Rotwang

In case you still don't get it, the point is that telling someone that your opinions about music must be right because you've been around longer than he has makes you look rather silly.

I believe you. You like different things and that is fair enough. You grew up listening to different things or most likely missed out on a lot of things, music and parties that occoured before you started listening to this music, hence your inability to tell the difference. [...] but if you were there when it was all happening (outside of Greece mostly...as Greece was infested with the Reload/Nitzo parties), you would understand. Peace out. That's one possibility. Another possibility is that you grew up listening to a certain style of music and are consequently unable to separate the music itself from the emotions you experienced during a formative time of your life when that kind of thing was new, whereas a person who started listening psytrance more recently has no particular attachment to or association of happier times with any one style or period and can compare music objectively without his or her critical faculties being impaired by emotions. Still, don't feel too bad - it's not your fault that you're very, very old and probably looking at history through rose-tinted specs that are only made all the more potent by the advanced stages of senile dementia. Peace out. (Yes, I realise that my post is intensely patronising. There's a reason for that.)

I'm good, thanks. PM sent.

Why hello there, Surge. How are you?

This poll should let us choose multiple options. I like Saikosounds a lot, but often use Psyshop because even though I've heard horror stories about their customer service stuff tends to arrive from them a lot quicker than other places. I have used Goastore and Beatspace once each IIRC, and Wirikuta a few times. For listening to samples to decide what to buy I find Saikosounds and Goastore indispensable.

Somewhat awesome.

Fix'd, hopefully.

I agree with you about both points. But RTP is already aware of them, and I don't think he can do anything about them yet.

I listen to more darkpsy than Goa, but I'm pretty sure that puts me in the minority at least among regular psynews posters. I reckon you'll be hard-pressed to find a more Goa-oriented English language forum than this one. Are you aware that Amanita Design have another game coming soon? It'll be called Botanicula.

^ That sounds totally awesome. I went to a party at a friend's flat, met some people I've not seen for years there. We also had a pretty good view of the fireworks over the London Eye, it was a spectacular display.

Let's try with the new-style editor: edit: I did that by using the "Image" button to post the image, then highlighting the image (by dragging the LMB over it - that made white squares appear around the edge of it) and then pressing the "Link" button to add a link to it. This made a blue stipple appear over the image, which I guess was the forum's way of telling me it had worked.

Before the update we did it like this: [url=http://psynews.org/][img]http://www.doublefine.com/images/psychopedia_uploads/sasha.jpg[/img][/url] Let's see if it still works: edit: Yes, but clicking on it also opens a frame with the image for no damn reason.

What? No, I just meant to reiterate the sentiment in your OP.

Ditto.

Cool, the last VA from Digital Shiva Power was great.

Damn, I think I recognise that from a long time ago but can't think why. It's not Excalibur, is it?

This.

I gave: a garden clock and this book for my Dad, some DVDs and books for my Mum, vase for my sister, trousers for my brother-in-law, a fairy dress for my niece (she preferred the bubble wrap it came in though), a dinosaur construction toy for my nephew and Deus Ex: Human Revolution for my flatmate. I was given, among other things: a pair of KRK headphones, a philosophy book and a Viz annual, some CDs, some DVDs (including Fantastic planet), some games (Portal 2, Arkham City, Psychonauts and an indie platformer bundle), a Radio Times subscription and a robot crab.

VA - Dubstep Meditations is quite good.

Taken from The Church Mice at Christmas, possibly the greatest book ever written by mankind.

Now I have one.

FIRST! oh wait

That's the colour tags making the text almost the same colour as the background. If one copies coloured text and pastes it into the new editor it will automatically insert tags (and similarly for bold, italic etc.).