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"I don't know if they boys or girls... but they fine" killed me And the guy that said "Oh, this won best album!" .... I would love to see more of their reactions with a wider variety of bands.

I suspect this depends on the contract the band signs. If they negotiated a good deal, they should continue to get royalties from CD sales (though this is probably a very small percentage). Otherwise, all of the money goes to the record label.. (that's just my theory, based on things i've heard about western entertainment industries. i have zero actual knowledge of how it works in japan..)

Maybe if you paid 1 quadrillion yen

look at these fools blocking traffic trying to "catch" a "Snorlax" in their virtual game when they could spend $500+ and get a REAL Snorlax. (http://www.japanrealm.com/japan-struggling-giant-snorlax-cushions/)

This is essentially asking me which of my babies I like better. *5 agonizing minutes later* NOT GONNA VOTE.

MAMO please don't scare me =_=

This is my GUESS, based on those blog posts.. Riku has depression which caused him to miss band activities. He was either kicked out for that reason, or he dropped out of the band of his own will so he wouldn't be a burden to the others. (I haven't kept up with their blogs, so let me know if there was more concrete information posted after the initial news broke)

Man I would MURDER somebody for a Katamari HD collection on PS4. wowowowowwowow

Tales of Berseria is out in Japan now. I've been seeing mostly very positive impressions so far. Still unsure if I should buy it now/soon or wait for the English version... If I play it in Japanese, I will only fully understand maybe 50-75% of the dialogue, and it will be more difficult to figure out the various gameplay systems. Also it would cost me ... around $100-115 ?? If I play it in English, I'll have to wait several months, but it will 'only' cost $60-80 depending on how it's priced in Canadian bucks. I'll understand everything but I will do that thing where I'm listening to the Japanese dialogue while reading English subtitles and noticing how they differ. It's actually kind of distracting, lol.

all the chopsticks Well, will be interesting to hear what Luy sounds like.

My motivation in that game was to get Triss in bed <3 My secondary motivation was to reunite with Ciri, she's so cool <3 But yeah, there's TOO MUCH other stuff to do, but it's all pretty entertaining, so take your time and enjoy. I still need to buy the season pass and play the expansions. RIP spare time.

That is tl;dr but the parts I read were pretty good

Okami HD I estimate I'm about halfway through. This is a super beautiful game and I generally like what it's doing. It's very satisfying to make the world pretty again. I LOVE feeding animals, hahahaha. I do have complaints though. - The voice acting consists of atrocious wakawakawaka sound effects, exacerbated by not being able to button past SOME dialogue. I have no idea why it's possible in some scenes but not in others. I ended up drowning out the "voices" with other music during cutscenes because they really grate on my nerves. - The brush controls are iffy. Sometimes I try to draw a vine and it doesn't work or it does a slash instead (especially annoying during the spider boss fight). Sometimes I try to draw "bloom" circles and it doesn't work, resulting in me drawing circles over and over and over again (while incrementally changing the camera angle) before it finally clicks. It's also moderately difficult to draw a nice circle with a PS3 analog stick... AdVenture Capitalist This is free to play clicker/idle-game trash that has no business being on PS4. But it has trophies and the numbers KEEP GETTING BIGGGGERRRRRRRRRRRRRR and then you reset your game for multiplier bonuses so the numbers get bigger faster I can't stop

I haaaaate Cindy's accent... no offense to actual Southerners but that is my least favourite English accent. (and I will always be bothered by her ridiculous outfit). Noctis sounds boring and Prompto sounds annoying. Some of the other voices don't seem egregiously offensive though. Anyway, not gonna be playing with the English voices. So happy they're including dual audio. http://www.finalfantasy.net/xv/spoilers-ingame-gentiana-aranea-highwind-ffxv-character-models/ I'm so in love Hey look, it's Lightning (not actually Lightning but this totally looks like the outfits in Lightning Returns)

You're thinking of buying a Sony phone? I guess you had good experiences with them before? I need a new phone because my iPhone 5's battery has suddenly gone to shit (literally have to charge 2-3 times a day), and I don't want to pay $80+ to replace the battery when I'm thinking of switching to Android anyway..

Yup, I was watching the internet meltdown with great amusement when the rumour first surfaced.. South Park comes out 1 week after that. This completely ruins my schedule. I guess I'll play South Park first, surely it is the shorter game... In other news, details about PS4's 4.00 firmware update have been released. Yay for folders, improved library organization, ability to view trophies offline, and other UI improvements! Never mind that this stuff should've been there from day 1. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/08/15/ps4-system-software-4-00-will-feature-folders-ui-refresh-more/ https://www.jp.playstation.com/blog/detail/3499/20160815-ps4.html <-- includes screenshots Custom profile header looks nice. Wish I took more screenshots now.

.. I don't want to keep talking about MiA but If you watch that video I posted on page 2.. *shrug* I am no expert, but it sure looks like he knows how to play guitar solos, which is way more advanced than "one or two chords". You could claim he is faking it, but those finger movements look pretty hard to fake without actually knowing what he's doing. I would not see the point in training a "guitarist" to fake-play a guitar without actually teaching him how to play a guitar.

