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    Classical Asian songs

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    I'm not really digging that rock sound.

    I'm really just looking for any music that sounds like classical asian music. Like the Okami Remix or Sakura from DDR. I don't mind if the music has a few techno beats in it, or some other sounds, but I don't like the blaring rock sound of the band you recommended.

    RevenG - Sakura (from DDR Extreme) - Now this I liked. Thanks!

    Audiosurf!

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    It certainly looks interesting, but I'm having a hard time from the YouTube video seeing the correspondence between the beats and the block collection... anyone else? Just me?

    Definately a case of some songs better than others.

    Techno/electronic songs have better block-beat correlation.

    Most rock is kinda bad about block-beat correlation, although oddly enough Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames is pretty decent :P

    Also, stages rise/dip relating to the music.

    That video doesn't do it justice, it was just one of the first ones I could find.

    Artist whose music make awesome stages: Kanye West, BT, Red Hot Chilli Peppers (their newer stuff moreso).

    Also Voices of the Lifesteam is pretty trippy experience.

    Audiosurf!

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    Wow, I don't see any thread about this amazing game.

    You select any song on your hard drive, and it creates a stage for you, and you collect colored blocks in turn with the beats.

    http://www.audio-surf.com/ - Official Website, can explain better than I can.

    Unfortunately, the Beta Weekend just ended, but some anonymous people have found ways to continue playing it...PM me if interested.

    Anime

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    This is something I was talking about with a friend the other day.

    A lot of American hit movies or TV shows are considered good by perhaps the majority of people, but there is always a distinct group which disagrees and explains why it is T3H SUCKZ.

    With the top quality anime we don't get that. I have never heard someone call Trigun or Cowboy Bebop a bad anime. With stuff like DBZ or Inuyasha, people will enjoy it as light action, but no one will claim it as a masterpiece. But with the heavy stuff, like the ones I mentioned or Akira, I think there is pretty much universal agreement on their quality.

    Thoughts?

    Well one problem with your arguement is you are grouping all American TV shows and movies together in a large lump, and then saying that "there is so much arguring over what is good and what is bad".

    umm...duh? Your lumping hundreds of genre's together.

    Anime is probably around 9-10 genre's repeated over and over, with a few truely orignal and creative works.

    of course the smaller/niche group is going to have less arguments over what is better.

    Secondly, trust me, there are plenty of people that hate what I consider to be classic anime (Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Hokuto no Ken) and I have to deal with morons who think Inuyasha and Death Note are ZOMG 100X better than that old crap! "ugh the animation is ugly! They don't have KATANAS! they sux!"

    anywho, yeah, I'm a bitter oldschool anime fan.

    Anime

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    That's the show where I see people constantly bash the main character for being whiny, which I'm not really one of. SEED is actually an influence in my daily life and my foreign policy views. If I'm pondering whether something would be morally acceptable for a country to do in response to the actions of another, I usually think "Would Kira and Lacus approve?" as they are the most moral, pure, and noble characters that I'm aware of in all of the books, games, movies, and television shows I've experienced..

    Kenshiro from Hokuto No Ken (Fist of the North Star) would like to have a word with you...

    Any co-op games coming out?

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    Aww, reading the wikipedia page made it sound like an incredibly innovative game, but that gameplay video throws it all out the window (for all the reasons you said). Looks like a typical Quake/Unreal multiplayer shoot 'em up, except everyone's faster =(

    What are you talking about. That trailer makes it looks great. I can't wait.

    I am Legend

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    Please note that Culturekoi has been blacklisted.

    Why are you blacklisting Culturekoi? If anything, blacklist Superhim for his racist remarks.

    Culturekoi was being humorous and making fun of Superhim's racist post.

    Anyways, It was much better than I thought it was going to be. Will Smith was top game for his acting in this. A lot of the movie focus's on him being alone with his dog, and it worked well. Him going nuts basically. I won't say anymore.

    But it is definitely worth a matinée showing.

