>>23269
I'm a big fan of his Killer Instinct work. A bit wub wub but it really gets you in the mood for fighting. Doom 2016's OST I found fairly inoffensive but not to KI's calibre.

>>23271

It doesn't at all. I'm more intrigued that you care so much, I couldn't imagine being that upset over anything that I didn't have a personal involvement in. I hadn't even heard the music.

The fact that you assume I would have the same level of emotional attachment and make a badly veiled attack back is the oddest part. Even if I too didn't like the music I would find your behaviour odd.

>>23274

Nah, you're definitely bothered.

>>23275

By your attempt to reduce our conversation to something you would tell across a pub to start a fight, sure that bothers me a lot. This conversation doesn't have to be a fight. Itis okay if something isn't your cup of tea but getting angry and defensive when someone questions that anger doesn't make sense to me.

>>23276
>"it's just music"

Reductio ad cuntum

>>23274

You're right, I do have a heavy level of attachment to Doom. It's my favourite game. I also fucking love heavy metal. These are two of my favourite things.

Imagine your favourite thing is steak and peppercorn sauce. Someone offers you a steak with delicious creamy peppercorn sauce, and then instead of peppercorn sauce, pours the extracts of a dog's anal gland over it.

So yeah. Of course I'm bothered, you fucking complete spacker, my post is positively frothing at the mouth. I'm not trying to disguise the fact that I'm bothered, I'm about as obviously bothered as it's possible to fucking be.

The question is why you find it so bothering that I am bothered? Am I not allowed to be upset that something I had hoped to like a great deal indeed is going to have a significant flaw?

Makes no difference to you, except that you've made it your business. You tit.

>>23275

is not me, for the record.

>>23270
>It is just music
What an insipid point of view.

>>23284

I mean it is, that's all it can be, because that is what it is. Let's put this in perspective, I wasn't the one who had a teary because a game that hasn't been released yet might not have my exact taste in music. I couldn't imagine ever being that entitled.

And let's be honest here the music sounds fine.

>>23288

No mate, you're just bumsore because I accurately called out your ear stretchers and marine-life based tattoo sleeve.

If you don't understand how it's possible to be passionate about something, subjective or otherwise, and have such a dearth of feeling towards it as you exhibit, then frankly I feel sorry for you.

>>23289

Lad by definition if I was as dispassionate as you say I would be incapable of being bum sore, being bum sore requires caring.

This is a different thing it is about growing up and realising the world doesn't service you and that it is okay for something to not be your taste.

I'll admit the idea that a new thing might threaten my love for an old thing seems daft to me. The fact that alien resurrection exists doesn't ruin my love of Aliens or Alien for me. I think people who like the prequels of star wars need their head examined but it doesn't ruin the first 3 for me. Neither does new Ghostbusters ruin old Ghostbusters or 20+ seasons of the Simpsons ruin the first 10 for me.

No one is taking away the fact that you liked doom. But by crying because you might not like the music of a game that hasn't been released seems like you are willing yourself to hate it because you aren't capable of managing your emotions. It doesn't have to be a threat to your ego.

Of course first episode of Picard is tomorrow let's see how I feel when it becomes apparent they've turned dumb action show. I suspect I'm still going to like TNG.

>>23290

I can't imagine being this upset over somebody having a different opinion on something. Dry your eyes lad.

>>23292

Oh okay. You trolled me good.

>>23288

Some people care about things, it's fine if you don't but try not to pull down other people just because you were molested as a child.

>>23294

Making a public declararation of how something is going to be awful and anyone who likes it doesn't know what real music is transcends just caring about things into a lack of self control and black and white thinking.

They pulled themselves down, I didn't say the thing they like was shit, they did, and that anyone who liked it as a result is an idiot. I pushed for neutral.

I really don't understand why it hurts your ego that someone might not feel something has to either be the best thing ever or total shit. It can just be not for them.

Was Doom actually good? I ummed and arred about whether or not to buy it during Steam's most recent sales, but it looked really repetitive and quite repetitive so in the end I gave it a miss.

>>23298

>>23298

It runs really well considering how good it looks, there's a huge variety in the weapons, the levels vary nicely across the game and the combat is really polished. I'd say it's worth it.
The closed combat arena formula does wear on me a bit compared to the flowing level design of the classic but I enjoy it overall. It's almost like a first person character action game in a way.

I've also played it for nearly 40 hours (twice through and then some levels a few times) which is rare for modern shooters for me.

>>23297

It's just a bit puzzling why, if you claim to be so neutral on the issue of music, you feel compelled to make so many posts about somebody else having vocal feelings about it. That's a bit hypocritical lad.

Ultimately it's not harming your enjoyment of it for them to vent their dissatisfaction. And I think when we're all adults, I think we are grown up enough to understand the obvious hyperbole behind a statement like "anyone who likes x is a cunt" and take it with the appropriate pinch of salt.

He's right though, the music is very incongruous when they've made everything else deliberately "old school". I'd prefer some kickass speed metal too.

>>23300
I'll give it a shot when it's a fiver again then. Also embarrassed I managed to post "repetitive and quite repetitive" without noticing, but whatever.

>>23301
Holy shit can you both shut up about it already?

>>23301

Just because you can read between the lines of what someone 'meant' doesn't mean their behaviour is appropriate.

I've only carried on because people seem to be incapable of accepting I'm saying music is just music without them projecting it is a personal attack. Whist making personal attacks.

Which seems terribly ironic; if a person says 'only a thick cunt likes this'- that must not really mean they are making a value judgement, gate keeping, and think people are a thick cunt for liking it.

But if I say 'it is just music' people holler and jeers at me because aparenttly grounding tautologies to try regain perspective it is an undermining value judgements.

The bias is obvious I don't know why I tried to engage the people here like they were reasoned adults rather than entitled fanboys crying over nothing but I won't make the mistake of talking to people here like they matter again.

>>23304

Here's how it actually went you deranged fucking lunatic. Some bloke gave a serious but semi-comical analysis of something he was interested in and you questioned whether he had the right to speak on something you deemed trivial with what you deemed passion. You are fucking insane and there's a reason nobody invites you to parties. Hint, this is the reason, what you're doing here.

>>23304

>The bias is obvious I don't know why I tried to engage the people here like they were reasoned adults rather than entitled fanboys crying over nothing but I won't make the mistake of talking to people here like they matter again.

I was pretty neutral on you until this. Feel free to fuck off if that's how you feel, I haven't read anything further up in the topic. Just saw this.

Was going to castigate >>23305 for being a bit mean but you invited it.

Stop being a spaz and lighten up.

Fuck me, it's a mediocre reboot of a mediocre '90s FPS. Stop pushing this shite to the top of /*/.

>>23307

Blame Purp for the Sage implementation. The most popular thread on news is premised on the replacement of some old shutters in Huddersfield, it doesn't reeeaaallly matter. Threads get derailed and rerailed, the joy is in the experience.

Fuck, forgot to post this from the internet caf. Bye lads.

Just realised it was me that posted this originally almost 4 years ago.

Wonder if anyone took the code.

>>23348
I don't need to try redeeming it to know someone definitely took the code, mate.

I'm not exactly sure what was being argued about all those years ago here. When I tried to read the posts my vision went blurry and I felt like headed, but it was something about Doom and it's music so I think this (very long) letter by Mick Gordon might be of some import. I've not finished reading it, but the short and the long of it is that he got absolutely fucked by the jefes while working on Doom Eternal's music.

https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

>>25864
The big budget game industry and the hollywood movie industry are suffering the same problems. This sort of treatment of creative staff and contractors isn't unusual it's the standard practice, they lock people into exploitative contracts, force significant amounts of unpaid overtime out of them, and threaten them with legal action if they try to claw anything back.
The only difference with Mick Gordon is that he is a well known public figure with a good reputation and a big fan base and ID fucked up big time trying to treat him the same way as one of their faceless game devs.

>>25864

I thought the story a year or two back was that is was Gordon being a drama queen who missed all his deadlines and fucked the studio around?

I feel quite certain there are two sides to this story. And his soundtrack was shite anyway. The definition of overrated.

>>25866
>Gordon being a drama queen who missed all his deadlines and fucked the studio around?
And now he's posted extracts from his contracts and emails with the studio proving without a doubt those were all lies.

>And his soundtrack was shite anyway.
The soundtrack in the game or the OST? If the latter then again he's posted proof that this was a cobbled together mess made by someone else not himself. If the former that's more a matter of opinion on your taste in music but even then it wasnt as good as it could be because he was forced to write music for scenes in the game before they existed which backwards to how its usually done.

>>25867

While there s no accounting for taste, it continues to puzzle me how a soundtrack that is/was basically just a fusion of djent and dubstep, two of the shallowest and most gimmicky genres to have come out of the 2010s has reached such widespread acclaim. And I have tried to give it an earnest, good faith chance.

It fits the game just fine, but I mean, I really doubt it will age well. At all. It will age like Vanilla Ice.

>>25867

Getting weird conflicting requests from clients is normal for creative freelancers. People trying to diddle you on the contract is normal. Quietly tipping off your peers about a bad experience with a client is normal. Publicly posting book-length screeds about previous clients is very much not normal and not good for your career.

I don't know what really happened in this case, but I did a ctrl-f for the word "union" and found nothing, which is a bit concerning. Musicians are very well represented by the MU and I suspect that most of this could have been settled amicably if he had contacted his rep. If he isn't a member, then it serves him right for being a scab.

