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At 4/16/05 02:45 PM, Maus wrote:

At 4/16/05 01:28 PM, SpamWarrior wrote: They have potential to mess with peoples heads. I have a friend who's done acid twice and its damaged him a little i feel. Maybe i'm just selfish in wanting him to have his old personality.

Damaged, how? People change over time. whether it's from drugs, or just experiences. That's not damage, that's change.

You imply change for the better, this has made him have confused episodes where things make no sense, kind of like dreaming whilst hes awake. Scary shit.

I do not talk of addiction, if you became addicted to these and lived on your own you would definitely die within 2 years, at maximum limits.

That is not true of eveyone. Maybe yourself, and that's great that you know your limits. I've known moe than a few people that are addicted to K, have been for years, and I see them out all the time.

Indeed, if you have some social life it can balance you, and people can help steer you in the right direction.

And as for addiction, i meant people who are so isolated from reality, they never want to go there again, they'd rather sit inside and hallucinate a different world. As someone said to me recently, reality is for people who cant handle drugs, and drugs is for people who cant handle reality.

The main point i'm making is that people CAN be severely damaged from taking halucinogens, as much if not more than any legal drug. You cant just say for sure it wont happen, just as you cannot say it will.

I talk about the damage you can get from having it once. The sleepless sweaty nights, where you cannot remove the most horrible thing from your life, no matter how you look at it, you dont know how to look at it. I have a massive distrust of anything man made.

If something like that damages you after doing it ONCE, there's something off about your body and it's ability to deal with chemicals. Mayhap an allergy. Some are allergic to beer. Others, pot.

Sure, but just cos it was your bodys fault wont solve anything. The damage could have been done already. Be careful and dont take the piss out of your body is my main message regarding drugs.

Do you eat magarine? Do you drink soda?

Not really, and not really.

Do you know how acid is made? Its made from a fungus, that if you eat it, can be lethal. That scares the shit out of me. I've never heard of anyone dying from the effects of eating cannabis, apart from the odd choking which can happen with any food.

What do you think is in Bleu Cheese? What do you think shiitake mushrooms are? People eat fungi all the time. Later in this post, I'll add another comment that deals with this more directly.

Mushrooms that are safe, fine. Something thats made for profit from a poisonous fungus is a risk.

I have heard of 4 people i know who've had good times on ketamine, but i've heard countless stories of people going under in clubs and seeing giant spiders etc.

'Countless?' If someone goes into a K-hole, they are stupid for not knowing their limitations. I went under exactly once, out of my own stupidity. I don't blame the drug, I blame myself.

Indeed, but you say yourself that you know addicts. I didnt specify the type of people, but they were self destructive metal fans. And, yes, it is countless, as i cannot remember, even if its only due to the pot.

I've never been scared by anything on shrooms, except the thought of talking to people who are not on them at the time.

Shrooms are a fungus that can kill you. Fact.

If you have the wrong ones, or are allergic, yes. Otherwise, no, not fact.

I agree for some things and not for others. I've heard of more people having a permanent effect on them from having acid, datura and ketamine a few times than a couple spliffs every weekend.

That still does not negate the fact that the drug is not inherently bad. Something like carck, however, I see no benefits from. Crack is indeed evil. But not hallucinogenics.

Any drug can benefit anyone if they have the right mind for it. If not you will be scarred for life. As it is, crack is too addictive for most people to try and decide they dont like it.

Having nearly broken my liver, i have to say these are pretty bad. Drinking and tobacco smoking are bigger killers than people dying from hallucinogens, directly or indirectly.

So basically, you're admitting that you didn't know moderation, and allowed yourself to go over you limitations? That's not alcohol's fault. It's yours, and yours alone.

You telling me alcohol isnt addictive? If so thats going against at least the past 50 years of history i can account for. Even better, its an anaesthetic so you dont know you're hurting until it stops acting on your system. Sure i chose to drink too much, but it was EASILY available, legal, and therefore within my price range.
Take into account covert advertising, seeing people on tv films and in real life getting pissed and having a great time, it is as much societys fault as it is mine.

On a similar topic, is it possible to use a pc keyboard to record as midi? If so what programmes do i need?

At 4/21/05 06:49 PM, Baron_Von_Bad_Guy wrote: I'll listen and review some new audio tonight, sorry I haven't been around as much, I have been somewhat more busy with real life and such.

