>>2186
I will imagine this as you doing laps of your lair while reciting incantations to banish the evil groids and bring peace upon your realm.

A long time ago I had a homework assignment from school, we were supposed to do some activities that people in the ancient world might have done, one of these was to maintain a shrine to the household gods. I found that to be kind of fun so for quite a few years I'd leave nonperishable food offerings in a little cupboard whenever in need of luck. It was just a bit of silliness though.

>>2187
That sounds pretty cool. Maybe I should imagine the same thing while I'm doing my daily laps.
>>2189
It's funny, there are many cultures that do similar things. I'm usually a very skeptical guy, but who knows? Maybe there's something real behind those ancient traditions.

>>2190
I mean many cultures do ancestor worship, and that's dumb.

>>2201
As a skeptical guy myself, I however respect these practices.
I even sometimes do magic things even if I deeply know it'skind of larping but I enjoy doing it for the sole purpose of beauty.

>>2158
>>2159
>"Sea monster swimming through the ruins of an ancient underwater civilization".
It missed some of the intended marks, but it still came out really cool looking. It makes me think of concept art. Like it's a design for a boss battle against a mutant leviathan or something.

Good to see there have been some more posts recently. Almost a month had gone by without anything being posted. I began to think that I hadn't been invited to tower's first (and last) annual all you can drink poison punch party. Tagline: Party till you drop.

>>2171
I'm very glad there are still people who post here too. It's true that there are periods in which this place is a little dead, but that only lasts for a few days at most.

Sometimes, when the stars align, my symptoms aren't so bad and old man lady luck smiles upon me I can almost think "this isn't so bad".

Don't know if the inactivity here is related to the thread hitting bump limit but now that it's about to fall off the front page it's probably good time to make a new thread. If anyone wants a one that is.

It's really interesting when artists decide to remake their older songs, especially if they make a totally different take on them. Here are a couple of examples:

>Macabre (Pre-Pentagram) - Be Forewarned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk0q6tjD6gY
>Pentagram - Be Forewarned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIBNMoqYX9s
>Swans - Your Property
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=891H3E7eRnQ
>Swans - Yrp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUveBfdZIj0

Semi unrelated picture, by the way.

>>1885
Really nice songs. I love how ""hypnotic" they are.

>>1889
I'm sorry. It looks like there was a problem with my connection and the image wasn't attached.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfv9FDnMcaI

I'm not from the US but the translated version of this song reminds me of when I was in kindergarten where they made us sung it.

>>2166
I'm not from the US either, but I have no idea that song was translated to other languages. Out of curiosity, I took a look at Second Hand Songs and found many different versions of the song in several languages.

>Mandarin version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rDb4upMkp8
>Italian version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPh3SFI0e9M
>Spanish version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoGHp2EiiQ

Now that I think about it, I shouldn't be surprised by this. It's very popular and old song; it makes sense that it has so many versions. Out of curiosity, which version did you use to sing when you were in kindergarden?

>>2169

This one (it's in italian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA-sYFSYZOA

Actually it makes you more of a monkey if you think people comes back after sustaining sorts of irreversible damages, which makes you unable to tell between the dead or living, or clinically, schizophrenic. But you wonder how come something so outstanding, is also mentally ill? And that's the part you realize where you are also mentally insufficient for something so outrageous.

>>1701
It ate the same file again, holy shit, it's like it isn't compatible with the server despite being a completely normal mp4. I'm sure that I din't forget to upload it because the post took some minutes to go through. Here's the link to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFdE__2OKc8

>>1702
If the file extension is mistyped or missing the board seems to upload everything else, but ignore the file. If the file is corrupted somehow it usually just gives some error and doesn't upload at all. I had that problem with another post. Usually just converting the file through FFMPEG with fmpeg -i [input].mp4 [output].webm fixes it.

>>1703
I wonder if it's a filename issue on my end. I decided to download the video again with another settings but I won't try uploading it again, that would be spam-y.
>Where are my acid tablets, Garmfilled?
>I ate those food.
>That wasn't food, you stupid fat cat!

From 2011/12

>>738
I really enjoy these, the amber lights through early morning fog is quite nostalgic for me.

Here are some pictures I took a long time ago. I'm sorry if they look a little weid; I wanted to play around with Gimp.
>>1200
These three photos are really beautiful. I love the fact that each one has a very clear color palette. Actually, I'd even say they wouldn't look out of place in a magazine. However, I think my favorite it's the first one. There's something about it I really like.

I went on a bit of a hike recently and took a few pictures, unfortunately they are not very interesting but that's what the landscape here looks like. My phone screen was almost dead so it was hard to even see what I was taking a picture of and impossible to evaluate what I had taken until I got home.
It wasn't as hot as it looks, the sun was hot (of course) but the worst part at the start was mostly in the shade and afterwards there was a nice breeze for most of the way.

