I was just about hop in the shower when this song came on. I immediately sat down because I just had to listen to the entire thing before I left. Its from the Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack, performed by either the Seatbelts or the Warsaw Philharmonic (not sure on this since I have heard both numerous times) and sung by Jerzy Knetig. Anyway I plan on writing a more extensive blog about the music from Cowboy Bebop, but for now just enjoy this track, its so beautiful to me.
Edit: Btw I do know that this is not one of the original songs, so all of you music buffs out there just shove it.
Hiyo! I am looking to play a good FPS or RPG game that was made sometime between 04 and 05. My laptop cant handle a large portion of the games past then and even some of them during that time.
Any FPS or RPG with a good single player is fine as long as it fits the time criteria and you really liked it. So fire away TL and give me some good games to play!
Protoss enemies are my favorite to beat There is no other that I love to defeat Most of the time their army I destroy Except when that unit, they deploy
My third base has finished just fine I believe his strategy suited to mine So I lay my Spire to slowly create And lay back in my chair to silently wait
Suddenly a voice cries "We're under attack!" To my dismay all my drones die before I react Now the quiet warrior moves to my third To destroy it silently, without a word
Overlords creep to the spot so slow, still I cannot speed them up with only my will Once again I cower in invisible fear The future, for me, becomes all to clear
Alt+Q+Q out of this horrid excuse of a game I retreat to my bed to cry the night in shame Though sleep will be hard to find this dark night As DTs haunt my dreams and cause me fright
So I was just browsing the NBA thread before bed and what pops up in my sidebar? The MSL stream. Works perfectly to this very day. Not to mention hes just an all around bad ass!
I have gone through many periods of music in my life. From oldies like the Turtles and Three Dog Night as a kid to Wu-Tang and Rage Against the Machine as a young man. Most bands get cut as I move on to a new genre or style, I only have so much space and time to spend on something I'm not going to listen to for a long time. This is a weeding process which I have found very effective to find the bands which I like best. One of my favorite bands has stood that tests for years on end. For nearly ten years I have been in love with this band...
<font size=5>Pantera!</font>
This band of drunken rednecks are some of the best musicians to ever grace the planet. Particularly the prodigal song of the group, Darrel "Dimebag Darrel" Abbot. If i have ever heard a man lead a band with chops it was at the hands of Dime. To me his riffs overpower every other aspect of the band, not to the extent where it is bad, but his skill really shines through.
Dime has an amazing range of creativity. Of course the common fan would know "Walk" "Mouth for War" and "Drag the Waters". For good reason too, those songs are amazing. An all out attack on the senses is Dimes forte, those three songs are good example of that. But what many people miss is his careful attention to detail. Take for example "Cemetary Gates", another popular track from the Cowboys from Hell album. Dime begins this song with a slow guitar part which leads ever gently into one of the most face melting riffs I have ever heard. It is a perfect transition, then it goes until just the right moment where Dime drops it back so lead singer Phil Anselmo can step in.
Dimebag Darrel is the self proclaimed number one Ace Frehley fan. It shines through in his play when he takes off on a series of ear shattering notes that would makes the boys in makeup shed tears. Dime grew up a child of the 70-80s metal. Most of which consisted of Black Sabbath, Kiss, and Iron Maiden. Darrel got his start as a young boy, dominating a competition at a local guitar store.
Since then that young boy has become a legend in the world of music. Along with his bandmates he created a niche for a new type of metal to come along. Though I am not the most knowledgeable about their style of metal I do know I can't think of another band as successful from the era. Easily one of the most talented bands from the 80s or 90s, Pantera changed the face of music. They made some of their best albums while bands like Guns and Roses made room for the grunge era.
To me Dimebag Darrel is more than just a guitarist and a great guy. He is a man to look up to and someone who lived his life with alot of integrity and honor. Dime is a hero and he will be forever in my mind.
Unfortunately Pantera could not stop drugs and alcohol from damaging their relationship beyond repair. After lead singer Phil Anselmo became so abrasive and blatantly drug riddled Dime, his brother Vince and bassist Rex left him to his devices. Anselmo had been using heroin to alleviate pain in his back caused by an injury years prior. If history has taught the music industry anything its that drugs, and heroin in particular, do not mix with musicians. Anselmo became volatile and constantly irritated with the band, that led to them breaking up before I even had a chance to see the live.
After split Dimebag, Vince and Rex went on to form a new band called Damage Plan. I was honestly not that happy with the performance on the record, nonetheless I bought it merely to support Dime and co. With an impending tour coming up I debated on whether or not purchase a ticket when they stopped in my town. While I loved Dime, I was kind of strapped at the time and I knew this would not be his last tour. I was depending on a reunion tour for Pantera when they were all in their late 40s.
Sure enough November of that year brought Damage Plan through my town on their first national tour. I decided to pass on the show since I would definitely get to see them sometime and there were some other shows I wanted to see at the time. In fact Skinny Puppy was in town on their first tour in 13 or so years. I guess that was probably a big factor in why I decided not to go see Damage plan this time around.
Well that turned out to be the worst mistake of my concert going career. Just over a month later Dimebag was playing a show in a club when a man rushed on stage and shot him dead. The man continued to hold the crowd in fear, while Dimes guitar tech tried his best to cover the bullet ridden body of his friend. I have seen the video and more importantly heard the audio, once was more than enough. The Police showed up and had to kill the man to keep the rest of the concert goers safe. But the damage had already been done.
This was the most unexpected thing I could think of stopping me from seeing my hero live. To think that someone would want to kill Dimebag Darrel never crossed my mind. Supposedly the man wanted to kill Dime for causing Pantera to break up and moving on with Damage Plan. Clearly a person of unstable mental nature, he robbed the world of one of the most amazing musicians ever.
Even at his funeral there was tension between Anselmo and Vinnie Abbot, Darrels brother. If I recall correctly Anselmo refused to come to funeral unless Vince apologized for some past mistake (it could have been the other way around, just writing this from memory). That truly makes me sad since I had hoped that they could come together after their friend and brother was so viciously murdered.
I myself spent the next day sluffing school and pulling on a bottle of Canadian Host. It was one of the most depressing days of my life, especially since I had just passed up my only chance to see him live. I wish I could go back and see him that day, but that not possible. Listening to his art will have to be enough to satiate my thirst and I hate that fact.
My speedlings lead the attack to his base. But SCVs and marines turn them to blood I look to his ramp to see an empty space My 9 pool ling rush ended up a dud.
The time has come to change my strategy. A drone quietly floats to minerals outside He stops and settles in to make a hatchery. Terran sees the growing pouch, wonders whats inside.
As I wait for my spire to arrive on scene A terrible sound pierced the air. I do not have the men for this mess to be clean For I hit space and saw a wraith or two there.
Pew pew goes the wraith on my overlord pew pew Another one shows up "Leave me be, please!" Instead of gg this time I type QQ For I lost to Wraiths combined with cheese.
I was talking to my buddy and he told me about this. I didnt believe him until I found it on dattebayos backed news. Go on read for yourself, this is a seriously epic ban.
"Game two is underway with Sp1ralArch1tect at the bottom right in yellow and Blizzcon at 11 in red. Sp1ral leads the series one to nothing and he is looking to continue that streak into the next set."
There is a long stretch of desert between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, in fact from Vegas on you have some of the most mundane scenery in the whole U.S. Needless to say the drive is comparable to hell; its hot, theres no one around to talk to and by all means you feel trapped. But braving this desert wasteland was a small feat when I had Blizzcon as my goal this time around. For the first time the desert conceded defeat at my hands not the other way around.
"Blizzcon has opted for a 14cc build while Sp1ral has completely misscouted and put down his third hatch before a pool. This could be bad."
I awoke with a start, that morning was only a mere 24 hours from Blizzcon. Though I had to wake up at 7 am the morning was no less epic and I ate breakfast with a certain spring in my step. The sun broke through the vague lines in the glass, after years of wear and tear my once young lady was now a wrinkled old hag. I whispered a promise to her 'If you make it there, you don't have to make it back' and set off to collect my passenger.
After stopping for gas coupled with high octane coffee we set our eyes on the distant horizon and began our journey. Now once again I want to tell you some epic story that happened on our drive into LA, but to be honest it was boring. We listened to the sweet sounds of my three speaker stereo and puffed on ciggarettes (among other things) to pass the time. Later, rather than sooner, we arrived in San Diego to spend the night at my friends brothers house. Tomorrow we would head into LA for the gargantuan nerd orgy that awaited us there.
