Darth Drabek

Wow! Looks like I get the chance to post in the first thread ever created at Obsidian's forums. Three cheers for Kirottu! Also, there's only a few folks from that thread that still post here. Interesting.

This is some seriously great news! Maybe it'll be a "platinum hit" by the time I buy a next-gen system. It doesn't really need to be a side-scroller to keep the Golden Axe feel, methinks... It just needs seriously heroic music. I mean like "Conan the Barbarian" heroic music. And the "kill more beasties to build up the magic meter" mana system. I have the old ones emulated on my Xbox, for whenever I want to relive my Genesis days.

Now that's rock and roll. Muchas gracias, Baley. Tomahawk - Birdsong They opened with that when I saw them. They all came out in rice paddy hats and robes, except the guitarist, who wore a suit.

OK, I'm happy now. Seriously, I thought about taking a camera to work to take a picture of this dinosaur. It would elicit quite a few chuckles.

You jerkface! You people and your video links that my work computer (Power Mac 4400, ca. 1995) cannot handle but that I really want to see! God Hates a Coward was the highlight when I saw them live. Does Patton wear the gas mask? Please tell me he wears the gas mask. Anyway, Chris Cornell - Sweet Euphoria

Man I loved my Dreamcast. I played hours and hours of Tony Hawk 1 and 2 on that baby. As well as Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Hydro Thunder and some other games. Funny story: Once my college roommate came home really, really drunk one night and puked all over the room. The dreamcast, phone and most of his computer desk all got soaked, so I was justifably worried for my baby. However, I wasn't going anywhere near that room for two days while he cleaned everything up, so I had to play the waiting game. After some minor trouble at first (and some persistant scrubbing on his part), we once again were able to have Virtua Tennis dorm tournaments in our room. Happy ending!

Finished BG2: Throne of Bhaal with my multi-class elf fighter/thief. He was a fun character, and I gotta say I'm probably going to play another BG2 game. That'll be three in a row, although I only played ToB on the second playthrough. Has anyone played BG1 for the first time after playing BG2? I've heard it would be a big disappointment, but my curiosity might get the best of me.

It was pretty fascinating stuff, I admit. Basically shattered my Western-centric idea of music. Completely different concept of rhythm and melody, plus different song structure than anything I was used to hearing. The Pogues - The Broad Majestic Shannon

Oh, I'd broaden 'em all right. If I wasn't at work.... and I had an internet connection at home. All you kids and your links and your baggy jeans and your.... rock and roll music! Cracker - I Hate My Generation :'(

I can see how Kashmir would work with the rather odd description you gave of that band. Cypress Hill - Tequila Sunrise (not an Eagles cover) That's a pretty cool stringed instrument there, karka. You use one of those large triangular picks with that? I once wrote a 13-page research paper on gagaku, Japanese court music from the 11th and 12th centuries if I remember right. Very odd stuff. But hey, it's all about broadening the ol' horizons, eh? Am I right, fellas?

Joe Jackson Band - Be My Number Two Won

Seven string guitars are pretty homosexual. The Arcade Fire - Crown of Love For so long I wanted to hate this band. The singer's Modest Mouse overtones and all the love from the indie-press really made me want to contradict them. But the album is actually good. Very good. Dammit.

I've been using dBpowerAMP for a long time. It can convert CD audio to wav, flac, mp3. Can also convert wav to mp3 or flac or vice versa. Very useful if you're concerned about lossless, uncompressed audio, that sort of thing. Which you NEED for Dire Straits soundboard recordings. Mark Knopfler will be appreciated with nothing less. Before that I used some freeware program that was decent: FreeRipMP3.

Rocket from the Crypt - Young Livers

Is it still a double post if it's six hours later? Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - At the Border, Guy

Cake - World of Two

Yeah, Winamp 3 was awful. I uninstalled that sucker so fast and went back to 2.97 or whatever I had.

I'm gonna cheat and name a compilation... All Ages is the best Bad Religion CD, cause it's got (most of) the best tracks from their Epitaph years. No Control is one of their best actual albums, second to Stranger than Fiction in my book. BR - I Want to Conquer the World

I've used winamp since .mp2 was the file format of choice. It's minimalism appeals to me, and the playlist is easy to use without a bunch of dumb options I won't use. Also, winamp doesn't try to manage your song library, another thing I hate about windows media player and musicmatch jukebox. My only gripe with winamp is that the random function sucks, and has never improved. That gets really annoying when you're dealing with large playlists. I hate musicmatch, but it does have the redeeming feature of a recorder that can record straight to mp3

I gotta get my hands on some Uncle Tupelo. I should probably wait a while though. I feel like I've burned through most of Wilco's back catalogue in two weeks. Let's try listening to something else for a minute or two. minibosses - castlevania 1 theme oasis - slide away

Wilco - Via Chicago

Watched Zoolander this weekend. That was a funny movie that got the short end of the stick. Very stupid, but funny. "Listen to your friend Billy Zane, he's a cool dude." Oh, and the David Bowie cameo was classic.

Oh man, that song is all kinds of awesome. tell me do ya do ya have any money? i wanna spend all your money... at the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar! Aimee Mann - Dear John Somebody tell this woman she's not supposed to have rawkin' guitar solos in her songs.

I just watched a CMT video of Bruce Springsteen recording his new album with a big band playing Pete Seeger classics like "John Henry Was a Steel Drivin' Man" and "Pay Me My Money Down." It sounds like a zydeco party. This CD is gonna be great. edit: BTW, Richard Cheese is a genius and Rudie Can't Fail is great.

Man, they even had the keyboard mouse set-up for the DC too. That would have been convenient for a BG port.