In response to the editor comment: I hooked up my drum controller to my MacBook and used GamePad Companion to feed keystrokes into Ableton Live. I was able to use it as a real drum kit for a bit but I'm not a drummer, so instead I started using pitched tones for each of the pads.... much more interesting!
I'm not exactly sure why it's entertaining to watch, but damn it is. I think it's because you see a visual approximation of what's going on in the song (sort of like a score) AND you get to see people make funny faces and dance while they play.
If music has no value, why do you listen to it? It seems like it would be far simpler (and cheaper!) to just copy a lot of ID3 tags and manipulate them with software...
I've seen these a few times over the last years. The examples I saw weren't as brilliant as the ones in the summary (more along the lines of http://www.spaceweather.com/nlcs/gallery2007_page1.htm), but they are still very beautiful. I never realized they were a special subset of clouds.
Some researchers have found highly congruent trails on multiple rocks that strongly support this movement theory. However, the transport of a large ice sheet might be expected to mark the playa surface in other ways - these marks have not been found.
Other researchers experimented with stakes that would be disturbed by ice sheets. The rocks moved without disturbing the stakes. The evidence for ice-sheet transport is not consistent.
I too picked up a PS2 just for Guitar Hero. It's just too damn fun to pass up. I have yet to plug a normal controller into the PS2. I'm totally psyched for GHIII!
Note: It must not make me watch the cutscene again even if I start a new game. The "has been seen" data must be stored globally. I often watch my friends play a game like Final Fantasy before I play it, so I have already watched most of the cut scenes from *their* playthrough. --and if there is an unlockable *hard* mode or whatever, unless the cut scene is new, make it skippable!
But if you watch your friend play on his machine, you'll still be forced to view it on your machine. Just make every cutscene skippable.
But, a new sort of consciousness could arise, to which physical movement is the equivalent of temporal progression.
This is exactly how I already understand time. Our three dimensions only exist as an impossibly thin membrane in the spatial dimension(s) of time and the feeling of temporal progression results from this movement. In certain states of meditation, I can feel (or imagine that I feel) my existence in these higher dimensions as a sliding, swirling or fuzziness in which I am not only experiencing the moment in which I live, but also the near-future and near-past all at the same moment (sometimes more near than others.) However, in these states, time is not a single dimension as these researchers claim, but is actually three dimensions. This allows from freedom of choice because you can move all over the realm of time.
My understanding was that it simply reads the pitch and velocity (and maybe some other info?) of the string, then uses that data to feed the guitar simulation witch creates the complex harmonics of the actual guitar. Of course, I could be way off.
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Wow. Mistaking a Mooninite for FSM.... you should be ashamed. :)
To be fair, I didn't figure this out myself, someone else did: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/rock-band/ps3-rock-band-drums-work-with-garageband-330641.php
In response to the editor comment: I hooked up my drum controller to my MacBook and used GamePad Companion to feed keystrokes into Ableton Live. I was able to use it as a real drum kit for a bit but I'm not a drummer, so instead I started using pitched tones for each of the pads.... much more interesting!
I posted the results on my blog.
It must have worked, I've got Excellent Karma!
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I just generally have a bias against any video game that doesn't violate the known rules of reality six ways before breakfast.
Believe me, for some of my friends, playing an instrument does violate the known rules of reality in many ways. Tonedeaf mofos.
I like that. You are awesome.
I'm not exactly sure why it's entertaining to watch, but damn it is. I think it's because you see a visual approximation of what's going on in the song (sort of like a score) AND you get to see people make funny faces and dance while they play.
All you have to do is press the right buttons at the right time.
All the best games have simple objectives.
I'm sorry if I came across snarky. I was just truly confused by your statements. :)
If music has no value, why do you listen to it? It seems like it would be far simpler (and cheaper!) to just copy a lot of ID3 tags and manipulate them with software...
I've seen these a few times over the last years. The examples I saw weren't as brilliant as the ones in the summary (more along the lines of http://www.spaceweather.com/nlcs/gallery2007_page1.htm), but they are still very beautiful. I never realized they were a special subset of clouds.
From TFA:
Some researchers have found highly congruent trails on multiple rocks that strongly support this movement theory. However, the transport of a large ice sheet might be expected to mark the playa surface in other ways - these marks have not been found.
Other researchers experimented with stakes that would be disturbed by ice sheets. The rocks moved without disturbing the stakes. The evidence for ice-sheet transport is not consistent.
I suppose I should have clarified... "Would you really want to sit staring at a monitor for days on end without any action when playing a GAME?"
[I]t's not uncommon to go days without seeing ANY deer...
Would you really want to sit staring at a monitor for days on end when playing a GAME?
This thing sold in DROVES because it was a) cheap, b) easy, and c) didn't require any time investment.
Sounds like a perfect casual game to me!
I too picked up a PS2 just for Guitar Hero. It's just too damn fun to pass up. I have yet to plug a normal controller into the PS2. I'm totally psyched for GHIII!
I'd guess that's why it's a Co-op Encore. The bass can actually do something interesting. (Bass player here...)
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Note: It must not make me watch the cutscene again even if I start a new game. The "has been seen" data must be stored globally. I often watch my friends play a game like Final Fantasy before I play it, so I have already watched most of the cut scenes from *their* playthrough. --and if there is an unlockable *hard* mode or whatever, unless the cut scene is new, make it skippable!
But if you watch your friend play on his machine, you'll still be forced to view it on your machine. Just make every cutscene skippable.
But, a new sort of consciousness could arise, to which physical movement is the equivalent of temporal progression.
This is exactly how I already understand time. Our three dimensions only exist as an impossibly thin membrane in the spatial dimension(s) of time and the feeling of temporal progression results from this movement. In certain states of meditation, I can feel (or imagine that I feel) my existence in these higher dimensions as a sliding, swirling or fuzziness in which I am not only experiencing the moment in which I live, but also the near-future and near-past all at the same moment (sometimes more near than others.) However, in these states, time is not a single dimension as these researchers claim, but is actually three dimensions. This allows from freedom of choice because you can move all over the realm of time.
Don't worry, I think it sounds crazy too.
My understanding was that it simply reads the pitch and velocity (and maybe some other info?) of the string, then uses that data to feed the guitar simulation witch creates the complex harmonics of the actual guitar. Of course, I could be way off.