A music recommendation before bed
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mangosteenBefore I head off to sleep, I have a most excellent music recommendation, but first a story.
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syringavulgaris, you may skip to the end, as I think that this recommendation would be uniquely suited to you, and I think you probably want to find some ASAP.
Hello, my pseudonym is Elias, and I play MMORPGs.
"Hi, Elias."
One of my small vices is the occasional Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. I'm a world-building junkie. I freely admit this. Give me a well thought-out world, with interesting systems within it, and I'll play in/with/around it for hours on end. I get bored eventually, but it usually takes a good couple of months first (modulo the 1.5-year Everquest thing, but that was a different life). I'm currently futzing with World of Warcraft, which is fun, but requires a lot of "tending". Before that, I was playing EVE-Online. It's an online space trading/combat/diplomacy/mining/etc. game, with a huge universe, gorgeous graphics, and some very well thought-out economics and economic systems. It also didn't require that much in the way of "tending" (i.e. forward progress with your character/avatar/whatever only happens when you're logged on and doing stuff), so it was good for a geek on the go. I stopped playing because some of the more interesting things in the game require a lot more tending, and I didn't have time. Oh yeah, and my games box blew up (but that's a different show).
So.... a little bit of background on EVE-Online. The basic unit of persistent group cooperation is the Corporation. You can pool resources, have a separate corporate bank account (for in-game currency), corporate hangars, and later on, space stations and the like (yes, you can build your own space stations. Too much tending and cooperation for my liking, though). So me and a bunch of friends on the west coast had a corporation, and it was good.
However, all is not cola and carnations in EVE-land. NoooOOOOoooo. Some sawed-off twerp decided to try to shake our corporation down for dough, saying that his corporation would declare war on us if we didn't pay. The exchange that went back and forth between one of our people (who was a game developer) and said twerp was.... astounding. Properly edited, it would be a truly perfect Socratic dialogue on the subject of Game Theory, as well as a treatise on the advantages of formlessness in battle, as decribed by Sun Tzu. In short, our guy said "No. In every possible scenario, we don't pay you, and you come out behind. Go away." Needless to say, TwerpCo declared war on us, we made it very expensive for them to continue, and the declaration of war was canceled after about a week.
Stay with me here, folks. I'm getting to the "music recommendation" part of this.
Well, we presumed that TwerpCo got bored (it costs in-game currency weekly in order to maintain the declaration (thus ensuring that the in-game automatic guard ships won't intervene)) and saw no profit, because we all logged out, got back to our lives, and waited them out ("formlessness" from before). What we also noted was that TwerpCo pissed off a bunch of other people, one of them being a corporation that specialized in in-game mercenary work. EVE-Online is a particularly good game for the budding businessman. It's open-ended enough that many types of economic plays are possible. Anyway, what good is a kick-ass mercenary corporation if you don't advertise. So... they put out a video with captures from the game, showing them kicking large amounts of virtual ass.
The music in the background kicked just as much ass as they did on-screen.
The band? Nightwish.
They're a symphonic heavy-metal goth rock band from Finland.
It's big music. Really big. Big instruments, big arrangements, just.... big.
I don't know whether to headbang to it or wave my arms, crazed-conductor style. Both simultaneously would be preferable.
For those of you who are into that kind of thing, find the album "Once". Now. It completely blew me away.
Now, bed.
Note: In the past two days, I've been told that there will be a stuffed-animal dolphin in my future, as well as (in a completely unrelated incident) that I'm an unexpected challenge. These were both compliments.
syringavulgaris, you may skip to the end, as I think that this recommendation would be uniquely suited to you, and I think you probably want to find some ASAP.Hello, my pseudonym is Elias, and I play MMORPGs.
"Hi, Elias."
