Ramaniscence
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Out of all the steps taken to combat piracy, Sony has never prevented any activity that I ever wanted to take with their systems and until they do, no one has any right to complain about their course of action.
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The Cynic Project!! This guy was one of the first artists I latched onto during the MP3 craze in the early '00s. His "Matrix [Grid]" mix is still one of my favorites, though I lost my copy of the original mix of it.
Seeing his moniker now listed among the ranks of OC Remixers is a big deal for me. After I got all I could out of the music of his (that of which I could find) on the 'net, a couple years later I discovered OCRemix! I had a hunger for electronica, specifically dealing with vg remixes. I had no clue there was a community as vast as OCR and counted myself blessed (still do!) that was into VG Music as much as I. I've made an attempt at submitting, but I've since moved on out of the realm of musical composition trying to make my mark on the world with the written word.
Anyway, this is really cool.
I'm glad Cynic's still making music and this mix is fantastic! Takes me back on a number of levels - sophomore year of college, discovering all the great music on the internet through the magic of the original Napster (yes, there was a time you got music from it for free) - back to childhood in the source music - just back to a simpler, more innocent time when I heard music like this every now and then but had no clue how to get a hold of any of it for myself.Nice work, all around!
^ This. If I have had that Matrix track since I've known whar MP3s are, lol.
This is PRETTY coool.
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ThaSauce's twitter does send out updates when each compo is starting.
Retweet.
Alternative:
I'm pretty sure there's individual compo RSS feeds as well, someone would have to ask analoq.
If there ARE, I can try to find better ways to implement them and you guys can make your on twitter account if you think that'll really help.
If there are NOT we can try to add them.
I could also try to schedule facebook updates, but honestly with so many compos I think that might flood ThaSauce's facebook page a bit.
Maybe ANOTHER Facebook page just for compos? But then I feel like THAT page would get spammy with the frequency of compos.
Really you guys need to make sigs, to talk about it. Search the forums every now and then for people looking for similar things in conversation. Find conversations on other sites. There's a lot that COULD BE done, and instead of talking about it, if everyone actually DID IT, it'd help a lot.
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Honestly, PRC needs a couple things...
1. More promotion. As I am typing this Irish asked "what's PRC?"
in ThaSauce irc channel.
JH still bugs ME about JHC after I've said a bajillion times no. Probably cause he knows there's just the slightest chance I'll be in the mood on a Tuesday for a compo. It can happen.I never know when anything is started on PRC. I never knew about doubles dash events until it hit facebook. I'm not saying every compo should be spamming on facebook. But it'd be good to see them given a better presence on OCR at least. Maybe some kind of event calendar where you can click on things you want to be reminded about.
Generally, as far as compos go, I promotion is left up to the organizer. starla promotes OHC, JH promotes JH Compo, I promote FBRC, and Shael promotes Double's Dash. We all do it in our own way.
ThaSauce's twitter does send out updates when each compo is starting.
I'm open to suggestions to help promote other compos on our compo system, maybe an RSS feed somewhere on the main page if someone can think of a good place?
Additionally, like I brought up after OHC: I am looking for volunteer to do a weekly compo report column for ThaSauce. Applicants must be literate, punctional, and have a good amount of free time. You must cover OHC, JH Compo, and 2HD Compo weekly, PRC and ORC monthly, and DDC occasionally.
The idea is once a week (probably Sunday) you discuss all the compo happenings from the previous week. For example: This Sunday someone would talk about OHC, JH Compo, 2 Hour Dynamic Compo, and Double's Dash. You'd talk a little bit about the themes, the teams, etc. IF you decide to talk about the entries, that's up to you, BUT you have to list ALL or none. You can either list, or give details, but no bias toward any individual compo or entry is allowed.
On the beginning and end of every month you'd also be expected to talk about PRC and ORC. The theme, the deadlines, and the entries.
Things like DoD, the Robot Battle, and Freshly Baked are all big enough at this point to warrant their own individual topics, so you wouldn't have to cover them. I would also VERY MUCH like to have a monthly topic just for the Fan Art Competition, but that's another idea entirely.
If anyone is interested, has any suggestions, or has any questions on the article format and such, let me know.
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It's not about ego Bleck. It's about the PS3 becoming in danger of what happened to the PSP. Regardless of whether or not people think hacking should be legal, the bottom line is that it is against the law and until the law is changed, Sony has every right to pursue measures to stop the spread of these hackers.
Hey now. I don't think this has anything to do with Sony's insistance on using propritory media for everyone on the PSP, or for making the controls extremely iffy, or for making the good releases on the PSP few and far between.
