Official Discussion Thread (Ghost Edit)

[OfficeBats]

So there are two non-pony artists in the academy of booty.
(Not that I care.)
But, how do they get involved in something like this without being pony artists?
I don't want theories. I am legit asking how they got involved. Not ideas on how they got involved.

Dave aka the one of the judges for the album, contacted some of them I believe. Asking if they wanted to participate.

[Bronies Are Cool]

Yea. I have been considering joining a furry forum even though I'm not. Just to see what they are like in person better to get to know another fandom by experiencing it than just reading or hearing about it y'know.
Plus, I think that furries have a lot of cute art sometimes. (Not all their art just some.)

[ExoBassTix]

there are a LOT of people that ask me about whether or not being a brony is a requirement for joining MLR, which it is not.
There are a good number of non-bronies joining the forum these days and it's interesting and exciting to see. :D

They are the ones who aren't too lazy to use Google to get past bot-protection.

I think that furries have a lot of cute art sometimes. (Not all their art just some.)

Oh my god yes! I so agree with that.

[Bronies Are Cool]

So.....
I'm trying to build a computer
Or at least deciding if I should
Or considering buying one
But I can't decide what I wanna do
Because I want a NVidea GeForce GTX 760 for sure
And a clock speed of at least 3.0 (preferably 3.5 or 4)
And 12-16gb ram

So I have to pick between this build which is incomplete: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3g6dGX plus throwing down a bit more money to finish while trying to stay under 1k budget
Or this one: m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=3026586&pid=1219086172072
Which both are good and have the graphic card I want and fit my want requirements. It's just I'm considering my budget

[GCKrastin]

So.....
I'm trying to build a computer
Or at least deciding if I should
Or considering buying one
But I can't decide what I wanna do
Because I want a NVidea GeForce GTX 760 for sure
And a clock speed of at least 3.0 (preferably 3.5 or 4)
And 12-16gb ram

So I have to pick between this build which is incomplete: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3g6dGX plus throwing down a bit more money to finish while trying to stay under 1k budget
Or this one: m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=3026586&pid=1219086172072
Which both are good and have the graphic card I want and fit my want requirements. It's just I'm considering my budget

If you need recommendations on other parts (coolers, psu etc) then check out Logical Increments. I built a computer with parts from their list of "great" tier parts and it's pretty fantastic (although cost me significantly more than they say because the prices have dropped since then). And they have a parts list for basically any budget, ranging from $200 to $4000. They also have less detailed guides on things like mice, keyboards, and monitors.

Also if your motherboard is decent you don't need a dedicated sound card unless you're gonna get a fully fledged audio interface. Also you seem to have picked a micro-atx motherboard even though your case is a mid-tower size which means your motherboard is smaller than it should be and might not fit properly. I have an Asus M5A97 R2.0 and it's great, though it won't fit that processor you chose. (It would only work with certain AMD processors)

[ExoBassTix]

YES! Soundcloud free now gives you 3 hours of sounds, and regular Pro 6 hours :D
HAPPY!

[Acsii]

YES! Soundcloud free now gives you 3 hours of sounds, and regular Pro 6 hours :D
HAPPY!

well kinda

[FLAOFEI]

I've been thinking of taking a break from production for quite some time now. It's actually partly because that I've learnt stuff by producing. I think I know what sound i want, and end up not trying new things. As a result I'm not trying new things, just repeating the same patterns. I don't want that. When I produce I want to explore new sounds, to boldly produce what no producer has produced before!

I'll still be online and lead Legacy of Discord III [Legobricks of Disco] and all the other things I'm doing here. I just need a break from the actual production. Recharge my bateries with new puns and memes and stuf to lmao about while producing. Might take a few weeks, few months, maybe more. I'll get back to it when I fel the time is right.

It's also to put a little more time into playing instruments. I'm gonna try to join an orchestrathingwhatchacallit at my new university, so practice wouldn't be wrong.

