Baltimore or thereabouts. Firaxis, Bethesda Softworks, Big Huge Games are all within a 15-minute drive from my house. If all goes well, I'll be working at one of those places in about 2 and a half years (as a programmer). I might even get an internship at BHG next year. There are also quite a few indie studios, and EA just opened a small branch up here.
[QUOTE="fepepinar"]I'm glad metal is not a fad. It would certainly ruin it. Let only metalcore be the 'popular' one. D: USSJAndrew
A. Hardcore isn't metal, it's a fusion genre.
b. If it was metal, it would be the only metal worth listening to:)
There is a distinction between Hardcore and Metalcore, you know..Metalcore largely contains bands who look at At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul as the ultimate album, and the melody almost never strays from the same base note, and in general is way more angsty. Hardcore is a different kind of music almost entirely, and much better.
I should mention that the reason I have a 'metal' avatar is because that dude is playing an 11-string bass, which is sick. And no, it's not a Chapman Stick, that's a straight-up 11-string bass.
Regarding the quote about people posting obscure band names...it's part of my quest to bring good bands to light, unless I do feel like being a jerk and listing a bad band that no one's heard of. For example: Baroness. Great band, love them, will post them in WAYLT threads or 'looking for music' threads for at least another few months. When I'm being a jerk: Vlad Tepes. Is famous for usually only releasing 300 LP's (in analog format) for each album, and their albums have sold for as much as $10,000 on eBay. However, they have some of the most intentionally bad production ever, and in general are just a mediocre kvlt BM band. I already listen to a lot (A LOT) of music as it is, so I feel that only the really good bands should get my free advertising. I can't help it if most of those bands are somewhat hard-to-find.
Achewood>XKCD>all other webcomics. CAD was never very good, vgcats is slowly losing momentum (he doesn't update on anything remotely resembling a regular basis), and Penny-Arcade is at the level where they'll put it out even if they know it's not funny, because they have a huge enough fanbase that it doesn't matter.
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