Don't get me wrong, I have a PSP, and I love it. There are some great games on the PSP...but there's 1 good game on the PSP for every 10 good games on any other hand held medium. It's too damn expensive. MemStick Pro Duos are STUPID expensive if you buy the real things...I mean, piracy is probably the best thing to ever happen to PSP.
I mean...don't even get me started on how Nintendo still manages to get money from the DS despite piracy...
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To me it seems like the real problem here is that Sony got a little too arrogant. Even if it's a bit excessive, I understand exactly why they're being so anal about this piracy thing:They were so confident the PS3 couldn't be cracked, they have little-to-no security in place from it ruining their entire online service.
It's less about losing revenue on games, and more about opening up their network to being completely useless. Once someone can launch 3rd party software on the PS3 all bets are off. Any game that's popular on PSN will have cheaters and hackers all over it. That'll cause more lost revenue to legitimate customers than piracy will EVER do to a console. Sure Sony can ban a PSN account, but there's near nothing from stopping someone from making another one and going right back online. Hardly even a deterrent.
I feel like if they had a system in place, like Microsoft does, they'd essentially just ban the PS3 and be done with it. PS3s are EXPENSIVE. I don't think many people are going to risk hacking it for piracy, and having to buy another one to get online at all would be a serious pain. But right now there's near literally NO consequence besides Sony SUING you.
Less learned, I'm sure.
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Tying in with the last 2 weeks' posts about Facebook:
http://mashable.com/2011/02/24/bing-friends-facebook-likes-search/
This makes bing a LOT more relevant for every reason listed in the first column. You HAVE to have a Facebook Page.
I'm going to cover it a little more today before I talk about YouTube, but I wanted to point it out now because it's PRETTY huge. Bing may not have seemed relevant before, and may not be immediately relevant, but this makes it WAY more relevant than ever before.
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So I've been working in web marketing for about a year now, and everytime I can I try to teach artists in the community a little bit about how to promote their stuff on the internet.
Since I don't do much music now a days I get pretty bored on Thursday nights while starla host's one-hour compos. So every Thursday evening I go through the basics on what you need to know to get your name out there on THE INTERTUBES.
I call it: Just the Tips.
The description from the column:
Just the Tips is a weekly column of helpful tips to help musicians promote their music on the internet by Doug Arley. Doug is a web developer and project mananger for an Orlando based web marketing company where he helps professionals nationwide manage their online reputation on a daily basis. Whether it's developing a social media presence, or setting up artist website, Just the Tips has something for every aspiring artist.I STRONGLY encourage ANY artist in the community whom even "kind of" take their music seriously to consider everything discussed. As I discussed in the first article I use the world "brand" because once you start trying to promote yourself, that's what you become: a brand. Your name, your artist name, your band name, it all becomes a brand that you want to be recognizable through the internet. True "branding" will also become very important some point in the game, and will be discuss as well. Most of topics discussed will be tailored specificly toward musicians, but some of it has been tailored from my experiences working with small business and would work for others in similar situations. Additionally, as discussed in the plagiarism thread, it's ESPECIALLY important on the internet to take control of your work, and your brand because if you do not, someone else will, and that's the last thing you want.
So far I've covered Why you NEED a Facebook Page, and some tips on getting the most out of your Facebook Page once it's up. This week I'm planning on talking about the importance of a YouTube profile for Musicians, and later a few articles on how to really work that for all it's worth (because for musicians YouTube is the hotness now a days).
Some other things I plan on covering include:
- Why you should have your own domain if you don't have one already
- The basics requirements of a website
- Why I recommend Wordpress amongst most things for setting up your website
- How to organize your website to make sure users get to the content you want them to
- How to optimize your website for Google
- How other social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and tumblr can help expand your web presence
I have an infinite number of things that I could talk about, and this stuff changes every day as well, so I don't expect to have much trouble doing a weekly column. (I mostly say "to bi-weekly" incase something comes up, and I don't have time to write an article ahead of time, or assuming that I MAY actually want to compo some day).
If anyone has any questions about specific things, or suggestions on what I should write future articles about, I'm all ears. I'll try to answer as many questions as I can but just know that I can't give ALL the secrets away, else I may very well lose my job
- Why you should have your own domain if you don't have one already
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so did sega ever respond?
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The genre is a bit tired, imo, so I'm not really 'pumped' for it. However, that trailer should get awards for being the most experimental VG trailer, the most depressing trailer and containing the only CGI moment I've seen where for a moment I thought it was real (the eye in the beginning was pretty damn impressive).
Very nice trailer.
My friend posted this on my FB wall earlier and I said the same thing. Prettyyy cool trailer, but I'm so tired of zombie games already that I really can't be excited.
