Notan

It's probably the same thing.

If you're on 7, you can go into the properties of the microphone and in one of the tabs, there will be a checkbox for "Listen to this Device" or something similar.

That's why the microphone needs to be set so it's playing out loud. But if it isn't, stereo mix won't record the microphone. So if it is recording your voice, and you haven't set it up like that, it's not recording from stereo mix.

If it's properly set to stereo mix, it shouldn't be recording your voice

The recording device needs to be Stereo Mix, with Windows listening to the microphone, playing it through the speakers. It depends on the operating system on how to do it. On 7 it's a pain, and I forgot how to do it in XP, so sorry I can't be of much help there.

It's a neat idea, but it would be annoying rather than scary as soon as you actually did die. Saving every three seconds, or having frequent save points can kill tension, but having such a punishment for dying once (especially in a horror game because you're usually rather weak) is extremely harsh, and it would kill the mood in the long run if the player does the same bit over and over. I feel like horror is being phased out of mainstream gaming, and being brought more into indie, such as Amnesia and the Penumbra series, because for one reason or another, large companies aren't making atmosphere-based games as much as independent people.

It wasn't bad, just worse than the rest of the series at that point, spinoffs aside.

I say that for really popular OCs, like say... Fluffle Puff or something like that (there isn't really a good example at this point in time) it shouldn't be completely ruled out, but otherwise, an OC shouldn't be in the banner.

I just wanted to point out that Crazy Bus was a Proof-of-concept for a Genesis BASIC compiler and never released commercially and Captain Novalin wasn't really meant to be a widespread game, it was just for teaching kids about diabetes.And there ARE terrible games today. I mean sure, there's nothing actually unplayable like there was in the NES days (looking at you, Action 52), but you can't say every piece of shovelware released to the Wii and DS and every tie-in to a movie was mediocre, much less good. It doesn't just matter how much work goes into a game, or how nice it looks. If it's boring, broken or enragingly hard, it has failed at the point of a game. Which is something that you'd actually WANT to play. (Opinions differ depending on the game of course) On the actual topic, I'd say Sonic Heroes really. It's mostly my fault for building it up for myself and I really loved Sonic Adventure 2. I haven't really had many other games that have disappointed me otherwise much.

I have to admit that I agree that a lot of the "unique" things about flash games are in a lot of indie games in general. In the topic of the off-topic indie game reccomendations, the Humble Bundles have good games (although there isn't one going on right now), and they've had a lot of the staples like Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV (which was originally made in flash), Braid and Limbo (I have a bit of a platformer bias). Some free ones are out there too, like the already mentioned Cave Story, Spelunky, An Untitled Story, and Tower of Heaven(Not very good IMO, but other people disagree).

Usually I ragequit in older games, I'm not quite sure why. Either way, it's something that stops me from finishing games a lot of times. Most recently I think was Punch-out! (NES, non-Mike Tyson one), around the second Piston Honda, I'm not quite sure where exactly.

I haven't even really considered it actually. I've always took showers as hot as I can, right below when it hurts pretty much. I might try to get used to cold showers sometime in the near future though because of this.

I actually love this band and I don't really care for the song posted. It doesn't really match the sound of the ones I've heard, like "Fish" and "A Song About California". Maybe it's just recently compared to say, 2008, but listening to other tracks on their new album, "IS", makes me think it's just the song. Anyways, my favourite.

I'm Notan, and I'm a hobbiest programmer without anything to show for it, and pretty much nothing else. I like speedcubing, watching funny comedy videos from the internet and I really like listening to music. Most of what I listen to is ska, although my favourite band is Tally Hall. My favourite pony is fluttershy.