Hey Dave, thanks for listening! Glad you like the vox even if it's not quite your genre, and yeah I'm happy we're getting the ball rolling, our live shows have been going well too. That MMJ song sounds very Flaming Lips-esque, and they're totally a big influence for all of us.

I'm kind of too busy working on songs to collaborate on other projects, but if you want a pre-existing vocal track from one of the songs, just lemme know!

(ae nino, I'm the vocals)

We put tons of time/energy into our studio-recorded EP, take a gander! We're CASTLES, because caps lock is cruise control for cool. If you're into indie, alternative, dream pop, or similar genres, you might like it. It's 6 songs, short and listenable:

https://castlespdx.bandcamp.com/releases

If you like it, give us a like on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/castlespdx/, and/or tell a friend... and/or, gulp, buy it! We ship to every country except Slovenia.

Quote from: Hurz on April 24, 2016, 10:20 PM
fish eaters are no veggies imo.

Yeah eating no meat except fish is pescetarian; I think there's compelling evidence that fish feel pain, so I disagree with that. The only exception to me is oysters, which lack brains, and therefore presumably lack consciousness; I've got no problem eating those for the same reasons I'm fine eating plants. Sometimes that's referred to as 'ostrovegan' or 'ostrovegetarian'. There are way too many names though.

Good for you; I'm vegetarian. It's getting easier to be one since there are increasingly more meat-free food options, e.g. veggie burgers now taste better. But we need some vegetarian/vegan fast food chains or something.

Nice stuff. Most tool-assisted runs have come from just a couple people, so it's nice to see some different styles.

So, my friend is an insanely skilled drummer in a punk band, and he's going on a legit 30+ day tour across the US right now. They're Fool's Rush, go check 'em out if any of these dates are near yeh: https://www.facebook.com/FOOLSRUSHPDX/photos/a.10150678872354699.416560.153171709698/10153399143399699/?type=1&theater

Some music here, they recently dropped an album: https://foolsrush.bandcamp.com/.

Not sure Daina, I'd like to play again at some point, but I'm pretty sure that will exacerbate my carpal tunnel. Hopefully sometime this year!

Did you guys somehow get sent back to the year 2000?

Fantastic dude. Few people make such high quality maps; these even outdo Team17's style.

Will Sandra Bullock be making a cameo?

Quote from: Komito on October 16, 2014, 11:44 AM
ANO, I became one of the best ropers in warmers of all time, and I never once had to MOD a keyboard.

As far as I am concerned, I was genuine, players like Mablak & Anubis aren't genuine, I will never be able to trust them.

Yes, some kids parents can afford hundreds of dollars, SOME, my parents would never buy me stuff like this and I live in a place much better off than many countries around the world.

The point I was making wasn't just about being able to afford it, it's a moral principle too.

Oh come on Dave, now you don't trust me? I've always been up front about putting paper underneath my spacebar, and encouraging others to do it as well:



It's not rocket science, it's very easy to do, and there have never been any rules about key sensitivity. If we think it's fine for someone to have a perfectly sensitive keyboard, then it makes no sense to say a paper-modded key that achieves the same effect is somehow different or not 'genuine'.

Quote from: pizzasheet on October 15, 2014, 09:29 AM
Do you still play regularly or play offline ?

Hey pizza, I actually haven't played at all for most of the past year. Before that, I was playing regularly enough to at least stay in roping shape, though not a ton. I haven't taken as many breaks as most people, and it's possible I've put in more total hours into the game than anyone, might be why my form doesn't rust over completely. I also started at age 13 or 14; the brain might be better at internalizing things learned at a younger age. I'd like to play again, but carpal tunnel is a prob for me >_o.

One thing that helps for a consistent league style; always try to do the same moves for the same obstacles. For most climbs that aren't super-skinny, don't try to mix it up with extensions, just go for a regular climb each time (or maybe an elevator if there's a lot of room). Or when transitioning from one alley to another; pretty much always bounce off the side wall to get a good boost. Of course you have to improvise sometimes, but the more you can stick to the same moves, the better. It's just less to think about, and helps muscle memory.

There's also a certain mentality you need to adopt; you need to make not falling your number one priority, and continually adjust your speed to satisfy that priority. You just need to be really aware of what is and isn't risky for you; you should adjust your speed so that you're really confident (like over 95%) that you won't fall with each move you make.

