prophetik music

what is your dirty music composing and listening secret? are you a bluegrass artist that loves nightwish? are you a sound engineer who loves tracks that are slamified to the maxilation, way past the realm of reason and logic? maybe you just really like taylor swift and can't admit it in public. mine is that i really, really like overcompressed drums and layered/repeated phrasing. surprise! all those things that people point to when they complain about my music...i love that stuff. i hear it every time, but i don't take it out because i love that part

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any time a thread devolves into sentence-by-sentence responses to posts, you can be sure someone is thinking "if i just shout louder they'll listen to me this time".

i have no concerns about performance as i was able to easily emulate FF12 with every graphics option i could think of cranked before i upgraded my system, so emulation is cool if someone's got a good suggestion for an emulator. is there any additional content in the pc version? has anyone else tried any of the mods on the internet yet? edit: bleck, more interesting as in harder, or more interesting as in makes something different?

i haven't played ff7 since i used my old psone to play it through after buying the game off the shelf at walmart. i'm interested in playing through it again in anticipation of the re-release of the game. i figure it won't be out till next holiday season (if it'd been this Christmas, they'd have said it!), so i've got time to play it and then get away long enough to replay the remake. so how should i play it? i know there's a ton of mods out there - has anyone played through some of them? if i do it vanilla it'll likely be on my PSP, but if there's better translations or improved graphics, i wouldn't complain about that. i don't mind emulation so if there's an option that includes save-states and omnipresent pausing (which helps a lot with babies around!), that'd be awesome. i have an old ps1 and a greatest hits version of the discs that work fine, and my psp and pc.

whoa, some nice changes. the updates to difficulty rankings and the kanai's cube look really nice.

nah, if you don't immediately brush it away as fanboyism, it makes a lot more sense than you'd think...more so if you look at the characteristics of the character types, what their abilities are, and how they're realized in-game, and if you consider the green ending to be canon.

didn't they say that dragon age is in the same world as ME and takes place way after the fact, with different races in ME becoming the different races in DA, and the magic being biot/tech powers realized? i mean, there's already direct correlation in the way the ogres look compared to the yahg. the 'creeping death' that comes from darkspawn blood could just be nanobots that carry some sort of crazy programming or something. i wonder if that's just going to remain a theory or if it'll be realized somehow in the game.

good to hear all is well. i know at least one other person's system had a similar issue. this took a little more research but we were able to figure it out.

oh, i thought it was going to be the gold vs garbage debate i'll point out, though, that expressing my exasperation about the over-politicization (is that a word?) of mad max at work got a pretty harsh backlash of "well you must be a misogynist then", which i thought was comical.

hahaha, the salt is real. what's wrong with watching a movie and not caring about the agendas that may or may not lie behind the movie? mad max was good. it was fun to watch. the action was entertaining, the show-don't-tell style was breathtakingly fun to experience, and the characters weren't cookie-cutter characters. i didn't go to see it because of the triumph of women over oppressive male entities or something, i went to see it because they had a flamethrower guitar and the movie's a freaking two-hour car chase combined with dune and borderlands, and that sounded awesome. did it have feminist underpinnings? maybe, a lot of the arguments both for and against are pretty solid. that said, who cares? i don't, and saying that i don't have a ball in that court doesn't make me sexist any more than not really caring about r&b makes me a racist. just pointing a finger and spouting hot-button words doesn't make you look educated and relevant. it makes you look ignorant and puerile. the endless need to ascribe a crusade to everything is abhorrent. edit: the fact that an action film with a script the size of a child's flipbook is raising this many questions about the intentions of the writer(s) is actually pretty cool. as i said, i don't really have a ball in this particular court, but the noise that's being raised (on both sides of the issue/question/whatever) is definitely interesting.

djp, i think you'll make your point better if you use more bold and italics, just sayin

i killed ten charging sword dudes with a plasma rifle in halo 2 in one LAN match once. four shots and a perfectly timed melee every time.

my opinion is that this movie is a pinnacle of the action movie genre, on the level of matrix when it came out - a game-changing experience that completely redefines the expectations for competitors. also, from popehat:

yeah, two days. must have caught the robots at a good time. took me two tries to configure the drives right (so the fast windows install was nice!) but it's cooking with gas now. i forgot to unplug the 3tb drive when installing onto the SSD, and windows put the system partition on the 3tb drive. not a huge deal, but it requires that the drive be MBR instead of GTR, aaaaand that means you max out at 2.12tb per partition. also you can't delete the system partition from that copy of windows. i had to go back into the windows install program, use the formatter to remove the system partition, go out and disconnect the drive, install windows, go out and reconnect the drive, then go about the rest of the windows setup process. not a big deal if i'd noticed before 1 hour into system testing =(

installing windows xp off of a cd used to take 40 minutes on lower-end machines. i just installed W7 off of a thumbstick via USB 3 onto anorax's new computer, and it took six and a half minutes. welp.

