Leonardo

Thanks!

Factor 5's work really is historical. Played the first level of Turrican once, on a C64 emulator, I was really impressed.

Here is another small cover, this time it's "State of the nation" by Industry.

http://tindeck.com/listen/xuzuu

This one also uses just the 2A03.

I've been making these for a while now, but kept them all to myself. Mostly because they're all unfinished.

Figured I'd share some of them.

"Rogue Squadron 3d" by Chris Huelsbeck

http://tindeck.com/listen/rdaiu

This is a work in progress cover of the "Rogue Squadron 3d" theme music, as already seen here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Random-Thoughts/post/786083/#TopicPost786083

It uses the VRC6.

"Enjoy the silence" by Depeche Mode

http://tindeck.com/listen/iednm

This is just a doodle on one of my all-time favorite songs. NES 2A03 channels only.

With all due respect to Ric2 and all our underaged members, those were teenagers. It sounds plausible to me. I mean most of them weren't even alive when the movie first came out. Add to that the fact that the actual event happened more than a 100 years ago.

On the other hand, I see where you're coming from. This happened in January

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2896408/This-Paul-McCartney-guy-gonna-huge-Kanye-West-fans-funny-joke-One-collaboration.html

but then you read this

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/01/07/a-conversation-with-a-teenager-who-doesnt-know-who-paul-mccartney-is/

So the question is, why make jokes that heavily rely on the tone of your voice, on a written medium? I don't understand. At least add a "winky"...

Try renaming the original file's extension from mkv to mp4. That worked for me.

What's your tv? Make, model?

What, you don't remember this news story from 3 years ago?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129971/Titanic-100th-anniversary-Twitter-users-just-Titanic-really-happened.html

RicOlie_2 said:

One of my friends lived in Italy for a year, and some of his classmates were under the impression that he had lived in an igloo back home, and had never seen advanced technology like computers.

 Mistaking Canada for the Arctic Circle? That's a paddlin'.

Although to be fair I've witnessed some people from the U.S. make the same error.

That's the one good thing Facebook brought to us: the stupid shit you might say once, in conversation, which would've been forgotten 10 minutes later... will be kept online for decades, for people to laugh at.

ok, let's change the subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g3FLEa61I

I fucking hate how xenophobic and obtusely ignorant a great number of italians are. It drives me nuts.

I can't wait to emigrate, then I'll finally be able to renounce a citizenship that really doesn't belong to me and an identity that I don't identify myself with.

It's reasonably easy once you get the hang of it.

I'm still at a basic level, I'd say, no original songs yet, all covers. Many unfinished songs in my folder. "Rogue Squadron" is one of my most recent ones.

I've been working for months on Elmer Bernstein's Ghostbusters Theme. It's almost finished, I need to sequence the last part with the key change. That one also uses the VRC6.

That's all well and good, but still, theists apparently can make, sorry, ignorant claims about what atheism actually is.

And to think that, when Possessed posted:

I hate it when people try to claim that atheism is a religion of its own.  That's like saying you've made a hobby of not collecting stamps.

I thought, "Who would make a silly error like that??"

But apparently, such a logical fallacy is apparently possible. That's alright.

Warbler said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

darth_ender said:

atheism is too broad a category to rule it as a religion or not a religion.

 Nope, it's real easy. It's not a religion.

I'd say it was the religion of no religion.

That's like saying a flower is a type of concrete because it doesn't have concrete in it.

Let's say somebody wanted to practice it as such... Where is the Holy-Book? Where are the places of worship? Where is the deity? Where is the religious figurehead? Where are the doctrines? Where are the priests? Where is the organised structure? Where are the forms of dress? Where are the rules? Where is the rigidly defined creation myth? Where is the iconography?

I would argue that a religion doesn't need that stuff.

What the hell is a religion without a set of principles?

Warbler said:

DominicCobb said:

Essentially you're saying atheists have faith in their lack of faith. Interesting.

They have faith that there is no God.  

I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept for theists to grasp.

http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Atheism_is_based_on_faith

Disbelief based on lack of evidence does not require faith. In fact, disbelief does not require evidence of any kind. Someone who has never heard of the concept of "gods" would not believe in them. Under the broader definition of atheism, they would be an atheist and yet not have faith that no gods exist. Similarly, someone who has been given evidence and simply finds it lacking (the classic narrower definition of atheist) would also not be relying on faith for his or her lack of belief.

You guys remember "Rogue Squadron 3d"?

I'm making a cover of the main theme on Famitracker, a sequencer that produces music for the NES (basically any composition written on it will run on the actual console).