>>1513
Great photos. I love the first one, it looks like a frame from documentary film and I really like the fact that you can see the horizon (I live in a place surrounded by mountains, so it's impossible to see something like that here). i also like the last one a lot. You captured a pretty cool moment there.

>>1518
Thanks, I saw the crow (it was pretty big!) flying over when I was getting in the car, then after pecking a hole in the bag of dog food and trying some it flew over to a tree and came back with a friend, and for a bit they were both there. Unfortunately the friend (I think) got spooked and split when I went to take the picture.

>>1118
What are you looking for? I don't own one but I someday would like to just to play Bayonetta, Xenoblade and Deadly Premonition. Personally never cared about the typical Nintendo games but I would like to try Breath of the Wild.

>>1118
Big typical nintendo game guy here. I just want to relive the wonder and joy of my childhood but it's all gone, and after the attempt I find myself emptier than when I started.
The latest Animal Crossing is pretty fun and the new Paper Mario isn't as good as the first two or even the first three but it is endearing in a childish sort of way, and definitely better than Sticker Star (and I assume the paint one but I never played that one because it looked ten times more boring than sticker star). It doesn't have the same charm in the story and the battles are some weirdo puzzle shit that I think appeals to very few but it has a sort of collectathon feel with the toads and most of the secrets are fun to get. Also it's probably the best Paper Mario soundtrack imo, besides maybe SPM. Also I can confirm Breath of the Wild is good, especially if you get the DLC. I think there's a couple problems like the combat being kind of janky but it's fun to experiment with the different elemental stuff.
Mario Odyssey seems overrated to me between the way that Mario's movement feels extremely light and the tons of filler shit so they can have a very impressive-sounding amount of goals in the game. It's alright but I don't think it's as good as the other 3d Marios.

>>1122
I don't know. I hardly play any games but I have one of these things and a PS3.

I finished Chrono Trigger for the first time a few days ago, and I must admit that I enjoyed every minute of it. Its battler system is really fun and there are a lot of enemies that require you to diversify your strategies, while the story takes its time to introduce you to many fascinating characters and take you to all kinds of different places. I liked pretty much all the characters, but I think my favorites ones are Toad and Lucca. On the other hand, I found Magus's backstory very interesting.
I've never been interested in JRPGs, but now I want to play more games like this one.

I finished Duke Nukem 3D on the "Let's Rock" difficulty a few weeks ago. Now I'm trying to finish it on the "Come Get Some" difficulty with all the secrets. I must say, I can see why so many people love this game. It has a lot of fun maps, weird guns and some funny moments here and there. Also, this may sound silly, but I'm impressed by how interactive its environment is.

I've saved a lot of junk, physical and digital, and 99.9% of it I never take a second glance at. My physical collection is only small because I rarely leave the house. My digital collection is a mess. Hundreds of thousands of urls and other junk inside hundreds of txt files. Random html documents, over 9,000 being the full results from iqdb and sauceNAO searches. Random pdf, exe, zip, etc. And of course, countless images and videos. All of it scattered across thousands of folders and subfolders with no rhyme or reason. It's too daunting to organize. I think I'm going to install a distro and lrn2linux. I don't play video games anymore and there's nothing else for me to do on the computer. If I'm too dumb to learn anything beyond using it to browse the web, which hasn't been fun for years, maybe it'll encourage me to spend less time online and do something of substance with my life. Before I format my hard drive I'll look through some of it and see if there's anything worth keeping.

Here's a screenshot of a random thread I had saved as an html document.

>>806
Dimensions must've been too big.

>>763
>normalfags that remember the early internet don't remember it fondly

Normies are such fucking idiots. The dial up era kind of sucked but once xp came around and ram got above 200 MB everything became usable. Yes xp was virus prone and internet explorer sucked and yet I still have very fond memories of using it. The best part was there was little to no social media, which is probably the main reason why normalfags hated the era so much

>>757
I wasn't aware of this. I can't believe there are people who want to shut down such a useful website, but I guess most publishers think of nothing but money (yeah, I know I said something quite obvious). I hope things turn out well for the Internet Archive.
>>809
Hey, I remember that old thread. I couldn't help but feel a little bit of melancholy after reading it.
I wonder how those mages are doing now.

>I'm amazed how people think this politically dysfunctional disaster of an "empire" is admired for stability. It seems to topple along dictator after dictator like a banana republic

Look at the words you have just typed my friend. How many of them are of Latin and Greek origin? It was not the republic that romanized the world, the Roman republic was a relatively small state with a system every bit as convoluted and unstable as the empire, it only appears less so due to the smaller scale, and so the smaller impact of action.

As for history podcasts, youtube channels and what not I strongly recommend you not let them become the basis of your understanding. They can be likened to junk food - tasty, and quick, but lacking substance, and harmful as a habit. Instead try to get as close to the source as you can, everything written already has enough misconception, anachronism and opinion as it is, no need to on another few layers just so that you can save a few hours.

