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Lol let me clarify: inverse what was in the parenthesis. On first listen, I didn't hear the item room and acquisition fanfare, but I knew i was supposed to hear them from the writeup and stuff... so i sort of heard them. kind of. But I heard the Brinstar (ok, I'm not too familiar with the super metroid OST, but it was Brinstar in Metroid) section at the end very clearly. I had to listen to it a couple times to really hear the fanfare and item room. And in some ways, i guess, this piece doesn't remind me too much of the original. It's way more grandiose... and cool.

Villains should be characters the player should be able to relate to.... and some of the best villains can be those you've come to know so well as a protagonist/even a common good guy. That way, you can sympathize with their cause but equally justify their defeat. It might even lead to catharsis in the player: a purely evil dragon-enemy-boss is ...... just evil, but when the villain is deep, has both good and bad traits, etc., it becomes more epic of a battle against him, because of his behavior or something. I don't know why but I always tried to connect and sympathize with the villains of RPGs, almost more so than with the protagonists. Somewhat tangential example: FFIV had an interesting idea there with the whole disappearing Cain thing. Made that one battle really ... controversial but also interesting/exciting.

Rozo already got it but Chillout by SEDUCTiON is pretty damn chill. But it's pretty adaptable; if you're feeling upbeat it'll work with you, just gotta massage it a little (the song of course).

Welcome back WM... i'm still reeling from the awesomeness that was your short story. Ah, too bad. :/ oh and i will post that poem... soon. I need to get into my mood though. You know, self-hating, world-loathing brilliance doesn't happen when you've got that spring in your step. lol nah it's not that bad.

Dude. I love this. I never want to hear the original because it will epically suck. I'm certain. To me, the cello is painfully expressive even though there's this brooding sound all about it, and even though as a whole this piece, with those whips(!!) and odd castanets, alludes to one hell of a kinky, erotic and sadistic night in binding leather, nay, BECAUSE OF THIS KINKY ALLUSION, there is a desire to be freed and ultimately pleasured beyond recognition that makes me feel just great inside even though I'm crying on the outside from the physical trauma caused by the fact that your song delivers in so many fascinating and probably disturbing ways - so much so that I almost run-on-sentenced myself. Btw. thanks. edit: AND the solo makes for an excellent climax before that painful semi-non-percussion-solo before the song wraps up; the ending to me states something along the lines of, "Yes, this is how we do it. Whips and all. And you're gonna like it." edit: that triangle (?) dinging after the solo = "Done." = "Next?" edit: I'm not into BDSM. But if I were, I would probably use this music to really get "into" a "session."

Objectively, his English is just fine. He even used apostrophes to indicate that he was omitting letters, so it ain't like he don't want to be doin' no extra key-presses or nothin'. Dialectically speaking, his English may be foreign, however... I find it fairly easy to grasp (see above!). To you, Sir Non-Child of Loop, I honestly cannot give you any information on the matter. I can help you in one way though: Just clarify that one line. Should help your cause.

How many votes of extraterrestrials have you received so far? I'll print em out tonight, look over them throughout the week on the bus to and from school. edit: well, instead of doing homework, I read them all. It's interesting how much love and death seemed to have influenced so many of them... (what a surprise, they're of the most popular topics in art... lol)... ...and yet how none of them have a very conclusive ending. My submission would have included a reference to death, too. I wonder if there's a rational explanation for this phenomenon. I get the love, it could have been caused by my signature, but the death? :/ Anyway, I'll be racking my brains regarding this for a while. EXCELLENT SUBMISSIONS.

The usage of that post-game music thing at the end was an interesting touch.. Holistically I was pleased, for the most part. but i'm in no state of mind to give critiques.. i'll try to hit this up later.

Oh boy, let's not be going about voiding any warranties here lol.I'm trying to find some daemon for windows that will arbitrarily read or write a file to the disk... no dice... What version of Windows are you running? OR are you running a Mac? (If you're running Linux, this should be even easier).

The inverse was true for me, on first listen.

Any written text that is translated from one language to another can fall into this category. Goethe's poems - i've read a few in English... The Oedipus trilogy (AND here's a two-fer: Jean Anouilh even decided to CHANGE part of it with his play Antigone). Hell, even Sparknotes' No Fear Shakespeare does the same thing, changing Shakespearian texts from O-I-am-slain iambic pentameter to Oh-I've-been-killed modern English... Reinterpreting whole works of literature is lengthy and difficult, especially into a different language where some concepts in the text in one language, which may be central to the piece as a whole, do not translate properly. Rhetorical strategies aren't conveyed the same, necessarily; sometimes new ones have to be made in their stead. And as for No Fear, there's an inherent wit, humor, bitterness -beauty - in Shakespeare's use of diction, syntax, and overall structure that gets decimated by trying to convey his words using everyday language which lacks the genius that went into the original work. (Yet so many people I knew in high school were completely dependent upon it to make any understanding or appreciation of Shakespeares' works. They're getting thematic concepts, perhaps, but not the enjoyment of his writing!) Are you satisfied? ...No, that question won't do. Will you ever be satisfied? (the answer, of course, should be "No" - otherwise, you've some bias and are trying to find an answer that suits your own needs.)

