Multiboxing Music Thread

[Xzin]

Most of you guys are pretty serious geeks. I embrace it. It's a good thing.

And as geeks, we like music. Not just any music. GOOD music.

What does that mean to you?

When I think of multiboxers listening to music, I think of that scene in a ST:TNG episode where Data was listening to perhaps 5 different, completely disparate music types at the same time. To Riker, it sounded like complete mess but of course to Data, he was analyzing each as separate songs but listening to each one of them at the same time and appreciating each one.

Now, I doubt anybody listens to 5 different types of music at the same time but are there any common musical trends that boxers tend to exhibit?

Certain types that people like more than others? What kind of music do YOU listen to when you box and do you turn off the in game music too? Turn it all off to concentrate better?

Apparently this scene resonated with others too:

"In "How William Shatner Changed The World", they connected a single scene in TNG with the creation of the iPod. How seeing Data listent to multiple songs at once in his quarters and being able to instantaneously turn them on or off on command inspired the engineer who developed QuickTime to... well, develop QuickTime. Since it was nigh impossible at the time to store an entire album's worth of songs a computer, let alone access them with a command. From there came the popularization and development of media compression and formats and useable digital media... all the way up to the iPod and beyond."

"The idea of the iPod was
taken from Star Trek: The Next
Generation. Steve Perlman, a
scientist at Apple, was inspired
to launch QuickTime after
seeing the android Data
accessing music
instantaneously. Steve Perlman
says that the launch of the MP3
and iPods are thanks to Star
Trek. At the time of these
episodes this technology was
completely impossible."

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Also reinforces that old maxim that most software apps/tools started as an a programmer's itch or problem. Some people scratch or solve better but that the basic premise exists and that we are free (in most places) to pursue said scratching and solving is a beautimous thing indeed.

[Zaelar]

I usually listen to music from other games, typically 2d fighters(street figher, guilty gear, etc.). I did go with various nightwish tracks for a while though. I recently put in game music and sounds back on, but I usually have music running with them too.

[TheStender]

I tend to basically just listen to your standard music that you'd hear on the radio, any genre really except rap. I have a bit of that, but not much. I'd like to get more classical in there though.

[Zseth]

Nice little article about how Star Trek has influenced our society as a whole

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...GO35EG1T83.DTL

Anyway, back to the crux of Xzin discussion, I agree our music tastes are probably not only varied, but the quality of how we listen probably is tenfold that of the average user. Personally, I have an X-Fi Music Xtreme card in my machine. This comes with song editing software and drivers that allow me to turn the room I have my computers in to a virtual concert hall with the 5.1 speakers that surround me. I enjoy taking popular songs and setting them to other songs and beats, remixing and the like just for the kick of doing it.

However, as for taste in music, I listen to practically everything. And I think that stems from my musical background. I've played piano since the age of 4, memorizing classics such as Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata, the man's greatest Fifth, hell on a good day, I can still play Linus and Lucy from memory haha. That's a classic. Then I also have great experience with guitar, bass, percussion (drum kit). Of course who can forget the greatest instrument of all, which if you didn't learn how to play you had a horrible childhood, "THE RECORDER". Funny thing is that little thing inspired me to play the Bagpipes. So, what does this all mean, if you were to walk into my home while I was on the computer you would either be assaulted by the music of rotting corpses (aka Classics), screaming rock, trance inducing techno, a select songs of hip hop and rap( and I mean a select, most are just too ignorant of what their words mean to actually take seriously), even country is playing, and everything inbetween. So yeah Xzin, our music tastes are probably all quite similiar just to us all thinking at the same speed and ability. Does that make us better than the average joes out there? I like to think so

Multiboxers > Average Joe Why?

We aspire to more, we are more inviting to ideas, and enact change to do more.


*Disclaimer: The claims made in this post are not meant to be taken extremely literally. The author does not believe that certain people are a superior species of humans, and encourages social equality(What you put into society = how much you impact the world)

[Dooz]

Progressive Rock... From Neo Progressive like Marillion, to Progressive Metal (Opeth). Proto Progressive .....Rush, Yes.... Psychedelic Bands ...Porcupine Tree, Dark Suns, Indukti, Oceansize.



Anything that is NOT "verse chorus verse" and the musicians are talented. My favorite place to listen to psychedelic music is in the crystal cave in Marshals Refuge in UnGoro. ;]

[-silencer-]

Progressive Rock... From Neo Progressive like Marillion, to Progressive Metal (Opeth). Proto Progressive .....Rush, Yes.... Psychedelic Bands ...Porcupine Tree, Dark Suns, Indukti, Oceansize.



Anything that is NOT "verse chorus verse" and the musicians are talented. My favorite place to listen to psychedelic music is in the crystal cave in Marshals Refuge in UnGoro. ;]

Put away the goblin jumper cables XL. This thead is from last October.

[Drizzit]

Progressive Rock... From Neo Progressive like Marillion, to Progressive Metal (Opeth). Proto Progressive .....Rush, Yes.... Psychedelic Bands ...Porcupine Tree, Dark Suns, Indukti, Oceansize.



Anything that is NOT "verse chorus verse" and the musicians are talented. My favorite place to listen to psychedelic music is in the crystal cave in Marshals Refuge in UnGoro. ;]

Put away the goblin jumper cables XL. This thead is from last October.

Live, live GOD Damn you LIVE :!: :!: :!: