Random Thoughts Thread

[Hobie-wan]

All this industrial talk is reminding me of the awesomeness that was Cleopatra Records and "Virgin Voices: A Tribute to Madonna" (as well as a few other tribute albums they did)... I mean come ON, En Esch singing Material Girl?!?

I recommend the Cleopatra remix discs for Gary Numan and A Flock of Seagulls. I really like Mark Pistel's remix of I Ran. That video is a sloppy job trimming down the remix and slapping it over some old show appearance, but you'll get the idea.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I was a Cleopatra fan back in the day. Loved Leæther Strip and Christian Death.

Wait, all this music talk has been occurring in the Random Thoughts Thread?

[Erik_Twice]

I just made the switch from Chrome to Firefox and couldn't be happier. Not only all my memory issues have been solved, there are no longer any brief hang-ups when using Youtube and everything loads faster.

Don't regret it at all.

[Exhuminator]

Don't regret it at all.

You won't regret this either. (Assuming you're not using it already.)

[Sarge]

I used to use Opera all the time, until they stopped being "Opera" and instead a rejiggered Chromium. I went back to Firefox full time since then, and yeah, it's pretty great.

[Stark]

I've always liked IE, but lately it has just been awful and now they've all but dropped support and are working on Spartan or whatever. Bleh.

[Exhuminator]

After the most recent Pwn2Own, Mozilla was the first group to patch problems in their browser. That kind of dedication is what I look for.

http://www.maximumpc.com/mozilla_moves_ ... pwn2own300

I've been using Firefox since it first released in 2002, and have never regretted it.

[RCBH928]

I like how things in the 90's were "ok" to be wacky and colorful. Now everything has to be perfect, professional, and brown/desaturated colors.

This image from the Dreamcast.

[isiolia]

I like how things in the 90's were "ok" to be wacky and colorful. Now everything has to be perfect, professional, and brown/desaturated colors.

There are different trends going on for some things, but I don't think that necessarily rings true across the board. Fairly little is brown or desaturated colors right now (I mean, Windows 8+ is anything but), you've got emojis and such that aren't minimal. There's a general trend towards a flat appearance, versus the soft beveled edges there, or mimicking real materials a few years ago...but quite a lot of them look better, and are often more functional to boot.

[Erik_Twice]

Don't regret it at all.

You won't regret this either. (Assuming you're not using it already.)

I do use Adblock, using a curated list. I do wish there were choices in more sites to pay in exchange of not having ads, I hate ads