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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes
« Last post by |iR|Focalor on May 05, 2025, 01:55:56 PM »
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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?
« Last post by |iR|Focalor on May 05, 2025, 10:06:34 AM »The more you browse youtube, the more you realize all the things you'll NEVER be able to do on a guitar... because I didn't start intensive training when I was barely old enough to scribble my own name like this lady obviously did. 
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
I honestly don't lament my lack of ability to play classical guitar. At this point, I don't TRY too hard to improve, and I play just for my own enjoyment of it. I'm not interested in impressing anyone with my skills. It's fun for me and that's enough. Also, as much I love listening to and especially watching someone this talented play classical guitar, it's just not really a style of music I've ever been too interested in playing much past it's practical application towards rock music, as in when I spent a little time studying Randy Rhoads tabs as a teen. Also... the last time I even picked up a classical guitar, I was astounded by how entirely flat and wide the fretboard was compared to a typical radiused fretboard on an electric.
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
I honestly don't lament my lack of ability to play classical guitar. At this point, I don't TRY too hard to improve, and I play just for my own enjoyment of it. I'm not interested in impressing anyone with my skills. It's fun for me and that's enough. Also, as much I love listening to and especially watching someone this talented play classical guitar, it's just not really a style of music I've ever been too interested in playing much past it's practical application towards rock music, as in when I spent a little time studying Randy Rhoads tabs as a teen. Also... the last time I even picked up a classical guitar, I was astounded by how entirely flat and wide the fretboard was compared to a typical radiused fretboard on an electric.
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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?
« Last post by |iR|Focalor on April 25, 2025, 07:15:31 AM »Started branching out into jazz late last year.
Chet Baker. Was RIDICULOUSLY talented, but spent probably the larger portion of his life as a heroin junkie. His life was about as sad as some of his songs sound. He died when he either fell out of a 2nd story apartment window or jumped, no one is really sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKzz81m5c&ab_channel=Sweetydu972M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsz3mrnIBd0
Chet Baker. Was RIDICULOUSLY talented, but spent probably the larger portion of his life as a heroin junkie. His life was about as sad as some of his songs sound. He died when he either fell out of a 2nd story apartment window or jumped, no one is really sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKzz81m5c&ab_channel=Sweetydu972M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsz3mrnIBd0
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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: Ye Religion Thread
« Last post by |iR|Focalor on April 11, 2025, 04:00:43 PM »
Woooo! Church people burnin' it UP with the memes!
Just goes to show you... Democrats are the only ones who still can't meme.
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Bot Drop / Re: First hack of the year 2993
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Bot Drop / Re: First hack of the year 2993
« Last post by 10zx on April 08, 2025, 03:47:19 PM »People refer to me by a different alias now... lol
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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....
« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 31, 2025, 03:36:57 PM »The Exorcism (2024)
Russell Crowe is one of my favorite actors. I don't recall seeing anything he was in that I didn't like. The Insider, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander, 3:10 to Yuma, some of the best movies ever.
But this thing... it's so bad. It's every cliche of every dime-a-dozen possession movie. It's like a 13 year old girl watched the Exorcist (1973) and then used the idea of the filming of that movie as a setting for a movie about an exorcism... or something. I can't even describe the plot on my own, because it's so stupid that I can't bring myself to recall it in such a way that I could type it out coherently. The story is dumb. VERY DUMB. You'll have to read the full plot on wikipedia to know what I'm talking about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcism_(film)#Plot
And it'll spoil the movie, but don't worry, there was nothing to fucking spoil anyway. There's no mystery, there's not much development, it's just a bunch of fuckin lights going out and loud bangs and stupid jump scares.
This movie was about 90 minutes long. I'd rather watch 90 minutes of rapid fire short-form commercials on Youtube than watch this movie. I downloaded this movie illegally... AND I STILL WANT MY MONEY BACK.
Russell Crowe is one of my favorite actors. I don't recall seeing anything he was in that I didn't like. The Insider, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander, 3:10 to Yuma, some of the best movies ever.
But this thing... it's so bad. It's every cliche of every dime-a-dozen possession movie. It's like a 13 year old girl watched the Exorcist (1973) and then used the idea of the filming of that movie as a setting for a movie about an exorcism... or something. I can't even describe the plot on my own, because it's so stupid that I can't bring myself to recall it in such a way that I could type it out coherently. The story is dumb. VERY DUMB. You'll have to read the full plot on wikipedia to know what I'm talking about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcism_(film)#Plot
And it'll spoil the movie, but don't worry, there was nothing to fucking spoil anyway. There's no mystery, there's not much development, it's just a bunch of fuckin lights going out and loud bangs and stupid jump scares.
This movie was about 90 minutes long. I'd rather watch 90 minutes of rapid fire short-form commercials on Youtube than watch this movie. I downloaded this movie illegally... AND I STILL WANT MY MONEY BACK.
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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?
« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 15, 2025, 08:47:38 AM »A little belated...
RIP David Johansen AKA Buster Poindexter. (Jan 9, 1950 - Feb 28, 2025)
He was singer for the early 70's glam punk band the New York Dolls. I'm sort of into punk, but New York Dolls were never my thing.
Clip of him on the Conan OBrien show back in the 90's talking about funny stories of times from when he was with the New York Dolls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMpn7EmXTY&ab_channel=ConanO%27Brien
He also had a big hit in the late 80's, one that practically EVERYONE knows either from just being alive at the time... or probably from hearing it for one of the 9000 different occasions that it was used as an advertising jingle for all sorts of products.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18&ab_channel=BusterPoindexterVEVO
Yeah, I wasn't a fan of his Buster Poindexter stuff either.
