Meteo Xavier

To me, Japanese music sounds like overly epic, melodic content built over sequenced drums and background with progressive rock song structures. It lacks subtlety in emotional content, prefering to blare out sad or angry or powerful by making you focus on one memorable melody or sound over any combination of I, IV, V and VI Minor chords with occasional breaks into a melodic chord just as Em, C, D, B and then having Esus4 and then E to close off a music phrase. Western music sticks to making music that is strictly background and atmosphere and only exists to maybe give an atmosphere some subtlety and you wouldn't be able to remember a specific tune to save your life. They are usually Danny Elfman or John Williams-wannabe scores and are overly orchestral with extreme focus to make it sound like real orchestras are playing which I disagree with because its too much money spent on production instead of creativity which is what sells records. Modern Japanese music rules. Hands down.

My father's day plans got totally fucked up. I couldn't sleep last night, so around 4:30 AM I got sick of it, popped in a movie, THEN fell asleep and didn't get up until close to 11:00 A.M. And I was scheduled to take him out for breakfast at 8:30.

Do I get to fulfill my 20-year-long dream of fighting the Scolari brothers?

I still don't know what the hell anyone is talking about here.

This kinda leads up to my question. Are there restrictions on who is eligible or ineligible and is it going to be a level playing field? My concern here is if Zircon or BGC or ANSO or McVaffe or Mazedude all join in too, the competition will quickly wittle its way down to them and no one else will even come close. I'm definitely not trying to be negative or insulting to any of the names I just mentioned, but they will absolutely obliterate every other entry presented. And again, I'm not trying to be negative or accuse bias or anything like that, I'm just wondering how this is going to work like that.

You can't have it both ways, Mrs. Pettigrew. Y'either find a way to fit the guitar in naturally or renounce your godhood as ye clearly have no power within nature.

Why did you list two names when either is meant to portmanteau both into one? ?;S

Yeah, I learned this back in the fall semester when I took a recording class. Its just hard to tell when its actually mutating and ruining the song. Well, to me, this is compounded by the fact that I'm not trained conventionally and the music I choose to do is often experimental in structure so as to stand out and be creative. I always just get this feeling in many of my tracks like it sounds right to me but it might be missing some huge fundemental element that makes it sound like a real song. I can't tell where I stand and what I need to improve and work on so I can be taken seriously. Well, in this case, this is an artistic project than a professional one, but I'm glad to hear anyway. I'm just trying to figure out how the big boys, Uematsu, Sakuraba, Soule, Mitsuda, Mitsuda and Shimomura are able to accomplish both. I know they have better equipment and things I don't, but they have the same obstacles I run into too, so how do they get around them much quicker? Thats what I'm trying to explore. What kind of priorities?

I'm considering buying a used PSP strictly for emulation purposes. Is there anyone who's good at this sort of thing who can walk me through it? I'm mostly just into emulating NES, SNES, GBA, GB... you know, the simpler stuff. Can I use speed and save state options on these?

I'm not buying anything with a poop stain on it.

I hear that an awful lot.

No he's not, that guitar is WAY too loud and crunchy to fit in right. its a great sound and performance, but man turn it down some...

Yet the answer is to lead somewhere, yes? I imagine thats why the sentence ends with "outside of anime." Umm... I don't know, not much I would imagine since I've not yet had the chance to study Japan seriously. What I know has just come in passing from one thing or another. Love to go visit someday.

Well I declare, Ms Beauregard, I do believe you're sweet on me. ^u^

I don't share your cynicism. Japan always strikes me as profoundly proud of its nation and its health in community, and my opinion is thats what they are more paranoid about.

Well, there's people like me hoping for a revival of the Edo period.

We're done arguing this, ok? I didn't fail to deliver anything. On topic: And I share Avatar of Justice but for different reasons. I've cut back on my materialism as part of my Obsessive-Compulsive complex that is aggressively and annoyingly mutated with my Autism. My attitude on women is roughly the same but I can't even really get started (hell, there used to be a dating help thread somewhere here but I can't find it now.) The Grass-Eater philosophy currently rules, but I can see why a huge number of people doing this during a decline and sharp decrease in birth rate would be concerned. Its nothing to PANIC about though.

Yeah, I got one of those too. My mom showed up at work with it and left it on my desk for Jennifer Love Hewitt's cleavage for all to see. I thought maybe it was an old issue my dad was holding onto.

I have a wicked urge to want to watch SHINESMAN again. There are plenty of things to appreciate about Japanese business practices though. I particularly enjoy the fact that they have (or had last time I checked) routine exercise sessions to keep healthy and positions for life - which is interesting considering how long the Japanese tend to live - which can be great for job security. But yeah, sooner or later, something like this would happen. A lot of Japanese kids and young adults our age, in consideration of the high cost of living expenses and extreme lack of available space, tend to live as "Leech Youth" and pretty much depend on the parents for everything. That thriving (or throbbing, more accurately) sense of competition and life-long positioning has alienated the next generations. When the standards are too high and its too hard to even get started, why bother? I can definitely see where this Grass-Eater movement is coming from then. China's going through a similar thing right now too, IIRC. I think theres' is partially the result of Communism though.

No shit, I'd give every last testicle I had to be able to have women come after me like that. It'd defeat the whole purpose, I know, but man...

Well it could be because someone took out the whole other 80% of the topic title instead of just changing the offending phrase. Its not my fault the topic title doesn't deliver, its not what I originally wrote. And "someone" in that sentence is not emphasized in anyway. I don't know who moderated it. Edit: On second thought, the original title didn't indicate as much as necessary anyway, so I'll shut up.

We used to.

For someone who's not sure if I'm being serious, you sure are taking it pretty seriously. And I'm glad the general consensus seems to believe this issue to be as ridiculous as what I saw when I read what Japan was PANICKING about.

The Japanese are literally shitting themselves over this right now. Because our community largely depends on Mother Nippon for more than half of our gaming lives, culture and history, I just thought everyone should know that this beloved foreign country of ours; a country that is technologically superior, intellectually massive, artistically orgasmic, and righteously nutritous and courteous and above us in almost every way... http://www.slate.com/id/2220535/?GT1=38001 ... is in the biggest state of panic the world has ever seen. And if you read the article, that is not a hyperbole (insert eye rolling emoticon here if I knew how to do it properly).