"Its clearly a game of attrition here as Sp1ral attempts to set up some sort of map control, meanwhile Blizzcon is passively allowing said map control in favor of a all in timing push. I am not sure whats going to happen here as a lull in the action has now begun, but ones things for sure... This could be bad."
Once again the sun rose me from my bed, or the blaring siren coming from my phone did, either way I was up. The red cherry of my ciggarette lit the area around me like the red nose on Rudolph, it definitely wasn't the sun that started my rise this time. I calmly smoked as I pondered whether or not we could make it into LA in time for the doors opening at 10. For some reason I highly doubted it but nonetheless I went to awake my partner in crime so that we could begin.
Even now, not 2 weeks later, I vividly remember being extremely late and setting the cruise control to OFF in order to negotiate the winding traffic in LA. I expected to use every tactic I had learned to reach our destination on time, and I was prepared for the worst. As we neared LA and the traffic was starting to become dense my fears were... alleviated. We zoomed through traffic just in time to see the mass of cars exiting on Kattella Ave. Time to get in line.
"Well I would have thought Sp1ral would be much further behind right now, but somehow he has managed to hold his own this game. Even after winning the first game Sp1ral is still at a clear disadvantage against such a monstrous and experienced opponent."
Here is where things get a little ugly, but first my meeting with two of the coolest dudes ever and the ensuing wild goose chase. As we parked our car LosingID8 and Day[9] called me to see if they could store some of their unneeded things along with our crap. I went through the lobby to meet them outside, after ID8s description they were easy to find ("Asian dude in a TL shirt"). This may have been a joke until I realized that the very person I was searching for was walking directly towards me, sweet.
As I met up with Day and LosingID I contemplated something very deep, or I assume I did as afterward I was completely lost as to where I had entered the lobby from. We first tried and elevator, nope. We returned to the Lobby to give it another shot, at least I remembered that we re on parking level 4; there was some hope. We tried another elevator to no avail and then some stairs which were just as unfruitful, shit. Finally we followed some Blizzconers to the elevator (or one of them found it, I dont remember) and put their stuff in my car. Not the best first impression, but at least I get the sympathy vote for being under the average intelligence level.
"Sp1rals build order and timing have gone completely out of wack, this kid must be smoking on some heavy stuff if he thinks he can stay in this game after that terrible display."
I could write some epic analysis of how boring the line was and how hot it felt as we wound around the parking lot which served as the humongous Blizzcon line. But instead I won't, It fucking sucked and thats all there is to it.
The next goal was to get to the StarCraft 2 section as fast as possible, time to cram games in before going to find the TL guys pre-SC matches. This was rather easy as I guess teh WoW nerds were in such huge numbers that nobody wanted to play SC2 at first. At first we were told to exit the gaming area and re enter from the ropes, but after I pointed out the fact that there were only about 50 people in an area clearly meant for hundreds, he let us whore it up. We moved our way up and down the rows of computers there until it was finally time to head towards the SC tournament stage.
"Things are getting worse as Sp1ral seems to be too focused on expanding while Blizzcon is dropping him on all fronts. There is just too much going on for him to concentrate."
As I reached the SC stage I saw a huge sign which stated that some of my favorite people in the world were under it. "Pro Gamer Area". I rushed over immediately and pushed past everyone that I could to get as close to the gamers as possible. There werent many people there but watching Yellow play from and FPview is something be experienced withing peeping tom distance. Finally I reached the area and firmly planted my feet there for the next few hours as I watched Yellow lose to Idra and Cloud lose to Savior.
While standing there I suddenly realized that I was most likely standing amongst all of the TeamLiquidians as they would most likely enjoy this as well. Sure enough as I looked around I spotted a familiar "1v15" face. There in the flesh was the amazing and talented, LastRomantic. Chill, Plexa, losingID, intrigue, Zatic and a bunch of others were there as well watching the matches.
Far too focused on StarCraft 2 I hardly spent much time with them apart from the SC matches inside the convention. So when the matches ended I chit chatted with LosingID and Plexa for a bit about the Ygosu thing and ID8s chance to interpret Nadas interview, which by the way involved him touching Nadas MSL and OSL badges (FUCKING SICK!). Afterwards it was back to SC2.
"It seems after losing a seemingly insurmountable lead Blizzcon has handed this game back to Sp1ral. Here we go again, this game is going to drag on for quite some time."
