idealizing the past. At any rate, once we got a faster PC (which, among other things, caused the game to run too fast underwater), I found Winquake to be a much better experience and migrated to it permanently.

Another thing I strongly associate with my college years is Lacuna Coil. Italians playing metal... yeah, so weird :P

No problem. I've been in one rush after another myself. Some of them created by micommunication - today someone told me there was some database problems and the bigwigs downstairs were "pissed" about it. I got down to check on the situation personally, and they weren't pissed at all. In fact, some of them were not even aware there was a problem. And the problem itself was much smaller than it was described as. So I got stressed out just because someone didn't choose their words properly when they notified me about the issue. (very long sigh)

For a second I imagined a "Star Wars Toilets, Bathrooms and General Restrooms Wiki". Man, that would be original.