[DJ TATCM]

Promise me you won't give up that accordion sound though. The fandom, no, the world needs more of that sort of stuff c:

oh maybe you should play an accordion concerto with the orchestra lol i know john serry sr wrote an amazing one

[Bronies Are Cool]

So.....
I'm trying to build a computer
Or at least deciding if I should
Or considering buying one
But I can't decide what I wanna do
Because I want a NVidea GeForce GTX 760 for sure
And a clock speed of at least 3.0 (preferably 3.5 or 4)
And 12-16gb ram

So I have to pick between this build which is incomplete: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3g6dGX plus throwing down a bit more money to finish while trying to stay under 1k budget
Or this one: m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=3026586&pid=1219086172072
Which both are good and have the graphic card I want and fit my want requirements. It's just I'm considering my budget

If you need recommendations on other parts (coolers, psu etc) then check out Logical Increments. I built a computer with parts from their list of "great" tier parts and it's pretty fantastic (although cost me significantly more than they say because the prices have dropped since then). And they have a parts list for basically any budget, ranging from $200 to $4000. They also have less detailed guides on things like mice, keyboards, and monitors.

Also if your motherboard is decent you don't need a dedicated sound card unless you're gonna get a fully fledged audio interface. Also you seem to have picked a micro-atx motherboard even though your case is a mid-tower size which means your motherboard is smaller than it should be and might not fit properly. I have an Asus M5A97 R2.0 and it's great, though it won't fit that processor you chose. (It would only work with certain AMD processors)

I know nothin about motherboards and my tech buddies also know pretty much nothing about them either. Lol

[Bronies Are Cool]

Which user on this forum has/had the avatar of the 8bit looking guy with an Afro?

[FLAOFEI]

Promise me you won't give up that accordion sound though. The fandom, no, the world needs more of that sort of stuff c:

oh maybe you should play an accordion concerto with the orchestra lol i know john serry sr wrote an amazing one

I'm not giving anything up! I love that sound way to much for that!
I wish I could learn to play the accordion, but those thi gs are insanely expensive!

btw, aparently we have one of Swedens best young accordionist in PromenadorQuestern http://youtu.be/U__fNkCLjsE. I won't be joining there though, since they have realy high standards for the drummer... I'll be practiceing though.

[ExoBassTix]

Elsewhere, on another forum, I found an ancient thread bumped up by someone, which quotes a Facebook post from Feed Me in 2012. If you can't access the post for whatever reason, here it is:

Spoiler Facebook Post:

'This is the greatest game in the world.'

I've almost stopped doing interviews because I'm achieving nothing. If you want to find something out about me, ask me personally. If it catches my eye, I'll respond, but dragging through another interview that no one thought about for more than two minutes seems like treading very boring water. Not that they've all been that way; but it's the trend.

A well known electronic music magazine recently wanted to do a few page spread about my production techniques. They sent me a list of preliminary questions; what plugins do I use for 'dirty' sounds, what makes a good 'drop', how much 'filth is too much filth'? Who wrote this? I could play the system; give away minimal information in exchange for some printed coverage, but at this point, fuck it. The Mau5hax thing was great; I got to interface with talented people and enjoy making music. I learnt as well as got involved. I didn't sit and have my mechanical techniques picked at while my actual motivation was ignored; we made decisions together.

I don't mind the occasional production Q, but what happened to mystery in music and art? There's YouTube tutorials for days now online. Look it up; these production conversations are redundant. The truth and effect comes in the sincerity and composition of the actual piece. If I read an interview with an artist of any type, what I want to know is the 'why' - not the 'how'. Why as electronic artists are we constricted to being quizzed monotonously about our techniques, and not ever our motivation? The reason anything I made sounds the way it did is because I sat and worked out every single piece of it myself. Give every one of us the same tools, and see what we all end up with - it's our differences in expression and decision making that makes us.

I'm doing this because I honestly don't know what else I can do. Music and art for me is a necessary release, and once people picked up on what I was making I was thrown into it. I was a bottled up, angry teenager, and I was completely consumed by the satisfaction I'd found in this new idea of making my own music. It consumed my life and I found I loved what it brought to it, and now I'm on an endless journey to see where it takes me, and where I can take it. Because of it, my entire late teenage and adult life I've been travelling the world, from Spor to Feed Me, constantly humbled by the people I've met, things I've seen, extremes I've lived through - I'm nothing but overwhelmingly grateful, it's almost too much.

Some of it has been physically and mentally tough, but so far I've never quit. It's never left my mind that should I drop dead, there's a million people who would kill to take my place. I don't believe in luck necessarily; I carved this out myself, but I am honoured to have what I have. If you're going to complain about your reality when you're living another persons dream, then I think you need a massive reality check. No one's forcing you. Music is magic; and I think as artists we have a duty to keep it that way, not dissolve it down into presets, complaints, one-upmanship and catering to the market. It's not all pink candy-floss cloud rides, and I think it looks fake if you depict it that way, but it really could be a lot fucking worse.

