Posts by Daniel Robinson59

aha 😁
so does that mean there's really no way to hook it up using a cable instead? :P
I was just curious about how it works 😉

So, I finally picked up this new Xbox Wireless Controller today!

http://gaming.logitech.com/en-ca/pro...reless-gamepad

I actually have just one quick question for you guys.

It comes with this specific cable included in the box.

I’m mostly asking just to be informed, but how exactly am I supposed to connect the controller using this cable? I’ve been looking all over, but I honestly can't find a port where I can plug this in. Since the end of the cable is a female connector, I was expecting to find a male port on the controller itself, but it's nowhere to be found—even after I popped off the battery cover to take a look. I even tried doing a little digging on Google, but I couldn't find a clear answer anywhere. I'm mainly thinking ahead in case my batteries die mid-game and I don't have any spares on hand; I was hoping I could just plug it into a USB port and keep playing.

Personally, I've always felt that the third installment is the absolute best of the bunch

I really hope you don't mind me asking this question,

So, here’s the deal: I want to take this image and swap out all the data—basically changing the different teams and their stats.
I went ahead and cleared everything out without any trouble, so now I'm just staring at a totally blank spreadsheet.
Now, here is where I'm stuck. Normally, I’d probably jump into Photoshop to handle this, but honestly, it’s such a headache when you need to input a bunch of info quickly. It’s just not as easy to keep everything perfectly aligned and spaced out like it is in Excel.
My thought was that if I could just pull this image into an Excel sheet and then type my text directly over the top of it—sort of like what you see in picture number 2—it would be way faster and much more straightforward for me.
Does anyone know how I can actually get the text to sit right on top of the image? I could really use some help getting this set up!

I totally get where you're coming from, I just feel like you might have missed the mark a little bit with the title you chose for this thread 😉
btw when it comes to black metal, the lyrics are mostly filled with satanic themes, but you don't really see that as much in death metal 😉

Arthur Hill83 said:Nah, I just kind of threw down whatever came to mind right then... but I think the point of the thread is pretty obvious, right? I mean, what's wrong with Rammstein? 😕

I didn't say they were lacking anything at all, honestly—I actually listen to them myself every now and then
it's just that there isn't really anything super heavy or brutal in their stuff, which is kind of what this thread is supposed to be about, 🙂

@admirati koljač

If you find those tracks brutal... well, then we might have a problem! :S

Take this, for example—just some totally standard stuff from Cannibal Corpse😁

Cannibal Corpse - Hacksaw Decapitation

Memory of the insane
Of killing in so man ways, homicidal
Seeking redemption through rage
With hacksaws I decapitated them all
Blood covers the groud, my feet are saturated
Rotting flesh scattered around, I feel no remorse
I don't remember my name
Or when blood of the dead flowed so relentlessly
Extracting the brains from the skulls
My anger evolves with the more heads I deform
Sawing the neck I am engulfed in fantasy
Chew the esophagus, cannibal delicacy
Utterly execerbated, forver deleterious
Slicing through skin, sundered larynx, veins spraying blood
Tattered windpipe, facial carvings, another head to abhore
Beheading sustains my desire
Enhancing my primitive mind
Annihilation without repreving

[Solo - O'Brien]

Memory of the insane
Of killing in so man ways, homicidal
Seeking redemption through rage
With hacksaws I decapitated them at will
Predacious, violent killing spree
Abolished, putrescent cadavers
Butchered in excrement, sordid obscurity
Feverish hunger to inhale the stench of their death

Since I can't seem to go back and edit my previous post anymore... someone was asking about my hands, so here's a photo for you guys... just for context, I'm about 6'3" and weigh 207 lbs.

I've been crushing Insanity for about a month now, mixing it in with some basketball and lifting weights...
This is just a shot from my first day; I like to post a picture after I finish everything so I can track how much progress I'm actually making... right now, I'm sitting at about 212 lbs.

silverpanther13 said:My main issue is that the radio rarely plays anything I actually enjoy—most of what comes on just isn't my vibe. Music blogs don't feel objective enough for me, I don't really use podcasts, and Last.fm is honestly a bit of a mess and quite confusing to navigate. I should also mention Rate Your Music, which is probably the closest thing to IMDb out there, but the problem is that certain groups of reviewers can be pretty obnoxious (kind of like how some people act here on this forum). They tend to give sky-high ratings to their favorite genres regardless of actual quality, which totally skews the rankings, though I guess it can still be useful if you know how to filter through the bias. As far as I'm concerned, AllMusic is objectively the best-organized music site on the web.

+ For me, it’s much more important to read reviews for albums I haven't heard yet, since I obviously can't listen to every single release out there, no matter how much I might want to. Once I've already listened to an album, I don't really feel the need to check what everyone else thinks about it.

