You're absolutely correct. I loved that you could put the game disc into a standard cd player and just listen to the NIN soundtrack. Being a fan of the band and FPS games, Quake was absolutely the shit. So many hours put into it, at least up until Unreal came out.

This was the very first CD I bought when I was 14 and saved up for my first CD player!! Nice!!

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As I was watching this, the footage started to look familiar... it's a re-cut version of @Zifnab's post with new commentary.

I personally think the new commentary is enough to save it from being a dupe.

A whole bunch of the in game characters would say funny things if you clicked them enough, even the random critters that raomed the map.

I also remember finding the secret music track when putting the game disk into a CD Player. Great stuff.

Thank you sir.

I also found it scary, even though I drive a 45 year old Bronco with ZERO computer chips in it (besides the CD player). I still share the road with millions of vulnerable cars, and now I have to fear a hack attack not just on the computer, but also on the road!
WTF guys! Who came up with this TERRIBLE idea of connecting the entire 'fly by wire driven' car to the internet? Just WOW. Talk about lack of foresight!

I wonder if there's something you need to remove and/or tighten after shipping that wasn't performed. Kinda like those "remove before installation" pins on older car CD players.

At 4 seconds, not if you count "Who's Knocking on the Wall" from Apollo 18, but it, along with the other short tracks on that album weren't intended as songs per se.

"The liner notes, in reference to these tracks, include the message "the indexing of this disc is designed to complement the Shuffle Mode of modern CD players". According to John Flansburgh, listening to the album on shuffle made a collage of songs, with the short fingertips interspersed among tracks of regular length.

- wiki

I remember getting sky scraper sized teen boner's when I seen this on Muchmusic.




Likewise, it was on the first cd I was ever given, the Christmas I got my first personal stereo cd player thing. Chris sheppard mix something something it was. Groove in the 90s for a couple minutes.

Right, now to really confuse her, give her a 45 or better yet, 8Track or Reel-to-Reel!

Tell her the 45s will fit in some CD players and see what she does with it.

Well, it's not about just calling him a war criminal - he is a war criminal (or that's what the evidence I've seen so far leads me to believe, at least). I wouldn't want diplomatic relations with him, I would want to topple him by force. Like Hitler.

In answer to your question. No, you are not morally responsible for the misery in the world. No more so than your conscience dictates. I do think there's a difference between someone actively forcing someone as opposed to someone who have made some bad choices. At some point we, as a society, should say when enough is enough. If there is a benevolent dictatorship, if you can imagine such a thing, then we should not break that up for the hell of it, if the people don't care. If the people are actively rebelling against their dictator and he strikes back with full force, then I think that we should try to minimize the suffering from it

Do the least harm is basically what I want to live by, but I don't want it to be "I go out in the world to fix suffering where I see it", it's a balancing act, eh? When a certain threshold of suffering is passed, it seems prudent to me to take action.

For instance, if someone was homeless I would not necessarily give him money and stuff, but if someone fell over and hurt their leg, I would. It's all a cost/benefit analysis, the benefit being a limiting of suffering.

/ramble
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^gwiz665:
The people are trying to stand up to him, and he's committing outright genocide. Of course, we must do what we can to help the people liberate themselves. Unlike Iraq, this is not just for the hell of it - we are helping the people free themselves, when they do not have the strength themselves, as opposed to Egypt, Tunesia and so on.
If we sit and watch as the civilians are butchered, we are no better (or at least very little better) than the butchers ourselves.

I don't exactly prescribe to your exact moral position on this, but it does seem like a "better" version of Iraq as open rebellion has been happening in the whole region. The tricky problem is, how do you support rebels without directly supporting rebels (look at how well cruise missiles helped stop the fighting in Iraq), while also having to maintain diplomatic relations with the ruler if the rebellion fails, even more so if you are saying he is a war criminal? I can't bring myself to vote for this video though, this lady seemed like she was harboring some irrational hatred for anything US, even though I think it is France (lol?) leading the charge on this one.
Just a little moral question for ya. If you buy a CD player that you don't need, are you morally responsible for the homeless person you didn't give lunch money? Not trying to be snarky, I just find problems with believing in that exact moral position. It would result in a complete stimy of action because you actions could never be probably meshed with all outcomes of maximum happiness. Technocratic morality boredom, signing out!

