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tha_rami
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Posted: 27th Jul 2008 15:09 Edited at: 29th Jul 2008 05:42
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Favorite RTS: Urban Assault
Favorite Stealth: MGS4
Favorite Action: MGS4
Favorite FPS: Deus Ex
Favorite RPG: Morrowind
Favorite Game: ...any of the above.
Favorite Food: Pancakes
Favorite music: Rock
Favorite badnd: Linkin Park
Favorite word: Dude
Favorite Hobby: Computers
Favorite movie: The Usual Suspects
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite time of day: 1AM
Favorite sport: Badminton
Favorite number: 23
Favorite real animal: Hamster
Favorite Forum: TGC
Favorite Swear: <explicit>
Favorite Drink: Coca Cola
LEAST Favorite music: Anything ending with "core".
Favorite Fruit: Apple
Favorite type of TV Show: Investigative shows
Favorite TV series: House
LEAST Favorite kind of people: People who believe that they are right by definition.
Favorite kind of people: Anything intellectual
Favorite hair cut/color: Brown,
Favorite topic to talk about: Anything goes
Favorite forum on TGC: Geek Culture/WIP
Favorite quote: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

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Anonymous User
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Posted: 27th Jul 2008 15:33
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Quote: "The Usual Suspects"


A great film. My favourite has to be The Dark City or Blade Runner.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 01:11
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Quote: "Favorite animal: dog/tiger"

wouldn't your tiger eat your dog?

@tha_rami
oooh, nice favs. Especially favorite 'badnd' and favorite RPG. Yeah for Morrowind!!! You are a good person. lol

Quote: "And yeesh, everyone on TGC likes metal lol."

I'm not a fan of metal specifically... I just like good music and metal just happens to be good, is it coincidence? I don't know. I like lot's of other stuff too but I must say that many of the bands listed by myself and others wouldn't be called metal (well, not in my book atleast).

Well... No, my name IS actually 'sinisterstuf' not 'Sinister Stuff', a misspelling resulting from the former having too many characters with no spaces in between

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 01:51
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Quote: "I'm with Dink. I don't care how "rawk" you are... the people who hate "conformists" conform more than anyone I've ever seen, lol."


I conform to my tastes...does that make me a conformist... Bugger, we're all bloody conformists.

I use the label 'metaller' or 'mosher' because aside from 'geek/swat/boffin' it's the best fitting one. I listen to a lot of metal a like the colour black - I buy band t-shirts because I love the bands or because they look cool. This whole Goth looks, bondage trousers? Piercings etc. Nah...no way. As for 'metal', not strictly speaking, I just finished listening to Pink Floyd (Progressive Rock), earlier I was listen to Robben Ford (blues) and yesterday the Rolling Stones. If you catch me on a certain day you might find me listen to the Gladiator Soundtrack or even Pavorotti.

And to be honest that's the way I like it and think it's an attitude you should always have - I've known people, to list the most hardcore metal to make themselves look cool - there's some black metal out there I love, but I wouldn't put 'Mayhem' on my list to look cool.

I think conformity in the metal world makes you look bad to the non-conformists...why do you think Emos and some goths (goths I know do not fit into any descriptions here) aren't always taken seriously?

But on the topic of conformists, this reminds me of a non-conformist website saying "Don't conform to the iPod, it's not that great, this MP3 is much better, so buy it instead" - or along those lines...I hope it was a joke or a sense of irony, otherwise

Anyway, I ought to do a list:


Favourite RTS: Dawn of War
Favourite RPG: Final Fantasy VII
Favourite Adventure Game: Secret of Monkey Island
Favourite FPS: Half Life 2
Favourite Puzzle Game: Push Over
Favourite Arcarde Game: Echoes (come on, it's brilliant!)
Favourite Platformer: Syobon Action or Sonic the Hedgehog
Favourite Racer: Gran Turismo
Favourite Food: Chicken Chow Mein/Stir Fry
Favourite Breakfast Cereal: SHREDDIES!
Favourite Car: Lotus Elise
Favourite 3D Artist: Hwasup Song
Favourite Pet: Cats!
Favourite Wild Animal: Tiger
Favourite Meat: Chicken/Duck
Favourite Soft Drink: Dr Pepper
Favourite Hot Drink: Tea!
Favourite Alcoholic Drink: Captain Morgan's Rum
Favourite Music: Most types of metal, rock, some punk, classical (Spanish guitar, Orchestral, Symphonic, Operatic), blues, progressive
Favourite Comedian: Bill Bailey
Best Gig: Haggard, Dimmu Borgir, Opeth, Iced Earth or Metallica - all blew me away
Worst Gig: Sugababes or East 17 (they played at our May Ball, had to watch them)
Favourite Fruit: Banana
Favourite Vegetable: Carrot

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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 01:55
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Witch 4?