All of those quotes reference ghostwriting, as in another person writing songs and giving the credit to band members. I was asking about the claim made by the bangyaru in the Cracked interview, which was band members not being able to play their own instruments. I assumed this is what you meant when you said "ghost musicians", as in another person playing the instruments while the band only pretends to play. Well, there's a way you can interpret "He’d pick up a guitar, record the part, and then the band would come in and listen to it and learn it that way. " to mean that this guy recorded the parts used in the final recording, but it still says the band would "learn" it, which implies they can play it. Anyway... I went through the stages of grief while writing my previous post and have now accepted that, whether or not the bangyaru's claim is true, it doesn't really matter to me.

Re: walking speed, there is a way to move faster. I view No Man's Sky as kind of an existential thing. "Art" if you will. You're meant to feel very alone in a vast universe. Having multiplayer in the traditional sense would completely destroy that feeling. Whether or not it's a "good game" is completely up to the player's tastes. It's good if you find survival games fun. If you like exploring for the sake of exploring. If you'd like to spend hours drifting around, not knowing if the next planet you visit will be a shithole or some kind of prehistoric utopia. If you're interested in seeing the benefits and limitations of random generation. If you like the idea of discovering something no one else has seen before, and being able to name it something stupid. If you want to explore alone and not worry about some troll following you around and killing you repeatedly with their superior gun. etc etc If you don't find any of that compelling, yes, you will get bored of it quickly. I do believe the game is not complete right now. It has crashing problems on PS4, and runs poorly on some PCs. Keep in mind that the developers were not even able to hire a QA support team until they got money from day one sales. They are supposed to be adding "base building" in an undated future update, which sounds like it could be a major feature. Hopefully by the time I get around to playing it, it will be much improved from its current state.

ehhhh, seems like a boring ballad (which I think are the songs least suited to Ikuma's voice) Anyway, still gonna buy it.

I actually read that specific interview maybe 4-5 years ago, and that's exactly where I first heard of the ghostwriting stuff. (in fact, it might be the ONLY article/interview about the VK industry I've ever read) Unless I missed something, because I skimmed parts of it, I didn't see anything there that mentions ghost musicians, which is what I've been asking about in this thread. It did say that typical band members start out as teenage dropouts who want to be rock stars and "want to learn to play guitar", which implies that they are being taught to play their instruments. Maybe. ... I suppose I could believe that other people are playing instruments during studio recordings, and the actual band only plays during lives (or mostly dances during lives), which is why lives can sound shitty, which is why I usually ignore the existence of lives. In any case, no one's shown me any concrete proof of it, but I suppose it doesn't really matter to me. I like the studio recordings and the photoshopped images, no matter how "fake" they are. I'm not interested in going to lives, I'm not into meeting band members, and I'm certainly not into stalking them, sending them money, or sucking their dicks. ... ?? Yes, I know you really hate Mejibray. I just wanted to point out that, at the very least, MiA appears to be able to play a guitar. Whether or not you think he's good at it is another matter entirely. I can play a piano. I learned piano for years and years with a bad teacher who didn't train me very well. I do not have a creative bone in my body and cannot write music or improvise, but I can read sheet music. If I was forced to practice it and play it for a living, I could probably perform well enough to impress untrained listeners.

lol <-- Mejibray's drummer is literally my avatar. I know you're joking but I'm reasonably convinced that Mejibray can play instruments, even if you don't like the sounds that they produce this is the first thing that popped up on youtube I mean, I guess you could get all conspiracy theorist and say "what if he's just air guitaring".. Anyway my problems with Mejibray have more to do with the vocals and the usually-bland songwriting. Speaking of songwriting, I have heard accusations that most VK bands don't actually write their own music/lyrics. That's a more believable accusation than "they don't know how to play their instruments".

I'm not actually playing it, but I have read a good amount of discussion about the game. In summary, it's good if you like this sort of game. You will wander, alone, around an infinite number of randomly-generated planets/star systems/galaxies, gather materials to upgrade & fuel your ship, investigate points of interest (which could advance a "story"), make friends or enemies with alien races, find weird plants/animals/environments, and occasionally engage in a spaceship battle. If this sounds awesome to you, you will love the game. If you are expecting any amount of multiplayer interaction, elaborate trading/crafting/building systems, amazing first person shooter combat, etc THIS IS NOT THE GAME FOR YOU and you will hate it and you will bitch and complain about how it's not what it was advertised to be even though most of that was just people projecting their hopes and dreams for a be-all-end-all space simulation onto a game made by 15 people.

I actually read this article earlier today because @YuyoDriftmentioned bangya to me and I felt like googling about them. Is this actually true? The only band that does this, that I've heard of, is Golden Bomber. But I don't exactly go out of my way to read interviews and articles and .. tanuki stuff..