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    itt popularity is evil

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    After re-reading OCR's mission statement re: ReMix popularity, I feel like OCR should disable YouTube mix ratings, if at all possible.

    I also think that the people representing the site should be backing the site's mission as a whole as well:

    I'm pretty sure this would be in direct contradiction with OCR's mission, sport. Refer to the following:

    A favorites list, especially from a judge, could easily promote favoritism and possibly elitism.

    1) For youtube, having the ratings available is better to keep because it helps promote OCR on their system. I know that lots of youtubers hesitate watching videos of less than X stars so, even though most if not all OCR videos all have five, disabling them would revert to all zeros and could lead to less viewership.

    2) Despite representing the site's mission as best as possible, people will always have opinions on mixes, which is why people are allowed and encouraged to leave feedback on them whenever possible. When a judge is doing judge duties, then yes, they should have the mission first and foremost in their minds. The forums system here also deliberately states that "best of" threads aren't allowed for all of mentioned reasons. However, if it's a personal blog, even OCR-hosted, since it is still far enough "personalized" I think that it would be fine to list the mixes one likes a lot. On the same token they should be free to list the ones they don't like, because it's not part of the forums and 100% that person's domain. I'm sure once the blogs come up there will be rules, and I may or may not be wrong about my assumption, but I don't think the blogs will be subject to censorship of personal preference.

    tbh, i'm planning on doing the same thing, though :<

    You would, prophetikmephistoman.

    Is gamefly worth it?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Your discount increases the longer you use the service. I'm at the full discount level now. Here are some of the "Keep It" prices I have:

    Mass Effect 2: $26.99

    God of War III: $25.19

    Crackdown 2: $43.19 (because it just came out)

    All better than Gamestop's used game prices, and this way you get the manual and box art in pristine condition. And you already played the game, so you know it works. It's like buying a new game that you got to test run first.

    To sweeten the deal, every couple months or so they give me a free $5 discount to take even more off the price of the next game I choose to keep. Awesome deal.

    They're paying you, aren't they? That's how you can afford those three Ferrari's I saw you cavorting to town in!

    He speaks the truth, Kanthos.

    To make his videos, sephfire goes to Canada where the air is both thinner and slightly mixed with helium. It's how he gets his voice higher for the videos.

    I KNEW it!

    What's the main difference between Goozex and Gamefly?

    OCR @ Otakon 2010! (July 31st, 6-8PM, Panel 3, Baltimore, MD)

    in Announcements

    Posted

    Ho boy, I tried out the facial hair thing in college. Not a good look for me. OTOH, maybe I should cosplay as Stevo's beard.

    I'm surprised it took this long to make a joke like this about my facial hair. Kudos to you for taking the step nobody else would. On a side-note, please to give pictures of the facial hair thing in college. Please?

    Once the Otakon schedule is announced, then things will REALLY be under way!

    OCR02066 - Sonic & Knuckles "Chromium Asphyxiation"

    in ReMix Reviews & Comments

    Posted

    Some cool moments, and some nice chugs, but I kindof felt this one is half baked. :-(

    The trashy junk kit sounds very cool and has some nice parts, and the intro in general was great, but once things got moving, the sound was pretty muddy, meaning nothing really punched out. The breakdown helped give it some character, but otherwise, I was left feeling that it needed more polish. Sorry dude. ;_;

    Iz okay, my friend. This is actually what I like to hear if people have issues with stuff. Always room for improvement and this gives me a good idea of what I should look to do should I attempt to do this style again. It was pretty ambitious of me to incorporate all those differing layers together because each one had something to "say" in the mix, so I'm not surprised that some people feel that it's a bit muddy in areas. I'll do my best to improve for the next one, as always. Lots of people made the same muddy production comment.

    And for everyone who's left comments thus far, thank you. It's always appreciated.

    Stevo Level-up GET! 1173 EXP remain to less muddy production!

