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I'm still hoping to sell an Echo MIA MIDI PCI sound card, works with Mac or Windows. Great audio interface for anyone starting out with music and is building a desktop. $40 OBO

Well a lot of people were busy with PAX so we'll see if that'll happen later on. I hope it does both because Darkesword made a good track and because it'll bring this album some more attention.

I am finding that there were a couple of things that improved my Starcraft 2 game immensely. I read this from an article inspired by Day[9] who is a pretty well-known video blogger for Starcraft and Starcraft 2. These are applicable for bronze league (and probably silver/gold as well). Number 1: Concentrate on macro. Don't worry about how good you are with manipulating those units. Simply concentrate on getting the larger army up, faster. Be sure to expand out to new bases and to keep building units. A lot of games that don't end in 10 minutes due to rushes in Bronze simply come down to "who has the bigger army?" Number 2: Watch the minimap. If you can develop a skill to keep one eye on the minimap and the other eye on the main screen, do that. Because you will realise just how much you can see. People in bronze/silver often don't watch the map and you can fly guys by for harassing their expansions, or, interestingly enough, when the enemy launches an attack they'll walk right by your units at a Xel'naga watch tower because they simply did an attack-move to the base and didn't decide to clear the towers first. So you get to see exactly what type of army they're bringing to you. This is why it's important to scout, though admittedly most new players will scout and not really know what to look for. In this case though I recommend keeping units at each tower simply to watch for the enemy's movement, and if you see them move it'll allow you to get up the right type of defenses for the army they have.

this thread has taken a turn for the worst or, for the Off-topic

Why do you WTF and Heads will Roll at the idea of someone like Lady Gaga or Justin Beiber being compared to Michael Jackson? They are successful musicians who are young and have a lot of skill in singing, dancing, and putting on a show - isn't that a huge start?

I was talking to someone online about this album actually, he is in my World of Warcraft guild but doesn't know much about OC ReMix or even Final Fantasy X. This made me smile though: 11:07:36 Goel whispers: that last track is really heavy on the minimalism

Get on it dude!!!!! There are going to be many people who will play Duke Nukem Forever if it comes out, simply to say that they've played it. That I really don't doubt, but I think the question is if it'll ever make back the 25 million or whatever that was spent on it (and that's before inflation!) In a way, if it does come out it'll be like... the death of a legend.

But he has a good point. All the people who would have wanted to buy this game wanted it about ten years ago. All of that action-hero stuff was awesome when you were a teenager who couldn't even drive - you got to go to strip clubs, piss in urinals, and slap hos around. All of the people who knew Duke Nukem 3D are now married with kids. All of those new teenagers? They don't even know who Duke Nukem is, other than a game that'll never come out... how do you convince them that they should follow Duke Nukem around and not like, some other ball-busting hero?

We're not an official OCR project (nor were we ever really in need of a project thread on OCR really). This thread is a nice history of osmeo f the earlier conceptions of the project including the whole "dare" that Liontamer posted a while ago. OCR a force to be reckoned with!

Sweet sweet, we got the community bump as Brandon kindly pointed out to me on the Facebook link. I made a Facebook page for this though to be honest I really don't know if I did this right http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Hurry-A-Final-Fantasy-Impossible-ReMix-Album/156376357712085?ref=ts

This unofficial project has been completed and is available here! http://hurryffx.kngi.org This album came along as a result of this: http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=28108 And then a bunch of musicians took it and ran with it. Thanks to my co-director The Author; our musicians Darkesword, AaronD, Zeroboros, Swann, Chernabouge, Nintenjoe 64, Rozovian, Brandon Strader, The Coop, Gario; and our artist Suzume for coming together and delivering this album. The concept behind this album: Also if you would like to stream some of the tracks we set up a YouTube channel for the project too: http://www.youtube.com/user/HurryFFX Enjoy!

You've been posted. THE PROJECT IS HERE! http://hurryffx.kngi.org

Sorry, fixed. Obviously I don't know these titles well, this was quite new information to me. Moseph's post was really informative, I didn't know who wrote half of those songs or when they were made until I went through his post. A lot of people say, "WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW THE WHO??!?!!" but I'm like, "Why should I have?" Everyone plays the song, but no one tells you who it's by or when it was made. You simply hear it and everyone assumes it is common knowledge.

Advertising and sponsorship, maybe? But it also depends on your business model - if you're looking for a niche, core market, or if you're preferring a larger market. Since I'm not one of your stakeholders I can't really say anything about what you should do

If you want to gain some traction through mindshare, I would consider making the "Free account" as prominent as the paid versions so that people sign up, get hooked, and consider paying. I almost hit the "close" button on my browser until I noticed that yes, you can actually sign up for a free account.

I remembered incorrectly and fixed it.

So here's something that a lot of people don't really realise about me: I don't really know a lot of music. There are a lot of songs out there that people take for granted, I think - for example there are songs out there by The Who for example that are referenced in movies and other pop culture, but I don't know about - why? Because I don't consciously know what music is done by The Who. However - if you play back the song for me there's a pretty high chance that I've heard it before and just didn't know who did it. So I kind of wanted to ask you guys - what might these songs be? Those songs that I've heard, but don't know by name? I've got a few to start you guys off with: "The Dragon: Bruce Lee Story" soundtrack, heard in many movie trailers "Rule, Britannia!", classic patriotic song for Britain: "Hail to the Chief", the song that is played for the President of the USA. Educate me, especially in the ways of pop music, since I am woefully ignorant of many "famous" rock songs from the 60s and 70s.

Video games taught me that you can sit down in mid air.

You know, I've always wondered in most RPGs what it is that makes you, the player, so engaging that when you LOOK at people they start blabbing about all kinds of relevant information. No, "Hey, what's up?" or "Hello, my name is ___" from the person... it's always like, FACE -> TALK and then suddenly: "Shrine of Isis is to the south."

You can gain a lot of physical and magical power by beating up Level 5 boars repeatedly.

Moseph wins this thread

He died in a boating accident a few years ago.

If you really need MIDI I/O later on you can probably get one of these: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Uno.html Just letting you know that you're not entirely out of options if you decide to get an interface without MIDI I/O.

I faced a 6-pool last night actually. Fortunately I scouted him with my 10th drone and noticed early on (I was doing a standard 13-pool opening). He rushed me with 4 zerglings and I used my drones to fight him off. My spawning pool wasn't even done when he first attacked and by the time his zerglings got to my base I had only started to make my first zerglings. But, by the time my first two zerglings came out all except 1 zergling was dead; my queen appeared shortly after. Then I basically kept on rushing him with handfuls of zerglings and roaches until he died. Since he was so committed to 6-pool he couldn't expand, I just parked all of my forces inside his ramp.

Wait, so what does this mean? Let's hear it