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-- Psyshell - 4am in Healesville [Forest Darkpsy for Forest Elves]
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Are you ever going to stop saying "Uh yeah, I could be wrong but still [wall of text]"? You've been wrong about every fucking thing so far.
No.
gotta say, can't mix for shit, but knows how to make an epic thread! 
The epic thread part wasn't intentional. I just wanted people to stick to musical discussions... but no... apparently people prefer the thread to include things like "rah rah I define what is and isn't psytrance, you hold no power here" "darkpsy is too micro niche for me to run around naked in the forest; that job is for house music".
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Can't mix for shit |
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| Originally posted by Psyshell The epic thread part wasn't intentional. |
Yeh kind've, if I waited another 3 months to release the set I'd probably just never get around to doing it and abstrain from djing for yet another 3 years. Seriously though, it's my first mix in ages, I just wanted some feedback to know where to improve (which I got). It's also not like I'm some (actual) trance dj who comes here posting about how awesome "dj romania" is and how his set is going to change the trance world. At best all I've said for sure is that maybe my mix is barely worth listening to a few people... and that since it's of a rare genre here it's a good thing to have.
Do you struggle academically, Psyshell?
short bus psy.
Nope, when I was in highschool I got Bs (75-85%~) for english (like about 60% of the class for some reason). When I did chemistry I was essentially best in the class, I learnt about the same speed as about 2/3 other students but I excelled in certain areas. Quite often the teacher would come up with a quite slow method to calculate something (e.g. average isotopic mass) and I thought up a way to do it in my head which involved far fewer steps. I also realised that you could use simultaneous equations to do chemistry when my maths/chemistry teachers/books didn't at all. When I did international politics, I understandood and could explain complex class systems far better than the teacher could (this could have a lot to do with an interest in the field though). For maths, I chose one of the hard maths (out of 2 hard ones and one easy one) and found it fine, but a lot of work (it took up about 60% of my homework time). For english literature I did reasonably well, text analysis and such I was much better at than writing bog standard essays (that were marked more on grammar than understanding of the text).
That said, I only study IT now, and it's at Tafe not uni which means that I essentially only do computer related stuff, no electives or anything like that. The main skills that've gone down since then is english grammar, as well as writing large blocks of text. That said I should be able to practice that either through creative writing or through essays (writing a 2 page essay on politics and then getting feedback is quite easy on some forums). I still study science, politics, and a bit of maths in my spare time and I believe that I am more competent than ever at those. Certainly at science which is much easier to measure I find keeping up with university lectures from stanford/mit on youtube not too difficult. I'll probably continue studying for the sake of it when I get older but for now I don't have the money to goto university(instead of tafe). My mother is talking about moving out of state, and on welfare I won't have enough money to pay for rent+food let alone extras. I've had a job the past 6 months up till 2 weeks ago, but financially speaking I don't want to have to rely on that concidering certain things (like I do tend to piss people off, which presumably is bad for career prospects, at least in unskilled areas). Also, studying computers at tafe is far better than at uni. With certain degrees I can get in 18 months I'm pretty much guaranteed a 60k a year job if I can pass the Cisco exams. With some actually applied skills (like the skill of being good at choosing what system is good for what company, without having to get that from a checklist) it'd probably make finding a job after the course even easier. By the way I'm studying IT networking not programming.
I'm also studying programming in my spare time; if I code a decent game or something does that get me to be called not retarded on here? I could tell you that I successfully designed a starcraft 2 map that rose to top 5 in popularity on the starcraft 2 server, which concidering the time of release would've been played by about 40,000 people. One of my hobby plans is to do something similar, but code something cool to play from scratch for android, maybe making one game free, and another game paid for (with the first game advertising the second). My forum posts tend to be a bit crap, but I'm working on it and I love it how people assume I'm actually an idiot just because I write lots of text that doesn't flow well together.
[edit] Since apparently it's mod policy that all random personal drama gets put in this thread (sigh) proceed with whatever insults/amateur psychoanalysis you want.
Also, when system j mentioned "most of the tracks are from one compilation" he didn't actually bother to check that(on discogs).
