Really looking forward to this, but I'm a bit saddened by Trent's view at the end.

"now that everyone is empowered with these tools to create stuff, has there been a lot more great shit coming out? Not really..."

It does make him seem a little out of touch, and I'm a little worried that the whole documentary will come across as a bunch of formerly excellent 90's rockers who couldn't keep up, and now hark back to the good old days of "real music".

Always thought Lennox was the sexiest 80s rocker chick-Still do, even though she looks like someone's mom!! Must be that Scottish thang...Are Scottish chicks hot??

One of my favorite band's in the world The Ex found this band in the Congo called Konono N°1. I still have a split LP Konono did with New Zealand noise rockers The Dead C. Anyway, they play those thumb things through handmade amps. It's fucking awesome and psychedelic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cU19URUe6o&feature=related

Always thought these cats were the ultimate 90's *geek rockers

Oooh, cool. Let me just read through and answer what I can.

1) We had a cataclysmic overload on our server when the game launched, so it went down over the weekend of launch. If you still have issues, try closing the app completely and restarting. The daily challenge is like in bubble bobble - you gather the letters in the game, and when you have the full word you win a mystery box.

2) Yes, if the daily challenge is bugging out, you're gonna have a bad time with that mission. The easy fix is that you can pay for a mission skip in the shop, or wait for an update. -_- It should reset and work again after a full restart though.

3) The mystery box is bugged in that you can make it confused if you click with more than one finger. This makes it lose its reference to the labels etc. Essentially, yes, it's a bug and what's far worse, it's MY bug. *cry* It will be fixed in an upcoming patch. I've already done it, it's just waiting for some other features. A hard restart will absolutely fix this.

4) Headstarts: When a game starts, an icon should swoop in from the left with the headstart icons. Clicking them will trigger a big jetpack boost that sends you quite a bit forward in the level. It's great for getting big scores. If that button doesn't show up, it seems something is amiss. Again, do the full restart and try again.

5) Skip missions: There are some missions which can take a lot of time, so we made these so people have a chance to skip the ones they didn't like (or couldn't do for some reason). When you have completed a mission, the skip is removed from the store - if the mission is still completable, it remains in the store. When you complete 3 missions, you get 3 new ones and the skips come back. The plural thing annoys the fuck out of me too, but this time it isn't my mistake. That is fixed in the upcoming patch.

6) Super sneakers are hard to use. The trick is to realize that you can swipe downward while flying/jumping, which gives you quite a lot of control. The really good players in the office love them, I'm like meh. I also avoid them when I can, because I suck at controlling them, heh.

7) 2x multi: There should be a timer in the bottom on all the powerups you pick up, if there's not, then something is bugging out hard. Same advice as before. Hard restart.

You get the tokens in the mystery boxes. When you pass the thresholds, 3, 50 200 and 500, you unlock the characters. You can change characters is Shop -> Characters (switch them on the arrows, and click select). I think the bigger thresholds are very high too, but that's what the other game designers felt was right. When you get more than the threshold, they are redundant at this point. I honestly can't say if they will be used for something, but it's something we have discussed earlier.


Phew, that was a big bit. I hope you're enjoying the game, we'll have some more stuff coming out for it soon enough - if nothing else, it will fix a bunch of bugs.


>> ^Sagemind:

I have a few issues with the game.
first of all - no instructions on how to play.
- how do you get/switch characters
Daily Challenges (JIVE) (no idea what JIVE means)
says "next challenge in 0:00:00" and NEVER Changes - so no new challenges - ever.

