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    Werewolf 3: The Signups

    in Everything Else

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    On 3/6/2020 at 4:28 PM, fox said:

    If you got beef with me take it to pm.  
    Don’t drag Reed’s game down with your trolling and drama.

    yeesh... no drama outside of the above response.

    If I think you're a wolf then i'll destroy you like the last game, reducing you to an emotional puddle. 🙂

    And if not, then you have nothing to worry about!

    Music Debate 48: Britney Spears

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    10 minutes ago, MachineCode said:

    No it isn't. That's precisely the issue that people are having. We're talking about Britney Spears. Her and art are mutually exclusive. She's nothing more than a product to sell. Nothing wrong with people enjoying that product, but call a spade a spade.

    she's art. listen, look, etc. yr absorbing a feeling though a medium. art, bro. it's art. 

    also debate has been not only done to death, but satirized to the nines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_(entertainer) or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8JE00xTMBOqKs7o0grFTfQ

    where Poppy, an entertainer, singer songwriter, etc. (who literally has a photo where she sits in the little girl pose of Britany) slowly rebels- we think she's a robot, she says odd stuff, she's being controlled, she's being cloned, her life isn't her own, this is a manufactured silicon celeb like all celebs...
     

    Music Debate 48: Britney Spears

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    1 hour ago, RH said:

    It's not gatekeeping, so to speak.

    it's classic gatekeeping when it's framed as "you don't know as much as I when it comes to X because you haven't done X." this is art: subjective as hell.

    @skinnygrinny I think they're accepting fame/fortune/followers as the metric of success, when all it does is allow for a wider distribution across mediums (radio/tv/spotify/ads/movies/downloads).

    so many talented musicians making good stuff- that's why soundcloud is amazing (or any other platform) - it evens the playing field for accessibility. 

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    Music Debate 48: Britney Spears

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    slow reading

    i hate the gatekeeping of "do you play an instrument?" because I can gatekeep more- having perfect pitch, proficient in most instrument, composed for film, played professionally, and have a deep and vast knowledge of music that few can ever attain. and there's folks who know more/practiced more/performed more than me- there, we're all dicks, happy?

    It is what it is. Britany's music is the top of a genre and made for all to enjoy. All music is played for everyone to enjoy- outside of some dada music that's intentionally dissident. It is ART, which has a huge slice of subjectivity served with every piece- BUT, to gatekeep in a positive way, it always doesn't have to be an argument when someone says they like django reinhart and not <whomever is at the top of their game right now in the fringe jazz guitar scene in Astoria nightclubs>.

    That being said: it's good to know what like (and don't like) when it comes to art. It's nice to stay in your lane and enjoy what speaks to you, or consciously explore other genres (and be able to articulate why it sucks or be surprised that you like it).

    Spoiler

    Also, my Britany story is 100% true, just read it in a J Peterman voice. 

    edit: added to shame a few folks who posted a few pages back. we've moved on

    Music Debate 48: Britney Spears

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    I met Britany in an elevator in Beverly Hills back in 2002...

    I WAS A YOUNG MAN- shit, sorry. I was a young man then, running scripts around town, worried about terrorists, and juggling quite a few lady friends as best I can remember. Anyway, buzz in the office was the starlet Ms. Brittany Speares was coming in, and everyone lost their collective fucking shit. She was reading for a part in an untitled film that was later titled, entitled, Garden State. I had just come back from driving new sides over to former The State star Thomas Lennon, no relation to the communist Vladimir Lenin who destroyed untold millions of lives with his whacky idea of communism, and I was sweaty and somewhat annoyed, as we all were in Los Angeles around that time, mostly because they made two more Matrix movies in an effort to cash in on some cheap photography tricks and really ruin a potentially epic scifi franchise. 

    Because of the general hubbub and ballyhoo, the production office had spared no expense in preparation to receive our populist queen. My fellow runner and half-roommate Joe had spent most of his day running around to a bunch of Ralphs in an effort to find the coldest can of Pepsi when the singing sensation arrived, as she was currently engaged in a lucrative contract with the sugar-water purveyor.  I say half-roommate because I was currently squatting in his apartment, shared by another friend of ours who's name was only initials and, because the Long Beach dive was barely functional, it did lack the space to house a third person, so I slept underneath a structurally unsound air hockey table, fashioning a bed from the guest quilt and a few lumpy pillows.

    All that to be said, I parked in a half spot down in P3, got in the elevator and was immediately vexed when I stopped on the god damn ground floor. I do believe I was humming "oops, I did it again," either caught up in the spirit of the day or in a effort to stave off the growing madness, but quickly stopped when a large african american man first entered, as wide as he was tall, with a huge role of neck on top of his neck. He eyeballed me and then held the doors open as Britany stepped on, along with her mom and sister. 

    As graceful as a giraffe on the plains and elegant as a frame on one of those fancy museum paintings, Britany smiled and said hello. I then realized her music prowess wasn't hours of both voice and dance practice, meticulously crafting a stage personality, and constant management of what we now call social media presence- she had, with a smile, stolen my very power to speak. I did croak out something, and rode up in silence, praying that she couldn't hear me sweat. When we got up our receptionist Tracy, who, besides being an avid horse race gambler and on-the-job-drinker, had a surprisingly excellent sense of decorum, offered her a Pepsi (slightly warm because she picked up the ones on Joe's desk which he was stealing for mixers for an apartment party), and then ushered me out of the foyer with a joke about finding me a sham wow (that was a towel that could absorb a lake for the low, low price of 19.95 (plus shipping)).

    True. Story.

    Bleep Bop Records Compilation Cart

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    Calling all NES 2a03 Chiptune Artists!

    Have you ever made a really great chiptune song using FamiTracker and thought, I could totally make an album, but then after two more songs and a few unfinished ideas sorta forgot about it? How about dusting off the old FamiTracker and put your best idea out there to be on a compilation cart? Details below in the pdf!

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    NES Artist Compilation Album Cart

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    @Cris nice- welcome aboard! love the work, bubble pop is running non-stop this morning! We'll be using vanilla Famitracker, but with effects- are you comfortable in that arena?

    @TylerBarnes sorry, i straight up didn't sent you a file. i'll PM it when i get home. I've been hitting folks up on r/chiptune who've posted NES chip tunes and will get on twitter right now!

    NES Artist Compilation Album Cart

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    freakin, ppmck.i've done it, for 2 albums- and actually took a few weeks to unspin from ppmck to famitracker for the sole reason of the convenience of famitone/asm.

    it's rough when you'd like to play a pattern in the middle of the song and have to pull everything down (or comment out), compile, listen, swear, find the note that should be E16 instead of E8... rinse, repeat.

    the tracker format is a comfortable gui, gives you a ton of nice options for effects, and takes the technical schlog out of composing.

    get FT and give it a shot. I can send you a few ftm files if it'll help...

    there's also a secret (or not so secret) new release of famitone on nesdev which allows for more effects and a higher acceptable note range- i'll try and track that down

    NES Artist Compilation Album Cart

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    soooooooo i've seen rob (sly dog) do an effect where he reads the music as it rolls by and then displays the volume (0-15) with sprites, or background draws, who knows- making it look like an equalizer! 

    i thought, man, wouldn't it be cool if we could 'read' the musical output and then change sprites on screen depending on what's being outputted (played)? 

    this is pie in the sky stuff- i'm more about getting everyone on the same software and then getting those tracks together!

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