Uh I think he said he doesn't have pants... I still believe the ultimate form of appreciating music is to play it (or some part of it), not to only listen to it. Can you see yourself acting in a play? No. Can you listen in your head to your inner voice as you read a novel? Yes. Can you listen to the sounds you make as you play music? Yes. This thread is providing me novel entertainment. For now.

Frankly, the source is almost exactly as you heard it. Plus extra percussion (MOAR COWBELL!!11!) sorry, that was random. ...now you have me wondering what this song would sound if it weren't upbeat... wow, it would be pretty good I think.

I had a huge wall of text, but it wasn't worth it. So here's what I'm gonna say, in a smaller wall: -being able to play a song means you know a song well, meaning you can appreciate it as an entire work (like a painting) even though one instantaneous moment of a song exists in the present at any given time. -being able to play a song can be fun and entertaining (or sad and depressing - basically, it's meaningful). Why the hell would anyone tell a known joke if they didn't want to make other people laugh? Why would I bother speaking an understood word if it wouldn't matter or somehow affect the people I'm speaking to? -being able to play music can make you more likable and accepted. positive reinforcement. -being able to play music is challenging; learning a song then practicing and perfecting your performance of that song can feel very rewarding. -cows moo and ducks quack. -because you can perform and appreciate at the same time - probably even appreciate and enjoy it better because you're the one performing it and you're experiencing the rewards of your practice. Like... I think I sound great on piano (I suck) because I know what went into the music i'm playing, and how i'm playing it. -knowing music and being able to play music should help your general composing and performing skills, respectively - I say this if art = art, because I know that when I read a book, my style of writing (both analytical and artistic) is heavily influenced by that book. When I read Shakespeare, I start writing like Shakespeare. -it's great exercise. -it's nonsexual. <-note that

I'd offer WinFF for transcoding... someone claims it can be run in Vista 64-bit if you run it in compatibility mode for 32-bit (never used 64-bit Vista so I cannot affirm that claim). It's based off FFMPEG which tends to be my favorite converter of all time... And you can just compile it in 64 bit if it doesnt work out, hehe.

Er, well, there's that lol. ^^

Damn it i have to save this topic from my derailment.!! Sweet Child o' Mine is easier for me to play on a real keyboard than on this gamepad :/ The dev(s) asked a question on the blog regarding the difficulty of the game. Personally I think it's a bit challenging, especially since there's no easy/medium difficulty levels to really introduce you to the concept of the game like DDR and Guitar Hero each have.

I am wary about the idea of moisture accumulation. I mean, if you cool things down like pots / plasticware, once you take em out of the fridge/freezer, they start gathering condensation on them, which could lead to a short in the case of electronic components. But I HAVE heard about some people putting their iPod nanos into the fridge to purposefully chill them in order to debug some CPU optimizations for Rockbox - it has no moving parts but it does have circuitry and wires inside. What other solutions have you come across?

Well, your only other option is to buy an NES, find a way to put this game on a cartridge and tour the USA with the fruits of your dreams on a Radio Flyer - some parts made in japan. Sorry but this is dying for a fix. fixed. (though there's nothing wrong with that apprehension. trust me)

But why? the question shouldn't be about software (they provide you with links to NES emulators) - the question should be: do you have the hardware (real gamepad) and the skills to master it?

If you had a dance pad and a game pad in your hand, this should qualify as extreme mind-boggling exercise. This shit is hard... more like, I fail epically. Me and my gamecube controller.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo *gasps* ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! It was too short :'( But it feels so damn epic. Like the galaxy really does await, and you're about to start your journey/quest/road("space"?)trip through it. You actually sent shivers down my spine in the first minute: the act of simply playing this piece of music through my speakers made me somehow feel cosmically significant (well, then the piece ended lol). Nice. Part of it reminds me of Avien's remix from the original Metroid OST (To Brinstar), probably somewhat due to the instrumentation and stuff (oh and let's not forget, the same/similar melody). And I like the usage of that (bass, I suppose) drum at 1:14 - 1:20ish. I too really want to hear this live, and let it rattle my bones and senses into a state of shock. Mewonders why I didn't notice this earlier... well, I did now, and I'm glad I did. I'll bet bLiNd sure did like this, and I'm sure many others do/will (er, funky grammatical construction).

what the hell is UTC? (edit: i do know what UTC is, just wasn't aware of this contest using it...) Well, I still have another contest in March. Hopefully I won't be as busy then.

precisely what I was thinking... but was too lazy to post.

Little short. I haven't played Faxanadu in a long while but I do believe this was the main "outside-of-town-in-battle-places" theme. Oh man, listening to it makes me think of the line, "I've got Mattock" or something when you pick up the Mattock... which I initially confused for "I've got Matlock," hilariously reminding me of a grouchy Abe Simpson. Anyway, like I said, it's short. It's kind of conservative.. but it's fun and goofy, with percussion galore. This is one of the site's older mixes, and it shows, but I think it still warrants a listening, especially if you've ever played Faxanadu. I believe the arpeggios were available in the original source... but they're nice. And I would have really like to hear them around 1:11 (in the semi-breakdown) in the background of the second part of the song's second iteration (yeah that sentence even confused me). Plus, I didn't like the sudden ending. Might have been nice to see that second melody again but slightly varied before the song came to a close.