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1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

Geez, have you got my kids old record collection? I thought we burnt it, but you seem to be finding all the gems. What next Parkway Drive?

Actually She had my collection. But wtf is wrong with you guys. What is wrong with metalcore? After all it has more popularity than your bands which peak 10 listeners 

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17 minutes ago, Obitual said:

Actually She had my collection.

She was into terrible shit at least 10 years before you so you're welcome to the collection.

17 minutes ago, Obitual said:

 But wtf is wrong with you guys.

I can't speak for all here but there is a lot wrong with me and I have a medical certificate to prove it!

19 minutes ago, Obitual said:

What is wrong with metalcore?

Everything.

19 minutes ago, Obitual said:

After all it has more popularity than your bands which peak 10 listeners 

It's that kind of popularity and mainstream appeal that is a reason I don't like metalcore.

 

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9 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

My favorite artist is Machine Gun Kelly and I hate Black Sabbath...

 

 

I like Black Sabbath, but it's your opinion... 

Anyway I know PHP, HTML5, CSS, JAVA, JAVA SCRIPT, C, PYTHON. Making site like this would be the easiest task in my programming life

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Any web designer worth their shit has their own production server, or knows how to find a free server.

Like any contract job in the real would you have to show your worth before deals are struck, no one pays for something sight unseen, even if it is only $10 for a domain name.

Produce a working sample, show how the site works, why it's better than this one, and the improvements over this one. 

 

 

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This site actually runs on template by Invision. I'm not web developer. I'm studying and practicing for senior developer, that's testing, implemention of updates... The web development is nothing against this. At least I can find better service for the web, or edit template to work properly...

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Moving the goal posts once the kick has been made is pretty poor form...but I'll play along.

You think you can do something, anything, better than what you are provided free of charge and with almost no restriction, then prove your worth and create it. At least compare apples with apples not apples to a puff of hot wind.

 

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1 hour ago, Obitual said:

Actually She had my collection. But wtf is wrong with you guys. What is wrong with metalcore? After all it has more popularity than your bands which peak 10 listeners 

Popularity and quality are not synonyms, and taste is subjective. To me melodic metal core is a commercial product aimed at edgy teens, capturing neither the spirit of metal or the uniform listenable nature of pop. I won’t judge anyone who listens to these bands, but this is a forum and as such I’m happy to discuss bands and/or genres.

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I thought growling vocals is supposed to wreck a persons clean singing ability. Hank 3's clean singing definitely deteriorated (but its good in a Tom Waits kind of way). If metalcore guys are using some kind of whispering growl technique that would contribute to how lame metalcore sounds. This sounds like very weak At The Gates worship with weak whispered growls and very annoying clean singing bits. 

Pantera was a true metalcore band and the only metalcore band I need. Like Messhuga is the only deathcore band I need. There is really only so much time for listening to music, I've already got more music than I can ever listen to. Metalcore is redundant. 

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1 hour ago, KillaKukumba said:

Moving the goal posts once the kick has been made is pretty poor form...but I'll play along.

You think you can do something, anything, better than what you are provided free of charge and with almost no restriction, then prove your worth and create it. At least compare apples with apples not apples to a puff of hot wind.

 

I don't have to proof something what is obvious. I know that I'm right, your words are worthless for me. I'm right, I'm always right 

So get out of my sight cucumber. Here's place only for one Elitist and I'm core elitist 

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