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I wish I had been more actively involved in the rave scene in the 90s, I went to a ton of them and was on the email lists and vrave (telnet raver chat) but I wish I had gotten more into the productions and helping to plan, set up, decorate and all that, I did help out once with one smaller barn party because I had a friend of a friend who ran an info line and was involved. I was just a teenager though, It was a wonderful time anyways. Hope that counts.

Love the maps, I have an old photo of myself playing on the family 386sx with a Might and Magic Clouds of Xeen map in the background. I remember the Ultima games always came with a bunch of cool stuff too.

Oh boy, you didn’t even get the bad b&w photocopy manual? Those came with rentals a lot of times. There was a lot of pointless info too though, like grand descriptions of the starting equipment you ditch after the first half hour lol.

The books were often filled with cool art not found in the game, sometimes there were hints hidden in the margins, or some had a mini-walkthru of the first level or something in the back, along with lore, they added a lot to the game imo. It felt like a well put together package, not unlike album artwork, liner notes and whole albums which people are also now (re)discovering are pretty cool.

No one told him he didn’t need to both act and look like a cartoon villain.

Tell you what, I’m going to start bringing an ultra powerful magnet anywhere I go when these things are live, I’ll be damned if I’m going to be killed by someone’s fucking robot security dog, I’ll brick every one I can.

Ah thanks :)

I don’t even know german, just think it’s hilarious how nonchalant he is.

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The problem is I’m cool with total silence all the time and not many people are into that, people seem to like to talk.

It has way too many fetish jokes to be in a normal comic comm imo tbh. Whatever floats your boat but yeah.

So they have this nice 3D card, which they had a hand in inventing and “perfecting” to render the entire 3D scene in beautiful, stunning detail, and then another card with AI instructions that totally ignores all of that just happened, takes a screenshot and puts a filter on it in real time basically. What a massive waste of power and computation.

I mean I suppose, I just know I have a few hundred of those that will eventually all be waste after the playable bits eventually deteriorate, if I even would listen to them or find myself in the need of cracked software from the early 2000s.

Surely the what the world needs right now is more plastic.

We all listened to and loved Bill Cosby comedy records as kids, we would listen to them constantly. Needless to say, we don’t really bring them out anymore. It’s a shame. Other artists, I suppose, I love Michael Jackson’s music but I still have no idea what’s actually happened with him, I think I would listen to it regardless though. I still watch Weinstein movies because I don’t think he really had a lot to do with the creative process making those movies. Otherwise I’m not sure, not mindlfully at least.

Since caring about other people became a liberal idea, not been able to pinpoint exactly when that started but wow.

Ah, that does make sense framed that way. I mean, I get why people do it, so I guess it’s not so fitting for this topic, it’s just more insanely frustrating lol.

People complain about the littlest things and make it a daily habit to complain about said things, so much so that it’s become a part of our society to exchange daily complaining about little things, all the while ignoring huge, important things that are ruling how we live our very lives. Idk I find it strange.

You can look for something called headphone crossfeed, there are DSP plugins for a number of music players for this, you can use these plugins to simulate the stereo field of speakers using headphones by having some of the signal from each channel bleed into the other, since of course when you are listening to speakers, that’s what’s happening unless you have your speakers very close to your head.

The world is an unfair shithole, no one told me, I’m telling you.