Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-3547390-20180711224644

Well, they aren't stopping me now, so the world should be concerned since now I can become Hitler.

Pretty much. If you are going old-school, go all out with the "old-school nature". I could be even more fancy and go unmodded if it was desired, but I rather mix up things a bit with some 1996 mods. Just allows for a few changes here and there (sadly a lot seem... shaky... at best to the point they aren't the best to include).

Or, you know, people could just not bother to make FAQs at all because nobody cares enough to ask questions in the first place.

Nods, most people do that. They download a lot of random songs and just have them thrown around everywhere. My childhood was rather limited to my mother's country music and my father's classic rock. Even as a child, I just never got into either, so I just never found music that interesting and would use some generic stuff my mother listened to. It got worse as she went to pop. Really, it wasn't until Doom 3 that I started changing, as I really enjoyed the Last Man Standing theme. Even there, it took a while to get used to, I remember my father reacting to it by saying how terrible it sounded. After a while, it just started clicking for me, and I started loving the sound of it. Still remains one of the best death metal songs out there, I wish more death metal was like this, melodic and powerful. For a while, this was all I had, but as I got my own computer I got the ability to check out more things and started looking into metal out of curiosity. Specifically a band with metal in the name, Metallica, which led me to listening to their whole backlog and enjoying it highly. Most people know it as my favorite band as it is easier to say than some obscure band. I remember during that time my method of finding new songs was either jumping song to song on Youtube, Wikipedia, or finding 300 music videos that seemed to have every Nu Metal band that I got into early on in 2008-2009. Of course, occasionally I would find the rare death metal song I could get into, but I could only stand deep growls, which meant I disliked most death metal bands just due to their higher growls, but I would run into that rare band from time to time that had good vocals and melodic music. Getting involved with Quake and seeing music recommendations is what got me into Rammstein and some rare NIN songs since I can rarely tolerate his voice. I just continued looking up random bands and would hope to get lucky, on rare occasions I would. As you can see, most of my tastes weren't even real metal, most "actual" metal I tried tended to be generic garbage I couldn't get into, unless you count one random song by Megadeth I found decent but not really amazing. The best melodic death metal band I knew was fictional, with Illdisposed being the closest besides Bloodbath to any claim to actual metal.

Up until last year, that would still have been the case, since I was mostly going German industrial as I just found they made it better than actual metal. Mainly I got into symphonic metal because someone I was talking to was highly into Epica, which due to my limitations meant I had to check out After Forever first. Ironically that was the best choice ever, as After Forever impressed me while Epica felt rather boring and generic to the point I feel it is a mockery of the older band. Even the death metal oriented MaYaN wasn't enough to bring back the quality from After Forever. The singer in After Forever went on to be the new singer for Nightwish, so obviously that is why I checked out and started liking them, which again was good as I found past Tarja era (really Marco-era, since he ruined it) to be butchery. Tarja on her own has some rare songs I like, but mostly just lacked that quality that made her good in Nightwish. Trying to find more good music, I actually got Tristania from a Youtube recommendation while listening to After Forever, which was my basis for finding music, as I wanted more like that. Sadly the side band, Sirenia, just was good for one album before falling into generic garbage. You are the one who pushed me to check out Therion, which has some decent stuff if not as amazing as some of the others. After a lot of time hunting in symphonic metal and trying garbage (I did get A random death metal song due to them playing in a symphonic metal band called Leaves' Eyes later on, though the band mostly was garbage), I started realizing I needed to go more obscure as the popular stuff would be generic pop garbage I disliked. I also realized gothic metal was more the angle I preferred, since the best, After Forever's first album and Tristania, are both gothic. So thus how I started getting a lot of obscure gothic metal/symphonic metal bands that got progressively more classical as I dived further into the obscure corners. I also felt I liked Industrial since Dope was, NIN was, and Tristania had industrial influences. Most are digital and garbage, but there is that rare amazing band that knows how to do things right. Checking out Rammstein's side band, Lindemann, meant I had to check out PAIN which meant I had to check out Hypocrisy. PAIN was garbage, all of it, while Hypocrisy had some great highlights that reminded me of Bloodbath. Plus Crematory had a lot of gothic ties, so I checked them out and found some rare good content. Lately I decided to try to go darker, exploring some Dark Metal and just checking out what available gothic downloads I could find, which led me to Lacrimosa, which happens to be one of the best bands I have listened to in a long time.

So yeah, I have jumped around, going from country (due to that being what my parents listening to) to some normal popular bands (due to surface level being the first you would try) to german industrial (due to feeling it was the first genre I could really dig into) to symphonic (when I realized most german industrial was repetitive and lacked the right emotional level) to full-out gothic (when I realized symphonic was more about technical ability to make classical music, not so much the emotional intensity; gothic on the other hand seems particularly designed for my mindset). It is good to have most (since the metal era at least) as variety, though I must admit some of the earlier stuff isn't the most enjoyable. Disturbed in particular is a band I find tolerable, but just am not big into, and same with Five Finger Death Punch. Metallica has some good stuff, but most of it I just find decent. It is all good, but I just have found so much comparatively better stuff, and the main reason I stick to the old as well is because my entire collection is about 400 songs, meaning it is useful so I don't hear the same few songs over and over.

I have zero idea... it feels so compressed on a 1440p monitor. I guess it is made to be compatible with phones and is following the metro theme of Windows 10. Needless to say, two terrible things combined to make the user experience worse on a computer. I don't even feel like making the Wikia compatible by phone, since it mostly is, and what isn't is usually Wikia's fault (can't access discussion posts like this on mobile).

Modding seems to have taken a turn for the worse. While most were playable before, it seems I have hit a point of broken files and random annoyances. Nothing just works anymore.

Also, we have run across our first custom enemy, the Psionic Slug. One nice thing of having been involved with a lot of various pages, you can provide a similar level of care to custom ones (you can see my love in particular for custom Monsters), meaning we get a page that is hopefully as good as a vanilla Enemy page from my experiments with this creature (sadly, it is closed source, so it won't be much use in the server unless I just want the gimmick of this extra enemy. I guess I will never have the joy of blowing up a Psionic Slug with a Bomb). With this, we have everything fully established in some shape or form on the Wikia, at least as far as I figure. The course has been mapped, now it is just filling in all the details of thousands of mods :P.'

So glad we based things on obituaries. While the Anomaly was close, this definitely feels like our first real custom monster.

Now that we have a custom monster, I do have a weird technicality to bring up. Not really the case with the Psionic Slug, but an important clarification. Essentially, we have said if the Monster has a new custom death message, it is its own separate entity. If it says something else, it is not actually a full custom enemy. However... what about cases like the Ogre Marksman (for the vanilla game, it worked, but would a new enemy be considered worthy of being considered such if it did the same thing)? That particular Monster has no death message as one wasn't written up for it, yet at the same time it doesn't use the Ogre death message. This means it is no longer able to be considered a modification to the Ogre, and yet it doesn't have a new in-game name. Essentially, I am wondering if the absence of a custom death message is enough to consider the monster a new monster, since that means it is its own entity and a custom death message was just not written up. So the rule, as I propose it, isn't so much the inclusion of a custom death message, but the removal of the old one. What are your opinions on this grey area?