Missions
Of the three missions, the first mission is "complete 1 Daily Challenge" (which is not checked).
The other two challenges ("Dodge 20 barriers" & "6000 points in one run") are both completed and checked. This screen never updates or changes - no new missions ever (BUG)
Shopping
Hoverboard - works fine (double tap - got it)
Mystery Box - when I find a mystery box burring game play and tap to see what it is there is text there that never goes away (it reads:"1x Yutani's UFO - tap to open") - left over from a previous reveal) The new text for every reveal since layers over top of that original text making all text unreadable. I have no idea why that old text never goes away. (BUG)
Headstart (250/1000)
Not sure how these work, there is no explanation for them. I've won several through mystery boxes but they never show that I have any and I don't know how to engage them if I had them.
Skip Missions - OK fine, but I'd rather play through, it's like paying to cheat
I only have one skip mission left (Skip mission 1) which will let me skip my daily challenge #1. The challenge is to "Complete 1 daily Challenges" other than being pluraly incorrect, I've already completed the other two challenges and this has not gone away and never will since there is nothing left to trigger this challenge.
Upgrades
Jetpack - works great (fun challenge)
Super Sneakers - haven't mastered these yet. Are they there just to kill me? my guy is so unwieldy, I can't control. I can't stay on the coins because he jumps over them instead of on them and I usually die everytime I get the shoes. I avoid the shoes every chance I get.
Coin Magnet - works great (I only wish it worked this easy in real life )
2x Multiplier
When playing the game, I can't tell if this is working, I may be missing it, but I don't see anything that tells me when this is engaged or has run out.
Characters
How do you switch the characters?
Do you first need to complete/find the items? (for the girl I have 2/3) do I gain access to her once I get 3/3? I've played quite a bt. 3/3 seems doable but the kid with the radio (3/50) the rocker guy (3/200) and alien costumed girl (1/500) would seem IMPOSSIBLE to attain. If it has taken me 5-6 hours to get 1/500, I know I will never get 500/500 before I loose interest in this game.
Also, in the mystery boxes I've had about 4-5 guitars (and likewise for items from different characters - eg. hats). Are these supposed to be counting or are they redundant and I'm supposed to be getting different items for these characters?

OK, that's all I have at the moment. I'll let you know If I see anything else.
So the two bugs I see right away:
-The issue with the challenges never advancing
-The Text issue with the writing when revealing the Mystery Box
If you know of any fixes for my issues, let me know - Thanks

I have a few issues with the game.

first of all - no instructions on how to play.

- how do you get/switch characters

Daily Challenges (JIVE) (no idea what JIVE means)
says "next challenge in 0:00:00" and NEVER Changes - so no new challenges - ever.

Missions
Of the three missions, the first mission is "complete 1 Daily Challenge" (which is not checked).
The other two challenges ("Dodge 20 barriers" & "6000 points in one run") are both completed and checked. This screen never updates or changes - no new missions ever (BUG)

Shopping
Hoverboard - works fine (double tap - got it)
Mystery Box - when I find or buy a mystery box, there is text (before the reveal) that never goes away (it reads:"1x Yutani's UFO - tap to open") - left over from a previous reveal) The new text for every reveal is unreadable, since it layers over top of that old text making all text unreadable. I have no idea why that old text never goes away. (BUG)

Headstart (250/1000)
Not sure how these work, there is no explanation for them. I've won several through mystery boxes but they never show that I have any and I don't know how to engage them if I had them.

Skip Missions - OK fine, but I'd rather play through, it's like paying to cheat
I only have one skip mission left (Skip mission 1) which will let me skip my daily challenge #1. The challenge is to "Complete 1 daily Challenges" other than being pluraly incorrect, I've already completed the other two challenges and this has not gone away and never will since there is nothing left to trigger this challenge.

Upgrades
Jetpack - works great (fun challenge)
Super Sneakers - haven't mastered these yet. Are they there just to kill me? my guy is so unwieldy, I can't control. I can't stay on the coins because he jumps over them instead of on them and I usually die everytime I get the shoes. I avoid the shoes every chance I get.
Coin Magnet - works great (I only wish it worked this easy in real life )
2x Multiplier
When playing the game, I can't tell if this is working, I may be missing it, but I don't see anything that tells me when this is engaged or has run out.

Characters
How do you switch the characters?
Do you first need to complete/find the items? (for the girl I have 2/3) do I gain access to her once I get 3/3? I've played quite a bt. 3/3 seems doable but the kid with the radio (3/50) the rocker guy (3/200) and alien costumed girl (1/500) would seem IMPOSSIBLE to attain. If it has taken me 5-6 hours to get 1/500, I know I will never get 500/500 before I loose interest in this game.

