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    No? YES!

    in General Discussion

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    It's catchy, I found myself humming the tune and reciting the lyrics in the shower this morning. Though I can't figure out if OA is kidding about the saved marriage thing, because if he isn't, then I'd like to hear the story :)

    How often do you listen to ocremixes?

    in General Discussion

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    My main draw to the music [at OCR] is that it's (free) high-quality instrumental music - mostly. I've come to enjoy some of the mixes with vocals in the last year, but I really like the instrumental stuff because it's good mood music, thinking music, writing music, etc.

    Same here. Over 95% of the time I don't even know the source tune that is being remixed, so it's more like an instrumental song rather than a vgm remix to me. But to actually answer the question, I listen to OCR stuff, and just music in general: infrequently.

    Lemmings Dance Mix

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    It's too loud. Turn the master volume slider in your mixer down. And if you want an instrument to be quieter than the others, then turn the volume down on that one as well, don't leave it blaring at max volume and just put a limiter on it. Getting the right volume levels for every instrument in your song is a fundamental skill in mixing music. Work on it.

    An example of your remix versus zircon's "dirt devil" remix (recently accepted to OCR):

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    Your's is flying off the graph, and that's not a good thing, because it causes things like clipping and distortion, which makes your song very jarring and difficult to listen. Try to make it more like zircon's, which basically means turning the volume knob down on a lot of stuff.

    IGN Declares Blu-Ray Winner of The Format War

    in General Discussion

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    I head over here sometimes if I want more details.
    Aww, shit. And I thought I actually knew what I was talking about, I assumed the blue laser was exclusive to blu-ray and HD-DVDs still only used a red laser. Everyone can disregard my previous post, I described the difference between DVDs and blu-ray, not HD-DVDs and blu-ray.
    I do understand the disc reading technology involved. The HVDs have been around forever and they're going to need to do something impressive to maintain my attention.
    Uhhh, storing 3.9 terabytes on one disc doesn't impress you? 3.9 terabytes: as in 7,986% (this isn't a typo, it really is more than seven thousand percent) more space than a double-layer blu-ray disc (50GB)? HELLO?
    This is shows how much space that technology takes up... We'll need HDVs.

    http://www.answers.com/topic/ultra-high-definition-video?cat=technology

    I don't know what to be more astonished by, a disc that can hold 50TBs, or that said disc can only hold 4 hours of uncompressed UHD footage.

    IGN Declares Blu-Ray Winner of The Format War

    in General Discussion

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    So, how then is HD-DVD different from blu-ray?

    There are so many things affecting how much data you can put on a single disc. The size of the disc, how many writable sides it has, single or double layer, the thinness of the laser writing the data, and the method of writing.

    The only difference between a HD-DVD and a blu-ray disc is that the data is written with a red laser on an HD-DVD and with a blue laser on a blu-ray disc. Because the blue laser is thinner it gets more data on the same space, that's it. But deciding to use a thinner laser ain't all that impressive, and it certainly isn't the best method currently out there either, if you really wanna write a ton of data on a single disc then look into HVDs.

    EDIT: This is incorrect, HD-DVD uses blue lasers as well, I described the difference between DVDs and blu-ray, not HD-DVDs and blu-ray. My bad.

    IGN Declares Blu-Ray Winner of The Format War

    in General Discussion

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    djp had a really good answer, but I wanna do my "blu-ray for dummies" post anyway:

    blu-ray is just a blue laser that scribbles data on a disc. Because the blue laser is thinner, it can fill in much more data on a disc than a red laser can. A violent laser, which would be even thinner, would totally kick blue laser's ass in the amount of data that could be stored on a disc. A completely retarded example would be: blu-ray is the amount of times you can wrap floss around your index finger. The (old?) standard of writing data on a disc (red-ray) would be the amount of times you could wrap a very thick rope around your index finger. That's about it, blu-ray "creates" more space on a disc, and more space means more data that can be put in that space, and being able to put more data means higher resolutions on videos and other stuff.

    OHC - Every Thursday is Compo Thursday!

    in Competitions

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    I've had a few ideas in general for OHC, rather than just doing themes I think you can do something like give the participants a .midi of a chord progression or bassline and it'd be their job to evolve it into a full song within the hour. Or you could let them freely compose anything but limit them to a certain tempo range or time signature to make things interesting. I'm also still in support of doing the sample packs.

    Just a few things to consider.

    Anime

    in General Discussion

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    Anime that is "a little more grown up:"

    Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal (masterpiece, 4 eps)

    FLCL (masterpiece, 6 eps)

    Deathnote (masterpiece, 38 eps)

    Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (excellent, 26 eps)

    Outlaw Star (great, 26 eps)

    Samurai 7 (great, 26 eps)

    Last Exile (great, 26 eps)

    None of the above animes have any teeny-bopper or cutsy scenes/storylines like most mainstream anime is known for, and revolve around more serious themes. I guess except FLCL, which is sort of a combination of both? It's hard to describe, but I really recommend seeing it, it's short and you could do so in a few hours.

    Games & Storytelling: a 10-minute video by me!

    in General Discussion

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    I thought it was great, some images were up for a quick moment and disappeared before I could take them in, but they were shown again later so I picked them up then. I also had no problem with the voice, but I listened to it through closed headphones in a quiet room so not much outside noise got in the way and I could fully concentrate on what you were saying. I can't give much more feedback other than what was already given, but I'd say it's good as it is, if you go with what you got here then you'll probably get a good grade.

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