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I've heard dissent against auto-mute, but I don't know if it would be as bad as people speculate. The most common problem is that it would allow bullies to abuse it, but if it's a percentage based issue rather than a 'If a person is muted 'X' number of times' sort of thing then the people muting to abuse the system would need to SIGNIFICANTLY outdo the people that are muting in order to have any affect on the game. As long as players continue to do what they normally do (that is, simply mute the offending player) then there will be no problem with abuse. Another common complaint is that there will be no chance for redemption for the offensive players if they remain on auto-mute, and again this will not be an issue for most players, either, if the system is based on a percentage. In essence, once the people that have been muted reaches over 10% of the community (and from what I hear about online gaming, this wouldn't take long), the people who were muted the least in that 10% would lose the auto-mute feature. If they behave then great, they can have their voice back, but if not they'll go right back into the muted section while some other person gets a shot at freedom. The concern that I personally have with that system is that unless someone has some metrics on how many players are assholes on the games that this is being implemented on, there's a chance that either the percentage isn't high enough (so some people will never be auto-muted, even when they deserve it) or that the percentage will be too high (some unlucky players that play fair will suffer from auto-mute, as a result). A solid percentage will not be able to tell the entire story, after all.

Actually, continuous harassment that has no purpose other than to annoy or verbally assault a person generally breaks harassment laws (from what I gather, the law varies from state to state). The case that you're exemplifying is aggravated harassment, which is pretty serious (possibly a felony, even), but it doesn't need to be that serious to be against the law. Free speech only applies when there is a purpose other than assaulting another person. When you're only harassing someone for the sake of harassing the person, it actually is illegal. The problem is that it's not a serious enough offense for the police to investigate every single case (especially on gaming and the internet, where it's incredibly rampant AND anonymous), unless it's aggravated harassment. I'd imagine the police have more important matters to deal with than one person ruining the online experience of another, unfortunately. I don't think the EC crew would mind; it was their idea, really. Making a new thread might not be a bad idea, though - go for it.

Gotcha. Alright, thanks!

Haahahaha... Oh shit, I totally didn't catch that. By the way, quick question - if someone were to collaborate with someone else outside of the competition, would that be alright? Not that I ever have or anything, but I always like to know my options when mixing.

Bumpity bump bump. Looks like the newest episode has really pushed a few buttons, here. It's generating roughly 4-5 times more response than their average episode. It's also something worth talking about here. Any thoughts on the 'Harassment' episode of EC?

Dat triangle. Gotta love the triangle wave love. Also, this is where that track you did with Cyril went. That was always a pretty awesome track - glad I got to hear it pop up again. Not a bad album.

Urgh, your sense of timing is impeccable. I'm out of the house tonight, so I can't participate this time around.

Normally, I don't take a slice at my track until the last day. The waiting butters up my anticipation. When I finish I sizzle my track against the grill of my opponent. I don't know what to say; I tend to cook when the odds are stacked against me.

Remove the nameplate from the sigs and they'll spread like wildfire. Not the participant Wildfire, but like the... fire, wildfire.

Ugh! That's a horrible thing to say to him, and you should be ashamed. ... He's a pancake, you should know better.

Which is ironic seeing that you've produced quite a lot of great tracks recently. Wonder what your ten year re-emergence OCR posting will be.

I liked the arrangement on this one quite a bit, here. Personally, I really liked how it never really loses the more mellow atmosphere throughout (unlike the source and most remixes, which explode with energy after a short time). Even at the climax, even though it's bigger, it doesn't open up to a high energy atmosphere, and I thought that was neat. One common note that only affects a small portion of your strings (the parts that hold the faster melodic portions): there's too much swell for each of the attacks. If there's a way to automate the attack so the strings don't swell into each attack that would help the realism of the strings greatly. For the slow string portions it's not a problem. The drums were a little on the weak side. That could be solved with a simple increase in volume, though - just be careful not to mess up any production in the process, if you do try to fix it. I liked this otherwise, though. Nice work.

Haha, oh damn. I guess there's still a piece of me in that ol' compo, after all. I got rid of that mistake, though - TIME TO GO ALL SUPER SONIC ON THIS COMPO'S ASS!!

Move over, WCRG! That was SO two compos ago!

That would be the most chiptunetastically awesome ending ever.

I thought that was pretty much the perfect balance of BT difficulty and variety, myself. It's not NEARLY as balls-crushingly difficult as the NES iteration, yet it still manages to capture the variety style gameplay. I could actually beat the SNES version legit, but I can't even come CLOSE to doing so on the NES version. Fuck, I can't even beat the NES version with save states (that Whirlbird deathtrap level... cheating gets you nowhere on that one).

The control is atrocious, though. At least Silver Surfer had tight control; I just can't get the feel for Amagon, at all. It also has the MOST INFURIATING death song, I shit you not. Not to mention the . Holy fuck, never EVER use Slow-mo when the pause button has an SFX. (Oh man, my family owned this... it has scarred me for life).

Love your stuff, still. Just sayin', is all.

Careful, he's damn aggressive when he's competing against you!

Amagon. If you've ever played it, then you know. It's pretty fucking evil.

... what? You can't have a thread about so-bad-it's-popular videos without this one. You just can't do it.

That's kind of the point of a stress test, isn't it?

Aaahahaha... Well y'know, source whoring isn't for everybody

Hmm... I'm not sure if the theme is working all that well with the harmonies that you set it against. It's a shame, since I really like the source. Listen to the source again and try making the harmonies work more like they do in the source and it'll help a lot.

"To make your music easier to share, please upload your music to a location where it can easily be streamed, such as YouTube or OC ReMix." I don't think they know how hosted music works on here. Also, is that the promotion that they're looking to include music from this competition for? If so, are we supposed to submit tracks to it, or are they going to take tracks at their leisure, or...? That whole bit is still a little on the vague side of things.