BULMABRIEFS144'S PROFILE

I have no musical training. But I apparently have some sort of knack for making musical patterns (at one point in college, I played the first eight or so notes by ear of "Angel's Fear" of Secret of Mana and the opening Ashtar sequence for Ninja Gaiden II). I'm horrible at about four instruments (guitar, harmonica, piano, and accordion, tried them all). What I learned to do was a couple of tricks, and I can figure stuff out okay by ear. In other words, I'm terrible at playing music, because my hands and such are clumsy, but I have creativity and a sense of how things fit together despite no training that I'm okay at composing.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/oXkHNyMP6H3n/

• Repeat a pattern (say five notes) then gradually move the notes up or down, a note at a time
• Make a pattern then a few notes later make another pattern with another instrument (there's a sort of art to getting music to blend well)
• You can end songs in a few ways: smash notes together, kinda fade out, reduce tracks.
• You can learn some about music from looking at songs and how they're put together.
• Music CAN be terrible sounding under certain circumstances. Horror genre songs in particular can be made to sound jarring. Slowing down rapid notes can produce a different song (for instance, one of my tunes is like 1/8 notes, then I slow it about 50% and it sounds more normal).
• Also, if those tips don't help, here's this guide

I'm a big believer in learning by doing. Trying five bad songs will help you learn by trial and error how notes fit together, even if the harder things like rhythm seem out of reach.

@Dyhalto
From what I've heard, Broward county routinely pulls this stuff. Florida was also the state of "hanging chads" a few years back. Voter fraud very much is a thing. Whether we call it voter fraud or vote fraud.

Do not make generalizations about what I am and am not okay with. That amounts to stereotyping. "This person must be a white male, against blacks and women, and agree down the line with everything I think this person is." Actually, until about 2015 I tended to swing moderate and not vote at all. I was torn cuz I was pro-making money and law and order, but also LGBT and for the environment. Then I saw how "environment" sometimes meant "seizing property because of stag beetles" or "making laws taxing heat and air" and that liberals basically didn't have LGBT people's back when they get murdered by other minorities. I am still LGBT and pro-the actual environment, and I'm politically moderate, but I am jaded about my former political alliances.

So what is this telling me that I am automatically against American Indians because of that? I have a beef with people falsifying their address, not getting denied based on having no address. Homeless people have no address, yet they can claim they live in one city (somehow). Ah, here it is. Homeless people can vote by using the location of the place they sleep as an address. No problem with that. Although it does tend to make things harder.

But what you say obscures a certain truth. You see, American Indians are only sorta citizens. They have many of the same rights as Americans but their state government actually falls under the Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than state government. In other words, they are almost separate nations. The states have legit denied them vote rights on and off because it is unclear whether they are citizens or wards of the state. More on this here. And no, I'd be okay with them voting within their reservations. I wouldn't be okay with them moving two cities away or two states away to stack the vote in certain directions. What I'm talking about with voter fraud.

"Voter suppression" is not voter fraud. Absentee ballots are often used to fix the vote by not requiring one meet face to face with the voting personnel, leading to ballot fraud. In Virginia, even absentee requires you to show up in advance, show ID and fill out the paperwork. The common line is "those poor people can't manage to get driver's licenses! Their votes won't count." Actually, that's BS. There are nondriver licenses. There are even poor ppl licenses which are free (usually these require alot of stuff like over 62 and on fixed income). Without voter ID, people have been known to register as dead people. Not to mention people who aren't citizens voting. But yeah, vote suppression.

https://ballotpedia.org/Dead_people_voting

As to something about 1 km away from a bus stop.

A healthy person can walk 6 km per hour, or make it there in 10 minutes. If you want to assert your right to vote, I think you can get off your ass and walk maybe five or ten blocks. My legs aren't what they used to be, but if my vote made a big difference, I'd walk at least that far. As it is, despite my state going from purple to blue,

The Constitution rules any live citizen (person of any race, person of any sex, and 18 or older) can vote. When you take away ID and other means of checking because "some people might not have those" what happens is vote fraud. If you don't follow simple rules, you probably should be rejected.

