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Powerwolf- "Preachers of the Night" (album) Powerwolf- "Blood of the Saints" (album) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWbfztup-6Q Just found out about these guys less than a week ago. I already have their "Preachers of the Night" and "Blood of the Saints" albums, with "Lupus Dei" on the way. Power metal, hokey lyrical concepts (werewolves, demons, etc.), cheesy from start to finish... and I love it. The album art for their last two albums is also particularly cool.

Having listened to some of the songs, there's a definite Devin Townsend vibe to it (which is a good thing, as Devin rocks). When I get some cash, I may have to pick up this album.

I know people keep mentioning that they got this or that with a student discount. I feel I should mention, that the so-called Student/Education/Academnic editions of those software packages aren't supposed to be used for profit. Unless the licensing setup has changed in recent years, that stipulation is part of why students get such a big discount. That means if you want to use that software for profit/business, you gotta pay the full price to get a full license. Maybe it's changed with Adobe, but that's how it was when I got student discounts on software during college.

These are two words I don't believe I've put side by side... ever.

Frank Miller consulting? Guess that means the line, "I'm the Goddamn Batman" is going to be in there somewhere.

After Effects is, in essence, a bigger, more robust Flash-like program. You can do less complicated edits to video and audio, you can add text, images, create and move objects around, animate objects (especially in newer versions), apply many visual and some audio effects, and it's all done in a pretty easy to follow timeline setup that shares similarities with Flash. It can also export video (avi, mov, mp4, etc.), flash (swf and flv), and some other formats. It'll never replace real video/audio editors, but it does do the job well if you're not needing anything overly complex to be done (though if you're really good with it, you can likely get it to do some pretty complex things in that area).

All it'll cost is some time and bandwidth to find out, so it couldn't hurt to try.

Guess that depends on how new your Mac or PC is. For someone like me, who's still using their 2004 PC, that stuff runs just fine. I'm sure the slightly older Mac OSes probably wouldn't have much trouble with them, unless compatibility took a shit from whatever was the current OS in 2005, to the ones that came after them.

You can get After Effects 7 and Adobe Premier Pro 2 for free from Adobe themselves at the moment (along with CS2... well, everything). You need an account, but once you make one, the only thing standing between you and 3 DVD's worth of Adobe software is hitting "I agree." Yes, Adobe has a "Do you promise you owned the original software?" disclaimer, but come on... even they know the people who downloaded that stuff didn't own it. All that software's from 2005, so it's already unsupported (the page with the "I agree: button even says so). And yes, all the software has a serial number listed to put in once it's installed. I'd post a link, but due to the "Do you promise you used to own it?" disclaimer, I don't know how OCR's link police will react. So...

It'll never happen, because how each one tries to do it drives the others nuts, and then they undo it. Argle- I believe the answer is NO

Do it! DO IT! YOU AIN'T GOT A HAIR ON YOUR ASS IF YOU DON'T DO IT! I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU TO DO IT!

Damn it, I thought this was going to be about some kind of Mario/Transformers cross over. GAWD! **storms off**

Alice in Chains- "Jar of Flies" (album)

Sum n00b.

Like we expect a reviewer to base their review of a game on having played through it, people expect her to base her claims in this video series on having actually played through the games she uses as examples. It would show that she saw all of the game's elements (story, visual scenes, character types, etc.), read through the manuals (which often contain more story elements... especially with older games), and experienced it all for herself to get the full context of the game's events. This would give a greater understanding of the trope example within the game, as it would show if it's an incidental one that doesn't represent the game and its content as a whole, or a truly toxic one that the whole game runs with. It would give her arguments via examples a better sense of being informed, because she'd know if any parts of the rest of the game she's using contradict her statements. So in that sense, it is important, and does matter... especially with a touchy and volatile subject like this. Now, I don't know if she pulled a cliff notes on her games, played through them all, or did a bit of both. As such, I'm not going to defend or accuse her, because that wouldn't be fair. That said, "Did she actually play those games completely?" isn't an unfair question to ask at the moment, given what's been shown, and what it potentially alludes to (namely, her possibly cherry-picking only what works for her argument, without ever actually playing the game to get its full scope and context).

She'll address it after the final video comes out in 2024

Enjoy your ulcer when she starts being approached by boys in about 14 years

Yep. Definitely Spawn. Yep.