Re: CRAP Poll: Rock On... or Off?

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

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I know that it has barely been half a month since our last poll, but
that is only because I was so late with the previous one. Hopefully
this one will put us back on our regular schedule.
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This month's Completely Random And Pointless poll is somewhat related
to our last one too, as both dealt with the audio aspect of video
games. However, this one is a bit more specific.
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More precisely, the question is: You're playing a game. Do you leave
the music on, or off?
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  * Do) Music on, and loud:
It's the best thing in the game!
  * Re) Music on:
I want the full experience, and the soundtrack
       is part of that experience
  * Mi) Music on, but low:
I guess I'm glad it's there, but I don't want
it to be so much in the way
  * Fa) Music on, but not in the game:
Fuck the developer's vision, I'm playing my
own tunes!
  * So) Music off:
I need to hear every sound the enemy makes;
music just gets in the way!
  * La) Wait, games have music?:
I never noticed!
  * Ti) My computer doesn't have a soundcard/speakers
So THAT'S what that little 3.5mm jack is for!
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Generally #4, I like what I like, and I'm usually tired of what the
developers like before I've even made a character.  Why do they insist
in playing loud shitty music in the menus?

Been doing the no music and my own tunes since Diablo on win95B, even
had 2 sound cards in the machine to make it possible; A SB clone from
Zoltrix and an actually SB AWE 32, since win95 did co-operative
multitasking and only allowed one sound source - whoever got there first
kept it forever.   2 sounds cards = 2 sources can play and I listened to
a variety of .mp3s a friend had given me.

These days the old machine is basically nothing more than a display
machine (game info, recipes and such,) and music machine - old radio
which lost an output channel has it's headphone output routed through
the computer and of course it plays mp3s.

I'll sometimes let game music play for a bit, but I always end up
shutting it off after a bit.

Xocyll