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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: January 01, 2016, 04:21:24 am »
Watch.  Don't just listen.


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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: December 13, 2015, 10:38:17 pm »

Beats listening to people in Teamspeak while they refuse to read, anyway.

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: December 04, 2015, 12:11:15 am »
I actually linked a part of this already, but it's more glorious joined to the other three.

Tales of Zestiria's elemental dungeon themes... wherein a "Tales of" composer actually gave a damn (for once) and produced some great music.

Comes from such a conflicting game.  The combat system would be great if it didn't rely so hard on a certain gimmick.  The plot is mediocre.  The character banter is awesome.  And much of the music is downright glorious.  So confusing :P

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: November 05, 2015, 01:50:29 am »
This probably qualifies as a mild act of war to inflict upon you, but hey, I haven't yelled at anyone in weeks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i3nVpG-r2k

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: November 02, 2015, 05:27:22 am »
The dungeon may have ended, but this song still won't stop in my head.  From Tales of Zestiria, the newest in that series.  Brother's quote: "When you said I'd love it, I figured you meant piano.  I did not expect a freaking concerto."

Kinda well beyond the level of composition usually expected from the series... and a damn good piece I think.

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: September 11, 2015, 01:43:54 pm »
Because the world needs more Sakuraba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tczVktveSVk

And now I'll go back to wishing for Valkyrie Profile 3...

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: August 03, 2015, 07:14:18 pm »
Stolen happily and shamelessly from the DDO official forums:
For maximum lulz watch the video of the first one.  The second one you can just listen to, and arrive at the inevitable conclusion that that particular beat needs to be the new background music for all Kobold Mining quests/events.

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: February 14, 2015, 10:49:48 pm »
In cackling sarcastic 'honor' of Valentine's Day...


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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: January 21, 2015, 02:07:53 am »
Listening to the soundtrack of a game not even out of Korean CBT yet but pfffft, looking forward to it :D

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: December 20, 2014, 11:45:31 pm »
I'm not going to name any names on who exactly subjected me to this, but here.  Have fun. It was Urg. All her fault. Kobold never forgive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV5WqRnFejI

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: November 23, 2014, 05:12:50 am »
This... might have me cracking up just a little bit. 

Middle pane could be spoilers for a 20 year old game, but... meh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny-cSYGwg2s

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: October 27, 2014, 03:05:19 am »
Because all I ever post is Final Fantasy VI or Touhou... here's moar FFVI  O:)  Orchestral medley, pretty well-done imo.  There's another linked from the suggestions there that has an excellent mashup of FFIV's Battle of the Four Fiends, FFVI's Fierce Battle, and FFV's Battle on the Big Bridge... sadly it's surrounded by twenty minutes of mediocrity, and thus not posted here.



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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: The State of Gaming Today?
« on: September 29, 2014, 04:20:05 pm »
What, he didn't hit level 2 off of that 50xp?

This comic fails to match reality!

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: September 27, 2014, 06:47:19 pm »
Two Touhou songs from looking through the latest releases, and a much older piece that I still love.

First up is Merami singing something delightful and trippy... actually haven't heard her use this style before, but it's fun.  Read the translation as you listen for added fun. 

Second is fun and I'm sure I'll get yelled at for posting Engrish, but you'll live.  Can't stop humming it.

Third is... a call back to late 90s Final Fantasy.  This one is entirely Ki's fault.  I just love the meter in this one :D



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General Discussion / Re: Adult Women Largest Gaming Demographic
« on: August 29, 2014, 02:29:30 am »
Thalidamide was also before modern biostatistical techniques for evaluating and approving drugs, but yes, there have been high profile screwups since then too.   Might be fun subjecting clinical trials higher certainty standards but... I think the industry would buckle under the financial weight.  Maybe that wouldn't be so bad though?  ;)

Anyway, we're not in (complete) disagreement.  It's absolutely valid to say that if these 2200 households were sampled  from the US, they are not  representative of Mexico, nor China, nor Wyoming.   The first two because they were not a part of the population sampled, the last because it's a stratum within the population.   But it absolutely would be representative of the US as a whole -- provided proper sampling techniques were used, the data collected was of good quality, etc. etc.   There are about 100 disclaimers that we really ought to print on any statistics like these, but most people would fall asleep after the first one.  Regardless, this would indeed not say a damn thing about San Fran or the Amish, but only about the group proportion for the nation as whole.

And of course using the US to extrapolate to the whole world is utter folly.   If someone could manage the logistics of sampling 2200 households from the whole world (hint:  not. financially. possible.)  and looking at the proportions, I'd be comfortable with those saying exactly that -- the rate of participation in gaming among the global population, which again would not say anything at all about any given stratum -- first-world, third-world, northern, southern, temperate, equatorial, much less the constituent countries -- only that the sum of the parts has such a participation rate.   Remember, statistical theory is derived based on finite samples and infinite population sizes -- 2200 of 300m vs 2200 of 7b doesn't make an ounce of difference for the validity of the point estimate nor its confidence interval.

This is also why I hate any time an article uses statistics -- they never explain enough about the methods, nor do they caution the readers about interpretation s.


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General Discussion / Re: Adult Women Largest Gaming Demographic
« on: August 29, 2014, 12:04:59 am »
Lili, we cancel TV shows on samples around that size. ;)

-- Kyuu

More importantly, we base decisions on whether a drug is effective based on smaller samples than that.  (Though in fairness, Phase IV testing -- side effects and a doublecheck of efficacy -- is usually more like 10,000)

Lili, the margin of error (at 95% confidence) on a proportion using 2200 samples is approximately 0.01 (actually less than that as p moves away from .5).    It'd be appropriate to call the Adult Males (35) vs Adult Females (36) comparison in this study a tie rather than a win for one or the other, for sure.  However,  all of those percentages they reported should be accurate within about a percent, provided the sample is unbiased, so they're believable even if the conclusions from the article are not...

...but Mire's arguments for how it's biased are pretty good  points.  :P  In which case, ignore it all, bias kinda ruins statistics if you don't correct for it.

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: July 10, 2014, 01:34:46 am »
Been listening to some Touhou music lately.     Specifically on yet another Merami kick, so figured I'd post one of my old favorites and a new favorite.  Especially since they go hand in hand :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-SE6CZUSRw

With translation courtesy of Kafra Press:  http://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/zettaiteki-ippoutsuukou/


And then an old favorite which just seems to be a perfect follow-up in so many ways:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRjzFMjtg5Q

This one with a translation on the video itself.

Doesn't hurt they're both partially based on one of my favorite Touhou tracks :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=195XntreoMc

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Flotsam and Jetsam / Re: What are you listening to....
« on: April 19, 2014, 04:19:13 am »
Owing to Lili's post appearing in the recent tracker...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln9Sq7IOP3o

When my brother found this, we agreed it was the coolest thing ever  ;D 

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