At 11/25/06 04:26 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote:

get a guitar off ebay (a real one) and learn.
do it, learning an instrument is worth the time and effort it takes.

Who here plays an instrument?

trumpet 4 years, and bass guitar almost a year.

guitar is overrated, bass guitar > treble guitar ;P

At 11/25/06 04:33 PM, Neashir wrote: guitar is overrated, bass guitar > treble guitar ;P

Lies!

treble > baritone > bass

At 11/25/06 04:35 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Lies!

treble > baritone > bass

blahblah!
the whamola ftw!

solo at 3:55, fuckin' crazy

At 11/25/06 04:26 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Who here plays an instrument? I play drums and piano...

I played Drums for a term in sixth form. I keep doing my stick exercises regularily, but without an actual drum to bang on they're terrible

I can keep a single stroke paradiddle going though. Might buy myself an Arbiter Flats kit and hide it from my parents.

My brother's picking up guitar though. Which might explain why he regularily beats me at GH and can five star the Breaking Wheel / Artillery song on Expert. Told him to learn Free Bird.

At 11/25/06 04:51 PM, Neashir wrote: the whamola ftw!

Google Image Search "Michael Angelo Batio Quad Guitar" and tell me you don't want one

Shame he lost half of it...

At 11/25/06 04:26 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Tracks aren't as great as the first, but maybe I need time for them to grow on me.

I'm starting to come up with a theory about how they select the tracks.

1: Include ONE track that people will otherwise say "Where the hell was [insert track here]"

See: Ace of Spades, Free Bird

2: Include a niche Instrumental Track that not many people have heard of, but when they DO hear it they say "Oh yeah... THAT!"

See: Frankenstien, Psychobilly Freakout

3: (Guitar Hero 2 Only), Include a title track from a film / TV show

See: Misirlou (Pulp Fiction), Jessica (Top Gear). Guitar Hero II Compensates for the first...

4: Rip half the GTA 3 Era of games (3, Vice City, San An). They've already got most of the excellent tracks already...

See: Killing in the Name, Unsung, Free Bird (again?), Madhouse, Bark at the Moon, You've Got Another Thing Comin', Strutter, Mother

5: Add some other tracks that people just can't help play Air Guitar to

See: Smoke on the Water, Iron Man, Message in a Bottle, Sweet Child of Mine,

6: Cycle through those lists until you've finished each level.

Then for the extra songs take something by Made in Mexico (eep), Freezepop (eek), anything the staff are working on, and release game knowing people will start demanding "Stairway to Heaven" soon enough...

Oh... and don't forget to add Homestar Runner Reference to one of the games.

I've been playing percussion in school for 6 years now. I started on bells (a high pitched mallet instrument) in fifth grade, then moved onto drums and auxiliary in middle school (6,7,and 8th grade). In ninth grade I was top of the league in freshman band. Now I'm in my school's top band, and the third best high school band in the state and I'm playing primarily auxiliary during concert pieces, sometimes I'll swing over to mallets. When we march I play snare though, and marching snares are fun :)

At 11/25/06 04:54 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I can keep a single stroke paradiddle going though. Might buy myself an Arbiter Flats kit and hide it from my parents.

In the mean time, go get one of these:

Only £130!

They're brilliant for the price

Tom~

At 11/25/06 05:33 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: In the mean time, go get one of these:

... oh great. And here was me trying to save up to go get my Masters degree... :p

At 11/25/06 05:33 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: In the mean time, go get one of these:

Only £130!

They're brilliant for the price

Tom~

I would like to get my hands on an electric drumset myself. I haven't really played much set, I've been more of an orchestral player myself.

I also want to get one of these beautiful things. Watch the videos. You will have 6 ounces of drool running down your chin and soaked into your shirt or your money back guaranteed!

At 11/25/06 05:33 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: They're brilliant for the price

Not bad , but I'm guessing they have a completely different feel to standard drums. So if your practicing on two different textures it may get annoying.

Anyway, new sig, whadya think?

At 11/25/06 06:20 PM, Depredation wrote:

At 11/25/06 05:33 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: They're brilliant for the price

Not bad , but I'm guessing they have a completely different feel to standard drums. So if your practicing on two different textures it may get annoying.

Meh, its just like playing on a practice pad.

Anyway, new sig, whadya think?

It's nice, but I think the sky in the back could use a touch blue or purple.

At 11/25/06 06:20 PM, Depredation wrote: Not bad , but I'm guessing they have a completely different feel to standard drums. So if your practicing on two different textures it may get annoying.

Yeah, they are a little different, but getting the feel of the layout of a drum kit is very important, since drums are probably the most physical instrument you can play. Fancy e-drums come with canvas heads that not only feel like real skins but are completely silent too.

