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Imipolex G · 2012-05-08 19:45:25

And, time to back up the stuff folder.

Haven · 2012-05-08 21:14:51

The light keeps turning green, but literally no movement is happening. No, wait, as I typed that the light turned green again and the bus moved forward several inches.

Good thing it has air conditioning, at least.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-10 01:21:44

I'm glad I'm a fairly successful Business Intelligence Analyst...otherwise I'd be filled with jealousy for my brothers work.

...I really should buy a couple of his shirts.

Anonus · 2012-05-10 01:24:30

i feel jealousy towards people with artistic talent and motivation.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-10 01:25:57

He's decided drawing would be "his thing" for several years now.

Though, he has a degree in Graphic Design.

Smugleaf · 2012-05-10 09:41:33

I have "Connect" (the opening song of Madoka) in my ear and it refuses to leave.

It's not so bad, since I actually like it.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 00:38:03

Watching Ranbo First Blood Part II.

This movie starts out OK and turns into mindless action REALLY fast.

The Vietnamese apparently make their boats out of gasoline and flint, for starters.

And there's some really convoluted political things going on.

Also, some evil Russians showed up.

Rambo apparently has these arrows, too.

Anyhow, Ranbo First Blood is perhaps one of the greatest American films ever made, this movie is shit.

lee4hmz · 2012-05-11 00:39:14

Gasoline? I dunno, man, I heard the really big fireballs are propane. </missing-the-point>

PlutoniumFist · 2012-05-11 00:39:29

First Blood Part II is notable in that it has the first robot-American actress in a supporting role. She plays Rambo's love interest.

Imipolex G · 2012-05-11 00:40:17

Justice doesn't like explosions. :(

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 00:40:53

Good God, she was obviously fluent in English and just being told to speak in broken English.

It was painful.

"Justice doesn't like explosions. "

I do, I just like my explosions not to blow away suspension of disbelief at the same time.

lee4hmz · 2012-05-11 00:45:07

-IMDbs it-

Julia Nickson

...

Co

WAIT. That's the hot teacher from Sidekicks! OF BLOODY COURSE SHE CAN SPEAK ENGLISH.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 00:51:35

Also, there are evil Americans in this movie.

I guess it's some sort of political statement about Vietnam?

Rambo has A CHOOPA DOOL against one of the evilest looking helicopter pilots I have ever seen.

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Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 01:05:30

It'd have been funnier if saying that you'd rather stay in prison just ends in a "Game Over" screen.

Or a rock-breaking mini-game.

Also, I don't recall Rambo fighting a floating skull in the movie...maybe it's suppose to represent his past memories of fallen comrades haunting his psyche.

Imipolex G · 2012-05-11 01:06:17

Y'know, despite what I said earlier, I've never seen a Rambo movie.

Princess Alice · 2012-05-11 01:06:39

squid you made me go look up the avgn episode about that game

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 01:09:14

^^ The FIRST one is good. I haven't watched III or "Rambo", new new one, but have both on blu-ray.

Imipolex G · 2012-05-11 01:23:06

I want to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey again.

Unknown · 2012-05-11 01:23:14

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PlutoniumFist · 2012-05-11 01:23:43

First Blood is good. Everything else is entertaining.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 01:23:57

^^^ I watched it once.

It bored the heck out of me. :/

Imipolex G · 2012-05-11 01:24:22

I have the DVD. I just gotta pop it in and trip out.

Misery · 2012-05-11 01:39:43

I hate my life. No joke.

Imipolex G · 2012-05-11 01:40:09

Well, now, that's a familiar feeling.

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Misery · 2012-05-11 01:41:27

:(

Smugleaf · 2012-05-11 04:44:18

I was actually four or five when I saw Rambo movies. Since then, I never saw one again. The only thing I can remember is a scene in which Rambo gets cut with a knife across his chest. If I remember correctly, I just thought that it looked ugly and had to be painful. Aside from that, I don't remember a thing.

Also, "knife" turned into "nice" while I was writing that.

Tre · 2012-05-11 11:39:34

I've never seen any of the Rambo films either.

However, I've said it before and I will again: I think the name Rambo First Blood Part II is dumb.

Obā-san · 2012-05-11 11:44:38

I finally get "100% No Modern Talking"

Jeez that took me forever.

Tre · 2012-05-11 11:46:01

I love that EP.

