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Sorry for the super super late reply, but thanks for the comments! Yeah, there is no bass line per se because I don't have a bass guitar of my own and I couldn't find a good bass modeler in Guitar Rig. I semi-compensated by messing with the EQ to get at least some semblance of bass on it, but there's no replacement for the real thing.

In any case, thanks for listening and for the feed back. Glad you enjoyed it. :)

So I recently recorded this instrumental rock/metal version of "Aimo" from Macross Frontier and thought it only made sense to share it here, if anyone still reads this section of the board at all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6p8ujuxeRs

Enjoy (hopefully), leave feedback (any is helpful, be it positive or negative), click like/dislike, etc....

And thanks for listening. :P

From what the statistics received, the high bailout rate occurred to other tournaments as well.  It's more of a general statement than just one specific tournament.

Understood. As long as they did as much as they could to minimize the complications caused by no-shows, I wouldn't even bring it up. I'm not positive it would have made that much of a difference, anyway. Hell, it wasn't even the most annoying part of the tourney for me. But for what it's worth, the crowd that actually showed up didn't even look close to 128 people. Not that I bothered counting.

If it's possible to book them, Sex Machineguns and/or Susumu Hirasawa would be awesome. They'd be a little odd together on the same bill, though.

As for those who are on the no-show list, we posted this on the forums, the eGaming info screen during FanimeCon, the mic announcements, our discussions with every competitor, multiple print-outs of signs of "please do not leave", and so forth.  We even did a final check-in to ensure that people do show up and those ho don't show up get booted off and get replaced by those on the reserve list...Yet we still get a plenty of no shows.

Just for clarification, I am only speaking from my experience in the SFIV tourney. I and quite a few others showed up to check in, and we were told that check-in was canceled to make time for more sign-ups. This is why I think probably more time was spent than necessary eliminating no-shows from the tournament. I can't speak for how the other tourneys went.

It doesn't matter if there was a check-in process or not, even having a full 64 man bracket would have taken hours. You need to cut them some slack.

I know it would have taken a long time, regardless. Like I said before, the long waits weren't entirely their fault. I'm just saying things might have gone more smoothly had they tried to get a better idea of how many players would actually show up. This is what I presume the check-in was for before they scrapped it. There were several stretches of time where most of the stations went unused while they were calling out names and eliminating no-shows.

Keep in mind, I'm not saying their job was easy. I had a hard enough time running a 30-man tourney, much less over 100. It just seemed there was a lack of foresight on some things (see my mention of the console characters in an earlier post).

To their credit, the eGaming staff was otherwise pretty helpful. One helped us hook up a PS3 to a CRT when we got sick of playing on the laggy flatscreen monitors (at around 2 in the morning), and they were pretty good about letting me keep my friend's arcade stick for him when he went home without it.

well look how many ppl we had over 100 plus ppl for that tournament. And keep this in mind we almost max out with 128 ppl. yes it was a long tournament.

There might have been that many sign-ups, but there were a TON of no-shows, which led to lots people waiting around for a very long time while byes were handed out like candy. I realize that the organizers can't force people to show up to their tourneys, but I think at least some of this could have been alleviated had they not skipped the check-in process.

I was mentioning a SCIV tourney for at least a month prior to Fanime and I got nothing.

I used to be decent at SCIV but I got rocked this weekend but that just makes me want to get better for next year.

As for imput lag, I think the 360s needed to be calibrated on the console for HD and the AV adapters set to HDTV. (I don't know if any of the setups were running on HDMI or not)

PS3 is the current standard for SC4 tourneys because it's the preferred platform for pad users. Input lag on LCD and plasma HDTVs (I'm not sure about CRT HDTVs) is pretty much a fact of life in my experience. Calibration or putting the TV in game mode can help minimize it, but in many cases it is still very detectable.

My main suggestion would be to PLEASE try to make sure you have enough people on-hand next year who have experience running fairly large tournaments. As was mentioned already, the Street Fighter IV tourney was a complete joke. How do you not at least make sure that all of the characters are unlocked on every console before running a tournament with (purportedly) 100+ entrants? This alone led to so much waiting and confusion that I got fed up and told them to remove me from the tournament altogether.

In retrospect, maybe I shouldn't have blown up as harshly as I did, but the whole thing was just an exercise in frustration.

Others:

- Try to get more CRTs for fighting games. A lot of the HDTVs there had an assload of input lag.

- Logik is right about the lack of a Soulcalibur IV tourney. When the game was running, people were playing it almost 'round the clock. Hard to believe there wasn't enough demand for a proper tournament.

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Pretty sure I already mentioned that having Sex Machineguns play would be awesome, but if you need any further convincing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oWFDf3flpU&feature=related

Again, I know it's a long (looooong) shot, but they'd be a ton of fun to see live, for what it's worth. Versailles would be pretty cool too.

