Plume & Akakak

So maybe that's 99% of a million users not complaining about the game. Hurray.

I love Emerson Lake & Palmer. Revisitations are frequent in their music. Another sideway step with Hubert Parry's "Jerusalem" prog-rock-ified on Brain Salad Surgery (1973) : This piece is beautiful ! --- Some organ pieces : - Louis Vierne, Organ Symphony No. 1 in D minor Op. 14 (1898-1899). The Symphony's Prelude, performed by Michael Murray at the Cavaillé-Coll Organ of the Church of Saint-Ouen in Rouen : - César Franck, Pièce Héroïque in B minor from Trois Pièces (1878). Played by Marcel Dupré, apparently at St. Thomas Church in New York City. - Just Pierre Cochereau improvising : Cheers

They can be quite painful to manage when they get too big, and depending on where they appear in the area. Whether they are internal or external, when simple procedures fail, excisional surgery may be used to... ...Wait. I'm gonna make some coffee. Good morning everyone.

Mea maxima culpa ! How many lashes ? : D You're right. Like many people, she played a lot of Bach when learning the piano. Now dismiss the Spanish Inquisition immediately. I wouldn't call it a profanation. Wendy Carlos' Switched on Bach isn't a desecration.

Welcome back, seems it was a great trip !

I stand on my position. (ouch.)

How about defining the difference between a glitch and a bug ? Ok. I'm out.

Ear-food thread ! Yay, here I am. I listen a lot to composers from the Baroque period : - Henry Purcell's opera King Arthur (first performed in 1691) is probably one of the works I have the most listened to. Here's the famous Aria from the Third Act, "What Power Art Thou", performed by Les Arts Florissants and conducted by William Christie. Bass-baritone Petteri Salomaa singing. - French master of the viola da gamba, Marin Marais (1656-1728). "Prélude en Harpègement", performed by Mathilde Vialle. - My wife cherishes Johann Sebastian Bach. His works are regularly listened to at home, especially piano recordings. The Aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (first published in 1741), performed by Glenn Gould. --- - One of our most esteemed composer is Carlo Gesualdo Da Venosa (1566-1613). An Italian nobleman, lutenist, and also murderer (he assassinated his wife Donna Maria d'Avalos and her lover the Duke of Andria in their bed, and according to some sources, he also killed his second son by Maria, after doubting his paternity). Director Werner Herzog, always interested in the frontier between genius and madness, made a good docu-fiction about his life, Gesualdo : Death for Five Voices, in 1995. Back to his music, Gesualdo is a composer of the late Renaissance era, and his work was strongly criticized in its time, as it somehow stands between Renaissance and Baroque music. Gesualdo is praised today for his early use of dissonance and audacious chromatic juxtapositions. "In Monte Oliveti", from the Tenebrae Responsories For Maundy Thursday, performed by the Schola Cantorum Nürnberg. It is beautiful and devastating. I like too. The dissonances are slightly more noticeable (a few coughs near the microphone along the way though).--- I'll be back with organ works... Writing this post and looking for links is quite painful. A little synchronicity issue between me listening to these pieces and my neighbours watching a soccer match, with windows wide-open on both sides. : ) --- EDIT : Columbia, did you listen to Brian Eno's version of Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, on his 4th LP Discreet Music ? It's a beautiful slow-paced version. The musicians were asked to gradually alter the tempo and other elements of the composition. On this album, Eno's intention was to explore multiple ways to create music with limited planning or intervention. It's here :

Don't fight it. It's only fascination.

Well no. I don't mind those glitches. I've used this picture as an avatar for a long time : Oh the sweet intriguing indecency of anatomy atlases and sectional drawings. Also, glitches can be fine. That's just the material expressing itself. Like splinters on a wooden floor make a room more lively.

Real ?! How dare you ? No. False alarm.

Can I call it a mental leg split, then ? Happens with other games, other products, and in other circumstances. That's just users adding a bittersweet frustration flavour to the product they are consuming.

"On this forum, we can regularly read people asking simultaneously for a finished product and for constant new features. Talk about oxymorons." Quoting me from another thread : ), and KSP is not the only game concerned. Maybe we could stop building our own double bind situations.

Didn't know this band. Thanks, that's a fine track. This Public Service Broadcasting track is nice too. Dubstep, then a colder one : Senking, "Black Ice" from the Tweek 12'' (Raster-Noton records, 2011). --- A few other electronic ice spikes as bonuses : 1) from Raster-Noton records as well, Carsten Nicolai under his Alva Noto hood, with "uni rec" from the LP univrs (2011). Sharp as a precise node. No, I don't know actually, I'm playing stock. 2) Still from Raster-Noton, Atom™, "Strom" from the HD LP (2013). 3) Anthony Rother (again) with "Mathematik", from his 2005 compilation This is Electro (Works 1997-2005). \/ This is working. Hit play. 4) Arpanet (one of the pseudonyms of Detroit musician Gerald Donald, also member of Drexciya, Underground Resistance and Dopplereffekt), with "Großvater Paradoxon" from the LP Inertial Frame (2005).

