At 12/6/08 06:14 PM, funkycaveman wrote: DRUMS
im thinking about playing the drums, does anybody have any advice, i might buy rockband and see what the drums are like on that before forking out $1000+ on a kit. anyboday got any advice, i need as much as i can get, i might collab with a mate who plays the bass. thanks xx

The Rock Band drums are nothing like playing an actual kit - not just from a positioning and number of drums angle, but from the feel of the impact. My advice if you're going down that route is to get some double sided sticky tape and four mouse mats for them, to dampen the sound and improve the bounce on the heads. And get some actual lessons as well to teach you the proper methods of doing ridiculously simple things like holding the sticks and where to put the bass pedal (it seriously needs teaching). At the very cheapest, get yourself a Vic Firth practice pad and a pair of sticks from a drum store.

Good starter kits in the few hundred pounds mark are anything by Mapex if you're looking to make a noise. A few hundred will get you a starter kit (and if you're haggling, a drum throne) probably with hi-hats but more than likely completely without cymbals. Cymbals and pedals are where the big money is spent.

If you're looking for a silent kit then a Pearl Rhythm Traveller (the kit I have) is enough to practice on. Ideally, best of both worlds here is a Yamaha DTExplorer electronic kit that makes next to no noise on contact (less than a set of Rock Band drums do unmodified), yet allows you to pump the sound through headphones.

I'm currently saving up for a Roland TD9-SX and had my Grade 3 drum exam on Saturday.

My laptop is still broken, and I don't like using my desktop at home. It's an ugly nightmare of broken saturation monitors and agonisingly slow boot up times.

At 12/8/08 08:35 AM, Luis wrote: I'd assume that in some cases that would take longer than just starting over in your own code. Maybe not, I'm not a coder. I dont really know if its like art where your 'style' has its own personality to it. I assume coding can have its own personality as well. u tell me.

I think the main problem with cohesion is that most flash game coders here aren't going to be commenting there code in any way that would make things accessible to a second coder if they think they're going to do it alone. Also there's so much room for variation in flash game coding, so the way one person would structure something is probably pretty different than the next person. As far as personality, I guess that emerges as you learn how to program things just like art style emerges as you learn how to draw things, like the way you draw ears or eyes can be the way a coder sets up a for loop or names variables.

Random but appropriate side fact, morse code operators actually develop personalities that can be recognized. I think it was in ww2 that allied operators would listen in on the enemy transmissions, and though they couldn't decode it, just recognizing the operator that was sending the signal, they could track the movement of the enemy operators. So even in tapping a transmitter, people develop personalities.

At 12/8/08 09:37 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: And get some actual lessons as well to teach you the proper methods of doing ridiculously simple things like holding the sticks and where to put the bass pedal (it seriously needs teaching).

Kayn's right. I had my bass pedal hooked up to my snare, for literally months, until someone taught me better.

At 12/8/08 09:41 AM, Coaly wrote: I guess that emerges as you learn how to program things just like art style emerges as you learn how to draw things, like the way you draw ears or eyes can be the way a coder sets up a for loop or names variables.

Code is poetry.

At 12/8/08 11:21 AM, DFox wrote: Code is poetry.

If you want to make that sort of analogy. Supposing your code is very modular and or object orientated, I'd say it's more of a large orchestral symphony.

At 12/8/08 11:41 AM, dELtaluca wrote: If you want to make that sort of analogy. Supposing your code is very modular and or object orientated, I'd say it's more of a large orchestral symphony.

Good one!

And also, I can't take credit for that analogy. The creator of Wordpress pretty much invented it.

At 12/7/08 06:23 PM, K-Guare wrote: Hasn't replied yet?

If I'm nominated for any of the BBS awards then there's quite a big chance it will happen. That's one of the reasons I'm whoring it out so much. I'm fifth right now in Rookie Of The Year, and if I finish in the top five, I'll be nominated.

Speaking of the BBS awards, I'd like to thank Luis for voting for me in Rookie Of The Year, it's really appreciated.

When things get into my head, they get in waay too deep.