METAL

I'm going to do a dodge, before this turns into another "religion = bad" thread.

So, I'll ask a question:

A straight man and a straight woman decide to get married solely for benefits.  They wouldn't have sex with each other.  They wouldn't be chaste; in fact, they'd probably sleep with other people on the side.  They are good friends with each other.  Just not "in love".  But they just want all the normal benefits of marriage.
Should this be legal or not?  Why or why not?  Does the answer change if it's two straight men or two gay men?

Yes, it should be legal. Love was not a big factor in pre-modern marriage to begin with. Historically, the one common thread uniting the different concepts of marriage over time has been the securing of property rights. It's still like that, in many ways.

I know who Eddie Lee is. :3

I barely missed the match where he beat Daigo at CvS2 back at Evo2k4. At least I think it was CvS2.

As for shit-talk, I gotta agree that it helps make competitive gaming scenes more interesting. This is true in pro sports as well. Football fans will remember how Joe Namath brashly "guaranteed" that his Jets would upset the Colts, which made that year's championship game a lot more interesting. And as much as we look back on Muhammad Ali's career with rose-colored glasses, he was a HUGE shit talker at his peak ("I'm the greatest!"), and that was part of his allure. Guys like Namath and Ali made their respective sports more interesting by putting more on the line than just wins, losses and money.

Sure it's great when people are humble and deferential in victory and defeat, but if everybody was like that, scenes would get boring real fast. It's not just the competition that makes a scene interesting, it's the varying personalities as well.

I don't know if it's real or not, but one of my favorite quotes that gets thrown around is from RTD, who was one of the best SoulCalibur 2 players back when that game was still viable. He and a bunch of players from the US went over to France for a big international team survival tourney. Just as his team's about to play, he tells his teammates:

"You guys can go get something to eat. I got this."

How do you not love that?

this

Ignore the seven seconds of silence at the beginning.

The game looks pretty cool, but I'm pretty garbage at 2D fighters and the game is relatively expensive to play so I haven't tried it out yet.

I like the reports of semi-throwback gameplay though, and there seems to be a lot of potential in the focus attack as a mind-game tool. I've read that Ryu is considered top tier by some, because he has a good fireball trap (EX still knocks down, unlike Ken's) and is way too dangerous to jump at with a full ultra meter.

Hard for me to say, but these should give you a good idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdoeA548jxQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsmAF9cVPm4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMLXoobDKWs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJF5zB7YcXc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUANaEvwqg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3MaVgFo0M

Devin Townsend



Basically the greatest musician alive.

Proof!

3. 1984 - Huxley's writing style is also not amongst my favorite. But this one's probably even more important than 451.

Except that 1984 is an Orwell novell. :P

My pick is Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. If you're a metal fan, this book is required reading. If not, it's still highly recommended.

Despite its somewhat sensationalist title, it's an impeccably researched and fairly well-written account of the circumstances that gave rise to the now-notorious worldwide black metal scene; starting with the origins of the genre and its ideological roots in Scandinavian folklore, and then taking us through the evolution of black metal (specifically in Norway) and its many headline-grabbing controversies.

It sometimes veers off-topic and some conclusions may seem a little reaching, but it's still a great read for anyone interested in one of the most important and intriguing countercultural movements of the last 20 years.

Metal fan that I am, I would love to see Feel So Bad or Sex Machineguns make the trip over, even though the likelihood is slim to nil.

Ooh!  how about these for them guys that was at Fanime on Saturday?  ;D

You know, I saw them today on my daily walk downtown. They're usually out there at least once a week, situated between Camera 12 and Starbucks.

It's funny to see people try to reason with them. They make my day, and I hope they never leave.

Ahahaha.

Sick dreams are made of fleas, moldy breath and schoolyard cheese. How obscene.

Yeah, the "schoolyard cheese" line is brilliant, but you have to love the way he rhymes "sin's" with "sin" on the first page.

In case no one's seen this yet: http://www.thetruthforyouth.com/standard/main.htm

"Rock music" is my personal favorite.

Augh. As an athiest, I still try to maintain being somewhat unbiased between others' beliefs but man... this website made me want to throw up. Not even lol (well, maybe the kid's art gallery. lmao)

http://objectiveministries.org/kidz/

After looking through it in my boredom, I really hope that I just got trolled and that people in the religious community aren't this retarded. Don't really know anymore, since they managed to have their stupidity cause the lives of little children. :|

Pretty sure that site's a parody, albeit a pretty convincing one at a glance.

Can't imagine a genuinely evangelical Web site would be selling products such as this or this.

Their proposed redesign for the US flag was definitely worth a chuckle though: