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i understand what you mean, but i somehow expect shna to hate this type of compliment. music is meant for inspiration, not intimidation. i know it's a joke, but it's also not, isn't it? oh yeah, great tune!

my all time favorite from fx3! it's really only barely hum-able or singable, but i could never keep myself from trying journey into the rift is my 1st love on the album. digging that thrash sound so much.

the original torchlight was a disappointment for me. it was ok as a generic proof of concept, but it completely lacked the atmosphere and lore that made the diablo games worthwhile. i hope they aimed to create a more unique experience this time. in any case, i'm looking forward to more matt uelmen!

oh god this sounds soo good. i liked the sound of virt's samples, but it was a bit flimsy in comparison. so great...can't say anything else for now, i'll just listen through.

i randomed viper went 23 - 1 - 7 what a dumb hero.

in most pub games, yeah. i feel like he's getting picked less though. most people agree he's kind of cheesy and rarely makes for a better match.

1. farm 2. get survivability/sustainability 3. blink all over the map and farm 4. get damage 5. farm heroes

the notch thing happening in parallel is what made it surreal. the whole world suddenly decided to throw cash at schafer. collective bad conscience? proof of karma? mind rays?

over one million $ pledged. after a day. 32 days to go. isn't that kinda...exciting? for gaming as a whole and such? funny bit of trivia, the 10k pledge is apparently from notch.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure?play=1&ref=users goal has been reached already, took like half a day. pretty mindboggling success even if you take gilbert's and schafer's legacy and fanbase into account. do watch the video, it's quite funny. i seriously hope this catches on as a trend.

that about wraps it up

sorry gar. ofc anyone in this forum could learn a lot from jordan rudess. it's just that i hate his band i do enjoy his quest for absolute ultimate gear endorsal. when i wanna see someone wanking out on a spanking nu synth, it might as well be jordan rudess. and it probably is.

or he could analyse something that's structurally interesting and captivating..instead of figuring out bit after bit of pasted together progwank. ^^ btw, this might be a nice watch for you grayb

wait i messed up lol. i meant normal/harmonic minor. no melodic. i didn't listen to the whole song or try to determine its overall key. i listened to the section you linked to. the first notes sound like a fourth and third to me. then the chord changes from i to VIb. the melody then repeats the same 2 notes. if you align them with the new chord they actually function as a major sixth and fifth. so again, it rests on consonance. then it moves to the dominant, and that's what harmonic minor is most prominently linked to, no exception here. it's nothing special, you just use the leading tone that is included in the dominant chord. you don't even hear the leading tone in this example until the chorus is about to repeat. you mess up because you try to apply some very broad specs (like the song's key) to specific sections. you need more case by case.

"Multi-user music production over the internet Multiple users can compose music on the same document from different locations. Bitwig Studio keeps everything in sync." sweet. i hope this isnt just a glorified project sharing platform thing but a real live solution.

tritones of the root key sound dissonant, but the interval is gonna sound different in other functions. like, take any seventh chord in major. the seventh and the third form a tritone. it sounds pretty consonant. now you could move to the subdominant (C7->F7), which has another tritone in it, just a semitone below the old one (Bb/E->A/Eb). just for example. in the pokemon tune the tritone is more transitory tho. as you can hear it doesn't stay on the major second too long but moves back to the root. if it went on longer, you'd notice that it is kinda dissonant and begs to be dissolved. and that's part of what makes it sound sweet. the chord sounds like a minor iv to me. the bass is playing its 3rd tho, while the melody briefly adds a major 6th to the chord (the tritone you were talking about). then it fully dissolves back to the root major chord. you'll generally find that chromatics in basslines have a lot to do with chord inversions. see stairway to heaven for an obvious example. i'd play around with chromatic basslines a bit and figure out for yourself what kind of chord movements you can build on top. regarding your 2nd example...where are all the minor sixths you're talking about? it gets a bit minor sixish once it moves to the dominant, but even there you have a transitory semitone. strictly speaking, there isn't any minor sixth interval in the melody. the whole chorus sounds like bloody normal melodic/harmonic minor to me. i think you're getting too worked up about intervals and theory in general. music is math in some way, but it's also extremely relative, and the math we use to describe it really just points out some interesting relations. you have to find out for yourself what these mean to you. questions like 'why's that tritone sounding so sweet' make me think that your idea of intervals is too absolute. any interval can sound sweet or harsh or anything. it all depends on where it sits, on what function it performs within the progression.

and then you learn how to deal with them. focus on playing those imba spellcasters in real games. experience how they're mostly not imba. they will only be imba in certain constellations against certain other lineups. heroes are imba if you don't have an antidote. you've lost the metagame. if you're prone to whining over unfair situations, then dota is the wrong game. in all fairness, i whine a lot too. for example, anti-mage is borderline imba, simply because he's such a fucking hassle to shut down. he also forces specific counterpicks. these games never are perfectly balanced. each flavor of the month pick stirs up new balancing questions, and it becomes increasingly hard to see through the noise. on the other hand, the modular nature of the game is in itself sort of a self-regulatory balancing mechanism. any strat will result in the development of counter-strats. it's essentially an endlessly evolving cycle of rock paper scissors (broadly guided and emphasized by patches of course). anyway, the reason these seemingly uber heroes stay that way is that most people have learned to deal with them and moved on. said heroes can still get some very easy kills in certain situations. in the meantime though, players have learned to methodically avoid those situations, be it through picks or playstyle. the hero is accordingly accepted as being generally balanced. occasionally a noob stops by and cries. it's to be expected. in the end, all i can say is: dota makes more and more sense the more you play it. doesn't mean you have to. it's a huge timesink, and if you don't enjoy it (you don't seem to so far) then what's the point. just be aware that there are many people that tremendously enjoy the game just for what it is. you don't have to be an elitist douchebag with a neurotic degree of conservatism to really like dota. most people can enjoy it if they're willing to wrap their head around it. it only gets better. ymmv.

