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It's called "Pixel resize" in PSP and AS.

STR: 3 (I'm already weak now, I don't think it'll be better when I'm 90)
INT: 12 (please?)
WIS: 10 (if I haven't forgotten all of it again by that time)
DEX: 2 (rheumatism, arthritis, and all their little friends)
MANA: 0/7 (I'll accidentally cast a fireball when I'm 30, but since there are no Mana Potions in the real world, there's no way for me to fill it up again)

Children: 0.
Married: No.
Time spent defending country: None.

Class.

Buzz, if you're interested in seriously making music. You'll have to invest some time, but once you've figured it out there's little that's anywhere near as powerful and above all versatile. Also, it's freeware.

GHORMAK = WIN.

Damn that Captain Domino, randomly attacking harmless citizens. Was he jealous of Doctor Crow's many major scientific achievements, I wonder? Regardless, the good Doctor acted correctly in defending himself. No blame can attach to him.

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Since I'm going home over Easter and probably won't have internet access, I most likely won't get to judge this until Monday evening.

Good work so far. Sluggo: It should come as no surprise, however, that I disagree with you.

My host is being crazy, so send it to fuzzpilz@gmx.net if my turn comes before email starts working again.

OK, since apparently nobody wants to enter, I'm changing the rules.

- Must be about robots.
- Must contain a sound related to telephones.

Happy now?

I don't know what's so insane about it; the composer merely needs to pay attention.

But as I said before, is anybody planning to enter?

Then I'm very bad at explaining things. It's actually quite simple. Tried googling for less confusing information?

That would be a valid series, yes. You can't speak of octaves there, though; the series is only the base - for composing you can use it reversed, inverted (i.e. vertically, in relation to the first note) and arbitrarily transposed. Immediate repetitions are allowed, but you can't jump in the series, and you can't change the transposition in the middle of it either. Is it really that hard to understand?

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Trapezoid: I don't think technical rules hurt creativity at all. They're about working creatively within restraints that are not actually much more formal or unpleasant than, say, "must be about robots". The point, as with rules about the content, is to do interesting things on the borders of the field without crossing them.

I'm surprised that so many of you have no idea what I'm talking about; haven't any of you had an education?


Explanation:

As you know, in standard Western music the octave is divided into 12 semitones. Twelve-tone music is based on one series made out of all of these twelve tones, with no duplicates, i.e. it is exactly twelve notes long. You compose by layering copies of this. Note that the information in the series is sequence only; you may stretch the notes to any length you like, repeat the same tone as often as you want (but not after proceeding to the next), play several notes from it at once, transpose it, reverse it, or invert it.
Of course, you have to finish each copy of the series you use. Also, you're supposed to avoid having the composition centered on any one tone.



Is anybody actually going to enter? If not, I'll change the rules.

Look at the last post for the new rules. Old posts preserved for the sake of clarity to later viewers.



I liked Ben's entry last week better than mine, but here's the new contest. I'm going to go into a more technical direction again. Rules:

- Has to be twelve tone music after Arnold Schönberg's rules. I won't kill you if you're not entirely, rigourously strict and exact all the time, but try to adhere to them.
- Has to be in 4/4, and you can't use notes or pauses shorter than 1/8 note. This rule doesn't apply to nonchromatic percussion, so you can do whatever you want with that.

And there you are. Have fun, or not.

http://konterbande.org/preeee.zip

I didn't know about the breasts bit... just assume they're there, but invisible

Here's an interesting blog. Read.

I don't know how strongly other people would agree to the following, but I hope I'm speaking for others as well as myself.

Sorry, Darth, but while I might respect/like you as a person if I knew you (as is in fact the case with some people who are in favour of this war, to make it clear that these aren't just empty words), I am unable to respect your opinion in this - it's based on lies (to you, not of your own), misinterpretation of history, and possibly lack of education. Want a point-by-point rebuttal?

There's a lot more that's problematic about this war than its potentially turning into something bigger.

Has this actually started yet, or are you still waiting?

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Read Pratchett's "Eric"?
Hell is reduced to boredom -
much worse than torment.