Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-1496755-20171017181915

Closer and closer - got lucky a few times today, managed to solve a few nasty problem in surprisingly easy ways. Then we had a power cut, but it was nice because it gave us an opportunity to unwind and just talk about stuff for about an hour.

Dull stormtroopers, just lovely. Yeah, I got this idea of an oppressive and mercantile organisation from what little I was able to glean from the fewm entions of the CS in several games.

And still there are people who miss the old canon... makes you wonder what kind of twisted tastes they had. Reminds me of one argument why Hell can't be real - because there is no thing that is too nasty, horrible and depraved to be turned into a sexual thing by humans :D

Oh yes, I've seen videos of Carmack with his humongous (yay, an opportunity to use this word!) monitor. And that was back in 2004 too, during the time he was working on Doom 3. He probably had it even earlier too.

Yes, refresh rates. Some modern players are too spoiled to play anything that is below 120 Hz. Makes me wonder how long they'd survive if they had to use one of the CRT monitors I grew up with (we had to put lead glass screens in front of them, otherwise they caused major eye strain and even headaches).

Mmmm yes, resistign the urge to reload can be very useful for sure. A hopeless situation can sometimes be turned upside-down and turn into something pretty profitable. I've had cases where I could accomplish something very hard after seemingly failing miserably. Makes you wonder if a perfect execution owuld have ended in failure instead.

Hmmm, Amaranthe, I don't think I'm familiar with these. I associate SOAD with some happy times, so I can't possibly bring myself to not like them ;)