I think I forgot to put bright primate on my list, but I'd really like to see them live. It's so cute how she bobs up and down and glances at him every so often, lol. Gotta see that in person. :3
1,121 Jun 12, 2013 8:32 pm
Re: The "which chip artist do you want to see live" wishlist thread (108 replies, posted in General Discussion)
1,122 Jun 12, 2013 8:30 pm
Re: So I do interviews, and you can be interviewed, too! (55 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Saskrotch wrote:
Everytime I start reading one of these interviews, the unrelated pictures put me off and I stop.
Seriously what's up with those?
I'll take a stab at it:
1. He is interviewing "sleepytimejesse" = picture of a sleeping thing
2. STJ hurt himself skateboarding = surfing is kind of related to skateboarding, and that image may invoke feelings of "caught me off guard with your awesome"
3. Schadenfreude is pleasure from the misfortune of others. Kuma is entertained by the discomfort his friends feel when transitioning from live instruments to trackers.
do I win?
1,123 Jun 12, 2013 8:17 pm
Re: A Moment of introspection for the chip bros who have left us (112 replies, posted in General Discussion)
@Alpine: Okay. Point taken. Just wanted to make my feelings known is all. Probably would have been better pm'd, but no harm done. And now that you say it that way I actually have something real to contribute:
This guy Speedster at Damaged Games Community used to be a real flamer and just really immature and abrasive and annoying, but then he changed his name to "Litis" and everything just changed and he became cool and learned how to get along with people on message boards. He made cool music and remixes for a few years, introduced me to Sound Club and OpenMPT and chiptune (but I didn't realize it then, haha) and NSFs and Creative Commons and free music releases by people like Brad Sucks. He was really into NIN and I think Green Day and MCR and Daft Punk. then I lost contact with him and he stopped making music because "nobody really cared except [SketchMan3]" lol. I really did enjoy his music, and I wish he still made more of it. This is the last thing he released:
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/7989/ … from-hell/
It's technically more "post-chiptune" since it uses VSTs and isn't really supposed to be chiptune (as far as I know), but it sounds pretty chiptune and was made in OpenMPT. The imagery is very vivid for me.
1,124 Jun 12, 2013 2:42 pm
Re: A Moment of introspection for the chip bros who have left us (112 replies, posted in General Discussion)
mr. primate... I'm really not feeling this threads you've been doing lately. They feel very alienating and melodramatic to me.
That is all.
1,125 Jun 12, 2013 12:45 pm
Re: Secret Circuits - Raindrops (4 replies, posted in Releases)
This really should go in the "upcoming releases" thread unless by "really soon" you mean, like, right now, 
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Anyway, top-notch vocals, man. The effects really compliment your voice, I think. Good stuff, man. I really the harmony. I'm always a fan of "chipmusic" elements and good singing.
I'm running on sleep deprivation and that ending just made me go up and up and up and up and... @.@
1,126 Jun 12, 2013 12:33 pm
Re: deleted (17 replies, posted in Trading Post)
I like how you use @ for "As" and "Os"
That DJS-24 sampler looks really nice... man...
1,127 Jun 12, 2013 11:32 am
Re: Post-Chiptune artist identity. Your thoughts? (154 replies, posted in General Discussion)
4mat wrote:
Hang on, why are people discussing hardware vs software again?
It's a black hole. We just keep getting sucked into it for some reason....
1,128 Jun 12, 2013 8:26 am
Re: A Moment of introspection for the chip bros who have left us (112 replies, posted in General Discussion)
edit: tribute removed.
eh... what is this even...? this series of threads gives me a bad feeling...
1,129 Jun 12, 2013 8:08 am
Re: LSDJ Noise Kick patch (5 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
bitman has a killer noise kick one his GB Boy Colour song that's posted here. My computer is too slow for me to actually go look up how he did it, though... It seems to be similar to basspuddle's example, though. Maybe.
