Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-3547390-20180731155527

Sounds quite convenient indeed, stability is one of those things that you can appreciate. One of the best things about my job and why I didn't really pursue a career in game design. Too much shakiness there, like Hollywood, where you pretty much get fired at the end of a job or your future might depend on a publisher's decisions.

I know that all too well, people like to talk about the weather and various things that I just cannot find an interest in. I figure small talk is used because you otherwise just have nothing to say; then again we have managed to have an ongoing conversation for nearly a decade... perhaps the medium helps, or perhaps it just is that we have more to converse about than most others. Gossip is also boring; I find most "normal" people like to laugh at others. It is too common where they will show a Facebook post and say "look how stupid this person is". I just can't get it, I don't really find it funny, and find myself empathizing more with the person being laughed at.

Oh, I am not really part of any Discord groups these days... at least any big ones. I got Dominus in a private group between me and him, pretty much dead since you can just IM each other. Usually when I join, I just quickly get drowned out and lonely, get more vocal... then get kicked out or mocked to the point I leave. It could be nice to have a group; I am not sure how much time zones would interfere. I tend to talk more to Europeans as I am often on Discord at work.

Nods, I have met quite a number of people that are like that. I tend to be the opposite; I tend to usually be extremely emotional to the point people would consider me a snowflake. But then I get pushed by people being detached to the point I realize it is more ideal to not rely on others, so I become extremely cold. The problem is that my particular brand of cold is your "evil" mode, it is very calm and calculating, knowing with perfect accuracy how to hit people where it hurts. I have yet to meet the person to stay when my cold side comes out, it hurts people too much.

Yes indeed, most bands tend to change their style as time goes on. Usually with symphonic metal that means getting more pop oriented. People are pretty vocal about operatic singers, saying how almost every band has them and how overused they are, so in a bit of irony it is actually rare that you hear them. Look at Nightwish, after Tarja they didn't even want to touch the operatic style. That is really depressing, since Floor Jansen was once an amazing soprano before she started focusing more on death growls and sounding like some lesbian trucker version of Anette. It is extremely normal for clean vocals to be the norm these days. Or death metal, which has been experimenting a lot more with adding metalcore elements, resulting in breakdowns and core-style vocals.

Metallica is a case of a focus on touring over quality music, resulting in them wanting to dumb down songs so they could be easier to play on tours. Megaherz is a case of trying to relive their past with a puppet mostly used to try to be like the older singer; the biggest difference between 5 and their newest stuff was that the former was creating its own style instead of playing to popular trends.

Lacrimosa has had a curious career; it is quite notable that while the music is quality, it has experienced a lot of unpredictable changes. Starting as a solo project, it was extremely gothic and quite powerful, though there were a number of songs that just would drag too much. It started out being almost entirely electronic with some synthesizers. By the third album, Satura, they were making it more like regular rock, which was extremely boring and resulted in a decrease of the emotion. The fourth album, Inferno, added a female singer, but she had an annoying voice, so things weren't looking too good. Then Stille came out. Suddenly the instruments were heavier, more metal or hard rock inspired, and the emotional intensity was insane. Then we got Eloida, which was pretty much like Stille, but had far more of a focus on being classical (including being composed with an orchestra) over the heaviness. 2001 was the prime for Lacrimosa, classical influences had gained a lot more power as well as the heaviness, resulting in something really grandiose for Fassade that I just haven't heard since. 3. Statz in particular is a shining example of the sheer emotional intensity they had, highly classical and yet heavy. The problem with their next album, Echos, was that it took things to the extreme, going ENTIRELY classical and dropping the heaviness. It worked for certain songs, but other ones had too much stopping and starting, a lot like conventional classical music. A lot of people really loved Echos, but then Lacrimosa decided to start focusing entirely on the heavy, so we got Lichtgestalt which had far heavier instruments than anything before it. The problem there was that it was entirely made in a regular rock structure, with choruses and such, when Lacrimosa was always about classical influences that barely had repetition. So we got an album that tended to repeat itself over and over. Sehnsucht was a bit of a comeback for Lacrimosa and was far more experimental, that heaviness was expanded upon and the songs no longer repeated themselves 2-3 times before ending. It is definitely odd hearing something like Feuer, which has quite a bit of heaviness to it, and knowing it is the same band that two albums ago was making entirely classical songs. Then we got Revolution, which suffered primarily from trying to sell itself to a larger audience, which meant going back to the repetitive style of Lichtgestalt. Hoffnung was a bit of a mixed bag. It started out like Revolution, then suddenly got a lot more classical about halfway through, with a noticeable increase in quality. Testimonium, their newest album, is interesting because I happen to like every song. But sort of like the Black Album, it is stuff that is good, resulting in an inoffensive album, but not as emotionally intense or powerful as the far superior Fassade (where I liked everything but the one where the female sang, usually the English songs are sung by her and tend to be really annoying).