what you're not getting bleck...it's a great mechanic. it simply is hardcore. fuck the buzz, i'll just take the word. it's hardcore in the sense that it takes some time to learn and appreciate. emphasis on APPRECIATE. i applaud other companies for branching out. i'm very open to changes of all kind, and i think the dota/moba/wtf principle could be carried on to wayy more casual grounds and still be great. you know, thinking about it, LoL should probably get rid of the last hitting, simply because last hitting without denying is quite boring. it does work really well in dota and hon though. design elements aren't automatically bad because you can't get into them. When i played Go, i hated how every piece is the same and how confusing the game looks. i liked chess better. that's ok. Go is probably still pretty good.

thing with lasthitting (denying even moreso), it is archaic, but as mentioned it's a central mechanic and it just works really well. it IS fun once you get good at it. it's a technically dated and fiddly minigame alright. so what? it's part of what makes dota great for the people who stuck with it. dota/hon simply is the most complex and strategically/tactically rewarding game i've ever played. Lol is alright and all but definitely the shallower experience, and yes, it's because they tinkered with the formula and got rid of a lot of the fiddly WCIII-based stuff without really adding anything to compensate. i'm repeating myself here, but i thought pretty much like bleck for maybe a year after i started playing hon. there was a phase where i wanted to just stop playing because i realised how much the game was centered around $$$ and how annoying it is to maximise your $$$ gain. what i've come to realise: dota is a hardcore game, for hardcore gamers. you're meant to drown in crazy multitasking, you're meant to get hopelessly owned by players that know every obscure design detail by heart. if bleck thinks that learning all this stuff is a waste of time, that's alright, it's completely subjective anyway. speaking for myself here, i've probably played more hon/dota now than i've played any other game in my life. purely subjectively speaking, it kinda is the best video game. period. sounds stupidly fanboyish, but it's how i feel. the only other game i know that has the same lasting appeal for me is chess. as with chess, i'm not the best player around, but i know dota well enough to say that every core mechanic in there contributes positively to the experience. if you don't like it, wait until a game with a smoother yet equally deep mechanic comes around. i'll be playing that too. until then, shut up because YOU DONT KNOW SHIT FGT K??? :D:D:

thanks, i read about the game quite a while ago and completely forgot. i'll be keeping the download for the next time im completely bored out of my mind. from what i've heard it's probably a great game, but sadly i'm not hardcore enough to get sucked into ascii-based worlds whenever i want to.

japs like their doujin. they also like their cease and desists but a little cameo in a popular product is rarely seen as a bad thing, methinks.

educated guess: dota became rly popular with the advent of the 'allstars' version, which was a compilation and consolidation of countless dota styled maps. also consider that like any other nonstandard wcIII map, dota used to be called a funmap. so no, not all dota variants had the generic sentinel/scourge goodie/baddie theme going. i distinctly remember a bleach vs. naruto dota. some of the custom models were really good too.

it's a nice phrase, i've subscribed to it countless times before, but in the end, i'm led to believe that how you get there always has influences on the end result no matter how you might've envisioned it. creativity is pure butterfly effect. any tiny bit of input into your system matters. becoming better at recognising chord changes? pretty huge bit of input, usable for a lot of things. it's going to change your music, in some ways, over time. for better or worse? idk man, but it might add another fun and inspiring aspect to this whole making music thing for you. can't have too many of these. i'm talking purely theoretically without agenda and am really just using halc as a practical example. i make very little music these days and sit on my ass a lot, so there you go ^^ edit: hero, the deifying bit was an exaggeration lol. again, quoting myself, you don't need every available musical skill to make great music. did you read that bit? that said, any skill can help, and getting better at playing/sequencing by ear is such an opportune and obvious skill to train when you're doing arrangements.

yup. they're good. so what dude? more knowledge of chords would still make him a musician with a slightly more varied and conscious pool of choices. i can name a hundred things my musical progress is hampered by. i'm still happy enough with most of the tunes. it's not always a result but also a process thing. everyone is a little lazier about some aspects of his craft. it doesn't necessarily result in poor crafting. just don't deify halc cause you really like his music. cause i'll show up and write an extremely differentiated and boring post to set things right nobody cares about.

it probably is. not so much but to some degree. go on and flame me. he's still got a very good sense for melody and soundscape and all that, and the midi based stuff clearly goes through a lot of stages and edits. it sounds halcy in the end, so obviously he's doing just fine with it. doesn't mean that it doesn't hamper his progress in any way. he said himself that figuring out the chords is a bitch and that he prefers midis as a base to get his remix going asap. the pretty obvious consequence is that he will stay a bit weak in the figuring out chords department. make of that what you will, it's a very worthwhile but ultimately not an essential music skill, esp. not in the digital environment. trial and error rules, and you don't really need to internalise everything western music theory has to offer to make awesome music. i know enough people who've done better stuff than i but have less of a grasp of what they're doing with the notes or chords. and it's not like i'm very educated on the whole thing...