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I think religion is also a social bonding thing. Humans always want to belong to some "tribe" that others don't, so the socialization and religiosity parts of the brain are BOTH satisfied. Totally. But I'd rather be part of a game clan and make video games my religion. At least no one get...

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My hatred for Flash started in '97. This news is years too late for me, haha.

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Atheism makes it easier to see evil for what it really is: evil. Otherwise we're left with evil packaged as the will of God.

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Christopher was a bot, right?

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(...but the Occupy guys should probably get jobs...) I haven't been here long enough (or following close enough) to know if you are joking. And if you are I sincerely apologize. Seeing statements like that drive me crazy and compel me to act out, even when the statements are in jest. Unemployment i...

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Same thing could be said about sporting events. No magic needed.

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That's good info Jeff.

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If you really need specific apps, just use GTK. I know the Gnome window manager provides options to increase performance by turning off a lot of graphical features. It's like splitting the difference between KDE and LXDE. A stripped down Gnome is way lighter than KDE (and of course, way, way lighter...

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Yeah, in my opinions Fedora and Mint are in a dead heat for 2nd place under Ubuntu (speaking as someone who is married to systems with GUI's; I'm clumsy with a terminal).

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Top Gun wrote:The deck is being increasingly stacked against people trying to do what you did, to the point where, for most people, it's simply not feasible.

This is my reality. And I resent being called lazy, if even indirectly.

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I plan to install Fedora with XFCE shortly to replace Linux Mint LXDE. I need something lightweight, but Mint's LXDE is just a little too short on features. Fedora's XFCE build is like a dream come true for me, but that's because I only need a few, specific applications. That's the thing I like most...

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http://xkcd.com/verizon/
The recording of the encounter with customer service is unbelievable. I actually sat and listened to the whole thing (it's rather long). You can really share George Vaccaro's frustration. It really did change my opinion of Verizon, haha.

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woodchip wrote:If the movement is legit, then I expect to see protestors in Russia, China and Venezuela

China has had a number of similar protests this year.

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The only way I know how to do it is through the Pulse Audio mixer. Check this out: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Talk:Tutorial_-_Recording_Computer_Playback_on_Linux You basically install the Pulse mixer, choose it as a device in Audacity, then go back to the Pulse mixer and enable monitoring, ...

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I finally got a chance to play around with a little. Just a little. It's too easy to go crazy and mutilate other people's work, so I showed great restraint and only tweaked a few things. It doesn't sound a whole lot different than yours. http://brianhilmers.com/00/song121-vision1.mmpz What kind of m...

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I love The Who. That's probably my favorite track by them too. I'm on out of town on a job so I'll check out your LMMS file tomorrow when I get home.

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I don't know what kind of sound you are going for. I can only tell you what I personally would change. So "improvement" is only an improvement to me, not you. I guess I would a couple things. First, part of the main melody gets lost in the tremolo effect. I would either reduce the effect o...

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Wow, much improved. Well done. I do have to say, there is a melody I can't quite make out at 0:48. My guess it that the frequencies are outside my hearing range (I'm going deaf and can't hear anything over 13kHz). If I were to remix this, I'd move that melody to a different register to compensate fo...

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CUDA wrote:what the President did was tantamount to inviting himself over to your house for dinner at a date and time of his choosing.

I actually don't see anything wrong with that. I'd love to have the president over for diner any time he wants. That would be so cool. We could totally talk about stuff.

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Aw man, I was just about to crack open the level editor. You beat me to it. Cool info!

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I'll come back to this thread in a while to contribute my own if you don't mind. :) I'm in the process of writing my next full length album, part 3 of a project I named slowwavesleep . Hey Isaac, I wanted to direct you to this project I just finished. The whole thing was written and recorded in Ubu...

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Yeah the changing instruments bit is something I do when I have severe writer's block. Oh one more thing, you can also start by drawing notes in patterns the look interesting, regardless of how they sound. Playing them back will initially sound terrible, usually, but you might hear something interes...