The track sources are as follows:
Track Number - Artist Name - Album name [Label]
1. Ocelot - Style is not a style [Ocelot Self Released/Ektoplazm]
2. VA - Under the moss [Forest Freaks]
3. VA - Voices of the trees [Forest Freaks]
4. VA - Lotus seed [Dharmaharmony Records]
5. VA - Parvatrip 3 [Parvati Records]
6. VA - Anarchpsy [Goanmantra]
7. VA - Under the Moss [Forest freaks]
8. VA - The Invisible Hand [Mighty Quinn records]
9. VA - Anarchpsy [Goanmantra]
It'd certainly help if I chose 30 albums to choose tracks from instead of around 7, but it's not quite that small an amount in variety. Especially since this is darkpsy where there's a gazillion different substyles and if I went high tech sounding stuff to foresty stuff every 2nd track that'd just sound awful. It's not like I can just goto the tech house section on beatport and just pick a bunch of similar sounding stuff to make a mix with. Finding shitloads of generic sounding full on however... well that's easy. The only way to collect enough similar sounding darkpsy is to have loads of all styles. If someone doesn't believe me, go ahead and make a better darkpsy mix yourself.
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| Originally posted by Psyshell for now I don't have the money to goto university (instead of tafe). |
Tafe is upfront while uni isn't, but the upfront cost isn't the only cost. There's also additional financial differences that mean whether or not I can afford to live away from home. More contact hours means less opportunities to work etc. I'm also not eligible to goto uni until I finish my tafe course anyway... and for IT tafe is much much better career wise. Businesspeople prefer people who've actually networked computers to people who've sat around talking about it for 3 years. At uni, IT programming exams are done on paper.... which is just... incredibly stupid and unrealistic. I definitely know so many guys that fully program websites including all syntax with a pen and paper (which ofcourse includes no automated syntax checking) :\.
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| Originally posted by Sushipunk Edit: Sorry for the off-topic, but I'm actually curious about this. |
. Regardless, go ahead.| quote: |
| Originally posted by Sushipunk and only have to pay it back when you're earning money in the workforce, over a certain amount |
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| Originally posted by Psyshell Tafe is upfront while uni isn't, but the upfront cost isn't the only cost. There's also additional financial differences that mean whether or not I can afford to live away from home. More contact hours means less opportunities to work etc. I'm also not eligible to goto uni until I finish my tafe course anyway... and for IT tafe is much much better career wise. Businesspeople prefer people who've actually networked computers to people who've sat around talking about it for 3 years. |
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| Originally posted by Psyshell You locked my thread that I designated for offtopic stuff from this thread, you're not sorry . Regardless, go ahead. |
Quite possibly, but hey you're better at predicting this forum than me.
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| Originally posted by Sushipunk Are you on Austudy now though? Austudy + rent assistance + a part time job (even not many hours) is enough to live on while studying, plus a little extra if you're careful with your spending. |
Sorry, I didn't actually mean to edit your post there, I hit "edit" instead of "quote" and proceeded to write 
And now I have lost my reply. Will type again.
DarkArbiter is like a cross between w ashley and Nou.
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| Originally posted by ziptnf Is DarkArbiter the new ********? |
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| Originally posted by ziptnf Is DarkArbiter the new william.ashley? |
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| Originally posted by Psyshell Right now I'm on "can live at home youth allowance". Concidering that my mother is thinking of moving out, sitting on centrelink and not giving me any additional money (even though with 130 a week rent that leaves me with 5 dollars spare a week... on a 35 a week food budget.... so it's not exactly spare) I'm currently looking into getting upgraded to cannot live at home. The fact that I get yelled at when I buy food that's both cheaper and healthier than what she tells me to buy with my own money (but apparently it's bad because it's easier to cook) and just a bunch of other things means I'd really prefer it never to live at home again. I mean hey, some of my stupidest forum posts have been just after I've been yelled at for several hours over absolutely nothing. E.g. "you're not allowed to buy us more plates, we have 3 already and if we get any more you're not going to do the dishes". If you think I'm nuts you should see my mother. It's very lucky I stopped taking her seriously since I was 15. Or my personal favourite(s) is in the last month, she's tried to steal 10 dollars of vodka from me and then manipulate her way out of it (I didn't let her), she's just finished watching a science program about how bad it is to sit at a computer for more than 50 minutes straight. I mention the science is mixed and she just loses it and gets really angry for 30 minutes. It then turns out she actually just wanted me to stop listening to music and go do the dishes. When I point out that's extremely deceptive of her and "that's why I don't trust you" she absolutely loses it. My other favourite one is how I always used to eat lots of food before bed to get to sleep easier, and for about 2 years that got me yelled at every time I did it. Then around 2010 the latest version of her favourite diet book came out saying that eating before bed helps you sleep... something I knew all along. I'll be fine, but constantly being yelled at (for 30 minutes to an hour, not 5 minutes either) over various things does make it a fair bit harder to study/work properly. Centrelink payments source: http://www.humanservices.gov.au/cus...ts-and-trainees |
I know Melbourne can be expensive though...
