Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-1496755-20180718173010

Most people around here are a bit old - the majority are in the 45 - 55 range. Academia is pretty conservative in this country, so it's not easy for young people to break through. You'd usually be past middle age when you become a true professor. Our department has only one person younger than me - our IT guy (2 years difference). Heh, printed letters are okay, as long as they are signed by someone at the bottom. Most of the faculty still doesn't even know how to use the electronic database, and its bugginess doesn't really make it more compelling.

I did go to regular school like everyone else, but I still felt pretty isolated since I had different interests and outlook on life than everyone else. Gaming was a rare thing in those poor years - a few people had the NES at home, and having your own PC was almost unheard of (imagine how lucky I was in this regard). As for music, barely any metalheads, most kids enjoyed the popular swill of the time. Oh, there actually was one at high school, but he was way too stereotypical - wearing black leather clothes, unkempt long hair, etc. I've never felt a need for all that.

Relatable often works on an emotional level too, at least for me. I'd choose what to listen to based on my current mood - I'd either choose something similar (for reinforcement and resonance) or a polar opposite (for balance) and it was an interesting way of managing emotions. If throughts and emotions are a flow, the proper choice of music can be the floodgates you use to control it. Then there's also the matter of memories - once I start associating certain artists, albums or individual songs with certain periods and events from my life, I am strongly reminded of them when I hear that particular music again, almost like a form of time travel. I like that.

Only scripting experience I have is with making custom Warcraft 3 maps... and it's faiorly simplified, there were numerous templates and premade triggers I could use. It was a fun activity for sure - if you know what you're doing, you'd have a pretty big degree of freedom to do wacky stuff.

So I guess that mod didn't have an option to turn into a Spawn or a Rotfish. That would have been fun to watch.

That new spider thing looks really nasty. Fits pretty well into the Lovecraftian theme of theg ame.