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Chat / Re: SOPA

« on: February 23, 2012, 12:32:45 pm »

But back to the topic at hand, I'm fairly certain SOPA will return in another guise with the same intentions -- to allow easier government control of the Internet.

Stay alert!

Is that not just ACTA?

More or less, although ACTA has yet to be ratified. It has something like 31 signatories right now but  all it needs now is just 6 of those countries to approve of the thing and put it into force.

Although MU has many legit customers and uses, the clearly didn't focus on growing these sectors and weeding out the piracy.

A telling situation for sure. Many other file sharing services now refuse connections from the U.S. because of the MU take down. They're probably doing the very same things (selling bulk accounts to pirates).

RapidShare is one notable exception -- they've overcome scrutiny from the anti-piracy forces by actually complying with the need to police the illegal use of their service in a pro-active manner.

In my opinion, there are better ways to deal with piracy than via draconian measures such as ACTA and SOPA/PIPA. Shutting down MU the way the did was tantamount to "throwing out the baby with the bathwater."

I don't believe any of the legitimate users of MU have been able to retrieve their data and they might not ever, last I heard.

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Songs / Re: Video Game Music (Classic and Modern)

« on: February 23, 2012, 12:09:42 pm »

The old Earthworm Jim games had fantastic music by Tommy Tallarico.

The CD versions from Playstation, PC and Saturn are advised, but no one surfs those.

Looks like I'll have to get busy and run some of them.

I made an Earthworm Jim mix a couple of years ago that some people liked and surfed. It was about 20 minutes long (I think). Maybe I should re-upload the thing.

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Chat / Re: SOPA

« on: February 22, 2012, 05:22:47 pm »

Don't worry about anything because i don't think that sopa will ever gonna approved because of too much pressures are coming to us government to stop sopa from all over the world.

say that to megaupload lmao

See, that's just it -- the Feds didn't need SOPA to get Kim Dotcom since he had servers in the U.S.

Any country which is a signatory to the Berne Convention and other international copyright treaties will cooperate to get the so-called "bad guys." My problem with New Zealand is how the raid was carried out against Dotcom like he was some sort of terrorist or mass-murderer.

Other than that, the BIGGEST problem is how the media companies (which are actually International and not just U.S.-based) are able to throw enough money at politicians to get them to do their bidding.

I pointed out the international nature of the media companies for the sole purpose of heading off the usual U.S. bashing that comes along with this topic. While it was true years ago that the U.S. based media were the biggest bad guys concerning copyright aggression, nowadays nearly every country has their own version of the MPAA and RIAA thugs.

But back to the topic at hand, I'm fairly certain SOPA will return in another guise with the same intentions -- to allow easier government control of the Internet.

Stay alert!

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Chat / Re: Advanced players on youtube?

« on: February 22, 2012, 05:03:43 pm »

Thanks. I'm not a fan of the new layout myself.

You mean YouTube's new layout?

If so, I'm with you -- it sucks.

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Chat / Re: When a DeThrone is NOT Really a DeThrone

« on: February 22, 2012, 05:01:16 pm »

But you should know that it was a 61-year-old man who kept beating you using Mono fair and square.

Wait. What?

Hey, I said it was a "weird 'Old Guy' rant."

Way to go UncFester! Sticking to your guns (or knife in this case).

Thanks! The knife is getting a bit dull but it can still get the job done when necessary.

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Songs / Re: my channel on youtube

« on: February 22, 2012, 04:52:54 pm »

OOPS! -- The Copyright Police struck again!

[The account is gone]

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Songs / Re: Video Game Music (Classic and Modern)

« on: February 22, 2012, 04:50:58 pm »

The old Earthworm Jim games had fantastic music by Tommy Tallarico.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Devices that can be used to control Audiosurf(without a key-mapper)

« on: February 22, 2012, 04:47:39 pm »

the mouse position dosnt gradually drift, it;s center position just changes when you knock the ship against the side of the screen and still move the mouse that that direction.

since mouse movement is just relative.

with a wacom the tablet surface is mapped to the screen so the bottom left corner of the tablet is always the bottom left corner of the screen no matter where you started from.

i really should try that though, got a bamboo and a intuos4 never thought of gameing with them, just use them for Photoshop and zbrush sculptying.