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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 02:22
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@seppuku - you like dawn of war? Nice. Did you see the info for #2? A cover system, destructible everything (bridges, skyscrapers)...

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 06:22 Edited at: 28th Jul 2008 06:31
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Quote: "Favorite clothing style: Black tight shirts (size s) Jeans spiked bracelets, cross neck less. Fingerless gloves with stud's."

Why? . I don't understand why people dress like that, it isn't attractive in any way and says "stupid punk drugged kid that hates life and wants to draw attention to himself because he's too inept to do something well" to me . I don't mean offense to you, but it just annoys me. Anyways...

Favorite RTS: Rome: Total War or Company of Heroes
Favorite FPS: Call of Duty 4 or ArmA
Favorite RPG: Oblivion or Bioshock
Favorite Animal: Dogs (preferably big)
Favorite Girl Hair Color: Brown
Favorite Food: Chicken Strips
Favorite Genre: Rock, Soft/Rock, Rock/Pop
Favorite Song: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol, Shadow of the Day by Linkin Park
Favorite Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Favorite Drink: Coke
Favorite kind of people: Intellectual people that don't swear excessively and that go out of their way to make people feel welcome or comfortable.
LEAST Favorite kind of people: People that try to impress, are loud and obnoxious, swear excessively, try to get attention, and are idiots in general.

Quote: "LEAST Favorite kind of people: People who believe that they are right by definition."

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Quote: "Favorite kind of people: Anything intellectual"

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 06:29 Edited at: 28th Jul 2008 06:30
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Quote: "Why? . I don't understand why people dress like that, it isn't attractive in any way and says "stupid punk drugged kid that hates life and wants to draw attention to himself because he's too inept to do something well" to me . I don't mean offense to you, but it just annoys me. Anyways..."


Why let it bother you? It's just different than you're used to. Should they let it bother them if someone approaches them in a sweather and khakis? No it shouldn't. It's just clothes ^_^ They just happen to be made differently...

I dunno some people let silly things bother them like that. I'd hang out with anyone from any social group as long as they're good people.

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Gil Galvanti
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Quote: "Why let it bother you? It's just different than your used to. Should they let it bother them if someone approaches them in a sweather and khakis? No it shouldn't. It's just clothes ^_^ They just happen to be made differently..."

I can't help it, strange people (or people that appear strange) just bother me for some reason . It's not so much the fact that they are wearing that, it's the message that it sends and the fact that it seems basically to me a cry for attention, which I don't like.


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http://youtube.com/watch?v=ONEYGU_7EqU


Hurray for teh logd!
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Anonymous User
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@Jerico2day lol that's a bit random, but perfectly true.

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Tom J
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 11:28
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Quote: "wouldn't your tiger eat your dog?
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I don't have a pet tiger, lol

I have a pet dog who is great, and so he has to come under my favourites... but big cats are also really cool, so Tigers (the best of all imo )have to be joint favourite too, for different reasons.

If I did have a tiger, I would make sure he only eats other annoying breeds of dog when he/she fancied a canine snack

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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 12:08 Edited at: 28th Jul 2008 12:09
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@Tom J
lol, great, could we borrow your tiger and have him eat our neighbours' dogs? They're takin too long to die naturally and they annoy the hell out of me!

@Gil Galvanti
the first pirates movie was the best, good choice. And nice choice in RPG, YEAH for the Elder Scrolls!!!

