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I think it's safe to say that any strategy that results in you losing a game and ragequitting is considered cheese?

Yeah, 1/1/1 is pretty common. I enjoyed watching MaDFroG vs. TheLittleOne to see how the Zerg player fended off the 1/1/1 and the inevitable Hellion harass. Watching that invitational series has taught me as a Zerg player to build spine crawlers by your mineral line vs. Terran.

Fight cheese with cheese! That's the way.

This. Almost every "cheese" tactic is defendable. From 6-pools to Terran command-centre liftoff-behind-rocks strategies, they're all defendable. One time I lost against a Terran player who lifted their base off behind rocks at the start and then built banshees. When I scouted at about 12 supply I couldn't find his base and was all confused. The game still lasted about 15 minutes. Another time I was Terran, built too slow, and lost to a 3 zealot rush. But that is totally my fault. Um there was another game where I eventually lost to a Terran player. He tried to cheese me by building a barracks right outside my base, but I scouted him early and killed him. Actually I might have won that one, I can't remember now. Some people tell me that in bronze league, basically all you see is cheese because most players don't know how to properly defend against attacks. Also, most bronze league players are very passive and depending on how passive they are, it might make early harass difficult. I played a ZvZ last night. The enemy zerg player turtled big time, building like 3 spine crawlers and 3 spore crawlers all inside one base and I was unable to scout him out well. He went straight to mutas against my roach/zergling army and destroyed all of my workers (I was down to two, and had converted about 4 of them to spore cralwers). I eventually won because he never expanded out of his main but he had tons and tons of static defenses and rarely tried to attack, which made the game drag on a bit. Day[9] generally advises in bronze and silver leagues to focus up on macro, because in these leagues players are passive and don't like to attack, so the game ends up favouring whoever has the largest army.

I'm glad that a few people derived enjoyment from my track too. I was debating fixing some stuff after the extension came out, but at the same time I didn't want to sacrifice my early upload time either (nor did I really have the energy to pick the track up after so long of not working on it).

I need to eat more Korean food or something to increase my battle clairvoyance. I lost every one of my matches this weekend.

In addition they will ask you at least twice if everything that is in the video, including music and video content, is yours and that you own the rights to the content. As you don't own the rights to OC ReMix songs that aren't your own you shouldn't be using such a video to generate advertising revenue.

Yeah I might not be able to make it, if someone would log it I would appreciate it

If there's 18-24 songs then that would be fewer songs than the average one-hour compo

No time given either?

http://ocremix.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=39 This is where you'd be best off proposing or finding people for collaboration. Good luck,

That doesn't leave you with too much cash left over for software/samples. Most of the pro software (Cubase, Reason, Logic Studio) cost a few hundreds so keep that in mind when choosing a computer. Good monitoring can also run you up some money (and I do recommend good studio monitors, or high-quality headphones). You can save money if you go for Logic Express or other "lite" versions of the software though. I think Fishy, Rozovian, and I all use some breed of Logic

Is there a way to make VSTis work at all on Mac OS X if the binaries are compiled for Windows? Most reputable companies distribute everything as AU now so it's become less of an issue. Also I agree with Fishy. Make sure that you're also happy with whatever OS you end up using too, since Mac OS X and Windows work differently, and that you get a machine that is going to fit your needs for the duration you own it for. Is that $3000 for the computer alone, or is that including software, monitoring equipment, samples, etc? As for software, huge swaths of music making stuff is cross-platform now, with the PC having a tiny edge in compatibility when it comes to obscure plugins and a few products (ex: Cakewalk stuff, FLStudio). A huge number of plugins and software are cross-platform now, including Reason, Reaper, and Cubase.

Yeah, there was a Batboon. That does not nearly compare to "Abbot Jack of Alltrades" who turns into the evil "Master of Nu'un" or the quest to go to the "Quarantomb" because that's where you have to seal away a disease. Every game has a collection of a few silly enemies and silly situations but this was not a "staple" of the series until very recently. Dragon Quest I & II were made for the Game Boy Color/Original, and Dragon Quest III was remade for Game Boy Color. GBA was incorrectly used by me as a blanket term for that generation of Game Boys since I used my GBA by that time to play most of my GB games.

It didn't in the NES days, at least not in the English translations. They only really started recently with the GBA remakes IIRC. I don't even remember the DQ I & II and DQ III remakes for the Game Boy having so many puns.

Congratulations on your work Taucer. Don't forget about us too quickly though

WAIT A SEC didn't I already wish this guy a happy birthday like a week ago????? WHAT IS THIS

This game has the worst puns in the history of video gaming.

Seems that the editorial writer actually thinks that the issue overall is quite overblown. In other words FOX NEWS IS ON OUR SIDE HERE

I spent way more than $100 during my stay. My sister's husband was telling me how Vegas has slowly been shifting its image away from the land of the $2 buffets and free drinks, because they've realised (shortly after the opening of the Wynn) that the economic recession hit hard the little common guy, but not the CEOs and other rich executives who are likely to want to spend $200 on a bottle of wine and $500 a night for a hotel room. Also I totally didn't meet Salluz. Totally missed him

I had a teacher and he taught me with the assistance of Alfred's All-in-One Piano Course for Adults. http://www.amazon.ca/Alfreds-Basic-Adult-All-Course/dp/0882848186 However the book is meant for a pure beginner and might be a little too simple for you if you have more than a year or two of previous piano experience. I also recommend, overall, to get a teacher though for maximum "skill recovery".

Firewire connections use less CPU than USB connections, meaning that your latency will decrease with respect to recording audio and streaming samples from a hard drive.

I'd play in a tournament, time permitting. I'm Arcana 456, I can't remember my division rank but I'm in Bronze and maybe somewhere between 99 and 80th.

Don't you dare knock Day of the Tentacle. It's about fifty times better than the original Maniac Mansion. DoTT was an epic game.

I bought this game and I played "visiting worlds" with my girlfriend for a while. It is probably more rewarding when you get later into the game to have a lot of people who are grouped up together; we basically unpackaged the game and then played as fast as possible until we could unlock multiplayer. Fortunately it's really fast, I think we were playing for about an hour and a half before multiplayer play was opened up. I'm still way behind overall, I don't even have class change yet, but the game is quite fun. It has a very old school charm and a lot of story simplicity that takes most of the good elements of old NES and SNES RPGs and rolls them together.