kai_desu
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Finally I can not feel guilty about pre-ordering my PS4! The time is soon to come where I can actually use the beast (have second son (beaten it) and assassins creed currently). I look forward to E3 and whats shown off.
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Is there no way to merge the two sites? Deadeyes-star and Monochrome Heaven?
Not at this time, no. We tried, but it was delaying the website for too long to figure things out.
Maybe in the future we'll look back into it, so users can log in with their MH accounts, and vice versa.
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Was in school for a BA in Computer Science. After my first year, I moved, and landed a job doing web development. So... never finished my degree as the job I have now is what I was aiming for (well, I was aiming for Google).
Funny part is my first year I never took any CS-related classes (I'm entirely self-taught in what I do). They were all the core classes I needed for any of my CS classes (English, Math, etc.)
I still want to go back and get my degree, as there are a lot of different fields I'm interested in besides web development. Machine learning, AI, solid foundation in C/C++, etc. Regardless of the field, there is always skillsets and knowledge you pick up that can be applied to other areas of CS.
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Close.
It's Plank (http://wiki.go-docky.com/?title=Plank:Introduction) and Unity with the side dashboard hidden.
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Infamous: Second Son
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The latter one can kind of work, I suppose, but only in a smaller group. As a member of another VK community with ~40 users that puts potential users through an interview/peer-review process that has had over 300 uploads without a single one leaking to blogs, it can certainly work. Though I guess it only takes one person to make the whole thing come tumbling down. As far as here goes though, I'm pretty sure nothing can be done. Maybe public shaming? Find people reposting uploads on blogspots and change their avatar to a big floppy penis and their sig to something like "I love donkey dicks".
This is true, it is possible to a greater degree within a smaller community. But we're not a community consisting of just ~40 members. We have thousands of members (though it's debatable as to how many of them are actually "active" - the point still stands). I updated my post.
Public shaming should never be a solution to anything. It's the very thing I would never condone or promote our community to do. Most of you remember Batsu from a few years ago - while it was amusing at times, it was ultimately annoying, and painted the whole forum as a forum of dicks (quite literally at times). It's also listed under every one of the cons section of the above mentioned solutions.
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In reality this thread was meaningless with the original post. All four of the points you listed, we have already done - as Zess has pointed out in a previous post.
There is never going to be a "true" solution to this where everyone can have their cake and eat it. There will always be disgruntled people. There will always be disagreements. Nothing that has been said, or ever will be said about this is new. Every method has been tried (and I'm not just talking about MH and it's community - but all "file sharing" services/websites).
I have been around a lot of forums that have tried everything under the sun to "battle" this. They have all failed - us included. And you know what? They have all shut down because of the tension, and the bickering, and the fighting between it's members over this very issue. The very thing that brought them all together, is the very thing that tore them to pieces in the end.
Let's go over each of the proposed solutions from the users that have replied here.
Leeching is "condoned"
Premise:
- Users must have X amount of posts.
- Users must be active within Y amount of days/weeks/months/years.
Pros:
- There is a sense of "community" and "respect" between members and the files they share
Cons:
- The notion of respect and community is a false pretense. All it takes is one person to break one of the golden rules to bring out the pitchforks and torches.
- Feels highly controlled. Users will be afraid to break one of said rules in fear of being "punished".
- There is too much "criteria" to meet for such a simple act - clicking a link to download a file
Leechers should feel grateful; and if they aren't, should they be 'forced' to
Premise:
- Can be used in combination with the above: "Leeching is condoned"
- Users must give "thanks" to uploaders to retrieve link.
Pros:
- Uploaders get a sense of gratitude for their "work"
Cons:
- Same as the above; just with one more "golden" rule to follow/jump through.
Leechers should credit the uploaders
Premise:
- Can be used in combination with the above: "Leeching in condoned" and "Leechers should feel grateful"
- Users can share links they find made by uploaders, but must credit said uploaders as the source
Pros:
- Uploaders get a sense of gratitude for their "work"
- They may gain popularity within the small knit j-music community
Cons:
- Same as the above; just with yet one more "golden" rule to follow/jump through.
