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I was thinking in terms of the length of the song. Playing a 14 minute song on top of a 20 minute song would be crazy on the endurance. I don't think I could do it if I were in a band :x I suppose they could split it up, but in my mind it's always meant to be seen as one long song and works best in that context.

btw, I love The Poet and the Pendulum. IMO best track on DPP by far.

no he didn't.

in one of the earlier interviews he said that he may divide the 20-minute epic into two separate tracks, but he wasn't sure. he ended up with dividing it into Song Of Myself and Imaginaerum.

Ah! Well then I suppose that makes more sense, especially for live settings. I can imagine playing The Poet and the Pendulum is hell already.

Another looks to be the longest Nightwish song yet, being close to 20 minutes and especially influenced by poet Walt Whitman.

So where's that 19 minute song Tuomas? YOU LIED.

Also, both Imaginaerum and Arabesque are instrumentals? Want. Last of the Wilds was amazing!

I updated my roadmap.

And ALL ZOMBIES. ALL KINDS ALL DAY. As you can tell, I've thought about this way too much :x

Now most of the time I'm in NYC so I'm going to assume that zombies will strike when I'm in there, most likely whilst in my neighborhood. I have a running bucket list of things that I positively need to do before it gets to the point where I can't run around outside and with all the different forms of modern communication that we have I think it will be fairly easy to know that there are raving lunatics that want to eat my brains roaming around outside.

The first thing most people would do is run to the gun shop and stock up on weapons. No. The people that own gun shops:

Another thing that people will do is try to call their families and get everyone together. No.

You're going to want people, but you're going to want the right people. Limit your group to no more than eight people, no less than three, preferably people that won't lose their shit and can work together in a team setting. Too many people will slow you down. Too little people and you won't be able to get everything done in time. Eight is the optimal amount of people to get everything done quickly and efficiently.

The very, VERY first thing you do is you call these people up and you tell them what they've got to do and where they all need to meet up. One person needs to go get food enough for how many people you're storing. One person needs to prep the safehouse so that there's somewhere to move into. One person needs to get the necessary materials together to defend against attack and to attack back.

For the one that needs to get the clothing: Find combat boots. Get a bulletproof vest or a leather jacket (or both if you can). Get leather gloves, a secure helmet that won't obscure my view, a bandanna or three to cover up the facial area if the infection spreads by fluids, and long johns made out of the thickest material possible. AKA - cover up. Protection from biting is a necessity and leather is the toughest, most portable material and easiest material to get your hands on in under an hour. If it's cold, grab coats and more gloves and socks and sweaters and stuff. You don't want the elements to kill you either, plus the extra coating won't hurt.

Especially since everyone will either be getting food or escaping the city, robbing a clothing store isn't high up on anyone's priority list. This makes that job very, very easy.

The next thing that person will need to do is find weapons to defend against. There's always the classic argument that guns are better than melee weapons because they don't require you to get up close. I've got a few arguments for that one:

You don't get weapons for the zombies - you get weapons for all of the other crazy people that probably want to steal all of your food and wreck your shit. You. Don't. Fight. Zombies. The only time you fight zombies is when they're invading your space and you have no choice. At all costs, run, run, run. Hit anything that's in your way and keep moving. In a city of 8 million, killing one zombie will not make a big difference. Killing 100 zombies will not make a big difference. Killing 1000 zombies WILL NOT MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.

Get weapons, run back to the mutually agreed upon safehouse, store them there.

Now run to the closest gas station and get as much gasoline as you can spare. This might be harder as people will be leaving to stock up on gas, but do you what you can. You don't shoot zombies in the head to kill them - you immolate the fucking bastards. Every zombie left unburnt is a carcass waiting to be eaten by rats and birds and then THEY spread the infection (and those are arguably even harder to kill). Gas. Lighter Fluid. Matches. Good.

The one that's going to grab food is going to have a bit of a harder time since most smart people will grab the food first. That's not a bad idea but since we're multitasking you WILL BE THERE FIRST and you will have a bat or other large blunt object to bash other people that get in your way. This can play out in one of two ways depending on how smart the people around you are. Most people are going to think:

lots of people? -> more chance for infection! -> escape the city!

Do you know what happens when everyone tries to leave on the highway at once?

Do you know what happens when you throw zombies into that equation?

For a good while, the zombies will be around the exterior of the city feasting on the dumb ones eager to leave and that get stuck in traffic. This means that if you are assigned this job, you have just enough time to grab a shopping cart, run through the store and grab anything food related, preferably things that don't expire and don't need heat to cook. Canned food is great. Fruits...not so much. Get water. Tons and tons of water. Also, get filters. Getting plastic water jugs will eventually turn all water bad, as the plastic will decay and make the water undrinkable. Filtering the water will make as much of it last as long as possible. Do it quickly, grab everything the first time around and don't go back for round two. Round two will be around that time where everyone is going to catch on that they need to eat for the next infinity and they'll go to get some food. You'll be able to get out once - probably not twice.