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| Originally posted by Psyshell No I'm the new *********. Not DA. You are however someone whose personality I find annoying and who I don't enjoy commenting on my mixes; similar music tastes or not. |
The 130 is for a share house. Absolutely that's... my only option (financially). Me and my mum can't even afford to live as 2 people in one house in Melbourne. I shall, but it's around new year and lots of people are on holiday. I'm doing it first thing on the new year. Yeh my life's going to get a lot easier once I move out. I could easily mention concrete examples (like the food shopping thing or the plates thing) to a psychologist to get their assesment of whether I can live at home or not (since that's usually how it works with centrelink). I don't like talking to psychs but money is money and that's what I'm going to have to do. I'm certainly not telling them all about my relationship with my gf or everything that makes me unhappy in life. I'll just stick to relevent home life details until I get the rubber stamp saying "it's ok for you to move out from home" (p.s. why the fuck do I even need to do this, fucking neo liberals).
I mean, there is always the option of working at mcdonalds all my life or similar... but I don't think anyone even wants that for me (apart from certain young and economically naive right wing assholes on facebook). If I successfully complete my whatever, and become a full time IT guy, electrician or scientist (that's my 3 career preferences in order) then I'm going to be paying way more tax over my life than I'd ever recieved in welfare as a student.
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| Originally posted by ziptnf Wow, you're quick on the reply. It's almost like you give a fuck. |
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| Originally posted by Psyshell The 130 is for a share house. Absolutely that's... my only option (financially). Me and my mum can't even afford to live as 2 people in one house in Melbourne. I shall, but it's around new year and lots of people are on holiday. I'm doing it first thing on the new year. Yeh my life's going to get a lot easier once I move out. I could easily mention concrete examples (like the food shopping thing or the plates thing) to a psychologist to get their assesment of whether I can live at home or not (since that's usually how it works with centrelink). I don't like talking to psychs but money is money and that's what I'm going to have to do. I'm certainly not telling them all about my relationship with my gf or everything that makes me unhappy in life. I'll just stick to relevent home life details until I get the rubber stamp saying "it's ok for you to move out from home" (p.s. why the fuck do I even need to do this, fucking neo liberals). I mean, there is always the option of working at mcdonalds all my life or similar... but I don't think anyone even wants that for me (apart from certain young and economically naive right wing assholes on facebook). If I successfully complete my whatever, and become a full time IT guy, electrician or scientist (that's my 3 career preferences in order) then I'm going to be paying way more tax over my life than I'd ever recieved in welfare as a student. |
I've heard of people's parents being manipulative when centrelink calls to ask that sortof question; but I'm pretty sure she'll either say she can't afford it, claim I've been bullying her (apparently calling her an idiot when she tries to rob me counts as bullying now) or attempt to manipulate them successfully for a while but i doubt that act could work for more than a week or two. I'm not gonna rely on her moving interstate, I'm simply going to go for the "cannot live at home" option.
http://www.humanservices.gov.au/cus...youth-allowance
According to that, I could quite possibly show that I'm independent, concidering that I worked for 5 months and had to pay for my own food etc, some of which my mum inappropriately hijacked.
I should be able to get either
single, with no children, 18 years or more, and required to live away from home (201.5 per week)
or
Aus study... which effectively allows me to earn a lot more even though the base payment is the same. In fact I'm pretty sure I was always eligible for this... which potentially means the government owes me something in the region of $1500+ if I can prove it. It might be a bit difficult to get money out of centrelink for the reason of "being deliberately mislead"... but we shall see. I most definitely was, I was eligible since I was studying a full time approved course (if it's an advanced diploma... ofcourse it's approved).
For everyone who doesn't like darkpsy properly (especially ziptnf)
This thread is like an episode of Saved By The Bell, except in this version the kids are unpopular and on welfare.
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| Originally posted by Dykes_on_Jay This thread is like an episode of Saved By The Bell, except in this version the kids are unpopular and on welfare. |
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