MP forum Roll Call

[SystematicThought]

I think I was Images and Memory over there. Thus continuing my bad combo of album mashup usernames. I joined both MP's and this forum just to ask what everyone else's tracking numbers said for the BC&SL boxset

[King Postwhore]

:BosklovesAdami:





...can't win em all.

Deadpool.  Bosk1 make it so.

[JayOctavarium]

:NataliePortman:
 

(One day )

[Adami]

Making my name into a Deadpool emoticon would be the best birthday present that no one gave me (or remembered from last week).

[JayOctavarium]

Making my name into a Deadpool emoticon would be the best birthday present that no one gave me (or remembered from last week).

Happy belated birthday

[toky_world]

Same username that I used in DT.net in early 00s and on MP.COM 03 to this date. I'll quote what I posted on the SoA thread:

part 2 of my rant.

I was part of the DT.net boards 2001/02. I remember that there was a lot of trolling that got out of hand in late 03 that got dt.net shutdown. I remember Mark Bredius was the admin, so he kept only website for promotion purposes. So I migrated to mp.com. A lot of cool people over there and relatively safe space to discuss TOT album. And I stuck there through many shutdowns and bans. Then Mike quit the band, and I thought that was it for the site, as well as my loyalty to Mike. I was so angry that he left the way he did. Selfish, heartless, cold.

Fast forward 7 years DT has released ADTOE, DT, TA. No album has really clicked for me. While Flying Colors and Winery Dogs did. That's why I stayed away from this place (as you can tell bc I joined here in 2011). I didnt want to shit on your parade.

This seems like a cool place to discuss music. Hopefully we can get past DT and maybe you guys can introduce me to new music. 

Anyway looking forward to be part of this community.

[Cool Chris]

It is 100% ok to say any DT material doesn't click with you. It isn't a full-on lovefest here. There is a fair share of DT criticism here, and it is largely done with respect to the band. After all, we are, or were, all fans of DT at some point.

The General Music forum is a great place to learn about new bands, or discuss old, longtime favorites.

[ariich]

It is 100% ok to say any DT material doesn't click with you. It isn't a full-on lovefest here. There is a fair share of DT criticism here, and it is largely done with respect to the band.

Just to highlight this important point - we're all free to express our opinions and constructive criticism is welcome, but do so respectfully to the band (current and former members) and to other DTFers.

Anyway, warm welcome to anyone who has recently joined us!

[nobloodyname]

Here!  MP.com member since before the crash, frequent poster in the past, not so much lately except for the infamous FLAC thread.

Someone needs to get glassdream over here

[PetFish]

Someone needs to get glassdream over here

    

[Spiritus]

Even though I hardly posted last couple, years I have  been an everyday active reader and lurker since I joined in 2004 and even before. ...facepalm thread,  just thinking, seventh son, and long ago with ghaal and octobarns and so on,   I was there, I was there lol.

Sad to see it end like that but it was just a vehicle for us. You guys will make this here a home.

Ironic "is dtf a thing" is directly now a much bigger thing because of MP shutting down.

Cheeers, now back to lurking lol. 

[a51502112]

I was a semi-regular at the MP forums till the end. Same handle. I signed up here when he quit DT.
I haven't posted here in a while because frankly, it seemed a little "cliquey". (Don't want to open a can of worms with that comment.)

I'm trying to participate again.

[Cable]

:BosklovesAdami:





...can't win em all.

 

[nobloodyname]

I was a semi-regular at the MP forums till the end. Same handle. I signed up here when he quit DT.
I haven't posted here in a while because frankly, it seemed a little "cliquey". (Don't want to open a can of worms with that comment.)

I agree with that. However, I think it's the same for newcomers on pretty much any established forum unless you're a boisterous extraverted type

[faizoff]

I looked back at my post history and saw this thread was created right when MP split from DT and there was a swathe of people rushing in this place
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=17325.msg620970

That thread had my first post. Same username on both forums, in fact, I think every forum I register I use the same name. Can't believe how fast time passes by sometimes. That thread I linked was about 7 years ago.

[Stadler]

Making my name into a Deadpool emoticon would be the best birthday present that no one gave me (or remembered from last week).

When was your birthday?   If it makes you feel better, no one remembered mine either (on the 10th).   Though I did get a nice vacation for a present. 

[Stadler]

Here!  MP.com member since before the crash, frequent poster in the past, not so much lately except for the infamous FLAC thread.

In which you delivered, if I remember correctly.   Someone else came in with some touchy-feely pseudo science, and I think I learned 98% of my digital copy reproduction knowledge from your reply.

[Dave_Manchester]

Someone needs to get glassdream over here

Ah, the fella who would critique the aural abilities of a bat. I actually really liked that dude, despite almost never understanding a word he wrote. I picture him listening to music wearing a lab coat and sterilized gloves.

Glad to see some more MP Forum flotsam washing up on these shores. I'm dave_manchester from there of course, nice to see the old faces and meet some new ones. Now if someone could just convince The Fish to haul his fin on over here we'll have almost all the regulars.

