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Boredom for the win.

I also remember making a Chuck Norris-like character one time, strolling into a town, turning the game difficulty all the way down and I started punching people to death. It was a neat 20 minute diversion. :tongue_smilie:

The only mods I ever used were the official mods(Horse Armor, Knights of the Nine, all that junk) and a few custom ones, namely Ren's eyes and Ren's hair... or at least I think that's what they were called. Hair in TES3 and 4 has been just fugly. I think I had a mod once that skipped the entire tutorial jail/sewers thing and just gave me the necklace in the cell with a magic door that ported you outside. Now that's an awesome mod. I don't play Oblivion anymore, partly because my computer sucks and it's a travesty seeing it run on 800x600 at 5-10 FPS while fights are going on. I did play it a lot though, went through the whole mage guild quest line, the fighters guild quest line, all the arena junk, the main quest line, Knights of the Nine, thieves guild, The Dark Brotherhood, but I never finished The Shivering Isles. I was getting disinterested with the game at that point, though I have to say the Prince of Madness dude is awesome.

You use repetitiveness as a point against a game in a choice of two in favor of Diablo? Really? Anyway, Diablo and Diablo 2 will last you a few days. WoW will last you a few days too but there's no sense of accomplishment just spending a few days with it. You can beat both D1 and D2 at least once in a few days.

I'm not surprised, the amount of fake things that come out of China in terms of merchandise is insane. Not to sound like a complete douche but sometimes I wish China were segregated from the rest of the world. Give us the girls, but keep the men in solitary confinement over there.

I use Brain Sync occasionally when I'm having trouble concentrating, but I don't think it's the same thing. Same concept though, feeding your brain things. Whether it works or doesn't work, I think belief is a big part of something like this. If you believe it's producing the desired effects, then it's probably going to, though obviously for advertisement's sake things are very over-sauced. I don't question it, I just know that Brain Sync helps me focus. If you go on the I-Doser site and go into sample in the little CDs and MP3 packs and try the Pure CD Gamma one, you can feel the front part of your brain react to it, for me it does anyway. Piqued my interest either way, I-Doser seems easier to stomach as it's got actual beats as opposed to most of the Brain Sync stuff which is ambient. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXGckunUaU

You could always use a drum track. I can do drum tracks, granted I do them in an unusual method, unusual being not MIDI or any professional equipment. I can write drum tracks for a DrumMania simulator on the computer. Despite it being a video game you can easily recreate Dream Theater on it... well not easily, time signature changes are a total bitch to write, but at 4/4 time it's pretty easy to write stuff. You are limited only by the WAV files you can find. This guy's lucky enough to have an electronic drum kit to hook it up and play. [Youtube]zW7Vxs0L2lI[/Youtube] This video has the song as a backing track, so you're getting both the song's drums and the drums being played in the game. You can see the player messing around with the drum sounds at the very beginning. The game has an autoplay function to remove human error, so this would sound super real if somehow you could get everything in the song and remove the drums from the backing track. [Youtube]qvTCgNF94AE[/Youtube] And for fun, this is how far you can push the program. Unfortunately the note scroll in this video is set real low so it looks like a clusterfuck. I don't believe this one's using WAV files, just the song itself. This is on auto for obvious reasons. [Youtube]REp0ca3-FjQ[/Youtube]

Protest The Hero fans, where are ya? These kids are going to be gigantic someday if they continue writing and playing music, notably the vocalist and the drummer. For me it's odd that I mention vocals as that's usually the last of my concerns in terms of music. As long as it's predominantly sung and not screamed or growled, I'm happy(Slipknot is a huge exception to this, I can stand their vocals for some reason. They don't rape my ears). Rody Walker does all three, and he does all three very well. For those who don't know, these guys are out of Canada. The day they finished writing their high school senior exams they went on tour, on tour in terms of being a band with no label that no one's ever really heard of. They wrote their first studio album, Kezia, while they were in their late teens. They wrote music that was at the time too difficult for them to play, forcing themselves to learn their parts. Kezia went on to sell only 500 copies in it's first week(Canadian release only), 5,000 in the first month. A few months later the album was released in America. Their second studio album, Fortress, has a much tighter sound to it but it's not as emotionally charged as Kezia was. I feel like this band is grossly under-appreciated. I remember dismissing them when I heard Heretics And Killers, one because of the musical style(this was before I got into more progressive stuff), and because the singer has a tendency to blend in with bland vocalists from today's popular teenage rock groups in terms of tone. Ironically I gave them a second chance when they had a little mini-interview thing on Much Music and mentioned at the end that they were touring with DragonForce, which as far as I know was one of the first times DragonForce had ever been mentioned on North American television. To me, the guitars take some getting used to. They tap way too often. Give them a listen. From Kezia: Heretics And Killers [Youtube]AEn8HmgJxd4[/Youtube] Blindfolds Aside [Youtube]LAutUObokCM[/Youtube] Divine Suicide Of K(Rody's ideal image is in this video IMO, he looks like a train wreck now) [Youtube]tREg7dG0AbQ[/Youtube] From Fortress: Bloodmeat [Youtube]-_rHJn4SLtA[/Youtube] Sequoia Throne [Youtube]ypCdGNe3Bvs[/Youtube] Bone Marrow(Their best song IMO) [Youtube]wJatLMZSdEI[/Youtube]

