Alyxx Thorne

Rage. They finally released a patch on Steam that eliminates all the bugs the game had initially and adds some essential video options.

Coke. Just coke.

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That's a shame in my opinion, but it's better to be an active member than an inactive mod.

Yeah, the character models in Oblivion are pretty... not pretty.

Just had some pizza with mushrooms and ham.

Ripping Apop CD's and cyber-roleplaying with my best friend.

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This thread is for posting music reviews, be it an entire album, a new single, ep or just a song, here's your chance to write your opinion.

I'll start off with the latest release from Norwegian electro-rockers Apoptygma Berzerk.

Apop's new Black EP vol 2 is an American exclusive that will most likely also attract fans from all over the world as it contains a lot of brand new exclusive tracks that have never been released before, unlike the previous Black EP which only contained previously released tracks from Europe. Apoptygma Berzerk is quite a difficult band to classify. From the beginning in 1991 up until present day, they have consistently been changing their sound, going from dark EBM to synthpop to futurepop to alternative rock, though the band has always made sure to do their very best. And this is also true in the vein of remixes. Each remix on this EP has been brilliantly crafted to change the original alternative rock tracks into hard-hitting dancefloor killers. Other than the awesome remixes, the EP comes with two brand new tracks from the band itself, including a beautiful cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart", and in true Apop vein, the cover might just be slightly better than the original, as it is obviously done with a ton of respect and love for the source material, giving it the treatment it deserves. The other new gem is the track "Adrift", an 8bit influenced melancholic song about isolation. Is this EP a nod to future releases from the band? It could be, and it could not, but that is the magic about Apoptygma Berzerk, never knowing what to expect.

As a bonus to those spoiled brats with a smartphone, there's a scanable QR code on the cover art.

Lasagne and Urge.

I dunno, I kinda liked Epsilon better. Sublimation just sounds needlessly pretentious.

Taking photos of my Apoptygma Berzerk collection.

Stop being on-topic!

To avoid confusion I should probably point out that KT no longer wanted to be a moderator.

At least we have plenty of active members to choose from.

Welcome aboard, Bill.

I'm completely fine with it personally, but I understand why people would be upset by it.

I personally am all for signature moderation if Ross can be persuaded to bring sigs back.

RAGE. It's a great game but I can tell it's begging for a 1.1 patch. I experience severe lag even on low resolution and the textures seem to load slowly and get blurry whenever I look around.

I'm glad avatars are at least allowed.

I don't miss the signatures at all. But maybe removing them altogether wasn't the right solution.

Yeah, I've noticed most users stick to the FM board.

It allows you to embed Flash content via BBCode as opposed to HTML, I believe.

No, it's an issue with using BBCode for signature images altogether. If we had the images stored on the server and forced the user to upload them, we could apply a size limit similar to avatars. And even apply an image limit that forced the user to only use one small image.

However, this would sort of ruin how some users like to put their Steam profile pic in their signature which needs to be constantly updated via an img tag.

The thing is that when using tags, there is no way to endorse any form of image size limit automatically. A mod would have to go through every user sig and notify the user to take action, which is a tedious process in the long run.

Nice speech there, Blue. I'm sure it won't scare away anyone.