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I do think the songs sound very similar, but maybe it's because you wrote them around the same time? They have similar progressions, sounds, and tempo. That's not necessarily a bad thing. The stuff you posted reminds me of classic video game music, which is kind of cool if that's what you are going ...

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Cool, any tips for new LMMS people, like me? LMMS is interesting. It doesn't have a whole lot of features and lacks some basic functionality found in other music software, but it also allows you to approach songwriting/arranging in different ways. The thing I do that's most helpful to me is using t...

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I'll come back to this thread in a while to contribute my own if you don't mind. :) I'm in the process of writing my next full length album, part 3 of a project I named slowwavesleep . Since I've moved to Linux recently, LMMS is one of the tools I'm using. I actually just completed a song in LMMS la...

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I was excited to read "Buddhist zones." I thought, "Oh wow, I bet those are relaxing!" I'm disappointed now.

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Yeah I've been holding off until I break something in 10.10, haha. I have a second computer with Mint Julia on it and I use that to test certain things before I apply them to my ubuntu machine. Writing this reminds me I can test out 11.4 on that other box of mine. Though I'm a bit lazy about that ki...

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I saw DOTM yesterday and agree with "meh". It was still way better than Revenge, but that's not hard to do since that movie was a steamy pile of crap. The only thing that held my interest in DOTM was all the action in Chicago, my hometown. Although, I did enjoy Leonard Nimoy's return to Tr...

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Played the secret and boss levels today. The secret level was rather boring, with a few clever puzzles though. Yeah, the level pretty much exists just for the puzzles because I didn't really put any in the mission. Oh, and to grab a few megas. The only point of criticism I find is that seems to hav...

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Frank Columbo solves the mystery of Bruce Wayne's murder and runs Alfred in (R.I.P. Peter Falk)

Also, obligatory.

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Oh wow, that's a pretty neat feature. I admit, I had a little trouble with DLE-XP and would up using DMB2 for half the work I did. If I decide to get crazy in the future and make more levels I'll take more time to learn DLE-XP. Maybe after I finally decide to download D2X-XL (it looks cool, but I'm ...

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Thanks for the feedback Fox, I really appreciate it. You're right about the doors on flat walls thing. I hate that too, but I ran into problems occasionally that I couldn't resolve without a ridiculous amount of cubes ( I don't know if you noticed, but two of the levels used all 800 available. :evil...

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Neat-o, I was just thinking about my svg options. The linux laptop I'm on can't run inkscape properly because of a video driver issue. Bookmarked! Thanks, Isaac.

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I wouldn't mind some feedback on my first (and probably last) mission for Descent. :) Vesta Three very dark levels. The lighting is also a bit experimental in places, so if it looks "unnatural" this is intentional. I tried to make them somewhat non-linear too. I can't tell if the levels ar...

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RE: Bots, I just got done designing a small set of D1 levels. Really, it's more about the placement and the combination of bots, not a bot's gimmick that makes the game interesting and challenging. Same is true about weapons - less is more. Lasers rule. Phoenix cannon? Not so much, haha.

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The hull repairs itself with nanobots (interesting that D2X-XL uses the same explanation for that as the books did - I don't think Karx has read them.) I liked a lot of ideas in the books and your plan seems pretty cool. I like upgrades instead of power-ups. Maybe the game could be structured so yo...

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Bluehost. I've used them for many years and have been so happy with their service, I've never even thought to look for another host - even though there may be better, cheaper services out there.

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It's been determined to be an artifact caused by a cosmic ray. Looks neat though.

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No way! That was my desktop all last week, haha.

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I love WinXP so much, I will miss it. Yeah. It's the last Windows OS I ever used for personal and school stuff. XP was great. I used it for many years and never had to reinstall it, and only got a blue-screen on rare occasions when I was messing with things I shouldn't have. The move from XP to Vis...

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