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Quake / Re: How bout a mercy un-mute?

« on: October 06, 2022, 05:19:23 PM »

Too many wwwwwwwytfs/?

I'm more or less impressed by people who have the dexterity and coordination to type messages that fast between spawns, even if they do frequently misspell them.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Actually, the best guitar solo is..........

« on: September 28, 2022, 04:16:29 AM »

...Chuck Schuldiner of Death.

Didn't wanna make a new thread just for this.

...

I've seen a few videos from this guy before. He usually tries to nail down a bands guitar sound from one album in particular... usually using little more than a little Marshall DSL20 and little Mesa Boogie 2x12 vertical cab.

Chuck Schuldiner (died Dec 2001) - Death - Symbolic (album released 1995) Sounds like he nails this one to me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPoM0uVTfGg

Maybe not the hardest rhythm sound to duplicate, but the lead sound with chorusing that Chuck always used is a little tougher to replicate. Of course Chuck was kind of a product of the times as far as his sound went (which is always going to be largely determined by whatever gear is available). He always had bad luck with managers and band finances, so when he selected gear for touring, he tried to pick things that were as reliable and hassle-free as possible... and cost effective. Unfortunately, the man never saw any considerable financial success during his life (which is why he died so young and wasn't able to get better treatment for his cancer). The Marshall Valvestate amps of the era had 12ax7 tubes in the preamp, but a solid state poweramp section (no tubes) which made them more reliable, even though they didn't really sound as great as the Marshall JCM900's from the same period. They were also much cheaper than the JCM900 heads, so he could afford to buy several of them for backups. They tended to have a really scooped midrange to them, which these days people DO NOT like. But for that period in music, that was "the sound" that death metal bands were already using.

Unrelated but sort of related: A lot of bands from back then were also using the BOSS MT2 Metal Zone distortion pedal ... I was one of the many users as well. And these days, a lot of metal players HAAAAAAATE the sound of the Boss Metal Zone pedal... myself included. I still have mine, and while I never use it, I can't bring myself to sell it. Every time I sell a pedal or amp, I always regret it later, even if I know damn well I'd never use it.

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: The biggest shit storm EVER is at hand

« on: September 22, 2022, 08:07:48 AM »

I don't care if you believe in GOD or not

How delightfully open-minded of you.

Isreal (Gods time piece)...

...tribulation...

Isreal ... sacrafice ... rebuilding of the temple ... prophesied ... bible

... temple is rebuilt ... the antichrist ... GOD.

...antichrist ...

...repentance ...

Well, that shit only lasted for half a sentence.

And I'm sure God and the antichrist all DO seem like very real characters to you... much like Gandalf and Frodo seem like very important and very real characters to the people who often read Tolkien and frequently watch the Lord of the Rings movies. The things you make yourself dwell upon will become real. Those who dwell upon studying hard in medical school will become doctors. Those who dwell upon getting high and playing video games will become bums who get high and play video games. Those who obsess and worry about the negative things will be prone to illness.

I would ask you... what do you get out of dwelling upon the supposed impending doom of the whole world? Is dwelling upon that serving you better than dwelling upon something else?

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: The biggest shit storm EVER is at hand

« on: September 22, 2022, 07:17:56 AM »

This means the antichrist is already here. Who is it?

I'm pretty sure it's Focalor.

Living in your fucking head rent free, am I?

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/dev/random / Re: why is better to live in Europe

« on: September 13, 2022, 10:37:38 PM »

looks like usa needs Biden..    

 

...to NOT SUCK AT HIS FUCKING JOB?

That's physically impossible. Jesus Christ and all his angels couldn't work a miracle to make this mealy mouthed liver spotted kid sniffing pants shitting demented moron do something right for once.

In other news, Queen Elizabeth died. Monarchies are so nice and useful and modern. I also heard that all the dragons stopped eating people for the duration of her funeral tour. I wonder if Gandalf will be at her funeral. I'm sure Elton John will have to sing candle in the wind and pretend he didn't write it for an airhead actress that was blowing John Kennedy with his wife in the next room.

So Lady Camilla becomes "Queen Consort". Hey, sometimes the name fits in more ways than one.



