*promote oldschool

Pandering more than slightly to the FPS puritan crowd. There doesn't seem to be any frilly bullshit going on - the type that drives oldschool FPS players crazy like calling in air strikes, perks, experience, head bob and realistic climbing motions, reality physics.

I mean i'm forever bitching about how most FPS these days make you feel like you're waist deep in treacle, nothing feels crisp and reactive. I complain that in the old days we didn't have crowd control effects where you'd take your hands off the mouse&keyboard for up to 5 seconds because of someone's second special attack or 'ultimate'. Or that one hero type will always beat another hero type - I was in top teams/national teams for both HLTFC and TF2, i know my stuff regarding class based team FPS, i'm not just talking shit/whining there.

They ram those statements home at the end - pure speed, pure skill, pure fps. I don't believe it for one second, but they clearly want people like me to be hyped over this.

I'm oldschool: JDownloader.

Works like a charm with file lockers and video hosts.

>> ^radx:

It offers content through those thumbnail widgets below embeds. But a click won't send you straight to your desired content. Instead, you end up on Scribol's page, where they want to leech just a few more clicks out of you.
I'm oldschool, and this form of artificial traffic boost bugs the fuck out of me.


Ah, thanks. Widgets don't show up for me, so....

It offers content through those thumbnail widgets below embeds. But a click won't send you straight to your desired content. Instead, you end up on Scribol's page, where they want to leech just a few more clicks out of you.

I'm oldschool, and this form of artificial traffic boost bugs the fuck out of me.

Of those videos that struck my interest: all of 'em, no exceptions.

It's the curse of being an oldschool lurker, some say.

>> ^radx:

Nope, direct cable connection. Oldschool, serial port to serial port. Internet access was more expensive than hardware back then, so everything had to be done "in house".
Good times.>> ^ant:
>> ^radx:
We clocked endless hours on Diablo via DCC. Nothing was as hilarious as a chain-lightning-frenzy down in hell. Blowing through an entire inventory of full mana potions in a minute -- awesome.
DCC from IRC?


Oh yeah, I remember that! Good old serial cables. I remember using InterLink, LapLink, etc. with it and parallel cables through LPT1 ports. Then, came along LAN like through IPX/SPX before TCP/IP got popular.

Nope, direct cable connection. Oldschool, serial port to serial port. Internet access was more expensive than hardware back then, so everything had to be done "in house".

Good times.

Edit: just checked, the null modem cable is still in my bag of spare cables and adapters. Haven't used one since we played Outlaws in '97.>> ^ant:

>> ^radx:
We clocked endless hours on Diablo via DCC. Nothing was as hilarious as a chain-lightning-frenzy down in hell. Blowing through an entire inventory of full mana potions in a minute -- awesome.
DCC from IRC?

*oldschool

>> ^floridastyle:
All in all does anyone like the integrity of the video?


Certainly! I found it to be a great mix of tunes, and the images all fit accordingly.. saw a sprinkling of all the four elements in there, which well represented the whole theme, I guess.. oldschool hip hop. Real hip hop!

currently an oldschool classic book, Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonfire_of_the_Vanities

*Begging for some oldschool votes!

The short ident(s) at the beginning rightly belong to a film, I like it when they change the music/look in accordance with the film that comes after.
I miss the VHS forward/rewind noise as well..so from time to time I do watch them oldschool tapes, especially those that are unreleased on DVD.

Awesome oldschoolness!

Looks insanely bad to me. Also, I can't fucking stand Justin Long. And EDD, oldschool wibe? Where?