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Pitchfork bashing is very, very 2008. This album is pretty good. First track is my favourite but it's so over-the-top, like, Kanye knows he's full of himself and uses it to his advantage here. It's not my album of the year, but it's better than I was expecting it to be.

I seem to involuntarily bounce my knees when sitting, much to the annoyance of everyone when I was at school. I have no idea if this is a side-effect of medication or if it's just something I do. I'm going with the second because it gives me more peace of mind.

livetune - COSMiCA

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14880-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy/ heh.

[hide] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9UWZ9QdnAo Pledge, principle, water, superstition. Body, language, ready-made, existence. Brightness, desire, name, influence. Civilization, doubt, child, nature. Every liberty is an element of collapse. Differences invite a decline. Order is just a piece of paper. Block a man-made light by a wall. I see through a crack. If we could discuss equally again. When the object turns into us, That's when we can start to live. Unable to expose a plotted lie in life. Being influenced. Doubt my ownself. Hold criticism. Reveal my heart. Hopes I act out. Unchanging, essence, road, denial. Consciousness, creation, sound, pain. The weak, tragedy, presentment, circumstance. Despair, condition, disinterest, destruction. I collect the will worth of my field of vision. Learn much, I run intensely. From darkness to the light. Reasons and oblivion. Memories and loss. Nameless and birth. The gift the dead ones left.[/hide] A lot more abstraction than your average hardcore band. It loses some of its impact in translation but it still stands that Tatsuya is a very strong writer.

Amesoeurs - Faux semblants

I've never had a proper nosebleed.

It's wonderful when it snows here. It looks just like a christmas card.

Well, you're in the right place!

Radiohead - The Tourist

Flying Lotus - Dance Floor Stalker Breathe it in, man. Flying Lotus.

Man Sabrepulse is so, I don't know, uninspiring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1_BZd-3JM

Kanye's production was always A+. Gonna check out some of this later.

goddamn 4chan generation. t+pazolite - Girls be Colorful

RoughSketch - Gyakugire Circus unz unz unz unz

Vector Lovers - Yamanote Sundown

Cursive - Staying Alive

You're doing good. I can hit 5:1 as demo which is a "better" k:d than I pull as soldier sometimes, but I'm not as skilled as I am at soldier. My soldier performance depends a lot on how good the medic is and how willing they are to use me as a pocket. Demoman is significantly easier to play without a medic (more mobility, more damage spread) but you have to think defensively all the time. But do keep up demo, it's a class that's useful literally all the time if you're good at trapping up and pipes. Generally; 2:1 k/d as soldier is quite good in most pub games without a medic. I've hit 6:1 when I've had a good medic backing me up and that was when I was just getting into advanced soldier mechanics. When my shoulder gets better and I can play without pain from wasd then I'll make a few vids after I get back in practice. The game kinda stresses me out though so I doubt I could play competitively again. 3:1 as demo is more than fine but it's harder to rack up insane killstreaks (at least for me) in public games. I've gotten a 21 killstreak as soldier before and it wasn't even lucky. Everyone went pyro eventually though ;_; But yeah, I'm not especially great at this game overall. I'm strong at soldier and that's about it really. Scout and sniper are fun too. Try using an FPS config. I can supply you with some if you want. The game won't be pretty (and you can easily remove it if you don't like it) but being able to play properly is better than struggling at 15fps.

I find it easy now, but learning it was a huge pain. It's mostly because I learned in an academically "bad" way - mostly by reading Japanese web sites and simple books, and by doing that, you don't encounter katakana very often. It has a lot of benefits though. Reading sentence structure, tense and how verbs conjugate early on has been a very big help. 日本語はくだくだしい、でも時々随分実りある。

Hiragana is the easy one. Katakana however...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0OBIAgdyFc If I ever make a TF2 fragvideo, I will be setting it to this. It will be the greatest fragvideo.

Slowdive - Machine Gun Suicide, or getting high? Who knows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGOT4d2Hs8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNqJx_TKHbs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVn8PFkrzxk

Sydney Sleeper encourages camping. Sniper isn't fun if you spend an entire game camping. No headshots mean you can't effectively take out classes up close (and fwiw, anyone who can play sniper well does that) and well, you're just an easy target when someone gets within 6ft of you. If you have the rifle, you can instantly kill scouts (biggest threat up close) and do significant amounts of damage to soldiers and demomen. It's imperative to hit those close-range headshots on soldiers because they lose their retreat mechanism. Camp sniper is a boring mechanic. You don't "support" your team no matter what the Sydney Sleeper deludes people into thinking. It slows you down and restricts your options - ever thought about using the element of surprise as a sniper? You can't do that without the rifle. Even the Huntsman works moderately okay as a surprise weapon (yeah, Huntsman is actually pretty useful on certain maps) but nothing really beats the possibilities of the default. My point is - why let your team-mates finish someone off when you can just take them out quickly yourself? That's a true support sniper. Creativity is key to being good at that class. It's actually one of the easier classes in the game because if you play it for a few days, you pick it up really fast. It doesn't have anything particularly unique to master. It's also the easiest to get out of practice with, except for maybe scout, but that's a completely different playstyle. I always suggest taking up soldier to new players. Apart from medic, it's the best way to learn maps since you're constantly moving around. All of the unlocks are quite solid (especially the Direct Hit - one of my most favourite weapons) and it's very difficult to really do anything wrong. It also has plenty of advanced mechanics to learn and it's quite interchangeable with demoman as well, although that never really worked out for me. I have good pipebomb aim but I'm more useful jumping through the air, shooting things in the air, filling people full of lead and making them eat pickaxe. I've played this class competitively and in pub games and it's so balanced and rewarding. It's not hard to get good rocket and shotgun aim either. I don't even play anymore and I can write this much about it. Heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGOT4d2Hs8 Hell yeah, man.