 

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: September 11, 2022, 08:06:25 PM »

The most douchey movie you've ever heard of that you'll be too fuckin' dead to see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Years_(film)

What makes these wiener heads think that people will GIVE A SHIT in 100 years? Would you give a damn about a previously unseen movie from 1922 with actors who no one knows in 2022? Probably not. And by 2115, who knows if people will even care about movies still. There could be numerous forms of more popular entertainment by then that have rendered movies obsolete (which seems to be Zuckerburg's life's goal with his Meta crap - apparently Facebook wasn't consuming ENOUGH of people's lives).

And besides, John Malkovich is a democrat, and all democrats certainly know that climate change is going to destroy the earth in the next 10 or 20 years, so what's the point?

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: September 07, 2022, 05:29:25 PM »

Wanted to download a copy of Nosferatu to make sure I could watch it next month. I can usually easily download things from youtube various ways. I did find a couple matching versions of the old one from Tubi on Youtube, but they were 240p and full of blurry artifacts. Found several other versions, but they had different newer orchestra soundtracks and updated dialogue cards and credits. Managed to find a trial version of a program called StreamGaGa that let me download the nicer 720p copy from Tubi.

In my search, I ran across this hilariously bad version of the film where someone added sound effects and speaking to the audio. Sounds like one guy doing all the voices. Some of the voices sound like muppets characters or something. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xvxv_u2QEs

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: September 07, 2022, 03:01:19 PM »

...Last year, I had this next one added to my saved list, but then they pulled it at the end of September. WTF! Why would you do that!?!

The old 1922 FW Murnau silent film, Nosferatu. Strangely, I've actually never seen it before. Looking forward to watching this around Halloween. (...if it's still there.)

Nosferatu (1922)

 
AREYOUSHITTINGME!

Tonight I load up the Tubi app on my Xbox and wouldn't ya know it, "This title expires in 5 days". 

I've had it on my list since probably Christmas of last year, waiting to see if they'd take it down again, thinking, "Oh good, they've left it up this long, it'll probably be around for Halloween then." HELL NO! I swear, it's like they do this stuff on purpose.

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/dev/random / Re: The Official 2022-2023 Football Thread

« on: September 07, 2022, 07:08:46 AM »

See, this is why you need Discord. You miss all the football talk. You wouldn't need to devote your life to it like another Facebook or something. Don't even have to carry it on your phone all the time. I don't. I only use it on the the pc. The IRC thing was fizzling out so Discord is pretty much the new IRC... although now there isn't really one single "official Tastyspleen" channel. Jehar has the TastyspleenTV channel (probably the closest thing to the official TS channel), Haunted is running NADL, that's were we have a "sports" subchannel where we do football, ufc, etc talk. You need to join us, man!

Kelly is already catching some hell at LSU.  If LSU does not have a good season, I see Kelly blowing up at someone before the season is over.

That's something they were discussing in NADL/sports. Apparently at the end of the last game, he got into an argument with one of his players and the very next morning he went to transer. Oh my. Gonna be a long year for Coach Kelly.

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/dev/random / Re: The Official 2022-2023 Football Thread

« on: September 06, 2022, 07:39:09 AM »

I think Oregon was greatly overrated. Dunno what the hell possessed the poll idiots to put Oregon anywhere near the top 10. If anyone wants to explain what could possibly be the reasoning behind ranking them that high, I'm anxious to learn. Seems like these polls are just playing favorites with some of these teams - like they think just because Oregon was doing well several seasons ago, THAT'S what they remember and it factors into their voting. They do the same thing with USC Trojans ALL THE TIME.

I was thinking Georgia wouldn't be as good this year after losing some of their biggest defense players, but damn, almost seems like they could be even better this year. QB Stetson Bennett was certainly looking more capable and skilled than last year.

Didn't really get to see the Ohio St vs Notre Dame game. I fell asleep before the 2nd quarter ended. Same for the LSU vs FSU game which was also a close one. Did get to see the UNC vs Appalachian State game early Saturday though. That one was crazy. Something like 60+ points scored in the 4th quarter. One of the weirdest games I've ever seen.

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: September 06, 2022, 06:58:09 AM »

LOL, like i said.. a willis movie almost each month

Eh... He's playing the odds. The more movies you make, the better your chances of winning an Oscar, right?