Well... No, my name IS actually 'sinisterstuf' not 'Sinister Stuff', a misspelling resulting from the former having too many characters with no spaces in between

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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 22:50 Edited at: 28th Jul 2008 22:55
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Fav Game: Half Life 2, Homeworld, No More Heroes, Winkwaker
Fav Game Genre: Action Adventure
Fav Show: FLCL
Fav Movie: FLCL/The Dark Knight
Fav Comic Strip: Calvin and Hobbes
Fav Manga: Berserk
Fav Band: Pillows
Fav Food: Duck Curry/ Pad Thia
Fav Hat maker: Kangol
Fav Animal: Bizar Guy
Fav Super Hero: Roland Deschain
Fav Game Hero: LIIINNNNKK! LIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKK!!!!
Fav Speaker company: Bose
Fav Webcomic: Dresden Codak
Fav Writer: Orson Scott Card
Fav Book(s): Dark Tower series
Fav Sports Team: RED SOX
Fav Tiger: Hobbes

Edit: Fav Waterbottle: Nalgene

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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 23:27
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Quote: "I can't help it, strange people (or people that appear strange) just bother me for some reason "


Best you don't try meeting up with certain TGCers...I reckon a lot of them are strange in real life.

Anyway to add:

Favourite Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Favourite TV Show: QI
Favourite Magazine: 3DWorld - it's the only one I read
Favourite Weapon: Words or Fist...if words don't work, I'd rather fight like a man...though if nobody else wants to fight like a man, then I'd be no fool and pick...TANK TANK!
Favourite Phone:...I won't go there, I've already had 2 banana phone references already on this forum, 3's too many.

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My favourite letter is not Q. Oh, it's all coming out now!

I troll because I care.
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Quote: "Best you don't try meeting up with certain TGCers...I reckon a lot of them are strange in real life.
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Yep, that's why you would never want to meet me, I stalk people after they leave to go home to see where they live, and well then I... walk in and... Smell their graphics cards.
Fine I said it! I have a Graphics card fetisch!





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Gil Galvanti
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Quote: "Quote: "I can't help it, strange people (or people that appear strange) just bother me for some reason "

Best you don't try meeting up with certain TGCers...I reckon a lot of them are strange in real life."

Well strange is a very general and relative term. I don't mind certain strange stuff, it's just really weird stuff that I don't like, like furries or like people that dress like punks because they are trying to send some message. What is the advantage to dressing punk? Comfortable? Not anymore than something more normal. Attractive? Not at all. So why?


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All the things you probably had no interest in knowing about me.

Favorite Drink: Safeway Select Orange Soda
Favorite Food: Bacon
Favorite Bands: School of Fish, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Favorite Movie: Aliens
Favorite B-Movie: Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
Favorite FPS: Half-Life 1
Favorite RPG: Morrowind
Favorite Adventure Game: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Favorite Arcade Game: Mortal Kombat
Favorite TV Shows: Futurama, Miami Vice, Firefly, Babylon 5
Favorite Book: Heir to the Empire
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Gun: .45 Colt Peacemaker
Favorite Animal: Black Tree Monitor Lizard

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Posted: 29th Jul 2008 05:37 Edited at: 29th Jul 2008 05:45
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Quote: "[quote]"LEAST Favorite kind of people: People who believe that they are right by definition.""

Like you?
Quote: "Quote: "Favorite kind of people: Anything intellectual""

Like me?[/quote]

Favorite online game: Rokkitball!

Concerning Gil's next post:

Gil's Favorite Graphic App: Photoshop!


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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 29th Jul 2008 05:46 Edited at: 29th Jul 2008 05:48
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Lol, you wish Rami, he photoshopped out the other two 1's in the pic, this is the original that I got:


Very nice photoshopping with that IM Rami, I can see why people would be believe it. But then again, something like IM with a set simple font is easy to do that to.


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Posted: 29th Jul 2008 05:48 Edited at: 29th Jul 2008 05:59
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Ah, you mean this ain't a Photoshop error you're going to fix after I post this? (Gotta love editing time in this forum!)

Quote: ""

Favorite quote by BiggAdd(?): Acute Photoshop!


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Gil Galvanti
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Lol, nice try, I'm not stupid enough to make a mistake like that .

And the fact that it says points obviously shows that I had more than one .


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Posted: 29th Jul 2008 05:56 Edited at: 29th Jul 2008 05:59
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Ah!


Favorite MSN background: Fish


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Very nice photoshopping job, even with a background .


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Nice way to spam a thread with something no one cares about.

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At the bottom of each pic it says "HOME TEAM WINS" ? Even the ones with score 111...

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Quote: "Nice way to spam a thread with something no one cares about."

