Dafydd

Lol, I thought that was an actual mascot. Hahah! Anyway, I'm now free to upload mascots and other stuff. I'll look through my bios and see if Polo was right about me missing out on some character links, then help out if anyone else needs any.

1) Like I said, I'll help... I also thought Lin was done when I wrote that. Hence the edit. 2) Man, what did I miss now? I'll go through them again and try to hunt those ones down. If you're right, then those are wrinkles a few sizes up from what I meant. 3) We'll need LT for that. 4) Yeah, that needs doing. 5) Yeah, not our job, and it's going to take a long time, too, I'm sure. 6) Same there. By the time they're done doing that we will have had the time to iron a lot of wrinkles out.

Yeah, true. But having the suggestions posted here in the thread is a good thing too. Also, there isn't that much we can do in order to get this published now - it's up to DJP and Liontamer. We're done uploading the bios, aren't we? All I still have to do, and can do before Larry gives us a final solution to the darkstalkers "problem" is to write that epilogue I mentioned. What then, other than ironing out the wrinkles, is still left to do? EDIT: Ok, so we're not done uploading them. But almost! Again, if it ain't done by this weekend, I'd happily help out uploading the last few of them. Only 20 or so to go now.

Thank you. I'll look this through when I have time. What say the rest of you? I've always been told that, when listing things, you separate them by comma, but the last one connects to the second last one with the word "and" and without a comma. Some of the commas you've added go against this "rule" by immediately preceding that "and", and my personal opinion is that those hinder reading more than they help. Naturally, commas may precede the word "and" at times, such as in the previous sentence, but that's because you're separating clauses rather than things that you're listing. I don't know what the rule is in English, however. Example: "I'm going to the store, dad's working, and last night my cat was run over by a bus." Weird sentence, but you get the idea. So, "and" preceded by a comma. "This box contains apples, pears, pineapples, bananas and oranges". No comma. Again, this is just how I do it and I don't know whether this is correct or not. In spoken English, it's very common to make a pretty long pause between the second last and last items when reading a list like that, which would suggest a comma is in order. I realize this is incredibly nitpicky, and I might even be wrong, like I said, but so is bringing the issue up, so...

Somehow I doubt GH would stay down for long. It's back up as of present. Naturally, the extended bios for the Darkstalkers don't need redirection pages, while the short ones do. As far as I know, we still haven't decided on how to incorporate the extended versions. I think the info page doesn't need to be a subcategory. Whoever is interested in reading up on the darkstalkers will click the "category: darkstalkers" at the bottom of the bios. The info page doesn't need to be accessible from the "mascot" category. Also, I've recieved a PM from a Darklink42 (I think) who had looked at the wiki, which, in case you didn't know, is open to the public through the links we've made in this thread, and found spelling errors and sentences that he didn't think read very well. He expressed concern that I might not appreciate him telling me about our mistakes, but I told him to post his suggestions here, so hopefully we'll be seeing him soon. I can hardly believe Polo could have missed something like spelling errors, hehe, though I'm sure there are plenty of sentences that could be rewritten to read better (even I find those sometimes).

VGMix is back up????? You have got to be shitting me. ... they did the right thing bringing it back up without all the new fancy features. All that stuff can wait. I just want the music.

Oh no. I must have uploaded old, unrevised bios by mistake or something. Sorry about that, man. Thanks for fixing all that stuff! Yeah, I realized this and wrote about it in my previous post.

I didn't see any of the Darkstalkers bios up there yet, only the info page. Once you do upload the Darkstalker bios, I'd suggest adding the [[Category:Darkstalkers]] before the [[Category:Mascots]] in each of them (they're kind of a sub-category, aren't they?). EDIT: Ok, category pages can contain text. I didn't realize this before. I tried moving the page named "Darkstalkers" (which I didn't know existed yet) to "Category:Darkstalkers" but it wouldn't allow me to for some reason. Obviously, that's the page where the Darkstalkers "what is" should be. This must have been what LT was talking about all along, only I didn't understand that. So, Liontamer, can the Darkstalkers info page a. be removed entirely, so that its contents can be put in Category:Darkstalkers instead, b. moved to Category:Darkstalkers or c. just be changed to redirect to Category:Darkstalkers?

Do you know how to create categories? Just add [[Category:Darkstalkers]] to the end of each of the short darkstalker bios and voila, it's done. Unless I'm wrong, that is. But yeah, leave the extendeds and the info page for now, we'll deal with it when Larry comes back.

Wear headphones. Make sure your computer has proper cooling and that there are no wires or cables stuck in the fans. Also check for other loose parts that might be vibrating, causing noise.

Ok, but what about the general info blurb about the darkstalkers then? Ok, great. Though no hurries there.

I hope not. The idea was to improve things, not make them worse. I tried hard to get those details right, what were they exactly? Thanks for helping.EDIT: Wait, I thought you meant something else. If I do indeed get that diagnosis, then that would explain why I took 2½ years to get this done. And why my double-checking seems to need triple-checking by someone else more often than not. By getting the diagnosis, officially, if I do, I hope to get help. That's what I meant by "the idea was to improve things", the idea being getting the diagnosis. The syndromes I've had all my life. Sounds like the X I know. I think I'll go with the latter of the two. You mean 028, right? I disagree though. Picture 028 is the WW version, while 094 is more like what most people's image of Zelda is. So I think that one should be it.