>>25869
>Publicly posting book-length screeds about previous clients is very much not normal and not good for your career.
Yes but did you ever read what Marty said about him? An employer fucking around and messing up their project, then picking a contractor as a scapegoat publicly humiliating them and trashing their reputation is normal?
Mick had a choice of taking a bit of money in return for basically agreeing that everything Marty said was true and he was shite at his job, do you really think THAT would have been good for their career?

There was a developer from Activision who left after some drama about the MW2 soundtrack, which I found a bit perplexing, mainly because it never actually occurred to me that a real human has to put real work into the kind of music that goes into a Call of Duty.

But anyway, they posted a public resignation that passively aggressively seemed to shift all the blame onto Activision, and while I'm totally willing to believe Activision are a set of bastards who will fuck you every which way, I dont need evidence to know that is almost definitely the case, somehow I didn't quite buy their story either. The vibe it gave me was distinctly that of "I want to get my shot off first." It was a bitchy, catty, office politics kind of move.

I think bringing the drama public like that is a mark of un-professionalism wherever you see it. I just get the feeling that if there was a legitimate case to answer, and they are well respected players in the industry like Gordon, then it would be dealt with privately by their legal representatives. Airing dirty laundry publicly like this just suggests it was really just a personal feud between people who didn't get on, and they're trying to disguise it as work related.

>>25871
Gordon explains that he can't go toe-to-toe with Zenimax's legal department for fairly obvious reasons, and that Marty Stratton lied to him about some kind of mutually agreed upon statement before publically smearing him on Reddit, of all places. Marty Stratton was the one who brought this into the public sphere, not Mick Gordon.

>>21528
How is a thread I started over 6 years ago still here?

>>25873
There are threads from when Labour were still in government. I think pre-Great Recession is before the site's time, but I'll bet there are few threads still around from before Woolworths went under.

>>25871
>I think bringing the drama public like that is a mark of un-professionalism wherever you see it.
Found the bootlicker.

>>25875
Why were you looking for one? Are your boots dirty? Just use a brush.

>>25874
From Wikipedia:
> On 26 November 2008, the trading of shares in Woolworths PLC was suspended, and Neville Kahn, Dan Butters and Nick Dargan of Deloitte were appointed joint administrators

And you were right! The oldest post I could find is from 3rd November 2008, https://britfa.gs/y/res/26.html

Possibly (I don't know the cross-board linking syntax):
>>>/y/26

>>25877
(NSFW, obviously)

>>25876
I was looking for whatever it was that was glowing so brightly I needed sunglasses inside the shed.

>>25877
.gs is a national time machine.

>>25877
evangelist christian korean youtubers on the male porn board. That'd get you a paddlin' nowadays. How the tables turn.

>>25880
Excluding /x/ (oldest post from 2009-06-26. "yummy redheads") and /y/ (already linked) we get a reasonable spread of the last 14 years. /com/ has the distinctive honour of having the second (>>/com/232), third (>>/com/259), and fourth (>>/com/339) overall oldest posts after that /y/ post.

Python code to get the data attached, image is valid rar file

By board:
2008-12-07 >>/com/232
2009-01-16 >>/art/3
2009-05-27 >>/map/1
2010-01-02 >>/eco/97
2010-02-24 >>/boo/665
2010-03-31 >>/A/2130
2010-08-01 >>/nom/4633
2010-08-09 >>/poof/2419
2010-08-13 >>/spo/2565
2010-11-22 >>/uni/1728
2011-04-21 >>/zoo/11908
2011-05-11 >>/mph/1375
2011-05-27 >>/job/1795
2011-09-06 >>/101/5003
2012-01-05 >>/fat/197
2012-02-28 >>/g/14516
2012-03-17 >>/lit/4296
2012-04-02 >>/beat/6179
2012-07-12 >>/lab/2908
2013-02-18 >>/£$€¥/3223
2013-08-01 >>/shed/10933
2013-10-05 >>/uhu/1531
2013-10-08 >>/pol/51150
2013-10-29 >>/v/15319
2014-03-05 >>/emo/18262
2016-01-26 >>/news/9430
2018-01-03 >>/b/414831
2018-01-03 >>/iq/59246

>>25886
Applaud your work lad.

>>25886

Oh, for fucksake. I knew I'd be at least one of these, and I was right.

>>25888

I am afraid I'm likely in all of them. A few I've clicked on my brain was like "this was last week, right?"

>>25887
Just riding on the coat tails of purple, mate.

>>25886
Whoops!
diff --git a/fetch.py b/fetch.py
index 9022139..319d3c8 100644
--- a/fetch.py
+++ b/fetch.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def do_fetch(url, cache=False):
result = fh.read()
return result

- logging.debug("Fetching {url} for caching")
+ logging.debug(f"Fetching {url} for caching")
data = requests.get(url).text
with open(cache_file, 'w') as fh:
fh.write(data)