XPRTNovice

I believe East West Quantum Leap is having a 25th anniversary 50% off sale at the moment. http://www.soundsonline.com/EastWest-25th-Anniversary

Well I haven't come up with a title for this one yet. I'll consider it. Or wait...did I? I think I called it Miles and Miles Away.

Hey, anyone ever see this paleo guru's workout plan? As I mentioned earlier, I want to change mine up. http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-workout-plan-basics/#axzz2TBxcPS4w In other news, while using my vibram 5-fingers during parkour, I managed to use one foot to rip off part of my toenail of the other foot. I think I might need to wear normal shoes for a week or so while that heals up...But, for the record, I -really- like the barefoot shoes while doing parkour. It really helps you absorb shock. I just wish my toes didn't slide out of their holes doing anything other than normal motion.

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I think it's pretty easy to make any plot sound absurd if you put that tone on it. There actually used to be a guy that wrote for TV guide that used to do that. For the Wizard of Oz, he wrote: "A young girl in a new land kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three strangers to kill again." So, yeah. You can make anything sound stupid with the right verbage. Edit: Ninja'd...

I can see Gollgagh standing next to his life size poster of Snow and Vanille...

Also...you slogged through that garbage for however many hours and still, in the end (spoiler), found nothing. In order to ALMOST find something, you had to get the game to 100%, which hurt. Even then, though, what did you get? A three second glimpse of Tidus amid the ambiguity that she might not have actually found him? Pah!

I highly recommend keeping the status quo.

This, DEFINITELY. It's why you like Voltron and Transformers, even though they were awful. Come on, admit it. They were bad. Edit: I also think this is why there's such a big argument about new games like FFXIII. If you're playing it, and you're 15, you'll have a different reaction to it and you'll have a knife fight with a 25 year old who, when he was 15, was playing FF7-8 instead. I agree with this, too. I think this is a major reason why a lot of people don't like movie renditions of novels.

*OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS* The disparity of opinions on FF games always struck me as kind of insane. Cash&Change asked about some flaws, so I'll bash all of them here. You might notice I focus on plot and characters rather than game play. Sue me, I'm a fiction author. For me, FF1-3 were worthless. There was no story at all, the battles were slow, dungeon crawling was painful, painful. I've only ever played each of the once and I don't think I'll give them a shot. I understand why people would like them in isolation, but having started with FF4, retrograding was agonizing. FF4 had a lot of great things. Great soundtrack. I liked Cecil's and Kain's story. Rosa was a worthless female character. Golbez was convincing, but the Zemus switch at the end was laughable and stupid. I don't see where this is the weakest game. FF5 didn't take itself seriously, like it has been said, and I didn't like that. Exedeath is also the worst name for an enemy ever. The plot seemed extremely similar to FF4 in many ways, and a character named Butz is just silly. FF6 is one of the best, so it's hard to point out flaws except things like translation and script. The soundtrack was awesome. The plot was pretty awesome. I wished for a bit more resolution in the ending, though, like what happened to all the characters afterwards. The continual hinting at the romantic relationship with Locke/Celes that never got resolved has always been a peeve. FF7's major flaw, in my opinion, was the ending. I don't give a shit about Red 13's puppies, despite the anatomical impossibility that THE LAST OF HIS SPECIES CANNOT REPRODUCE. I want to know what happened with everyone ELSE. I spent 60 hours getting invested in these characters, and all I get to see of them in the ending is Tifa extending her hand to Cloud? FF8...you know, I really like FF8. I don't get why people give it so much hate just because there's a bit of an angsty teen thing going on. I thought the orphanage sequence was absolutely retarded, though, and it really lacked a good villain. FF9 - the Return of Zemus. Who...the F@#%....is Necron? Why did I spend 50 hours getting to him? I also didn't like the goofiness of the game. It was a little too cartoony and weird. I FFX....voice acting. Oh my god, voice acting. Tidus was a whiny little bitch, and I really didn't like the linear flow of the game and not being able to travel/explore easily.

