Quote from: LMNO on January 12, 2007, 12:47:40 PM
If y'all don't stop bugging me, it'll end with the protagonist just going back to the office. Case closed.
Does begging count as bugging?
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: LMNO on January 12, 2007, 12:47:40 PM
If y'all don't stop bugging me, it'll end with the protagonist just going back to the office. Case closed.
Quote from: triple zero on January 12, 2007, 01:17:32 PM
hey, you could probably do some interesting drum-computing with that new nintendo Wii wand thingy.
though on the other hand, you don't need immersion VR, you can just use an electronic drumkit. works very nice, you are actually drumming but on some pressure sensitive sensor plates instead. you get different sounds depending on where you hit, how hard you hit etc.
since output is digital, recording will be clean.
physical models aren't that hard to build. i implemented myself a variation Karplus-Strong guitar snare algo, some friends got a pretty good hoeboe (sp?) going [it helped that one of them was a fanatic hoeboe player].
except for the Chinese gong. some guy wrote a masters thesis about that, it's pretty much impossible to model such a huge metal (nonlinear) plate efficiently.
but why settle for existing elements? you could emulate instruments that would be physically unplayable (for ex, you'd need three arms, one of which would have to be two meters long, stuff like that).
ahh back in the days when i programmed that stuff. i couldn't and still can't write any decent tune/melody, but i coded some small bits that created some kickass bleeps/bass/weirdness.
Quote from: LMNO on January 12, 2007, 12:37:41 PMQuote from: Jenne on January 11, 2007, 10:21:03 PM
So if you were aware that every word you say had a certain impact on who you said it to on the internet, you'd behave differently, uncontrollably, without knowing it. And that, to me, sets a metatextual reference that truly devalues alot of the worth of this sort of exchange between people.
This is why Bella doesn't talk about magic on the internets anymore. She knows what kind of people are listening.
Kind of sad, in a way.
Quote from: triple zero on January 12, 2007, 12:35:48 PM
so what, you cannot make smooth sounding cleanroom recorded whatever guitar rock music without a million dollar budget? well that sucks, but as soon as anything becomes significantly larger than a small group of people can produce, you will have a Machine to deal with.
Quote from: Felix Mackay on January 12, 2007, 08:40:02 AM
I just started reading this, LMNO.  It's good.
Quote from: hunter s.durden on January 12, 2007, 09:04:44 AM
I'm tripping balls right now
Quote from: Jenne on January 12, 2007, 06:40:44 AMQuote from: SillyCybin on January 11, 2007, 11:15:27 PM
One word - "Emotion".
Troof. Music has to reach your gut to be good. Otherwise, it's just kinda noisy.
Quote from: Jenne on January 11, 2007, 10:25:51 PMQuote from: DJRubberducky on January 11, 2007, 08:50:21 PMQuote from: hunter s.durden on January 11, 2007, 06:05:56 PMMy music taste is varied and random. I can't get in any kind of music discussion because my taste seems arbitrary. Words generally take the importance though.
Heh - my opinion on it is that music can stand on its own without words, but if it's got words, then those are what will receive my attention. There are parts of Les Miserables that irk the snot out of me *kleenex* 'cause it's two song lines going at the same time on top of each other, and I can't follow them both.
Odd thing with my brain...if I want to engage my brain without distracting it (like, totally background music), it HAS to be instrumental. Otherwise I want to listen to the words instead of focusing on whatever else. I have to turn down the radio in my truck if I want to have a serious conversation with someone, too.
I'm somewhat like that, but I find that if the music is truly shitty and I can't understand the words, then fuck that and I don't want to ever listen to it.
Afghan music ftl.
Quote from: LMNO on January 11, 2007, 07:30:50 PM
Any culture does that.
Go up to somebody on the street and reference the Barstool Experiment.
They won't know what you're talking about, but we will.
Quote from: Jenne on January 11, 2007, 06:29:50 PMQuote from: SillyCybin on January 11, 2007, 06:21:04 PMQuote from: Jenne on January 11, 2007, 06:18:30 PMQuote from: SillyCybin on January 11, 2007, 06:17:07 PMQuote from: Jenne on January 11, 2007, 06:15:50 PM
It's a popular iconic theme in American gestalt, really. Like the Disney of families, I guess.
I get a lot of these but when I don't I usually end up reading posts over and over for clues.
Americans do make rather a lot about their icons, don't we? I think that's a particular barstool dilemma that won't be conquered...we'll probably just get bloody heads.
I wouldn't say any more than UK. We got our fair share of icons over here.
Please to be naming a few. For you UK'ers rarely drop them as often as we do in our writing.
Quote from: Jenne on January 11, 2007, 06:18:30 PMQuote from: SillyCybin on January 11, 2007, 06:17:07 PMQuote from: Jenne on January 11, 2007, 06:15:50 PM
It's a popular iconic theme in American gestalt, really. Like the Disney of families, I guess.
I get a lot of these but when I don't I usually end up reading posts over and over for clues.
Americans do make rather a lot about their icons, don't we? I think that's a particular barstool dilemma that won't be conquered...we'll probably just get bloody heads.
Quote from: Jenne on January 11, 2007, 06:15:50 PM
It's a popular iconic theme in American gestalt, really. Like the Disney of families, I guess.