You're correct -- I hadn't really thought it completely through about hitting the sides of the screen and it still moving. Thanks!

You might not like using the tablet at first, but once you get used to the differences it becomes about as natural as using a regular mouse.

When I say "about as natural" I actually mean "almost." My tablet is an old Intuos 2 but it still works  as good as when it was new.

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Chat / When a DeThrone is NOT Really a DeThrone

« on: February 22, 2012, 12:51:34 am »

I'm a Mono character player (exclusively) and not ashamed to say so.

There have been criticisms over the years about Audio-Surf scoreboards not being fair to Mono players when a Puzzle character is used to dethrone them on a given song.

I've never really cared one way or another -- the game and my enjoyment of the game is all that ever really mattered to me in the end. If a random Puzzle character player came along and dethroned me -- so what? It's not a big deal.

But -- then I had a "stalker" recently appear and challenge me on various tunes using Mono characters. Each time I would make a comeback. When this "stalker" could no longer beat me using a Mono character they would use one of the Puzzle characters to take it away knowing that I'm not going to use a Puzzle character myself in return.

Kind of like a two-year-old throwing a tantrum just to get his way.

Well, I don't know if my stalker follows this forum or not, but here's a clue if you're reading this:

You haven't beat me at all. By throwing your little fits and "defeating" me using a Puzzle character you've essentially admitted your own defeat.

Changing to a Puzzle character against a Mono player is like bringing a gun to a knife fight -- they're two, entirely different things. But you should know that it was a 61-year-old man who kept beating you using Mono fair and square. How's that make you feel now?

If you want the thrones that bad, then have at 'em. Now go stalk someone else for a while you loser PoS, mkay?

End of weird "Old Guy" Rant.

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Songs / Re: Your hardest song you ever finished on Stealth?

« on: February 21, 2012, 11:57:18 pm »

panty & stocking - pantscada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dDapMSvm5s

Wow - I like that!

Both the title of the song and the way it plays in Audio-Surf.
Is there a free download of that tune to be found anywhere?

Oh, and really nice run in that video!

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Troubleshooting / Re: Devices that can be used to control Audiosurf(without a key-mapper)

« on: February 21, 2012, 11:48:02 pm »

Probably already known -- but I sometimes use a Wacom graphics tablet.

You can use either the stylus or the cordless mouse with one of these things.  Granted, it's not much different from "standard" mouse input, but there is a difference. Using a regular mouse, I have to sometimes adjust the position of the mouse on whatever surface I'm using (the "center" position where you first start seems to gradually drift). With the Wacom tablet it never drifts - the X and Y coordinates are embedded and as a result, there's no drifting.

Get my drift?

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Feature Requests / Re: New Game Mode

« on: February 05, 2012, 01:03:14 am »

You could just tag the song with [as-nogrey][as-caterp][as-4lane] (that's four lanes of caterpillar traffic with no grey blocks).

http://www.audio-surf.com/forum/index.php/topic,3784.0.html  <-- More detail here

How do I do that?

It's explained in the link given.

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Songs / Re: Audiosurf - Perfect Crime (Subsonik remix)

« on: February 05, 2012, 01:00:18 am »

Ninja Mono W/ Iron mode = Perfect

Nice run!

But it wasn't "perfect." You missed 3 blocks and didn't get a Clean Finish.

1st Block miss at 1:19 in the left column.

2nd Block miss at 1:36 in the right column.

3rd Block miss at 2:18 in the left column.

Yes, I'm a nit-picker but you might have achieved the high score if not for those things.

Great song and a great run anyway!

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Chat / Re: Saturday is a red letter day

« on: February 04, 2012, 04:53:51 pm »

It's great to see a couple of people here who actually understood the purpose!

Over on SPUF, there are many who didn't even take the time to read the goal of Red Letter Day and instead, whined about it being some sort of demand for the game "Now!"

The event fell far short of the membership in the group -- something like only 13,000 actually played.

Oh, well. It was a nice way to let Valve know that people still love the HL games and that they merely want to know a little something regarding their future plans for the game.

For the record, I played for a couple of hours overlapping the appointed time and will probably play a bit more later today.

Not that it matters...I just like the game.

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Discussion / Re: Unofficial Audiosurf Scoreboard Experience

« on: January 31, 2012, 05:10:45 am »

Turns out I'm not a fan.

Understandable.