Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20170225142933/@comment-1496755-20170320064732

Heh, I have learned a lot indeed, even though I'm not really a fan of physical exercise. It's a little weird, considering what a wild kid I was, always climbing, sneaking, running all over the place. Sadly, people would think I've lost my mind if I did that nowadays... Oh, Doctor Who is a nice show overall. Pretty weird at times, but nice. The Daleks are some of its iconic villains. I definitely recommend watching the entire first season.

One of the most visible aspects of the technology race was how different the engines looked and felt. Consider the jump from the Wolf 3D engine to the Doom engine, or the jump from the Doom engine to the Quake engine (or its more refined version, id Tech 2). It was a great and prettyvisible change, one look was enough to tell how much technology has grown. But with modern engines, it's harder to see a difference. It's so much harder to identify the differences and improvements in id Tech 5 over id Tech 4, and then they are mostly visual stuff, rather than fundamental changes like the jumps of the past, e.g. Quake going into the realm of true 3D after Doom's illusion of 3D. You make a good point about sites going down - this is one of the reasons I avoid Steam like the plague, it's something that binds. It goes down - your games become unplayable (unless you find ways to crack them). I guess the same applies to SecuROM too - either maintain an older OS or be ready to resort to shady methods. Yay for progress! I try to maintain archives of my most significant PWADs exactly because such things could happen.

It's really cool that you feel you've made something of value. In my case it's more like trying to build a shack from the pieces of a wreckage that someone abandoned. It does what it's supposed to do, but it's pretty painful.

This WIki is designed... with loooooove ;)