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CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA I hate Pantera so much. Now: Cult of Luna - Marching to the Heartbeats

My Build (AMD Athlon X2 7750, XFX 8800GTS, 2GB Corsair RAM) will run most things on medium/high at 1680x1050 without many problems. I need to turn HDR off in most games though.

HORSE the band - A Million Exploding Suns HtB are so lame that they're good.

It's pretty bad in my opinion, but the only Mastodon record I ever liked was Leviathan. Ok. What is it that you don't like about this album (or any of the others)? I always thought they are pretty interesting band (I only heard Leviathan and Blood Mountain), something else than what I am used to, but as said earlier: I don't know much about metal. They're not bad, but I never really got into them. I found it a bit awkward to listen to more 'straight-up' sludge metal after dipping into Neurosis, Isis, Cult of Luna and Callisto; and because I listened to these bands that combined sludge with post-rock and ambient music, Mastodon simply felt a little bare in comparison. Of course, I probably need to listen to them a bit more, but I'm not in the mood at the moment.

It's pretty bad in my opinion, but the only Mastodon record I ever liked was Leviathan.

It shouldn't do. For example, I run my monitor at 75Hz (17" CRT at the moment, 1280x960) and can get well above 100fps in some games.

Looks like the font that the Japanese use to input non-unicode English characters. (I think non-unicode, at least)

Chihiro is better; they seem to have less emphasis on making troll subs for certain parts of an anime. I disagree 8-) But Coalguys ruined Toradora. D:

I've heard of him, his record label (Mono was signed to it, back in the day), but I've not listened to his music at all. Is the album you mentioned a good one to start with? Liars - Plaster Casts of Everything

Chihiro is better; they seem to have less emphasis on making troll subs for certain parts of an anime.

Wait, you're only 16 Silver? I pictured you around 20-22. I do agree with you though Blue. I noticed too that as I'm getting older I've been branching out my tastes more. Yeah, only just 16 too. I always thought I came off as an impertinent kid, haha.

I've heard so much positive stuff about K-ON!; I might check it out in a little while. I love music so it might be good stuff for me. Thanks for reminding me about it. Also, yeah, the Clannad movie is a bit alienating at first but it's good in its own right.

I've noticed that too, BlueLancer. This time last year (I had just turned 15), I was listening to mostly hard rock and metal and it continued that way until about September 2008. Then, I heard a few albums that gradually brought me to new genres of music; including, but not limited to: shoegaze, jazz, avant-garde, experimental and progressive rock. If I had heard them any earlier and that, and if I had not been willing to finally grow out of metal and hard rock, I probably would've hated the albums that opened my eyes to new music. That said, I still do enjoy black metal, sludge, and doom metal a lot. Also, I like weird metal such as Gorguts, maudlin of the Well and Demilich; I've always taken an interest in music that most people would never really know about or want to know about, let alone actually listen to. Metal aside, I'm usually listening to shoegaze, post-rock or indie rock/pop.

Awesome album. Boris - Blackout

Ubuntu is horrible. Maybe I'm making a schoolboy error somewhere but whenever I've used it, something has always screwed itself because of bad drivers and bad compatibility with hardware. I had more success with Arch, SuSE and Debian than Ubuntu. Also, unless you strip it of all the bloat, you'll get an OS that runs no smoother than Windows. My suggestion: read a howto of installing Arch or even Gentoo and run it in a VM. No need to switch from Windows if you need Photoshop and games.

Charles Mingus - E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

Anything but rap and country!

Adding to this; Refused is pretty sweet too. Add hatebreed and Unearth. Hatebreed is horrible.

J Dilla - Hi.

Awesome stuff. I didnt know you liked any rap. But yeah that is an awesome album. I'm no rap expert, but some of my favourite albums are: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ ... cal_music/ http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/jay_dee/donuts/ http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ ... _language/ http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ ... s_of_blue/ and of course, the aforementioned Liquid Swords.

Awesome stuff.

I think Higurashi no Naku Koro ni made me love anime again. I was in a huge slump of about 4 months where the only things I watched were Toradora!, Nodame Cantablie Paris and Hidamari Sketch. One of my Internet buddies fanboys Higurashi, so I decided to watch it. It's probably one of the best anime I've ever seen, and I wish I watched it a long time ago rather than now. It's so weird and psychological. I hope the second season doesn't disappoint.

Various types of rock music and its subgenres; listing them here would insinuate that I am more pretentious than I actually am.

By saying that nothing has happened, the troll is successful.

PNG are big files. A high-quality JPEG does the same thing and is still a lot smaller. Only use PNG when you have transparency. You can still see some loss in colour information even with a high-quality JPEG. JPEG is lossy compression so no matter how little you compress it, you're still going to lose colour information. PNG is lossless, and you can often get more desirable results at a smaller filesize than a high-quality JPEG if you know what options to use compression-wise. People shouldn't really need to worry about filesize anymore. Unless you've got a strict limit, lossless compression of media is much more desirable than lossy in my opinion. Faster Internet connections are available these days, so the difference shouldn't affect most people. @Dracion: Saving as PNG with Paint always gives you about a 2MB file. :l If you're really fussy about filesize then just bloody save as JPEG with Paint - but don't complain about the quality.