Meteo Xavier

Makes sense. I was wondering why the call was for aggressive, energetic tracks, but the ones I'm listening to now feature a wider mix ranging from dnb, metal, to chill and jazz. That's an angle I can work with.

Building ideas for contributing, but how do these albums work, anyway? Do these play out during gameplay, is it a piece of merchandise participants can pick up, does it play out on speakers as just kind of "atmosphere" music for people to enjoy before playing or outside the main room it takes place in or what? I feel like I'm missing an angle or goal to hit on.

Cool! Yeah i'll try to check them out when time allows.

It wouldn't really serve a practical purpose. Good promotion doesn't start with thinking website visitors are dumb. Just more work without equal benefit.

Does ANYTHING run on the Free Kontakt player anymore? I can't remember the last time I saw a professional sample set that didn't say "FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT ONLY".

I'm interested to try, though that's my ambition and not my schedule talking there.

Birthday, yours, be happy. You know the drill. >

But it's still true of the K240s, which is why I pointed it out. Excellent quality but the durability of them is lacking.

You pretty much can't go wrong with K240s. I'm a proud owner of them, and the only thing you trade up for for $300-$400 headphones is the durability of the product, not the sound quality. Take PRECIOUS care of them, and you'll be alright.

What the hell - the list of items for sale is gone. Why is it every time I actually finally get money I don't know what to spend it with, everyone always takes down the signboards of things I might've been interested in buying? >:S

That's pretty hyperbolic and not quite that true. While the plots and mostly the events of the FF series are the same each time you play it, the actual game itself is not the same every time you play through it. This is what allows people to enjoy it dozens of times through. I've never understood the linearity vs non-linearity debate, mostly why linearity is such a distaste in the first place. I've found non-linear games tend to be formless blobs that make it more difficult to push forward when you want to. It's a matter of taste, but gamers treat it like objective flaws.

Uematsu did not work on the remaster. It was mostly Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano, with Tsutomu Narita, Ryo Yamazaki and Hirosato Noda making "select" contributions. Your beef is with one of them.

On what? If you're there and can justify it, go ahead and justify it. I think that's the first I'd gotten an idea how far your voiceover career is actually going. Additionally, and not something I'm pleased to admit, if I went further, I'd technically have to start charging for further consultation (since that's essentially what I'm doing here and one part of what I do at the firm) unless I owe you a favor. Kind of a dick move I totally agree, but in the spirit of things here... you kinda understand I think. I thought there was more I wanted to say here but now I forgot...

I don't think that's the mindset you should be having. A quality website similar to the ones you're looking at now could cost you in the realm of $1,200 - $???? if you go with established professionals (pretty much the only people who even vaguely guarantee to get the job done), and that's a mighty chunk of change just to say "well, at least my website looks like I'm one of the big names out there". I'm not just doing my consummate nay-saying either, I've been working at a website design and marketing firm since 2003. I don't pretend to know much about the indie voice-over industry right now, but for my experience in websites, I know for a fact that an expensive looking website won't drive people in. Some of our clients are hugely popular moneymakers in the area with websites that are broken and they refuse to pay to fix it or are satisfied with it as is. Money comes in anyway. I could even go as far as saying the quality look of a website almost has no correlation with how much business it brings in based on my day-to-day experience there. You need to be looking at a website that resonates with established professionals when you yourself are currently resonating with established professionals. If you are, then I'd say you're justified to pay that, but what it sounds like is that you're using your website as the vehicle to get you several rungs up the ladder. This mostly does not work. You need a website that REFLECTS your position in the industry, not one that tries to put you there. You'd seriously do better just revamping it on your own and spending some of the money you had set aside for web design work towards maybe advertising around in similar circles where you get work from.

Your current website really isn't that bad, are you sure you want to throw down good money to have a site that looks like everyone else's that will serve you little real practical benefit other than you can say your site looks like the website of an industry leader in voice acting? Just because you're worried about your "branding"? Not to begrudge anyone on here the chance of a paying job, but I really don't think you'd be getting any bang for your buck there. You just need to look for ways to attractively integrate demo reels into your website. Youtube, Tindeck, Soundcloud, etc. If you've got someone interested in hiring you for work, they're not really going to care about how crazy-awesome professional looking your site is going to be - in fact, the website you have now gives someone like me an indication you're affordable to hire. You go with a more expensive and fancy looking site, it will tell savvier employers that you charge a pretty penny. You have a good start as it is, save your money and just rework it to how you want it to come off.

If you don't know how to be patient with your art, you shouldn't be doing it.

I posted some earlier that got ignored. ,:s

I called him about it a while ago. He told me to go eat a big bag of dicks. So I did that, but he didn't tell me what to do after.