Heh, nice ! HAL would be a good compromise between Stephen Hawking and Barry White. "Dai-sy..."

I agree with you. Everyone at home enjoyed Frozen for what it is. In an opposite way, Interstellar has become one of those "popular things it's cool to praise", despite its flaws. I'm not surprised it is that much represented in this thread and would not say it is a bad movie, - it's actually nice -, but it doesn't stand the comparison with the two pillars he's openly paying an homage (or "paying an outrage", for some) to, 2001, A Space Odyssey by Kubrick and Solaris by Andreï Tarkovsky. Interstellar is quite a mix of different cinematographic genres (mashups are trendy, I know), and can mainly be enjoyed when seen as a "big show" : it has no fixed standpoint, cinematographic choices and plot solidity regularly fade out along the movie in favour of spectacularity and sentimentalism. It's a likeable visual burger but it can't be compared to the uncompromising character of its two main references. It seemed to me that some citations of Kubrick and Tarkovsky were mostly used to satisfy the viewer, for the geeky pleasure of noticing them. It's something very common in modern blockbusters, and I felt it was similar - yet wrapped in a classier package - to that Star Wars' stormtrooper shout you can recognize in many movies when a character falls from a great height. I'm playing the devil's advocate here. Comparing Jonathan Nolan with Arthur C. Clarke and Stanislaw Lem is kinda silly anyway. I don't think they are pursuing the same goal. Personally, the setting of yet another dying Earth annoyed me. Our social anxieties are profitable fantasies, but these worries are getting exploited to the bone. It's time we move to something else. And I admit I'm growing unimpressed with Jonathan Nolan's "snap-of-the-fingers outcomes". The film's soundtrack left me with the same impression : Hans Zimmer did a sensationalist revisitation of Philip Glass, which, after all, fits the movie well.

That was a pleasant read.

Back on topic (sorta), here's the guy still holding the title. A closer relative, most certainly. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x116o18_classic-sesame-street-grover-s-health-minute-teeth_fun

I'd want it to be Stephen Hawking. Or Barry White. But it's usually me talking to my screen with my nose pinched. "Hey Bob !"

Ow, why phrase it this way ? Nothing I want to call "middle" or "worst", but I've got plenty of highly cherished and esteemed movies : Stalker (1979) by Andreï Tarkovsky, Melancholia (2011) by Lars Von Trier, The Devils (1971) by Ken Russell, Persona (1966) by Ingmar Bergman, La Jetée (1962) by Chris Marker, 2001, A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) by Werner Herzog (or Even Dwarfs Started Small, or Grizzly Man...), Phase IV (1974) by Saul Bass, La Carne (The Flesh) (1991) by Marco Ferreri, Gag Factor (2000) by Jim Powers, Je t'aime moi non plus (I Love You, I Don't) (1976) by Serge Gainsbourg, We Own the Night (2007) by James Gray, El Topo (1970) by Alejandro Jodorowsky, L'Inferno (1911) by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan & Guiseppe de Liguoro, The American Astronaut (2001) by Cory McAbee, The Straight Story (1999) by David Lynch, Idi i smotri (Come and See) (1985) by Elem Klimov, ...

I was in elementary school and saw it for the first time in the early 80s too. I must have watched it more than 20 times since. It was a fascinating/intimidating experience for me, and apparently for most people who saw it when they were children.

I had to check the exact spelling of his name too. : ) What a great movie, by the way. Congratulations, your prize is waiting for you at the upper-right corner of the screen !

A distant parent ? (I'll send a few easy green coins to the first user posting this little buddy's name and where he comes from.)

Mod support may be irrelevant when discussing the quality of a video game. Modding support is a recent, delicate matter for video game developers. Game companies are pushed to deal with it by their customers' increasing tendency to give a personal touch to the games they are playing. In a sense, it's a continuation of the sandbox idea, yet it's reaching questionable levels of appropriation and outspoken dissatisfaction, as if the openness of sandbox environments were never enough. It would probably be a breath of fresh air to stop acting like barons considering they are the legit owners of the land. Anyway, mods are not part of a game. And I don't think developers should be concerned with making their software more easily hackable. I would suggest keeping the discussion to the lowest common denominator. Same reasoning for the seemingly insatiable appetite for updates. On this forum, we can regularly read people asking simultaneously for a finished product and for constant new features. Talk about oxymorons. What an apparent majority of players are doing with a game has little connection with the quality of the game itself. Blame these players if you want. They may be just a tip of the iceberg anyway. That's how I want to see the grumpiness which is prevalent on many video games forums. As far as other matters are concerned, I find some comments in this thread offensively self-assured, especially regarding two games that have been recognized and praised by so many professionals from different fields of expertise; two games that both made it to an EDU program, and that are played by people from so many different generations, which I think is a high-quality sign for a cultural product. New interesting games are coming, but there's no doubt Minecraft is a milestone in the history of video games.

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