of my ten or eleven rejections, i really liked five of them and thought they'd make it. the rest were sorta bologna darts.

silly rexy, more than half my builds come from me commenting on what they've picked out =P also, never take CPU speeds for granted. the 4200U at 1.8ghz is roughly comparable to an i5-2450m on programs that fully utilize all cores (like photoshop can), which is clocked at 2.5ghz. now, in this case, the 4200U is pretty bad IMO, but it's not always the case. also the single-core [edit: real-time actual performance] speed is comparable to the i5-5200U's speed, but that's clocked at 2.2ghz. numbers are just pictures on a page and can say whatever people want them to say. photoshop does use gpgpu technology, so your graphics card can be used to significantly speed up general processing. this doesn't really have one. i'd refer to this link for comparing GPUs, and then pick one out with a better graphics card. you should be able to do significantly better in that price range. i tend to look at maximum pc's daily deals articles, which often have killer 1200$ laptops for like 750$ if you're ready to buy. they had some awesome lenovo deals very recently like that. edit: i should point out that you can do a comparable desktop build for less money than this, and have it perform better and last longer for a lot longer. if you do need a laptop for editing video on the go and you're not just combining a note-taking tablet with your workstation, then what i said above is your best bet. otherwise, consider a desktop.

uh, i wipe the old thermal paste off with a paper towel and lightly buff it with some high-grain sandpaper to remove residue, usually with a bit of isopropyl alcohol. if it's on the cooler, i do the same thing. i've never used any remover - it's just silver in goop suspension, so it's sorta pointless when the remover's just alcohol and a bit of detergent anyways.

i recently upgraded to a 1440p monitor from Qnix. they included free two-day air from Hong Kong and the monitor arrived with zero busted pixels. got it for in the 425-450$ range. i'd recommend that route =)

i used a k60 forever and loved it. i wanted something a bit smaller and went with the tenkeyless model, the k65. it's still great. if i were you, look for a unibody design with the switches sticking out of a closed case, like what the k60 did. easy to clean with some air and a paintbrush, the keys are significantly raised from the back so it's easy to pull them off for cleaning as well, and the wrist-rest makes a big difference as well for keeping your left hand (usually the most active one in gaming) at the proper height. i'd suggest not going for a particularly expensive model until you're certain you really like mechanical keyboards. cherry reds are the best switches for gaming imo since they've got a relatively light touch and very consistent activation - once you get used to not fully depressing the key, your fingers can just dance on the keyboard at speeds you never dreamed possible before because you're not wasting so much time pressing all the way down, and you're not anchoring your hands to a specific key while you depress it.

mini-itx is fun, but you'll want to make sure that you're comfortable working in tight spaces. my first itx build was a mess because i hadn't really planned on making the space sacrifices requires to balance it out.

i use registered mail, via the USPS. it's pretty cheap, includes insurance, and is basically the safest form of transit i know of. everything gets bundled into a big package, and someone has to sign every time it's touched. this prevents the whole bootprint-on-the-side issue i used to deal with when shipping systems, and it's easier to claim damages on them as well since all corners are closed with paper tape. a system to the east coast is about 40-50$ usually, depending on weight and if it's a weird box.

i sold the game key, but still have the monitor, case, mechanical keyboard, and graphics card for sale. additionally, i now have some games for sale! a few are black label where listed. i didn't write down which was which for the PS2 games so some may be. all have original cases, some are dinged a bit but play fine. PS1: Gran Turismo 2 (GH) - 3$ Chrono Cross (black) - 10$ Final Fantasy Tactics (black) - 25$ Final Fantasy 7 (GH) - 30$ Final Fantasy 8 (black) - 15$ PS2: Final Fantasy X (black) - 10$ Final Fantasy X-2 (black) - 5$ Final Fantasy XII (black) - 10$ Shadow of the Colossus (black) - 15$ God of War 1 (GH) - 3$ God of War 2 (black) - 3$ Enter the Matrix (black) - 3$ Metal Gear Solid 2 (black) - 3$ Okami (GH) - 20$ Kingdom Hearts 1 (case jacket is damaged) - 7$ Kingdom Hearts 2 (GH) - 10$