I enjoy a lot of metal and I have a great appreciation for progressive music, but I've never given Tool a try. It's strange I guess that I haven't tried one of the biggest progressive metal bands out there. I remember not liking whatever music video it was that I saw, either Schism or Parabola, the one with the blue alien thing... that might have something to do with it.

I haven't kept up with Korn. Korn's Follow The Leader was one of my first 2 CDs I've purchased, the other one being Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe. I loved Freak On A Leash, it was totally different than everything else on Much Music at the time. Got The Life was great too. Falling Away From Me was cool too, but after that I stopped caring. I remember seeing one of their newer videos(newer being circa 2002-2003), one where they're in a classroom or something. I sighed and wondered what I liked about the band. By then I guess Nu Metal had spread and been done by better bands, namely Slipknot(Slipknot) and Linkin Park(Hybrid Theory/Reanimation), at least that's how I saw it and that's what I was listening to at the time.

I've always thought that wired is always better than wireless unless you have no option at all and have to go for wireless. My school has a server where I can download all sorts of programs. At home, wired connection, the transfer rate is somewhere around 600kbps. When I'm actually in the building on my laptop on a wireless connection, that transfer rate drops down to 30kbps.

I still play Tetris Attack from time to time on the SNES. Earthbound is one of my favorite games ever. Super Mario RPG was pretty good as well. The Mega Man Xs were great. ActRaiser's an older SNES title but a fun one. The Legend of the Mystical Ninja was one of my favorites, as was Super Bomberman 2.

I don't know anything about the genre so I can't say. You might want to use this in combination with Youtube to find good new groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_futurepop_artists

No pictures. I have a sad little machine that's going to be either 5 or 6 years old come February of '09. I know I got it during my final semester of high school and I'm about to start my 5th year of college(yes, I'm a slacker... and I changed my major a year into college). The machine as purchased was an AMD Athlon 3200+(2.2GHz) with 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a 150W PSU, and some GeForce 4 FX something or other card... all I remember is that it was absolute garbage and refused to run Deus Ex 2: Invisible War because it didn't have pixel shader 2.0 or something like that. I upgraded my graphics card first, putting in an ATI 9600XT 256MB AGP card. Served me well for two or three years before I got horrendous artifacts playing World of Warcraft. No other game had issues. I added another 512 stick of RAM sometime before I replaced my graphics card again with an ATI X1300 256MB AGP card and subsequently had to get a new power supply unit for it. I don't even remember what wattage I'm getting out of this new one, 400W comes to mind though. I can't tell if this card is better or worse than the 9600XT... I think it's supposed to be better though. As long as it got rid of the visual glitches in WoW, I'm happy. I didn't touch the processor.

I'm enrolled in Seneca College, doing Computer Programming & Analysis. In September I start taking my specialization courses, which is going to be game programming. I'm doing 2 classes this summer, Introduction to Java Programming and Graphical User Interface Programming using MFC, VC++ in .NET, and a little bit of XWindow.

There's a difference at work here though. I like MMOs. You seem like you don't enjoy them; and that's fine, whatever makes you happy, but there's a major quality difference between something like World of Warcraft and pretty much anything out of Korea in terms of MMO. It's either the cultural difference or they just don't know how to make something decent, and by cultural difference I mean the literal slaying of the exact same monster by the thousands as a 'fun' game mechanic in Korea. World of Warcraft has a shortage of this while still being an MMO. And, to top it all off, should you choose to raid after you've reached max level it turns almost into a Diablo-like game where you hop in a dungeon looking for great equipment with 24 other friends in a game environment that's a bit more complicated than pointing and clicking on baddies. It's almost hilarious to me hearing some people bashing World of Warcraft and then seconds later praising Diablo. The 24 friends part alone keeps me coming back, half the fun of doing raids is socializing and joking around. Many Korean MMOs throw you into their world, give you very little quests(and what little quests they do give you it's always slaying the same bunch of monsters you would have been slaying had you not taken the quest in the first place), and again it's the slaying of the exact same monster for days. I played Maple Story for a few days(Nexon game here people), and I stomached that just simply because it was a 2d game and it wasn't point-and-click like a lot of Korean MMOs seem to be. Sure enough, for days, even after getting up to level 25, I was killing the very same shit I was killing when I was at level 5.

