Well, here we are: the last free game from Epic in 2023. It's been
quite a ride. Will we keep getting free games in 2024? In the
near-term, definitely yes. But it feels like Epic is scaling down
their free-games program (and, unlike previous years, they haven't
made a definitive statement saying about how it will continue through
2024). So grab the freebies when you can, because you may never get a
chance to do so in the future.

Anyway, today we get:

* Ghostrunner
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ghostrunner
I mean, not the worst game they could have ended
the year on (I think "Saints Row" would have been
a better choice, if only because Ghostrunner has
frequently hit the 'free give-away' list on other
services). It's a pretty game and who doesn't want
to be a "cyber-ninja"? Some of the platforming
can be aggravatingly difficult at times, but then
you get to stylish slice people up with a big sword,
so it all evens out in the end. Great? No. Good?
Sure... and definitely worth the price of admission.

And that's it for this year's Epic give-aways. You have 24 hours to
claim this one before it's gone!

Upcoming Epic giveaways!!

Escape Academy
20 minutes till dawn
A plague tale Innocence
Guardians of the galaxy

rms

On 12/31/2023 5:06 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>
> Well, here we are: the last free game from Epic in 2023. It's been
> quite a ride. Will we keep getting free games in 2024? In the
> near-term, definitely yes. But it feels like Epic is scaling down
> their free-games program (and, unlike previous years, they haven't
> made a definitive statement saying about how it will continue through
> 2024). So grab the freebies when you can, because you may never get a
> chance to do so in the future.
>
> Anyway, today we get:
>
>
> * Ghostrunner
> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ghostrunner
> I mean, not the worst game they could have ended
> the year on (I think "Saints Row" would have been
> a better choice, if only because Ghostrunner has
> frequently hit the 'free give-away' list on other
> services). It's a pretty game and who doesn't want
> to be a "cyber-ninja"? Some of the platforming
> can be aggravatingly difficult at times, but then
> you get to stylish slice people up with a big sword,
> so it all evens out in the end. Great? No. Good?
> Sure... and definitely worth the price of admission.
>
>
> And that's it for this year's Epic give-aways. You have 24 hours to
> claim this one before it's gone!
>
>

ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
actually playing before.
whatever, on my Epic account it goes.

On 12/31/2023 11:49 AM, kyonshi wrote:
> On 12/31/2023 5:06 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>
>> Well, here we are: the last free game from Epic in 2023. It's been
>> quite a ride. Will we keep getting free games in 2024? In the
>> near-term, definitely yes. But it feels like Epic is scaling down
>> their free-games program (and, unlike previous years, they haven't
>> made a definitive statement saying about how it will continue through
>> 2024). So grab the freebies when you can, because you may never get a
>> chance to do so in the future.
>>
>> Anyway, today we get:
>>
>>
>> * Ghostrunner
>> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ghostrunner
>>     I mean, not the worst game they could have ended
>>     the year on (I think "Saints Row" would have been
>>     a better choice, if only because Ghostrunner has
>>     frequently hit the 'free give-away' list on other
>>     services). It's a pretty game and who doesn't want
>>     to be a "cyber-ninja"? Some of the platforming
>>     can be aggravatingly difficult at times, but then
>>     you get to stylish slice people up with a big sword,
>>     so it all evens out in the end. Great? No. Good?
>>     Sure... and definitely worth the price of admission.
>>
>>
>> And that's it for this year's Epic give-aways. You have 24 hours to
>> claim this one before it's gone!
>>
>>
>
> ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
> actually playing before.
> whatever, on my Epic account it goes.

Another True Believer in the Way of the Number! Blessings be upon your
hard drive Brother.

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, here we are: the last free game from Epic in 2023. It's been
> quite a ride. Will we keep getting free games in 2024? In the
> near-term, definitely yes. But it feels like Epic is scaling down
> their free-games program (and, unlike previous years, they haven't
> made a definitive statement saying about how it will continue through
> 2024). So grab the freebies when you can, because you may never get a
> chance to do so in the future.

> Anyway, today we get:

> * Ghostrunner
> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ghostrunner
> I mean, not the worst game they could have ended
> the year on (I think "Saints Row" would have been
> a better choice, if only because Ghostrunner has
> frequently hit the 'free give-away' list on other
> services). It's a pretty game and who doesn't want
> to be a "cyber-ninja"? Some of the platforming
> can be aggravatingly difficult at times, but then
> you get to stylish slice people up with a big sword,
> so it all evens out in the end. Great? No. Good?
> Sure... and definitely worth the price of admission.

> And that's it for this year's Epic give-aways. You have 24 hours to
> claim this one before it's gone!

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....
> > ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
> > actually playing before.
> > whatever, on my Epic account it goes.

> Another True Believer in the Way of the Number! Blessings be upon your
> hard drive Brother.

Who still uses HDDs for modern PC gaming? :P
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On 12/31/23 16:25, Ant wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> ...
>>> ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
>>> actually playing before.
>>> whatever, on my Epic account it goes.
>
>> Another True Believer in the Way of the Number! Blessings be upon your
>> hard drive Brother.
>
> Who still uses HDDs for modern PC gaming? :P

I'm sure there's some people stuck on an older laptop.
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On 12/31/2023 2:25 PM, Ant wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> ...
>>> ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
>>> actually playing before.
>>> whatever, on my Epic account it goes.
>
>> Another True Believer in the Way of the Number! Blessings be upon your
>> hard drive Brother.
>
> Who still uses HDDs for modern PC gaming? :P

Generic Hard Drive regardless of type, insect.

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:56:31 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 12/31/2023 11:49 AM, kyonshi wrote:
>> On 12/31/2023 5:06 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, here we are: the last free game from Epic in 2023. It's been
>>> quite a ride. Will we keep getting free games in 2024? In the
>>> near-term, definitely yes. But it feels like Epic is scaling down
>>> their free-games program (and, unlike previous years, they haven't
>>> made a definitive statement saying about how it will continue through
>>> 2024). So grab the freebies when you can, because you may never get a
>>> chance to do so in the future.
>>>
>>> Anyway, today we get:
>>>
>>>
>>> * Ghostrunner
>>> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ghostrunner
>>>     I mean, not the worst game they could have ended
>>>     the year on (I think "Saints Row" would have been
>>>     a better choice, if only because Ghostrunner has
>>>     frequently hit the 'free give-away' list on other
>>>     services). It's a pretty game and who doesn't want
>>>     to be a "cyber-ninja"? Some of the platforming
>>>     can be aggravatingly difficult at times, but then
>>>     you get to stylish slice people up with a big sword,
>>>     so it all evens out in the end. Great? No. Good?
>>>     Sure... and definitely worth the price of admission.
>>>
>>>
>>> And that's it for this year's Epic give-aways. You have 24 hours to
>>> claim this one before it's gone!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
>> actually playing before.
>> whatever, on my Epic account it goes.
>
>Another True Believer in the Way of the Number! Blessings be upon your
>hard drive Brother.

<grin> It's good to see a true believer.

But - aside from the undeniable magnificence of incrementing The
Number - there's also the added bonus of having a secondary source for
a game. Because you never know when a provider is going to go offline,
or their licensing deal with the publisher will run out, or they'll
yank a game out of pure malice. All of a sudden, you might lose access
to your game! But... if you have the game on multiple services,
there's a safety net.

(It's not a laughable premise either. Twitch used to offer free games
and I amassed quite an impressive collection. Some - but not all - of
the games were transferred over to my Prime Gaming account when Amazon
bought out the company... but a number were cast into the ether.
Fortunately, I had the foresight to download all the games prior to
that, and - thanks to a lack of DRM - I can still play the games. See
also Microsoft's own ironically named "PlaysForSure" media that got
'retired' and made inaccessible after MS discontinued its activation
servers for a music/media based example...)

TL;DR: grab the games on every service you can, even if its a
duplicate.

On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:25:39 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant
wrote:

>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>...
>> > ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
>> > actually playing before.
>> > whatever, on my Epic account it goes.
>
>> Another True Believer in the Way of the Number! Blessings be upon your
>> hard drive Brother.
>
>Who still uses HDDs for modern PC gaming? :P

I do. I only put the really big stuff with atrocious load times* on the
NVMe drive. Also, it patches faster. The patching is the real reason for
it if you looked at the footnote. So my entire Steam install is there.

For games as large BG3, I have to leave about 200GB of empty on the SSD,
in case it wants to do a full patch. I made the mistake of having less
free space and it did the entire patch on the HDD and then _copied_ that
to the SSD. Absolute pain.

Everything else runs just fine off a modern HDD. No complaints at all.
Even BG3 ran fine off my HDD, but the patches were unbearable. Otherwise,
I don't know what you're tongue-wagging at. ;^P

(Warning: that footer is *extensive*)

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spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

* (TL;DR - Small rant. SSDs don't really improve anything very much.
Verified with a fast HDD. Lazy development has eaten every hardware
advance since the IBM PC was released in the 80's. (*nom nom nom*))

<rant>

However, an SSD doesn't help the load times much; usually it's just badly
written software. Civ V and VI are particularly bad at this. No matter
how fast the drive, they still take an eternity to load. Since I game on
HDD a lot, I've done the comparisons. It's the software, not transfer
speed.

At least SSDs have made on-the-fly loading a consideration --
theoretically shortening loading screens -- but it worked fine on HDDs
too (Rage). Somehow, developers are messing this up too (I'm looking at
you BG3) and there's _still_ asset popping even _with_ an SSD. Again
folks, for the best game experience load what assets need to be there to
avoid popping. Use a loading screen or a clever elevator ride. THEN bring
the game screen up and sideload everything else in-game. A side-loading
stutter here or there is tolerable. Popping on screen reveal is just
brutal. Is it so hard? It's the overall experience that matters, not the
load times. My 2 cents.

Talos Principle 2 does a nice job of this by loading its rather large
assets during the transit from one zone to another. There are places
where the tunnel goes completely black, and the HD spins up and you can't
see the graphics skipping. I haven't tested this on HDD, but I bet it's
pretty tolerable that way, too.

Paying attention to the basic experience of the gamer provides much more
performance quality -- both perceived and actual -- than SSDs. SSDs
apparently have just inspired laziness in development. Most performance
improvements over the years have inevitably been eaten up by abstraction
layers and lazy coding. So now every game going forward will require them
and the experience will still be lacking. Ugh.

Pay attention to the experience people! Improved performance is not a
gift to developers to slag off and write more inefficient code more
quickly. I'm sick of PCs getting better and better and software
performance feeling pretty much the same no matter how much power I have.

</rant>

On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:25:39 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>...
>> > ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
>> > actually playing before.
>> > whatever, on my Epic account it goes.
>
>> Another True Believer in the Way of the Number! Blessings be upon your
>> hard drive Brother.
>
>Who still uses HDDs for modern PC gaming? :P

I do... Although it depends on the game. Because a 6TB HDD is far less
expensive than the equivalently sized SSD, and many games - even the
modern ones - don't actually require the performance of an SSD.

That's not to say some games don't run better (or require) an SSD...
but a lot of them don't, and for those games, I'm glad to have
spinning rust. And for the games that do benefit... well, I have an
SSD for them too.

