I met the guy who made this at the GDC. He's a cool guy, so it's nice that the game's been so successful. When I spoke with him a week ago, it had been the #1 seller on Steam ever since it's release.

Also, Battles - Atlas is double awesome in this game.

Any number of They Might Be Giants songs. "I'm your only friend, I'm not your only friend, but I'm a little glowing friend, but really I'm not actually your friend, but I am." A nightlight! Yay! "Make a hole with a gun perpendicular to the name of this town in a desktop globe. Exit wo...

Hooray necromancy!

Tweakbench's Maelcum is my tape delay VST of choice.

My gut reaction when reading that was to turn to one of the other officers, and ask them to arrest the guy who manhandled you (without the intent of ever pressing charges, mind you), so that 1) The issue gets moved to a less emotionally charged policeman, and 2) Maybe the jerk would realize how inap...

I know, I was joking.

Sober wrote:No one ever got anything done singing quietly.

Well, Iron and Wine, maybe.

Sinus infections suck.

But it's gone now, so I should be able to finish this weekend, hopefully.

it's a lot harder to sing rock-style vocals if you've practiced classically first. I couldn't agree more, as this is something that still catches me from time to time. The technique is really different, which isn't that surprising. If you're looking for lessons, make sure your teacher knows how to ...

Hah, another forum I read is doing this exact same thing right now. Here's what I came up with.

Still sick. Sorry, giftee! You will have to wait a little longer for your 80s-style synthpop!

And thanks, Lord of Oats! That's a pretty swank arrangement.

I've fallen ill, and as such probably can't finish recording my vocals in time.

Sorry, giftee! You'll get a song, it just might not be on Thursday

Can anyone explain this stuff to me? I can try. If I'm wrong, I'm sure I'll be corrected. I don't understand. Does this stuff mean anything? Who is voting in these primary things? Primaries are when the political parties choose who amongst them is going to run for president. Can anyone vote? Short:...

VBR = Variable Bit Rate. The encoding for these files adjusts the bit rate on the fly, so it can compress the song as much as possible without losing fidelity during the parts of songs that would show obvious compression artifacts at low bit rates. So when you encode to mp3, make sure you have a con...

Justice - "†"

It would appear Daft Punk have been dethroned.

This is great stuff. Just thought I should mention that.

Well, that's why he suggested a USB card, not an Expresscard. After a brief search, the only one I could find for <$100 was the Fast Track USB , but if you were going to get something like that, I'd say save your pennies for something like the Edirol UA-25 (~$250), which has more inputs as well as b...

The New Pornographers - Challengers

It's kind of weird. I've done a total 180° on this album. The songs I liked on first listen I now find annoying, and the songs I found 'meh' have become some of my favorites.

I'll add Hard N Phirm to this list.

While not specifically folk, they are musicians, and they are hilarious.

I'm going to randomly guess it's a substitution for the Yiddish word "verkakte," meaning bad, not working, run down, etc.

If by "alive" you mean "the last post was six months ago," then I guess it is.

It's a cognitive dissonance between being scared while knowing you're perfectly safe. Adrenaline rushes through the system, but since it doesn't have anywhere to go, it gets dumped into enhancing various emotions. It's pretty much the same reason people like rollercoasters. That said, I hate "t...