The Killers are more average radio rock than indie, really.

IM OFFICALLY AN UNCLE TO MIA GRACE GAMBRIL@@@@!!@!!@@!!@@!@!@!

 

IM SO [bleep]ING HAPPY@@##@q#@q#@!#@!#$@!

You were complaining non-stop before she was born, now you're happy. I'll never get you. <_<

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Today, I continued my search for good indie rock.

I like the Killers though.

The Killers are good indie rock? The KILLERS!? Oh lord.

If you do actually like really indie stuff try Neutral Milk Hotel. Not everyone's thing, but truly amazing.

Yeah, the Killers are definitely indie rock. Why are you criticizing my taste in music? That just doesn't make sense. They have plenty of good songs. I think Neutral Milk Hotel is meh anyway.

 

Indie Music: "In music, independent music, often shortened to indie music or "indie", is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels, subsidiaries and an autonomous"

 

If you are talking about "the killers" I know of they aren't indie rock.

 

thats just being really gay. search the term for rnb, the rnb today doesnt stick to it. but music genres evolve and its commonly accepted that indie is like hipstery rock pop bands. like the strokes :)

 

my mates just got into the recording industry and he uses indy music in the way u quote it, and its just irritating! the fact it comes form an independant label says nothing about the genre or sound..

 

so lets just say the killers are indie \:D/

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Indie? No.

Rock? Pushing it.

Pop? Yes.

 

Anyway personal opinions will vary.

 

http://www.last.fm/tag/indie%20rock

 

tl;dr no you're wrong

 

 

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I said they were "barely" rock; by that I mean yes some of their music has some rock aspects.

Also, using your picture you contradict yourself. You can see that the Killers are signed to a record label thus making them non independet or not indie? Nope, you had to go and conviently cut that segment about.

Another point, the article taken on the left is talking about their first album. This was probably before they became so mainstream.

Tbh I really don't want to argue about such a trival point but if your arrogance cannot stand the refusal of an argument please send me a PM so this stays on topic.

 

(The full picture.)

IM OFFICALLY AN UNCLE TO MIA GRACE GAMBRIL@@@@!!@!!@@!!@@!@!@!

 

IM SO [bleep]ING HAPPY@@##@q#@q#@!#@!#$@!

I've been an uncle for ten years now. Take that.

 

YOU JUST GOT ONEUPPED ON THE INTERNET OOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

I'm a great uncle and I'm 15

 

YOU JUST GOT ONEUPPED ON THE INTERNET OOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Are we Indie or are we dancers?

I become an Uncle and you guys are going on about music? take it to the music threads and stop killing my one happy moment in life! >:c

 

Never thought I would see you making a happy post about the product of other people having sex.

wat?

The snow is finally gone....for now.

I become an Uncle and you guys are going on about music? take it to the music threads and stop killing my one happy moment in life! >:c

 

Never thought I would see you making a happy post about the product of other people having sex.

well we DID have that 1 month I-dont-complain-about-sex thing. (minus last week, I was infuriated @ home)

 

@Ryan, nono, I said my sister and parents are irritating, never said Mia is.

 

ANYWAY Visited her today, shes sooo tiny and adorable! I was the only person she didnt cry at when holding her. I felt privilidged. ;____;

The Killers are more average radio rock than indie, really.

Today I spent most of the day at home coding and watching dev blog videos of Gyrovorbis on youtube. I started working on my item system for my game. Here are three possible ways of loading items I could do:

 

Way 1: Standard text

 

#file format:
#name
#id item number a attributes ->consumable = 1/0, sellable = 1/0, canHaveOnce = 1/0
#description
#x
#y
#spacer


Magical Mushroom
0045a101 #unsellable consumable mushroom you can only have one at a time
A mushroom which gives you super abilities
34
4
[lua]
player:modSpeed(5) --increase player movement speed
screen:blurScreen(5000) --blur the screen for 5 seconds
screen:softWoble() --softly wobble the screen at a slow rate 
chatBox:popMsg("You feel strange after eating the mushroom")
player:takeDOT(5,3500,random(5,10)) -- apply 5 damage ever 4.5 secs 5-10 times(random amount)
[/lua]

 

My engine would loop through the file parsing its contents line by line and execute anything between the lua tags.

 

 

Way 2: XML

 

<Items>
<item name="Mag Mush" id="0045a101" desc="a mag mushroom which gives special powers" xPos="5" yPos="6">
<script function="onUse">
<![CDATA[

player:modSpeed(5) --increase player movement speed
screen:blurScreen(5000) --blur the screen for 5 seconds
screen:softWoble() --softly wobble the screen at a slow rate 
chatBox:popMsg("You feel strange after eating the mushroom")
player:takeDOT(5,3500,random(5,10)) -- apply 5 damage ever 4.5 secs 5-10 times(random amount)

]]></script>
</Items>

 

Simple to implement and easy to export/import for map/item editor.

