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Great music, I enjoyed listening to it. Got a copy of your manual too, looks interesting.

Funny image, thank you for posting CHINI.

Violin and Piano, cool! I'd love to hear some of this music you recorded.

I see what you're going for with the change in tempo and stuff. Nice that you're working on adding some complexity to your instrumental it makes it interesting. The first part is good (as it was before) but seems a bit thin with only the melody and the brass. Perhaps making the brass play octaves or even chords instead of single notes would fill it out. I think some melodious thing played in higher notes (around the C6 range on the keyboard) might sound nice and fill it out a little. The vibraphone would take a back seat to this pleasant high melody that takes the listener by surprise half way through.I feel the drum solo needs work. Even though you raised the tempo for the drum part, it feels slower and dead. The drums in this part are too simple and aren't interesting enough to hold their own as a drum solo in my opinion. Don't have to remove it, they just need improved to be more exciting/interesting.The rock outro is fine, it sounds good and being a rock type of song, it doesn't have to be overly complex. However as this is an instrumental, just a rock rhythm with no singing might not be interesting without some kind of vocal-like melody or guitar solo (yeah getting a nice solo might be hard on Guitar Pro) being played over it.So you've got some good stuff here but it needs more work before I would call it a completed piece. At only 1:30 minutes or so, it's got a lot of room for some interesting instrumental melodies or experimenting. Keep the beginning and end and build on them, (as opposed to adding on another completely different part) make them longer so it's more of a real song length.So there are some suggestions, whether they are good or not I don't know, I'm no expert, but I tried to make my reply a little more helpful than just saying "Cool".

There is a lot of controversy regarding what's acceptable to mass-murder in video games and what's not. Almost anyone who's played a lot of video games has most likely massacred thousands of humanoid artificial lives, whether you're decapitating Nazis, running down pedestrians, or blowing up soldiers by the hundreds on a RTS battlefield. Even though Artificial Intelligence in video games is very limited right now, some people still have a problem with killing characters on a screen. Check out what a lot of people think concerning the controversial level in Modern Warfare where you're a terrorist killing unarmed civilians with a machine gun. These aren't even close to being real sentient creatures, yet some people won't even play this level because you're killing innocents instead of 'bad guys'. Artificial Intelligent is always improving, but has a long ways to go before it becomes like we see if Sci Fi. Game designers are always trying to make the best game possible, always trying to improve upon the competition, and it would not surprise me at all if some day in the future they incorporated extremely advanced AI into games. Sentient creatures who are capable of thought and have the desire to preserve their lives. Artificial people who truly believe that they are alive, with families who care about them. They don't actually have families, but they would believe they do, to give them a realistic reason for survival. Wouldn't that make a game challenging and authentic if the people you were trying to kill were truly alive, and unpredictable, even if only inside a Save Game file on a computer? Would this be going too far? Would these artificial people be alive enough to qualify for mercy, or are they still just objects to be blown apart in a gory mess in a video game? What do you think?

With all the information available on the internet, I think it's impossible to avoid being "stalked", unless you give false information everywhere. All you need is someone's full name, and relative location. I don't see the point of being too private because if someone want's to stalk you, they'll find you with little information.

If the gallery is going to exist, I think there should be some rules regarding what goes into it. Things uploaded to the gallery should be something that a member made, example: a banner/signature, drawings or an artistic photo taken by the member. A show case for the talents of the members. It was being used for this, but some it degraded into images of schematics, pictures of computer and fruits. I don't think what INEA is doing is wrong, because there are no rules, it's a free-for-all. It shouldn't be this way, but until OpaQue makes the rules, I'd say nobody's doing anything wrong.

I don't know how much photo editing you plan on doing, but the free IrfanView is really good for resizing, cropping, brightening files. It doesn't do advanced stuff, but for quick edits nothing beats it. I use it all the time. It's so good in fact, I would describe it as "Must Have" software for a new computer.

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Well, gee, thanks OpaQue the Salesman!

Some more information on the computer might be helpful. If you don't know anything about it, this free and easy to use program will tell you information http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download You can copy and paste everything in the SUMMARY section that pops up and it should be adequate.

As far as I know, you just paste the Youtube URL into the post and it becomes embedded. Let's try it. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Yep, works fine.

I think the orange with the creepy face is from a youtube video "series". I imagine you can just upload a couple of images yourself to the gallery and it will replace the orange if it bothers you. There doesn't seem to be any rules as to what goes in the gallery (but there probably should be).