Also, when you run back to the mutually agreed upon safehouse, DO NOT STOP FOR ANYONE. You do not want your food stolen. I don't care if it's an elderly person, Megan Fox minus the toe-thumbs, a small child, etc. Your food is of primary importance, unless you plan on eating that person at some point in the future. The more people on getting food, the better off everyone is (especially if people branch off to different stores to do it). If you've got cars, even better.

Now for the person that's finding a safehouse, he needs to find a place that is secure from the outside and has multiple layers of protection. The place I have in mind for me would be my apartment building that has plexiglass windows and a lock that can only be opened by people that live in the building. Obviously not the most secure thing in the world, but that's why we have a person (or people) getting ready to fix that up. Go to the hardware store and get as much sheet metal as you can. Cover up all entrances and then create a second layer of defense within just in case your first layer fails. Find a place with multiple exits and barricade them all. You want a place with just one exit? Go huddle in an alley. You're going to want options, especially if shit goes south.

This person is tasked with making the building a guard tower of doom. If the building has elevators, cut the elevators. The power will be turned off eventually but you still don't want shit moving up and down without your consent. If there are alarms in the building, find them and cut them. Control the stairways. Barricade the building from the outside in. Park a car outside of the front door if you need to. If there's a basement, patch it up and control it. My building has garden apartments that zombies can easily use to get in. Patch up every ground floor apartment room and make those rooms inaccessible. Next, go throughout the building and find out how many people there are and where they are. These people aren't going to be part of your team but you need to at least have an alliance. Know whether or not they live in the building and if they plan to stay or leave. Find out if they have babies or not. Babies = bad. Kids = bad. Get them out if you need to.

Get to an apartment on the top floor. On my building, it's 12. My building connects to three other buildings. Patch up the door to the roof if there is one and make that inaccessible. Cut off all other connections to adjacent buildings if possible but do not make the changes irreversible if you need to escape. Find thick curtains and use them to cover the windows if you're on a lower floor. Find carpeting to muffle steps throughout the apartment. If not too out of the way, grab flashlights and batteries. You're going to need them once the power goes out.

Obviously, the people fortifying the safehouse will take longer than food gathering or clothing/weapon gathering so no one should be locked out from all the fortifications. If you do not know the people and they come to your building, do not let them in unless they're packing food and heat too. Read my argument for too many people above. The zombie apocalypse is NOT the place for charity.

And then at some point hopefully everything goes right and you begin camping out.

If you spot anything wrong with my guide above, tell me. I want to live.

The Zombie Apocalypse is serious shit ladies and gentlemen and it's coming.

Eventually.

Probably with the return of the Grandmaster Zombie, Jesus.

I don't know about you but I spend more time devising all possible escape routes and plans of action for if when the zombies will rise up from the grave and come for our brains than I do remembering to eat that day. I actually discuss ideas with my friends on a regular basis and I realize one thing every time this conversation comes up:

So to make sure that all of the obviously superhuman and flawless Monochrome Heaven members survive the zombie apocalypse intact to repopulate the world with enthusiasts of Japanese music, tell me all about your escape plans.

tl;dr - If zombies were to come for you tomorrow what would you do?

Also: assuming zombies are anywhere between The Walking Dead zombies and 28 Days Later "zombies". I have yet to figure out what kinds would be the most terrifying to deal with.

I went abs too, just because having ridiculously jacked arms and an undefined middle section would make me look funny, but having a ridiculously jacked ab section and somewhat undefined arms (I'm thin, so they look meatier than they really are) would have much better balance.

But seriously, hell if I know what girls want in a guy >.

I heard that ZP was gone! I wonder why he left.

And I can't disagree with that. One of my favorite bands of all time is Mono and they are so guilty of doing the same exact thing. Other than what you mentioned, I can't think of any reason why I can tolerate Mono and not DragonForce for more than one song.

and ew, nickelback.

I would like DragonForce more if all of their songs post Sonic Firestorm didn't sound like carbon copies of one another. This is the one band where I can truthfully say that all of their music sounds the same and it's to the point where I can't listen to either of their last two albums entirely in one sitting because I get bored. It's more than just "similarities" to me. A lot of their songs follow the intro -> first verse -> guitar wankery -> second verse -> chorus -> guitargasm and EXPLOSION OF CREATIVITY -> another chorus -> explosive ending. I actually would like them more if ZP wasn't their singer because he gets on my nerves a lot. I just feel like listening to ZP for three minutes is the tradeoff for then being able to enjoy the massive amounts of talent that you can find in the middle portions of all of their songs. That's usually where all the goodness is.