I was going to school, and when I closed the door to my house and looked outside, into the trees and the sky, my first thought was "Damn, that's some real nice HD quality. Just look at that shading!". Then when I was entering my school, I saw something blurry from the corner of my eye, and for a moment there I was gonna yell "SPYYY !!! SPY ! GET THAT SPY!!!", I don't even play tf2 that much >.<
SPY SAPPIN' MAH SENTRY!

If things get in my head too easily, how can I know that it's really true to that extent? It might just aswell be that things get in my head a little bit easily, and the fact that they do, made me push into my head the fact that things get pushed in my head easily, thus giving me an inaccurate measurement of how easily things get into my head. So inaccurate that I could be wrong about it by any scale of measurement, so there is no telling whether i got the answer right; got it close to right; or got it infinitely wrong.

At 12/8/08 09:37 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Drumming stuff

My brother picked up a drum kit second hand for £30 which is pretty decent. It's nothing special but has all the 'main' components.. I don't know their names but the bass drum, 2 cymbals, snare, hi hat and the big one that's usually on the right (that might be it's name, hm). I can't play the drums, I can do simple beats and it is fun to play randomly.. I know how to use the sticks, bass, hi hat.. I just doubt I could play properly. Still, drums kick ass.

At 12/8/08 12:27 PM, Toast wrote: If things get in my head too easily, how can I know that it's really true to that extent? It might just aswell be that things get in my head a little bit easily, and the fact that they do, made me push into my head the fact that things get pushed in my head easily, thus giving me an inaccurate measurement of how easily things get into my head. So inaccurate that I could be wrong about it by any scale of measurement, so there is no telling whether i got the answer right; got it close to right; or got it infinitely wrong.

On one hand, you sound like a crazy person, on the other hand, you have a strangely expressed point. For example if something happens to you, like you hear 5 seconds of a song on the tv or something, and you think for a second about the song getting stuck in your head, then the song might get stuck in your head just because you were worried that it might be, because you kept it in your short term memory instead of letting it time out and be gone. Or if you do something that has no real significance, like throwing a rock at a mailbox, then wonder if you'd remember doing that in a year, then every once in awhile that memory might come back to you as something you think is funny you remember, then in five years you strangely remember such a small thing even though you otherwise wouldn't have... great now I sound like a toast =_=

Awards

It would be nice if there were an award for being the most like, having the most in common with, or holding the most traits of coal... can someone make that happen?

At 12/8/08 08:35 AM, Luis wrote: That wasnt really the point i was trying to make. I just meant if you had a scenario where someone had half of a mark-up worth of code and told you to just continue it. I'd assume that in some cases that would take longer than just starting over in your own code.

Agreed. I'm currently working with sweet skater on updated Spam The Web and implementing all of the new features. If I had the time I would much rather start completely from scratch as the current code is pretty messy as it has code all over the place due to different people adding more code at different times. But at the moment because I have other stuff to do at the same time I'm not totally scrapping it. Maybe I'll re-write some of it in the future. Another reason I dislike it is because, in this case where security is important, there is no way of knowing how secure it is without going through every little bit of code that handles any form of user input and checking it.

At 12/8/08 12:48 PM, Coaly wrote:

On one hand, you sound like a crazy person, on the other hand, you have a strangely expressed point. For example if something happens to you, like you hear 5 seconds of a song on the tv or something, and you think for a second about the song getting stuck in your head, then the song might get stuck in your head just because you were worried that it might be, because you kept it in your short term memory instead of letting it time out and be gone. Or if you do something that has no real significance, like throwing a rock at a mailbox, then wonder if you'd remember doing that in a year, then every once in awhile that memory might come back to you as something you think is funny you remember, then in five years you strangely remember such a small thing even though you otherwise wouldn't have... great now I sound like a toast =_=

It's not really related to what I was saying, but it brings me on to another point, that I was just discussing with people an hour ago. Putting quantum theory and the mystery of our conscience aside (some people believe in a "soul"), I don't think that we can truly make choices, in the sense that determinism applies to our actions as much as it applies to say, the formation of a planet, or a ball falling on a specific location and not another. And ironically, realising that I can't truly make choices, I know that the future will be the way it is no matter what I do, because I don't have a choice to do something or do something else. I have this mentality in regards to doing my homework, I don't believe that I can choose whether to do my homework or not. And ironically, having this mentality probably reduces the chances of me doing my homework (as opposed to a universe where the only difference would be that i believed in free will). funny isn't it.