    Martial Arts

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    If you move with enough power and you're vicious enough, it can work. I've seen it happen. Put that one guy in so much pain he lets loose a blood curdling scream of unmistakable defeat... It can send a tremor through the other assailants that might surprise you.

    Your gonna get your ribs kicked in.

    I'm going to make an Assassin's Creed style retractable shiv. That would take care of pretty much any problem I could ever have if I were mugged. That + element of surprise = profit

    until the mechanism breaks and you slice your hand. And should you ever use it on someone, by US law, your carrying a lethal weapon with intent to kill, not just defend yourself. Good luck trying to convince some red neck cop that you carry a "retractable shiv" for self-defence purposes. So even if they mug you, you would go to jail.

    buy a taser. Quicker, easier, and completely legal.

    please tell me both of you are joking? This isn't a video game. Fights are serious and deadly business. I think you guys take the movies and games you play WAY too seriously. Please reconsider the way you guys think about fighting and how they work.

    Martial Arts

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    Haganegiri; a double post? Poor technique, sir. :wink: Good points, though. As much as I love the philosophy of o-sensei, at the end of the day, you can still throw somebody into a ikkyo without being a deep thinker. An adage my teacher often uses (and this is from a master instructor in the Spiritual Martial Arts association) is that the first ten years of practice are physical, the second decade mental, and from then it's spiritual. Therefore, at the very least, to begin with, you learn about how to act in the material.

    Also, jujitsu is badass, but yeah, grappling is hard against people much bigger than you and often not really an option when confronting multiple attackers. That's not always true, though; if you can control a ring leader of a group, you may have a quicker way out of a fight than handling each assailant individually. All that being said, Kai did say GJJ supplemented with a striking art. That's pretty solid.

    ... A ring leader of a group? no offence, but muggers don't often have a ring leader, nor do a group of rapist, or a group of drunks, etc this isn't a movie. It's real. I would persoanlly deliver a crisp 100 dollar bill to a guy that can grapple a single mugger/rapist/drunkard out of a group and actually "scare" the other guys away. And even if that did work, do you really want to gamble on it? You can't gamble in a fight.

    Striking is where it's at for multiple attackers. Just basic, no non-sense boxing technique. Of course, being well training in other martial arts help, but if nothing else, I always tell people that if they are concerned about the quickest and easiest way to learn self-defense to take up a boxing class.

    I'm not trying to be anti-martial arts here, just trying to be real about this stuff. It's not a game or a movie, fights can be serious business. My sister's best friend was stabbed in a mugging (and there was three guys). Had to go through a lot of physical therapy (and some mental therapy too).

    again, I've taken many martial arts over the years, BJJ, Aikido, Mantis Kung-fu, and Taijutsu mainly. I treat my training very professionally.

    I've taught classes when I've had the time, and I always maintain the seriousness of what it means to be involved in a fight. I've read a lot of books, like On Killing by Dave Grossman, and I've talk to a lot of friends who have served over seas in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as I've had female students who were mugged/raped. again, I take this stuff very seriously.

    Martial Arts

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    Bullshit. Daito-ryu has no monopoly on the concept of aiki, and Ueshiba himself said that he didn't discover aikido from Takeda. He learned from him, sure, but removing all the limb-breaking "nastier" elements intrinsically changes what art you're talking about. And I'm sure he didn't add elements from Yagyū Shingan-ryū, Tenjin Shinyō-ryū, Kito-ryū or Shinkage-ryū either.

    Like I said, Aikido did not exist in its current incarnation until Ueshiba experienced that moment of satori in 1925. The philosophy and spirituality cultivated and shaped aikido. Without those elements, we'd have something completely different on our hands.

    Of course you don't have to be spiritual and shit to put someone on their back. Any asshat can do that, but I think if you understand the underlying concepts behind the art, you'll have an easier time grasping and learning the techniques themselves.

    Well of course it "changes the art you are talking about" in the same way Kendo is a different art than Kenjutsu, and Judo is a different art than Jujutsu. Both Kendo and Judo are "different" arts from their original styles, but they still share about 80% similarity with the ~jutsu styles before them. You are splitting hairs here.

