#Introductions Goth, Biotech sysadmin, lives in Norwich UK. Interested in Goth Rock, Deathrock, Post Punk and some metal.

Find me at Tomorrow's Ghosts festival in Whitby every 6 months.

Looking for like-minded folk to talk Goth, tech, gaming, beer, football, astronomy, martial arts or anything else that isn't politics-driven.

@UnixAnt Also, UNIX was my first foray into something that wasn't windows about 15 years ago. Worked in Telecomms Operations. Basically waiting for something to go red and then sitting on a conference call for 12 hours until it wasn't red any more.

@RaeYcrep Haha! You've just summed up one of my early jobs when I moved out of the North West xD First foray into Unix was at Uni in 1996. Professionally, 2000. Although I don't hate Windows, I just don't have much use for it day-to-day, other than a gaming platform.

@UnixAnt I would be on Linux if I could really be sure I could tit about with the games I use without the headache. Since not being around stuff like that professionally any more I have become lazy.

It was a shame about WGW! I went just before drama kicked off. I used to live in York so I don't know why I didn't go more often. Saw the drama; backed away.

@RaeYcrep Well, ever since Valve introduced Proton support, I've been able to play most of my Steam collection with the minimum of tinkering. It's a lot, lot easier now to just click 'Play' and have the Windows game just work. Really impressed with it honestly.

The drama divided a goth community which really ought to have stuck together. It just caused in-fighting and needless bickering. Events are scarce enough in the UK as it is. Still attended, but completely ignored the nonsense.

@UnixAnt Super strange with the drama. Because I have never met a more inclusive or welcoming crowd than a goth or metal crowd.

Talking of compatibility I play a lot of Diablo, still have the original games and played a lot of LAN on them. UNTIL I think Win 7? For the longest time I kept a Win XP laptop going just for the backwards compatibility. But the less said about Battle.net the better.

@RaeYcrep You know, I wouldn't even know where to start. I hear Diablo II runs on Windows 10, but I've never tried.

I'm no Blizzard fan, but I'd probably buy D2 if it was refreshed to run on modern hardware. I do miss that game - played a load of it back in the day. Didn't really like Diablo 3, but I must have played close to 2000 hours of Grim Dawn, which is impressive seeing as it's a single player game.

@UnixAnt Diablo is my gaming bubble wrap. Smash my way through, instant gratification. Got it for the Switch and it's fantastic to play it like that. Works really well at a handheld level. Never played Grim Dawn but always looking for something in the same ilk as Diablo.

@RaeYcrep I love a good single player ARPG. I tried Path of Exile, but found it overly complicated: too much to micro manage. Torchlight 2 was good, but the loot had class restrictions and actively blocked you from using an item if you weren't of the appropriate class. I hate that. Grim Dawn blew me away. Very much an homage to Diablo/Diablo 2. There is a main quest but you're not on rails, tonnes of loot, loads of viable class combos and not bogged down with min-maxing. Worth a look, definitely