Is Mass Effect still considered modern? Probably not, but I love the Blade Runner-esque vibes of the music. I actually owned the soundtrack years before I owned the game. Plus, "M4 Pt. 2" is by a band from Edmonton so it has the home team advantage.
I've been wracking my brain trying to think of a more recent game soundtrack that I like, but the best I can come up with is the soundtracks for Bastion and Transistor. They're still not very recent, but the music is amazing.
Portal 2 is the reason why "Exile Vilify" by The National was one of the first songs I learned on piano. Now if only I could play and sing at the same time.
For me, it's obviously "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry.
Either that or "The Boys of Summer" cover by the Ataris. This came out at the perfect time in my life to make a lasting impact. So much teenage summer drama!
I don't really listen to Lana Del Rey but 'Summertime Sadness' so perfectly encapsulates the experience of Summer when you're angsty, depressed or melancholic. And the song hits me quite hard sometimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdrL3QxjyVw
I'm not a Lana Del Rey fan either, but the Reich and Bleich remix of Summertime Sadness really gets me.
If you want to go totally retro, just use tables. It's technically wrong and bad for SEO, but after deciding tables were bad for layout web developers spent a stupid amount of time trying to replicate the look of table-sites with divs. I always thought that was ridiculous, but of course I followed suit.
On top of what Melon already suggested, there's also CSS grid. It's a bit more complicated than Flex, but is tailor-made for layouts.
Reverse engineering what other people have already done is how I started out with web development. I was a total script kiddie, but now I make a living making online applications so don't think you're on the wrong path that way. "View Source" was the most helpful tool available to Young Me. These days, with so much asynchronous content, it's a lot harder to learn that way (you could use "Inspect Element" instead), but with the resurgence of static pages you should have an easier time now.
Out of all the consoles, handhelds and PC, what have you enjoyed playing on the most?
For me, it's the GameCube. It was the first console my family owned that I could afford my own games for. Before that we had a Sega Genesis and Nintendo 64, but whatever games we had were what my parents bought for us or we could find at the local video rental place.
With the GameCube, I was finally old enough and had my own agency to buy the games I wanted. So games like Metroid Prime, Wind Waker, Resident Evil 4, PN03 and the Resident Evil remake all hold an extra special place for me.
My second choice is actually the Xbox One. It performed terribly, got a lot of bad press because of its abysmal announcement where Microsoft tried to advertise Everything You Hate™ as a feature, and it ended up a distant second to Sony's PS4. But the reason I like it so much is how it acts as an entertainment hub instead of just a games console. Not only can I play games and watch streaming services through the apps, but I can actually watch TV and listen to music through it too.
I did eventually end up buying a PS4 as well, but mostly because that's what my friends owned so if I wanted to play multiplayer Dark Souls and Bloodborne, I needed to have one.
I'm inordinately happy that you included Vivaldi in your list. That's my favourite browser these days. I fell in love with it when I saw it could do tab tiling. It's also privacy-centric, so I don't have to feel like I'm selling my soul to Google or Microsoft every time I use the internet.
But I'm actually stuck using Edge right now. My phone is a Surface Duo 2, and Edge is the only browser on Android that has decent support for the dual screen setup without Android 12L. So just to keep everything synchronized between my PC and phone I switched to Edge on all my devices. But 12L is supposedly coming to the Duo 2 sometime this summer, so hopefully I'll be able to switch back to Vivaldi soon.
And yeah, the TMNT comics are a lot...weirder, than the TV show. I haven't really gotten into TMNT, but that's actually why, from what I have seen, I like the comics more :omg:k:.
I definitely appreciate weird more now than I did as a kid. I think it just wasn't what I was expecting based on the movies and show.
it's hard to even tell if you should keep reading a series, or if it's gonna turn to crap with a new writer *coughcoughBendisonSupermancough*.
This is what happened with the New 52 Batwoman series. It started out great, but then the entire creative team left in protest of DC's handling of Kate Kane's marriage and they had to wrap up the story without them. The artwork suddenly went from amazing to looking like it was sketched on a napkin and the writing was horribly rushed.
I haven't read those Batgirl series, did you like them?
Thrillkiller is really interesting. It's an elseworld story set during the '60s. It has a female Joker-analog who is a gangster named Bianca Steeplechase and Barbara Gordon is the wealthy heiress who becomes a vigilante while Bruce Wayne is a GCPD detective. The artwork is also amazing. Every panel is a full painting.
