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Jooj-cat is the true power behind the judges.

Well meme aside, yes basically.

It'll be before the next avatar update. So never :C

Any thread that lets me use that Wonka GIF is a good thread to me. Also, some personal experience. The first several times I stumbled upon OCR I was repulsed by the idea of remixing songs. I was a purist; I wanted the source tracks, not what some uppity folks reinterpreted those as. Then I discovered The Black Mages. Through them, I began to love arrangements, so I dipped my toes into OCR, testing the waters. First I only grabbed stuff with guitars; anything else was icky. I only wanted to hear stuff with awesome guitars and solos. As time went on, I began to slowly delve into other areas, though there were some genres I stayed away from. I also had other crazy stipulations for downloading songs, such as needing to know the source track. I wouldn't grab it if I didn't. But I slowly set these self-imposed rules aside, realizing that I was preventing myself from hearing a lot of good songs. In fact, I was quite vocal the first time I heard "Crystal Swamp" off of DKC2; seriously, I hated it. I was furious that someone had destroyed my nostalgia so much. But upon further listens, I came to appreciate what the song was. It wasn't meant to satisfy just MY nostalgia, but instead was nostalgic itself. It quickly became one of my favorite tracks, once I realized that it wasn't about my nostalgia and my thoughts. Once I realized that OCR is a greater community, and the songs are made for the love of the composers, I threw my rules away completely and embraced all genres. Because of that, I can now listen to any genre, because I know love for the music is behind it. If you truly love music, you can't turn a deaf ear to any genre just because you think it's bad or invalid. Otherwise you're negating the works of hundreds, potentially thousands of artists. Music is about the expression of oneself through the compositions they create, and if done with love for the song in mind it can create some truly beautiful songs. OCR, to me, is about showing love for the original compositions by reinterpreting them in creative ways. Sometimes the result can be somewhat cover-ish while other times the source track may be hard to recognize, but in both cases the remixer put love into the mix and hours of work into creating it. Nobody gets paid for this here. Sure, some have gone on to careers in the industry where they do get paid, but as for OCR itself it's pretty much completely volunteer work. There's no financial reasoning tied to us being here, to us making music for OCR. What keeps us here is quite simple. To quote the mission statement: "OverClocked ReMix is an organization dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form." It helps that there's a nice little community here too, but appreciation of VG music is a good reason as well. I understand you've been a music teacher for 15 years, but I'm honestly surprised one who teaches music can be so rude and elitist. "I’m just really angry that OC ReMix did this" "too amateurish and not up to par" "enough for me to seriously consider having my ears stapled shut" "dubstep is the lowest form of “music” in the world, if it can even be considered music as that would be too much of a compliment." "I want to like this but I cannot because I’m not deaf." "Disc 2 was even worse honestly." "this album was the biggest disappointment of my life" "Hopefully my comments will be taken into serious consideration and OC ReMix makes a real DKC3 album sometime reasonably soon, not like the gargantuan wait for this disappointment" These comments have such an elitist air to them, as if you think you know music so much better than everyone involved on the album. But it doesn't stop there, oh no. "I am a fabulous teacher." " troublesome hip-hop-loving (or nowadays it seems to be dubstep-loving) hooligans" "(although I do tolerate and profess other styles)" "correcting their terrible taste and setting them on a path to a better musical future." "The notion that I’m close-minded when it comes to music is simply ridiculous." " I am not some sort of example of what a poster should not be; I should be looked upon as an example of valid criticism and my posts should be taken more seriously than the standard glowing praise from those who couldn’t tell an augmented chord from a diminished chord." "this could be a learning experience and you could take my teachings as guidelines for what to do going forward. I’m positive that with a little more practice, and directors who are actually passionate about the music of DKC3, you guys can deliver a truly satisfying album worthy of the game it is based upon." You can't say you hate an entire genre in one breath than claim to tolerate and profess other styles in the next. In addition, who are you to determine what is and isn't a valid genre? Unless you're some sort of musical deity in charge of deciding these things, I don't think your self-given role is all that valid. Also, we are all equal here; no one person's opinion holds more worth than another's when it comes to these album review threads. Oh, anddyou're negating the countless hours of work over three years everyone involved with this project has poured into it. And they didn't do it for a paycheck; it was purely for love of the music. Especially with that last excerpt. Claiming that these directors aren't passionate about DKC3's music is the furthest thing from the truth. If they weren't they wouldn't be directing the album in the first place! I'm sorry, but if you can't understand that then...

have some taro bubble tea because you mentioned it on the metroid album happy birthday!!

>claims a song almost made them staple their ears shut >is surprised at the backlash received for that comment and similarly offensive ones just sayin' also i understand you want a new DKC3 to make up for what you think is a crime against the original game, but... that's not going to happen just because one person demands it.

my wii can't read gamecube discs anymore though that's my fault for hacking it to read gamecube games off SD... good thing i still have a gamecube XD

Just think, someday we'll get a mixpost from someone who's younger than the site itself.

Well aside from that, when are those new mascots coming?

dammit i was gonna make this joke rexy

well huh it seems the domain was put back guess it was a false alarm D:

Hey any way we could fix a broken link in the Zero bio? I mean it's not broken yet but the forum moved domains so it could break in the future.

The Geoffrey Taucer 1 bottle Blue Nun Serve at room temperature.

Ah yes, I remember this site. The best one is The Abadoss. 12 oz. Water Serve on rocks. Garnish with national flag.

Well A_Rival has remixed a bunch of Mega Man 2 songs on the site.

I've been following this game since early 2011, and I'm quite excited for its release. Also pretty cool that he got it to be official. Two things I'm excited about are that: -Bosses have super bars that fill as they take damage -Dan is the punching bag for the Weapon Get screen Also here's a quote from the creator Source

I'm just glad to have named this awesome piece. :3

Gamestop is Game Informer's ads. So it's the latter.

Just got another killer WIP from Amphibious!! Final deadline is in one month, people!

Well you can always trust Mirby Studios!

I review games. And I don't depend on the money of the companies, so I'm not biased like that. That being said, I enjoy nearly everything I play so eh.

this thread gets bumped so much it might as well be stickied

fixed that for ya i mean really, implying that IGN actually has gaming journalists? nah, just a bunch of idiots there.