Do they really need to make it any goddamn harder?

You wouldn't want what I'd come up with.

So not it.

Thank you, that's one of my biggest issues with other people's English.

THERE 'E IS NOW! GET 'IM

Oh, and the Wii has World of Goo, which is ten redeeming features to itself

In which cases you are justified.

If you have a point to get across and want to do so musically, there are a number of ways to do it; I simply don't subscribe to the harsher methods, though I suppose I can understand the appeal. Sort of.

When listening to rock I'm usually looking for something of the type prevalent in the '70s, and U2 was one of the only bands that kept peddling anything even close to '70s rock in the '80s.

My musical tastes in general are wide and varied but I won't willingly listen to anything that can induce a headache in less than two minutes.

*is not ignoring the techno*

Anyone who can stand the Sex Pistols deserves a medal for the sheer willpower involved in sitting through a song of theirs without punching a hole through the speakers

SOME PEOPLE LIKE THEIR MUSIC TO HAVE MELODY

No strong opinion one way or another on '80s pop in general. Some of it is absolutely brilliant (U2), some of it is absolute ##### (punk).

With nifty enough keymapping you can make Goldeneye play like a PS2 shooter on a PS2-esque gamepad (like most of them are these days) under 1.2



Not that I would have any experience with that. This is where we should stop the discussion

Oh, I've been playing Golden Eye 64... unsuccessfully.
why would you make a controller scheme like that rare

1.2 Solitaire is your friend.

You have to learn each character's moves before you even stand a chance.

qcf qcf strong

All you need.

'Ello

"You get NOTHING! You LOSE! Now DIE sir!"

Didn't you know the secret to success in that game is qcf qcf strong?

Proof that 5.1 headphones are unnecessary.

You'll need a real pair of stereo headphones however.

It got really techno-y and #####ty near the end, so I had to revise my opinion to 'merely okay', but then again for super-powered techno like that it's not too bad.

Uh oh, this can't be good

...

In general not a big fan of techno, but this remix is not half-bad.

EDIT: Now that I've heard a bit more of it, I change my mind

Sorry, I meant input delay, not LAG lag.

But you made the post at 9:05, clearly we have 53 minutes to save the world, unless it's a two-parter.

Gamepads produce massive amounts of lag in my experience.

It could be in assembly... but then you'd run into the line limit

Not badly done, except for the 17 which looks fake as #####.

It was bound to happen SOMEWHERE.

Only because a large portion of our society were and still are 99% computer-illiterate.

EDIT: Which is not to say that I am not still 90-95% computer-illiterate, but that crap didn't even phaze me when I was 9

Synth-brass will be a no-go, it detunes too easily and I don't want to have to play with it constantly. Still pinching the basses and I think I'll find some use for the overdriven guitar.

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Wasn't in the composition mood, but WAS in the music-making mood, so I decided to continue discovering new features of the program while punching out a rendition of Mega Man 7's first fortress tune with no regard for polyphony limits.

Did you know that the synthesizer doing those damned bells takes over 40% of my CPU time when rendering in real time? I had to turn them off when not actually rendering the final project.

Same drill as before.

http://www.freewebs.com/colonelfatso/mm7-fortress1.mp3

lolworthy.

In all seriousness, though, I have a Mega Man X soundfont and might use a couple of the instruments (particularly the synth brass and the two brands of bass guitar) in future works.

When you beat him he drops Reputation Buster even though he's a fortress boss and can't drop weapons

The initial thought I had for it was 'title screen', but it could probably also be expanded into a character theme.

Unfortunately, he doesn't even look HILARIOUSLY out of place like Snare does.

Yeah, I'll go back and make that warning bigger, it's hotlinking protection on freewebs' part, you have to copy-paste the url



EDIT: But really the solution to the problem is for me to get off my lazy ass and actually make a home page instead of just dumping all my files there.

I have enough documentation to substantiate my claim by myself, though I appreciate the offer.

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Yesterday I decided that it was time to stop just oohing and aahing at all the wonderful soundfonts and VSTs that came with FL Studio and actually use a few of them a little. Had to go online to obtain a trumpet soundfont for this because the program didn't happen to include one and I lack the equipment to get quality recordings of my own just-better-than-meagre playing.

It's bland, repetitive and pretty derivative, but it IS a start to what I hope will become a substantial, successful composition hobby.



Gonna have to copy the URL on this, because freewebs are assholes



http://www.freewebs.com/colonelfatso/blaaahahav2.mp3

EDIT: Hmm, they stream the mp3s now, didn't know about that

EDIT2: Just to make sure noone misses the warning this time

Just got back from seeing it. Pretty good, but I got tired of Dr. Manhattan's blue junk gently flapping in the breeze every second scene. And the whole disintegrating-people-except-for-their-blood-which-goes-spraying-everywhere-instead was slightly excessive.

I also noted that they took special care to avoid destroying the World Trade Centre.

He needs the really long cape that spews fireballs though

I see what you did there.

Dicks like that are the reason I try to read as much of the source material for comic book movies as possible before I see them, to avoid the possibility of becoming such a dick.

ANYWAY
YESPLEASE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6zyRr3tmlU

I'd watch that show.

Just finished reading through Watchmen. Liked it quite a bit. I don't read many graphic novels or comic books so my opinion means little, but it's definitely the best graphic novel I've ever read

I'll be seeing it on Sunday for a friend's birthday.



Of course, I still haven't finished it, I guess I'd better go do that.

That sort of 'everything's slowly falling apart and there's really nothing we can do to stop it' concept is the only concept that I actually find frightening. Like, only.

Well, that too. Just... disturbing. In a really awesome way, in fact in the only way that can actually scare me.

That... was... disturbing.

Castlevania 4. Practicing for the SDA run again. The video is of a so-so practice run that I uploaded merely to demonstrate my route to another SDA member

temp_jelly almost had me in tears on the windmill stage. True story.

Which sort, the 16 oz or 2L variety? I can't see downing a whole 2L, but then I like to savor things. Plus, the plastic gives the drink a slightly off taste, and I'd rather have it from a can or fountain (mmm, fountain soda).

20oz.

Coca-Cola is the only drink I could down 2 litres of in any reasonable amount of time, besides water and ginger ale.

I don't know if I've said this before but in my first three weeks at A&W I drank enough root beer for several lifetimes and really can't have root beer more than twice or three times a year now without finding it utterly disgusting.

Dr. Pepper is very good... for about one can's worth. I couldn't finish a bottle of it if I tried.