Oh nooooo. Suddenly so many cringey memories of my young self are coming back...
I made three AMVs in high school that were all sappy and embarrassing. Thankfully I never shared them anywhere and the files were lost to time and Windows ME.
I'm glad that Temple o' Trunks somehow managed to survive all these years, because this is where I first discovered AMVs.
I read a topic elsewhere where someone asked if you can be nostalgic for a time period you didn't live through. They gave the example of Civil War reenactors in the U. S. and pointed out we wouldn't say they are being nostalgic. I agree with that but I think the emotion behind it must at least be similar. And you're not as far removed from the old web days as those reenactors. The internet of the '00s wasn't really that different from the '90s in my memory. It was a transitional period, similar to how the late '80s and early '90s blended into each other.
I didn't live through much of the '80s and probably don't remember any of it, but I still wish I was gen X instead of Y so I could have better appreciated the pop culture that I either only got the tail end of or got into later. I was only able to experience arcades for a short time as they were being phased out, for example.
Maybe it's all fueled by the desire to go back to a simpler time, especially as we get older and have more responsibilities. But AloeVega is definitely right when they say the old web had its problems. Flame wars were everywhere and the common refrain was that if you couldn't handle the insults you should get off the internet, as if that was the desired normal of online life. Obviously that's a crappy way to be, but it was common. The elitism was palpable.
In the olden days, back before browsers had tabs and we'd typically only have one website open at a time, I liked having background music. It was a cool feature that added to the immersion, especially on sites that used Flash or Shockwave. But with so much multitasking going on these days, I'm thankful that browsers now show you which tabs are making noise and let you mute them with one click.
i make mine with Visual Studio Code and a bunch of extensions, as well as Eleventy (static site generator).
I use VSCode as well. It has actually become the standard tool where I work. There's a lot of love for Atom here, but I found it a bit slow in comparison.
In the before-fore-times, I used Notepad and Notepad++.
I have dreams that take place at 3 out of the 5 schools I attended. Often I'll be visiting my old elementary school for some reason, then wandering around the town.
My dreams set in my high school are the most common ones where I'll end up lucid dreaming. Something about that setting just makes my brain realize I'm dreaming, and then I get to take the reigns for a bit until I wake up.
My college dreams are the worst. They always involve terrible roommates, or riding the elevator but it's tilting and twisting the whole way up and then when I get to the top the floor is missing.
I read a lot of comics as a kid. Mostly the Sonic the Hedgehog series ran by Archie Comics, but I also have a few scattered Spider-Man issues, a couple of Ren & Stimpy comics, and one old TMNT comic where they were in space and there was a giant cow head that was also a flying saucer? I was mostly into the TMNT movies and cartoon series, so I decided the comics were too weird for me after that.
I have tried to get back into comics a few times as an adult. I picked up the first volume of Ultimate X-Men because I liked the idea of a series starting fresh from the beginning so you didn't have decades of backstory to catch up on, but eventually the Ultimate universe reached the same problem. Ongoing series are just too hard for me to keep up with, so now I mostly just pick up the odd graphic novel or mini-series here and there.
The last couple that I read were the "Thrillkiller"/"Thrillkiller '62" Batgirl miniseries and "We Hate Tank Girl."
I was definitely more of an id Software kid growing up, so I didn't play the original Half-Life until it was ported to the Source Engine after Half-Life 2 came out.
Half-Life 2 was fine, but I didn't get as into it as my friends. I did love Portal and Portal 2, though, and I put over 700 hours into Team Fortress 2 before I finally quit in 2015. I'm amazed it's still going, but it's sad to hear about all the trouble with bots they've been having ever since the source code leaked.
I finally saw Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. I really liked it, but it's definitely got a lot of Sam Raimi-isms that a lot of people seem to dislike. I thought the silliness and comic-bookiness really added to it though.
As the title says! The latest movie I watched was Fire and Ice from 1983. I've been watching a lot of older animation movies lately and this was next on my list. The story and the pacing of the movie was pretty mediocre, but I loved the background paintings and that old-school visual style of this movie a lot!
I have a list of Ralph Bakshi movies that I need to track down, and Fire and Ice is at the top. Even though I haven't seen many of them, I love the style of his movies. I remember getting to watch Cool World as a kid because my parents thought it would be like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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