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    OCR, The Musical...

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    You know, this project is looking more and more plausable as I think about it. Your idea of adding lyrics to existing remixes seems like the easiest way to do it. I think now the question is, what is the story going to be?

    Depends how seriously you want this to take itself. If it's a serious musical, you're pretty much stuck with a love story of some sort (or basing it on Bible stories). Of course, you get a lot more wiggle room if you do a Gilbert and Sullivan-style comic opera, like Pirates of Penzance.

    For best results, I'd definitely suggest the latter. Perhaps a story about a young naive remixer who's attending the first-ever OCRcon, trying to get his new crappy Geurdo Valley remix accepted out of pity by the judges by meeting them in person and convincing them he has testicular cancer. Somewhere he screws up and they find out the truth, but he ends up saving the day by thwarting Protricity, who showed up to ruin the festivities somehow. After that, djpretzel himself, played by Patrick Stewart, who up to that point had not been shown on stage, shows up thank our hero for his dedication to OCR. He still doesn't post the crappy ReMix, though.

    Math

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    Oh, so the whole problem was just a factored polynomial basically?

    And the two factors end up being (sinA^2 + cosA^2) and (sinA^2 + cosA^2) or 1X1.

    Did I understand that correctly?

    Exactly.

    I'm tutoring for Precal with Trig, and that's something they like to pull - requiring you to factor trig functions in order to simplify them.

    Here's a similar example: (note that I use sin^n as shorthand for sin^n(x))

    (sin^3 + cos^3)/(sin + cos) = 1 - sin*cos

    (sin^3 + cos^3)/(sin + cos)

    = (sin + cos)(sin^2 - sin*cos + cos^2)/(sin + cos) {by the factorization of the sum of cubes}

    = sin^2 - sin*cos + cos^2 {by the cancellation of (sin + cos) over itself - note that this does not hold true for angle values of 3pi/4 or 7pi/4, which cause sin(x) + cos(x) to equal zero}

    = 1 - sin*cos {by the Pythagorean identity}

    Math

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    Oh then that makes sense.

    So, (tan x)^2 * (sin x)^2 = (tan x)^2 + (cos x)^2 - 1 is equivalent to

    (tan x)^2 * (sin x)^2 = (tan x)^2 - (sin x)^2 (using (sin x)^2 + (cos x)^2 = 1)

    (sin x)^2 + (tan x)^2 * (sin x)^2 = (sin x)^2 * (1 + (tan x)^2 ) = (tan x)^2

    (sin x)^2 * (sec x)^2 = (sin x)^2 / (cos x)^2 = (tan x)^2, which is certainly true (Note: I used (tan x)^2 + 1 = (sec x)^2 here)

    Usually teachers prefer starting with the left side and manipulating it to get the right.

    tan^2*sin^2

    = (sec^2 - 1)*sin^2 [by tan^2 = sec^2 - 1]

    = tan^2 - sin^2 [by distributive law]

    = tan^2 + cos^2 - 1 [by -sin^2 = cos^2 - 1]

    The real consequences of blurring video games and real life..

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    Okay, okay, I got one... Maybe Steben can relate to this on some level, too.

    You know you've played online chess too much when you are playing chess at a real board with a friend, and, violating any "touch-move" precedent you may have set, pick up a piece to move it, only to decide against it. Now, you're not dumb, and you're pretty sure you know where you picked up the piece from originally, but you don't want to make a stupid mistake, so you casually lift the piece away from the board and drop it off of the table... :wink:

    I've totally done this/caught myself about to do this in real life a couple of times. Laugh-out-loud funny when it happens, but it certainly puts things in perspective, too.

    Sadly, I don't play enough real-life chess to have had an experience like that.

    Of course, since dropping out of OCRCL many months ago, I don't play enough chess period these days. Not that I was ever great at it to start with, but, perhaps I should join in next go-around. :)

    The real consequences of blurring video games and real life..

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    My friend and I were trying to figure out what the Christian Holy Trinity's Holy Ghost was exactly. I then proceeded to try to explain it like the Triforce. Wisdom and Power, like Father and Son, pretty easy to get what powers they grant. But Courage, it's a little harder to understand.

    I suppose if you must draw a parallel, you could say that Father : Power :: Son : Wisdom :: Holy Spirit : Courage. God is omnipotent, Jesus bestowed wisdom on his disciples, and the Holy Spirit gave them courage to go out and spread his Word.

    But I wouldn't take this to Bible Study class, considering how Ganon, the force of evil, wields the Triforce of Power. Also, you'll look like a complete dork.

    Nintendo Wii

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    Then the vultures started their decent. There was chaos and tires squeeling. Children as young as 7 years old (very brave asian kids these days) coming to the store Unoccompanied by an adult, with get this... A EFFING PIKACHU PIGGY BANK FULL OF DOLLAR BILLS.

    We said he as with us, and made sure he was far away from predatory wii buyers. (he got 4th place in the wii line.)

    [...]

    We kept pikachu kid close all throughout the event. ( and even drove him and his wii home. He walked 5 blocks by himself.)

    Man, I'm glad you did that for him. Pisses me off that his parents would let him pull that kind of stunt, although maybe he snuck out of the house to do it? It's a good thing he ran into someone that wasn't out for the money in his Pikachu Piggy Bank or, y'know, his anal virginity.

    Pirate songs

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    Yo ho fiddle dee dee

    Being a pirate is alright with me

    If you're a pirate... la la la la lee?

    You are a pirate!

    Okay, I don't know the words. But I bet YouTube does.

    ...

    Okay. I don't think I've ever actually watched anything from that show before. (My exposure is purely through YTMND.) That's pretty creepy stuff?

    Captain Obvious

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    Thank you for posting this in ComDisc.

    It is my opinion that we waste way too much fuel listening to OCReMixes. Every time we get down to the Music of Our Respective Groins, that's a little more coal being added to the fire in some electrical plant somewhere.

    Pretty soon, we'll need a lifeboat in order to stay dry while having a Bubble Bobble Hoedown.

    Good Multiplayer Games for GC

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    TOS had a multiplayer option? how did that work? Or was is something akin to FF:CC, I never played TOS so..bleh

    Basically, the game works as normal, with the first player doing all the story things. However, when you enter a battle, your party members are controlled by the 2-4 players rather than using AI.

    It was actually kind of fun for an hour or so, but it's not good as a stand-alone multiplayer game.

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