Obā-san · 2012-05-11 11:47:25

See, Modern Talking is one of the wavetables in NI Massive, which like every Dubstep producer uses nowadays.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 13:36:17

"
I was actually four or five when I saw Rambo movies. Since then, I never saw one again. The only thing I can remember is a scene in which Rambo gets cut with a knife across his chest. If I remember correctly, I just thought that it looked ugly and had to be painful. Aside from that, I don't remember a thing."

Well, at least it was from First Blood.

lee4hmz · 2012-05-11 13:42:03

Naney: Wavetables? -perks up- Are they the AWG-ish single-cycle things the PPG Wave used, or more familiar PCM samples?

Oh, okay, it's sort of a combination of what the Wave was doing and what later things like the Korg WaveStation did -- cross-fading between different PCM samples because you can (the Wave did it the way it did because memory was not cheap in 1982).

Obā-san · 2012-05-11 13:51:37

Yeah. (*PPG Wave was the first Wavetable synth IIRC*)

It used to be used mainly for synthesizing real instruments without taking up lots of memory, but by modulating the wavetable position you can use it for cool synth effects (*For example, cycling through various formants to create talking basses*). (*However, the various patches will all sound rather similar*)

Nowadays with more memory available multisampling the real thing is the way to go if you want the sound of real instruments.

You just go in and sample everything you can do with a instrument or ensemble multiple times, and a program reassembles the whole thing.

There's a reason their stuff ships on a 1TB hard drive.

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Tre · 2012-05-11 14:00:23

So, Knife Party are saying that they don't use it then.

Ahh, cool. No wonder they sound different than most wubstep.

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lee4hmz · 2012-05-11 14:22:25

Naney: Yeah, it was meant to be a cheap way to implement additive synthesis (the idea being not to emulate the original additive synth -- the pipe organ -- but to apply really simple, LPC-10-ish lossy compression to real samples; the Fairlight and the Wave Term could even do the processing for you, but most people used both of those for plain old sampling), but people figured out that digital synths were really good at sounding weird pretty fast, and the DX7, which sounded a lot like a PPG but was way cheaper and 100% digital, pretty much blew that wide open.

I know I like crispy old FM and AWG leads a lot; it's the main reason I like the Genesis-era Sonic soundtracks so much.

As for multisampling, I think the first consumer-level sampler to even bother with that was the AWE32 back in the 1990s; I know SoundFont itself supports it, anyway.

Obā-san · 2012-05-11 14:27:07

digital synths were really good at sounding weird

True dat.

Though you can do weird shit with almost anything now that you can automate any parameter on anything.

Automate the room size on the reverb? Throw an LFO on the sample quality?

Sure, why not?

lee4hmz · 2012-05-11 14:30:18

Indeed. With even the free stuff today, you can have a whole rack full of DSP effects most people would have killed to have 20 years ago, and have it all MIDIed together if you want!

Trying to do that back in the 1980s would have given even Rick Wakeman or Stevie Wonder (people with lots and lots of weird-ass gear) a panic attack.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 14:31:44

^^^^ Heh. Rambo did have arrows with exploding tips.

To be fair, he did take cover if people shot at him and tried to avoid being shot at as much as possible.

His arrows also exploded things a great deal, not so much when he shot stuff.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 14:38:24

Also, aside from it being a different helicopter in the choopa dool( Rambo had a small one, the other person had this:

) That's about how things went.

Also, I was mistaken when I thought it was an evil American trying to kill Rambo. It was one of the Russians.

Which makes a bit more sense and just shows how much attention I was paying.

Viani · 2012-05-11 15:53:02

I love huge explosions, explosions powerful and huge that they can destroy intangible things like suspension of disbelief and good taste.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 15:54:00

So...sounds like the Ranbo series is right for you.

Viani · 2012-05-11 15:54:50

and the explosions should be able to destroy my ex boyfriends

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 16:06:41

Are your ex-boyfriends Soviets or possibly holding POWs long after the war?

Imipolex G · 2012-05-11 16:14:33

A good explosion is a thing of beauty.

However, too many of them gets monotonous.

Justice4243 · 2012-05-11 16:18:37

Labyrinth is what we're currently watching.

It is a thing of beauty. David Bowie's package is still to come, however...

Imipolex G · 2012-05-11 16:21:38

Labyrinth is a good flick.

80s sci-fi/fantasy movies in general are my kinda thing, for some reason.

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