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Site Updates / Re: Chrono Trigger on Playstation Network (Finally)

« on: April 24, 2011, 12:41:36 am »

I'd be more excited about the release if I were to actually own a PS3 or a PSP. Alas, such isn't the case.

However, I would like to hunt down and buy the SNES catridge of the game and actually play it on an SNES console. It would definitely give me a fulfillment that I should have experienced as a child, but simply couldn't afford it.

Baaah! 

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Submissions / Re: World Revolution [orchestra remix in progress, help needed]

« on: April 24, 2011, 12:35:32 am »

It kind of sounds like a lamentation, something you'd play before the start of a decorated military procession. This isn't to say that this original remix of an otherwise great song is bad. Quite the contrary, I kind of liked it.

Nice balance between the strings and the vocals, and I liked how 3/4 of the way through, the tempo picked up into a rapid march with the timpanis (those were timpanis, right), but I kind of felt like the finish ended on a quieter note than from the upbeat rhythm of earlier. Other than that, brave attempt overall and a nice performance for just a simple MIDI construction.

See if you get an improved version out of this remix. I'd like to hear it in the future.

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Fan Art / Re: Oekakiness

« on: April 24, 2011, 12:28:39 am »

I feel weird posting consecutively at the oekaki.  I guess I'm too used to forum etiquette, double or triple posting feels like spamming   

Rules be damned! Your oekaki is as welcome as... well, oekaki to a video game website. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Chrono Compendium - <you fill the slogan>

« on: April 24, 2011, 12:25:18 am »

The Chrono Compendium - Nu ma Nu ma Yay!

The Chrono Compendium - In Chrono-logical order for your convenience

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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread

« on: April 23, 2011, 09:59:15 pm »

@Genesis One:  Since I'm not so familiar with Baseball, I have no idea what ya mean there...

What I mean is, representatives' and senators' could be kept track of. I'm not just talking about popularity ratings, because rarely, if at all, does popularity have anything remotely to do with job execution on the representative's end. S/he could be (un)popular for all the right or wrong reasons and we the people would be getting mixed messages by just listening to the popularity ratings.

I'm talking about statistics such as:

- Stances of current political issues of high priority (I mentioned America's infrastructure in my last post)
- Number of bills proposed and sent through Congress
- Success to Failure ratios of said bills (and consequently any riders attached to said bills)
- Previous positions held (e.g. mayor, chairman of a city council, judge, judge)

It's like baseball cards, only for our elected representatives.

Does this make more sense?

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General Discussion / Re: Stuff you hate

« on: April 21, 2011, 08:17:15 pm »

This is just me, tush, but judging from the outcome of your story, I'd have to say that the lesson here is...

No matter how powerful you are, you can always get too big for your britches.

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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread

« on: April 21, 2011, 07:51:29 pm »

Since the current flavor of frustration is elected representatives of a republic, I find it frustrating that all of their political grandstanding and charisma seems to be the only thing center-stage in their campaigns. Instead of addressing the issues with ironclad promises to find and execute solutions to the bigger problems (for example, America's crumbling infrastructure of railroads, highways, and dams), they use it as leverage to win votes without anybody wiser to their ulterior motives. Those who are the wiser are the silent minority whose vote had as much impact as a drop of water does when filling a bucket of votes.

You know what elections really need? And I'm not just talking about the presidential election here, but all elections, right down to the local level. <--Analogy Alert!!

During baseball season, the attention of sports fans shoots first towards the leaders of the American League and the leaders in the National League, right? The box scores for these leaders makes it easy to see who the top players are. It's all laid out: hits, runs, errors, batting average, earned run averages, etc.

I'm thinking, wouldn't it be great if we could have box scores for the U.S. government? Candidates could present their lineup for key posts, and we the people would be able to evaluate which team had the strongest bullpen or the most home run hitters. And why stop there? We could use a similar process for our representatives. When election time rolls around, we could look at our senators and congressmen and think (metaphorically, of course), "Well, this guy been averaging around .220 for his last term. Let's see if we could find a .300 hitter." This way, it would be easier to find out who to keep and who to kick out.

But that's just my idea. What says you?

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General Discussion / Re: The Chrono Compendium - <you fill the slogan>

« on: April 21, 2011, 12:51:31 am »

The Chrono Compendium - A historic landmark, like the Masamune's final resting place and Magus' long, flowing hair.

The Chrono Compendium - Serving four Square Enix meals a day.

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Fan Art / Re: New webcomic

« on: April 19, 2011, 11:00:50 pm »

Hah! No one can push buttons like Crono.

And Johnny... what a way to go. I mean, it was bound to happen sooner or later, but that's what happens when Lucca gets behind the wheel of a jet bike and you push her too far.

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Fan Art / Re: fanart

« on: April 19, 2011, 10:45:21 pm »

At most, a brave attempt at the light pencil drawing of Lucca.

If you can do better, go for it.

Really nice Lynx drawing, BTW.

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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Want a new Chrono game?

« on: April 19, 2011, 10:29:41 pm »

Well, Iye, you know what they say about assuming: I can't assume that you're wrong, but I can't that you're right, either. Or "it makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'"

If you could actually prove to me that Kato would write such things in what you assume to be a "true sequel", I'd be more inclined to believe it. But to say such a pretentious thing about Kato's content without any proof is, well, very pretentious.

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General Discussion / Re: The Chrono Compendium - <you fill the slogan>

« on: April 19, 2011, 09:52:27 pm »

The Chrono Compendium - Enter sober, leave with some Ozzie Pants on your head.

or...

The Chrono Compendium - Do something Nu today.

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General Discussion / Re: Sooo... a music thread! (V SAYS: DO NOT JUST MAKE A LIST)

« on: April 19, 2011, 07:08:04 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVpl-RNzdE4

Saint-Saens "Aquarium" Movement from Le Carnaval Des Animaux in one of the most beautiful, yet mysterious piece ever to grace my ears. Picture, if you will. strings without the double-bass, a pair of pianos, a flute, and glass harmonica. It's one of the more musically rich movements. The melody is played by the flute, backed by the strings, on top of glissando runs in the piano. The first piano plays a descending ten-on-one ostinato, while the second plays a six-on-one. These figures, plus the occasional glissando from the glass harmonica, are evocative of a peaceful, dimly-lit aquarium. To me, it kind of sounds like something Tim Burton could easily slip into one of movies without you noticing it.

It was the opening theme to Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" film. Truly, one of the most beautifully filmed movies of the 70s, and living proof that powerful symbolic imagery can easily overtake conventional dialogue and plotting, especially since it won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and being included in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
 

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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread

« on: April 19, 2011, 06:55:59 pm »

*Grrburger*

I am having so much trouble perfecting a certain section of this recital piece I'm working on. Switching cross-over arpeggios are perhaps one of the most difficult piano skills to nail down, and I made the mistake of making it the last part of the piece I'm working on TO work on.

Music is beautiful, especially certain piano music. But wait 'til you have to play it yourself, and you'll see what toil and labor go into creating such beauty.

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General Discussion / Re: Stuff you LOVE, baby

« on: April 19, 2011, 06:46:56 pm »

Snow? Lucky... 

Actually, it did snow once where I lived, but that was back when our national budget was in the surplus range, which brings to me say:

I love what Clinton did for the taxpayers in those years before Bush came in.