Also, in the mystery boxes I've had about 4-5 guitars (and likewise for items from different characters - eg. hats). Are these supposed to be counting or are they redundant and I'm supposed to be getting different items for these characters?


OK, that's all I have at the moment. I'll let you know If I see anything else.

So the two bugs I see right away:
-The issue with the challenges never advancing
-The Text issue with the writing when revealing the Mystery Box

If you know of any fixes for my issues, let me know - Thanks

From a cotton farm in Turkey Scratch Arkansas to the very pinnacle of the music world. 71 year old Levon Helm will soon be gone. Thought I'd post this tribute song written by Elton John from his 1971 album "Madman Across the Water".

Story here. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Entertainment/Music/6474166/story.html

From the above story "Born May 26, 1940, in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, the son of cotton farmers, he learned to play guitar and drums as a child. By 17 he was appearing in honky tonks in and around nearby Helena and taking in performance by such southern legends as Conway Twitty, Elvis Presley, Bo Diddley, and Ronnie Hawkins.

He joined Hawkins’ rockabilly band The Hawks just before they moved to Canada in the late 1950s.

In the early 1960s, Helm and Hawkins recruited Canadians Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass) and pianist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson. They left Hawkins and toured as Levon and the Hawks before backing Bob Dylan in the mid-60s. Fans weren’t initially receptive to Dylan’s switch from acoustic folky to electric folk-rocker, and Helm headed back south, working on offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico for a couple of years until bassist Rick Danko asked him to rejoin the group that would become known around the world as, simply, The Band"

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Levon+Helm+near+death+wife+daughter+with+videos/6474166/story.html#ixzz1sLwHMdvM

So tempted to put a drugs tag on this, he's off his rocker!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngWRpzhcVU

Running the gov't is NOT the same as running a business. Why do you think that being a successful CEO means jack crap? Businesses are for profit; gov't is not. George W. Bush ran the Houston Texans, but was he an effective president? HELL NO!

I don't give a crap about the sexual harassment stuff with Cain. I care about the video above. He clearly does not understand the issues. This has nothing to do with my disagreement with his ideas.

That's the difference between you and I. You define your opponents as teleprompt reading, constitution rewriting, deficit spending, fascist, communist, socialist, marxist scumbags because you disagree with their ideas. You of course conveniently forget about a lot of those tendencies when it's a Republican. Where's your name calling with Reagan running all those deficits under his watch? I disagree with Ron Paul vehemently, but I don't call him any names. I just say he's too rigid in his ideology in my opinion to be an effective President. Cain however would be a bad president, regardless of his ideology because he clearly doesn't understand the issues.

You can call every Democratic president ever elected all the names you want, but FDR was an effective president. Ditto Truman, JFK...


>> ^quantumushroom:

I agree Perry's done, for reasons other than this.
You say, I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.
Thanks for not mentioning the Telepromptesident. Since Cain's ideas are "no threat", how about letting him get a word in edgewise before the leftmedia trots out another lying asshole who's made a litigious career out of being "sexually-harassed"?

>> ^heropsycho:
Dude, seriously?! One guy got tripped up explaining his point. The other guy forgot a crucial key element of his entire policy. When you're talking about completely eliminating an entire federal agency, which is a big deal, you should at least know which one you're talking about. That's just ridiculous.
Perry's done. Let's end the idiot parade and hear from Republicans who can actually remember what their ideas are in more depth, or who aren't completely off their rockers. Perry, Bachmann, Santorum shouldn't even be invited to debates at this point if they're not gonna withdraw from the race. I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.

>> ^quantumushroom:
And this is the guy that got elected. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!
2012.

I agree Perry's done, for reasons other than this.

You say, I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.

Thanks for not mentioning the Telepromptesident. Since Cain's ideas are "no threat", how about letting him get a word in edgewise before the leftmedia trots out another lying asshole who's made a litigious career out of being "sexually-harassed"?