There are three or four types of vote fraud:

• Outright misreporting numbers (also, numerical hacking)
• Social engineering (supposedly what happened with "Russian hacking" and what actually happened when Facebook and others suppressed alt news, allowing ppl not to talk honestly to others and creating information distortion)
• Ballot fraud (this, not the guy driving to multiple locations is a bigger reason why IDs are key. Without checking IDs it would be possible for people to come in and dump a bunch of completed ballots with randomly generated names which is probably what happened here)
• Illegal voters (when you aren't a US citizen, and have not been naturalized, this is the second reason ID is key, it prevents 50,000,000 people from coming in and voting the way the EU wants)
• Voter fraud (this is the one you mentioned, which usually is not a biggie unless you and a couple of buddies play this game)
• Gerrymandering (screwing with the way districts work, in Virginia where I live, the map looks mostly red but for the last few elections, it has been "blue" through screwed up district stacking)

Virginia map. We're a "blue state". What, you can't see all the blue there? Gerrymandering something fierce.



Notice what is not on the list. "Voter suppression." Follow the rules, and unless you're an American Indian (mumble mumble), you will get to vote. No ID, no vote. What I will admit is that the process of identification should be free. What I won't admit is that we should loosen the standards. You need to be registered and to have valid identification.

You're either woefully naive or outright in favor of this sorta takeover. If the latter, let me give you some advice. What typically happens when extreme leftism takes over. People die, including the people backing the movement. Anyone in favor of their own rights, should not favor any system that takes the rights of others, for they never know when they too will stop being useful and become the new oppressed.

Here's an object lesson of good vs bad government, and yes this is accurate, though clearly hyperbole and somewhat humorous.


Also, Bravely Second is awesum.

author=Gretgor
What do you suggest for a person that can't compose worth shit? Anything that's not "learn to compose", of course.

Learn to compose. Anvil Studio is a free program and I'm made weird music just by playing around. Also, vgmusic.com has alot of SNES songs. You can also find old folk tunes or xmas music or showtunes online.

I'm currently working on making a system of assigning a menu that tracks your current party, and chooses from who you got currently, and activates the event. So far, I've got a revive, blacksmith (partly done, I'm doing weapon repair and need to do the pricing and possibly work on making an appraise system), and a rename sub-event for it. I could probably use this to recode battle stuff (precise item coding) if it weren't insanely tedious and already really long.

Currently also thinking about making a full blacksmith sidequest thingy so you can forge weapons. I'm probably insane, cuz that's super feature-creep and basically 40+ extra items, not counting weapons.

author=Sgt M

author=Darken
@sgt M: Dunno if it ever came up but it bothers me when there's a blend effect / transparent in "neo-retro" sprite/nes style games. Might just be VX's default thing but I usually imagine a more opaque effect that deals less with transparencies and what an old graphics chip was capable of (palette swapping/generative masking):

Yeah that basically is VXA's default thing, and I guess it never occurred to me "Oh, maybe I should find a way to change that."

Wonder if there is a way to play around with it without extensive scripting.

You could maybe make a simple script to delay long enough to run battle animations. Then just kinda aim a battle animation (explosion or something) to kinda cover over the transition.

The official version, I believe, allows you to at least copy stuff between 2k3 battle and common event and local event pages (allowing you to do crazy stuff like pictures in battle). I think it also if I remember correctly, allowed you to copy to 2k3 and possibly everywhere. Meaning you can just port alot of info. Also, you can actually copy paste text even without this on even old 2k3, it is just slower, because you can't filter out other stuff. But yeah, I am currently working on a novel. Old 2k3, and I'm putting lines straight into a word file, no problem. You have to edit the message, highlight, and copy, but yeah, it's doable. Just slower.

Also, I converted Girl of Dreams to official 2k3 and back again (it didn't have certain features I wanted, mainly DynRPG stuff, so I reverted). I don't remember how I did it but... It is possible to do at least a ldb and map transfer. So if you really wanted to edit, you can likely figure it out.

Any external converter thing you can just export the text. DynRPG is the bigger problem, since there's like zero support.