- Must "police" other websites to make sure they're following OUR rules. This is wrong on many levels, as we are then strong-arming other websites.
- 99.9% of the time, there is absolutely nothing we can do if a link is not given it's due credit
- People feel offended when they find their uploads elsewhere without credit.
- Creates unneeded hate within the community
- Has actually led to racism (think of how you feel when you see the words "Brazilian J-Rock Blog"). This shit has to stop.
Uploads should not be re-posted elsewhere
Premise:
- Can be used in combination with the above: "Leeching in condoned", "Leechers should feel grateful", and "Leechers should credit the uploaders"
- Uploads are exclusive to the community, and should not be shared or posted elsewhere
- On small occasions you may do so with the permission of the uploader
Pros:
- Uploaders have a sense of security, knowing how, when, and who their uploads are being shared with.
Cons:
- Can be achievable within smaller, close-knit communities. Requires a lot of work to sustain.
- Ultimately, this is the "utopia" of the internet. It's a very nice image to dream of, but will never be reality.
- Goes against the very foundation of what the internet is.
- Causes uploaders to profile other members of the community, and will create instances of people not sharing files to others simply because they don't like them.
- Again, there is absolutely no way for us to police other websites when (not if) we find a file has been shared outside of the community.
I have seen all of this happen many times over. Champ, and any of the other staff members, and even some of you users reading this now, can vouch for this. Do any of these solutions seem like a fix to anything?
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That's genius! Though I suspect the number of uploaders to be cut in half, it might be worth it
My favorite quote for things like this is "quality over quantity".
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I personally think the greatest solution to this age-old problem, is not to force "leechers" (whatever the hell that actually means - we're all leeching) to step into the light and give thanks to you mighty people that rip releases, but to instead, force everyone to be anonymous. If you upload/share a file - it would not be associated with an account, but only the details of the release/quality. No comments. No thanks button. A simple link to download.
This whole "give credit where credit is due" on this matter is almost sickening. The purpose of sharing music here is just that: sharing; turn people on to new music that they might have never come across or heard before.
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It's a virtual host manager (that I aptly called Kappa) I wrote for *nix to save myself from having to open the terminal and creating new virtual host files every time I needed to set up a local website.
I'm impressed that you picked up on the fact that it's a Kappa! It's a temporary icon (sprite is from a game) until I make a new one.
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None taken, and we know. Compared to what we have planned this is nothing and can't be stacked up against the likes of JaME or other sites.
So far its only two people working on the development of this, which is a lot for such a large project. Each component of the website is custom built specifically to meet our needs. This isn't just a quickly thrown up WordPress site with some pages on it.
Our focus right now is on band members. Once that's complete, we'll move on to discographies and then lyrics.
Those are the three elements that make up the beef of this website (bands, band members/artists, and discographies). After all three are done, we'll revisit each and spice them up with features and added information.
We're completely open to hearing everyone's feedback on anything and everything. It's primarily why we decided to push the website open even though there's really not much to show right now. We want the community to get involved in every aspect of the project.
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This topic has been brought up many times before here.
The problem here is that "Visual Kei" overlaps two sensory categories. What we see, and what we hear.What we see, is Visual Kei. It helps here to actually look at the Japanese.
ヴィジュアル系
Obviously ヴィジュアル is simply "Visual" in Katakana form.
系 on the other hand, means "system; lineage; group"
Visual System, Visual Lineage, Visual Group. I've seen/heard it translated as Visual Style as well.
What we hear, is their chosen style of music (be it rock, metal, pop, etc.)
They are two separate things. Now, I think because the majority of visual kei bands go down the route of rock/metal, that it kinda all blurs into one as many bands who define themselves as being "Visual Kei" also have similar music styles - and thus, people have learned to simply lump bands into a Visual Kei Genre.
In the end though, it's simply a label. The term "Visual Kei" was originally used as almost a name for the bands that came up with it. It was a means to separate and distinguish themselves from other bands as being something different.
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I'm in if we start with watching One Piece from the beginning.
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What color scheme is that in sublime text? Solarized Dark?
What's your major / What do you want to be when you grow up?
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I second this!