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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 23, 2026, 01:18:08 PM »

Quote from: |iR|Focalor on May 05, 2025, 10:06:34 AM

Ana Vidocic, classical guitarist.

Absolutely FLAWLESS technique and she seems to play all of these pieces completely from memory. Just WOW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e26zZ83Oh6Y&ab_channel=OmniFoundation

Ana Vidovic is immensely good. But I dunno, I think Thu Le might have her beat just slightly. El Choclo is a RIDICULOUSLY hard piece to play, and out of any 10 people who actually CAN play it, maybe only 1 of those 10 will play it flawlessly to where it sounds fluid and natural like Thu Le does.

How is she so good? Like Ana Vidovic, she started learning as a child (4 years old). That'll do it. Start doing anything that young and training hard at it every day of your life and by the time you're 25, you'll be a world-class master at whatever it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkdrX2UnzDQ

/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 22, 2026, 02:13:16 AM »

I was sort of a reluctant fan of country. When I was growing up, I was all about ROCK. "COUNTRY SUCKS!" That was the crap your grandparents listened to. But as I became a teenager, more and more people started listening to country. Then around 12 or 13, I got into playing guitar and it opened my mind to all sorts of different stuff - blues, smooth jazz, etc, and I even started giving country a chance. I started getting into classic country too especially, stuff like Hank Williams, Glen Campbell, Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck. I discovered that maybe the music wasn't always the best produced or most technically flawless and talented, but the songwriting was so good. They could employ a masterfully crafted economy of words in a few short verses to paint a vivid picture in the listeners head. Almost magical how they could make you see places you've never been and feel a certain way.

Anyway, Merle Haggard was always one of those guys. He passed away back in 2016. His youngest son, Ben, followed much of the family and got into music. He sounds a lot like his dad, but a lot more agile with his voice, and actually... he sounds better than his old man in my opinion. Maybe not a better guitar player though, I dunno. Merle was as brilliant of a telecaster player as he was a songwriter.

Anyway, came across this watching a musical tribute Merle's family did a few years ago. His son Ben did a fantastic little version of one of my favorite Merle songs, It's All in the Movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqjE4Nx4IIQ

Speaking of guitars, Merle had THE NUMBER 1 best looking signature Fender telecaster in my opinion. Velvety looking quilted maple top. I usually don't like the 2-color black to wood stain color sunburst finishes (I prefer the 3 color sunburst that transitions from black to brown with more subtlety), but with that super deep looking quilted figuring to the maple top, it looks perfect. Neck is actually a glued-on set neck whereas other telecasters are almost always bolt on neck. White body binding, nice walnut stained stripe down the center line of the body, gold hardware, pearl button tuners. This guitar is a work of art and looks like a million bucks. And almost costs about that, they go for $10,000 these days.

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

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 16, 2026, 05:32:27 PM »

Dunno why it took me this long to get around to watching this one. I've seen bits of it before on movie channels, but I've never seen it start to finish.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) starring Sam Rockwell, Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, John Malkovich, voice talents of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, Thomas Lennon, Helen Mirren. Loads of great people in it.

Comedy Sci-fi kind of thing, absurdism, surrealism, take your pick. Very off the wall in a very good way. Sam Rockwell was a perfect pick for this movie, he plays crazy better than anyone and he's one of my favorite actors. Other great movies he's done that I'd recommend: Green Mile (1999), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Moon (2009), Seven Psychopaths (2012). I have another one of his movies I've yet to watch called Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025). Looks like he plays another sort of wacky crazy character in that one too. The few reviews I've read about it have been kinda mixed.

Anyway, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... kind of silly at times, but very entertaining. To describe it.... it's like if Terry Gilliam from Monty Python made a sci-fi movie. Would definitely recommend. Solid 9/10.

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

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 16, 2026, 12:36:23 AM »

I tried watching an old Peter Weller movie. A really strange one.

Naked Lunch (1991) starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider.

