General Offtopic Discussion

[Galactan]

OH NO MENDEZ HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY A BOT

[Ivory]

It's okay. He isn't trying to sell us kitchen units or speaking in Russian.

[Neo]

(happy birthday me =P even though it was 2 days ago =/)
I.O.N.
I made a HyperBeam like weapon.

(too bad the screenshot didnt capture the actual beam part, which moves at 100 speed, despite shooting 10 of them)

[SmashTheEchidna]

Well there isn't really much point in posting the screenshot if the beam itself wasn't captured. I'd say keep trying until you get it, and then post it.

And happy birthday.

[Duora Super Gyro]

Happy Birthday

If you have a smartphone, you can get this app called Shazam and use it to listen to the music on your computer and detect what's playing.  I could do it for you, but I'm lazy. Also, you'll definitely want Shazam later on in life.

I dont have a smartphone  

Edit: I was just searching threw the comments and there are just so many unanswered questions about what music is what.

[Tesseractal]

Pretty much anyone who knows of my affection for this character also knows that it isn't particularly my character to begin with. No, she belongs to some Japanese artist who hides under the name of Zakki or something, and that's all I'm going to tell you because a good two-thirds of her art are... well, for lack of a better word, inappropriate. Remember my old avatar? That's just the tip of the iceberg, mate.

It's not hiding; it's a nickname. Her real name is Zakiko (???). You can't just say everyone named Alex or Ken is "hiding" their real names! The word you're looking for would be "Questionable", in which a large number of her images fall. (Of course, if a pair of breasts unnerve you, you might wait to put off browsing art until you're older, when you can develop the ability to appreciate it. Alternatively, when you have maturity greater than an average 12 year old's.)

I thought she looked nice though, so I used her image as my avatar both on Cutstuff and on Steam.

I don't know what caused it. Maybe it's her appearance, maybe it's the potential for a unique storyline, maybe it's just because I'm downright strange. At any rate, eventually I began to take a personal interest in her. I gave her personality quirks. I gave her a name. I collected a holy truckload of art (which was actually sort of difficult; I didn't know who the artist was until Blaze McPhearson lent a hand, so I didn't have much material before then). I don't remember exactly how it happened, but Lady Blues was now a "thing".

Ignoring the obvious self-identification explanation, I have a hunch that the majority of Rockman fanart you've encountered has been drawn or sprited by Americans, originating from the massive shithole known as DeviantArt (of which multiple people here profess membership to as well). Zakiko is a professional mangaka (illustrator); which means that even her in personal sketches and such there's a level of professionalism and experience in anime styling to be had, common in many other Pixiv / booru artists that's non-existant in the crude, cartoon drawings of the West.

So eventually I found myself looking for a saxophone playing Proto Man's iconic whistle. Don't ask. I found some great piano renditions, a few versions on flute, and even a violin duo, but trying to directly search for a saxophone wasn't turning up any results. I decide to change up my wording a few times and try different search engines, video hosts, and websites, until I finally find the jazzy melody I was looking for... and more. Oh, so very much more.

The saxophone is a grotesque invention and a bastard instrument by design. Focusing on it will seldom, if ever yield anything of quality.

This song, by OverClocked Remixers starla and injury, is absolutely beautiful. It's also the reason I'm even posting here. To be completely honest, once I found the song I wanted to post it on Cutstuff, but I had no idea where to put it. Yeah, it's a video game song, but it's not really from a video game, so it probably wouldn't go in Video Game Songs You Love. Then again, it's a video game song, so would it go in the general Music Thread? After a couple minutes trying to decide I just sort of went "eh fuck it" and went to throw it up on Spamthread. Trying to give a background of how I found it, I ended up typing nearly the entire background of Lady Blues... and, well, I don't even know anymore.

You'll also notice it contains relatively little saxophone beyond the beginning (which I balked at), since the saxophone is typically an ugly duckling as far as instruments go. (The rest of it was much more pleasant. Yes, despite my loathing of the saxophone, I do enjoy jazz!

There's two ways to address that issue. The easy way is to just say "how much does it sound like the original" or "does it sound like game music"- since this is a blatant reinterpretation of the original, I'd put it in a game music thread. More creative arranges or remixes (which work to mask or disguise the original work) are fair game for any music thread, however. It's in this domain, however, that OCR commonly fails at creative arranges (or they did in the past; I don't really bother with the site at this point). Usually inspired to be more creative, remixes commonly fall apart as they have no compositional value. Since this piece sticks very close to the original work, it doesn't suffer that pitfall and lets the re-imagined sounds show properly. While technically an arrange this example is overall much closer to an orchestration (a basic re-instrumentation / voicing change) since the original composition is left mostly intact. So the long version is: Orchestrations are 'game music', arranges are generally less so. See the two arranges of Stickerbrush Symphony below for examples.

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Orchestration:

Arrange:

The first is identical to the composition but sounds "remastered"; it has better quality instruments than the original platform. The latter retains the original melody but also incorporates in it new ways, as well as original material not present in the original. In this case the arrange actually beats out the competition, as the orchestration has a few wonky notes in the bass. (Such a shame, really.) Of course, it also helps that they had Joshua Morse on this arrange - a notable solid arranger who also has done Mega Man tunes. (RGMR is a much more iconic Mega Man tune arranger, ironically enough.) If you want to see a really bad arrange, that DKC2 album has a quite a few of them - you'll find some absolute garbage just as soon as 2-18 on the tracklist.

Lady Blues.

Smashing!

[Shade Guy]

Arrange:

Funny that you posted this remix. A few days ago, I downloaded the entire DKC2 cover album from OCRemix, and I've been listening to it quite a bit. Overall, rather impressive.

[Duora Super Gyro]

does anyone atleast know the song at 6:37?

[Sora]

Ah, I've missed the giant walls of Roc's Rants.  Very enjoyable read~

[Knux]

I don't know if people noticed, but the new MM6CENX has been posted in the CSCM thread. Not blaming anyone for missing it since the topic is kind of dead.

[Dr. Freeman]

I have the sudden urge to race people in video games. I dunno, I always found it fun to do.

[Duora Super Gyro]

Left 4 Dead is a fun game to race people in

[Colonel ServBot]

Left 4 Dead is a fun game to race people in

to race?

well...
when ever i play l4d2, i always feel a sudden urge to kill that nick guy or whatever.

[Tengu]

Today is the day I turn seventeen years old.


Should I feel older? because I don't.

[Duora Super Gyro]

Left 4 Dead is a fun game to race people in

to race?

well...
when ever i play l4d2, i always feel a sudden urge to kill that nick guy or whatever.

Yes, Me and my older brother used to race offline, and somtimes online, we could handle the special infected quite well.

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Okay...Does anybody know the song at 6:36?