60. Among saints and sinners

Here in Sweden we do not celebrate Halloween. By tradition at least. It's getting more more popular. Instead we have the All Saints Day. Yeah, I don't really have time to talk much about it,

Okay, let's get serious for a moment. All Saints Day. Yeah, that's a holy day. And we celebrate it on the Saturday that occurs between the last day of October and the sixth day of November. And that would be today, by the way. The day after is called All Souls Day. And well...On Sunday the 7th we will remember and honor our dead relatives and such. yes, and All Saints Day. Well that is how we celebrate the saint. But before I leave you to the next song, I gonna ask you one thing. Can you name one saint and say Valentine? That's too easy.

okay. Mr. Simpson I presume. Yes. We may have to leave the whole idea of Halloween and saints and holy days and stuff soon. But let's linger on the subject just one more moment here. If you like the Halloween theme, one retro-themed queen comes to mind. That would be Cassandra Peterson. That's Elvira.Mistress of the Dark. I don't know if you played the Amiga games. There were two of them one and sequel and you met her in a castle I haven't played it as watched it on YouTube seems to be plenty of fun an easy way to get yourself killed in the game There is yes, miss Peterson has actually written a book that was released just a few weeks ago Now, you know.

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2008 on the 5th of November. It was a day after Obama had been elected president. That's when my grandfather died and I'm thinking of him every year around this time and all other relatives that are no longer with us. My grandfather had a computer and it was something that today would be counting as a retro computer.I fought with trying to teach him how to store his documents on diskettes. And eventually I took a pencil and wrote the letters, A colon stuff, on the chassis of the computer. When he died, I picked up his stash of diskettes and found out that none of them had anything on them. He never ever was truly able to save his data.

Big Jim and dreaming of foreign skies. I like walking around on a nearby cemetery here in Stockholm. It's in Solna and it's one of the biggest ones. In the whole area that is.It was March 2020 and I was walking down some road near the gravesites and wondering why are so many people being put underground? I had never seen the crew working so hard with so many graves at the same time. Yeah, that is a memory because that was the first weeks when the whole COVID-19 situation exploded here in Sweden. And yeah.That was the first time I saw the consequences of everything that has been going on. I'm happy with leaving COVID-19 right now behind. It's not a good memory.

Captain Space Debris The good captain coming back for duty. Active duty as the song is being reintroduced into the station. You see, I removed it a few weeks ago during a big clean up. But it's so good it has to come back. Not all the die have ever lived. I'm thinking about Commodore that in 1994 went under.And I remember that it's been struggling for years. And actually the C64 may have been the last success it ever had. Even the Amiga, as well as it was loved everywhere, didn't sell nearly as well as the C64. They say the C64 sold about 20 million units. Whereas the Amiga maybe like four or five. Well, still not bad, but everything else they did.

tube of the philosophy. Everyone dies a lot in this life. Many times in computer games and then finally once for real. You know how games work, if you play well you get another life or you could find some power-ups that gives you back health or more lives. And if you run out of lives, just insert coins or something like that.This story I cannot really watch for. It may have happened or may not. It was during the 80s or 90s when a kid asked his mother, how many lives do I have? The mother said, well son, you have one. He was totally distraught about it and couldn't understand, but hey, in the computer games. Yeah, that is an interesting thing because...Maybe you learn sometime that the games may not be entirely realistic.

Kerstin Kosh, leaving all behind. In 1994, I graduated from Brännkyrka Gymnasium. That's a second upper school. Education, what do you want to call it. Half a year later, I learned that just in a few months, three students have killed themselves. I knew one of them.It was a very silent guy. He was involved in the same student organization as I were. And everybody remember him as a, well, regular guy. Didn't say that much. Didn't seem to have anything bothering him. But actually, somewhere in October-November, he hanging himself. Yes, yes. I don't know what kind of demons he was fighting.

DJ dark and relaxed. Look, I did not really intend this whole episode to be about death or something. It's taking a bit of a turn for the darker, so let's try to fix that. We have already left Halloween and All Saints Day is coming to an end as well. Good, a good time for a little bit of a remembrance, but let's...Kick up the tempo a little bit with Dark Halo and Kirby's Dreamland.

Yeah, that's exactly what we need right now. Okay, so we are still a little bit into this Halloween-khmode or something. So let's talk about the blood and gore in games. It was said that it would corrupt the youth and we were the young people, so it was us. But I think very few of us became some kind of psychopathic killers and stuff now. But they kind of expected a mass violence thing going on afterwards.It did not happen. And today when we look at Mortal Kombat and finish him, it doesn't look very realistic. And you can laugh at the effects. Hard Dates Night, not the Beatles movie, but this game where you just slashed people in half and stuff, yeah, also looks more funny than actually seriously scary.

Suspect of Artima, Saint Valentine. Do you remember a few minutes ago in the beginning of this show I asked you could you tell me one more saint except Saint Valentine because everybody knows that. And I shouldn't laugh at you because I can only really remember Mother Teresa and of course Saint Nicholas which is yeah it's Santa Claus.That is not a very good scorecard, but I'm not very religious on the other hand.

motion of future crew and unreal 2. PC demo and yeah it's one of those things we had on the station for ages but is now re-entering after the big database cleanup. I kind of removed it by mistake. Now it has been rectified. At any rate thank you for listening this is DJ Daemon signing off for thisI don't know if it was scary or anything, I did not try to do that, but I was kind of thinking more about remembrance of people and situations past. A little bit of a Halloween, very belated one if not. And All Saints Day episode.

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