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DBD's game still needs some players so everyone should get on board.
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Sep 18, 2015 01:52
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Quidnose posted:I'm having a hard day and I think i'm gonna reorganize my record collection. Wish me luck mafia thread. Man, organizing things is the best. When I was a kid I had about 300 sailor moon cards that I put in those card sheets in a binder, and at least once a month I would take them all out and reorganize them based on whatever criteria tickled my fancy that day. It was good times.
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Sep 18, 2015 01:55
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My mom just called. My step-sister had a baby  It was pretty emotional because my step-dad passed away almost a year ago, so he missed it, but the baby is completely adorable so it's bittersweet.
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Sep 18, 2015 03:05
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DuckHuntDog posted:DBD's game still needs some players so everyone should get on board.
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Sep 18, 2015 03:11
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Hey, I've talked to you guys about some of my game design stuff in the past, and I've got a new project I've been pecking away at. (It's actually why I haven't been in the thread as much recently. It's been eating most of my free times.) Kind of a love letter to NES RPGs, especially the Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest series. I've got a lot of half-baked ideas, but no real idea how many of them are any good, so if anyone wanted to fill out my lovely survey I threw together about it, that'd be rad as gently caress.
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Sep 18, 2015 05:03
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Quidnose posted:If anyone likes jazz, I am listening to this album and it's pretty wonderful: I really like listening to jazz especially and mainly things pre-1960, but I know next to nothing about the musicians, their albums, songs, composers whatever, which is odd because I know that info pretty well when it comes to the rock music I listen to. For example, I love the song All of Me, but I don't know who wrote it, or when, and how many covers have been done or what the most notable cover was.
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Sep 18, 2015 05:05
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Asiina posted:Man, organizing things is the best. When I was a kid I had about 300 sailor moon cards that I put in those card sheets in a binder, and at least once a month I would take them all out and reorganize them based on whatever criteria tickled my fancy that day. It was good times. Such as what? I love the pointless rules we make for ourselves. Poison Mushroom posted:Hey, I've talked to you guys about some of my game design stuff in the past, and I've got a new project I've been pecking away at. (It's actually why I haven't been in the thread as much recently. It's been eating most of my free times.) Kind of a love letter to NES RPGs, especially the Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest series. I've got a lot of half-baked ideas, but no real idea how many of them are any good, so if anyone wanted to fill out my lovely survey I threw together about it, that'd be rad as gently caress. Sure! Funnily enough I've been packing up things in my old bedroom and I came across the blueprints for a game my best friend in middle school and I wanted to develop on RPG maker, this means plot, items, stats, everything I had charted out on excel. That was amusing.
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Sep 18, 2015 05:07
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Such as what? I love the pointless rules we make for ourselves. I'd organize them by character or by season of the series or some of them had this little heart border and some had a star border and some had no border. Or in order of which ones I liked the most. Almost all had pictures on both sides, so sometimes I'd put the back pictures together in any of those combinations. Plus the sheets only held 9 and I'd want a page to be perfect so I'd try to find various groups of 9 that I could make. I still have the cards and probably could do it all again.
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Sep 18, 2015 06:12
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I actually pulled it off the bookshelf and took some pictures for an imgur album (which I'll just link since it's a lot of pictures and they are big). I totally forgot I had all those DBZ and Gundam Wing cards, but they were numbered so it never felt right reorganizing them. There's lots more pages, but I think these highlight my insane system of organizing them.
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Sep 18, 2015 06:38
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My organization is mostly done! Catalogued all the records I was behind on and they are now by genre instead of alphabetical (they are alphabetical within the genres). My girlfriend had the great idea of getting some paint stirrers and labeling the genres so I can still stick them all in a row together on my bookshelf instead of having these weird genre splotches. This is the perfect solution and my life will be revolutionized. I listened to a Lawrence Welk hymn album to start while I was organizing which was very pleasant. I have a weird fascination and love of terrible easy listening albums. If I had to pick a favorite record, Magnus, it would probably be Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. I can return to that over and over again. But there are so many good records, and so many beyond what I physically own. My plex server is a glut of music. Music is nice~
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Sep 18, 2015 07:02
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Quidnose posted:My organization is mostly done! Catalogued all the records I was behind on and they are now by genre instead of alphabetical (they are alphabetical within the genres). What if I said...music stinks and is bad!
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Sep 18, 2015 07:07
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You can say "I don't really 'buy in' to that whole breathing thing" but I think we all know what the truth is~
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Sep 18, 2015 07:10
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Has anyone else listened to the Chrono Trigger arrange album? It's jazz influenced and really good if you are a massive nerd like I am.
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Sep 18, 2015 07:15
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Quidnose posted:You can say "I don't really 'buy in' to that whole breathing thing" but I think we all know what the truth is~ Breathing is pretty pedestrian IMO.