It's like "Cool...one-sided L4D in Hawaii..."
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There's a few on Game Over and Game Over II, not all are as good as Tonedeff, but...he's Tonedeff:
Punch Out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8FIkAZbeVo
Soul Calibur:
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p much the best ever.
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Edward Norton IS Tyler Durden.
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...how many video games have...violent sexual content?
I mean, I haven't REALLY kept up with things lately but...every game I've played with sexual content it was PRETTY consensual.
Shit, I don't even remember an instance of someone GETTING RAPED in a video game, let alone ME raping them.
Also also: I think if there were a situation where rape was used in a video game, and the player became desensitized to the idea of rape then...I think they're miss-using it as a story-telling tactic.
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...curious to see how that pull THIS ONE off.
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So what do you guys think about the rather sudden spike in difficulty? I guess the super hardcore people were upset about Wrath being easier than BC, but I don't think I like how the first bosses of the new raids feel like we're doing ICC heroic modes. They seem more stressful than fun for the most part. The only exception for me is the Conclave of Wind, which I find to be a very fun and interesting boss fight. (I also think Atramedes is extremely fun, but he's not quite a first boss)
I think that it would've been better if we started out with roughly Ulduar difficulty bosses and moved forward from there.
Speaking strictly for the Disciples, that is the community guild on Illidan, I don't think any of us are too shock/discouraged at this point. Being on Illidan requires a certain level of quality of the player base as a whole, so all of us have been around the block in progression a time or 2.
That said, we haven't REALLY gotten into Cataclysm progression too much as we're still trying to gear people up. The one raid we did successfully begin, as a guild, was BoT, and we ended up getting the hardest drake combination, so it didn't do too well. Seeing as we went in with a few under-geared DPS, and at one point were actually running with 9 people, we weren't particularly planning on downing the boss, but we make surprisingly good progress with what we had. The other encounters I've seen personally don't seem TOO difficult mechanics wise, and I'm hopeful that on a better week, with some better gear, we should be able to do Halfus pretty easily.
Overall I welcome the spike in difficulty. In Wrath I had done Sartharion within a few hours of hitting 80, and picked up an epic staff immediately. Within the first week of hitting 80 I had already cleared Naxx 25. It's cool to progress, but overcoming the challenges themselves is even more rewarding. I'm TOTALLY down for progression so long as their actually IS progression involved.
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If working in web marketing has taught me anything, it's that your shit is going to end up on the internet. Not necessarily the shit you want to end up on the internet, and not necessarily in the places you want them to on the internet.
The idea that you can stop something from showing up, or where it shows up, is pretty much an illusion now a days. You can, however, control it.
The absolute BEST way of weeding out illegitimate remixes on YouTube is to saturate YouTube with the content you want to show up. If you have a remix of a song, make a YouTube profile and put all your remixes up, with a short little video of information about YOURSELF. Link it to the OCR profile, link it to the OCR YouTube version of the song, create a network of links with legitimate information.
Someone is GOING to try to take credit for your songs every now and then, it's unavoidable BUT you can make sure the information that shows up on youtube more often is REAL and NOT stolen, so when stuff like this happens it's way more obvious to viewers, and they know how to find the truth, and how to verify that it IS the truth.
If you're serious about yourself, your music, and your brand, instead of hoping what you want ends up on the internet, and what you don't doesn't, MAKE SURE that EVERYTHING you want to show up shows up loud and proud and in the forefront.
This goes for music, this goes for music websites, this goes for personal sites and information.
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NOT seen: OA's character in-game is dressed just like him.
Also this: http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/Threddd/blacwut.gif
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this thread sounds like a midi of an explosion in outer space.
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...Or music players 'iPods' or facial tissues 'kleenex' or lib balms 'chapsticks' or flavored fruit drinks 'juice' or....
One of our interns at work was telling us how her mom would always offer everyone "orange juice" and how she'd have to warn them before hand because what she was REALLY offering them was Tang, lol
That shit is a deal breaker, man. Tang is NOT orange juice
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vloozxjUs0
Now seems like a great time to repost
http://doulifee.com//Storage/OC_Removed/Sailor_Moon_SandM_Ravebody_OC_ReMoved.mp3
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Now see, last time I MDMAed, I spent the week end having sex and the following week grumpy as hell but that may be because I was trying to quit smoking at the same time.
I didn't spout confusing half assed imitations of arguments.
The last time I MDMA'd I was pretty sure my carpeting was heaven.
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The Extra Credits thread!! EC is amazing!
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This is pretty fucking phenomenal. Good going, guys