Why the HELL did you change the font color for **rist's sake? My eyes don't know what to do now! (Mostly joking, but also kinda not as I really could not tell if I was having a problem or something because something in the color is actually inspiring the utmost minor headache and/or nausea)

Hey, what happened to all the cool, interesting chord progressions, scales and cadences everyone was posting? Why are we instead wanking each other off about theory AGAIN? Today, for example, I found out I can go from C major to Eb Minor as long as I end the note and chord on F. So, C Major, F Major, Eb Minor Sus2, C# Sus 4, Bb Minor, Ab Major, Bb Minor, and then onto something in C Minor.

When I entered community college? Historians are full of shit.

I am? When and how did I obtain this title? Kinda seriously asking there.

How do you even get text to go upside down like that, Timmae?

Oh man, and here I thought I'd be the first person in OCR history to have his birthday thread erased. Thank you each and every one of you for your continued support to my being despite my negative and chaotic antics. From this point last year to this point THIS year, I took my arsenic confrontations and devil's advocating to it's logical extremes (though logical would hardly be the word that describes it) out of a major conflict I was having with what I felt society and those circles I'm allowed to run had become. Those of you who put up with my pronounced bullshit over the last year deserve at least some kind of explanation that I can now give. I celebrate my birthday on March 20th. It also happens to be near the date I got married to an awesome Japanese chick I met on Gamefaqs in a 1-1,000,000 chance of getting a working marriage out of it. Somehow, we pulled it off, but it came with a major tradeoff to her "functional" health. For several years now we have been slowly but surely getting her back to where she needs to be. Then, last year, on March 20th, the HOUR I was born, we got a call from her Mom in Hawaii that her dad had a fatal cardiac arrest. The weight and ramifications that event held were 10x the size of any ordinarily sudden death in the family. I won't go into a lot of details, but you better believe me, as far as I was concerned, the Earth had exploded. It was, without hyperbole, for every intent and purpose I have, the absolute worst thing that could possibly happen, and it did. If that wasn't enough, she contracted an infection that almost took her own life in Hawaii as well, on top of everything else. Combining that madness was how I observed the culture of her family and Hawaii itself. Because of our limited means, I never got to meet her family before then (and will now go in this life without her dad meeting me... that I know about for sure), and again I won't mention details, but what I saw were problems greater than anything I see here on the mainland. Real poverty, major structural problems with daily life, power struggles, things human beings in this civilized world should not have to deal with. But more than what struck me what their family had to go through each and every day of their lives was how they cope with it. Not one person I saw in Hawaii complained. They didn't bitch about it on Facebook or anything, they manned up, accepted their lot in life, and tried to make the best of it with whatever positive thoughts they had all the same. Then I come back here to the "Haole" culture, and what I do see? People bitching left and right about everything under the sun. "I just deleted a lot of friends and family from my Facebook for not being liberal enough, aren't I awesome?""Hitler was a Christian. That's all you need to know about organized religion.""Well, I'm still bumming rides from my friends because I'm still too poor to buy a car thanks to the Republicans, but it's been five days since I bought a $60 tattoo of something that will make sure I never get hired anywhere, so I'm gettin' inked tonight!!!!""Based on 3 seconds of something I saw someone do at WalMart that might have a good explanation if I wasn't such an irritable, judgmental asshole to ask about it or, god that doesn't exist forbid, help them out, I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Fuck people. All of them. You too. I only like my dog now, now who wants to bring me a burger and steak from Jasper's Grill? :D" And the two major elements I gained from our impossibly harrowing venture in Hawaii combining with this totally snapped any tolerance I had left for how whiny, arrogant, pretentious and hypocritical everyone was portraying themselves to be. It wasn't enough to simply ignore it anymore, I wanted to wage war against it. I wanted to personally shove corrections for this nonsense, socially acceptable insanity right up their asses until the heat of their anger towards me burned them from the inside to function as SOME sort of punishment for their hubris. I won't lie, I enjoyed it. I paid for it too, as nature rightfully dictates. It reached its peak some time ago, and it's not truly enjoyable in the least. Wasn't then, sure isn't now. The waning of our culture's hubris, plus my own waning interest in self-perpetuating that madness, and the fact that our vacation at Harrah's Cherokee Casino that I just got back from this morning went considerably better than our birthday/anniversary last year* puts me in a much better mood to be spreading more positive and useful content where I can. One way I hoped to do that was with this quasi-secret written project I'm working on for Ocremix that I hope will become a useful guide at the Workshop section. Unfortunately, a lot of things I was talking about in there actually changed WHILE I was working on it, so I have to redo major sections of it, but when and if I ever get that done, you will find it very useful indeed for your own objective music endeavors. I mention that because I felt it was pretty "eh..." to finish this epic birthday thread response with "hey guys, I promise not to be an asshole anymore!" I guess I could've also finished it by thanking you guys again for continuing to support me despite the depths I sunk to over the last year, so I'll truly just end it there as well. Thanks again! *Ending fatigue anyone? I don't want to make it sound like a surprise trip to Honolulu didn't have it's own share of amazing moments with gorgeousity and good memories I'd like to keep with me forever, it's just always better when your original anniversary plans don't end up with someone dying.

Wait wait wait, you were playing a PS2 RPG without a memory card? Not to be condescending but... what?