    OverClocked After Dark - The Former Thread of Days of Yore

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm actually going to start using that frigging Title field throughout the thread so that people can find when we ACTUALLY POST RELEVANT MATERIAL.

    Oh, and some updates:

    1) I'll be getting back on recreating all the old shownotes as soon as my brain allows it. They'll be posted on the new OCAD site at http://lemonsinseries.com/ocrab/

    2) Unfortunately, there's another thing blocking that, on top of any other site-relevant updates I could possible do: it appears that the webhost has blocked my IP from accessing the site from home. So I can't make news posts (or log in to wordpress at all), nor can I upload files to our server. Hopefully there is a way around this, but I'll need Deven or David to talk to the host and get my address unblocked.

    3) Pending that, Episode 31 - Nerdy Show is Haunting your Butt, is edited and done. Deven has a copy that he will hopefully upload to the server today and then David can make a post about it and update all the usual places. It's a long one: over 3 hours long this time. I guess we're making up for our lack of consistent updates these days with more material whenever we do update.

    4) We're going to be getting to editing both the Anime Detour 2010 and SGC 2010 footage soon. Hope everyone's enjoying the MAGFest one in the mean-time.

    5) We'll have the panel time for both the OCR and OCAD panels at Otakon shortly. Currently scheming about what we will be doing at OCAD.

    Mega Man: The Grand Robot Master Remix Battle 2010

    in Competitions

    Posted

    Actually, no one has ever said Willrock had to stop working, and a lot of us had made and subbed revisions when Shariq was not able to/didn't feel like closing some rounds.

    I think it's implicit in the idea of a deadline in this situation that one is no longer allowed to make changes after final submission for the deadline. I also don't see anywhere that it does say he was allowed to, and considering that no one knew it was going to be this long between deadline and actual submission, I still believe it skews the results. From what you said as well, it seems that Zircon is still not close to submitting a track for this. I'm sure he's going to make a killer track eventually, as he usually does. It still doesn't seem fair to WillRock to me, even if people have subbed revisions before rounds closed previously. If it were a week, maybe I'd feel differently, but a month and then some? My position still stands: it's not fair to the either entrant,and it's especially not fair to WillRock to keep him waiting without implicit permission for revision and polishing.

    I hope I'm making it obvious that I'm not playing any favorites here, since I really enjoy stuff from both of these musicians. I just know that I'd definitely be more than anxious and probably annoyed a little if I were in WillRock's position.

    Mega Man: The Grand Robot Master Remix Battle 2010

    in Competitions

    Posted

    Not even Shariq has met some of the deadlines for this compo, if I'm allowed to point that out. Well sure they're not mixing deadlines, but there were still periods of time where we forgot if the competition was still even on because he never posted mixes/counted votes.

    Plus the reason we're mostly waiting is because this is the last round, revenge champ vs. champ, and it needs both people regardless of WHEN it happens in relation to when it was supposed to happen.

    Point taken, but in that case wouldn't it also be courteous to give an extension also to WillRock for revision of his mix? Give him the same extra allotted time to get his mix even better? I guess no one can turn back time to give him more time to work on it though, so maybe even bonus points. Yes, I know it is all in good fun but if you're REALLY wanting to see a true showdown, then the circumstances should really be as equal as possible for both parties. Just my two cents, since I know how passionate both of the finalists are with their music, I'd like to see the playing field as even as possible.

    Mega Man: The Grand Robot Master Remix Battle 2010

    in Competitions

    Posted

    OBJECTION!

    I talked to Zircon recently. He told me that he's busy with something a little more important than GRMRB right now, but he is indeed planning to submit a remix.

    Have patience, my friends, for Zircon will descend upon us all with phat beats and sliced wavs if we wait long enough.

    Hate to say it but I have to disagree with that. What's the point of having deadlines, even for revenge rounds, if they're not met? I know Zirky's got very important stuff to do, but in that case, wouldn't a graceful bow-out due to time constraints be more appropriate? I mean no offense to him, but waiting this long doesn't seem quite fair.

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