With October/Halloween coming up, it's horror movie watching season.

Tubi (which is FREE... with ads) currently has the classic 1931 Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff. One of my 3 favorite Boris Karloff movies. (2nd favorite Boris Karloff movie - The Mummy -1932, also available on Tubi HERE. 3rd favorite was the 60's Christmas cartoon, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.)

Frankenstein (1931) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/680454/frankenstein

It would be really great if this was still available on October 31st. I'd love to watch it after the trick-or-treaters stop ringing the bell. Last year, I had this next one added to my saved list, but then they pulled it at the end of September. WTF! Why would you do that!?!

The old 1922 FW Murnau silent film, Nosferatu. Strangely, I've actually never seen it before. Looking forward to watching this around Halloween. (...if it's still there.)

Nosferatu (1922) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/495789/nosferatu

They have two versions of it. The one above seems to be the traditional older version. The one below is some kind of 100th anniversary edition. In the 100th Anniv. edition, seems like they did something to steady the picture a bit and keep the frame from jumping around like in the old one above, but it also seems like they've discarded more than half of the original filmstrip frames in order to achieve the steadiness and the result is a noticeably laggy looking frame rate. They've also added a new updated musical score. I don't like it. Makes the movie feel inauthentic. According to wiki, apparently the "REAL original" music score was lost and only pieces of it still exist today. I'm not sure who composed the music in either one. Some sites mention a James Bernard (who composed the scores to several classic british Hammer horror films) as the composer of a 1997 reissue. But the version above has noise to it that sounds like it was reproduced from a phonograph needle, so I'm assuming it's probably from the 50's or earlier. Elsewhere people mentioned that it was originally a German-only film and an unauthorized retelling of Bram Stokers Dracula, and the Bram Stoker estate sued the makers of the film way back then and a court ordered that all copies were to be destroyed - however, some copies survived, and for some reason no legal action was taken to ensure that those later copies were not reproduced... thus why the movie still exists today.



Nosferatu (1922) (100th Anniversary Edition) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/643412/nosferatu

And if the silent black and white one isn't quite cheesy enough, they have the 1979 Werner Herzog directed remake called Nosferatu the Vampyre starring the creepy-as-hell Klaus Kinski. Never seen this one either. Might as well add this one to my "To Watch" list. I expect it'll suck (most Klaus Kinski movies do), but at least it's something I haven't seen before.

Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/269897/nosferatu-the-vampyre

Oh shit. And while I'm at it... here's another probably completely awful Klaus Kinski movie. Nosferatu in Venice! It was apparently supposed to be a sequel to 1979's Nosferatu the Vampyre, and... maybe it is, maybe it isn't, I'm not too sure. It's "loosely" a sequel, let's put it that way. After many director changes and script rewrites and Klaus Kinski acting like a psychotic lunatic on the set and pissing everyone off to the point of quitting, apparently it's a small miracle this film was ever completed. Also starring Christopher Plummer and Donald Pleasance... so maybe they can somehow add some watchability to this thing, ...I dunno, we'll see I guess.

Nosferatu in Venice (1988) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/506583/nosferatu-in-venice

And speaking of Dracula, here's another classic Halloween horror staple. The original 1931 black and white Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. And if you've never seen it... don't let the fact that it's a famous "classic" fool you. In all honesty, the acting is pretty bad, but that was the case with VERY MANY movies from the black and white era, even the "good" ones. Humphrey Bogart was considered one the greatest actors of his time... and in my opinion, he was pretty crappy. Always nothing but dry emotionless delivery of lines. Anyway, Dracula wasn't completely horrible. The scenery and ambiance of it is really terrific and MAKES the entire movie in my opinion. Without it, the acting would've sunk this thing to the bottom of the barrel and no one would remember it. Maybe it's just me, but to me the awkwardly timed line delivery at times reminds me of a hurriedly done high school play.

Dracula (Bela Lugosi) (1931) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/680651/dracula-31

Tu quieres en espanol? SI! NO PROBLEMO, AMIGO! Yeah, pretty much the same shit as the Bela Lugosi one, just with Spanish speaking dopplegangers. Carlos Villar as "Conde Dracula!" Filmed at the same time on the same sets I think. Weird shit, man.