>> ^heropsycho:

Dude, seriously?! One guy got tripped up explaining his point. The other guy forgot a crucial key element of his entire policy. When you're talking about completely eliminating an entire federal agency, which is a big deal, you should at least know which one you're talking about. That's just ridiculous.
Perry's done. Let's end the idiot parade and hear from Republicans who can actually remember what their ideas are in more depth, or who aren't completely off their rockers. Perry, Bachmann, Santorum shouldn't even be invited to debates at this point if they're not gonna withdraw from the race. I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.

>> ^quantumushroom:
And this is the guy that got elected. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!
2012.

Dude, seriously?! One guy got tripped up explaining his point. The other guy forgot a crucial key element of his entire policy. When you're talking about completely eliminating an entire federal agency, which is a big deal, you should at least know which one you're talking about. That's just ridiculous.

Perry's done. Let's end the idiot parade and hear from Republicans who can actually remember what their ideas are in more depth, or who aren't completely off their rockers. Perry, Bachmann, Santorum shouldn't even be invited to debates at this point if they're not gonna withdraw from the race. I want to hear more ideas from people who have brains, and can actually solve real world problems.


>> ^quantumushroom:

And this is the guy that got elected. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!
2012.

My parents forced me to go to church until I was 18, luckily it was a really liberal Lutheran church. I remember playing Cannibal Corpse for my peers when we were in 6th grade at some christian camp, that was fun. Although, our camp counselor who was an older punk rocker saw my MRR and got an unhealthy little boy crush on me that was pretty frightening.

I remember scaring a lot of kids, smoking lots of cigarettes and smoking lots of pot and then sitting up on the balcony in the back of the Church so all of us kids could just talk and be stoned while ignoring the sermon. Good times! What I would rather have been doing was waking up late Sunday and playing Quake - but nah, instead we were just getting stoned whilst being bored & tired. Oh! but there were doughnuts at the end....

>> ^TheGenk:

Great, now you ruined the Matrix movie for me. How can I possibly take Morpheus serious from now on?


How could you at all? :-)

You should pick up some of the later stuff. Some of those graphic novels are awesome. I like "the gift", "all his engines", "pandemonium", and "hard time".

>> ^ponceleon:
Actually, I disagree with Budzos... I enjoyed the movie a lot more than the comic. I found the comics very hokey and disjointed in comparison, whereas the movie really encapsulated what I would LOVE religion to be. To me Catholicism is empty just because it has claims to relics, spells, and traditions which are ineffective in our world but pretend to be powerful in the way they are presented in this movie.
Religion would kick ass if it was based on a reality like this... I'm not sure how else to say it, but religion (and Catholicism specifically) is like people playing a childish game in which they are trying to imagine a world like this movie portrays.
To get more specific, I liked the explanations and backgrounds of the characters much better in the movie than in the comics. The comic has John Constantine being an ex glam-rocker who is slightly psychic/mystic and who's "damnation" doesn't come from an attempted suicide as in the movie, but rather a botched exorcism which is just kinda stupid. The whole suicide thing is really well done in the reimagining in the movie and makes a lot more sense.
Papa midnight is another character which is vastly improved in the movie. In the book, he seems more like a reject from Live and Let Die, a blaxploitation stereotype, whereas in the movie they really brought home the idea of someone that lives between two allegiances.
As for the use of "guns" and other 007ny stuff, I really thought it worked a lot better than the way they present him in the books. Frankly I'd rather have Constantine wielding a holy shotgun with blessed bullets than looking for a tape of his music video in his trashy apartment.
I'll admit that I only got through three of the graphic novels before I stopped, but I just feel that the changes made to Constantine's development improve vastly over what I saw in the books. As for making him American, I hate Keanu in most of his performances and I thought he really brought it for this one. I was pleasantly surprised and this movie remains one of my all-time favs.

Thanks! >> ^antonye:

>> ^AlpacaPower:
Does anyone know what music this is?

Jherek Bischofff "Kule Kule (Orchestra Version)" from "Tradi-Mods Vs. Rockers" Alternative takes on Congotronics (Crammed Discs)
http://jherekbischoff.bandcamp.com/album/kule-kule-orchestral-version