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See I liked Pizza Hut because of their pan pizza, but the quality just kinda dropped off, so I don't order there anymore. Maybe my tastes changed as an adult, I don't know. Now when I want greasy chain delivery pizza, I tend to order from Dominos. Very consistant pizza, good delivery speed for my area too. Plus they're all over the world, so it's kinda like the pizza equivalent of McDonalds or Starbucks: no matter what country you're in, you at least know what to expect from them.

Although usually I just want good quality pizza, so for that I order from a local delivery place. Pretty much the only pizza I will straight up refuse to eat is from Pizza Pizza, an all-Canadian shop of horrors and nightmares.

That argument makes no sense either. Everything we do, we do as animals. Just because we have language and technology doesn't make us any less like the animals we are. 10,000 years of civilization doesn't undo millions of years of evolution. In fact moral people who do no harm should be seen more as the exception than the rule, and should be venerated as such.

This is why killing people is always worse. An animal can't choose to be good or evil, a person can. Killing someone who put the effort into suppressing their instincts to live a moral life is a far greater shame than killing any wild animal with no notion of morality.

This is also ignoring the fact that people, good or evil, have hopes, desires and real feelings that are infinitely more complex than any wild animal. We think, therefore we are. Wild animals act on instinct. They carry less inherent value than a human because of this.

Yeah but people oppose hunting animals like that because it can render them extinct, not because they don't like the idea of hunting at all.

With this, it's like go ahead hunt all you want, there is no extinction. Takes out the one bad thing about it, it's not just because it's a game, it's because it's a game that has no impact on the environment.

I only use a mouse and keyboard for competitive shooters. If it's a single player shooter like this one, I'd rather use the controller because it's more ergonomic and I can play on my couch.

I'm a total sucker for space movies, so I really loved this one. I'm not normally too crazy about Nolan's films, but this one clicked with me. I liked that pretty much all the main characters are scientists, though Cooper felt more like a really clever pilot along for the ride than anything else. Story got pretty wild, but I liked where it went. The emergency docking scene after Mann blows the airlock was my favorite scene, so fucking tense and the music was perfect.

The cine was pretty breathtaking and I loved how it was cut, editing is usually my beef with Nolan's films, but I liked this one.

The movie definitely feels like a 2001 for the modern ages, and I think that's a good thing, we need a movie like that once in a while to get the imagination going about the future.

I had to go back and see it in IMAX the second time, and that was great too.

I hopes all this leads to a risk-loving Sega that throws caution to the wind and ports all their weird Japanese stuff to the west with low-budgets. Then it will be a rebirth of that golden-age late-90s era where all kinds of unique Japanese games came to the PS1 and shit.

Ok basically I'm saying they need to translate Yakuza 5 goddammit!

If you want any hardware, a basic USB MIDI keyboard will take care of most of your needs. Drum pads can also be had for cheap, but they're not totally necessary as you can just program drums from the computer. They are useful for more complex rhythms that you'd want to bang out yourself though.

As for software, just try everything. Most programs have demos, so give them a shot. On the Mac side, Logic is a good program, don't know how easy it is to get into though. If you have a mac though, you probably already have Garageband which is a nice place to start if you are new to music production, though you'll want to switch to Logic once you've realized the limitations.

Personally I use Ableton Live because it has some cool custom hardware designed for it and I just really love the general workflow it presents. Not entirely easy to use, but I came into it relatively clueless and now it feels pretty natural to use. Also I like making hip hop and electronic music and that tends to be good for that.

On the windows side, I can personally recommend FL Studio. It's cheap and easy to learn, and it gears well to writing electronic or hip hop tracks. It's the first thing I learned on, and it's good because there are a TON of tutorial for this on youtube compared to other programs.

As far as learning goes, hit up youtube. There are so many video tutorials for different techniques or getting the basics of a certain genre down. Just keep doing what they do and practice. Also listen to some of your favorite tracks and try to mentally break down individual instruments and see what makes them work. Then copy them. Eventually you'll develop your own style.

What's really important is just to know what kind of music you want to make, and to start your project with a specific vision. I find that wandering into the program without a specific idea, I just end up fucking around making dumb sounds for hours that go NOWHERE.

I bought a 770 earlier this year and have found nothing it can't play really well, so you might as well get a PS4 for the one or two exclusives it has.

Oh great, more tired indie games I played last year and a continued delay on Driveclub.

Couldn't they at least give us something with actual 3D graphics? The PS4 is becoming the second-tier indie platform I never wanted.