Their first two albums were great though. Then I just like particular tracks from Inhuman Rampage and Ultra Beatdown (most notably E.P.M., god that track is sick). Everything else...I don't know. It just doesn't click for me.

Oceanborn era still remains my favorite and Once comes second, but I didn't think Dark Passion Play was that bad. I liked Century Child the least out of everything they've ever release because the loudness war hampered that record hardcore for me. Still looking forward to Imaginaerum though.

「S」, HADES, Domestic Fucker Family, and Karma are the only ones that have actually been composed and credited to Kyo. He's participated in remixes of 【KR】cube -K.K. Vomit Mix-, 24個シリンダー Grenade Launch Mix~16 キップリミックス, Embryo ウテウテブギウギ哀歌エレジー, and Decayed Crow. I'm not including 「S」 (Z-Z Mix)" as that was remixed by Chris Vrenna, not Kyo.

Now that we've gotten those out of the way, time for conjecture!

I didn't figure out that I wanted to be a programmer until halfway through college. Don't be in any rush to pick something because you feel like you have to either.

Interesting. You certainly do have a more refined taste than a lot of the first timers that show up here. I have a feeling you can contribute quite a bit ;D

In no particular order:

舐～zetsu～ (this one's a classic IMO)

THE $OCIAL RIOT MACHINE$

体温

13 STAIRS[-]1

Nausea & Shudder

DIM SCENE

COCKROACH

Sugar Pain

Crucify Sorrow

虚無の終わり 箱詰めの黙示

I haven't listened to the GazettE in a while but if I were to tomorrow, these would probably be the only releases I'd pick up and give a spin too. I have an urge to listen to them every once in a while but only to certain eras when I really dug their style. Their new album isn't too much up my alley.

I'm curious: where did you get your music from and how much visual kei do you listen to?

Also, hey. Welcome to Heaven.

The simple fact is that Jobs was a flashy leader, he did things that brought him all sorts of attention...

Obviously the same can not be said of Ritchie. He was really more of a behind the scenes guy, which pretty much is the same as his product. I mean, ask someone on the street if they know what an iphone is, I think we obviously know what the answer is there. Do the same for C and you will probably get the response of either "A letter" or "what?" Hell, you could probably do the same thing for Unix and most people would be like wtf are you talking about.

He will be missed by the people who really care, and that's what matters.

This. He doesn't need a funeral procession of last-minute fans with a diamond-studded chariot pulling his coffin in order to validate the effect he has had on the world.

New album maybe? It's about that time for them.

Hey there!

^ That cool mod above, I call her the artist because I saw a thread of her painting of Die once in that forum and thought it was awesome.

Computer Science for me . So kinda like Graphic Design without the graphics part, but I'm taking a course in graphics next semester so we'll see what happens.

The whole title should be "What's your major / What do you want to be when you grow up / What do you do already?"

Another straightforward and yet obvious topic. I think we could all learn a little bit more about each other ^_____________^

Don't visual bands usually lose money when they tour abroad? I don't think they're big enough to fill up a venue here and they're not even hitting the "usual" spots...what's up with this?

Do they still play any of their old songs (first three singles) during their lives?

EDIT: Btw, the so-called "user-friendliness" is the worst thing that has happened to OSes in recent years.

Linux tries so hard to be user-friendly but at it's core it's not. All of the menus and the "are you sure you want to do this?" and the buggy at best GUI and the "pointing in the general direction but not telling you what to do when you get there" that they put in to make sure people don't do dumb things just make it more tedious for the people that do know what they're doing. They shouldn't assume that people act braindead when they're computing. Braindead people shouldn't be using computers. >___>

I can say this because I'm a CompSci asshole major.

EDIT2: Thought I'd correct the common misconception that Linux can't be used for gaming. "Emulating" (as in, not actual emulator) Windows games with wine usually works really well these days, I've only had problems with a couple of games I've tried (and I've tried quite many).

The new Touhou being one of them, unfortunately.

NOOOOOO ; o ;

Onmyo-za's 11th studio album 鬼子母神 (Kishibojin) will be released on December 21st, 2011. The number of tracks that will be on the album hasn't been decided yet.

http://www.onmyo-za.net/news/index.html

Use Wubi! That way it runs like it's on a virtual machine and you don't have to do any messy partitions or anything! It comes with most downloads of Linux so it's not hard to find either. Whenever you feel inspired to do it, that's the way to go ;D