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Even without paying for studio time, the amount of time you have to put into gigging in order to make a living is inhuman. We usually made about $200-300 each per gig (a gig often lasting an entire weekend) which is actually quite generous compared to many other bands. The problem is that out here in the middle of nowhere, there's nowhere to gig without driving hundreds of miles in a beat up van that gets 8mpg. We actually lost money on more occassion than one, thanks to the ridiculous price of gas, and not to mention lodging and food. Some places were kind enough to supply us with at least a place to sleep and some grub, but then those places often wouldn't pay us. The only time we'd ever make decent money is playing festivals. Socorrofest would give us $250 each, free food and alcohols, reimburse us for gas, and our bassist didn't live too far away so we could crash at his place if needed. Unfortunately, Socorrofest only comes once a year. My bandmates and I have given up on trying to make a living like that. Now we just occassionally get together and rock out, and record shit in our DIY studio at NMT.

happy birthday bitch!

coming soon to a cellphone near you

seconded. 10 chars.

are we witnessing the birth of mazedude II?

WIP forum is that way -->

wow. y'all have such nice and organized setups. i have cables and amps and keyboards and shit strewn all over an entire corner of my house. i still need to take pictures.

holy shit, i totally forgot about that disciplining percy track for IMC 10. you should track down garian or sgtrama and see if they have it.

I think last.fm finally broke. A ton of the project songs can't be searched for, yet they exist in the database when you browse by tags. And the number of plays is definitely broken. Scenes from a Memory has 410, but Black Wing Metamorphosis only has 2? That surely can't be right.

no problem. not just a good amount:

So when's the plutonium edition coming out?

how much bandwidth do you have, douli? most of our trouble came from the way our hosting subdomain works. all the directories are directly accessible by anyone unless someone specifically puts in a new index. some people browsed the subdomain and found a number of files they found interesting, and so several japanese websites began to direct link to the not only the root hosting directories of the FF7 project, but a significant number of various other files-- mostly WIPs in various people's hosting directories as well as the entire RoFL project-- as well. also singingfish.com was our #2 referrer and direct linked to the entire album. but... singingfish was bought out by AOL in 2003 and has been defunct since february. don't ask how the hell that works. it's a conspiracy man!

awesome. RoFL included?

happy birthday bitch!

LOL For those of you wondering what happened, we exceeded our bandwidth limit for the month (250gb) in a number of hours following the release of the FF7 project. We tried to get some redirects up, but they were too little, too late. 262gb of transfer total. Some rabid fanboys even began crawling all the subdomains, grabbing anything of interest (my personal hosting folder alone got thousands upon thousands of transfers). RoFL even pulled in a few gigs somehow. For the time being, we have ThaSauce: Poverty Edition up on Fusion's webspace. Unfortunately, only the news section of the site is mirrored, so none of the subdomains including the forums, hosting, and R:TS are available. We are currently unable to even add new news stories due to MySQL incompatability with the temporary server. But hold tight, we'll be back better than ever next month!

what it comes down to (in my mind) is this: if you play live shows, get the workstation. if you're just recording and stuff in-home, get the laptop i've gathered that you don't play live, so definitely go with the computer. regarding the mac/pc question, if you asked this question a year ago, i would have said PC. but with the new fangled intel macbooks, you can get the best of both worlds and dual boot mac OSX and windows. that's the way i'd go. the question is whether or not the hardware you wanna use is mac compatible, but most is these days. the only problem is macs are generally much more expensive than PCs.

Nice work everyone. Many congrats to all our colleagues who came together to make it happen!

BEHOLD! less than 10 hours to

wtf? google translate creates poetry now apparently.

MUTHAFUCKAAAAAAAAAAAAA

oh yeah. umm. obviously. right. ...wut?

Katamari Damacy.

out of curiosity, what kind of camera did you get, po?

I love this kinda shit. D-D-D-D-DOWNLOADING

I thought they were original tracks. My bad. To clarify: - Remixer dude arranges original track - All contestants sing (or rap) over said song with original lyrics - Peoples vote and winnar is you. Gold star etc