I love the cast. I've always liked Peter Weller as an actor and thought his talents went largely unnoticed and wasted. Ian Holm has had so many fantastic roles. Julian Sands is a cult favorite of mine, especially for his horror/fantasy classic Warlock, a really fun movie to watch at Halloween time. He was an avid hiker and backpacker. Sadly he died of most likely frostbite and exposure, possibly due to being caught in an avalanche in the San Gabriel Mountains of California in January 2023. Roy Scheider, another fantastic actor. He had a great career, but it still could've been better. The Deer Hunter starring Robert DeNiro and Christopher Walken... Roy Scheider was originally supposed to play the lead. If you've ever seen the whole thing, its a movie with an ending that hits you like a truck. And it was a great movie. But in my opinion, it would've been much better with Roy in the lead. DeNiro's done plenty of good movies, but I'm sorry, he just doesn't have the ability to convey emotion the same way Roy Scheider did. When you think about DeNiro, he's done lots of mobster movies, and he's good at that kinda thing. But lets face it, mobsters arent the kind of characters that show sadness and remorse because they're psychopaths, therefore someone like DeNiro (who can't do sadness and remorse worth a shit) flourishes in those roles. He's overrated. Just my opinion.

Anyway, Naked Lunch. This movie is insane. Obviously theres all kinds of subtext going on, but the surreal shit that happens on screen completely distracts you from being able to think any deeper than what is right in front of you. Also... I've had poison ivy recently and I've been on meds for it: antihistamines that make me loopy, prednisone that effects mood, also hydroxyzine which is something I take to alleviate itching at night so I can sleep better, but it's also used as an anti-anxiety kinda thing, I dunno it's weird, but they tell you DO NOT DRIVE WHILE TAKING THIS... so about 30 minutes to the end of it, I start dozing off, but waking back up every few minutes with the tv right in front of me and just absolutely FREAKING THE FUCK OUT, partly because of the weird shit that was on the screen at the time, and partly because of the really fucked up dreams and thoughts I was having before jolting awake again. I dunno, I think this movie has the ability to screw you up though. Probably don't watch it. DEFINITELY don't watch it right before you go to sleep. It makes no sense anyway. You can sit there and really try to make an honest effort to make sense of it... but theres NO WAY you will be able to.

The tagline for the movie is "exterminate all rational thought." That describes the movie pretty well. Things happen, normal sensible behavior... but then big talking bugs or an alien appears and you're like "why?".. the bug expects him to write a report on what has happened... but why?... Someone is an agent, he is an agent... agent of what and why? It's like the movie gets off on not letting you know everything that is happening and why. That's no way to make a movie. So yeah, not a fan of this one. I'm not convinced that the subtext is just too deep for me. It's more like a script based on the drug addled musings of a junkie that people have convinced themselves is a form of high art and I simply disagree. And from what I've seen about this movie, most people who saw it on release tend to agree with me. It did well with the hoity-toity critics, but bombed at the box office.

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

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 09, 2026, 08:29:32 PM »

I'm seeing now why Lorenzo Lamas always had so many haters.

I've always liked him. I was a bit of a fan of his tv show back in the 90's called Renegade. It wasn't terrific, but it was a cops and bounty hunters action movie kind of show, shit that a teenager like me was into. I also kinda liked his trilogy of SnakeEater action movies. I never saw any of his other movies. On a whim I've been watching a few of them that I haven't seen before. And yeah, most of them are pretty bad. The SnakeEater series certainly qualifies as "bad action movie" stuff, but honestly, if you had to pick the best Lorenzo Lamas movies, the SnakeEater ones would be it, particularly SnakeEater III, my favorite of the series, co-starring old ECW wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow as a bad guy biker.

A sort-of popular one that I've seen listed in the tv guide of different channels throughout the years or advertised various places...

CIA: Code Name Alexa (1992) starring Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Kinmont, Oj Simpson.

YEP. GOOD OLE MURDERIN' OJ SIMPSON. Holy crap. Watching anything with him in it is suuuuuuuch a fuckin' bummer. It's impossible not to think about what he did and it just ruins every movie he did. But in this movies case, it was garbage ALREADY, so OJ Simpson didn't make it all that much worse. WOW THIS THING SUCKS. But wait theres more... THEN THEY MADE A SEQUEL! Haven't watched the sequel yet. I know it doesn't have OJ in it though... so... I'm crossing my fingers and hoping not to be bored into falling asleep before its over.

weapons / Re: Get Q2PRO Clients Here, Q2PRO is the reccomended client for Whales eye!

« Last post by NIN-IceFox on February 28, 2026, 02:36:29 PM »

Quote from: RailWolf on February 28, 2026, 11:26:09 AM

Greetings!

Long time no chat IceFox Thanks for the links!

To add to this:
There is a repo added by res2k that has downloads at https://github.com/q2pro/q2pro/releases/tag/nightly

I just updated the Quake II Starter page to reflect the new link as well.

Thanks and long time no see as well RailWolf! I definitely need to come around more! Very nice to have an up to date repo again, some folks were definitely scratching their heads over that!

weapons / Re: Get Q2PRO Clients Here, Q2PRO is the reccomended client for Whales eye!