Mike

Heh, curse that real life, interfering with your pc time :P I'm going out into the real world tomorrow for the best part of the weekend too, so everyone can say things behind my back and it'll all be good :)

At 4/21/05 06:21 PM, Erkie wrote: Yeah, sure, if you're willing to compose, I don't want to limit anything.

Sweet I just added you to my msn, so i can talk a few things over easier. If thats a problem, fine.

At 4/21/05 05:56 PM, Erkie wrote: http://www.freewebs.com/composersguild/index.htm

This is stage one, musicians apply, here to serve newgrounds and it's flash artists. by the end of the week, it'll be open for business, you'll recieve personal and group composition deals from flash artists everywhere. It'll be a giant network., I'll also be moving the site to something a little more pride filled later on.

I'm well up for it. Is there room for a drum writer? I'm training myself on melody soon, but my best skill so far is drums for all kinds of music.

At 4/21/05 03:39 PM, B0UNC3 wrote: No no not at all.Although now when i read it again it actually DOES seem like it :/.
I was just generally asking if everyone else completely jams at producing when he/she gets (pissed, sad, stressed etc).

Ah right, well i cannot write anything sober, but i can polish a mix.

At 4/21/05 03:36 PM, Erkie wrote: Hahaha that's the goofiest thing I've ever heard.

Only you, man, only you.

Heh, you dont even know me, yet you do :)

My bad, i reviewed your track and i didnt notice the evil bird ring tone was there, so i thought you used it in your song. I apologise for it if you get confused by the comment.

My bad. I'll have to 5 you as compensation. It wont happen again tho :P

At 4/16/05 04:15 PM, Erkie wrote: General digital audio programs come with a parametric equalizer that is chopped into about twelve different parts on a chart, on most programs the very first EQ option (Top, to the left, 52k) is playing around with the bass, then as you scale down the EQ it goes down to the acoustics and percussion. It works well with beats and basslines, reverb, echo and distortion settings.

Hmmm thank you, but i think you've confused me a little more.

To play outside, or to play inside with my pc, that is the question :S

A barrier would be good, but there would need to be a lot of artists from experimental as well as other areas judging, as it seems to be experimental in my experience which takes the most abuse. Noobs just think "eh, its not metal, therefore its shit" or "eh, its not techno, therefore its shit"

There'd need to be a fair panel deciding basically, and it wouldnt be fair to have the largest genres have the most representatives, as whilst it would seem fair, they would naturally favour their own sound, so what others see as good experimental they would see as a crock of shit.

At 4/21/05 01:51 PM, Unperson wrote: You guys posted 5 replies telling me to look around the forum when you couldve gave me the answer. :( </3 lol

Well i dont know the answer, just that theres a topic on it, so it would've taken me just as much time as you to find it.

At 4/21/05 01:07 PM, Erkie wrote: It's no biggy, if you get too over zealous I can just dart you with this ten pound tranquilizer gun they use on elephants.

HEY YOU F**KING

*zap*

aaaaah, the good shiiiiiiiiiiii...........

:p

At 4/21/05 12:11 PM, Erkie wrote: What he's saying, is that almost everyday the same questions are asked, and we've made plenty of resources. You're suppose to look for the right topics.

Was i too harsh? My bad, i apologise.

At 4/21/05 12:35 PM, fredtherealist wrote: Thanks you two. I'm pretty fly at synth drumming anyway, but come to think of it I'm pretty limited, I'll keep you posted.

Ok, well i have a real kit, if Zeroks up for sharing samples of his kit too then i would have some sick samples available. I have a soft synth drum machine too, and enough programmes to put effects on real drums so that they will sound just as good as reason drums i reckon, though maybe i'm just being manically big headed :)

Theres nothing wrong with short loops. Its when they get rated as higher effort than a full track people get annoyed. Not many flashes are up for fitting in full tracks, unless someone writes a video around a song, like someone did with a deftones track, Luis i think it was.

At 4/21/05 12:21 PM, Erkie wrote: Damn.

So close.

If you can wait til the end of the year i'll get some photo's of the studio from the uni i want to go to. :) Well more to the point which studio. Theres so much to learn, and i'm gonna have a ball :)

Whilst on the subject i will gladly compose different types of layered drum beats with effects for any artist who wants them. I currently know bugger all about melody, but as a drummer i can make some sick beats, to suit any style.

At 4/20/05 08:47 PM, imdisturbed wrote:

At 4/18/05 10:14 PM, -Michael- wrote: That's right. In this situation the terrorists would be forgiven for their sins. They didn't know what they were doing.

OH WAIT.

