Meteo Xavier

I stole it from a homeless man.

Slightly offtopic and admittingly condescending, but does anyone else get as weirded out as I do watching grown men and women go into great length about how largely-cartoon kid-based companies are SERIOUS BUSINESS and should be catering more to them (or their nostalgia, rather)? It's DISNEY. They've been doing stuff like that for decades, probably before your childhood even started. They make their money catering to broad audiences of kids, tweens, and their parents. They don't make their money off grown adults who digest their classics every year unless they re-release those old movies on new media. I gotta admit, that video actually looked kinda cool. I don't really see what the big fuss was about.

My redo of POSITIVE is almost finished. Likely still needs some polishing and I need to figure out how to get the drums in there to sound as heavy as they are without sounding... overcompressed? I'm not quite sure how to describe it. Maybe stuff that can be taken care of in mastering, but we'll see. It's still kind of a strange track, but now it should fit much better alongside everyone else's. Now I just need to fix up my "Long Goodbye" track as best I can.

America, Canada and Russia for me. I'm pretty sure Russia is from all the bots and not-actual-people that visit my shit.

Well obviously its because Nintendo is stupid. Pure and simple. Now let's start a whole new round of pretending we're game industry experts and debate each other into the ground about exactly how and where one of our favorite companies sucks for not giving us exactly what we want! This will be a totally useful waste of time!

Is this game going to have those pre-1995 style polygon shapes that Final Fantasy III, IV, and 4 Heroes had? * looks the fucking thing up in Google Images * Well hot damn. Looks like it's finally catching up to 2003 already.

I'm not going to post anything new here, but I do feel compelled to wonder what this attitude is with $50-$100 a minute being chump change. If I made that kind of money on my tunes, I'd never have to increase the price ever. This time last year I lost a job to VIRT of all people for that kind of money. And this attitude always comes from people who have actually "made" it in the industry. I never see anyone who has no game credits to their name ever telling people never to charge less than $500/minute. I feel like it's extremely indicative of whatever the fancy word is for forgetting what it was like for you struggling to get work back in your early days and I hypothesize the real reason game industry musicians balk at the idea of people like me with no chance of real industry success getting far less than that is it cheapens what you can ask for from the client. If the new generation starts taking $50-$100 a minute, soon everyone will. Let me put it out straight - this is a greedy, jealous industry, even more than most. No one wants to really help new people and everything is motivated to keep you down because everyone sees you as an obstacle to their own success. If you haven't "made it" by now, you never will. The positions filled by Virt and Zircon and Danny B are going to be filled by them for life. God forbid even if you do find someone with the money for it and impress them, you're going to get passed over for a celebrity anyway for brand recognition. Act like a professional? This isn't a profession anymore, it's a joke. It's a joke on anyone who ever listened to Final Fantasy VI OST, wanted to do that someday, and found FL Studio not long after that. You only have one hope of getting anything out of this line of work and thats to be thankful for what little you get. I have a listing on VGMdb as a composer and what I get from that is the thousands of $ I spent on getting where I am, not to mention wasting 10 years of life, means it wasn't all in vain. That's likely all I'm going to get from this. I have a better chance of winning the Powerball than I do making it in the industry. So you can talk about professional this and academic that, but it changes nothing for the reality of indie composers everywhere. I'll go out and post resumes around charging $500/minute and guess how many jobs I'll come back with. 0. Same as now. When ringers like Virt are willing to snatch jobs from indies for $30-$50 a minute, it means the game's over. The gates are sealed and the ship is sailed. No one else is getting on. Might as well throw your own wrench into the mess with $10 a track prices - at least then you might get enough money to take your girl out to a slightly fancier restaurant than TGIFridays.

Well, your question is "hey, should I buy this keyboard or should I get another one of hundreds of possibilities?" On that alone, how would we know? That isn't a Yes or No question that would do you any good. Not trying to be rude, but c'mon.

You didn't really give us much in the way of information there, so it would be very difficult to give you a useful answer in return.

I'm in the process of trying to update my "POSITIVE" remix so that it doesn't sound like a highly outdated turd where everyone else made such fine remixes. I doubt I'm doing any good to it at the moment, but at least its updated... Been sending you some WIPs Rozo. Where you at, juggalo?

But would those bugs suddenly occur after quite a while of working just fine? I didn't change anything in them, it was Firefox that updated.

After all the trouble I've had with drivers and shit in the last few months, I really don't want to go messing around there just to see if it does anything. My best guess is Firefox itself added something in a recent update that ASIO doesn't like.

This is a problem I've had in recent weeks. I used to be able to have Firefox up and FL Studio with ASIO on at the same time (provided I didn't have sound going), but now it refuses to work as long as Firefox is on at all. Is anyone else having this problem? Using ASIO4ALL V2 btw.

Wait wait wait. How is Xenoblade a typical JRPG again? Go compare it to Skies of Arcadia, Lufia and Dragon Quest and let me know whats so typical about it. If anything, that game plays more like Final Fantasy XII than any other game I can think of.

That was kinda the point I thought.

Just give it a decade or so and emulation will catch up with it.

No, it's been localized and released in America for quite a while now. No game is worth more than $80. Xenoblade is pretty good, but it's not $120 good. Save that money for your young'un.

But you can still get the individual games rather cheaply, right?

Well yeah, don't you remember the incredibly high amount of hype this game got? Combine that with Gamestop being the only place to get it conventionally and one wonders why you didn't get it when you had the chance.

Not really, people have been veering towards looking up lyrics online for years now anyway. Just put them up on a webpage and save yourself hundreds or a thousand dollars.

This topic is BS. That's right. Bait & switch. Textbook example.

I admit, I LOL'd at this.

I just think you could attain it quicker and easier with two more hours of work...

Wouldn't it just be a lot easier to save up another $20?

So why do you do modern gaming at all then?