I made sure every post had relevance to the topic, you grumpy little cat.

Quote: "At the bottom of each pic it says "HOME TEAM WINS" ? Even the ones with score 111..."

And that concludes this epic fail. Thank you for noticing .


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Don't worry Gil, I believe you, you just forgot to take a screeny yourself, so you try to rectify the scores, just badly. Rami's the real cheater, shame on him.


Also, Rokkitball is fun, except I'm probably worse than Rami at it.




Quote: "Yep, that's why you would never want to meet me, I stalk people after they leave to go home to see where they live, and well then I... walk in and... Smell their graphics cards.
Fine I said it! I have a Graphics card fetisch! "


That's strange, even by my standards.


Quote: "Well strange is a very general and relative term. I don't mind certain strange stuff, it's just really weird stuff that I don't like, like furries or like people that dress like punks because they are trying to send some message. What is the advantage to dressing punk? Comfortable? Not anymore than something more normal. Attractive? Not at all. So why?
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I think it's as Matt and Dink have said, it's conformity to a specific style (amsuingly, 'Punk', or at least the real and original Punk was against conformity) people ought to dress as they like - what they want to wear, what they think makes them look good, except if they're trying to present themselves - to 'score' with another person, then it's good to look attractive, in an interview you want to look smart. However there are people that find this look attractive, I know girls that fall for guys dressed like that. It's mad, I know.

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Quote: " That's strange, even by my standards.
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You have excellent taste, but really it should be Opposing Force...

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lol, that last strip of posts was funny. Especially when gil had 111, but it still said rami won.

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Quote: "Lol, well over here in ca, there is hardly no one that does the same style i see one every now and then but very rarely."


Punk people are everywhere here.

And I'm sick of people who complain about screaming music and hip hop and people who dress like punks and have mohawks and stuff. You all are just old fashioned and sound like the rest of my family. Screaming is really difficult to do right, and it's not like anybody can do it, and either way, most of the really good screamers in bands are also excellent singers. Hip hop music isn't too bad, I like some of it, and if people listen to it, it's up to them.

Quote: "What is the advantage to dressing punk? Comfortable? Not anymore than something more normal. Attractive? Not at all. So why?"


Did it ever occur to you that people would dress like that because they feel like it? When I put on my pants in the morning, I'm not worried about sending a message, I wear those pants because I like those pants.

And what's with all the metal fans here?


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Favorite bands: Alesana, Chiodos, Coheed and Cambria, Daft Punk, The Fall of Troy, Family Force 5, Gorillaz, Refused, Senses Fail, Underoath

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Quote: "Screaming is really difficult to do right, and it's not like anybody can do it"

Who cares if it's difficult to do? It just isn't musical.

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Taking a dump while doing a hand stand(I imagine) is very difficult to do right, and it's not like anybody can do it, but it still doesn't sound nice.

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Favorite Movie: Phantom of the Opera
Favorite Game: Portal
Favorite TV Shows: Dragons Den, Lost, Heroes, Top Gear, QI, Mock the Week, Never mind the buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 cats, Peep Show, Black Books, Have I got news for you, Father Ted, Black Adder, Band of Brothers... etc etc
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Quote: "Favorite Game: Portal"


I'm really surprised why that's not on everyone's list. My friend at first was shouting his mouth off about how bad he thought Portal would be, I duck taped him to the chair and forced him to play through the whole game. He stopped struggling after the first level. Ever since then he loves it and, quite annoyingly, quotes Glados at every opportunity.

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Who cares if it's difficult to do? It just isn't musical."


Depends on your taste, I mean screaming music can be good (At least I like it - not all of them, some are crap IMO, I'm off to see a bunch of them (amongst other, more melodic ones) at Bloodstock in a couple of weeks) - I guess people who like that sort of thing get something out of the music some people don't...or listen to it because they can call themselves hardcore, most scene kids and emos tend to be the latter, or at least the ones I've known. "That's so hardcore" (some have renamed themselves to 'hardcore kids' )

Though fast loud metal tends to sound best when in a mosh pit or when jumping around or moving in a crowd to the music...I guess a similar reason why clubbers listen to repetitive electronic music. (Ever since clubbing I've soften up on it, and even enjoyed Zane Lowe's and Judge Jules' DJing when they came to our Uni)

