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    European Metal/Rock Bands

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    I could maybe promote some bands from Quebec now.

    Not that I want to keep derailing the thread too badly, but Quebec is host to some of the best metal I've heard worldwide. Quo Vadis being a favourite of mine, and Unexpect being a band I've been meaning to check out for some time (that song you linked is ridiculously good by the way). Especially that so many bands have a tendency to eclectically mix in some really cool jazz fusion elements in their music.

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    , Gorguts,
    , Augury, Martyr

    European Metal/Rock Bands

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    Posted

    :3

    I love most of the bands you guys have mentioned so far. Seems most of you guys here really dig power metal (I was kidding in my above post but I am more partial to death metal, which Europe has a LOT of great bands in as well). I noticed Sonata Arctica hasn't gotten a mention yet. Love those Finns.

    European Metal/Rock Bands

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    Yeah, I agree Europe has a lot of great tech death like Decapitated and Spawn of--

    While we do have Kamelot, Symphony X, Iced Earth and such here in North America. Most "metal" now is just brutal death metal oriented stuff.

    Oh guess I'll just head the other way then.

    Game recommendations for a bright 7 year old?

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    You should check out the Paper Mario series. It's a bit of reading but for a 7 year old that's kind of perfect; you can play it together and he can practice reading. The original Paper Mario is available on Virtual Console (it was an N64 game), and Paper Mario 2: Thousand Year Door is available for Gamecube, so you can play that on your Wii also. Just see if you can track down a used copy.

    Also I don't know if this is on VC yet but Super Mario RPG for SNES is also a good one for little kids. I gave that one to Neblix when he was little and he got a lot of reading practice out of it.

    I really, really want to double this recommendation.

    Metal bands with high dynamic range

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    Posted

    Decapitated - A Poem About an Old Prison Man

    Psycroptic - (Ob)Servant

    These are some that jump to mind that don't strike me as being terribly compressed but still sounding heavy.

    I think the main thing that I can agree with your friend about though is tonally none of this is as heavy as something heavily compressed and rhythmic like Meshuggah or Gojira would sound whereas the above bands are more "brutal" than "heavy".

    Starcraft 2

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    Mainly the problem with practice league is the fact that the maps include rocks outside of your base which gives an illusion of safety but in actuality it just makes massing air units retardedly good. Actual games of SC2 are nothing like that.

    By jumping straight into your placement matches, if you don't know how to play you'll get placed in a low league and then you start to learn the fundamentals from there.

    Starcraft 2

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    I finally can play online. Going random just to learn.

    Question, should I play the practice league at all or just skip it?

    Practice league will actually probably put you in some really bad habits. I'd say skip.

    Mega Man Legends 3 Cancelled

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    I'm not usually big on online petitions, but Capcom has a history for listening to its community over the last several years. I signed up as a ServBot and posted in the thread too. Hoping this gets this game back on track. It was one of the biggest reasons I was looking at getting a 3DS (which is near guaranteed now that Nintendo is going to be lowering the 3DS price.)

    Follow suit guys, Capcom seems to be actually listening on this one. Register as a servbot and post on the boards, join the Facebook group. Do what you have to if you're a Megaman fan.

    http://getmeoffthemoon.blogspot.com/ <-- I just found this blog, it's regarding the fan effort. Bookmark'd, son.

    Starcraft 2

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    So when you say 1-3 for army, is there a standard setup you typically use?

    Not really any sort of rigid setup, I have kind of a rough guideline in my head of how I want to be using my hotkeys though. Mostly depends on the build I've gone and stage of the game, even if I'm playing Protoss. In the early-mid game 1 might be my whole army (let's saying I'm going lings) and 2-3 might be a couple of scouts. Or maybe I'll divide two groups of the same army as 1 and 2 for better positioning. Another thing is having melee on 1 and ranged on 2 (Roach/Ling). Or maybe I'll just have the whole bulk of them on 1 because the composition I've gone isn't that micro intensive. In the mid-late game, I usually reserve them for individual unit types. 1 might be my bulk army and 2-3 might be my flying or casting units or some variation like that (btw brofestors are amazing bro). You're going to find as Zerg that they're more reactionary, and that you're probably going to have a different composition of units for every matchup so you'll have to get comfy with your army hotkey setups changing depending on the context of the game.

    Starcraft 2

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    How do you hotkey your queens and hatcheries? All queens and all hatches, or individual hatches and queens, or what? That's the biggest thing I've been trying to figure out.

    With Terran, it's easy: hotkey the CCs, rax, facts, ports, ebays, and armories, and the rest is army.

    Most zergs I know of go all hatches on one hotkey (many set it to 4, some to 5) and the rest as individual queens (so like 5+ might be individual queens). The benefit of this setup is that it's easy to keep up on your vomits, and all you have to do to check a base is double tap the queen hotkey. You can vomit from the minimap as well, and if you want to cut down on micromanagement doing it through that method you could have all your queens on one hotkey as well.

    When I play zerg I go 1-3 army, 4 all queens on bases, 5 hatches, 5-9 individual queens at bases, 0 upgrade buildings or a 4th queen depending. I'm sure some higher level zerg players will have some better advice too (b/c my main is 'Toss). If I'm on more bases I may shift my hotkey setup a bit as well.

    Starcraft 2

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    Lately I've started using Skype with my friends to have proper co-operation in team matches. I can't imagine myself playing without it any more.

    SC2 teams becomes a different game when you can actually coordinate on the fly. It's nice to not have to share control of you armies simply because you know what your partner is doing at all times and can react accordingly. It's nearly impossible to micro marine-tank when you have sentries and HT or infestors or other micro intensive builds to worry about in your army too.

    There's nothing like running your zergling into your opponent mineral line and watch as they eat through the workers.

    My main is 'Toss but I play Zerg as a secondary in teams. So satisfying, especially when you catch their main army WAY out of position when you do the runby.

    Also fun to fungal all their workers in place and watch as they all explode at the same time. Or

    . :]

    Starcraft 2

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    How many people are still regularly playing SC2 or following the tourney scene around here?

    I've been playing a lot lately with some 2v2 partners and plan to get back into some serious 1v1 laddering.

    Blizzard just locked Season 2 a couple of weeks ago. What this means is that bonus pool doesn't increase and you stay in the league your in, however your MMR (matchmaking rating) and league placement stats are still considered, which only matters for your initial placement, but aside from that you pretty much starting fresh in the next season. Season 3 then starts on July 26.

    So now's actually a great time to get back into it!

    I'd love to do some team games or practice some 1v1 against you dudes.

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