Also Speculation on the similarities, and differences of historical and current figures is fruitless, and one runs the risk of trying to attach our current frame of thought to that of the past, and in so coming off with a worse understanding than if you had simply not even tried to learn anything at all. Take for example Grettis saga in which there is a character whose nickname so to speak was "Baby Sparer". That said the overall nature of thought has not changed drastically in who knows how long - take ancient graffiti for example, or the old comedies.

>>801
There are pretty decent podcast though. I'm listening some about Punic Wars, Augustus or Numantia (3-4 hours long each one) that are at least as good than some college class and I don't think they lack substance at all.

>>802
which podcasts?

>>800
I've "played" civil war battles with wargames like Across 5 Aprils (weird combat resolution mechanic) and Mosby's Raiders (solitaire), but know next to nothing of the actual history sadly. Not sure if you can direct me to good readings on the topic

Since music of the period was being posted in another thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OKdbc0DYpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LArGlfEVYqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwckonqbeos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIVIFLo0uE

>>803
Shelby Foote wrote a trilogy that covers the entire war. It's pretty damn good and was my introduction to the topic. However, THE book for an overview of the war is 'Battle Cry of Freedom' by John McPherson. It's legendary for a reason, that shit is just god-tier. It's a big 900 page book but it's so worth the read and it's enjoyable to boot. It covers the entire period from the outbreak of the Mexican-American War where so many of the big names of the Civil War got blooded and then finishes with Appomattox and the end of the war. It's really good and sweeps you up in it because McPherson slowly lets on the causes and you as the reader, just like those at the time can only start to see the unavoidable conflict on the horizon. It's so well done.


Bruce Catton is up there though with his Centennial History of the Civil War. He had access to a lot of primary sources in his childhood as he grew up when the veterans were still around. It's 3 books and they're also pretty decent introductions.

You then have the books on specific engagements where the detail really comes into it. They tend to be more dense on details due to the nature of how focused they are. I liked 'The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864' by Gordon C. Rhea.

'Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam' by Stephen W. Sears. This one is also considered a bit of a classic as well. Definitely a must read if you get into the subject.

'The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command'
by Edwin B. Coddington. This one is probably up there with McPherson in the 'legendary' category. It's required reading for all the guides at the Gettysburg NMP. However, it is fucking dense and fucking dry. If you can get through it, anything else on Gettysburg will seem shallow in comparison. The dude goes into minute detail on not only the three days of battle but also the weeks leading up to it and the days following it. It's advanced level stuff and I haven't touched yet. It's usually recommended to have a few less dense books on Gettysburg under your belt before you tackle it because you want to be able to follow it in the grandest sense because if you don't have a general idea of what's happening then you can get lost in the details when he starts discussing the movement of forces on a regimental scale.

The music was also posted by me. I've not really done a lot on the civil Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>803
>which podcasts?

Spanish ones. I guess there should be equally good ones in english but I haven't found them yet.

This game has an amazing art direction, any screenshot seems taken from those great sci-fi artists from the 60-70's.

Horizon is also a great game for pictures of decay, but also nature exuberance, could be one of the games I have done more screenshoots. I like that modern AAA usually put great effort into the art department, it wasn't always like that.

I've been playing Trauma Center: Under the Knife a lot lately. I thought it would be just an ordinary surgeon simulator about a young doctor and his journey through his medical career, but the game ended up being more interesting and fun than I expected. My only criticism is that I didn't like the way the story handled some heavy subjects, but that doesn't really matter.

>>674
These screenshots are really cool. I could see any of them as an illustration for a sci-fi book. Actually, they remind me of Michael Whelan's artwork for Asimov's Foundation. I particularly like the last two. Did you take these screenshots? By the way, what do you think of The Outer Worlds? I haven't played it yet but it looks interesting.

>>703
Trauma Center Under the Knife was the game that made buy a DS, I played it in some convention when the DS was something new and I got fascinated by the controls.
But when I got one I lost interest relatively quickly, I remember later misions being too hard and I had to sell the console because a bad situation. I still treasure those first memories though.

The screenshots are mine from last weeks, to me they looked similar to a wide range of classic sci-fi artists; see first pic, you can notice the inspiration.
Besides the art you will like the game if you like Obsidian and New Vegas, I would say it's a refined New Vegas with some expanded characteristics (companions reactions are really sofisticated) and some limited ones (I miss perks and most of the game is more simplified).
Since I love Obsidian and also the space exploration genre (it also makes me thing of Outlaw Star or Cowboy Bebop) it's being really enjoyable. Just wandering in your own ship seeing your companions interact and the different planets from the windows is amazing for me.
I would also say most reviews are full of shit so you shouldn't trust them, the game isn't short, it's not 25 or 30 hours but more like 60 or more if you play normal and there's lots of side quests, content and details.

Some Shenmue. No photo mode, but the scenarios are the best part of the game.