Now done copying Lin's edits of the last bios into the Wiki, overwriting the old articles. Will begin changing the names of other characters into their proper links as soon as I can. Meanwhile, please tell me if you find any oddities in any of my bios, and ask questions if you have any. EDIT: Someone hasn't been uploading all of their bios yet. There are 107 articles in the mascot category, and Luigi and Peach are not among them (I noticed when I started to linkify the character names). Who might this person be? Well, Valentine's day still stands, so no worries. EDIT2: Ok, about halfway done adding the links. I noticed I don't like the X quote. Could it be changed for something else, like, I dunno, "I guess I'm not powerful enough to defeat him..." or something? I'd appreciate your input. EDIT3: Ok, unless I've missed something, which I probably have, I'm all done, except for the Otacon bio. I don't know if the link to Solid Snake there should go to #065 or #147. Feel free to point out any other mistakes I might have made. If the rest of the bios have not been uploaded by next weekend, I'm willing to help there.

Whoa, 3 people in one day! Thanks a lot, guys. I've decided to go with SirGareth's recording, since he got it where I wanted it to be so quickly and all. Thanks for trying though! I will post a new WiP soon. There won't be any vocals in that one either, I'm afraid, but I'm working on it...

Agreed, it would be weird, but I was thinking I could just loop one recording. But then at the part near the end where the melody comes through and the chord progression changes, I'd need another loop for that. If you want to the whole song, then I have more material to work from. It'd just be more difficult for you, that's all. Strange that the download won't work. Try clearing your cache and then downloading again.

That's odd, it works for me. Did you want to record the whole song?? Anyway, if all you can downloaded was 700kB, you couldn't have listened to it all...

I'll give you a midi if you screw up the first time, haha.

Try recording that and let me play around with it. Expressing music with words never worked that well.

Fine, do it the other way then. I understand muting more than just a few strings gets difficult. Er... and send them to my e-mail, or as a pm, or post them here, I don't care. If you need hosting use yousendit.com.

Ok, what I meant by weird chords was that there are some parts where there are notes playing simultaneously that shouldn't be, like you just randomly slam your hand on a piano, sort of. It's not pleasant, but it's your choice and I'm sure you did it on purpose.

Having a bit of trouble with the lyrics right now, but should be able to produce some vocals soon.

I see what you mean, but I really want that "melody" consisting of the uppermost tone in the sus and add9 chords to be audiable, and the guitar that currently plays them does that (sort of). If all of the chords were reduced to simple 5 chords, the guitar line would become horribly boring. But like I said, I don't want there to be any thirds playing together with the sus and add9, which means that they are reallly D5sus and D5add9... I'm not that good with chord names, haha. I guess the simple minor chords could be reduced to 5 chords too, as long as the sus and add9 stays. Mainly, I want something to conceal the fakeness of the intro guitar with, if I can't replace it entirely. Glad you like it, btw. Hey, just try recording it your way and I'll see if I like it. How's that? Alternatively, should the above prove too difficult or just not sound good, here's another solution: 4 measures of chugging D5, then 4 measures of chugging C5, both accentuating as described above. Then an additional "lead" chug thingy, just playing the top 2 notes of the chords, like this: http://www.ngst.nu/extraguitar.mp3

ABBA? Wtf lol The chords are Dm, Dsus, Dadd9, and C, Csus, Cadd9. I don't know if it would help to transpose the whole song one or two notes down to make those chords easier to play. Or you could retune your guitar. Tell me if it's unplayable. You should also mute as much as possible, and play softly. The intro guitar I used plays much too hard. The chord progression is as follows - (in eighths): Dm-Dm-Dm-Dm-Dm-Dsus-Dsus-Dm Dm-Dm-Dm-Dsus-Dsus-Dm-Dm-Dadd9 (2 measures, repeat once) This is easiest to play (I would think) like this: And then the same thing except in C major: C-C-C-C-C-Csus-Csus-C C-C-C-Csus-Csus-C-C-Cadd9 (2 measures, repeat once) I don't really know how to play these... 8 measures in total. The underlined eighths are accentuated (if that's what it's called), i.e. they should be played louder than the others, since they make up the rhythm here. The add9 and sus chords should not contain a third, minor or major. Give it a shot, and if you can't do it, maybe someone else can.

Certainly not the kind of music you hear everyday. I don't know what it is you're trying to achieve, really, but there are some really weird chords and stuff going on, in addition to the rather mental synths you're using. I think you should turn the whole thing down a little, it's too loud sometimes (overload/overdrive? What's it called?). Either that or my speakers suck. Anyway, pretty interesting, but probably works better as background music than as something you'd listen to for pleasure.

Various people will kill me for saying this, but we get too little of this kind of stuff here at OCR... love it There are some sections where it feels like there are too many parts playing simultaneously. I don't think this will pass, partly for that reason, but I wish your submission luck all the same!