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@suji Yeah, I actually found that out way after I made this lol. Let's hope!

@lichtlune But apparently, there is a huge majority of congressmen that support Net Neutrality, so we may still keep it. After all, we've narrowly kept it after almost losing it once already. We just need to keep contacting our congressmen and letting them know our thoughts. 

Has to go through legislature, the president and congress first before that happens. Besides taking away net neutrality technically is unconstitutional.

What exactly do you mean by 'Professional'? ahaha. Most musicians consider a 'professional' someone who gets paid for their talents full time, which would mean most Visual Kei musicians are professional musicians.

I'd guess we are talking about formally EDUCATED musicians right? 'Cause yeah most vk bands would be technically professional (although we can't rule out any and all who may also be working on the side to stay afloat loll!).

Love hearing all that about Matenrou Opera, it shows!

@reminiscing2004 Yeah, basically what @Elazmus said. Formally Educated Musicians, sometimes those who often play outside of Vkei, like in the case of Cato Isao, who nowadays is more known for preforming Samba music in Brazil instead of support for JyuLie lol.

Also, @Komorebi, that's very interesting! Thanks!

Good luck to you

It won't, but good luck

Good luck and have fun! 

1. The nutjobs/druggies weed themselves after the first semester.
2. Don't be afraid to ask for help from professors
3. Show up to class. Show up to class x100 

@Zeus Oh wow, that's interesting. Do tell more!

1. creating an AI to build music requires teaching an AI about music and music theory or else you're going to have an AI that smashes random notes together. that means having a solid understanding of major and minor chords, harmonic scales, time signatures, etc. and then being able to program it so that the AI understands it as well.

2. it is easiest to teach AI music thru monophonic melody. most visual kei songs (most songs actually) are polyphonic. that means many melodies at once. simply giving AI an MP3 is not going to work because it's not going to understand how to separate frequencies and instruments. what i worked on accepted MIDI files as input, but as it would turn out...

3. turning Mp3 into MIDI is not easy either! try one for yourself. the resulting MIDI is a discordant mess. this is because the conversion process loses a lot of information, and this is the information we want to teach our AI!

4. need a good training set of data to begin "teaching" the AI about music. you will need hundreds of samples to get started. i used Bach since i had a training set already available to me. this would have to be replaced with visual kei melodies to achieve the desired effect.

there are a few more but that's the issues i had.

Ah. Yeah, the process seems kinda complex, though really intriguing. Thanks for sharing your experience!

Nice! I'm using it to learn Madarin, although I'm hitting a wall with the difficulty and have kind of switched over to another app that has a better learning speed.

I was learning Japanese a while back but I haven't been on it in ages and that owl is probably pissed at me. Anyways, good luck to you, @Peace Heavy mk II! What app are you using now?

HelloChinese. It has a lot of advantages that Duo currently does not, namely:

-in depth grammar explanations that reflect the context of the sentence (sometimes Duo's tooltip hints don't actually apply to the sentence at hand, so you're left to guess and get it wrong so you "learn from your mistakes." Normally, that's fine, but the app gives you a health bar that they then charge you to refill. tl;dr : you can only make so many mistakes before they try to charge you to try again)

-character lessons

-audio doesn't sound like Siri being put through a cheese grater

-practice games (spelling, word recognition, listening comprehension, etc)

-listening portions are people they found outside and asked them to record a sentence. There's something that never gets old about seeing some girl in the park standing there and saying "....celery..." with a confused look on her face, all for my betterment.

-They introduce content in chunks. I'm finding Duo throws a ton of unexplained grammar and vocabulary at you and it's up to you to figure out how to piece it together. For earlier levels, that's fine. But I'm into the late 30's - early 40's group of lessons and it's getting too difficult to parse through everything and remember it.

Ah I see.

Yeah, it’s like they think “x ruins metal” but when you think about it, VK is pretty niche in terms of like popularity. Most metal fans who act like this probably are pretty close minded

I mean, I think men look good with makeup lol.

It’s funny when people say that when in reality VK was partially inspired by 80s hair metal. 

I hate metal elitists sometimes. Hell, I hate being part of the metal community to begin with

My partner is involved with the prog metal community, and I gotta say, they're surprisingly pretty open minded to Vkei. Especially compared to the boomers/wannabe boomers. I'd say try out the prog community, but they'd bombard you with technical musical terms that most orchestra players haven't even heard lol. The Djent community is also open minded to Vkei, as I've noticed there is a lot who are finding out about Deviloof and Nokubura, and are liking it. There is also considerable overlap between prog fans and Djent fans lol. 

I think the main difference is that prog and Djent fans try out new music and are in general open minded, while metal boomers still listen to the same stuff they were as a child. 

Oh no the prog community is fantastic, especially when it comes to Diru. 

But yeah, metal boomers are the fucking worst. If your gonna complain about how metal sucks nowadays, then your probably a miserable boring person lol

It was watchable for a few hours after the stream was done. I guess all twitcasts are like that? The whole platform honestly kinda confuses me lol

I see! So far I've only seen either recorded lives or non-recorded ones that end right away... guess there's also a third type then :') yeah non-recorded or deleted twitcasts are the bane of my existence lol

I ONLY GOT TO WATCH HALF OF IT AND IM SALTY

@psychonnect_rozen Oh yeah. She even attacked fellow Nazi sympathiser Ben Shapiro because he was Jewish. 

Whose gonna tell her Southeast Asians don't count as Aryan? Lmao. 

