Copy Paste CTRL+V Game

[ThickAsABrick]

We all like to copy and paste text for convience while using the internet, so for this game press your paste button, or ctrl+v and we will see what you come up with for fun. Please leave whatever comes up but dont post it only if its really personal or sensitive information.

[Rapt0r]

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[ThickAsABrick]

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That's pretty cool, would u mind sharing what made you copy that?

[aander91]

Here's why I disliked Portnoy's affiliation with Avenged. I feel like other fans may feel the same way, so maybe I'll be speaking for others as well. Note, I don't dislike A7X more than I did before this. I've never really liked them in the first place, but that doesn't mean that I don't respect Mike for helping them out. Especially under the conditions.

Alright, here goes:

To me, prog has always been a gateway for bands to rise above the rest in their genre. I originally appreciated Rush for this. They took a genre that I honestly thought was mostly bland (rock) and made art with it. To me, rock was pretty much generic. I might have enjoyed it a little, and certainly some more than others, but I always thought rock in it's purest form was pretty bland and devoid of any true emotion. Rush showed me that no matter what instruments you use and no matter what genre you are or what your influences are, you can make ART. Dream Theater accomplished this for me as well. Dream Theater took a genre that I had previously avoided and showed me the same thing. You can make art from anything. To me, Avenged Sevenfold is the "Rock" of metal. The have accessible writing that allows for anyone to be a fan and focused on just being loud. With Dream Theater and Rush, every song was full of emotion, and what's more, it was puzzle. It made you think. I loved listening to a song and then finding myself being confused as to what was going on. When I had to rewind a few seconds back and really pay attention, it almost felt like an accomplishment to be able to tell you what time signature they were in. Avenged Sevenfold for me, lacks this. While they DO expand their genre into other areas of music that I would usually appreciate (organs, classical instruments, etc.) they go about it all wrong. This is the second reason why I found this somewhat sacrilegious. Dream Theater was like the Sistine chapel of metal to me. They were intelligent in design and filled you with emotion. Avenged Sevenfold's theme is death. Now for the people who I know who really aren't familiar with metal music, if you ask them what metal is about, they will probably tell you something with the following keywords: loud, heavy, fast, hell, death, killing, screaming, etc. Now, I can understand this. If you don't really know a lot about metal, and you look at what you do know about metal, you could pretty safely say that all metal uses death as a primary theme. This is pretty irrefutable. Now, the reason why people think this, is because, well, many metal bands DO use death as a theme. The fact that Avenged does as well doesn't really separate them creatively from the rest of the bunch (especially with newer metal bands) and to me, this was one of my main draws to Dream Theater. They were about the music, not looking as morbid as possible.

Think I'm generalizing? Compare these two websites.

http://www.dreamtheater.net/
http://www.avengedsevenfold.com/

Avenged Sevenfold's website is absolutely loaded with death references, while Dream Theater's has none. In fact, Dream Theater's seems to promote creativity with images like the Mason logo and the general abstractness of their banner. Now I wanna say this first, every band has a right to choose their own theme. I'm not insinuating that EVERY band should follow in DT's footsteps, I just mean to show how they contrast and why the fans were most likely disappointed or confused that Mike Portnoy would ally himself with such polar opposites. I basically got into DT because they WEREN'T Avenged Sevenfold and other bands like them. Now again, I must reiterate, if I was Mike, I would have done exactly what he did in his position. I mean, how could you turn something like that down? It was a man's dying wish, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I had turned it down. But all of this is beside the point. I'm only posting this to show why DT fans may dislike A7X and why they may feel uncomfortable with this move.

[Rapt0r]

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That's pretty cool, would u mind sharing what made you copy that?

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[aander91]

This thread is screwed, lock it now.

[ThickAsABrick]

This thread is screwed, lock it now.

how so?

did u write that stuff or go on a prog rock site

[aander91]

I wrote it. Trust me. Lock this now.

[ThickAsABrick]

not sure how? also for my threads idc how many times people wanna post. he can put all the marios he wants for all i care lol

[aander91]

I had nothing to do with the following posts.

[Rapt0r]

I had nothing to do with the following posts.

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[ThickAsABrick]

I had nothing to do with the following posts.

what are u talking about? just give me a good reason to lock and i will, not sure how to though.

-- Edit: Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:37 pm --

I had nothing to do with the following posts.

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not that big of a fan of green raptor, i like blue myself.

[Rapt0r]

not that big of a fan of green raptor, i like blue myself.

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[ThickAsABrick]

i had nothing to do with posting marios, wanna just have a nice forum game here so if someone else can post something interestin that'd be appreciated=)

[Metallicaholic666]

i had nothing to do with posting marios, wanna just have a nice forum game here so if someone else can post something interestin that'd be appreciated=)

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