My first practice kit was a Yamaha DD-50 - imagine an electric kit with all the pads put as close together onto one plastic board as possible. You can pick those up for around £50 these days (hell, if anyone wants one I'll sell them mine). Just like any kit with rubber pads, its not totally silent, but you can rock out with headphones and only slightly annoy your parents with the rhythmic tapping.

Playing a full sized kit (even with tiny pads) is so much better though, you can really get into it.

Tom~

Damn that is a $h!tl0@d of posts!

Aw, my main account, orb, got hacked.

:( I'm a very saaaaad panda.

This is the third time I've been hacked in one way or another (gmail, then recent facebook hack, now NG)

and no, I don't have an easy-to-guess password.

At 11/25/06 07:40 PM, TwinsenDude wrote: This is the third time I've been hacked in one way or another (gmail, then recent facebook hack, now NG)

Tell Tom/Wade/Both.

At 11/25/06 07:51 PM, Masterswordman wrote:

At 11/25/06 07:40 PM, TwinsenDude wrote: This is the third time I've been hacked in one way or another (gmail, then recent facebook hack, now NG)

Tell Tom/Wade/Both.

Well chea I did. Duh :)

I e-mailed Tom since I've talked to him via e-mail before, so he'd know I was the real owner of the account.

At 11/25/06 07:40 PM, TwinsenDude wrote: Aw, my main account, orb, got hacked.

D: that sucks! nice move keeping an alt with your old username, by the way :P

At 11/25/06 04:03 PM, Neashir wrote: 1 and a half hours, and not a single bit of lag

the BitmapData class works wonders. i played around with filters a while back. i blurred an entire picture through bitmap data, and it worked flawlessly. maybe i'll post the swf sometime.

by the way, i'm back from nebraska. four days away from my mom. i'm in a great mood! :D

pardon my double-post, but while travelling to nebraska, my brother came up with an odd idea to make a wobbly penis in flash that can pee.

i did it.. NSFW. hold the mouse button to piss. commentsplzkthx.

At 11/25/06 07:40 PM, TwinsenDude wrote: and no, I don't have an easy-to-guess password.

Was your password 'easy-to-guess'?
I tried that and it worked last time.

-L

You should make sure you use obscure words and numbers within those obscure words. The stronger the password, the better off you are. Using simple words together are just going to get hacks.

christ!

this better work, or i'll murder you all!

At 11/25/06 10:12 PM, Rammer wrote: this better work, or i'll murder you all!

Yes it works. Now put it away.
Needs to spawn more yellow, and with a bit less angle of spray.

At 11/25/06 10:23 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 11/25/06 10:12 PM, Rammer wrote: this better work, or i'll murder you all!

Yes it works. Now put it away.
Needs to spawn more yellow, and with a bit less angle of spray.

regarding the spray angle, yeah, i was in a giddy mood, i wanted to make it silly.

and spawning more pee...it'd lag like crazy. i didn't do this in flash 9 ):<

I agree with Kayn.. needs a more coarser spray.. come on piss like a man....not like a bitch. tinkle tinkle

-_- gawd.

i've spent the better part of last week or so building and perfecting a movement engine for santa' sleigh, i mean this things been a real bitch to get to look right.
link here
but i just realized, will the average person playing a game i use it in, actually notice and appreciate just how shnazzy it is?
have i just wasted a whole week of valuable work time? D:

At 11/25/06 10:46 PM, Neashir wrote:
but i just realized, will the average person playing a game i use it in, actually notice and appreciate just how shnazzy it is?
have i just wasted a whole week of valuable work time? D:

probably not, but i bet you learned alot from it and thats what counts

At 11/25/06 10:35 PM, Luis wrote: I agree with Kayn.. needs a more coarser spray.. come on piss like a man....not like a bitch. tinkle tinkle

this'll make you look like a bitch. i even made the cock more bonerized, because it's so much easier to piss with a stiffy.

At 11/25/06 10:48 PM, AloneInTheDark wrote: probably not, but i bet you learned alot from it and thats what counts

Youre so fatherly sean.

At 11/25/06 10:46 PM, Neashir wrote: but i just realized, will the average person playing a game i use it in, actually notice and appreciate just how shnazzy it is?
have i just wasted a whole week of valuable work time? D:

wow, that looks really, REALLY, cool! but i do understand your pain.

luckily, you have us flash regs. that looks amazing, Neashir. may i ask how you did it?

At 11/25/06 10:49 PM, Rammer wrote:

At 11/25/06 10:35 PM, Luis wrote: I agree with Kayn.. needs a more coarser spray.. come on piss like a man....not like a bitch. tinkle tinkle

this'll make you look like a bitch. i even made the cock more bonerized, because it's so much easier to piss with a stiffy.

cool, now it just needs a toilet seat to piss on to make it extra manly.