Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-3547390-20180621200759

Just look at the surplus of stuff I have gone through and how insane I am!

Exactly, it is some weird twisted amalgamation that would chase you with an axe through darkened corridors of a lengthy maze. Yes, He-Man is entirely lazy, and that grin is icing on the cake. So much like a lazy cross-dresser :P

All pasta is the same, yes, but the material is different. Spaghetti is a popular choice, my father loves it, but I just find it too thin and less convenient to eat. Yeah, I just need something quick and easy for work. I don't eat much for pleasure.

That would go a long way. I use the same pair I listen to music with my MP3 player with. Can't use my home ones, those are far too risky and big to carry back and forth. Still, it can drown out things around me rather well and has decent enough quality. So I just sift through stuff or talk on Discord, I am terrible at multitasking. I am also terrible at devoting myself to boring bands, I still need to work my way through the rest of Hypocrisy and The Gathering. It just is hard when the band is dull.

Nods, I have tried some doom metal, but it was so bland I couldn't care. Dominus is indeed a doom metal fan, haha.

Emotion tends to be the most important element. Combining that with some memorable riff or something that stands out in some way, and that is a lot of what goes into the songs I like. Tristania's Ashes has emotions (if there is a depressive album, it is that one, especially as you hit the later songs), but the songs just tend to be forgettable as nothing really stands out. This is why I view it as highly inferior to World of Glass, which had intense emotions, but also was very memorable (my gripes with certain songs tended to be with the timings, I hate it when bands slow down to one word said at a time at a slow rate). Meanwhile, most songs just lack any sort of intensity, they feel like they are playing it safe and going for a generic sound that people enjoy. Sirenia is a great example of that, every song feels the same and nothing ever grabs you.

Epica is another great example. I am a major fan of After Forever's Prison of Desire and get offended that almost every other fan will compare this to Epica's The Phantom Agony, saying both are the same. The latter is an unofficial continuation, but that is about where the similarities end. The latter lacks any sort of memorable riffs or sounds, instead relying entirely on choirs and overly long sections, whilst pushing the singer to the forefront and keeping the melodies simplistic so she can sing over them. Basically, a pop mindset, the music suffers so the singer can be heard, and fans of Epica would state it is better because it was harder to hear the singer in After Forever as clearly. On the other hand, I enjoy After Forever for the fact that the music never suffers as a result of the singing, the singing is just another instrument to convey emotion that would be difficult with just instruments. It should be mentioned Prison of Desire has mostly conventional instruments, no choirs, and yet sounds far more grandiose because every song makes a point to stand out. While I am not happy with the direction later taken, I am glad they didn't go the way of Epica, and it gave us Invisible Circles at least. If you are looking for emotion and powerful riffs, that has it (exact reason I love Digital Deceit, it may be more simplistic, but it has so much emotion and memorable riffs to keep it interesting and very conveying). It would be one of the best albums ever made if not for the mock arguments with atrocious vocals in there... plus the ending songs die off in power when they should get more intense. The Phantom Agony? Two of the most "powerful" songs rely on lengthy sections involving voice recordings involving world leaders and the other major song involves a sing-song choir after a lengthy minute of a simple drum beat. Please tell me how any of that continued the legacy of Yield to Temptation, possibly one of the best songs in After Forever's discography. That has intense buildup, memorable riffs, and leads to a grandiose ending... all without any of the gimmicks of Epica.

We can hope, this would be nice to figure out.

EDIT: The more I think about documenting Quake mods, the more daunting I realize this could be. Seems they are a lot more... fluid... than previously thought. You can essentially take bits and pieces from one and put them in another, resulting in many mods sharing bits and pieces of code. A mod is essentially an outputted file from a compiled string of data that each individual creates by throwing together bits and pieces of other mods...

Eventually we need to catch each other for the server. Rottweiler is burned out once more and I would really like to mess around with the server now that we can get mods working.

Weird semantic to add, but I have also been thinking further about definable entities, and I believe things that don't exist in the world on their own accord should not exist as pages. Say blood and whatnot, particles don't have individual pages as they don't occur without a reagent. Similarly, the new Hologram may have text appear, but it only occurs when the player presses an impulse key. Similarly, weapon modes offer new types of projectiles, but aren't new weapons themselves and thus don't need pages. Rather obvious from the base game, but with mods blurring the lines I felt it best to make it more of a vocal rule. If the hologram was a powerup you could pick up, that is an entity that exists. If it was something already on the map, it is a hazard. But if it is entirely created from the player, especially as a temporary result, it shouldn't count.

Today I also learned the FAQs that come with the shovelware are just as shaky. I was told that a good strategy against Shamblers is to charge them when they raise their hands as it prevents them from shooting their beam. They still shot their beam. I was then told Fiends are afraid of water. I forget the number of times I have had to fight Fiends underwater...