[nobloodyname]

I kinda liked him, too, mostly because he just kept bouncing back up like a six month old retriever despite the endless slap downs. I don't think I've ever known anyone stick so doggedly to their own interpretation of science in the face of so much fact-based evidence to the contrary.

On another subject, has Bails made it over?

[romdrums]

I kinda liked him, too, mostly because he just kept bouncing back up like a six month old retriever despite the endless slap downs. I don't think I've ever known anyone stick so doggedly to their own interpretation of science in the face of so much fact-based evidence to the contrary.

On another subject, has Bails made it over?

For some reason, I always pictured Glass Joe from Mike Tyson's Punch Out when I would see a GlassDream post.

[Chris Hinton]

Yeah, where is Bails anyway?

[Dave_Manchester]

I kinda liked him, too, mostly because he just kept bouncing back up like a six month old retriever despite the endless slap downs. I don't think I've ever known anyone stick so doggedly to their own interpretation of science in the face of so much fact-based evidence to the contrary.

On another subject, has Bails made it over?

For some reason, I always pictured Glass Joe from Mike Tyson's Punch Out when I would see a GlassDream post.

After a while I started reading his posts in the voice of Professor Frink from The Simpsons. "....dropping the tracks' upper peak limit down -6db's, so when I create the new peaks and dynamics, they will reach as high as -4db's, but never past -3db's, boo HEY boo HEY!!!"

As for Bails, he lurks here but I don't know if he has an account yet.

[romdrums]

I kinda liked him, too, mostly because he just kept bouncing back up like a six month old retriever despite the endless slap downs. I don't think I've ever known anyone stick so doggedly to their own interpretation of science in the face of so much fact-based evidence to the contrary.

On another subject, has Bails made it over?

For some reason, I always pictured Glass Joe from Mike Tyson's Punch Out when I would see a GlassDream post.

After a while I started reading his posts in the voice of Professor Frink from The Simpsons. "....dropping the tracks' upper peak limit down -6db's, so when I create the new peaks and dynamics, they will reach as high as -4db's, but never past -3db's, boo HEY boo HEY!!!"

That's hilarious!   

[El Barto]

Glad to see some more MP Forum flotsam washing up on these shores. I'm dave_manchester from there of course, nice to see the old faces and meet some new ones. Now if someone could just convince The Fish to haul his fin on over here we'll have almost all the regulars.

I sent him a PM about it a few days ago. To quote Martok, "what could be better? An ally and an enemy both telling him the same thing."

[jasc15]

I just read page 1 of that FLAC thread for s & g.  Nice job, Chris Hinton.  Not that I have the background to judge, but your replies contained more actual content than the other guy.  I too am/was mostly ignorant of compression, and didn't understand how the term "lossless compression" wasn't inherently contradictory.  But since smarter people than I have created it, I trust that it is not.  Reading your replies made me understand that the algorithm can reconstruct the "missing" bits, thus perfectly recreating the source string.

He seemed to backpedal his argument to say that the decompression algorithm can theoretically stumble in is function, producing inaccuracies in the output, but that's pretty weak.  Anything like that which may happen must be so far below the noise level of all the other parts of the system.

[Lethean]

To  weigh one's heart against the oncoming dark...

[bosk1]

:NataliePortman:
 

(One day )

Remove the caps.

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:adami:



Well then....that is interesting.

Well, at the time I uploaded that, you had jokingly insisted you were a terrorist, so...  But it doesn't really fit anymore, so I just changed it.  We already have a basic Deadpool one (I forget the code and can't be bothered to look it up right now), but this one seems appropriate for you, so there you go.

[King Postwhore]

Awesome!

[Zydar]

[Chris Hinton]

Here!  MP.com member since before the crash, frequent poster in the past, not so much lately except for the infamous FLAC thread.

In which you delivered, if I remember correctly.   Someone else came in with some touchy-feely pseudo science, and I think I learned 98% of my digital copy reproduction knowledge from your reply.

A few of us delivered (portnoy311, gborland, et al).  Those are the threads I go for anyway -- science, nerdy, and geeky.  Who remembers the Moon Landing threads?  That guy pissed me off to no end.

[Cable]

Here!  MP.com member since before the crash, frequent poster in the past, not so much lately except for the infamous FLAC thread.

In which you delivered, if I remember correctly.   Someone else came in with some touchy-feely pseudo science, and I think I learned 98% of my digital copy reproduction knowledge from your reply.

A few of us delivered (portnoy311, gborland, et al).  Those are the threads I go for anyway -- science, nerdy, and geeky.  Who remembers the Moon Landing threads?  That guy pissed me off to no end.

I remember that one. Cannot recall his avatar or name off the top, but if you said it I'd be like oh yeah him! That was hilarious in that at every single turn, he was refuted yet kept going. That is a thread that would end up in the P/R section here I reckon.

[The Walrus]

Hold up a second. Is SeventhSon here under a different name? This is important to know.

[WilliamMunny]

Checking in here as well...gotta get my Avatar up and running now!

[Lethean]

I don't need an avatar... (Or more accurately, was too lazy to do one for the MP forum, and probably here.)

[WilliamMunny]

What up.

This literally made me LOL!

I say this endearingly Stadler, but this might be the fewest words I've ever see associated with one of your posts!