Dracula (Español) (1931) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/589993/dracula-espa-ol

Prefer Christopher Lee as your Dracula? Yeah, he was kinda cool. They got that one too!

Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) (1970) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/522136/count-dracula

Or maybe (INHAAAAAAALE) you like it when (INHAAAAAAAALE) Jack Palance is your Dracula. (cuz that's how he talks, gotta add dramatic breaths to everything) They got that'n too! Yeah, it's kinda cheesy, but I like "cheese cinema" if you can't tell.

Dan Curtis' Dracula (Jack Palance) (1974) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/499567/dan-curtis-dracula

Also spotted a newer one I haven't seen yet. Directed by Dario Argento who directed 70's Italian horror classics like Suspiria and Inferno. I like a lot of the 1970's Italian horror movies, but his were pretty ...bizarre. Artsy maybe, great direction and editing and such, but just bizarre stories in my opinion. I should say ...MORE bizarre than most Italian horror movies from the 70's, because they ALL tended to be pretty damned bizarre. Anyway, I scanned through it, and it looks like they were able to sort of re-create that 1970's look and feel even though this movie was made in 2012 or 2013. And of course... it's also starring his daughter Asia Argento. Seems like he can't make a movie without sticking her in it. Also seems like he makes a point of having her get NAKED in every damn movie he puts her in too, which is really fuckin' weird.

Argento's Dracula (2013) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/680563/argento-s-dracula

And if you like your Dracula only a little bit... (pun totally intended) ...then you'll love the miniature version of Dracula played by the legendary little man Phil Fondacaro in the cult classic The Creeps. It's bad, it's totally cheesy. You probably won't like it. But my philosophy is you gotta have some occasional "crap" and "cheese" in your movie watching diet so that you can better appreciate the truly good movies. And... It's little MIDGET MONSTERS! What's not to love?

The Creeps (1997) -
https://tubitv.com/movies/468973/the-creeps

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/dev/random / The Official 2022-2023 Football Thread

« on: September 03, 2022, 08:02:22 AM »

Yeeeees! It's here! Finally, a reason to use your TV again for something other than being spoonfed wrong-headed opinionations from blatantly biased news sources. We can once again bask in the EnergyStar compliant energy-efficient warm glow of the light emitting diodes,... or perhaps the organic light emitting diodes of a fancy-ass Vizio OLED tv if you're one of those rich bitches.

Odds that Notre Dame will FINALLY beat Ohio State today. Anyone? I'm saying, oh... 500 to 1. By all means Notre Dame, prove me wrong and give me a reason to not believe you've been over-valued by all the polls.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha eating

« on: September 03, 2022, 07:30:53 AM »

Good god, all the pics I hotlinked are obviously gone now. Gonna have to start remembering to attach every single pic I guess.



Still drinking Bulletproof coffee. Best coffee around in my opinion. Perhaps it's catching on. I saw that my local Publix is starting to carry it in both the K-cups and pre-ground bags now. I'm tellin' you people, good stuff, give it a try. It's kind of expensive though. Currently priced at about 12 bucks for a pack of 10 pods, which is honestly too much to pay for coffee, but that's the name of the game with k-cups. No matter WHAT you get in a k-cup, it's overpriced. Bags of grounds have gone up over the years too, but the price you pay per cup is still "reasonable". I'm thinking about going back to a basket filter and carafe. I saw a little mini Mr. Coffee 4-cup carafe at Target the other day for about 22 bucks, might do something like that.

I still drink Dunkin Donuts original coffee too. It's also really good stuff. Beats any kind of Starbucks or Peet's or Newmans Own or Green Mountain you'll ever find, in my opinion.

I saw somewhere earlier this year that Dunkin Donuts was considering coming out with some kind of chocolate donut or boston creme donut flavored coffee, and I've been hoping to see it in stores, but perhaps they changed their mind and didn't release it. I did see this at the store yesterday and picked up a box to try. Dunkin "Falling for Maple" maple flavored limited edition.



Tried some this morning. Good stuff! Like the box shows, it's kinda like coffee with maple syrup flavor. Would go great with some homemade waffles covered in real maple syrup. Seriously people, don't eat that Aunt Jemima or Log Cabin stuff, it's corn syrup with tons of sugar and artificial maple flavor added.