My spidey-sense tingles whenever someone beats one of my times. Way to go Ryan, I'll have to watch it some other time, don't have WA on this.

New wormers might not know, but TR13 was one of the first real time trial challenges. It was the map to beat for a lot of us, and there was a lot of competition to hold the winning time. I don't know how it got its infamy, but probably due to some top ropers playing it a lot, like volrin, Wargod, and Pure, a lot of NBR peeps. Considering new times are emerging even after a good 14 years, I think the map deserves its classic status.

Quote from: TheWalrus on May 31, 2014, 04:10 AM
Yeah, you didn't read the part where I said Adolph, Benito, and Joseph made bad examples for this discussion because you immediately charged in and asked if I was suggesting a correlation, when clearly I went out of my way to say I wasn't suggesting anything.

I know you were saying we shouldn't judge a group by its worst members, and of course I agree. But I got the feeling that you do think Stalin was actually motivated by atheism, if not, never mind. But there are a few things worth clarifying.

Quote from: TheWalrus on May 31, 2014, 04:10 AMSince atheism is a world view, as you so succinctly put it, it can never be held accountable as paramount in a person's behaviors.  It is like criticizing vacuum in space for a lack of density.  How can an atheist be held accountable for anything, since they so clearly believe in nothing?  At least spiritual people have some accountability.  Atheists need not take responsibility for their actions neither point the finger inward as a result of their actions.

Is 'not' a world view, I think you mean. You just jumped from 'atheism' to 'atheist'; atheists are just as accountable as anyone else, but 'atheism' on its own isn't the source of that accountability for any particular action, since it means nothing more than a lack of belief in gods. Hard atheism on the other hand, would be an actual belief that 'no gods exist', or particular gods don't exist, and since it's an actual belief, could be argued to be a motivation for a person's actions in some situation. Atheism doesn't mean a belief in nothing, again, just a lack of belief in gods.

Quote from: TheWalrus on May 31, 2014, 04:10 AM
The main criticism of your defense of atheism is you want to have it both ways, Mablak.  You would have me believe that in one aspect, atheism is a greater promoter of the common good.  But when provided with arguments to the contrary, atheism as a concept dissolves into nothingness, and ceases to be quantified.

I never suggested atheism was a promoter of the common good. Since the word doesn't refer to any particular belief, this statement wouldn't make sense. I suggested atheists can promote common good just as well as the religious, I didn't imply their reasons for doing so are based on atheism. Utilitarianism, skepticism, tolerance, etc, are the kinds of beliefs/attitudes that actually produce the good outcomes I'm talkin' about.

Quote from: TheWalrus on May 31, 2014, 04:10 AM
In retrospect, it seems rather absurd that we have even mounted the discussion, atheism is clearly not the philosophical equal to religion, not because it is any less valid as a school of thought, but rather one is something, and the other is a lack of something.

Atheism is explicitly not a school of thought, world view, or ideology. Just a single stance on a single issue. You're thinking that atheists are 'just atheists', and nothing else, but we have full belief systems. The actual world views atheists have are often based on humanism, skepticism, methodological naturalism, and so on, though no particular belief is required or entailed by atheism on its own.

Quote from: TheWalrus on May 31, 2014, 01:06 AM
Strikes me as more political than anything.  You could replace "God" and "religion" with "alcohol" in the article and it still demonstrates why the totalitarian government there controls almost every facet of everyday life in a way detrimental to the people.  A good title for the article would be, People getting sentenced to death for some dumbass reason again in this ass-backward country.

These types of religious people make bad examples for this discourse, as do the idiot athiests like the Mussolinis, Stalins, and Hitlers of this world.

Well, apostasy carries the death sentence in Islam according to the Quran and the Hadith; this is at least the majority interpretation: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/012-apostasy.htm. These kinds of murders really are motivated by belief in specific Islamic doctrine, which of course is not mutually exclusive with them also being politically or culturally motivated. But religion is a key component. Also, Hitler wasn't an atheist. And if you're suggesting Stalin's genocides had anything to do with his atheism, I'd say linking his actions causally with a lack of belief in god would have as much evidence going for it as linking his actions with a lack of belief in UFOs, or any of the other billion things he presumably didn't believe in. Atheism is, after all, just a lack of belief in god, and not a worldview.