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True. None of us is claiming to be the sole original composer on YM2612 and then telling Shirobon his music sounds like MySpace on 2008. So yes, this guy is pretty fucking original.

Creating a reference table for microtonal tunings for FamiTracker. Since it works via pitch correction, some extensions (N163...) are simply unfeasible - you can't pitch correct enough to cover tones that need to shift more than 80 registers either way.

"Why bother then? Microtonal stuff sounds weird anyway" I dunno.

Lots of big names in that ESA membership list. (And then there's XSEED games. Welp.)

I understand that as an industry there are a lot of interests in play. I work for a corporation currently, and I wouldn't like it if my paycheck wasn't secured. It would cause me a hell of a lot of problems if it wasn't.

But there's that on one side and this on the other. It's an insult to consumers everywhere to think that they can cling on to past glories in order to keep dishing them out to the public when they've already played them over and over and over and over and over again. Allow people to preserve them as the examples of pop culture they once were, they're all already long past their prime. To keep trying to milk them for money after all these years when customers are asking for new content, ACTUALLY NEW content, is an insult.

I know, I know, consumers aren't the smartest people around when they engage in consumption. But still, to mock them like this is to underestimate how much they can screw you over when they get angry en masse.

Don't rush me, I don't have enough cash for the ticket to Berlin yet.

This is sound advice for people who own their own schedule. However, there are some of us who often get reminded that school or the day job often require you (and tell you outright) that you dedicate yourself entirely to them, or else. Otherwise, you might be the kind of person who sets tight deadlines, takes ambitious projects only to later realize you bit off more than you can chew, or are more defeatist than the rest of the people.

Deadlines, then, are not for you.

In that case, well... I can't guarantee 100% success yet because I'm merely starting to try it out, but keep a checklist of things you want to try to practice in a whole month. Yes, keep it to a month - you can even use a calendar. Divide your main goal in lots of VERY SMALL goals, and commit yourself to them in tiny timeslots (think 15 minutes); use as may days as you want for each mini-goal.

At times you'll notice that you're unable (for any reason) to fulfill the practice time on a certain day... It's OK! Just don't mark it on the calendar that day, that's all. At the end of the month, check how many times you could practice. Say, 20 out of 30 days, sessions of 15 minutes? That's 10 hours of practice on the month. Your goal for the next month is to do more than that.

People who already have solid practice or work routines could tell you "isn't that too slow?". Yes, it is slow, but the point is to actually do as much as you can manage to do. Say you're only able to pull off 6 10 minute sessions in March. Only one full hour of practice seems like almost nothing, but let's be honest here - if you weren't at least committing yourself to the tiny daily sessions, would you have had any practice time on March? I've only been able to practice guitar for 103 minutes so far this month; but if I weren't using this system, I'd have 0 practice under my belt.

So do as much as you can in as much time as it takes. It's not gonna feel like it was "too slow" once time has passed and you realize you mastered an instrument and released 3 or 4 albums on Bandcamp (or your platform of choice).

Believe me, I'm not the kind of guy who can benefit from goals and deadlines. I mean, I said I was gonna learn more about music and more about tech and more about... when I was 17. I'm 28 and I've only now started. I don't want to be 35 years old and look back to see I've still "only just started".

My resolutions for 2015 are 1920x1080 on 2 of my screens, 1366x768 on my native screen in the laptop, and iirc 800x600 on my Tuxbook

just kidding

My 2015 resolutions are a) rehabilitating my classical acoustic guitar (needs a new nut and probably new frets, also I need to get light tension nylons), b) at least learning all there is to know about rhythmic guitar and a bit of lead (rest of lead, blues, and jazz would be my 2016 resolutions), and c) completing more than 2 songs in a year >:(

Oh, and I guess practicing a bit of Java. I'm also interested in drawing, but I guess that's gonna have to wait a bit longer... Never too late, apparently.

Because we still have the freedom of though required to know if we wish to praise it or not. We still have the freedom of taste to like or dislike something, and the escape of something "not being our cup of tea".

There's no need to praise music, after all. We're free to do so, as we're free to try to communicate why we like something (even though some people would see it as a justification instead of an explanation). But we're also free not to do it.

Except in this case, you're pinpointing the subject of discussion about the song; you're selecting the area of objectivity... Call Me Maybe is NOT a masterfully complex piece of songwriting, and very few people would dare to call it so. But you're coming off as someone who only judges music in regards of the complexity of its composition. Is that somehow different to the people who would judge it for its monetary success? Because in that regard, Call Me Maybe was a hit. I don't need to start a discussion between those 2 polarizing views to predict the kind of fight that would ensue.

Except perception is all that we have. We have no way of experiencing anything without our perception of what is; there's no exchanging. At most we can only try to imagine what it's like on the other side, but that's just a mental simulation. It has limits.

And please refrain from using analogies with shock value on this discussion. This isn't a debate about morality, this is a debate about art; there's no need to invoke debate techniques from other topics into this one.