Personally, I keep up with the news primarily through social media, since TV news is just plain depressing half the time. I don't really mind reading the newspaper, but half of it is stuff I don't need to know either or some other overly detailed documentary of a criminal's jail sentence.

How much do you keep up with the news? Be sure to vote in the poll!

With thousands of bands to listen to today, it takes many bands years to really make a name for themselves. Then of course there are many bands that become successful, then drop off after a few short years just as quickly as they hit the spotlight.

Many very good bands simply run out of creative ideas after they've hit their perfect album. More often musicians get old and lose the young sense of rock 'n roll. I'd say that few bands are lucky enough to see more than 5-10 years in the limelight of their golden years, with bands like Rush being the exception.. Any thoughts?

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I'm ashamed to say, but to be honest, I am kind of a ( ) at Unix. So, for ( )s like me, what distro would you recommend me trying out? I'd prefer it to be steam compatible, so out of these, which would you recommend?

lol stupid word filter. meant to say n-o-o-b-s.

If you want, post your steam name here and me and whoever else may (or may not) add you on Steam. Mine is cg93412.

Personally I use notepad++ for most things, and vim for a linux command-line editor. For the coders out there, what's your preference?

Well, there is no poster above me!

Hey, why not?

This thread will serve as the newly formalized  thread for official Makestation community milestones! 

Note: This thread is often confused with the personal milestone thread. This thread is for community milestones, whereas the personal milestone thread is for personal milestones (e.g. for reaching a postcount, making it on the wall of shame, etc. ) As for celebrating our awesomeness as a community as we reach certain community milestones, this thread is the place! - Edited by Darth-Apple

Post Milestones:
1000th post - by titanicbuff, June 08, 2013, 05:21:47 am UTC

2000th post - by simlink, June 23, 2013, 11:36:31 am UTC

3000th post - by ???, July 23, 2013, 10:30ish pm UTC
Special:
666 Posts - June 05, 2013

1337 Posts - June 10, 2013, at 15:20:15 UTC (1337th Post by t3haco!)


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Vector and bitmap graphics are the primary types of images in computing today. I prefer working with vector graphics, as they can be scaled almost infinitely without any loss of quality, and don't rely on this primitive concept known as 'pixels'. But, I have to use bitmap graphics everyday, since they are the most widely supported. Thoughts?