Korean MMOs are incredibly awful. Every single one I've tried I've stopped playing after 10 minutes and uninstalled, well except for Drift City because it's radically different in concept. The latest one I've tried was RF Online, of which they actually had the nerve to charge money for, both buying the game and a subscription(though currently it's completely free). The thing made my computer restart on it's own. I hope they're only putting Nexon in as just a name brand and Valve does 100% of the work, though if no one outside of Asia has access to it I wouldn't care who does what with it.

My list is of bands who started/formed between 1990-2000, not counting music made between those years. Galloglass, comes in just shy of the year range at the end of 1999. Seo Taiji & Boys, and Seo Taiji's solo work as well, 1992 and 1998 respectively. Outworld started in 1997 but didn't release anything until 2006. Symphony X, '94. Protest The Hero(who are amazing by the way for their age), started in 1999, though that was when they were 12 years old... I don't think that counts. :001_tongue:

22 here.

Yeah, FBI was a gigantic prick though and most of the admins were horrible.

Hehe, I remember when I was around Valhalla's escape server with the name Head On. Had a spray just like the one the thread creator put up but clearer. And I had HLSS play the "Head On, apply directly to the forehead" sound sometimes. I was tempted to edit the sound file so that "Head On, apply directly to the forehead" would go on for several minutes and I'd annoy the shit out of people.

I have the IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0. It's not a great mouse, but it's not crap either. I've used better. My beef with the IMEx is the side buttons and the wheel. The side buttons feel very cheap in comparison to Logitech side buttons, but they function like their supposed to so it's not a big issue, it's the feel that sucks. The wheel on the IMEx on mine is pretty bad. It functions, but sometimes it feels like the roll detector thing kind of goes off where it's supposed to detect the roll, between the sections, and it'll give you a roll detect in the middle of one of those sections if you just nudge it forward or back. Sometimes it rolls once by itself after I've used the wheel. The one thing I have to give credit for in comparison to Logitech mice is that there's no logo right against the palm of your hand like there are on Logitech mice. After a few weeks the logo suffers massive wear and tear and eventually it makes your mouse look like shit. Microsoft mice don't have that.

My dad put on this kind of music loud and very often. I can't name any songs, the songs sound almost exactly the same. My dad was a hobbyist drummer that played this kind of music. I say hobbyist because he wasn't dedicated to it, he still had a full time job. He was in a band that I believe released an album, or at least played on the album, and I believe he's also played at Caribana once here in Toronto. [Youtube]hwjH8ErV8uQ[/Youtube] [Youtube]rejMNJgHgAI[/Youtube] Every once and awhile he'd put on stuff in English. I remember Earth, Wind and Fire being one of his favorites. Barrabas too. And that Walk The Dinosaur song, I remember that very distinctly. I remember Gloria Estefan as well. [Youtube]yeNbJQ6naJs[/Youtube] [Youtube]x7J99LtTjds[/Youtube] [Youtube]mYYD-HBem-k[/Youtube]

I have an R4DS myself. Old school NES and SNES games on the go for the win, and also new games that are old school at heart are for the win too like the Castlevania series for the DS. Castlevania's been completely irrelevant between Symphony of the Night and the first DS Castlevania game. I have 125 hours clocked into Yu-Gi-Oh World Championship 2008 so far. All the shit surrounding the card game like the cartoon and all that stuff can go to hell, the actual card game itself is great. The World Championship series is a blessing, I don't have to spend $100s if not $1,000s on buying the ridiculously overpriced card packs nor do I have to actually find people to play against.

I don't even remember what I was listening to before Guitar Hero(the original) came out. I made it a point to go out and grab every Greatest Hits CD from each reputable artist on the game after playing it for awhile. It wasn't a complete turn around or nothing, I know I was listening to stuff like Sonata Arctica and DragonForce at the time before GH. It's funny actually, I remember debating with myself over getting Megadeth's Greatest Hits CD because Symphony of Destruction was a pretty boring song, so I wasn't sure if I should pick up any of their material. I took a chance and my mind was blown, almost every single song on that album was awesome, and now Megadeth are my favorite group by a large margin.