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#181
QuoteBeing "depressed" and "clinically depressed" are in my view the same thing, but the other is on a more extreme end of the spectrum.

That may be so, but some people are depressed like they're tall. Meaning, they're like that for no particular reason other than genetics, and they've been like that a long time and don't know any other way to be. It doesn't always have to be with losing something or someone.
#182
About tough love, sure, what a depressed person wants to hear is 'DUDE, BE HAPPY!!' as if all the rest of us being happy is the result of pure crystallized condensed willpower since we're all sun gods and reality bends at our whims.

Anatomy is destiny. It's not us that create our moods. It's our biochemical status that dictates them. You're not happy because you make it so, you're happy because you're fortunate enough your situation - emotional, biological, so on - allows for it.

This is very difficult for healthy people to understand. We tend to put ourselves in the place of others, but that's not how it works when someone is ill. I wake up and go to the store to buy food. You can be in a state where you wake up and simply want to die, much less go to the store, and there's no apparent reason for it.
#183
A new relationship is very sheldomly the cure for depression stemming from the ruins of an old one.
#184
Quotebecause they weren't from Sierra or LucasArts, thus were filled with timed events, walking-deads, bad interfaces or illogical puzzles.

all sierra and lucas arts games have wonderful interfaces, no walking deads, no timed puzzles and every puzzle is extremely logical.

Okay, don't want to derail this, but most non-LEC and non-Sierra adventure games though the quality varied, were about as oddly designed on the whole as the Sierra/LEC ones. Some where better, some where worse. Most people that played adventure games at played them, I don't know anyone who strictly played LEC/Sierra games.
#185
What eric said. It's even to a degree, alluring at first, to see if how depression works on a person and what can you say or do to help, but don't try this. If it is depression. I see that word thrown around a lot but then when and if you actually have to deal with someone who can no longer sleep right, forgets things you told them 3 minutes ago, breaks down and starts crying for no reason you can understand, who can't coherently articulate abstract thoughts, who is certain of nothing who is finally incapable of feeling pleasure and happiness in their state of mind... then it separates the 'pop' from the 'psychology' of the matter. We're all a bit sad at times and we have our personal ways of dealing with our downs, but a few downs don't necessarily a depression make. If it's really that bad as what I described, it'll come to a breaking point eventually.

You're not a doctor.. The best thing you can do as a friend is to be patient, and careful. Don't even try to diagnose the situation at this time. Some people have bad things happen to them and they fall into depression, other people have bad things happen to them and they take it as an excuse to be assholes for a while. Time will tell.
#186
A person with emotional issues cannot be strong-armed into dealing with them. If he is indeed clinically depressed (and because it seems like it doesn't mean it is true. Some people are just attention whores, or too dramatic, or they're trying to fuck their friends' girlfriend) then there will come a time when his life is so acutely unbearable that it'll come down between asking for help, or suicide. Either way, that's when things will happen, not when people explain the benefits of medication to them.

You would do best to maintain a safe distance from this person, make him aware completely and utterly that his round-about advances towards you - 'cause that's what all this emoing sounds like - are hopeless and that you're happy with your current boyfriend (which I guess is the case?) I'd further suggest to stop the endless late-night MSN conversations with him and so on. Inform your boyfriend of what's going on. He, as any other clear-seeing person will see the conflict for what it predominantly is.

If your friend needs help, you can only give it it him when he asks for it. It might be the case that dealing with him as you have so far has only accentuated the issues with his personality,  which may or may not be depression-based.
#187
Hello. Congrats on the new record. Points of interest:

If there's time, I'd suggest remixing the record without so much reverb wetness on the drums. Especially the snare should be snappy for the speeds you're playing in!

Personal preference, but I dislike good cop/bad cop vocals a lot. That your death metal vocalist doesn't have that 'something' to set him apart from a throng of similar ones also might hurt this approach. I love good death vocals, either of the anguished variety, or of the extremely posessed and convicted kind. Your guy is a bit cookie-cutter in my opinion. Usually a screamer vocalist is a bit of an one-trick-pony, but if you can get him to alter his approach towards the more idionsynchratic (perhaps more human strain in there? Perhaps less? Perhaps go Demilich?) would benefit you lots.

The composition is strong! Stronger than a lot of faux 'metal' going around. But the small guitar leads are both not in good intonation (the guitar is just off. Tune perfectly for recording!) and their sound doesn't sit very well in the mix.

These comments are all just imo stuff, mind you, others may not have any issue with the reverb and vocals and stuff. But probably anyone with a good ear will catch the out of tune leads. So if you have a very strong individual vision and aren't looking for stylistic critique, keep only the lead guitar bit and perhaps the less reverb from my comments.

Good luck.

