Meteo Xavier

What did you buy and how much was it?

I can't pretend I'm not surprised, but whatever. A final WAV is always good.

Try that PrincessClairey whatever her name is. She's an English teacher as well - she must know something of lyrics.

I didn't think to look that far up there. Awesome. Keep up the good workz.

I wasn't able to read that thoroughly, but I don't think I saw anything in there in regards to newbies posting on advertising themselves as composers. What is your position on that? Frankly, those posts irk me to the 4th level of Hell. They show that the "composer" has almost zero respect for the site and the community by treating it as nothing more than free ad space - not even taking the time the understand this is a video game MUSIC community, not a video game indie community. As we have music people here who make efforts to the community by making remixes and contributing to projects and site maintenance, I feel these newbies coming in and using the forums for free ad space is appalling, quite frankly. Ooh, bookends. Anyway, what are your thoughts on that?

I will urge, in my capacity as an administrator trying to shift resources where they need to go, if you switch up to a different track that it be one currently in dire need of remixing. That's all I would ask for there.

If anyone can get a hold of Luhny for us so we can try to get an update from him, that'd be cool.

Not enough for this deadline, but the bottom line is an enthusiastic YES, you would more than likely have plenty of time to do it and redo it over and over again. Sorry to hear that Blue. I know all too well what thats like.

Got a new WAV I haven't listened to and a very brief WIP for Reincarnation from Prophecy.

Indeed, just send me a PM. I saw you sent one earlier, but as it was also other business that needed to wait until I got to a better point on it, I didn't go into the SD3 part of it.

My point is, GDC is most likely for fun and not useful unless you're a music or programming wizard and you're already lucky enough getting industry work. I can't verify this personally until I can afford to do it myself, and that day when I do, I'm going to go there, unwashed, in as little clothing as I can legally wear, lipstick and mascara, apply for as many jobs as humanly possible - so then when I pay more than $1200 to get rejected, I will at least have earned it. Nothing pisses me off more than knowing I did everything right and bought everything I needed to still fail and that's been my career outside my day job for 10 years. This is part of my "Dreams Do Not Come True" initiative for my generation. I'm turning my experience/failure into realistic reinforcement for struggling and surprisingly-naive-for-really-intelligent members of my generation who just don't know whats good for them, godbless'em. Our generation was cursed with over-abundant unearned confidence building in our infancy and now we just can't accept it when someone tells us "We don't want you. No one wants you. If we want a composer, we know what we want already and where to find them. It's called Google. Oh, you spent a shitload of money on stuff you suck at? So does everyone else. Go cry somewhere else you fuckin' aspie retard." Someone actually sent me something to that effect once... and it's still not the worst rejection I've received. Sorry to digress there, but no one pays any attention to anything I write unless they're thinking I'm bashing LGBT or thinking I'm calling them a thief when I have photographic evidence that, despite the fact you're a respected moderator on a major website, you clearly can't READ - so its all good.

Good by itself doesn't cut it anymore. You have to good, charismatic (borderline celebrity) and lucky all at once. Entertainment industries are about the worst to try to get into, and with all that effort that goes in and the amount you get back, you may as well try to land a job in something else. I myself am looking for any excuse or catalyst available to just quit entirely. I didn't use to be this cynical - I blame the last few years of economic recession for that.

From what I've heard, if you're not already a hot shot 3 games into the mainstream industry already, you're basically wasting your time and money trying to find work there. I didn't look any further, I used my own experience trying to find any entry level work that actually has a chance of being published in any capacity to verify.

I would try that except I can't even get any of the good trackers, Famitracker included, to even run on my computer. http://ubiktune.org/releases/ubi019-various-artists-up - this is the album I've been studying as I prepare it, particularly virt and Blitz Lunar's tracks. Those don't sound like normal 8bit drums, I thought surely they must be something else.

I'd love to go someday as more of a luxury cruise than anything worthwhile in the industry. $1,000+ to hand out resumes no one will bother reading is not a career highlight in my opinion.

I tried to write virt and others I know who are pretty popular in the non-dance genres of chiptune for suggestions, but I guess when you're a hot shot musician, you don't bother to write the little people back, so I'm going to try here. I've been working on a chiptune album for Ubiktune and in more of the Progressive rock-chiptune styles they do, but I'm not really happy with my chiptune drum samples. Would anyone be able to recommend a drum sample set, 8bit or no, that typically sound good with an NES collection of instruments? And no, I'm not using trackers. I hate them and now none of them even work on my computer anyway. I don't know how or why, thats just the conclusion I came to.

A really smart Uematsu-wannabe composer would learn how to do the jobs that ARE in demand, and then once you get in and get an establishment going, they can use their influence and connections to do composition for the games they work on.

Let the dream smashing begin!

I certainly didn't mean to go an ageist route there, but it's a huge curiosity to me as I see it with politicians, clients of ours, and the guy who did our home inspection yesterday. I started to wonder if maybe these wacky-ass politicos and entertainment business suits are actually threatened by the power of the internet. Like they're well aware they their strangehold over the people is slipping away from them with nothing they can do but react childishly with their tails between their legs - to me that best explains why people with multiple college degrees from top schools in top positions act so mind-bogglingly ignorant.

The Wii is finally getting a shot of some serious RPG gaming.

I can't argue in the face of cold reality. You'd think after 20 years or more, SOMEONE in a position of power and influence would understand how the internet works. Why is it so easy for us and the younger generation to understand while people 50 and up, or, hell, younger than that, people who have mastered political science, international business, finance management worth billions of dollars - all this shit that takes serious talent and brainpower to obtain - and they still can't figure out how the internet works? That's what bothers me the most. You CAN'T be an idiot and hold any form of public office at the same time. It is clearly motivated by greed and pressure from outside forces. Oh well, Anonymous will take care of these idiots for us.

Unbiased, I must rely on the thought that if politicians (and humanity at large by that extension) were genuinely as stupid as people made them out to be, there wouldn't even be a country here anymore. I don't subscribe to our generation's idea that people are stupid until proven otherwise. Which puts me in a rather awkward position vis-a-vis the link in the OP.

Dude, you're griping about nothing. Artifacts are part of the history of the community. Sometimes people disappear and a quality remix with only 128kbs is all we have of it. It doesn't usually happen all the same. That's life and that's the policy of the higher ups for the website and community. MP3s are fine.

But surely the natural implications of such things would eventually build up until it has nowhere to go but everywhere in an explosion of incompetence and precedent. I mean, I know people in the higher ups are stupid, but they can't possibly be that stupid.