One of my small vices is the occasional Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. I'm a world-building junkie. I freely admit this. Give me a well thought-out world, with interesting systems within it, and I'll play in/with/around it for hours on end. I get bored eventually, but it usually takes a good couple of months first (modulo the 1.5-year Everquest thing, but that was a different life). I'm currently futzing with World of Warcraft, which is fun, but requires a lot of "tending". Before that, I was playing EVE-Online. It's an online space trading/combat/diplomacy/mining/etc. game, with a huge universe, gorgeous graphics, and some very well thought-out economics and economic systems. It also didn't require that much in the way of "tending" (i.e. forward progress with your character/avatar/whatever only happens when you're logged on and doing stuff), so it was good for a geek on the go. I stopped playing because some of the more interesting things in the game require a lot more tending, and I didn't have time. Oh yeah, and my games box blew up (but that's a different show).
So.... a little bit of background on EVE-Online. The basic unit of persistent group cooperation is the Corporation. You can pool resources, have a separate corporate bank account (for in-game currency), corporate hangars, and later on, space stations and the like (yes, you can build your own space stations. Too much tending and cooperation for my liking, though). So me and a bunch of friends on the west coast had a corporation, and it was good.
However, all is not cola and carnations in EVE-land. NoooOOOOoooo. Some sawed-off twerp decided to try to shake our corporation down for dough, saying that his corporation would declare war on us if we didn't pay. The exchange that went back and forth between one of our people (who was a game developer) and said twerp was.... astounding. Properly edited, it would be a truly perfect Socratic dialogue on the subject of Game Theory, as well as a treatise on the advantages of formlessness in battle, as decribed by Sun Tzu. In short, our guy said "No. In every possible scenario, we don't pay you, and you come out behind. Go away." Needless to say, TwerpCo declared war on us, we made it very expensive for them to continue, and the declaration of war was canceled after about a week.
Stay with me here, folks. I'm getting to the "music recommendation" part of this.
Well, we presumed that TwerpCo got bored (it costs in-game currency weekly in order to maintain the declaration (thus ensuring that the in-game automatic guard ships won't intervene)) and saw no profit, because we all logged out, got back to our lives, and waited them out ("formlessness" from before). What we also noted was that TwerpCo pissed off a bunch of other people, one of them being a corporation that specialized in in-game mercenary work. EVE-Online is a particularly good game for the budding businessman. It's open-ended enough that many types of economic plays are possible. Anyway, what good is a kick-ass mercenary corporation if you don't advertise. So... they put out a video with captures from the game, showing them kicking large amounts of virtual ass.
The music in the background kicked just as much ass as they did on-screen.
The band? Nightwish.
They're a symphonic heavy-metal goth rock band from Finland.
It's big music. Really big. Big instruments, big arrangements, just.... big.
I don't know whether to headbang to it or wave my arms, crazed-conductor style. Both simultaneously would be preferable.
For those of you who are into that kind of thing, find the album "Once". Now. It completely blew me away.
Now, bed.
Note: In the past two days, I've been told that there will be a stuffed-animal dolphin in my future, as well as (in a completely unrelated incident) that I'm an unexpected challenge. These were both compliments.
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Date: 2005-10-26 04:03 am (UTC)http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/Nightwish+sack+female+vocalist+after+lengthy+world+tour%0D%0A/1101981387494
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Date: 2005-10-26 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 04:36 am (UTC)'til our next random lunch date at the Diesel....
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Date: 2005-10-26 06:24 am (UTC)So - where is the video of the merc group kicking ass?
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Date: 2005-10-26 06:35 am (UTC)I'll give Nightwish a try.
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Date: 2005-10-26 02:03 pm (UTC)either way it's cool :) :)
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Date: 2005-10-26 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 06:41 pm (UTC)Now if that vocalist would just grow up and realize she doesn't need to demonstrate her entire range on each song, they'd be great.
She was originally an opera singer. It explains a few things. :)
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Date: 2005-10-26 06:31 pm (UTC)I've not known you to be easy, but I'm open to updates...
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Date: 2005-10-26 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 01:40 am (UTC)Alliance on Earthen Ring
Ping me.
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Date: 2005-10-29 07:04 am (UTC)