On 1/1/2024 7:13 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:25:39 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant
> wrote:
>
>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> ...
>>>> ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
>>>> actually playing before.
>>>> whatever, on my Epic account it goes.
>>
>>> Another True Believer in the Way of the Number! Blessings be upon your
>>> hard drive Brother.
>>
>> Who still uses HDDs for modern PC gaming? :P
>
> I do. I only put the really big stuff with atrocious load times* on the
> NVMe drive. Also, it patches faster. The patching is the real reason for
> it if you looked at the footnote. So my entire Steam install is there.
>
> For games as large BG3, I have to leave about 200GB of empty on the SSD,
> in case it wants to do a full patch. I made the mistake of having less
> free space and it did the entire patch on the HDD and then _copied_ that
> to the SSD. Absolute pain.
>
> Everything else runs just fine off a modern HDD. No complaints at all.
> Even BG3 ran fine off my HDD, but the patches were unbearable. Otherwise,
> I don't know what you're tongue-wagging at. ;^P
>
> (Warning: that footer is *extensive*)
>
> * (TL;DR - Small rant. SSDs don't really improve anything very much.
> Verified with a fast HDD. Lazy development has eaten every hardware
> advance since the IBM PC was released in the 80's. (*nom nom nom*))
>
> <rant>
>
> However, an SSD doesn't help the load times much; usually it's just >
> badly
> written software. Civ V and VI are particularly bad at this. No matter
> how fast the drive, they still take an eternity to load. Since I game
> on
> HDD a lot, I've done the comparisons. It's the software, not transfer
> speed.
>
> At least SSDs have made on-the-fly loading a consideration --
> theoretically shortening loading screens -- but it worked fine on HDDs
> too (Rage). Somehow, developers are messing this up too (I'm looking
> > at
> you BG3) and there's _still_ asset popping even _with_ an SSD. Again
> folks, for the best game experience load what assets need to be there
> to
> avoid popping. Use a loading screen or a clever elevator ride. THEN >
> bring
> the game screen up and sideload everything else in-game. A side-> > >
> loading
> stutter here or there is tolerable. Popping on screen reveal is just
> brutal. Is it so hard? It's the overall experience that matters, not
> > the
> load times. My 2 cents.
>
> Talos Principle 2 does a nice job of this by loading its rather large
> assets during the transit from one zone to another. There are places
> where the tunnel goes completely black, and the HD spins up and you >
> can't
> see the graphics skipping. I haven't tested this on HDD, but I bet >
> > it's
> pretty tolerable that way, too.
>
> Paying attention to the basic experience of the gamer provides much >
> more
> performance quality -- both perceived and actual -- than SSDs. SSDs
> apparently have just inspired laziness in development. Most > > > > >
> performance
> improvements over the years have inevitably been eaten up by > > > >
> > abstraction
> layers and lazy coding. So now every game going forward will require
> > them
> and the experience will still be lacking. Ugh.
>
> Pay attention to the experience people! Improved performance is not a
> gift to developers to slag off and write more inefficient code more
> quickly. I'm sick of PCs getting better and better and software
> performance feeling pretty much the same no matter how much power I >
> have.
>
> </rant>

EXACTLY! And "Amen Brother!" Even on the few Steam game discussion
boards I read there are regular mini-flame wars over this with
developers and some users berating other users complaining about load
times by demanding the game HAS to be put on a SSD. And then accusing
players of lying or not having an "up to date" SSD when they point out
that they have installed it on a SSD.

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On 1/1/2024 4:13 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

> (It's not a laughable premise either. Twitch used to offer free games
> and I amassed quite an impressive collection. Some - but not all - of
> the games were transferred over to my Prime Gaming account when Amazon
> bought out the company... but a number were cast into the ether.
> Fortunately, I had the foresight to download all the games prior to
> that, and - thanks to a lack of DRM - I can still play the games.
I don't see this happening to me due to the increasingly ridiculous size
demands some of those games have. I think I have one game I got from
Humble Choice that demanded 300+GB of space, and that's just ludicrous.

(was it the Halo trilogy on EA? I remember I tried to play that on my
old laptop and it didn't work, and it demanded I reinstall it
completely, doing a day-long download on my internet connection. Still
didn't work)

On 12/31/2023 8:56 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

>
> Another True Believer in the Way of the Number!  Blessings be upon your
> hard drive Brother.
>

I mean, it goes into my account, it doesn't go onto my hard drive...

For a lot of these games the bragging rights for the amount of games I
have are the only thing I get out of them.

On 1/1/2024 1:01 PM, kyonshi wrote:
> On 12/31/2023 8:56 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>
>>
>> Another True Believer in the Way of the Number!  Blessings be upon
>> your hard drive Brother.
>>
>
> I mean, it goes into my account, it doesn't go onto my hard drive...
>
> For a lot of these games the bragging rights for the amount of games I
> have are the only thing I get out of them.

According to Numeric Pope Spalls that is all that is necessary, Brother.

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entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:25:39 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>
>>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>...
>>> > ah, another one I already have on Steam. and I felt no inclination of
>>> > actually playing before.
>>> > whatever, on my Epic account it goes.
>>
>>> Another True Believer in the Way of the Number! Blessings be upon your
>>> hard drive Brother.
>>
>>Who still uses HDDs for modern PC gaming? :P
>
>I do... Although it depends on the game. Because a 6TB HDD is far less
>expensive than the equivalently sized SSD, and many games - even the
>modern ones - don't actually require the performance of an SSD.
>
>That's not to say some games don't run better (or require) an SSD...
>but a lot of them don't, and for those games, I'm glad to have
>spinning rust. And for the games that do benefit... well, I have an
>SSD for them too.

