I learned something today...

The Wobbler · Post by **The Wobbler** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 5:49 pm

Oh hell no. Well, I just learned something else.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:00 pm

The Wobbler wrote:Oh hell no. Well, I just learned something else.

Share with us this nugget of knowledge.

The Wobbler · Post by **The Wobbler** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:06 pm

The answer you seek is in the past.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 7:40 pm

The Wobbler wrote:The answer you seek is in the past.

Ah, I getcha.

RMSephy · Post by **RMSephy** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:37 pm

Today, I learned that your computer runs faster if you reduce its paging file size or even disable it altogether.

marionline · Post by **marionline** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:12 am

I learned how to throw numbers up to 35 by using only 2 D6.

Post by **TMC** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:03 pm

RMSephy wrote:Today, I learned that your computer runs faster if you reduce its paging file size or even disable it altogether.

Win XP, eh? (Vista supposedly fixed that sort of nonsense, not that I consider Vista an improvement)

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 12:37 am

http://www.realfarmacy.com/crickets-slo ... e-singing/

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:20 am

Meowskivich wrote:http://www.realfarmacy.com/crickets-slo ... e-singing/

I listened, and was skeptical of the sound. A little searching quickly led me to http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/cricketsong.asp which explains that this recording is actually the song "Twisted Hair" from an album by Jim Wilson.

It is true that all the sounds in the track are crickets, but he did a lot more manipulation than just slowing them down. he also apparently carefully layered them to compose the music out of them.

I downloaded some cricket sounds from freesound.org, and spent some time slowing them down in audacity and I wasn't able to come anywhere near the human choir sound. (but I am not a musician)

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:20 am

Bob the Hamster wrote:
Meowskivich wrote:http://www.realfarmacy.com/crickets-slo ... e-singing/
I listened, and was skeptical of the sound. A little searching quickly led me to http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/cricketsong.asp which explains that this recording is actually the song "Twisted Hair" from an album by Jim Wilson.

It is true that all the sounds in the track are crickets, but he did a lot more manipulation than just slowing them down. he also apparently carefully layered them to compose the music out of them.

I downloaded some cricket sounds from freesound.org, and spent some time slowing them down in audacity and I wasn't able to come anywhere near the human choir sound. (but I am not a musician)

It's still awesome to listen to.

sheamkennedy · Post by **sheamkennedy** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:03 pm

It is still awesome to listen to. I actually did the same thing slowing down a cricket sample with my effects unit. I lowered the bpm starting around 128 all the way down to 20 bpm and was not able to reproduce this. I also sped up the original track and was not able to produce anything cricket-like. I really enjoy slowing down samples, some things really do have the most profound sounds.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:03 am

My extremely simple python 3 files can't work on python 2.
Some may go "duh", but I really don't know the difference between these two -_-

it is okay now, I have found something for making pygame work with py3, and this is a relatively new thingamajig...this book thing on it. So I hope to learn well this pygame for py3, and continue learning game design of a whole new color

jcenterprises · Post by **jcenterprises** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 6:14 pm

NBA 2K14 can penalize you in-game for swearing at the Kinect.

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 6:48 pm

jcenterprises wrote:NBA 2K14 can penalize you in-game for swearing at the Kinect.

That's insane! What's next, Grand Theft Auto 6 charges you for public indecency if you're playing in your underwear?

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 6:59 pm

Gizmog wrote:
jcenterprises wrote:NBA 2K14 can penalize you in-game for swearing at the Kinect.
That's insane! What's next, Grand Theft Auto 6 charges you for public indecency if you're playing in your underwear?

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease