XPRTNovice

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tough to build without weight, but check out bodyfit.com for body-manipulation workouts that are short, sweet, and asskicking

This bothers the piss out of me. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to give internet tough guys wedgies and tell them to go learn how to approach people with some tact and grace. The illusion of anonymity did bad things for humanity and poisons so many threads. Back to the core of the topic, I love OCR and I'm so happy I found this place last year. I kind of consider it home base, and I will probably always consider it home base even if I'm the next HinsonZimmer-ShoreElfmanVersa. It's (musically) a safe environment where you can experiment, and get some honest, generally polite opinions on stuff. And, make some great connections and meet cool people. And hear some fucking amazing music. So why would anyone ever move on?

And you have to listen to that idiot talk all through your workouts...ugh.

Please delete Final Fantasy VII: The Live Action Series. Hard.

If you want a ridiculously good book on how to reshape your diet from the ground up, you should check out "It Starts With Food." It has scientific explanations for a lot of its principles - think of it as Paleo Plus - and you can do a 30-day challenge called Whole 30. But it's not a DIET. It's not going to deprive your body of calories so that you lose weight; it changes what you're eating so that you're maximizing nutrition while minimizing sugar intake. Both my wife and I did it for 30 days, though we weren't trying to lose weight. You will feel shitty for about 5 days as your body goes through sugar withdrawal (yes, that's an actual thing) but then you WILL feel awesome and start dropping weight.

Oh my god, there is. Pledge $500 or more BIG GIANT CHIPTUNE ACADEMY

It's awesome that you're striving for new goals! Be careful on depending on long stretches of aerobic exercise for weight loss (mix it with weights and burst exercises - I almost never do long cardio), and don't forget that 80% of your health comes from your diet, not from your activity level. If you're packing your stomach with sugar, bread, and grains, you're going to have a really hard time cutting fat and you'll lose the same 40 pounds over and over again. Best of luck and keep coming back to this thread for encouragement and advice.

Is there a reward tier where BGC will take you under his wing and teach how how not to suck? I'd buy that.

Major dehydration is a side effect. When I wrestled in high school, the medical guy would always come in at the beginning of the season and tell everyone to get the hell off creatine because it was going to kill them if they were trying to cut weight at the same time, etc...

Best of luck with this!

Of all the things that I thought OCR would have no opinions on, new computers were not one of them...

Aaaand why music is important and why I like doing it: check. Thanks for the words.

Hey. So my Dell just shit the bed, and it's time for me to replace. My budget is $600 or less and here's what I use the laptop for: - Writing, browsing, watching movies occassionally - Lighter gaming - Traveling (so good battery life is a plus) - I MAY eventually like to use it as a mobile DAW, but that's not 100% necessary. So, it's a lot of light work for the most part, but I'd like to have some higher end options if I need it. I was considering getting another Dell Inspiron, but Acer/Asus/Lenovo seem to be good for the price but I don't know a whole lot about their reliability. HP/Compaq have done nothing but let me down my entire life, so they're out. Newegg has a dell refurb that's a i5 w 1TB HDD and 6GB Ram for $450 that I'm looking at. Any suggestions?

Fixed!

Eh I might, but unlike all you youngins, I got a wife and kid and maybe not a kitchen pass to go slumming with rando (albeit cool) people at a hotel

So, here's my secret: I'm lazy. I didn't spend ANY time proofing or editing this after I wrote it, trying to adjust the strings, etc. I almost purely played this on my keyboard and nodded and went to have a coffee. So, your suggestions are all awesome. Now I need to chain myself to my desk and force myself to get very detail oriented. I'm the same way with my writing...I hate editing. I wish I could just CREATE perfectly!

So, I wrote this a while ago intending for it to be used in the Final Fantasy VII web series, but hahahahaha. I figure I might as well work toward getting it posted. Arrangement: The Triumphant Coquette https://soundcloud.com/xprtnovice/the-triumphant-coquette Source: Honeybee Manor Thoughts?

Awesome news. Just hit me up when it's time for me to polish, etc. I've learned a lot since I started those two mixes.

Hey guys, A friend of mine stumbled across this and sent it my way. I haven't had a chance to read through all of it, but it's certainly a neat idea. Basically some guy is musically analyzing video game music and trying to figure out why it's awesome. http://gamemusictheory.tumblr.com/page/2

Hmmm...maybe!

Hey this is nice. I feel like it could use more low end; like it was building to a swell that didn't quite get there because I wanted some supporting lowness. I'm not listening on the best speakers though.

Many congratulations for youuuuu! I should have done that compo for Darksword a couple months ago

I think music is a great form of communication, and I think that's one of the reasons why I love video game and film music so much. Communication is about context; music set to epic events like video games makes such a difference in the message to me. And it can act as communication all on its own, even without lyrics. I think that's amazing. It also seems to be this strange cosmic constant between cultures, and something that defies explanation - though you can break down the music mathematically, it's just never a good enough explanation of what music is, and why it does what it does.

This just popped up for the first time in my random, massive OCR playlist, and I really enjoyed it. Very emotionally evocative.