The original theme was composed by the talented and prolific Chris Huelsbeck.

Here's a current work in progress:

http://tindeck.com/listen/rdaiu

EDIT: forgot to add, this tune uses the VRC6 expansion chip.

Warbler said:

btw, I looks up the definition of religion:

1

a :  the state of a religious religion>

b (1) :  the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) :  commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance

2

:  a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices

3

archaic :  scrupulous conformity :  conscientiousness

4

:  a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

 

I believe number 4 fits Atheism and possibly number 2 as well.

 You've got it all backwards, Warb. Atheism is exactly the lack of "a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith", thus making it obviously NOT a religion. That's the whole point.

When I think of Canada, I'm always reminded of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ic3xNfEP_o

I know, right? I guess whoever made that, read this book:

Apparently writing "2029" and panning to a horrible dystopian mechanical nightmare wasn't enough. Maybe, if it weren't for that, in 1984 some italians might've looked at that and thought "oh, what a nice summer evening". They'd probably think it was a construction site on the A3 freeway.

MrBrown said:

Really looks great.

Even if the font on the reference Image seem a bit more heavy. But this might just occur because of the image quality and such.

Yes, I must've messed up somewhere, but I just wanted test it, to see how it would look. I'll fix it.

Edit: I notice the color difference in the reinserted "clean" part of the image. Seem to be a slight notch lesser bluish/greenish than the rest.

 Yeah, about that. Do you have any suggestions? I've seen people messing around in Matlab lately, to automatically color match different sources, but I know nothing about the program. Methinks I should ask around.

Little update, as I mentioned two pages ago, a very kind person who goes by the name of Yautja is making the font for this reconstruction. He gave me a w.i.p. version of it, and five minutes ago I quickly whipped up this little mockup.

For reference, here's what the original looked like:

PM sent.

SilverWook said:

Will somebody give this guy a hint?

https://www.inverse.com/article/3942-why-finding-the-original-1977-star-wars-verges-on-the-impossible

And I take great offense at the idea only insane people own a Laserdisc player at this point. ;)

 https://twitter.com/SeanBHutchinson/status/631949059532582912

Warbler said:

Nobody was thinking sequel when the original film wrapped.

 they weren't?  did you see the same ending to first movie that I did??

They actually weren't, the movie was supposed to be a self contained story. If you're referring to the "To be continued..." title card, that was added in the vhs release, it wasn't in the theatrical release.

*goes to read cast*

*Rick Moranis isn't in it*

not interested.

The other day I watched all the New Mickey Mouse Shorts made so far. I forgive Disney for making that infernal CG Clubhouse.

They're grrrrrreat!

SilverWook said:

Maybe it's tech to keep every spinoff from costing $200 million to make?

I doubt the Kenobi one is going to be entirely set on Tatooine either.

 yeah, "The Ben Kenobi Chronicles, Episode I: Old Ben goes to the shops for a pack of smokes."

Good luck Shawn!

DuracellEnergizer said:

Leonardo said:

I read the article, and it reinforced what I already knew from old interviews. Crispin Glover is a pretentious character actor who fancies himself quite the thespian

I wonder if he's repressed the memories about his involvement in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.

 You're right! From now on, if I ever come across another one of his interviews and he's blabbling about studios having an agenda and other such balderdash, I'll just imagine him talking while doing this:

Bob Gale's take on the issue:

I tried twice to contact Gale about Glover’s claims, but he was unavailable. However, I interviewed him last year for my book and he had nothing but kind words to say about Glover’s performance. He said that he and Zemeckis had originally envisaged George McFly as “a young Jimmy Stewart” but, to their enormous credit, they immediately recognised at Glover’s audition that he would “make the part so much his own that I can’t even recall what we were thinking when we wrote it”. I also asked him about the film’s equation between money and happiness: “The point was that self-confidence and the ability to stand up for yourself are qualities that lead to success. In a movie, you look for images to depict what you’re trying to say and this was a way to show that George had indeed become a better man,” he said.

Glover points out that Zemeckis and Gale happily recast the actor who played Marty’s girlfriend when Claudia Wells, who played her in the original film, couldn’t do the sequel. That they didn’t do the same for George McFly, he says, is proof that the filmmakers were trying to punish Glover for his belligerence. It strikes me, though, that it’s more likely to be an indication that they knew all too well how central Glover’s performance was to the appeal of the original film and were trying to work around his absence as best they could in the sequel.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/30/crispin-glover-the-carrier-interview

ignore this post, sorry. I was replying to stinky and frink.