Editing: now listening only for the drums, so perhaps I can give a valuable pointer to you directly: your kicks seem good, but they're a bit swamped in the mix. Though I wouldn't know, depends on the mp3 compression. It's possible you could go with a 3db lift in the kicks, and take the prevailent overheads down by the same amount... The crash overpowers everything. The toms sound tuned well and their sound is full, the reverb helps them, but not the rest of the set.

Some of your rolls are predictable series, which is fine, but if you want them to survive in todays extreme metal scene, I'd suggest rolling 16ths almost exclusively when doing straight rolls, not 8ths, unless you want to play NWOBHM or something.

Which would be awesome, but you seem to be going for 'modern metal'. I do like the triplet snare rolls mostly, though.

Use the ride bell for accents on the 3:00 fast part like a metal drummer would, hehe!
#188
General Discussion / Re: The power of Google
Sun 18/02/2007 10:31:11
A pretty sundress it is then.
#189
General Discussion / Re: The power of Google
Sun 18/02/2007 10:13:30
I intend to make a good winter coat out of your hide.
#190
General Discussion / Re: The power of Google
Sun 18/02/2007 09:58:26
Yes Akatosh... I know all about you.
#191
Yes I see how you could be thinking 'why don't I just use 256 colors?' since the way you're rendering these pretty much doesn't need more than that amount. There's practically no information loss between the two screenshots.

But still the 'old days when a game could be fitted in a couple of floppies' are gone, nobody even uses floppies much anymore. I'm all for keeping things to essentials and not abandoning good practises just because we can bloat nowdays, though. I dunno... if it's not a huge hassle (which I remember it being) I'd probably.. I'd probably stick to 256 colors.
#192
Correct. If you're set on having a 16-bit version, do the conversions in a good program which will give you ordered dithering options and such, don't let AGS do it.

But I have to echo eric here eric here ric here here ere e don't worry, people will download your new game even if it's 50 megabytes.
#193
Quote from: KhrisMUC on Sat 17/02/2007 18:31:08
Quote from: police brutality on Fri 16/02/2007 21:04:32I've talked to the developer (He's Argentinian), and he's a nice guy
That's like saying "I've tasted my poop and it tasted nice."

You know, poop could taste worse for how it smells...

There's people with all sorts of opinions that can be misunderstood or that they don't really understand themselves, sometimes hateful or ignorant opinions, that don't directly send their souls to HELL for having them.
#194
I think I'm the only one still around.
#195


always loved that screen, suggest you use it for an OROW or something.
#196
Quote from: Snarky on Wed 14/02/2007 15:10:53
I don't have time right now to reply at length, but I do wish to say that it's ridiculously easy to wind you up, Helm. It's like you have this huge red button marked "Do Not Push!" that will just set you off. While it might be more responsible (though less entertaining) to not deliberately provoke you, you could also try to be less emotional about this political discussion.

You are ridiculous and I have no further interest in discussing with you. You 'riled me up' so I guess you win the internet! Congratulations. Hopefully the other paticipators in this thread, both vocal and silent have a better understanding of a political argument than your 'American Gladiators' method, and have drawn their own conclusions. I retreat from this thread.
#197
QuoteI wouldn't say that a list of wars that have been fought in the name of nationalism is a strong argument for why it's a good thing.

Holy shit, I just realized after SSH posted that you effectively said that fighting the Italians and Germans when they invaded Greece in WWII were 'nationalist wars'. Wow. Very well-informed there.
#198
Quote from: Snarky on Wed 14/02/2007 13:28:24
Just to piss you off even more, if the UN had sent in troops to Greece to overthrow the junta, I would probably have supported that, too. (Before my time, though.)

Instead the US directly and indirectly helped the coup happen, and supported the dictatorship for as long as it was in effect. As it had done similarly for a lot of countries with left-leaning powers of influence as very well know. You inconsiderate person. You should be more careful.

QuoteI wouldn't say that a list of wars that have been fought in the name of nationalism is a strong argument for why it's a good thing.

I am not a nationalist. If you use that term to mean 'person who believes that countries should be sovereign' you inconsiderate person, you should know that a nationalist is one that believes his country to be better than the countries of others. That is something you accuse me of without any grounding. I don't know about your country, but that, in Greece, the insinuation that one is a nationalist, especially when leveled against people of the left (such as I) is an insult. It was uncalled for. You should be more careful. You should be thinking more about how to have a conversation over politics without insulting people, rather than what to tell them to piss them off even more. This isn't a court-room and you're not winning any points by brow-beating your opposition.

QuoteYes. Our culture has come to believe that there are universal human rights; standards that should apply everywhere.

