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« on: July 11, 2011, 06:06:33 pm »
And it's even better to know that they can still laugh at themselves. Here's Nureyev on The Muppets performing a scene from "Swine" Lake:
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« on: July 11, 2011, 05:57:42 pm »
Okay, now that looks awesomely cool! I can't wait to see more! One suggestion: draw concentric circles along with lines in the explosions, because it looks even better that way. The explosions still look awesome, though.
Also: what is the difference between shifting and switching?
I completely agree. I think maybe just one or two circles would look best. And yes...what is the difference between shifting and switching?
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« on: July 11, 2011, 10:22:48 am »
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« on: July 11, 2011, 08:33:00 am »
I wish they were in better quality, too! I would LOVE to be able to really look at all the smallest details of their movements. Unfortunately, Nureyev had advanced AIDS and died at age 54 in 1993. Most of his greatest dancing was done in a period where quality was not the best. Baryshnikov, on the other hand, is still alive and is still doing some dancing, though not nearly to the level he was at the time that video was taken.
Just as a little bit more background, Rudolph Nureyev is the reason men have the kinds of roles they do in present-day classical ballet. Any time he performed he was given incredibly large roles (for obvious reasons). The problem is that many large roles for men....didn't exist! Up until that point, the male's job was to support the female. People would write entire parts for Nureyev. Nureyev also worked very hard on opening up the classical ballet world to the modern dance world, (and Baryshnikov followed in his footsteps). Now most dancers, choreographers, and directors greatly value BOTH ballet and modern styles, where in the past only ballet was really considered essential.
Baryshnikov pretty much followed in Nureyev's footsteps. He, too, was a phenomenal dancer with incredible technique. Many choreographers wrote ballets for Baryshnikov to dance, expanding the male repertoire even further. He also forwarded the mixing of modern dance and classical ballet.
Not only are these men incredible dancers, but they have both greatly influenced not only the classical ballet sphere, but the entire dance world as a whole. That only makes me appreciate them even more.
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« on: July 11, 2011, 07:53:52 am »
As you may or may not know, I am quite involved in dance. I recently received a full scholarship to a ballet studio, and I am taking full advantage of that, dancing at least 10 hours a week there, and at least 4 hours a week at another studio as well. Anyway, being that I am so engaged in ballet lately, I have been watching videos of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolph Nureyev, quite possibly the two best male ballet dancers (ballerin os) in the history of forever. Rudolph Nureyev dancing Corsaire with Margot Fonteyne (who is also amazing): Mikhail Baryshnikov also dancing Corsaire (though he does only the male variation, a.k.a. the male solo): Obviously on a personal level I am floored by these performances, as was the rest of the classical ballet community. Nobody had ever seen anything like either of these men. It really helps to know what exactly it is that you're looking at, and to have some understanding of how the moves are executed, so being an actual dancer helps, but they're still pretty amazing to watch. I mean, seriously...HOW THE HELL DOES ANYONE EVER JUMP AS HIGH AS NUREYEV?? (see around 3:20 or so) And those incredible turns in both performances...how do you ever keep your balance like that? It's like they're all superhuman! Oh well...I am aware that many of you may not appreciate this nearly as much as I, but I wish to expand the world's view of dance, especially the concept and acceptance of male dancers. These men were phenomenal, the best there ever was. I hope you can at least appreciate these a little bit.
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« on: July 11, 2011, 05:04:43 am »
Possible idea: A Nano Wars/Galcon/Galactic Conquest type game.
Wow, you know a nano war game could be pretty damn awesome on calc!
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« on: July 11, 2011, 03:42:57 am »
You could look at more of the projects in the "Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas" board! There are some pretty fascinating things in there!
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« on: July 11, 2011, 02:31:26 am »
When you get a query in Omnom it displays the message in the current window with (PM) next to the name. It also opens up a new query window in the channel bar...But the query window seems to not log any messages. If switch channels and then switch back, all queries are lost forever in the dark abyss that is deleted data. :'(
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« on: July 11, 2011, 12:46:29 am »
1. TI-84+
2. K-0207E
3. Don't think so?
4. v#2
5. 128 K RAM: Yes
6. Port 15: 45
7. Port 3A: 00
8. IDs: C2DA
9. 000000
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« on: July 10, 2011, 08:13:53 pm »
Not really much of mine anymore. I share it with my friend, and it's transformed into mostly his: http://soupinabox.comI'll be getting my own soon.
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« on: July 10, 2011, 07:37:58 pm »
It's back! Yayy!
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« on: July 10, 2011, 06:11:48 pm »
Gotcha, thanks. Is that world two?
Yep.
I'm keeping it world one for now 
I was just using that as an example of a place where that occurs. As far as I know that exists in world 1 as well.
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« on: July 10, 2011, 04:48:22 pm »
Gotcha, thanks. Is that world two?
Yep. Already got those  That's what I was thinking of for those "fake walls" -- just have part of the wall face the other way. That means that you won't be able to walk in the other direction, but I think walking the other way is rare enough that no one would notice. Hmm...I don't know how your section data is organized, but I was thinking that for each section you could have something like:[number of lines total][number of collision lines][collision line data.........][rest of non-collision lines......] And it would draw ALL the lines, but only calculate collisions for the collision lines. Again, I don't know your structuring for each section, so that might not work. That's how I would do it though.
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« on: July 10, 2011, 04:36:35 pm »
Would it be possible to say "I have no idea what terms/conditions I am violating. Could you be more straightforward instead of sending generalized e-mail responses and actually tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong? Thanks!" Except....say it in a more polite manner?
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« on: July 10, 2011, 04:21:52 am »
If this is the wrong section, please move it, but I feel this is music-related enough. I feel very strongly about so-called "Hip-Hop" music these days. I feel this poem by Bridget Gray says it very well. Any other opinions about this? EDIT: She uses the N-word in this poem. Just letting you know ahead of time in case you might be offended by it.
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(I was hoping we could do some tests on those. (My opinion is those are "refurbished" calcs, i.e. calcs that were returned to TI as defective and then fixed and redistributed. I have no hard evidence to prove that, but it's my theory anyway. 