Tristania mostly was a case of the entire band disbanding as they realized their music was dying, then getting reincarnated with new people to the point it might as well not be called the same name. It is one of the most tragic bands I listen to, since it wasn't the band that is butchering their music, but a record company using a popular name.

I have heard that one too before as well. I am not sure if I am that great at genre placement myself; I think I am not one to really be confined by labels or genres. Almost every genre will have a few amazing bands, then a lot of genericness that bores you to tears. Thrash metal and power metal tend to have decent guitars, but tend to be really horrible on the vocal side, mainly as I am not a fan of high pitched clean vocals (even calmer stuff, say Kamelot level). Black metal (a shame, since there are far more symphonic black metal than death metal) tends to be really boring instrumentally, they tend to focus on strumming similar riffs to the point it is tedious to listen to. Symphonic tends to be a clue that it will be female-fronted and generally will be clean vocals while some dull instruments play in the background. Gothic metal tends to be symphonic metal with less of an over-reliance on choirs and more imitating The Gathering. Death metal tends to highly rely on the same guitar riff over and over, some double-picking style that is highly recognizable in every single Amon Amarth song. Technical usually means they will include pig vocals and probably be borderline Deathcore, while Melodic means they will try to imitate Metalcore more. Core genres are really boring, the music holds little to no emotion, instead focusing on belting out lines in a screaming voice/pig squeals with some chugging parts. Nu Metal is essentially like metalcore, but more focused on adding some rough noise or other elements to make it edgier because it is music to listen to when you hate everybody. Folk metal is just dull, I just can't find emotional intensity in music that should be played in some medieval tavern. Most genres outside of metal tend to be highly repetitive or focus on horrible vocals. Classical mostly has the issue that it loves to start and stop, resulting in something that feels more like waiting than an actual composition with grandiose tendencies. Industrial tends to get highly repetitive while playing some bouncy style. Neue Deutche Harte is Industrial's German twin, expect deeper voices and S&M references while being as bland and repetitive. Expect comparable sounds to more popular variants, but without the emotion and instead being much like Megaherz is these days, an imitator focusing more on the image than on quality music. (looking at you Stahlmann and Heldmaschine). Neue Deutshe Todeskunst is like Neue Deutche Harte, except it is more poppy, meaning expect repetition to the point that you feel physically sick. Darkwave is like Neue Deutsche Todeskunst, except even more poppy, to the point that it might be dangerous to your mental health to listen to it.

As seen above, I technically hate every genre out there. I just tend to like bands that are exceptions to those normal expectations.

Definitely not. Enemies always cause the same amount of damage and will die in the same number of shots. Beyond frequency of attacks, there is no real difference between fighting a Shambler on Easy versus on Nightmare, and there is no difference at all if comparing Easy and Hard. If the level doesn't add flags for difficulties, there is little point in switching them around besides for Nightmare due to that extra aggressiveness.

I think you might be able to relate to this. The curse of being the person who knows the most about certain subjects as a general rule means that not only will you be unable to really improve with others aid or have help if you run into issues, but it also means you are cursed with the same few beginner level questions. This is why FAQs are written, but then you know people wouldn't even read it, since they expect you to know and it is easier to ask the person who has experience with something.