Supporting one unrealistic demand with another. Nice going. 'Our' culture, does not exist. The western world has a lot of different aspects to it and to collapse it all into a coalesched nothing like you do is a huge disservice to the individual nations and their history, politics, ethics and law. EXACTLY because the west isn't one thing, we don't agree. This discussion is proof of the opposite of your bullshit claim. 'Human rights' are just a piece of paper (and leverage) when a country strong-arms its way around based on superior military like the US does. And you have the audacity to talk to me about human rights.

Quote(And I remember that Greece was one of the few western nations that opposed this action, so I know you may not agree.)

Why do you equate me with my country? I do not support PASOK (in power for about 40 years before giving it up for), NEA DIMOKRATIA (currently in power). I am in the left of both.

QuoteWhat has nationalism got to show for itself other than a history of wars and a mindset of chauvinism and xenophobia?

I detest your insinuation that I am a nationalist, or that supporting my country's constitution, for which THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED makes me a xenophobe or a chauvinist.

You talk about being an internationalist... you're using the term as a scapegoat. A true internationalist would be tolerant of other peoples and their ways, even if they go against those 'human rights' you speak of. An 'internationalist' that is only such when and only when everybody else in the world agrees to play along with their own set of arbiterate rules is not anything other than a dictator.

QuoteI am an internationalist.

You say a lot of words.

QuoteI believe in creating and strenghtening a community of nations, a brotherhood of man that is above borders and state lines.

Under whose authority. Who stands to benefit? Geopolitical powerplay isn't a fairy tale. Somebody's doing some convincing and somebody is put in a tight situation. Some nations go to war, people die. The power balance shifts. This is the way it was, this is the way it'll always be. Proof? Since the UN and the EU and NATO have formulated, there have been wars around the world. A lot of them. There will still be wars. I have absolutely no faith in 'a world without borders' and this is why I am interested in the continued survival of my own country and that only. Not because it is better than someone elses, not because it has a right to exist more than any other. But because it is always under threat by the vast, obscene, immoral monstrosity that is the true law of geopolitics: MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. Don't hide behind your finger, don't say it isn't so. The US isn't persuing a western-world-human-rights agenda, it's persuing a US-POWER agenda. It is clear as day to anyone that can look at the historical facts and is, of course, inclined to speak the truth.

QuoteKilling the neighbor's kids? Where did you get that from?

The facts.

QuoteObviously, military force should be the last resort, after diplomacy, sanctions and other "soft" options have been tried.

Military force should only be used in the defense of the homeland.

Quotewhich is as nationalistic as Greece.

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QuoteAnd I don't think you know the first thing about my country's foreign policy. Do you even know where I'm from?

Are you a german living in the US? I am talking about the US. And I know enough about the US foreign policy.

QuoteSometimes, it's better to take action, knowing that it's likely you will end up killing dozens or hundreds of kids, than it is to sit idly by and let thousands be massacred. Inaction is also a kind of action, and you have a responsibility for the consequences of that, too.

Who made you god? I totally oppose this ethical viewpoint. Killing is the last resort for those under the threat of death. War is the last resort of the country defending its existence. Anything more than that is moral bankruptcy.
#199
Is there apparently a way to STOP them from doing it that doesn't involve dead innocent kids? So far, even going back to the Kosovo situation that is now considered a NATO SUCCESS LOL (though is anything but) every military opertation by the US has resulted in dead children. Now, I don't think you can go to war without killing innocents, I'm not saying that's only a US curse (though their military certainly seems very adept at child-killing, starting at Vietnam), so hey, let's not go to war at all, eh?
#200
QuoteThis whole notion of absolute sovereignty is outmoded. If you neighbor hits his kids, you don't say "his house, he can do whatever he wants".

I am sorry, Snarky. Greece has fought a bloody war with the Turks, then fought Italians, the Germans and finally had a civil war so we could have this outmodded ABSOLUTE SOVEREIGNTY you speak of, and on which actually, our whole country rests upon. I have such a hard time to not be disgusted by what you just posted, your opinion, as if it's fact. absolute sovereignty is outmoded. Tell that to grandparents of greeks who actually fought in a war for the freedom of the greek citizents, not to kill their neighboring countrys' kids.

QuoteIn the same way, the community of nations should not let one country do whatever it likes to its citizens.

Why? Why? Why? Why? Do you support this demand of yours with any reasoning behind 'hey, get with the times, lol. Your method is outmoded'.

Quote(Of course, it's much more difficult because there's no global enforcer of law and order, so you essentially have to round up a posse and break down the neighbor's door.

How about delicate balance of power and diplomatic pressure ensuring every country gives in a bit on some issues, and gets what they want on other issues, clumpsily but surely making a non-destructive path towards the future of mankind? How about that option? Your idea of a 'posse breaking down the door and killing the neibour's kids' is EXACTLY your countrys method of foreign policy, and it's disgusting and should be fought against.

QuoteStill, rough justice can be better than no justice.

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