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Sep 18, 2015 07:26
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100YrsofAttitude posted:For example, I love the song All of Me, but I don't know who wrote it, or when, and how many covers have been done or what the most notable cover was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icQz5GIkDuA You can generally use wikipedia as a starting-point resource on things that are Very Notable. It won't always be the most-well-organized sort of thing, but it's at least got some names you can poke at and research further, which is where you start learning the real interesting stuff. It'll definitely tell you who wrote it, though. I am always looking to explore new areas in my listening, and while I've got kind of a very basic grounding in jazz, thanks to a couple college courses and a few interesting records I found at Goodwill, it's really an entirely new world, if just because there's so much of it. Like, here. Miles Davis. Basically the most well-known jazz trumpeter of the 20th century. Recorded Kind of Blue, released in 1959, quite probably the biggest-selling jazz album of all time, and often cited as the greatest single jazz album of all time. It was his thirty-third LP as a bandleader, not counting compilation recordings. All of these had been released in the previous eight years. caveat: twelve of those were in the obscure, discontinued 10" LP format, which held closer to a half-hour of music, but nevertheless, they still each required the band to be in session in a recording studio and were released individually. Still, 21 12" LPs from 1955-59? Insane. By the discography I'm referencing right now to make this post, which does not properly include live albums and does not even list them correctly chronologically, another reason that trying to study jazz is infuriating, let's just say Davis would produce 58 studio albums between 1951 and his death in 1991. Let's compare that to some other prolific bands that I happen to listen to: Grateful Dead: 22 studio or non-retrospectively-released live albums Rush: 29 of the same Robyn Hitchcock: 28 the Mountain Goats: 15 studio albums, 6 cassette-only albums and a slew of EPs, single-only b-sides and the like Parliament, Funkadelic, various permutations of the P-Funk space empire, also discounting side projects such as the Brides of Funkenstein or Bootsy's Rubber Band: 38 [10 (P) + 17 (F) + 11 (George Clinton solo or P-F)] And when you consider most of the people who have played as sidemen in Davis' groups have any number of groups and sessions as leader of their own, it becomes a thing one can easily spend a lifetime exploring maybe a half a percent of the whole. And this is ONE GUY. People've been recording various permutations of jazz and dance band music nearly as long as there's been commercial recordings for sale. Forgettaboutit
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Sep 18, 2015 07:38
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Not to mention that during the course of those LPs you're describing Davis INVENTED loving EVERY GENRE OF JAZZ BASICALLY. He went from bebop to inventing cool with "birth of the cool" to inventing modal to dabbling in stuff with Coltrane and then going off into some free jazz and then coming back and doing his own thing again and yeah it's just crazy. I pick up a Batles album and I know I'm going to hear some Beatles even if they changed as much as they did over the course of their long tenure together, going from pretty standard beginning rock and roll to the crazy multitracking poo poo they invented too. That doesn't even hold a candle to how much jazz changed from, like, 1955-1965. It's nuts. This is not meant in any way to be a definitive description of what actually happened but it all happened so fast that it can be prettttyy overwhelming.
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Sep 18, 2015 07:48
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Also now I want to spend all my time and money tracking down and buying obscure 10" Miles Davis LPs, thanks a loving lot Allen.
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Sep 18, 2015 07:49
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Quidnose posted:Not to mention that during the course of those LPs you're describing Davis INVENTED loving EVERY GENRE OF JAZZ BASICALLY. Yah, it's seriously insane. I didn't want to lecture any more than I already was, I just wanted to give a basic example of the sort of output a jazz musician can have when they don't OD in their 20s. http://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-The-Prestige-10-Inch-LP-Collection-Volume-One/release/6354729 <---They're not original pressings, obviously, but this has the first few 10"s he was on.
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Sep 18, 2015 08:25
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One of the really genuinely cool things about the internet is that people can easily find out about stuff like this now. They can find out where these genres of music actually come from, instead of just assuming that rock was invented by Elvis and the Beatles.
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Sep 18, 2015 09:01
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I'm poor so when I go to the record store I bring ten dollars and buy a bunch of classical records for a buck apiece. Notable exceptions: Bruce Springsteen, whose albums I've bought at full price a couple times, Dan Fogelberg, whose albums are generally in the dollar section as well, and a couple random records like Superman & Other Disco Hits. But yeah I have all these classical records because they are cheeeeap and the last time I went, I found soooo much -- Wagner's Tristan & Isolde, Ravel's Bolero, some Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff concertos, an album of lute music and more. I think there's a decent jazz section Quid, if you want me to keep my eyes open for anything let me know.
