Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20161116194210/@comment-1496755-20161209003759

Always wondered what "special needs" is supposed to mean - it's one of those phrases that are so vague that they mean nothing. If I need to eat a living frog every morning - does this count as a "special need"?

Oh, Carmack is an alien. He can have a room-sized 4D monitor, if he so wishes. But most of us, mortal humans, had those wonderful CRT monitors that I see you are quite familiar with. For many years we had this horrible Trinitron thing, which was soooooo dark. Trying to play Doom 3 on it - ha ha, good luck seeing something in this sea of blackness. I could tweak the video card's internal gamma settings, but then the game gained an inexplicable yellow-greenish hue. It was a lose-lose situation (sigh)

Okay, just wanted to make sure it's the 17th... 3 AM would mean 10 AM my time, right? It's fine - I won't have to get up very early.

Never enough time, eh? Happens to me too. And to make matters worse, I sometimes name my save games with the date I started playing something, and when (or if) I get back to it, I'm like "Wait, I haven't played this since when?!?!?"

You know, now is the season for Doom 3, actually - my first full & 100% completion playthrough of it was exactly during this time, the weeks before Christmas 2005. In that case it was more like the weeks before the winter final exams and the trip home for the holidays (the best time of the year because the hardest stuff was behind me). And yes - if I remember when I played something, I'd often play it again during the same time period, for the sake of tradition. Anti-aliasing? Oh, you mean that feature that causes cheaper video cards to burst into flames. Yes, very nice one :)

I'm mostly a headphones user - must be an aspect of my introverted nature. Trying to keep a low profile and all. And that's why speakers are a bit low priority in my case. Wow, talk about making a huge world... I remember getting an extra 512 MB RAM to improve my old laptop (which came with 256 MB). The most memory-consuming game I had at the time was Diablo II. It's funny - nowadays this amount of RAM is utterly useless...

Curiously I am not at all surprised Seth likes ponnies. Yeah, the 1987 TMNT was one of the great things of my childhood - it was several levels above anything else I watched. The 2003 series is okay, though I have barely reached the middle of the first season.

Aye, I feel about 2003 the same way too - for me it's merely "the year before 2004". And 2004 was an year saturated with many ordeals and important events - most of them good (like being accepted into the university I wanted), a few very bad (like the sudden loss of a close relative). If I ever write memoirs, 2004 would be one of those major dividing lines that changed my life forever...