I used to lie and listen to my favourite records and daydream about how they were thought up, get lost in the sounds. There was no one to ask or study, and the resulting domino effect of speculation led me to my own ideas. It's always been the unknown that's motivated me. Spor was what I fell in to, but Feed Me is my world, a projection of a piece of me, and a way of expressing whatever I feel like. I couldn't have built what I have without you guys supporting me, but I'll always be creating and writing it none the less. I love you all for letting me take it this far.

I don't normally post my opinions on here, but I've never got anywhere by playing the game, and sometimes I just feel I need to 1) say thanks, and 2) say why. TLDR.

Feeeed.

I responded in that thread with my thoughts on this, and I thought it worthwhile to copypaste it here.

I think the first time I read his message was half a year ago? Something like that.
Now I read it again, and my god is he right. The system decides we should play a game. Except it's like a casino, a bad one at that. The house always wins. And even then, what do they win? A fangasm?

My music is about the why. Sure I personally get excited about some of my own how's, but it's the why that makes my music the way it is. I too think music is magic, and I strive to keep it that way. I too think we are supposed to keep music, the way it should be, intact. The ignorance of the general music-listening people shouldn't cause a downfall of creativity. The game should just be forfeited all at once, thrown away with a smile, and spawn a huge party in which we are us. Take away the how. Enter the now. And go wild and have fun.

[Stuntddude]

Which user on this forum has/had the avatar of the 8bit looking guy with an Afro?

Stuntdude?

It is me, right? I don't know anybody else fitting the description.

[Bronies Are Cool]

Which user on this forum has/had the avatar of the 8bit looking guy with an Afro?

Stuntdude?

It is me, right? I don't know anybody else fitting the description.

Yes it is you.
Did you like something I posted on Facebook recently? Because I made a post and only one person liked it and he has the same image as you for their picture. But a different name. They go by miles fogle

[Bronies Are Cool]

I was nominated to do the ice bucket challenge by someone. And now I have to nominate some other people. I would like to nominate freewave and Synthis lol

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I was nominated to do the ice bucket challenge by someone. And now I have to nominate some other people. I would like to nominate freewave and Synthis lol

Don't even bother, about 8% of the money you'd donate would actually go to research, the rest goes to the ALS foundation.

[Acsii]

I was nominated to do the ice bucket challenge by someone. And now I have to nominate some other people. I would like to nominate freewave and Synthis lol

Don't even bother, about 8% of the money you'd donate would actually go to research, the rest goes to the ALS foundation.

Do you realise how fucking heartless that is...
You know the ALS foundation helps to aid people with the disease right?

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I was nominated to do the ice bucket challenge by someone. And now I have to nominate some other people. I would like to nominate freewave and Synthis lol

Don't even bother, about 8% of the money you'd donate would actually go to research, the rest goes to the ALS foundation.

Do you realise how fucking heartless that is...
You know the ALS foundation helps to aid people with the disease right?

no because I live under a rock, I'm saying that 8% isn't enough because all we've gotten from that research is a pill that *might* prolong someone's life for a year or so in a condition that is still horrible. If anything is gonna happen more is gonna need to be diverted to research if any better result is gonna come of it. Oh and I know they care for people with ALS, but they get 50 million dollars a year from the government to stay afloat so that part of the organization isn't in jeopardy.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Anyway, lets not drama. Go ahead and dump a bucket of ice on your head BAC, I can't stop you

[FLAOFEI]

I don't see how dumping a bucket of ice on your head helps anyone... but it sounds like something real nice to do in combination with a sauna. I'm guessing your suposed to donate and stuff too...

[LFP]

Well, the ice challenge is probably the only reason this thing has been spreading so fast, so yeah it's kinda helping a lot.

[Bronies Are Cool]

I actually don't have the money to donate. I was just doing the ice bucket challenge part

[eery]

Well, the ice challenge is probably the only reason this thing has been spreading so fast, so yeah it's kinda helping a lot.

This. Awareness is half the job really. Just riding some sort of hype doing some sort of good.

[SevenUpPony]

I like Kyoga... don't tell him I said that.

Kyoga sees all and hears all.