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I got new guitar pickups and succesfully installed them. Yay.

I've been toying around with an idea of flipping these. Basically this:
Starts with a destruction of a world and a single ship fleeing it.Cut to Earth where some sort of superhero shows up, not really human, does some helpful stuff and all that, saves our human connection, a girl of sorts (playing on the Twilight note here) who falls in love with the dashing hero with a troubled past. He in turn continues helping the humans super heroey stuff while there's indications that something bad is coming. Eventually he reveals to his now girlfriend of sorts that he is the last of his kind, fleeing from a race of warmongering aliens who destroyed his homeworld and are bent on wiping his species out, turns to the human race for help, they agree.
Big bad shows up, big talky buildup, some wierd things are said by the big bad (our hero translates for the humans in the piece). Some clashing, something to put our girl in danger, build up tension, critical moment of the movie, hero has to save the girl but sacrifice himself or something.
He doesn't, a cold and condescending speech is given by the hero, and it is revealed that it was him in fact who destroyed the planet at the beginning, and that he is the insane sociopath who's going around and wrecking shit while the big bad is some sort of vigilante or official trying to stop his rampage. Unfortunately he fails as the hero kills him and the girl. Afterward he goes back to Earth (this happened on a ship or something) and tells that he stopped the first one, but unfortunately his ship and girl have been lost, and worse yet, there will be more of these and he will need all of humanity to unite behind him if they are to live.

Or something like that, sorry for the maybe derail, had to get that out of my head, been mulling over it way too much.

Yes, i kind of thought of it like this but this is more flipping roles midway/late story.

Quote from: DarkWolfXV on February 21, 2013, 02:09:42 pm

Quote from: Zangi on February 21, 2013, 02:01:04 pm

Quote from: DarkWolfXV on February 21, 2013, 01:54:19 pm

Villian antagonist would mean the bad gus win
Villian protagonist would mean the good guys win.
Am i right?

Protagonist would be the main character, the story focuses on this character.  If the protagonist is a villain, it likely means the villain 'wins' at the end.
Antagonist is the opponent of the main character, the story usually does not focus as much, if at all.  If the antagonist is the villain, the villain is generally going to 'lose' at the end.

I meant a situation in which antagonist wins, doesnt have to be villian.
Also, is there anything like when antagonist knows hes the antagonist? That he knows that what he does is evil and stuff? Usually antagonist thinks that what he does is right.

Sure, in (mostly) bad writing where the bad guy is bad because....hey, evil is fun. And it feels good. Admittedly, if handled right it's way more terrifying than a conflicted villain or misguided zealot. The Joker in The Dark Knight fits the trope to a tee. Sure, he dresses it up with some spiels about chaos and doing the world a favor, but deep down you know he's just doing it because he fucking loves it.

But for every Joker there's a hundred Ming the Mercilesses who exist just to cackle and gloat and rub their hands together because it's their job.

Yes, i kind of thought of Joker, its a bad guy, does bad stuff, but to me he is kind of likeable, there is kind of a mystery about why does he do the bad stuff, and thats what makes him interesting. He is kinda classy, too.

I can do it

Instrument: Electric guitar
Roles: Rhythm, some of less complex lead, ambient noises
Experience: Intermediate+
Recording: Been there done that, can mix decently and been trying at mastering a bit. Got Shure SM57, i record guitars with DI though because i need to buy a new interface.

I can also program drums, i have a wide collection of samples.
I can also do growling vocals and random noises.

Ok, so it's settled: the song will be at 679bpm in Bb, 7/8 timing and using the 3rd mode of the harmonic major scale. Should be a good'un!

You forgot the key changes every 2 bars, melodic instruments play in 7/8 time signature while drums play in 4/4 for the polyrhythms, with some 15/16 thrown in for lulz, and the cycle repeating itself. Shit ton of chromatic notes for totally avant-garde nonsense. (You need to know the key so you know which notes you shouldnt play and you play them on purpose  )

When the antagonist is the main focus, isn't he just the protagonist?

Not totally main focus, i figure it could be, like some part of story is about the protagonist, while some is about the antagonist.
Or would the tables be turned, and antagonist would be protagonist and vice versa?

Black, or dark, bloody red.

Well, im just finishing my first playthrough of XCOM on Classic (Didnt play the previous ones either) and i must say it is awesome game, although a bit too short. Trying on Impossible now, and its going pretty well, you just gotta go into full cover when possible and never sprint unless certain and spam overwatch, try skipping laser weapons and go straight for plasma, and in first month focus on getting technics and satellite uplink.

Can I get a translation, DarkWolf?

Sure.

Gontyna Kry - Sacrifice for the Gods (Svetovid will rejoice)

Svetovid! Father!
Svetovid! Father!

On your knees, dog! Your dead god wont help you! (Its bożek in polish, so lesser god, idol probaly)

Svetovid, take as a gift our sacrifice of this blood of christian slave.
rejoice, Master, like we do
thank you for the triumph in battle
take care for the fallen
their blood has fertilized holy native land
let the Pagan ghosts guard it forever!
Hail the Sun!
Hail!!!

Świętowit is the main god of slavic Pogans, or something like that. Here is english wiki page, here he is called Svetovid
Hope i helped.