WE LIVE IN AMERICA! WE NEED TO INJECT PATRIOTISM INTO THIS FORGIVENESS SCHEME!

Dilate forgiveness with patriotism..

If our nation was to embrace Jesus's philosophy -- we'd probably would've turned our cheeks when the bad guys hit us.

No, its gods job to forgive the terrorists; Its OUR job to arange the meeting.

"DO UNTO OTHERS AS THEY WOULD DO UNTO YOU"

I think its time the middle east took over america and sold all their produce to themselves at nice prices. Al-Kebab, anyone?

Anyway, nuff of the soundbites. Religion as a concept divides the people, and it suits the world rulers to divide people in this way. Everyone should share the same religion, completely everyone, or have no religion at all, for the sake of human lives. When people get into groups the Rioter iq takes over which is:

IQ of most stupid member there/number of people in the mob

"OH NO THEY HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWS LETS START A WAR BECAUSE WE DONT LIKE IT"

Which is what happened years ago.

This feud has been maintained to the glee of the ruling class, who care for no ones side, just that they stay in power, or in the lower ranks, have some power.

At 4/21/05 10:47 AM, Rooster349 wrote:

That's not a breaking story. That's just a natural occurence, and we have books that talk about why they are starving to death. You won't believe this, but Paul Theroux thinks that it's because of Western Charity. Read this book. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...5-6409434?v=glance&s=books

Nah i would believe it. Western charity is patronising and ineffective. So called charity is a sham, a pisstake. Theres not enough effort gone into fixing the problem, just money thrown at it. Just because something happens daily doesnt mean its natural. How many tribes died of starvation before white man went over and stole the land and took the hardest workers?

Charity exists so that the middle class can make their conscience pain them less. It serves no brilliant purpose other than to prolong misery. If there was more effort thrown at it and redistribution of wealth, there would be less famine over the entire continent. Anyway, come see me in my other topics about this issue, i cant be bothered explaining more here, i'll get in trouble.

Also, God can be bad. Creationism being taught in american schools actually teaches unquestioning belief in authority, and makes people not even consider other possibilities. For example, why couldnt god create the earth, designed so that mankind evolves out of it?

Because it would broaden people's intelligence and make them question authority. Religion is used to divide people. Those that are likely to cause trouble are seen by the religious as being either the other religion, or the lazy good for nothing atheists.
Atheists blame the no good extremely ignorant and backwards god lovers, of any religious as causing the most trouble, and they have the most evidence supporting them.

Regarding the idea of omniescence and free will, just because you can manipulate your hamsters movements limb by limb by exerting force, would you? Isnt it more interesting to let the little bugger run round and look after itself? And admire its falsely independent spirit....

We cannot ever know by using any method the following things -
1. whether god exists
2. What Its motives are, so anyone that sees themselves as being right about the issue who believes in god is scientifically wrong. Anyone who doesnt cannot be proven right either.

Oh and as for religion came from, i reckon someone ate some psychedelics back in the day before people knew what drugs were, and told people of what they saw. Who's to say whether they're right or not? We can never know.....

Depends on what you mean by bad. For holding society together, its very good. For justifying wars against the infidel, its very good.

Religion that believes in a creator god and believes it has a definitive answer is a self contradiction really. Since we cant know gods mysteries, how can we say that anyone knows god's will?

Religion is used to oppress peoples, and cause war on them, and exploit them.

Religion is used to hold the groups together, who then fight each other.

There is nothing worse for the world than a fundamentalist of any of the worlds major religions. All their existence does is promote pointless violence. Numberous examples

Christians, Jews and Muslims (i think maybe muslims) fighting over lands in israel and palestine, all fighting over holy buildings and structures. This was the crusades a few hundred years ago, and is still going today.

Christians vs muslims (west vs middle east) is now a battle, only the thing that they are fighting for is over moral beliefs. They both have good and bad points about their law.

Religion based on creator gods can lead to good moral values too, but these values can be used to exploit people. For example, to make the african slaves more accepting of their station in life, puritan values of no man being able to rise above his station were attempted to be ingrained into many of them. Thank fuck many saw it all as bullshit, and fought for freedom.

To sum up, religion based on a creator god is as good as any explanation for life, but it IS used to divide people and conquer them.

At 4/19/05 07:27 PM, JusticeofSarcasm wrote: This guy must be nuts. Is killing several people justfiable to save lab rats?

Anyone who supports animal life over human life is a traitor to the species. They should be thrown into a jungle, with nothing but their bare wits. Then lets see how much they love the animals as they die from a combination of malaria from mosquitos, and blood loss from having their fucking legs chewed off by a lion.