Look, regarding the radio thing, I won't find the music I listen to on there either (which is why I never bothered listening to it in the first place)
and I don't think any reviews are going to help me much here... Honestly, the only way that works for me is digging through YouTube or looking up similar bands based on what I've been playing on my Last.fm account... and I can tell you for sure that I've found over 200 bands that way. My total count of bands I actively listen to—some more than others—is somewhere around 600...
Anyway, as for the genre I'm into, it's metal... mostly things like melodic death metal, metalcore, folk metal, and so on, not that I need to list them all because it doesn't really matter... but 90% of the time, it's Scandinavian bands...
Which basically means I've been stuck in a cycle of researching music for years now

I completely forgot to mention... for someone who listens to metal, there's this one version of IMDb... it's definitely the best metal site you can find, and you'll likely find 99% of all bands on it http://www.metal-archives.com/ plus plenty of other info you might be looking for

silverpanther13 said:How do you actually go about finding albums without getting stuck with junk? For me, reading reviews while listening to those little audio clips on sites like AllMusic has been such a lifesaver when searching for new music. It’s helped me stumble upon tons of great records I never would have heard of otherwise, and it's saved me from buying a bunch of bad stuff based just on one catchy song or zero research at all.
Well, for sure, I mostly hunt for things that I think might actually vibe with my taste. Of course, that doesn't mean everything with a high rating is going to be my cup of tea—I don't really care what people say about boring hair metal albums or, heaven forbid, death metal and stuff like that. 😁

I'm not entirely sure who this question was directed at, but I'll jump in with a quick thought of my own.
When it comes to reading reviews and all that whole process... honestly, I haven't done that once in my life!
I much prefer just hopping onto www.youtube.com so I can hear exactly how a track sounds right then and there. I'd much rather just listen and build my own personal review in my head as I go. 😉

I don't know, I honestly think I’ll stick to checking out Last.fm first to see what people who actually listen to the same stuff I do are saying about a band—since they’re the ones actually hanging out on the band's page—rather than scrolling through AllMusic to read some critic's take on whether they like the group or not, especially when you have no idea what their actual taste is like...
I mean, having a thousand different people weigh in gives you a much clearer, more complete picture of what a band is really about, compared to just one person whose objectivity or musical preferences might be totally hit-or-miss...
Besides, those scrobbles on Last.fm are way more meaningful to me anyway. That's always my first stop; I love seeing which tracks are topping the charts and then diving straight into those specific songs to get a real feel for what the band is all about.

Daniel Edwards said:If we're looking at AllMusic as a database, I honestly feel like it's just way too narrow, mostly focusing on the big names, which doesn't really help me much. I could probably list hundreds of artists that AllMusic hasn't even heard of, yet you can find decent info on them over on Last.fm. I mean, when it comes to The Beatles, everything is already out there anyway—you can find any little detail you're looking for on a million different sites—but for those niche bands that nobody really knows, AllMusic is pretty much useless. Rate Your Music is a bit better at covering more underground stuff, but even then, I still prefer the whole Last.fm vibe; I find their concept way more useful than having every random person rating everything and handing out star ratings that I then have to sift through just to figure out what's actually worth listening to. 🤷

that's what i'm talking about
When it comes to the famous bands, most of that info is pretty easy to find no matter where you look...

I actually decided to test this out by heading over to AllMusic and searching for something specific...

http://www.allmusic.com/search/all/sad+alice+said

And of course, they didn't find a single thing, whereas Last.fm actually has a pretty decent amount of data available.

Then, for example, if I search for Noumen on AllMusic, it labels them as pop/rock, even though they're actually more melodic death metal and things like that...

Or take a well-known American band like Kryn... they aren't even listed there, but on Last.fm, there's plenty of info: http://www.last.fm/music/Kryn?ac=kryn

Yeah, but thankfully those kinds of situations are actually pretty rare
as for how reliable it is, I’m not so sure I agree... personally, I feel like it gives a pretty great overview of a band, especially when you want to see what their standout tracks are, since everything is neatly organized by play counts and how much people are actually listening to them

In my humble opinion, this is easily the best

http://www.last.fm

Yeah, honestly, their live shows are still absolutely incredible... it’s just that lately, the albums have started feeling like a bit of a joke...

Man, I can't believe how much Metallica has turned into total garbage over these last two albums... it's honestly such a letdown 😢
It just feels like there's absolutely nothing left of the music I spent years absolutely loving...

Honestly, looking at Pride.com right now, there’s just nothing to sink my teeth into. It’s pretty much a desert over there—maybe two or three basic T-shirts if you’re lucky, but that’s about the extent of it. I was hoping for a bit more variety, but it's definitely looking a little thin.
I’ve actually found pretty much everything I’m looking for directly on UFC.com... my only real hesitation is that I’m still a bit unsure about how much they're going to tack on for shipping. It’s a little nerve-wracking because the delivery fee looks like it might end up being twice the actual price of the shirt! 😁

Does anyone happen to know if there's a way to order UFC shirts online or maybe find them in local stores here in the States?
I mean, I know you can just go straight to UFC.com and order them, but the shipping costs alone are hitting me for like $20...
Plus, if I decide to grab three or four shirts at once, I’m really worried about getting hit with those massive import duties and extra fees when they arrive—ugh, what a headache.

Anyway, that's basically what I was wondering about.

How do you even go about making a hyperlink... (I can't quite remember the term, haha... I think it's called a "link," right?)
Well, I actually pulled it off! I just went through and swapped out all the team names and updated the schedule... my only real concern now is how this is going to hold up if there are more than 18 teams involved. :S If it's a smaller group, I don't think I'll run into any trouble, but what happens if I try to work on a league with 24 teams, like the English Championship?
It feels like I might need to dive a bit deeper into the mechanics of it all and maybe plug in some new formulas... basically using the same logic but tweaking the data slightly to fit.