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Favorite Band: I don't have one, and if I do, it changes.
Favorite Food: Bacon Pizza or Hamburgers with Fries, don't make me decide.
Favorite Drink: Root Beer (Mug makes the best)
Favorite Movie: Ummmm hard to decide as I don't watch movies, maybe the Iron Giant.
Favorite TV Show: Ummm I don't watch much TV, but I like Bones.
Favorite Game: Bioshock ATM Quake wars is great too, because it gets better with age.
Favorite Car: One that works and doesn't look or smell like crap.
Favorite Assault Rifle: Probably the AK-47 with suppressor and reflex sight.
Favorite special weapon: RPG-7
Favorite Side-arm: Desert Eagle .50

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Quote: "Who cares if it's difficult to do? It just isn't musical."


So you're saying the thousands and thousands of people who listen to it don't know what "musical" is?

I agree with Seppuku, not all screaming music is good. Some sounds like total crap. The screaming bands I listen to have alot of great singing and awesome instrumentation going for them too.


Quote: "Though fast loud metal tends to sound best when in a mosh pit or when jumping around or moving in a crowd to the music..."


So true.
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Quote: "So you're saying the thousands and thousands of people who listen to it don't know what "musical" is?"

Yes.

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Posted: 29th Jul 2008 23:43 Edited at: 29th Jul 2008 23:44
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Quote: "So you're saying the thousands and thousands of people who listen to it don't know what "musical" is?"


Quote: "Yes."


You know what that makes you? I will display courtesy and not say, but I didn't see you as the narrow-minded type. Unless, of course, it was a joke. Yours are sometimes not easy to catch.

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Posted: 29th Jul 2008 23:43 Edited at: 29th Jul 2008 23:50
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I know what is musical, I have a wide taste in music, so I'm sure I have no delusion in the matter.

Good screaming bands are: Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Behemoth, Immortal, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquility, In Flames, At the Gates, Ted Maul(they're a mix of death metal and drum & bass)

Bad screaming bands are: Cradle of Filth, Slayer, 'screemo bands' I can't remember the names of, the ones that like whining and screaming as thouh they're having a tantrum -> there are others, but having not hearing them for a long time I forget their names.

Of course all in my opinion and in accordance with my taste.

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I agree with Sepukku and Inspire. Some screaming is crap. But it's also best when it's as a contrast of something else (imo). Also I think that metal is great to listen to while programming (idk why really), it just is!

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I listen to wordless techno beats from a game soundtrack while I program.

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And that is just as good and is my 1st alternative to metal! Gotta love that stuff, especially for programming and math...

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I love listening to sense.fm on iTunes radio while I work.
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Over the years after programming many many things, and listening to many many songs, I have come to the conclusion that the totally best music to listen to, once you hit that sweet spot on a project and everything becomes easy and you want to code as fast as possible, is AC/DC. Totally. They are just the right speed for fast coding, have awesome songs, and all songs are pretty similar. So no, say, fast coding to a Nirvana song to then get hit by one of their more slow and depressing songs.

BTW, Sisters of Mercy are almost as good, but are let down by extremely slow songs here and there. No good for long periods of fast coding.

Oh yeah, and my new favourite place on earth is Gunville, which is a place on the Isle of Wight. Turns out my dad's family comes from there I found out the other day. But c'mon, can you think of a more excellent name for a place? Awesome. Good name for a game too come to think of it. Plus it looks like a knight with my surname was the governor of the Isle of Wight for a few years back in like the 15th century. Sweet. So, considering the size of the place (tiny), there is a chance that I could be decended from a knight who was basically in charge of a place called Gunville. Wish I'd found that out as a kid. Just call me Sir Gunville Put it this way, there is much more chance of that than being related to a certain extremely (read unbelievably) rich geeky lord of OSs that people like to slag off

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I don't do programming, but I do model quite a lot, and I usually just put on some old video tutorial on something in the background, I find it calming


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@Dazzag
nah, if I were to listen to AC/DC I'd never get any work done. I'd be too distracted. It's just too catchy. I'd want to hum along... or jump up and run around the room several times before I calm down enough to continue!

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great taste! Especially for fav RPG (morrowind [long live TES!!!]), fav band (creedence clearwater revival) and fav arcade game (mortal kombat). Very good taste imo!

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