I hated FFXIII. I mean, really hated it. I will probably never play it again. When I saw XIII-2, I felt like I wanted to cry. I realized that I would never buy that game, making it the only FF I don't own (MMOs aside, because those are stupid). [blasphemy]But there are things that are similar in the old FFs that probably means I should hate them, too. I mean, if you added bad voice acting to FF5, for example, what would you get? Bad dialog is in there, too, and confusing plot points (Zeromus, ho!). [/blasphemy] Sometimes I just feel like I'm being a fan boy. I'm replaying Secret of Mana right now, and the plot is awful. Yet I would easily play that game again rather than play some of the newer FFs. FFX was sort of a breaking point for me; it was good, but X-2 destroyed my soul. And then I didn't really enjoy 12 that much (I tend to like plots that include main characters that actually matter). Just wondering if anyone else had this thought in the back of their head - we worship some of the older games in SPITE of their flaws, but crucify the new games because of some of those same flaws. I do, at least.

Explain yourself! "Three girls team up and look for a boy, using pop songs and various outfits as their weapons." The battle system was -sort of- interesting, but that didn't help me fight the ubiquitous nausea that was a result of the plot/characters.

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Isn't that like calling a panhandler abusive based on how much money people put in his coffee cup? Seems like no one here is being duped or mislead. Though I have to say this seems really stupid. Still, you can't blame someone for asking for money. You can only blame stupid people that give it.

The album, like all albums on OCR will be free to download once it's released. In order to get a physical copy of the album, you had to donate a certain amount during the kickstarter campaign. You will absolutely still be able to enjoy the epicness that is going to eat your ears from the inside out.

In all, I bought a pair of KRK Rokit 6 and a KRK 10s for $275 total. I think that's a frigging steal. I'm waiting for a friend of mine with a pink noise calibration machine to help me set it up though, because my studio kind of sucks for acoustics.

I'm not really paying for it or anything, so I couldn't care less what they call themselves Besides, I'm handing full reins to my wife because stressing about food is against my religion. I eat what she feeds me.

So, my wife and I are going to start Whole30 this week. Here are, really, the only things I am going to miss: - Half and Half in my coffee - Beer/wine with dinner - Hookah (which I think is BS because it's not food, but whatever...) Has anyone ever done this before? I feel like Ecto probably invented it. If you're not familiar and curious: http://whole9life.com/2012/01/whole-30-v2012/ To me, if you have some sort of serious problem that you can't seem to get rid of (IBS, eczema, allergies), trying this is almost not an option. I'm looking for improvement in the allergy department - without daily medication I am a miserable mother. I will keep you all posted on how badly I just want to smoke my hookah.

carb free= energy free. If you're not trying to drop a lot of weight using ketosis, ditch the carb-free attitude.

Try this: http://civilizedcavemancooking.com/condimentssauces/beasty-bbq-sauce/

My wife made a fantastic paleo bbq sauce a few months ago and she is very carb conscious. I'll see if I can dig up the recipe.

Quick redneck way to set up a partial vocal booth: Go to home depot and buy two very cheap doors. Then buy enough cheap carpet to cover them. Use hinges to connect the two doors to each other and put the carpet on the inside. Voila. I plan on doing this when we replace some of the interior doors in my house and just keeping a few of the old ones. With some clever engineering, you could make it collapsing/storable with 3-4 panels.

Woulda been 7! I actually recorded sax and clarinet parts for an orchestral arrangement that I believe ended up on the cutting room floor after some consideration by the composers... [/mystery] XPRTBaby is in the enlisted rank structure, so she will never outrank XPRTNovice, even after she becomes XPRToddler and, subsequently, XPRTeenager.

I meant to post this the other day, but have we traded weightlifting/workout plans yet? I'm getting really bored with mine. But, then again, I am always really bored in the gym. I go tell people, "Hey, I'm going to go someplace and pick heavy things up, but then I'm going to put them back down in the same place they came from. I'm going to repeat that for an hour and then take a shower. Later!"

Literally just bought one today. I'll let you know how it does in my opinion. I actually plan on using it for vocal percussion and vocals, though the KSM32 I have works well for the vocal part. I'll be running it through a Focusrite Saffirepro14 preamp so it's not crap but not high end either.