Lmao Ben Shapiro. Oh my god I can’t stand him lol. Not gonna say anymore because politics 

i guess she misread aryan as asian lol

oh man when I've recorded something that we've sung when drunk or something and listen to it the next day. you can even spot the moment when someone loses confidence in the lyrics and starts winging it with about 50% of the volume previously

I don't think I've ever known the lyrics to a full Japanese song and I have over 10 years of VK experience. I 'sing along great' in the car, but when it comes to Karaoke, I get totally busted XD

Whenever I do Karaoke with my friends, 90% of the time, I'm just winging it. I'm better at imitating the vocal style than I am at guessing lyrics though lmao

this gives me very awful flashbacks…

@Ikna It's both awful and awesome for me lol. Blessed but cursed.

I just realized my name in the screenshot still has the last name Tamura, which was the last name of an ex I had lol. That's how long I've had this microsoft account

Marvelous Cruelty had a show outdoors semi-recently

Oh shit I didn't know that. That's awesome

DEVILOOF and Tensai did an outside concert (kinda) in Amemura in Osaka, where they played in an open area behind where a billboard usually is.

lmao, what a story

It's (sadly?) not true. There might be Kisaki nude photos floating around since he was basically at every vk party and most likely fucking around for a very long time, but if so they weren't taken by Kyo. The supposed animosity is just old rumours that have stuck around for a long time but with no substance behind it, from what I gather it's greatly exaggerated and they have a cordial relationship these days.

@WhirlingBlackThat's what I was hoping. I mean, I know Kyo is an ass at times, but he's not that big of an ass. 

I got some more info on the older bands of the members of Kuroyuri if you're interested in that. I have pictures and info posted on the official Kuroyuri thread. 

I'll search more later and post any updates~

http://id55.fm-p.jp/249/yukiline4/　

@SadMoomin I found Yukilein's official website! Turns out, they're actually called Yukiline xD. 

Also, apparently, they had a discography? 

The discography page doesn't seem to have anything on it. I guess they planned to make releases, but never did

Hahaha I actually love this, like doing the Kevin Bacon game with bandmen XD

Oh wow xD. At least my favourite song from them is on the tracklist though, so I'm hoping there is a download somewhere of it xD

Someone uploaded it here some time ago but the links are dead :/ 

Awwwie. Well looks like I'm gonna have to search le googles xD

True, but this is mainly a live distributed that is being limitedly distributed through webshop, so. 

I'll wait for someone to upload it xD

its not on the webshop yet. and yes you need to use a shopping service. im not buying it until next week probably. i hope they'll put it up after the gig today

I've been checking on youtube to see if they have uploaded the live video yet. They probably won't upload it until the gig today either. It's almost 9 AM in Japan so more waiting will have to be done

because they bought the music themselves. it's up to them if they wanna share it or not. you are free to purchase it as well.

again that "if you want it buy it yourself? i know that very well,dude,don't need to tell me

we are discussing here about people who upload only the lyrics.that's all.

ah well then i guess because they want to. probably not more to it than that

According to the GossiP Argentina street team, this is Hayate's twitter. 

https://www.twitter.com/tetsuro_drums?s=09 

lol it definitely looks like him xD thats really cool

At first I was thinking he sold out, until I realised that the credited songwriters for his band's first PV are all actual members of the band, especially the guitarist. So at least the idol group is creative.

It's just ironic knowing some of the songs about idols that GossiP has made xD. From what I see, no members of GossiP follow him, and I can't see what he follows, but Sora from Dezert follows him for some reason, but that doesn't mean anything about the current relations between him and the rest of the GossiP members

I love you too, Onii-chan!

we're all goobers at one point

I'm a goofy goober

lol

Only if RnB stands for RuinousBlackmetulz

Idk. I can just upload the vob files and you could do whatever you'd need with them. I'm just making a full video for YT. 

bless you

Hm. Thanks anyway.

@Shadowtear I was just adding them to a rar archive to put on mediafire for anyone who wants the raw files. I combined all the files into one video for uploading to youtube, and possibly uploading to Mediafire

Ah, I wish I got to this status earlier. There's software for .vob merging, so you wouldn't have to stitch/re-encode them together in a video editor. https://www.videohelp.com/software/VOBMerge

You could also use Handbrake to do MP4 rips, etc. from the DVD (libdvdcss can circumvent copy protection)

@colorfuljinsei Omg thanks! I'll keep that site in mind next time!

Ah. Didn't Dir en Grey also use some variation of the name for a tour or something?

Not that I know of. It sounds like something they would use though haha

Edit: they did for a tour in December 2000. "Macabre Deep[-],Deep[-],Deep[-],Deep[er]"

Probaby still Vasalla influenced. Diru and Vasalla were really close friends, so it'd make sense

didn’t there used to be a thread for it?  maybe that was a long time ago.  also maybe i’m wrong. 😂

@God There is a name change thread, but it's mainly for tracking the name changes of users so no one gets confused

oh, that makes sense then.  my bad.

The only thing worse than regular hippies are new age hippies.

Had to revisit this status b/c Adam Neely did a video on tuning to the different A432 Hz "chakra" frequencies. Though considering that the video was posted on the same day, your status might've been inspired from this (?)

I think there's benefits in using A432, but using it in such a haphazard snake-oil way is ridiculous. Ends up sounding ridiculous too, haha.

Oh yeah, that's another rabbit hole lol. I think A432 could be good if, say, you're a singer and its more in your range. But when it comes to the actual temperament, unless you're an experimental musician, the whole push to switch to something other than equal temperament honestly makes little sense in the scale of western music. Although alternate tuning systems are really fascinating. 

why are you tagging me idk them smh

This Kilah song was kind of similar, I guess. They were on Eternal and one of their guitarists ended up being in Devil Kitty / Deadly Sanctuary, so I'm assuming he was friends with Yuuga at some point before this song came out.

Oh yeah, that's the song that ripped off Lamiel lmao.

Kyosei from Kiryu shares a lot of the same chords as the Chateau song, especially in the bridge, and Mahiro is also connected to Yuuga.