Speaking of maple syrup... I was hearing on the news a lot earlier this year that there was supposed to be a maple syrup shortage. Perhaps it's true, because pretty much EVERY SINGLE brand of syrup I've seen in stores since springtime have all been super-duper watery, like they are possibly watering down their syrup to stretch it farther. Kind of annoying. You pour it and it just runs everywhere off the waffles or pancakes.

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dm / Re: DM server suggestions: max players, new maps

« on: September 02, 2022, 02:02:14 PM »

It came in the ibuypower pc I bought off of Amazon late last year. I guess ibuypower had some older stuff they needed to clear out, and the video card shortage was in full effect, so they just stuck these bare minimum things in there to get people to buy them. It's a mini-ATX motherboard with a smaller sized case, and I bought it for 2 reasons. #1... OOOOO PRITTY COLURZ ON TEH FANZ0rz!!!1!  and #2, it was the cheapest thing that had a traditional PSU in it. HP and Dell had some similarly dirt cheap priced systems, but they didn't have a glass sided case, and they had odd-ball smaller size proprietary PSU's in them... so if the PSU fails, you gotta buy a replacement FROM THEM in order to have the right size PSU chasis and proprietary plugs coming off of it.

For example... LOL, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CRAP!?!



They cram these ridiculously designed proprietary PSU's in their builds to save space. PSU's are gonna fail. And I'm not really sure, it might depend on the model, but you probably aren't going to be able to run up to your local Microcenter or Best Buy and get a replacement off the shelf, it's likely something that'll need to be ordered, and then you gotta wait 2 weeks, and meanwhile you've got no computer.

NAH.

So I opted for a machine that came with a standard sized everyday power supply that I can replace easily.

Anyway, the GT730 2gb is still an "upgrade" from the previous Radeon hd4250 1gb (or something like that, can't remember the actual model). I forget what the CPU is in that old machine too. It's a Win7 box that I got in 2011 I think, slow as turtles screwing compared to my new box.

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dm / Re: DM server suggestions: max players, new maps

« on: August 28, 2022, 12:25:36 AM »

The other Q3 map on there (I forget the name, the one with the really tall bounce pad jump up to the RL where people always want to camp)

That sounds like campgrounds.bsp.  I don't see what you mean by limits being pushed though. I'm on a non-windows client on a mac laptop and it runs fine for me even with 16 players on it.  Player clutter wise, it's one of the few maps I can tolerate with 10+ players because it's so large.

I wasn't suggesting removing it.

But I'm definitely not imagining what I'm seeing sometimes. I would've been tempted to say it could've been due to my old and failing video card, which did go pretty much full "fail" on me right before the Quadz birthday FFA thing. I was visit the forums here on firefox when suddenly the screen broke in half (right side of screen displaying on left side of monitor, and vice versa) with weird shifted colors. Before that, the monitor kept flickering like it was changing display modes anytime a video or gif was on the screen. And for the past few years, the fan has been making ungodly amounts of noise, likely bearings worn out. I remember asking Quadz if a virus could be doing something to make the fan in my PSU make noise, because the fan on my video card was so damned small that I didn't realize it was a fan at all. Whenever I looked up images of my video card on google, all of them looked like they had passive cooling heatsink fins with NO FAN. So when I was running up and down the road 20 times right after covid hit to get new PSU's only to find the NOISE WAS STILL THERE... turns out, it was probably that damned video card the WHOLE TIME. I ended up spending about 300 bucks on a WAAAAAY overpowered modular PSU for that machine because it was the "best" PSU that Microcenter had at the time.

Anyway, I swapped that 1gb card out for a newer GT 730 2gb card, and was instantly able to achieve a higher fps than before (120hz vs 75hz)... but during the Quadz FFA thing when campgrounds came up, again I was getting a performance hit, stuttering video (sluggish frame rate) in some parts of the map, rockets disappearing and only seeing the particle trails, no explosion models, etc. Client could have something to do with it maybe. I think I'm on an older version of R1Q2, 2008 maybe, and I'm thinking I intentionally used the older one because the newer version did something that broke single player or coop, can't really remember.

I probably just need to get with the times and use whatever everyone else is using now.