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Oct 20, 2007 - 05:01 PM |
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To make one final poke at orion in THIS week's SOTW thread... |
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...since I've gracefully spammed it up enough as is for the week:
About the track "Faraway Moon - if it dies rather -short.rm-"
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Originally Posted by orion_mk3
Faraway Moon - if it dies rather -short.rm- Another track with some techno elements, though the piano really sets it apart from the pack. The two elements don't gel as nicely as they could, and the piano kicks in rather late (and is absent for a fair bit too), but the melody's good enough that it doesn't matter so much. ends up giving it a point
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Nothing too irritating, except I have to make the wild assumption these two guys know more about what constitutes trance or not:
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Originally Posted by Zeph
If it dies rather was my fave. Started a bit like the previous track, but long enough to forget about that. I love trance, and since I don't think I've ever heard trance in a game (aside from DDR and maybe Rez), I'm thoroughly shocked.
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Originally Posted by Rimo
I was especially delighted to hear trance in the Faraway Moon track.
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The significance? (taken from a basic search for the word "trance", by posts)
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Originally Posted by orion
I love techno. It's my second-favorite genre and I own or have pirated many CD's. My problem is with trance, which takes techno elements and loops them for 25 minutes so stoned people can dance easily.
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Uh huh, interesting.
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Originally Posted by orion, again
However, if by "techno" you mean "trance" or "eurotrash dancebeat," I would have to say that I am among that genre's mortal enemies, hunting down listeners and composers alike and killing them like dogs. [/hyperbole]
The repetitive nature of most trance, with hardly anything in the way of variations or interludes, provides a good cue to stomp your feet or shake your thang, but little else. In a dark and sweaty nightclub, where the object is not aesthetic appriciation of music but to collide and score with members of the opposite sex, trance serves its purpose.
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Fascinating...
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Originally Posted by orion, yet again, this time on a track no one else came remotely close to referring to as "trance"
People complain about boring ambiance and then enthusiastically endorse Fantavision - Moony - Stage 5,6? Whatever. This hyper-repetitive trance loopery bored me to tears.
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So, does orion simply not know what constitutes trance? (rhetorical question)
So, how can one so easily have a vendetta against a certain type of music they can't even recognize? (again, rhetorical question, but imagine a monkey sitting in his cage, scratching his head)
Can it be, that orion simply enjoys going out of his way in finding stuff wrong with things? (that's 3 rhetorical questions in a row, BTW...the monkey's on his fifth banana trying to figure it out)
My point? No, this is not a continuation of Rat's gloriously entertaining and well-made posts picking his "musical theory" posts apart, though it was loosely inspired. My musical knowledge isn't good enough to do anything nearly as good. My point is:
1. I'm tired of this fuck-up literally finding stuff to bitch and moan about the more and more he goes on. And half the time, it's totally inconsistant with the past. I swear, these contests, he makes up something to pick on as sort of an ongoing theme and doesn't fucking shut up about it, even when it wasn't an issue in the past. For the chiptune contest, it was whining about "trills" (a feature commonly found in chiptunes), "allowing Genesis tracks in", "gene-rock" (stupid term to begin with and it was in a CHIPTUNE contest!), "not enough slow tracks" (WAH! Again...in a CHIPTUNE contest!) "stuff sounding too close to SNES music"  and "Castlevania being overrated" to the point of whining about it EVERY. FUCKING. TIME. one comes up (which hasn't carried over to any other contest thus far) For the recent BSC, I called him out several times when he tried to magically and instantaneously raise a stink over things that clearly were never an issue in the past, such as the number of tracks from the same series advancing (funny he had an issue with many Wild Arms tracks doing well, but not a peep when numerous Chrono tracks or Beyond Good & Evil ones advanced in prior contests...) and tracks that had appeared previously. And there's countless times I've heard him say "no melody" when it's there in plain view with a spotlight hitting it. How can you miss a melody in a Guilty Gear track, unless you're fucking retarded? Oh, wait...And the whole "Sakuraba Battle Theme" shtick (which he didn't start, but has no issues not letting go and continuing) has gotten old, withered, died and reincarated itself numerous times over the years. And for this week's SOTW, AFTER HE HAD WHINED THAT NOMINATING SOMETHING FROM THE MEGAMAN SERIES WOULD "OPEN THE GATES" FOR GETTING WELL-KNOWN TRACKS IN, THE DOUCHE TURNS AROUND AND NOMINATES A TRACK FROM THE MANA SERIES! Double-standards? Inconsistancies? Plain-retardedness?
The inconsistancies boggle my fucking mind, so I figure it's just best to point them out as they come along for everyone to see, instead of trying to figure them out logically. I would recommend other people do likewise.
And to a lesser extent:
2. I'm tired of being mentioned in the same sentence by various members and being compared to this idiot simply by being involved in various VGM-related activities and posting often-strong opinions on what I like and don't like. The difference is I don't go around, literally making up and going to extensive lengths to make up reasons to hate pieces of music as I go along. More often than not, I come into them looking forward to what new tracks I can pick up. I mean, if you stick rap or grunge in front of my nose (two genres of music I loathe) or a decidedly ambient track from a western RPG...stuff already within my established canon of "like and dislike", where I don't exactly need to make stuff up, I'll bite and go off on it. These contests aren't exactly filled with upbeat, flowery posts from anyone. But I'm also not going to go out of my way to find stuff to bitch and whine about.
So yeah, Brent, next time you want to decide "who's worse", keep that in mind.
Oh, and if someone can run an ip check on the member "Anuran" (who only seems to duck his head out occasionally during the song contests and conveniently votes alongside orion when appropriate enough...oddly enough, orion gets really riled up just by me mentioning his name...hmm...HMMMM) it would be greatly appreciated. I just know he's one big fanboy of Robocco Wars. 
http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/members/anuran.html
http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/br...tml#post415637
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So even if this doesn't pan out, at least it's making me better at GH. Have to see if it works for expert mode in III now...*shudder*
...Didn't see her again afterwards. If I could've found a way to kick myself, I would have. Well, I did, but it didn't hurt nearly enough as it should have. 