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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Farmer
« on: February 17, 2012, 01:27:58 pm »
Too bad kobold overran me with ambush while i had no military
WTF?
WTF?
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Farmer
« on: February 17, 2012, 01:15:07 pm »
For every dwarf fortress addict here: It seems that possesed farmers may claim magma glass furnances randomly instead of craftsdorf workshop, further !!science!! will be done when he ends mood successfully.
Lets hope...
Lets hope...
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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: February 17, 2012, 08:29:51 am »But you have to think outside of scales to make something more original, or use rare scales.
Great cover
Not necessarily~
Ben Sharp (see: Cloudkicker) just kinda fucks around on his guitar, building up from an intro riff, and he uses all sorts of crazy-ass scales and things~
All scales are the same, really, just muscle memory~
On a guitar, at least~
With piano, you've got the black keys and shit, but guitars don't have anything like that~
To be honest, I think that's why the guitar is such a prolific instrument~
There aren't any fancy tricks or nonsense when it comes to playing it, only muscle memory and dexterity~
"Black keys" are sharps and flats, which are passages between notes. They also exist on guitar, y'know.
There are fancy tricks, like bends, different styles of picking, vibrato, fingerslides, dive bombing, palm muting, using different pickups, while on keyboard/piano u just press keys, with no fancy tricks and nonsense, but i dont say it isnt hard at times, piano needs more theory than guitar though. But guitar is harder.
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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: February 16, 2012, 09:24:51 am »Mental skill kinda depends on person, composing is mostly trial and error if u dont know good tricks, actually making drum track. Manual skill can be taught, but there is limit, like after legendary 5+ its slow to go another level.
And you can also compose with guitars, i love death metal becouse bands not only play their awesomely fast awesome song but also compose it, be it by one band member or whole band.
What I was saying regarding guitars is that a lot of it is straight-up muscle memory~
You subconsciously remember the scales and tend to stick with them as you make up stuff~
More music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7zBvYEhNJE (NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF0bTUey8F4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4MzvsLMHwg
But you have to think outside of scales to make something more original, or use rare scales.
Great cover
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Creative Projects / Re: Sound Effects...
« on: February 15, 2012, 04:54:38 am »
Get some chips from old computer or other machines, and make chiptune, im afraid i dont know how to do this though.
Try adding some flanger to sounds of lasers, and increase attack time for explosions.
Try adding some flanger to sounds of lasers, and increase attack time for explosions.
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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: February 15, 2012, 04:51:41 am »Just some stuff I've been listening to lately~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J6LLrzY5MI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PUAYnhCivQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB8Js0tAVz0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emtbIaWhUAw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63uto1W7HfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2v2QJeXCyw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81FPA_aTKc
Also, just my two cents on the electric v acoustic issue:
Having played both, I can say that making electronic music is fucking hard, whether you're sampling or creating your own sounds with a synth~
While acoustic requires more manual skill, electronic most definitely requires more mental skill~
You really have to know composition and how to arrange your sounds, possibly moreso than with a guitar or something~
With a guitar, staying in scale often becomes muscle memory~
Mental skill kinda depends on person, composing is mostly trial and error if u dont know good tricks, actually making drum track. Manual skill can be taught, but there is limit, like after legendary 5+ its slow to go another level.
And you can also compose with guitars, i love death metal becouse bands not only play their awesomely fast awesome song but also compose it, be it by one band member or whole band.
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Life Advice / Re: What film should I watch tonight?
« on: February 15, 2012, 04:42:30 am »
Inception
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: THE one word STORY GAME!!!
« on: February 14, 2012, 01:13:19 pm »
death
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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: February 14, 2012, 08:17:04 am »Well, I guess you're kinda right about that one. Same thing about paintings and drawings,Except... well, except when you see it live. Again. I never really got Van Gogh, until I actually went and saw that stuff for realz. Then I was all like "ooooh shit. That is good". I also had it with Slayer, when I first heard it as a kid I thought "what is this noise" (keep in mind that was on twice copied cassette tapes, so it probably was noise), and I kept on not getting it until I saw them live and I went Oh FUCK this is GOOD.
really. Digital, oils, watercolor-- fuckin' crayons-- Doesn't really matter.QuoteAnd seriously? You got to see Animals as Leaders live? You got to see Tosin Abasi, the god?I saw them. And it was divine. And in a pretty small venue, too, so I actually was pretty close to the stage. Then I closed my eyes and the sound washed me away, and cleaned me of my sins.
Meshuggah will be playing with (here it comes) Slayer, Machine Head, Anthrax, Lamb of God, and a few others (Trivium, Nasum) this summer. We've got a large group of people to go with, everyone already booked babysitters (because that's how the modern metalhead rolls), and it's on my fucking birthday. It Will Be Glorious.
Nowadays I don't listen to new music that often anymore, so I don't have much to offer. Animals played as support for a band called "Between the buried and me", they weren't half bad. A friend of mine plays in Obsidian, and he often posts some new stuff on his facebook (I didn't even know there was a genre called "Djent"), I'll scrape some of that to dump here.
Is djent the thing where 95% stuff palm muted or am i wrong?
And i heard Obsididan, nice ones.
Good ol' classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgpzLUCY0rU&ob=av2e
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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: February 13, 2012, 04:59:01 pm »Have to agree with Tofu here, although I do like me some Skrillex, and I must note that "playing an instrument" is overrated. The music, the actual sound that reaches my ears, is what matters. Whether you generated it on a computer, or you actually tortured 500 kittens to get that epic scream doesn't matter to me if it sounds the same. Difference is that electronic music is just "meh", if you see it live, where "real" music can pick you up and carry you away...
*sigh* Nowadays people dont give a shit how music is made;(
Its incredibly elf-like to think like this. Would you prefer to use magma to solve everything, or make complicated series of traps, get some bone parts and haz moar funz in process?
But there is yet to be a program which creates death growls, pig squeals, screams (like growled, screamed etc. words, not random growls or screams)
Btw you wanna know how to create techno? turn on ur car, record engine noise and turn it backwards, add some reverb, flanger or w/e, gratz u created techno.
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DF Adventure Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your adventure?
« on: February 13, 2012, 03:03:55 pm »
Impaling bogeymen.
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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: February 13, 2012, 02:13:32 pm »I fail to see how difficulty makes music sound better.
I've heard songs I could play instantly on the piano(And I don't play the piano) that I've loved and songs that would take me years to even begin to play that are shit.
And I don't really think you understand how complex some of this stuff can get. You can't just grab a beat add some synths and then win a grammy.
But you can go 400 bpm solo (or whatever isnt beaten yet) and get title of fastest guitarist or whatever u play in world, and complexity gives sense of accomplishment like "FUCK YEA im the only man on planet being able to play that"
Although overly complex things sometimes sound worse, but if some people had equal tech skill to their amazing creativity/ composing skill they would sound great.
And sometimes when u got sensez of accomplishmentz you can die with peace. Ya finally achieved something in your life, and wont die as dull standard man/woman.
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Life Advice / Re: Need help killing my competitive demon.
« on: February 13, 2012, 02:08:27 pm »
Embrace your demon, and let it out only when needed.