The fucking irritating thing is how they manipulate children, by mostly saving cutesy fluffy things. I dont hear of people saving malaria ridden mosquito's that people are experimenting to find cures for. If they do they are clinically insane.

Anyways, I have an alternative to animal experiments, that would solve many problems at once. Anyone who is convicted of a serious offence loses any rights, and therefore can be subject to medical research. If you were thinkin about raping someone, and the consequence as well as being arse raped in prison was scientists infecting you with the latest flu and trying to cure it, you'd probably think twice unless you were crazy.

A bit of a generalisation, but i'm sure you can see my point.

At 4/21/05 09:02 AM, darklad wrote: tough, should i reject, or accept the system? and is it worth it? so many decesions and questions...and if i support democracy people would think i support what america is doing in iraq, which no offence isn't good, as far as their veiws on iraq is concered

Well i believe that democracy is an illusion perpetrated by the ruling classes. At least with a king who can be corrupt and exploitative ( I know nothing about Jordan, in the slightest) the people can know they are oppressed, and be ready to fight when the moment comes. I know that makes it no clearer whatsoever, just expressing my view.

I agree with the poster who said that you are putting yourself at risk if you are pro democracy however. Many countries got rid of the power of their monarchys, long ago before these modern weapons came into play. Now an uprising can be crushed with a few missiles. I reckon your best choice is to get the fuck out of there and criticise it from the outside.

The news is divided so that people wih different opinions will group together, and argue against other groups of people. The bias of each paper is not only in how it covers each story, but what each story it shows is. The news media is the main source of information for most people for whats going on the world, so each programme serves to seek a particular fanbase (fox zealots, anyone?)

Oh and i read the guardian, uk. Quite liberal, quite full of shit that only matters to posh people such as fashionable furniture. I trust no one news source, only my own interpretation of an event, and what the issues are that they divert us from. EG the war in iraq was to distract people from mistakes in the governments involved, and the outcry over animal rights was to distract people from the war in iraq. A nice circle of deception.

If "people starving in Africa" was a daily headline, people would try to do something about it. As it is, its seen as "not newsworthy" so the news people ignore it, and therefore so does the common man.

At 4/13/05 04:49 PM, -api- wrote: Could there be, by any chance, an implementation of a java/flash timer that will open up the voting panel when the song has completed one play? Artists need to be given a better chance. One day, I look at my audio scores, they range from about a 3.50 - 4.50, then the next, they are in the ones and two's. This blows my mind. The same goes for the flash portal.

The problem is jealousy, or offending people. People who make shit audio think "giving him a 0 will make me feel better and also increase my place a bit" I think people who stalk people and 0 people should be allowed to still 0 them, but the 0 should have much less of a strong affect. If people were banned for being spiteful they'd just get a new account. Sad bastards. ah well......

I reckon that people on the same page or set score range shouldnt be allowed to vote on each others songs, though i'm not sure how to fit in people like me who 5 their own tracks so that they get noticed. In this situation I shouldnt be able to judge anyone who is in the same range of scores. This would stop people from voting down songs just to increase their own place. Apologies to Denvish, but i'm not sure where the evolution thread is, and i think this should be hammered out properly here before the staff see it.

Any comments?

At 4/21/05 08:37 AM, B0UNC3 wrote: Does your temper affect your producing?Mine does.Just go check out my last track (Infinite love) and you will hear it :P.It's a total fiasko (?).I do believe I posted in the right place since it has to do with audio :).I can't even come up with a good melody when I'm pissed, or make a simple 3 step part.Hehe it just comes out as poo when I try.

Heh are you after compliments? What I heard of it was well made. Emotion affects everything to do with music, from writing the melody to polishing it. If it doesnt then you are a soulless robot :P

At 4/21/05 03:38 AM, Unperson wrote: How might one go about converting .wma's to .mp3 or .wav

Relevant topic is available in this forum, if you look. If you care about learning just look for it, it'll take you 5 minutes and you might learn many more interestin things on the way.

At 4/18/05 03:01 PM, Zerok wrote: Tappa Badoom!

Beautiful set up there. I'm going to go cry now.

At 4/20/05 03:29 PM, Erkie wrote: That'd be pretty neat.

Maybe if you ever see your friend's studio you should hook us up with pictures 'n stuff.

Heh you misunderstood. I've seen a studio before, but i meant that i've seen my mates copy of reason. My bad.