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Coming up tomorrow is the first issue of one of the side-story mini-series, Azrael: Death's Dark Knight. You might remember in the 90s, DC tried this whole Batman-replacement thing before with a fellow by the name of Jean-Paul Valley, aka Azrael. After Bruce Wayne reclaimed the mantle, JPV worked under Batman as Azrael, and had his own ongoing series, at the end of which he died. However, it seems as though the Order of St. Dumas--or at least, a splinter sect known as the Order of Purity--feels as though there should be a new Azrael, so they steal the Suit of Sorrows from the Batcave (given to Bruce by Talia al Ghul in a recent issue of Detective Comics) and go about finding someone to wear it. Here are some relevant links! Solicit @ Comixology Preview @ IGN Comics Interview with writer Fabian Nicieza Enjoy!

You're telling me to try different characters, but then you recommend Shotos? Sorry, but I try to avoid the traditional Shotos when I play Street Fighter. I can play Ryu, Ken, and Akuma just fine. I have no problem playing shotos. Everyone can play shotos. I always try to get away from that. That's why I play Gouken; he's very different. And really, try playing charge characters with a thumbstick or d-pad. It's not easy. I'm sure it's much better with a joystick, but I can't get one.

I main Gouken and El Fuerte, but I've been trying to learn Gen lately. It's very frustrating when I switch styles and can't pull off his Oga, which is basically the entire reason you switch to that style. It's the same key combo as a Spinning Bird Kick, but the input windows in SF4 are so unforgiving that it's impossible to pull it off in the heat of battle.

OH HAI

I've just gotten kind of frustrated with the wonky input windows for special/super/ultra moves and the inconsistent difficulty levels across the board; going up against wrestler characters is really draining when they constantly grab you and hit you with massive amounts of damage.

Aside from quick pick-up-and-plays, I think I'm pretty much done with this game.

"Batch process" basically means running the process on multiple files in one go, rather than running it separately for each and every one.

It's important to embed on OCR itself because the web-player acts as a preview; people will be able to click play to listen to the song, then they can decide if they want to download it. From a user-interface point of view, it doesn't make sense to send someone to another site entirely just to get a preview of the song. We want to keep users here, not send them away.

To be fair, 6/8 is often used in heavily syncopated pieces where the beat division changes. In a lot of latin folk music, you'll get that alternating "1-and-a 2-and-a 1-and 2-and 3-and" feel. "America" from West Side Story is probably the most famous example of this. So when he says that 6/8 and 3/4 are similar, he's correct. They are similar, in that they each have 6 eighth notes to a measure. Beat division in Sagat's Theme is tricky, but it goes (in sets of eighth notes) 2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-3-2. You can break it down in to one set of 2-2-2-2, which is just a measure of 4/4, and then two sets of 2-3-2, which is two measures of 7/8 (or one measure of 7/4). That means you could PROBABLY say that Sagat's theme is in 11/4.

Original is one of my favorite songs. Used to play Isolated Island for hours just to listen to this. Cool remix. Submit it please.

I'm not so sure about Tim becoming Batman. I think that Dick Grayson, especially with the lightness he's been showing in his final issues of Nightwing, really illustrates what kind of Batman he'll be. Anyway I guess I should post my thoughts on Battle #1: Overall I thought it was great. Daniel really hit the ground running with the writing and art. I'm glad he made Tim the POV character. I feel like he's always been the most perceptive of the Batboys, able to read people and empathize more. Tim in the yellow-oval suit was a nice callback to the suit Bruce wore when Tim became Robin. As for Dick, I can see how the pressure of being the head of the family is really getting to him. Poor guy; Bruce is dead and already some yutz is running around as a gun-toting Batman (Bad Jason!). His interactions with Damien was interesting in that he just doesn't put up with Damien's crap. I think the "first sons" are going to make a great team in the future. Speaking of Damien: using the Bat-mobile to pick up chicks?! How old are you again?! Art was fantastic. Lots of action, great angles and composition. Looking forward to the second act. -- I'm going to save my thoughts on Gotham Gazette until #2 comes out at the end of Cowl; I liked it, but I don't feel like there was enough material to warrant any kind of written reaction. -- In any case, I've set up a chatroom for comics talk! Anyone is welcome to drop by so long as you've got an open mind and don't hate on stuff for stupid reasons. We can talk about DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, pretty much any print comics. Join usssss: irc://irc.slacknet.org/comicshop

Or alternatively you can use it to sort of mess with a waltz feeling people are expecting; a measure of 3/4, a measure of 2/4. There's a lovely jazz piece called Decoupage by the Stan Kenton Orchestra that plays with that a little. Even Take Five's classic piano line's first three beats makes you think of a jazz waltz. I love all those time signatures like 5/4, 7/8, 7/4, etc. A lot of fun to play with.

Dunno why you're mentioning Pandora; that's a music-suggestion service. They don't have any kind of "upload your music and share it" functionality.

I doubt you'll see any kind of MvC remake. Capcom hasn't had the Marvel license for a while. The fanboy in me yearns for 3rd Strike HD Remix. SHOBU DAAAAAAAAaaaaa

Go to bed.

Wait, what?

Listen again. SF4 has some great tracks.

The punchline is that what he's playing is in 4/4 time.

oh my god that was hilarious haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa xD

Nope. That right belongs to the Glorious Pretzel.

"So uh...what's this thing with you and the blanket?"

I'm not arguing GIMP vs. Photoshop anything. I'm just pointing out that you shouldn't exclude making icons from "high-end graphics projects." What do you think graphic designers do? A lot of graphic designers make logos, UI elements, website graphics, application icons, etc. This stuff isn't Art™. It's not a metaphor for the human condition. It's a picture of a pencil being used for an edit button. That's what pays. It's just like music; you'll make far more money scoring commercials and writing jingles than you will selling your Concerto in D Minor. But anyway, odds are if you're serious about graphic design, you should be buying a copy of Photoshop anyway, because yes, it is industry standard, and yes, you're going to be using it for work. Most people who pirate Photoshop are not graphic designers, and most of those people don't need to be using the "industry standard." They can get by with GIMP. Hell they can get by with Paint.NET. To be perfectly honest, they can probably get by with some of those online image editing apps.

Please keep in mind that we won't just use a generic flash player and run the streaming off our own servers. The idea is to upload OCR's catalog to an outside service so that we don't eat through all of our bandwidth when people decide they only want to stream remixes.

ROFL http://stockicons.com/collections People make icons in Photoshop (with special .ico plugins) and they sell them for a lot of money. Creating icons is just another part of graphic design, and is especially useful in user-interface development. .ico files in particular can contain multiple versions of the same images, specially tweaked for different icon sizes. That's why a lot of icons don't look poorly resampled when you scale them down from 32x32 to 16x16; there are actually multiple images in the file. And no, you don't make icons in Paint. Paint doesn't natively support the .ico format. Renaming a .bmp to .ico doesn't actually make it an icon file. It's just a bitmap that Windows will display a resampled thumbnail for.