 

Way 3:Pure Lua

function create(Item)
Item:setName("Magic Mushroom")
Item:setID("0045a101")
Item:setDesc("Item desc")
Item:setXPos(4)
Item:setYPos(5)
end function

function onUse()
player:modSpeed(5) --increase player movement speed
screen:blurScreen(5000) --blur the screen for 5 seconds
screen:softWoble() --softly wobble the screen at a slow rate 
chatBox:popMsg("You feel strange after eating the mushroom")
player:takeDOT(5,3500,random(5,10)) -- apply 5 damage ever 4.5 secs 5-10 times(random amount)
end function

 

I will probably end up using XML so I can export from a future item/map editor and easily perform IO operations without too much hassle. Also it would look cleaner IMHO. I could easily whip up lua chunks for multiple items in the same file instead of using something like mushroom.lua, item.lua, etc. My game engine is going good so far. I output random game data to a console right now. For example, when i trigger a player move event. The console will output something like:

Player Info >>  [Move Dir=S] [AnimationUpdate=true] [canMoveDir= true]
[cWorldX=5] [cScreenX=160] [cWorldY=12] [cScreenY=384] 
[nWorldX=5] [nScreenX=160] [nWorldY=13] [nScreenY=416]
[playerCollideWithAnything=false] [tileTriggerAction=false] [tileContainsItem=0012a111] 

Player Debug >> Moving player from Y Tile 12 to Y Tile 13..
Player Debug >> Player at Y Tile 13
KeyInput Debug >> Key: e Action Examine: Item currentItemOnTile: Xbox360
ChatBox Debug  >> Message from item 0012a111: "I am a xbox 360 %newline%I red-ring%newline%I am somehow consumable." "Press any key to continue or wait to activate xbox360"
ItemManager Debug >> 0012a111 action: explode
Screen Debug >> Performing glow :: performing blur :: performing shake::
Player Debug >>  0012a111 has destroyed player.

I mainly want to get the script , entity, npc, player, math, and physics in the engine before I worry about networking, graphics and audio. While I am working on those parts of the game, I can have my buddy design and script npc dialogs and quests and instanced boss fights. Not many people here probably care, nor understand what I am doing, but once I get graphics and audio with this, it will be awesome.

Do you browse /mu/?

No, though I know NMH is something of a favourite around there. I found them through a book, strangely enough.

 

Why we're even discussing this is beyond me, I just said I liked the Killers and a few people decided to jump up my ass...

I'm sorry man, I really didn't mean to start such fight. :-( I don't even really dislike The Killers. I just didn't think they were classified as Indie.

 

But you have proved me wrong, and I apologise, good sir.

 

 

OT: I had an in-class exam for English today. I did as horribly as I expected I would. #-o

I have a lovely day of scanning technical drawings all day... oh lordy why cant people learn2scan properly!

Sqrt(6*infsum[1/n^2]) = ?

 

Anyone tell me what day it is today? :)

Sqrt(6*infsum[1/n^2]) = ?

 

Anyone tell me what day it is today? :)

 

 

Pi Day.

Today, I am proud to say that I've created a runescape tip.it account. Howdy, it's nice to meet everyone! Don't you all look like a good bunch? :D

Just buried a headache in ibuprofen and coffee. We'll see how long that lasts. I feel pretty awful though, I need to get more sleep.

 

Oh and welcome to the forums, I hope you like them.

Today, I am proud to say that I've created a runescape tip.it account. Howdy, it's nice to meet everyone! Don't you all look like a good bunch? :D

 

Polite posters are good, hello.

New desktop posted in the sticky. It's epic.

 

@Angel, welcome to TIF. Hope you like it here. :)

Bows should buy an Xbox 360 along with Left 4 Dead 2 so he can play with me.

And stop leading me on.

Bows should buy an Xbox 360 along with Left 4 Dead 2 so he can play with me.

And stop leading me on.

Or you could fork over $20 and play with me on Steam and stop being so lazy. Then I'll buy an Xbox just to spite you.

Bows should buy an Xbox 360 along with Left 4 Dead 2 so he can play with me.

And stop leading me on.

Or you could fork over $20 and play with me on Steam and stop being so lazy. Then I'll buy an Xbox just to spite you.

Work in 15 minutes. I've been extremely busy these past few days...

In a clan war right now. :thumbup:

Saw on a Yahoo Answers thread just now. Normally I don't care what people say on there, but it made me rage/laugh.

 

Q: Atheists, if God didn't create the world, then who did?

 

A: They have no clue. They believe that life was an accident, that we were put here by chance. They believe that monkeys transform into humans. The only thing you can do is pray for them and hope that one day they stop lying to themselves...

 

Source(s):

Myself