Reading my posts in contrast to the other "normal" posts on NG, I understand why I got voted for strangest reg a lot :P This is but a fraction of my strangeness, I think that many people have false conceptions and think that what I consider true is weird.

At 12/8/08 12:48 PM, Coaly wrote: Awards

It would be nice if there were an award for being the most like, having the most in common with, or holding the most traits of coal... can someone make that happen?

Congratulations!

At 12/8/08 03:34 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Congratulations!

Woo! Would you look at that thing?

Certainly something to put on your CV.

Congratulations! Coaly!

Nah Luis i was gonna completely remove the code.

Drumming

Thats why i completely own the Drums at RB. Because i know how to play the real drums, and good too. Kirk knows ;)

At 12/8/08 04:23 PM, Blackfang wrote: Drumming

Thats why i completely own the Drums at RB. Because i know how to play the real drums, and good too. Kirk knows ;)

Speaking of Rock Band, anyone up for a game of 2? I have all the 1 songs, the Euro songs, the RB2 Download pack, NiN1, Scene 1, Screaming for Vengeance, Best of the Who, Offspring 1 and various other single song packs.

It needs even more Dream Theater. It needs the whole of Scenes from a Memory as one song. One epic, seventy minute song.

I'd play but i have ps3. I have so many downloaded songs like Metallica, Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold, All That Remains, Lamb Of God, Motley Crue, Best Of The Who, Scars On Broadway, System Of A Down, GlaDos (hehe), and a whole bunch more i just cant remember them.

My Game
Im gonna send him a text and an email, telling him that im gonna find a new coder. If he doesnt answer, ill continue it with a new coder. Should i do this? Or not tell him?

At 12/8/08 05:07 PM, Blackfang wrote: My Game
Im gonna send him a text and an email, telling him that im gonna find a new coder. If he doesnt answer, ill continue it with a new coder. Should i do this? Or not tell him?

Tell him. Even if you don't give him the option of replying and continuing with it, its courteous to inform him.

At 12/8/08 04:50 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Speaking of Rock Band, anyone up for a game of 2?

It needs even more Dream Theater. It needs the whole of Scenes from a Memory as one song. One epic, seventy minute song.

I'll play. Gamertag: AdverbialCarrot

Got Bored. Made my sig blue to match my Aura.

Anyway thanks for the advice ill send him a message.

At 12/8/08 05:07 PM, Blackfang wrote: Best Of The Who, Scars On Broadway, System Of A Down

Giggle.

Speaking of Rock Band, I've got "Hand That Feeds" stuck in my head.

Happy page 1,420

lawl.

Anyway, has anyone noticed my absence recently?

At 12/8/08 08:26 PM, NG-Unit wrote: Happy page 1,420

lawl.

Anyway, has anyone noticed my absence recently?

Not 1,420

Lawl

and yeah where you been?

At 12/8/08 08:28 PM, Blackfang wrote: Not 1,420

Yeah, I realized that :'(.

But happy future 1,420.

and yeah where you been?

Just haven't been getting on, I was just curious how many people noticed :P.

Oh sorry I forgot to say thanks UnknownFury. I've told him and he hasn't answered. I'm really happy I can now see this game be done. =). Btw I'm laying in bed typing this from my iPod touch. =3

Why do people take spam so seriously? We mostly just do it for fun, but since when has it been hurting anyone besides wasting like 1 minute of your time? Besides, you don't HAVE to click it.

I will never understand you people, but we pretty-much spam because we love your reactions.

Did someone hijack Coaly's account? He's posting way moar than usual and making grammer errors I know he'd condemn in others.

At 12/9/08 12:55 AM, BoMToons wrote: Did someone hijack Coaly's account? He's posting way moar than usual and making grammer errors I know he'd condemn in others.

It can only be one person. PATU!!!!