prophetik music

sorry for the dp, but i wanted to post this - barnes and noble is selling the collectors edition for under 25$ shipped, including tax and everything. link here.

they did, i checked right after my post. they'll come back in relatively soon, though. brandon, there's two reasons to want a strat guide. one, is that it takes a little while for all the hidden gems to show up online - for those of us playing the game more than once to get the achievements (like you will, mr. 55k), you don't want to miss anything the first or second time around. second, it's a COLLECTORS edition, numbskull

interestingly enough, amazon is also selling the collector's strat guide for 19$ or so. huzzah!

insert "wii sports sold more systems than any other game ever, and yet was the worst thing that could have happened to the wii" argument here.

alright, updated. whew, there was a lot there! maxfrost, i didn't see yoshi's island on the first post under you (AMT's got one, but not you). got everything else. relyanCe, i might hit you up for a title design and a little artwork for my website, which i'm currently learning how to handle. how much for a relatively simple header design?

check the first post, kid.

it'd be nice for you to post all the submissions once you get them in, so we can all hear the rawk.

i'll update this tonight when i get home. i've been out of town for a while. thanks for all the traffic, people!

it's not, though, for many gamers out there. he was a bit argumentative, granted, but it's still a point that needs making, and no one's doing it for fear of alienating their player bases.

THANK YOU. there's a strong chance i will not like god of war III when i go to play it. this is related to many issues, but it's the same reason i didn't like bayonetta, the DMC series, dante's inferno, etc - i don't like over-the-top action games. just my preference. GOW3 is shaping up to be one of the best games this console generation, a mountaintop experience for game players and creators alike. but i probably won't like it. does this mean it's bad? of course not. does this mean i will not buy it? probably. you never know - i don't like MW2, but i bought it because it represents one of the biggest failures of this console generation - IW's inability to control cheating and exploitation within a console-based game, as well as the whole pc vs. console debate.

thanks for bringing that back up. it's easy to get into the me vs. you debate with this stuff, and the key is that that's not the point - the point is to NOT trash new stuff simply because it's new, welcome it and enjoy the flexibility that it brings in.

$1000 to work with? no problem! you can make a solid music computer for under 600$ if you go light on quality in a few components. are you looking to do this yourself, or are you looking for someone to do it? because i'd definitely be interested in doing it for you if you wanted =) just send me a PM with a yea/nay. with music systems, you're looking at two major things - maximum ram available for your DAW, and enough CPU cycles to make it work. since you've got the cash available, i'd suggest going with one of the newest intel processors available, the i7-860. it's not a socket-1366 processor, like the -920, and as such doesn't cost as much for the motherboards. you can get a really nice board for 140$ or 150$, which works out reaaaal nice. you pick out a nice case, go with the evga offerings for motherboards in the socket 1156 range (the other boards are ok, but evga's boards are bloody works of art...they're SO much better than anything else available), a good efficient power supply, and a terabyte or two of HD space, and you're set. the starcraft thing is a bit different. starcraft's going to work on a buttload of hardware, meaning that you could run it on something basic as well as something monstrous in the GFX department. if you've got the cash - and i don't know if you do, i'd have to map some stuff out - i'd recommend the gtx 260 core 216. best price-to-performance ratio in nVidia space on the market. it's still 180$ or so, though, so if you don't have the cash (you'd have to get a much larger power supply as well) i'd suggest going with a smaller card - just a stopgap, like a 40$ 8400GS - to offload graphics processing onto a card and off the cpu until you can afford the bigger card. then, when you get the bigger card, you put it in slot one, and have the other one in slot two to allow for four monitors to be plugged in, like i have =) send me a pm and we can work stuff out.

i'm a big fan of developers recognizing their weaknesses, like what they did in Desperage Struggle. they realized they couldn't fit a worthwhile overworld in a game of that size. Dragon Age did the same thing - the game would have been absolutely astronomical in size if they hadn't made it a menu-based overworld. this is good thing, people - it's not just heaping piles of shit. it's creative applications to fix problems inherant in current architectures.

why gamers need to wise up and realize "streamlined" doesn't mean "dumbed-down" - an interesting look at progressive game design and the games that use (or don't use) it - mass effect 2, bioshock 2, final fantasy xii, and heavy rain. great read from maximum pc. the game boy always is a little direct in his commentaries, but he's got a lot of good points to make regarding the conundrum between excellent and forward-thinking game design and the nature of your standard 'hardcore' gamer. what do you think? i agree with pretty much everything he has to say. i really love ME2, and i enjoyed FFXII's battle system way more than the system of any other game in the series. i wish that they had continued with that feel in FFXIII, honestly. i haven't touched bioshock 2 or heavy rain yet, unfortunately, so i can't speak about them.

the first guitar i learned on was horrid, and the strings were literally about five or six years old. this happened. i hit my guitar with a hammer and bought a nice one

lolwut try again buddy

AHAHAHAHA intonation = tuning, knucklehead! know your werdz! incidentally, what guitars are you playing, hy bound? if they're No Child Left Behind-quality (a la walmart or kmart), that's half your battle right there. my intonation issues are invariably caused by just using shitty strings for months too long, more than anything else.

i've used the natural studios piano soundfont extensively over the last several years, but i'm not sure it's available anymore.

interestingly enough, they replaced it for free if you registered for it on their website a while back. they printed a replacement book with much stronger binding that didn't fall apart so easily. dunno if you still could get one, but...

it was supposed to be a way to get people to buy the collector's edition, which came with a guide.

note that the FFT poster isn't actually FFT - it's FFT:WOTL, as noted by the updated outfit for the time mage, dancer, and a few others. google

if you did, i'd love it if you sent it to me. i've never seen a computer that operated at 70F, considering that a system can never be less than about five degrees above ambient temperature

beware which phenom you get. don't get one that's too hot to handle. note the TDP and don't get anything too high unless you get an aftermarket cooler with it.

i've always been a huge fan of this poster. i just wish they worked in balthier and all the other special characters and cameos.

they suck it up because they're processing two inputs, which is a way more complex sound - with way more complex harmonics - than just a single note.