RocketSniper

I actually have fun with guitar hero for several reasons: A: I don't try to pick up girls with it. I've never even heard of someone trying to pick up girls with it, it would understandably fail. B: It doesn't take two years of practicing to strum out the lowest difficulty songs possible. C: I usually play drums, which are much, much closer to the real thing than guitar. I understand it's not the real thing, but I have paper-thin walls and my neighbors would flip out with noise complaints with a real drumkit, which brings me to D: The real thing is more expensive. A real drum set? $800. Rock band one, two, all of the downloaded content, and track packs combined? ~$300. Not to mention, some of the skills *do* translate over with that particular instrument - obviously not all of them, but picking up foot coordination, getting a few rythms down... even if my left foot isn't doing anything like I know it should be, it's a first step that I think is in the right direction. Obviously I can only get so far, but it'll be fun in the mean-time anyway. Cooking mama I'll also admit to having, my mom mentioned it as a game she wanted, so it ended up being a birthday present. We played around with it for a couple of days, and since then only play it to fuck around with people with the fish preparation. And now I realize this thread could easily have been religiously offended by bacon of light. /cry

Alright, so, list of possible meetup locations as I see from reading this thread... Ohio (The entire state, no need to meet face to face) St. Louis Illinois (Chicago or Urbana) Most people seem to be voting for Chicago, and if I were going I'd vote for it as well. My thoughts? It's funny that people complain about $55 for a three day pass to something when it'll cost that much in gas for a lot of people just to get there.

Grove City Ohio, just southwest of our capital, columbus. I only ever met two ocremix people, one's a cousin and the other's a friend I met elsewhere. Somehow we all independently found the site and eachother. Odd coincidence... Also, I'd consider the midwest to be anything east of the mississippi, but north of/including kentucky, that isn't one of the original colonies.

One time, my brother did this. Except it was when he noticed pikachu's tail was shaped like a lightning bolt. To this day we laugh at him.

Oh yeah, incredibly. It wasn't about the RAM, I wanted to get the right bit size for my processor and figured now would be as good a time as any to get on that. Didn't realize how much it sucked until everything was fully installed, though looking back, most of the suck / fail actually came from my dying hard drive. Still, I'm not going to bother with more windows installs at this point because everything is finally working right. Also, the flame response really wasn't called for, but whatevs. Thread was helpful for the most part. One last time before I bail out for a while again, Thanks to all that helped!

Wow, awesome, OCR has deleted my post three times now. Finally up and running again, and I'm not retyping my essay(s) again. the SP3 disk comes with windows, still no idea why it's asking for the other disks to proceed. 500 gig drive died, windows / bios no longer even recognizes it as a drive. Before it died though, I ran the Seagate HD health tools on it - 7500 hours of run time. Five hours a day for four years, not too bad. Also, I'd recommend Recova out of all of the listed recovery programs, it's fast, simple, and works. to everyone that's helped so far in this thread, I've managed to recover all of the lost information that I wanted to recover, and have managed to get windows reinstalled / everything reformatted and such. Thanks much!

You can get involved by posting on the forums, making remixes, donating to the site, and that's all I can really think of at the moment. The Work in Progress forum will probably be a big help to you, whether you're posting your own work or helping other people with theirs.

I like bacon.

Well, you know, you could just pick OCR members at 'random', and somehow happen to get names on the list every time to receive OCR thanks for listening gifts... Just a thought.

Update, the undelete program froze, so I repartitioned all of the drives after backing what little I had left up to an external hard drive. Windows 32 CDs still bullshitted me for a while the following prompt Setup cannot find a previous version of windows installed on your computer. To continue, setup needs to verify that you qualify to use this product. Please insert one of the following windows product CDs into the CD-ROM drive: (Abridged...) XP Home (Full version), XP Pro (Fll version), Windows 2000 professional, Windows 98, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 95, or NT Workstation 3.51 It rejected XP x32 with no SPs, and XP x32 with SP 3, finally got it running with an SP 1a disc. In any case, windows is finally working again. Now to recover the data... Anybody heard of any freeware better than GetDataBack? After searching around online for a bit, it turns out a lot of other people had problems with it freezing and taking two weeks on fairly medium - small sized disks. Once again, thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, it's been a great help to getting me back on my feet.

Two on the 200 gig (in case one got corrupted but the drive was fine) and one on the 500 gig, in case the 200 gig drive failed. Didn't forsee both failing within a week. Pro tip: if you crawl around inside your computer, don't be clumsy. This thread serves as a good warning for people needing to back up files... Also, the scan is now on cluster 64.5 million-ish, and still has another 60 millionish to go.so... day four of the scan and it's still ridiculous lol

:-xYeah, it only does that when I'm booting from a 32 bit edition of windows XP CD. Haven't tried the 64 bit edition yet though, because I'm two days into a hard drive / info recovery scan using "PC Inspector". No idea if this it taking stupidly long because of the software, pro x64, or if it just takes a long time anyway, but at this rate I'll be reinstalling some time near the end of this week, friday maybe. Gotta get the stuff off of that drive before I screw with it too badly again... Also, as willing as I normally am to follow random instructions, I'd rather not mess with / plug in my hard drive while my computer is on. I'll probably attempt the pro x64 CD first, if that works/doesn't work, I'm going to go with feather linux, if that fails, I'll try ubuntu, if that fails, I'm unplugging the SSD and getting windows on the 500 gig drive. I wish I had made more copies of my FL folder now. Figured three would be enough, you know?

Yeah, that'll probably work. Or at least, would if it would let me repartition the drive. Maybe the x64 cd will let me do it... 32 bit edition CDs don't let me do anything other than attempt to verify that I'm a legitimate windows owner, which fails despite my multiple operating systems that fit what they're asking for. This is a pretty horrible design flaw on their part, I can't wait to get this piece of crap off my machine. Thanks all for the help!

I've got four gigs of 533 DDR2 RAM. It's not the issue =p Any suggestions on which version of linux to use? I'd like to use it to break windows so I can re-install XP 32, which worked 100% fine before. Thanks for the help so far, guys =D

The short version: My computer is f*** slow and I'm not entirely sure why, but I think it has something to do with Windows XP Pro x64 edition. Problem is, my PC won't let me install any other OS's to test my theory. Long version: got a new graphics card on monday from newegg, and a power supply with it to keep it going. Current PC specs: Intel 975XBX MoBo Quad core 2.4 GhZ 64 bit processor (Intel) Sapphire 4870 ATi Radeon video card Corsair 750 Watt power supply 500 Gb 7200 RPM SATA HD 32 MB Patriot SSD (SATA) HD While I was installing the video card, I ended up pulling one of the data cables attached to my main hard drive. (No longer listed because) I broke it. So, I figure I'll try out XP Pro x64, get going with the right size OS for my processor. Install it, no issues immediately, get everything reinstalled, drivers and such. Intel's audio studio thing won't install, not really that big of an issue. Anyway, did all of the pre-req installs, Firefox, graphics card drivers, updates, etc. Nothing really was an issue until about the third restart, after the graphics card drivers were installed. Windows took ~20 minutes to start up. Not figuratively, literally. When it finally loaded, everything was the slowest I've ever seen it. Clicking an icon wouldn't register for ~20 seconds, clicking the start menu wouldn't make it pop up for ~four minutes. It kept getting worse and worse, so I reinstalled windows again. Same thing happened. So, I tried without drivers. Same thing happened again. Weird thing though? Games run fine. As soon as it doesn't deal with my 500 gig hard drive, everything starts running quickly again. Installed it on my SSD instead, and it's running smooth... or at least, was for the first hour or so. It's starting to decline to the same thing, and probably won't turn on tomorrow morning... which means another re-install. For the first couple of hours, it works fine, but it progressively gets slower and slower until nothing will work any more. Plays both of the games on my SSD (Supreme commander, WoW) fine on max settings, no lag whatsoever, and ironically takes longer to register a click on the icon than to load the game itself. Also, at some point, the 500 gig drive got re-formatted for no apparent reason, so I lost the backup drive. Anyway, trying to reinstall XP Pro (Not x64), when I reboot, it works fine, loads drivers, etcetera, up until right after I accept the license agreement. Bugs me with a window asking for me to insert a disk from one of the many windows products I do not own, and the only two disks I have don't register. Off the top of my head, it was asking for XP Pro, Server 2000, ME, '98, and there were a few more, but I can't remember them. Installing windows CDs will not work from inside windows, as it considers changing to x32 a downgrade and will not allow me to continue. Help?

Anyone remember Isolation? I think Prophecy made the music for it, can't remember who else was involved... It wasn't a full remake, but was a similar platform meant to be used for something else, I think.

My biggest problem was the movie was the boat scene, I really wish they'd given both boats the detonators to their own explosives, then the citizen boat would be the only one to go down. None of this feel-goody toss the explosives out the window crap... In any case, very good movie. Liked it more the more I watched it, and by the third time (My family's poor at coordinating going to movies >_<), it's going to be one of the few movies I own, next to Boondock Saints and Donnie Darko.

Man, I shouldn't have deleted this bookmark. NOW we get interest in the compo. *faceplant* In any case, methinks this exploded.

Well, I hate to say this, but it's been two weeks since the last post. time for [/thread] It's been fun...

Fixed. also, even partial entries would be appreciated. I wanna see something out of someone here

I decided to keep this one pretty short. For once. Also, here is the .zip file.

I'll post the mix later tonight, busy working on two papers at once. There seriously isn't another person with an entry? Even one that's only partially finished?

I vote yes... I'm still trudging slowly through the music-making process... this song is getting to be more of a pain than the metroid one, simply from lack of direction...

Technically it should have been moved to the competitions forum.... but I guess it gets more views this way?

Less than a week left... any full submissions yet?