>> ^gwiz665:

The people are trying to stand up to him, and he's committing outright genocide. Of course, we must do what we can to help the people liberate themselves. Unlike Iraq, this is not just for the hell of it - we are helping the people free themselves, when they do not have the strength themselves, as opposed to Egypt, Tunesia and so on.
If we sit and watch as the civilians are butchered, we are no better (or at least very little better) than the butchers ourselves.


I don't exactly prescribe to your exact moral position on this, but it does seem like a "better" version of Iraq as open rebellion has been happening in the whole region. The tricky problem is, how do you support rebels without directly supporting rebels (look at how well cruise missiles helped stop the fighting in Iraq), while also having to maintain diplomatic relations with the ruler if the rebellion fails, even more so if you are saying he is a war criminal? I can't bring myself to vote for this video though, this lady seemed like she was harboring some irrational hatred for anything US, even though I think it is France (lol?) leading the charge on this one.

Just a little moral question for ya. If you buy a CD player that you don't need, are you morally responsible for the homeless person you didn't give lunch money? Not trying to be snarky, I just find problems with believing in that exact moral position. It would result in a complete stimy of action because you actions could never be probably meshed with all outcomes of maximum happiness. Technocratic morality boredom, signing out!

>> ^kronosposeidon:

I found out about Matthew Good from MuchMusic (amazingly our local cable company had a Canadian channel in 1997.) I tried to order the Underdogs CD from Amazon.com and other online outlets in America, but none had it at the time so I finally had to order it from a retailer in the great white north. I believe that is the only parcel I have ever gotten from Canada. Most of my imports come from Sweden.


I found out about them from MM as well, Rick campanelli and racheal.. Master T, Suk yin or whatnot, It was from the Canadian music channel my mind started to twist and churn into a state where this music appealed to me. It REALLY meant a lot to me, this song especially ( I tear now I think about it ) I went for a walk with my Mega earphones and cd player back in the day while really high on mushrooms, beautiful experience which I never forget the blinding apocalypse which are high pressure sodium street lights.

I pretty well HAVE owned every , well I can not state that, I indeed have owned every output of the Matthew good man mind.

Sam & Max was awesome, as was Full Throttle! I think both cd's could be put in a cd player and you could listen to the sound tracks. I knew you could for Sam & Max, can't remember for Full Throttle.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Agreed.
Not sure if this is the best choice of genre for a discussion of subtlety and dynamics, but it's a good point. There is another video somewhere on the sift that makes the same point. There are other factors to take into account, like production and medium. A poorly produced recording will sound like shit regardless of compression/dynamic range, and when we transitioned to mp3s, it was the first time in history that a new format has actually taken a step back as far as detail and quality goes.
There are all kinds of new, higher quality formats competing at the moment, and one of them is bound to be crowned champ within a few years. Maybe this will inspire artists and their sound engineers to rediscover the beauty of subtlety and dynamics in order to take advantage of technology. Probably not though, especially among macho hardcore bands who may fear putting out an album that isn't as loud as their peers. Heaven forbid their fans should have to manually adjust the volume knob.


It's not just through audio compression from CD that audio has taken a step back. A lot of portable audio players in recent times, have sacrificed on hardware audio components for slimness and ended up sounding resoundingly worse than the CD players of the last generation. Not to mention that most people nowadays find it acceptable to listen from mobile phones, which comparatively have even cheaper chips in them.

To be honest though, compression doesn't really worry me. I've got a pretty decent headphone/DAC setup, and as much as I try I can't hear the difference between V0 and CD audio.

What annoys me more is that most people are willing to settle for iBuds. I guess it's to be expected though, most modern music is heavily synthesized, containing few if any non-electronic instruments, including voice of course which with Auto-Tune is perfectly in tune, removing just about all subtlety or uniqueness from the singer. In that sense, heavy compression and cheap equipment in modern music probably doesn't lose you much in detail. If there's no texture or imperfection to be heard from a string instrument because the whole song is composed of virtually mono-tonal looped beats generated from a keyboard, then compression and cheap equipment isn't going to make the song sound any less natural because it wasn't attempting to in the first place.