« Last post by RailWolf on February 28, 2026, 11:26:09 AM »

Greetings!

Long time no chat IceFox

Thanks for the links!

To add to this:
There is a repo added by res2k that has downloads at https://github.com/q2pro/q2pro/releases/tag/nightly

I just updated the Quake II Starter page to reflect the new link as well.

weapons / Get Q2PRO Clients Here, Q2PRO is the reccomended client for Whales eye!

« Last post by NIN-IceFox on February 28, 2026, 10:19:41 AM »

It has come to my attention that for reasons as of yet unknown to me, finding a more up to date release of Q2PRO has become difficult since the loss of the original sites hosting it, so I have taken it upon myself to host the latest version I got from July last year, this is a very solid and recent release and what is recommended for playing on Whale, download from my Mediafire link below!

https://www.mediafire.com/file/y5hvqmnw7t49mul/q2pro-client_win64_x64.zip/file

Thanks to RailWolf for sharing, here's up to date builds of Q2PRO below! I leave the old mediafire link above nonetheless for now ^.

https://github.com/q2pro/q2pro/releases/tag/nightly

Get Q2PRO for Linux here

~~https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.skullernet.q2pro~~ Unfortunately this seems no longer available, currently after testing, Q2PRO for Windows works just fine via Proton through Steam, so give it a try if you wish to Quake 2 on Linux! I may make some Linux related tutorials in the near future when I have more free time to do so.

And lastly there's the Q2PRO client for use with the Remaster of Quake 2, ensure this is installed correctly with your remaster install. However I did encounter some bugs last I tested on Whale with display elements not working as of yet or other bugs, try this purely as an experiment.

https://github.com/Paril/q2repro/releases/tag/nightly

And lastly as a personal update, quality of life work on Whale is still imminent despite tech losses and setbacks I've had delaying my efforts. I'm adjusting to a new OS and getting my new tools and workflow figured out and is looking good so far, look forward to seeing you all more regularly again!

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

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on February 23, 2026, 06:23:23 AM »

Quote from: Sgt. Dick on February 06, 2026, 08:45:05 PM

You should watch this one
(Rubber)

Looks pretty silly. Hell I watched Cocaine Bear. And yesterday I finally watched the Deathstalker remake. They don't make many "good" movies anymore, so I guess we gotta settle for silly now.

Yeah. Deathstalker. See, we all know [BTF]Deathstalker is just the greatest dude on earth, and that's obviously why they named the movie after him back in 1983. But [BTF]Deathstalker was so awesome that one movie named after him just wasn't enough, so they went and made a sequel named after him again, and this one was co-starring the lovely Monique Gabrielle. Both were great movies,... and both of Monique Gabrielle's boobs are great boobs. Sure, both movies were nothing Oscar worthy, but they were definitely worthy of cult status.

However, this remake...

I dunno. It's pretty goofy. The comic book nerdism gets a little oppressive at times. I see shades of Army of Darkness in it at times, same kind of gore, monster makeup and humor.

I suppose my verdict would be more on the positive side. I dislike the idea of resurrecting old cult franchises like this, but I suppose it did properly. What would be the alternative? A SERIOUS sword and sorcery movie? I don't think anyone WANTS one of those anymore. You have Game of Thrones or Vikings for things like that.

Anyway, yeah, worth a watch I suppose. Don't expect much though.

/dev/random / Re: UFO SPACECRAFT CONFIRMED BY USA

« Last post by QwazyWabbit on February 20, 2026, 12:23:48 PM »

The ODS is strong in this one.

Obama trolled Trump and said something scientists have been saying for decades. Extraterrestrial life likely exists somewhere in the universe far from Earth. That doesn't mean they are here or that there is some super-secret tech project to use alien technology. I am now retired from supporting customers that build advanced technology aircraft and I can say with authority the tech they are presently using is very strange and wonderful but it isn't aliens. It's not aliens and never has been. It's just really smart people doing really smart things. Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich were genius level executives who hired very, very bold and talented people.

Trump took the bait and is now running with it and will probably make an effort to disclose something just to top Obama. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran will be taking notes. Trump is extremely insecure when it comes to comparisons of him with Obama.

They don't want you running around in Area 51 because there are some things that are sight-sensitive, where just seeing a thing will disclose the nature of the technology that they want to maintain as secret. They also don't want people getting into dangerous areas and getting hurt by operations. Security is layered. As for me, I believe in Darwin.

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