1,130 Jun 12, 2013 7:55 am
Re: Post-Chiptune artist identity. Your thoughts? (154 replies, posted in General Discussion)
b-knox wrote:
I'll just say I've faced enough cognitive dissonance already to accept chipchoons for what they are. No, not all chipchoons are techno but you'll find that, compositionally speaking, that pop/dance/rock music inherently shares similar symmetrical rhythms and melodic/harmonic pacing. Once the actual song writing is obscured by the medium's presentation the source genre is lost. So no, not all chipchoons are techno. There is metal, classical, bluegrass and everything in between chipchoons. I speak from my experience going to and playing chipchoon shows for a long time. Most acts sound like techno to me.
ilkae, thanks for the link! I like to emulate my .nsf files in winamp for my shows.
Thanks for the insightful response. What you say makes a lot of sense. I will defer to your expertise and experience.
I still feel like discussions like this should take place because nothing ever gets resolved or laid to rest by just ignoring it. The fact that this thread has gone on so long indicates that whatever resolution there is to be found on this "issue" is yet to be reached, but it will be reached eventually. Seems like it's mostly new people (like me) who are confused/conflicted.
That being said, the longer this discussion goes on the less it makes any sense. I kind of wish there could be a proper debate without all the "why are we even talking about this?" between "respected" artists who are "hardware till we die!" and respected artists who are "whatever, man. Amiga, SID, Renoise, Reason... whatever", with the "I went from easy FL Studio VSTs to SlowTracker for DOS and now you are telling me it doesn't even matter!??!?" people as mediators. 
1,131 Jun 12, 2013 12:38 am
Re: Post-Chiptune artist identity. Your thoughts? (154 replies, posted in General Discussion)
All chipchoon is techno?
1,132 Jun 11, 2013 8:46 pm
Re: KK_GB_8M Programmable Cartridge (60 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
The One Electronic wrote:
hopefully... cheap...
1,133 Jun 11, 2013 8:41 pm
Re: Help:Pixel art addons/tools for PhotoShop (19 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
PLESAE loosen up a little bit man. The least you can do is be accommodating and tell us what exactly it is you're wanting to do that can't be accomplished in MSPaint. How you gon' be all tight-lipped when people are actually genuinely trying to help you for once?
From my point of view, asking for ANYTHING extra to help you with pixel art in photoshop just makes you look like a lazy bum. I'm not up on the modern techniques that pixel artists use so I'll defer to the expertise of the more experienced if they decide to chime in, but I do all my pixel art manually by hand one dot at a time. No magic filters or plugins. Just a pen, a canvas and some colors (or lack of colors, teehee)
I haven't used photoshop in over six years and I don't know anything about the plugins, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest some plugin ideas that you may be interested in searching:
Convert photograph to pixel art instantly
image to pixel art converter
convert ascii art to pixel art
convert pixel art to ascii art
retro game fonts
Automatic NES palette color limiter filter
magically turn any digital photograph to pixel art
Instant Gameboy camera filter
instant Amiga filter
instant NES filter
instant 8bit filter
double the size of pixels filter
instant 16bit filter
instant 32bit filter
instant 256 colors filter
instant 16 colors filter
1,134 Jun 11, 2013 8:20 pm
Re: all possible mods for dmg? (17 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Bamboori wrote:
need
90% of that stuff you don't really "need".
Bamboori wrote:
i think except for the biversion i dont need any of that
i saw that thread, but is that pretty much a complete list of possible mods or just a lot?
Well, you said you wanted to know all possible mods for dmg.
Here's some superficial mods you may have overlooked:
- Switch out the buttons
- light up/glow in the dark buttons
- Paint the case
- alternate battery indicator light color
- custom screen cover
- protective case
- fur coat
1,136 Jun 11, 2013 1:11 am
Re: Lvl. Dew by Decnals - first release, free EP (6 replies, posted in Releases)
No doubt, man. No doubt. I look forward to seeing what you can do with LSDJ. LSDJ got so much soul, man. For me, it's so much easier to inject feeling into music with trackers than it is with DAWs.