Not to mention there are all the other things that don't require
screaming speed. Music (mp3s you ripped before), music videos,
instructional videos for games dl'd in the past, text docs, entire web
pages you saved to disc from way back when (game info or whatever) cause
those web domains are since gone.

So many things don't need an SSD, including a lot of older games, and/or
modding stuff for said games.

Which is why my new computer I built late summer has a 2TB SSD and a
16TB spinning rust (like that term btw) drive.

SSDs are just excuses for Devs to get lazy and not optimize, just as we
got bloat when big drives became cheap.

Xocyll

On Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:06:59 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Xocyll wrote:

>SSDs are just excuses for Devs to get lazy and not optimize

^This

Any performance increase immediately makes your machine screaming fast,
until 6 months to a year later when lazy devs bollocks it up.

New hardware is a software-impaired treadmill that only makes your old
hardware run like crap. I'm pretty sick of it. I want my computer to run
like it did when I first put an SSD in it, not this.

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On 1/2/24 11:06, Xocyll wrote:
<snip>
> Not to mention there are all the other things that don't require
> screaming speed. Music (mp3s you ripped before), music videos,

Didn't know "screaming speed" was a stat lol
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On 1/2/2024 3:22 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> On 1/2/24 11:06, Xocyll wrote:
> <snip>
>> Not to mention there are all the other things that don't require
>> screaming speed.   Music (mp3s you ripped before), music videos,
>
> Didn't know "screaming speed" was a stat lol

You've never watching a horror movie where people are running screaming?

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On 1/2/24 19:27, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 1/2/2024 3:22 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> On 1/2/24 11:06, Xocyll wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Not to mention there are all the other things that don't require
>>> screaming speed.   Music (mp3s you ripped before), music videos,
>>
>> Didn't know "screaming speed" was a stat lol
>
> You've never watching a horror movie where people are running screaming?

I don't like horror movies much.
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On 1/3/2024 3:08 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> On 1/2/24 19:27, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 1/2/2024 3:22 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>> On 1/2/24 11:06, Xocyll wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> Not to mention there are all the other things that don't require
>>>> screaming speed.   Music (mp3s you ripped before), music videos,
>>>
>>> Didn't know "screaming speed" was a stat lol
>>
>> You've never watching a horror movie where people are running screaming?
>
> I don't like horror movies much.

Neither do I but I still know that's a trope.

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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> On 1/3/2024 3:08 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> > On 1/2/24 19:27, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> >> On 1/2/2024 3:22 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> >>> On 1/2/24 11:06, Xocyll wrote:
> >>> <snip>
> >>>> Not to mention there are all the other things that don't require
> >>>> screaming speed.   Music (mp3s you ripped before), music videos,
> >>>
> >>> Didn't know "screaming speed" was a stat lol
> >>
> >> You've never watching a horror movie where people are running screaming?
> >
> > I don't like horror movies much.

> Neither do I but I still know that's a trope.

Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!! /me runs.
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On 1/3/24 22:58, Ant wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> On 1/3/2024 3:08 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>> On 1/2/24 19:27, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>> On 1/2/2024 3:22 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>>> On 1/2/24 11:06, Xocyll wrote:
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>> Not to mention there are all the other things that don't require
>>>>>> screaming speed.   Music (mp3s you ripped before), music videos,
>>>>>
>>>>> Didn't know "screaming speed" was a stat lol
>>>>
>>>> You've never watching a horror movie where people are running screaming?
>>>
>>> I don't like horror movies much.
>
>> Neither do I but I still know that's a trope.
>
> Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!! /me runs.

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candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On 1/2/24 11:06, Xocyll wrote:
><snip>
>> Not to mention there are all the other things that don't require
>> screaming speed. Music (mp3s you ripped before), music videos,
>
>Didn't know "screaming speed" was a stat lol

Basically playing any Judas Priest.

Xocyll

On 1/12/2024 3:54 AM, Xocyll wrote:
> candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> looked up from reading the entrails of
> the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
>> On 1/2/24 11:06, Xocyll wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Not to mention there are all the other things that don't require
>>> screaming speed. Music (mp3s you ripped before), music videos,
>>
>> Didn't know "screaming speed" was a stat lol
>
> Basically playing any Judas Priest.
>
Oh, there are much "screamier" bands than Judas Priest.

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