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He was also off his f***ing face.

That's weird because scrobbling has been kind of broken for the past few days for myself and most of my friends.

Nirvana effectively gave us Nickelback and Creed.

Speaking English, I think in English. Speaking Japanese, I think in Japanese. Speaking French, I think in French. Speaking German, I think in German. Speaking Polish, I think in Polish (even though this language is the hardest thing I've ever attempted to learn). Yeah, so it depends on what I am doing.

Yeah Satoshi Kon's death shook me up. Anime has largely been the same stuff for years and he was always doing things differently and making quality shows. Anime is kind of stagnant right now...

It's good. I agree, they don't sound like they're in the new wave. The Shape of Punk to Come is experimental even for post-hardcore. They were ahead of their time even then. Repeater + 3 Songs and then get The Argument. If you like those, you'll probably enjoy the rest too.

Glassjaw and Thrice are sweet post-98 bands. The genre has kind of taken a nosedive in my opinion and it's now less about wacky experimentation and abstraction and more about silly fringes and falsetto whine. Some bands have some okay stuff but a lot of it is sterile compared to Refused, Unwound and Fugazi... Each to their own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHsBA_9JWFA None of these modern bands will ever match this intensity.

You guys should practice RJ in some maps. It's really, really not that hard. Try rj_rckteer and then jump_adventure. I haven't done the 4th course on jump_adventure and the adept one has some tricky jumps that I can't get first time always, but it's really good practice. You won't use many of them in actual gameplay, though. It just teaches you techniques.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Paqic5sow0&feature=related

Yeah a lot of the better Japanese stuff is usually live-action. I don't like anime movies much at all. Only problem is that a lot of the more dramatic movies are kind of over-the-top and hard to take seriously, kind of like their TV dramas. リリイ・シュシュのすべて is a good starting point for Japanese cinema.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyaiD_Gw-Pc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sIeIcOo4rg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpFH-HfY-qo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHM2dTQX8E This genre is one of the most broad there is in music in terms of how bands sound.

They're both decent low and high temperatures for an AMD Athlon X2 but that's a rather big spike. Dust your stuff out and see how you go!

You don't need GParted, there's a utility that comes with Windows. That's kind of awkward but hey, it's not too bad. Only used it to format and assign new HDDs though.

It's probably your PC or connection.

The speed limit is 60 on almost all country roads here. It's crazy how different it is. Here, you would definitely get stopped and fined for doing 5mph over - my mother got stopped for doing 34 in a 30. Kind of made me rage because wow 34 big deal yet people who actually drive at really dangerous speeds through that area never get caught. I won't condone speeding after the car accidents I've been in, but I don't think 34 in a 30 where there are few children around is really a threat to anyone. All of this stuff like average speed monitoring and police that will jump on you for doing 32 has really put me off learning to drive.

Depresson - it's not just "feeling sad"; it's a condition where you have literally hit the bottom without an obvious way out of it. Depression of the clinical variety can be especially long-lasting and incapacitating. Unfortunately, "depressed" has become synonymous with "a bit sad/out of it" which really undermines the seriousness of the problem. I would daresay the "we all get depressed sometimes" argument is completely bulls**t and not many people actually experience it properly, thankfully. "Feeling sad" isn't in the DSM-IV as far as I am aware, except as a symptom. It's shocking that people can't grasp the fact that depression is actually a very serious problem and you can't just "man up" and walk away from it. You can act like there's nothing bothering all you as much as you damn well please. It will break you eventually. Sometimes you just can't discourage it [suicide]. A lot of more successful suicides seem to be rather spur-of-the-moment decisions rather than things that have been carefully planned - unless you're fortunate enough to come across your friend when he's about to carry the act out, what are you going to do about it? I'm quite sure we can all agree on the fact that it really is not one of the best causes of action to take; however, when you have been through something life-changingly negative, it can often feel that you have nothing else to live for. Fortunately, some people are lucky enough to pull through and recover. Others can't take living anymore. I agree with Dan - chemical imbalance does play a big part in suicidality. A lot of people get long periods of suicidal ideation yet never act on it, whereas other people will completely snap and carry it out almost instantaneously. Moral or not? I don't think we, as bystanders, are allowed to decide.

Don't think 40 or 50 are going to cause lag issues at all. My CPU hits that when playing games and it still performs fine. Also, I know people with Q6600s (hot quads!) where the temperatures are 55-65 degrees with no impact on performance. I would take out that RAM chip because it needs to be balanced to work best (dual/triple channel). See how your performance goes and post here as to whether or not it made a difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpFH-HfY-qo

Yep. Samsung panels are quite nice so maybe check them out. Look for one that doesn't bleed, and tear too much when fast images are being shown.

Doing what you do and posting like "indie music is indie because it sucks and nobody likes it" - I'm aware that you're most likely having a sarcastic crack but it's not really warranted and doesn't add anything. Normally, I wouldn't have taken an issue; however, this is "Music, Movies and Television". I see this as a forum where you can discuss what you like and what you don't like as much as you want, although it does need to be kept within reasonable bounds. It's not your taste I'm actually taking an issue with, or even you yourself; just how you present your posts in this forum. It looks kind of arrogant, for want of a better word. The following section isn't actually directed at anyone; it's more general. I don't want to come off as a pretentious jerk-off, so take it lightly. "I don't particularly enjoy independent or underground music that much. I find I tend to enjoy more mainstream-oriented music because of x reason, y reason and z reason." is a perfectly agreeable and respectful response. Problems arise when someone decides to go out of their way and be a complete tool and act like "your taste sucks 'cause you listen to AC/DC; get some Boring Post-Rock Band #3331 on instead". Then the whole argument spirals out of control and becomes completely pointless, like every argument over music. People take delight in arguing over subjective crap all the time, an argument that neither side can win. You get frustrated and there's no satisfaction from winning the argument because you actually can't. I don't have much against bold statements as long as you're prepared to stand by them and not give in or act all "well it's just too deep for you" when someone disagrees. Discourse about music is pretty much fine but debating and arguing completely subjective points doesn't belong. This post is useless because it's not like anyone is going to listen to what I have to say but I felt I needed to post it. Summary: this forum is inherently subjective. Arguing s**ts up the board and gets on everyone's nerves.

Everyone who has enough bandwidth and a decent amount of HDD space. FLAC is great for keeping an archive, but there's not really a justifiable quality difference over 320kbps/V0 MP3. It almost always ensures that you are getting a good rip of the album too. If you don't rip your CDs in lossless, you should have them taken off you and given to someone who knows what's crackin'. EAC + FLAC + log (and maybe .cue) always.

Sounds like Sigur Rós.

I go through a router every 2 years or so. Cheap parts and such. 7 computers on wireless is probably going to cause some congestion. I have 5 on my network and it suffers quite a few lockups - maybe that's my router's problem though.

What a dumb statement. What's to say that a pop group that didn't write their own songs don't deserve the credit they get? Performance is a part of music as much as composing is. On a different note, a lot of jazz musicians didn't perform their own music. Does that make them overrated? I don't think so. Also, Guns n' Roses has to be one of the worst bands to ever grace this Earth. Slash is an insipid guitarist. And you aren't helping by s**tposting in an already bad section of the board.

5 Centimeters Per Second killed me.