But I did like him as a character actor, especially as the filthy obnoxious cartoony cab driver Ghost of Christmas Past in the Bill Murray Christmas movie Scrooged, one of my favorite Christmas movies. It's a classic!
Even though I was never really any kind of fan of his music, I still think he's one of the most interesting people to ever be in the music business. He's the kind of guy I would've loved to have chatted with about music and movies and such.
He passed February 28th 2025 from cancer of some kind, brain cancer I think. He was 75.
RIP David Johansen AKA Buster Poindexter. (Jan 9, 1950 - Feb 28, 2025)
He was singer for the early 70's glam punk band the New York Dolls. I'm sort of into punk, but New York Dolls were never my thing.
Clip of him on the Conan OBrien show back in the 90's talking about funny stories of times from when he was with the New York Dolls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMpn7EmXTY&ab_channel=ConanO%27Brien
He also had a big hit in the late 80's, one that practically EVERYONE knows either from just being alive at the time... or probably from hearing it for one of the 9000 different occasions that it was used as an advertising jingle for all sorts of products.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18&ab_channel=BusterPoindexterVEVO
Yeah, I wasn't a fan of his Buster Poindexter stuff either.
But I did like him as a character actor, especially as the filthy obnoxious cartoony cab driver Ghost of Christmas Past in the Bill Murray Christmas movie Scrooged, one of my favorite Christmas movies. It's a classic!
Even though I was never really any kind of fan of his music, I still think he's one of the most interesting people to ever be in the music business. He's the kind of guy I would've loved to have chatted with about music and movies and such.
He passed February 28th 2025 from cancer of some kind, brain cancer I think. He was 75.
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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...
« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 08, 2025, 11:47:36 PM »Another thing I saw in my firefox feed...
How Streaming Is Making Us All Cinema-Illiterate
The oldest title available on Netflix last month was 1973’s 'The Sting.' Where does that leave the next generation of film lovers?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/streaming-impact-classic-fillms-algorithm-1236146209/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Yep. I think a lot of folks who are probably also my age (mid 40's now) are reluctant to give older movies a try. I'll admit that I think a lot of movies like the types they tend to play on Turner Classics aren't all that great. A lot of it has to do with the standard "Style" of acting that was just the normal thing at the time. Guys like Humphrey Bogart who are considered to be all-time greats in some of the most acclaimed films of the period... I don't feel like he was really all that good. And I think that peculiar "style" of acting that you find in all those old black and white 1940's movies probably turns off some people. Like I said, I don't really like it... but I watch some of them anyway.
I've seen a lot of older Westerns that I really liked. The older ones focused more on telling compelling stories. Can't go wrong with John Wayne movies, they all tend to be pretty good. James Stewart did a few good ones.
I'm just a big fan of movies, I like all kinds. I just want to encourage people to branch out more and dig into older movies. Some of them are really good. And considering the fact that a lot of the crap they're churning out these days are nothing but superhero movies, remakes and reboots,... might as well.
I'd highly recommend ANYTHING directed by Alfred Hitchcock. But in particular... definitely see Vertigo (1958), in my opinion, Hitchcock's best movie, and one of the best movies of all time. And he had so many really good ones. Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Rear Window (1954). But seriously, pick ANYTHING he ever directed, it's ALL good.
And I'm always looking for something new. If anybody knows of any decent older movies I should see, please make a recommendation.
How Streaming Is Making Us All Cinema-Illiterate
The oldest title available on Netflix last month was 1973’s 'The Sting.' Where does that leave the next generation of film lovers?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/streaming-impact-classic-fillms-algorithm-1236146209/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Yep. I think a lot of folks who are probably also my age (mid 40's now) are reluctant to give older movies a try. I'll admit that I think a lot of movies like the types they tend to play on Turner Classics aren't all that great. A lot of it has to do with the standard "Style" of acting that was just the normal thing at the time. Guys like Humphrey Bogart who are considered to be all-time greats in some of the most acclaimed films of the period... I don't feel like he was really all that good. And I think that peculiar "style" of acting that you find in all those old black and white 1940's movies probably turns off some people. Like I said, I don't really like it... but I watch some of them anyway.
I've seen a lot of older Westerns that I really liked. The older ones focused more on telling compelling stories. Can't go wrong with John Wayne movies, they all tend to be pretty good. James Stewart did a few good ones.
I'm just a big fan of movies, I like all kinds. I just want to encourage people to branch out more and dig into older movies. Some of them are really good. And considering the fact that a lot of the crap they're churning out these days are nothing but superhero movies, remakes and reboots,... might as well.
I'd highly recommend ANYTHING directed by Alfred Hitchcock. But in particular... definitely see Vertigo (1958), in my opinion, Hitchcock's best movie, and one of the best movies of all time. And he had so many really good ones. Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Rear Window (1954). But seriously, pick ANYTHING he ever directed, it's ALL good.
And I'm always looking for something new. If anybody knows of any decent older movies I should see, please make a recommendation.
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Quake / Re: Animated HUD icons? Which Q2 client can do this?
« Last post by AmpLiF1eR on March 05, 2025, 12:19:46 AM »About month ago i coded a fork of q2pro (client/server/gamedll/custom mods) with an additional HUD (switchable to default/new), but looks like no one was interested, so, i just removed it from moddb
How it looks:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tIxBYcqyiD4reip1dvRdcODeo6HKCo3M/view
You can download it from gdrive, just unpack to your quake 2 and open manual (HOWTO).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KN2ZVZNTzZs2XyuAAYvB1QwHaIwQcRLS/view?usp=sharing
sick! thanks.... can't believe the interest was so low :p
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