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Please delete Final Fantasy VII: The Live Action Series. Hard.
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Thanks for the advice Joe; that's really helpful! I'm gonna be honest, I've not been eating healthy for a while. Way too much fast food. I still have to keep obvious track of my diet, because even eating significantly healthier could involve eating things such as what you mention that wouldn't necessarily get rid of the weight, but I get the feeling that by exercising and quitting McDonalds cold turkey, that would at least guarantee some weight loss. Even if I switched primarily to canned soups (which is not the plan; I'm learning how to cook in general as I go through this whole process), just not eating, well, shit would help a lot.
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.
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Is there a reward tier where BGC will take you under his wing and teach how how not to suck? I'd buy that.
Oh my god, there is.
Pledge $500 or more
BIG GIANT CHIPTUNE ACADEMY
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Currently 40lbs. overweight for my body type. Bought an exercise bike on Monday, put it together in my room. I can't handle anything more than 15 minute biking runs at a time (less because of how tiring it is, more because of faint twitches in my left calf after I bike that long, so I'm taking it slow for now), but I'm happy to be actively exercising, something I've never really done with any level of commitment before. I'll create an account for that Fitocracy group when I get a spare moment at work today.
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.
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Is there a reward tier where BGC will take you under his wing and teach how how not to suck? I'd buy that.
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Does anyone here take creatine? Seems like it just provides you with some extra energy during a workout after you've ingested enough of it. Wondering if it's worth it, or are there side effects.
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...
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Best of luck with this!
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Of all the things that I thought OCR would have no opinions on, new computers were not one of them...
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You guys may not realize it but people like me, really, really rely on this to help us get through life. I couldn't really explain how much this has impacted my life. And how much I really rely on this. Thank you!!!
Aaaand why music is important and why I like doing it: check.
Thanks for the words.
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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?
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Glad to see you're going to fix this mess and finally learn how to orchestrate joe!
Fixed!
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WHO IS ORGANIZING THE OCR BLOCK I NEED TO GET A ROOM BEFORE THEY DISAPPEAR AGAIN!pooop
Dude, just crash in someone's room if you don't want to "kill the evenings". Mine will probably have like a billion people in it anyway, the more the merrier
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
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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!
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Hmmm...maybe!
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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.
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Many congratulations for youuuuu! I should have done that compo for Darksword a couple months ago
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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.
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This just popped up for the first time in my random, massive OCR playlist, and I really enjoyed it. Very emotionally evocative.
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Got my iron cross again (though not as solid as it was in my competitive days). Close to getting the maltese back; my goal is to get my Nakayama (pull from back lever to iron cross) consistent by the end of the year; I haven't done one in at least a year and a half, though it was my favorite strength move back when I was still seriously training rings.
You are awesome. Also, when I tried to figure out what a nakayama was, I found this:
I don't think that's what you meant, but that's pretty retardedly awesome.
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Does anyone have an experience with this audio ear training regimen? Any thoughts or futher recommendations on other, similar programs? What I've read looks pretty encouraging. And if anyone has the CDs lying around unused, I'll gladly buy them from you ;o
edit: woop, woop, just found this similar program which is available for $free.00. Still, though, if you've got the Golden Ears stuff lying around, let me know!
Cool man, let us know how it goes. There's also the Sibelius Auralia, right? Has anyone used that?
Nice timing with this thread, I've been looking for some more edumacation.
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I'm in for the group buy. I live locally, so I'll probably just commute, as much as that kills the evenings sorta...Hopefully I'll be able to stick around more this year than 2 hours on a Saturday.
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And you have to listen to that idiot talk all through your workouts...ugh.