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Yeah because you can't ban bluefox or anything.

I'm holding out for a Mafia 2 discount.

Nope, espernet, not freenode. freenode already has my nick registered and has a 16-character nickname limit. If I can find 2 significant flaws within minutes of logging on, it can't be good at all.

Happy American Holiday. Shine on, you crazy diamonds, you.

Obviously tsundere for the pizza. She likes it but she doesn't want to admit her feelings so she acts cold towards it.

Are you guys kidding? Quakenet is where it's at.

Found this Q&A with icefrog, which gives some more info. Most notably that with the reconnect feature you'll not only be able to rejoin your own games after dropping, but other ones as well if a player needs to be replaced. Spectators will be able to join ongoing games and there will be extensive bot support. It's looking pretty impressive if they make good on all these promises.

Wow if that is supposed to be the quality bar for this project, count me out. I'm bailing.

But at least he's naturally adept at running, amirite.

Problem Sleuth is very good too, but the main difference is that the author made it a point of always taking the first reader suggestion and building on that, which resulted in very slow plot advancement and a lot of (funny) tangents. I think Homestuck has better pacing overall.

Does it really matter if a company that hasn't made any good games in recent times gets closed down? Other than nostalgia I mean.

I stumbled across this webcomic a few days ago and I've literally been addicted to it ever since I started reading. What really sets this webcomic apart from most others is the way the author incorporates animated gifs, simple flash games, as well as REALLY well done flash movies with an amazing soundtrack to boot. It really feels like an actual webcomic (as it wouldn't be possible to retain the same format in any other medium), rather than just a comic that happens to be on the internet. In addition, the format in which the comic is presented is based on old text-based adventure games where the player would issue commands to the ingame characters by typing them out. This idea is retained in the form of a suggestion box where readers can post their commands for the characters, with the author generally picking the best/most interesting ones to advance the plot without incorporating too many tangents (except the most funny ones). The art is extremely charming, generally using a sort of super-deformed style, but switching appropriately to more realistic proportions for the characters during action sequences. Then there's the writing, which is arguably the best part in my opinion. The overall plot gets extremely complex, with multiple timelines and universes running through each other, but somehow the author makes it all work and manages to keep things relatively coherent. The plot contains many elements from games like Earthbound (Homestuck is even somewhat of a synonym for Earthbound), The Sims, Spore, and Chrono Trigger, as well as a shitton of other pop-cultural shoutouts (too many to list). The characters are all quite detailed and well written, despite the sizable cast. I honestly can't think of a single character I outright dislike, and the dialogues all tend to be very witty and intelligent, without feeling overly pretentious. Oh, and the comic gets updated like 5 times a day, unless the next update is some big flash movie. TL;DR GO READ THIS NOWbluh bluh

Wait, are favorites threads allowed in offtop? If so, you just loopholed the fuck out of that rule.

Your only option for *convincing* tremolo picking is to find a sample set that has pre-recorded tremolo picking. Or there's the obligatory "learn to play guitar yourself"-suggestion, because guitar is one of the hardest instruments to realistically sequence with samples, but one of the simplest instruments to learn.

Dulcimer? Mandoline? Some kind of percussive instrument? It beats the hell out of me.

hey just popping in to say that i agreed to collab with iggykoopa on his song.

This x100, especially for anything with orchestral elements.

It's different for everyone but I'm guessing you just want to hear everyone's opinions. For me it goes something like this: - Conceptualization; I make sort of a mental sketch to determine the genre, instrumentation, overall structure etc. - Sketching; Either I load up a quick template file and write down the basic ideas with the piano roll or I work it out on my guitar. - Then I start the actual mixing. I prefer to work my way through a mix section by section, rather than by writing out every instrumental track completely before moving on to the next one. I also don't divide the mixing process into a seperate 'arrangement' and 'production' phase, but I go back and forth between the two so I can make adjustments on the fly.

Actually it's more like saying camembert is camembert in this metaphor, since RPGs as a whole would be the cheese.

JRPGs are JRPGs bro

Welcome to emo.

Welcome to 6 months ago.

Uhhhhhhhh, what? Why the personal attack? Fanboyism?

Please don't get Golden Sun if you didn't like Chrono Trigger. It turns up the JRPG cliches by a factor 10 and is needlessly verbose.

Too much JRPG suggestions in this thread. If you liked the ME games, you might enjoy Dragon Age, which has a lot of similarities to those games in terms of character interaction etc.