    My first year in Tomiki Aikido I excelled, and I had only HEARD name name Ueshiba once at the beginning of class. Later on when I had some free time, I researched him a bit, but I still have never read any of his stuff, yet I'm still do better than most the people in the class. In fact I've found people that claim to practice the "philosophies" of their martial arts tend to be slacking in the >physical< aspects of their style. And it's because I practice the movements. Not because I read any philosophy.

    also, yeah I'm gonna cite wikipedia only because I'm at work,

    The secret of aiki is to overpower the opponent mentally at a glance and to win without fighting."

    -Takeda Sokaku

    Sounds pretty darn similar to what Ueshiba would talk about from what I've read.

    Martial Arts

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    The funny thing about Aikido is that the philosophy is fundamental to the art. Aikido didn't exist in its current incarnation until Ueshiba's pivotal epiphany. The philosophy is what brought together the nine different arts that he studied into Aikido as we know it. To say that the philosophy is not an inextricable part of the martial art demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of Aikiko's base principles.

    also baloney. Anybody can successfully perform every single of those techniques without ever hearing a thing of it's philosophy. It's not like there is a magical force that stops you from breaking the opponents kuzushi because you don't understand the unity and love of peace.

    The 8 releases, the 17 , or even the Big Ten can all be done by anybody with functioning limbs and a brain. Don't get all spiritualistic with that crap.

    Also, Aikido DID exist before Ueshiba, just it was called Daito-ryu Aikijutsu, and it involved breaking limbs AS you were performing the movements. All Ueshiba did was remove the "nastier" stuff.

    Martial Arts

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    Yeah, I quoted the wrong post. I was taking issue with this comment.

    The prevelent MMA style, GJJ with a supplemental striking art is not just a practical self defense art, it's the best self defense art.

    Um, no.

    The moment you are dealing with more than one mugger/attackers/assailant, your entire style of martial arts goes down the toilet.

    While you are busy grappling one guy, his buddy is going to kick you ribs in.

    Also, in my experience at my local BJJ school, I don't care how good you are, large guys can be darn near impervious to a lot of grappling. We have a 250lbs marine in our class, and he really is a nice guy and doesn't "try" to be a jerk about the techniques not working on him, but even our instructor has problems trying to successfully perform chokes and holds on the guy. All that talk about being able to grapple anybody regardless of size is baloney.

    Don't get me wrong, BJJ is a great style (I've been taking it for almost a year now myself) but be carefuly about getting too fanatic about it, it has it's downsides.

    remixes with lyri

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    Well, in general, you can get an idea of which songs have lyrics by the Remixer. Aetherius, Pixietricks, DragonAvenger, DJP, Harmony, Injury, and Star Salzman all have remixes with extensive lyrics.

    Dale North has an increadible voice, but he only has one track here that he sings on. FFMusicDJ has good voice samples in his songs, but they're not really full lyrics. Mustin's got some quircky ones.

    My suggestions are Pilar of Salt by Star Salzman, Journey's End by Pixietricks, Dragon Song by Harmony, and Home Again by Dale North if you don't already have them. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch though.

    well no offence you know that because you've been here a long time and all. It would be nice to just have a quick "remixes with lyrics" button.

    But I do thank you for your help! I will download those artist soon!

    remixes with lyri

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    Well I find remixes with lyrics to be an amazing feat, and I would love to hear more, but I also don't have time to listen to some 1600 other remixes.

    Not that I don't love all the non-lyrical music on here, but I do think having the ability to sort for music with lyrics should be an option.

    Game Difficulty Discussion

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    To me it all about presentation

    I enjoy the pacing in Half Life 2. It's about 50% easy going, with 40% hardness, and 10% ZOMGI"M PISSED kinda difficulty.

    Now I also enjoy DMC3 and Godhand (which I contest if FAR more difficult than DMC3).

    Half Life 2 is more of a Story really, than a FPS. They have some pretty awesome voice actors (some of the best I've EVER heard in a video game).

    DMC3 and Godhand on the other hand, are more of a "go kill things" action game, so I WANT difficulty in those games.

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