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Sep 18, 2015 11:00
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Asiina posted:I actually pulled it off the bookshelf and took some pictures for an imgur album (which I'll just link since it's a lot of pictures and they are big). Nice. I used to have pokemon cards years ago but I unloaded them off to an interested party. I had a decent amount considering I had never bought a pack in my life. CCKeane posted:What if I said...music stinks and is bad! I'm a fairly tolerant person, but this is one of those things I don't get about people. I really can't comprehend a person who doesn't like music. But yeah Wren and Quid have shown why jazz is both awesome and so confusing at times. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed about my rudimentary knowledge about the genre (note that the stuff I mainly like is the early poppy jazz and stops right when Miles Davis really broke into the scene).
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Sep 18, 2015 14:47
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Poison Mushroom posted:Hey, I've talked to you guys about some of my game design stuff in the past, and I've got a new project I've been pecking away at. (It's actually why I haven't been in the thread as much recently. It's been eating most of my free times.) Kind of a love letter to NES RPGs, especially the Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest series. I've got a lot of half-baked ideas, but no real idea how many of them are any good, so if anyone wanted to fill out my lovely survey I threw together about it, that'd be rad as gently caress. Bullshit survey: complete
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Sep 18, 2015 14:57
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Love you too, guys.
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Sep 18, 2015 15:01
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did it up
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Sep 18, 2015 15:05
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I'm someone who performs music on the regular but almost never, ever listens to it on their own. It's not even that I don't enjoy it, I just don't have the drive to listen to it/get bored only listening to music. I wonder how common my, uhh, haha, ailment is.
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Sep 18, 2015 15:08
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I have a friend that is like that. He will listen to an album exactly once and then is unlikely to ever listen to it again, and it's hard enough to even get him to do that first listen cause he'd rather just make what he wants to hear
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Sep 18, 2015 15:16
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GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:I'm someone who performs music on the regular but almost never, ever listens to it on their own. It's not even that I don't enjoy it, I just don't have the drive to listen to it/get bored only listening to music. I wonder how common my, uhh, haha, ailment is. That's fine. Music is somehow still part of your life. It's just those people who don't listen to anything ever that say they don't get music. It confuses me completely.
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Sep 18, 2015 15:36
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I don't get musicians who don't listen to music, it's like saying "I'm a novelist but I don't like reading"
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Sep 18, 2015 15:49
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100YrsofAttitude posted:That's fine. Music is somehow still part of your life. It's just those people who don't listen to anything ever that say they don't get music. It confuses me completely. I dated a guy like this once, it confused the everliving poo poo out of me. He liked novelty bands and comedy music that was pretty low on artistry, and tolerated other music to an extent but was happiest in silence and would get actively annoyed if I played music for more than like 20 minutes or if it was like, mezzo forte.
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Sep 18, 2015 15:52
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BTW musicnerds, go listen to the album Taranta Project, it's so good.
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Sep 18, 2015 15:56
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Look Under The Rock posted:I don't get musicians who don't listen to music, it's like saying "I'm a novelist but I don't like reading" I don't think it is. Music is a form of expression and while many musicians draw influence from a variety of places, I don't think it is a requirement. I think listening to music all the time is dull and, honestly, so is performing/creating it half of the time. I think people who say you have to listen to music to perform it are either a.) overstating the influence of other music in their own or b.) imitators using music as a way of "fitting in" which I have distaste for. I, however, understand that everyone is an individual and approach life/music in different ways so that I cannot say for certain why one person does this while another does that. Of course, what do you define as listening to music? At work there's always bland pop music in the background that I can't stand and thus tune out and when I'm at practice/out at shows I hear music too. I'm more saying listening to it when you're, say, in the car, at the gym, showering, laying at home on your bed or couch etc etc. Those are the times where I find myself never listening. I think it's because I have trouble not actually doing stuff, you know what I mean?
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Sep 18, 2015 15:59
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Anybody want to take a look at a setup for me? Thinking of modding a game and decided to throw together a role madness thing.
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Sep 18, 2015 16:47
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sure, shoot it my way
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Sep 18, 2015 16:50
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Last night sucked. Football is a terrible sport!
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Sep 18, 2015 16:55
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Kumbamontu posted:sure, shoot it my way sent it over tell me how broken it is
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Sep 18, 2015 16:57
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cop who helped fake tupac's death comes out and says he still alive. http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tupac-still-alive-retired-police-6467534
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Sep 18, 2015 17:40
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BottleKnight posted:Last night sucked. Football is a terrible sport! I'm so sorry dude 
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Sep 18, 2015 17:46
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BottleKnight posted:Last night sucked. Football is a terrible sport! Time for Knile to shine imo
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Sep 18, 2015 17:50
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chaoslord posted:Time for Knile to shine imo I think that's reaching a bit. Sure, JC had a costly fumble, but he's still the Chiefs offense lol
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