I think we’re all criminally insane in our own way,
We’re all doing it together,
We’re free styling on the wheel of life.
We’re trapped on the words of life.
On eternal dialogue,
Endless commentary,
Unending noise,
Infinite inane chatter.
We will not sit in silence enjoying the quiet sure presence of another human being.
Human beings we are no longer,
We have become Human Doing.
We march in endless rows.
Step by Step.
Perfect Unison.
We are conditioned to see the world as the economy wants us to see it.
When was the last time you did something fun that cost nothing?
When did you see a notice that wasn’t urging you to buy anything?
We are commercialised.
We have been standardised.
Two point Four Children.
Married.
House in Suburbia.
Bank account.
Job.
One person is not strong enough to break free of the Human Ant Cycle. We’d need a mass of people. There again, we have the Human Ant problem. Of that mass of people, How many are truly dedicated to the cause? And how many are just there just to follow the ‘in’ crowd?
So tell me? How do you follow, if everyone is a leader?
How do you lead with no followers?
Our conditioning is so strong we have no more original thoughts.
We refine and regurgitate ideas already aeons old.
There was a saying I heard once, and I will now regurgitate that to you.
Never worry about someone stealing your original idea, it’s probably old, and if it were original, you’d have to ram it down their throats anyway. But I am getting away from my ‘original’ subject.
Silence.
Why are we incapable of it, if we are naturally quiet with out mouths shut? Why do we constantly make small talk to further our own relationships? Do not talk to someone to get to know them.
Feel the energy of them. Feel the energy? You’re thinking what kind of new age bullshit is this? By feel the energy I mean remember the emotions that you experienced while in their presence. And there are many many emotions. Or should I say many variations of the two core emotions, like water and flour, you decide on the stickiness of the dough. Pay attention to the more subtle emotions portrayed to you by the vehicle of the soul before your immaterial eyes. Push away the overpowering emotions such and love hate happiness sadness, and you’ll find a myriad of smaller more subtle, less coarse emotions. Peace, calm, chaotic and many many more.
So ‘feel out’ this conglomeration of not-so-randomly firing synapse before you and you’ll find an unchanging soul.
Listen to the beat of the soul’s rhythm.
But first know yours. And from then on, you’re a piece of music looking for the right symphony. Judge not by words. Words are simply noise in the air that anyone can utter.
We are not as evolved as we think we are.
We are primitive.
Barbaric.
Savage.
We are. It’s no use in looking what we have built.

No, I’m talking about our interaction with the others of our kind. We allow beggars, rape, hunger, war. We allow it. If we had the determination, we could stop it today.
Forever.
But no, we don’t care.
How many times have YOU uttered that you hate the beggars/hawkers/street children next to the road? Is that compassion? And do you still consider yourself to be compassionate? You’re probably thinking as much as I, that I helped that other one a while ago and then there was the time… Is this enough? NO it is not. You’ve helped one person, but for every person we help, one hundred stand behind him/her. We need to stop being selfish and let basic foods and services be free. And expect no return or even gratitude from them. That is what’s holding us back. We want them to tell us how grateful they are and just generally make you feel important.
You’ve given them something in return for instant gratification.
All they have to left is pride, and you wish to diminish that.
If this offends you, look away, I don’t care.
This letter is to myself as much as the rest of the world.
This is the way I feel about myself, about you, him, her, them…
So take the lessons to heart, live by them, and breathe, eat and sleep by them.
Or do like most people would, read it, be inspired for all of a day, then let it slip away like last night’s dream…

Installed Stalker from DVD, Patched to 1.0005, then to 1.0006 and then applied NODVD crack (couldn’t get it to work otherwise)

These entries I then had to manually enter into the wine regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D :

DirectDrawRenderer opengl
OffScreenRenderingMode fbo
PixelShaderMode enabled
UseGLSL disabled
VertexShaderMode hardware
VideoMemorySize 512

Stalker-SoC.sh :

#!/bin/bash
X :1 -ac &
DISPLAY=:1
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine
WINEDEBUG=-all
wine "C:\Program Files HQ/S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl/bin/XR_3DA.exe" -nodistort -nointro -dsound


Game now works fully, other than a few issues with slightly laggy gameplay, need to tweak a bit i reckon.

Happy Gaming