Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-1496755-20180717211518

Oh, I really wish to innovate and make things electronic (thus easier to handle) but my colleagues are pretty conservative and fixated on paper. In fact, we've had cases when some people would not respond to letters, if you only sent them electronically - they don't consider them "official" until they get a hard copy. (sigh) A newly registered student has to fill in a whole bunch of tedious documents, including the front cover of the folder they are placed in. And then we have to fill the poor hapless soul's personal details in one of those big books as well. It's a marathon of writing on paper, repeated 160 times. And it's not just pens and paper that we waste, we also use up lots of glue (photos have to be attached to some documents) :P

Parents' tastes probably have an influence, though I doubt they are fully responsible for forming one's tastes - we are both examples of this, and I have a few friends who enjoy metal, though their folks listened primarily to folk music. Something to note - good music was hard to come by back in the day, so we pretty much cherished whatever we could get, like those tapes of Metallica performing with the San Francisco orchestra, or the Garage Inc. double-CD. And even if you find something, there's no guarantee it isn't just a very convincing bootleg (anything is possible in this part of the world). The trick to appreciate Manson is to look beyond the silly stage show and delve into the deeper themes of his albums. Some of his messages are surprisingly philosophical and relatable.

Good to know. Yeah, DECORATE was a huge leap in Doom modding - even the "great" Brutal Doom wouldn't have been possible without it. BTW, I've heard from people who dabble in the code that Brutal's coding is really sloppy and chaotic. Which is why it's so hard to make other mods work well with BD.

George Washington was a Quake monster? No wonder you beat the British so easily!

Heh, Eat Gibs sounds like fun. I guess Ranger wasn't enough of a gritty anti-hero, so we'll make him consume monster flesh.