Ill save my opinion of the game for the TeamLiquid Blizcon Review but needless to say I had fun. I tried my best to get a feel for each of the races but I found myself sitting there like an idiot for the first few games. Reviewing the buildings and tech options of each unit. My friend and I would constantly get angry at each other for attacking while we were trying to figure out the limitations of blink or something. It was fun.
Playing StarCraft 2 was alot like playing StarCraft for the first time, though I did find it much easier to catch on due to my previous experience. It was exactly what I expected it to be, nothing like Brood War. I guess this was a dissappointment of sorts but in the end I knew it would have to be this way. I faced off against StarCraft 2 all day long, trying to learn her ins and outs before my precious time was up.
"This is a battle of attrition, Sp1ral is running low on units but he has more bases right now. The map is nearly mined and I don't see any logical end to this."
Hours into my neverending grind I felt the urge to actually eat something so I went to take a rest before the next set of SC matches. Once again I sat with the TL guys during the matches which were pretty exciting (Go SAVIOR!) and overall I was very satisfied with the Tasteless+Artosis duo backed up by DJWheat. That guy doesnt get enough credit, he has a real way about the mic and can keep a crowd on noobs entertained. Props man!
After a few more hours of SC2 I was so fucking tired that I really didnt care what happened next as long as it involved food and beer. Luckily the TL dinner was already planned, with nothing left to do I bounce out to take a shower before the dinner. A great second day at Blizzcon, but I felt pwnt afterward.
"Well this is unexpected, just as the action went into a lull Sp1ral typed "EZ MODE TERRAN BITCH" and left the game. Its an unprofessional move, but obviously something is perturbing him. Oh well on to game three, the final set in the series."
Name:Sp1ral, Sp1ralArch1tect Rank:D Hours on: 1-13:00 KST Channel: Whoa Raceerg Worst MUvT Best MUvP
Looking for some practice partners, I just switched to Zerg from protoss so im having a bit of 1a2a3a withdrawals. All like minded people meet me in Whoa on Iccup!
So not a week ago I filled up my newest 160 gig hard drive with all kinds of Anime, Music, Movies, TV and so on and so on. I am a huge media addict and pride myself in my ever growing collection of shit I will watch now, and never again. Anyway here comes the pain...
ONE DAY LATER I FUCKING DROP IT! Holy shit was I mad, this thing is skippin like a bitch and the only thing I could do was put it down as fast as I could and run before I threw it through the fucking window. OH MY GOD I WAS MAD. So i plug it into my laptop and do some other stuff for a bit, then I am watching a movie on my laptop and it minimizes. Pet peeve to the max. I get up with my fist clenched about to punch my fucking something and OMG MY HARD DRIVE JUST DECIDED TO WAKE UP! HOLY SHIT YES!
So i get scared and I give it to my buddy to back up onto his 500 gig, hes lazy so he didnt do it while I was at Blizzcon though. So i offer to do it for myself... uh yeah anyway, I bring it home and its a little cunt to me. I have to transfer like half of a anime series at a time (on average 30 eps) but its not a huge deal, considering I nearly ended this things existence not even a week ago. So I am tediously transfering files as I tediously gather stats for the PL R&S, then the real pain comes...
MY FUCKING DOG COME RUNNING IN AND FUCKING PULLS MY HD FROM MY DESK! FUCKING CRASH BOOM BANG WHAT EVER THE FUCK MY HARD DRIVE IS FUCKED!
Sorry for the all caps and w/e but this was a really bad moment in time. I have tried to smash it, swing it, gently rock it, throw it, lightly drop it and next I am going to fucking freeze the fucker. If that doesn't work should I go to Geek Squad or w/e and get the data restored? Poll below...
To preface the poll there is 70 gigs of Anime (FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Miyazaki Movies, Claymore, Berserk, Samurai Champloo, EVERY FUCKING NARUTO SHIPPUUDEN EPISODE FROM DATTEBAYO, every Naruto episode (-filler), The 12 Kingdoms) and like 35 gigs of music, plus under around 15-25 gigs of movies. I could care less about the movies and music, especially since my music is backed to my iPod, BUT THE FUCKING ANIME TOOK ME FOREVER! Each one is of good quality and a full collection, if you like Naruto you understand how fucking tedious it is to get every DB episode of Shippuuden. I had to DL like fucking 80 torrents for it. FUCK. Anyway to the poll.
Poll: Pull a Jesus on this bitch or leave em on the cross? (Vote): Fuck it. (Vote): Everything deserves a second chance.
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