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On 12/17/2018 at 6:12 AM, Bundeslang said:
You could try to contact @Ramaniscence to give you admin access.
For the time being, I can make a new thread at ThaSauce for this competition to enable participants to upload the songs there and have voting at ThaSauce. So if you want that, let me know.
1Unfortunately, at the moment I don't feel comfortable adding new admins given the nature of the admin panel. Give me a few days to strip down some of the more...sensitive features and this shouldn't be a problem. This is something I've already implemented on my development branch, so it'll just be a matter of pushing it the live branch. Someone ping me either here, or on the ThaSauce Facebook page probably sometime next weekend (the 12th, I'm still on vacation until the 7th) and we can revisit this.
In the meantime, I'm fine with the existing admins assisting with the compo on the site.
- Eino Keskitalo, TheVideoGamer and HoboKa
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On 6/30/2018 at 2:58 AM, ella guro said:
hey - i know this was a long time ago but i'm just wondering if any of these mirrors are still up anywhere?
herograw's .rar file download seems to work but nothing else. i was specifically looking for the track "Jenova Rose" by Wintermute from IMC10 because i used to have it and it mysteriously disappeared. it looks like it was on one of these archives though, just not the one herograw has.
also i have all the rest of the tracks from IMC10, including the ones that appear to have been missing as of 10 years ago. dunno if anyone cares, but if they do i can still upload them.
This is the song you're looking for.
I don't know if I have a full mirror? I may. I have 2 folders for both Unmod and GenDisc.
I could clean up the tags/filenames and throw them up somewhere if someone is interested.
Edit: Here's the whole thing.
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On 4/5/2018 at 10:58 PM, NovemberRhythm said:
I'm behind three remixes that have been removed from thasauce site, any of you have?
RTS81 Shnabubula - Final Fantasy - 'Final Fantasy Medley'
RTS87 Miszou - Goldeneye 007 'Rocking the Cradle'
RTS229 (This one has no idea what it is, I only know the ID number)On 4/30/2018 at 10:42 AM, prophetik music said:according to escariot in this thread, miszou is one of sole signal's old handles, along with audix (the one he was forced to change from a while ago).
Prophetik is correct in that Miszou changed his name a few times before requesting some songs get removed. As far as 229, I have no idea. RTS songs should have their ID number as the catalog number and I can't figure out what that song was for the life of me. Certainly I have it somewhere, but I don't have a record of what it is.
Also in the future I wouldn't bump this thread if you need something. If you have a question about R:TS feel free to just messge the ThaSauce Facebook page. We get back to'em pretty quickly. I visit OCR occasionally but not regularly enough to see this kind of thing without looking for it. -
Pretty good idea. Conditionally interested based on final dates.
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2 hours ago, Brandon Strader said:
Sell it to Doug Arley or Jake Kaufman for the pittance it'll be worth when Google Ads and Patreon go out of business
So, I figured this would come up at some point, and I don't think many people are arguing the profit angle so much, but let me chime in with my experience:
First of all, as far as I know, I'm the one of the only people doing this "game arrangement community" type of thing anymore. Jake has his own business going on and doesn't have time to worry about game arrangements too much. Most other people got out, or handed off to me. Arguably I don't even do too much anymore, at least visibly. We're constantly working on things, but 2 things keep anything from moving forward at a decent pace: time and money.
Right now, my yearly operating costs, on the low end, are about $1,000. Between servers, web services, domains, etc, I spend about $1,000 per year. Like OCR those go through a sole proprietor LLC which comes out of my taxes. $1,000 a year isn't that much, but that's still a flat screen TV I put into, basically just hosting things, every year.Obviously OCRs operating costs are way more than that, and yes, apparently they're making more money than it costs to run the site, but that, in no way, means they don't need more money.
Do you know what I would do if I had more money? I would put it back into the site, which is what Dave does. Advertising, event presence, etc. More importantly than that, I would outsource my job in a second, if I could afford it.
Every hour I have to work on any one of the sites, is an hour I can't spend doing something else. Whether it be working on a freelance project, or just actually not working on anything for sanity. If I made a huge surplus I would hire people, paid people, that would work on maintaining sites, updating sites, adding new features to sites, for me, as a job, so I could do my own job which is a thing I get paid to do separate of this that pays my bills.
Real scenario if I had to get control of OCR and Patreon and ads weren't a thing? It would close. Simple as that. I wouldn't be able to cover the operating costs, the government would desolve the LLC for not being a profitable company, and I would eventually drain my own bank accounts trying to keep everything afloat.
tl;dr: It's very easy as someone on the outside, or someone who hasn't managed a project like this, to say "Well it costs X so you should get paid X to keep it up", and sure that's true...if X is the only cost ever, and if absolutely no work or time goes into growing or maintaining it. At the moment it requirements more time or man power, then you are operating at a loss. That an opportunity cost.
I have no comment on the legal issues because I don't know anything about fair use or copyright law.
- Brandon Strader, Jorito, Gario and 6 others
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But what about JetBaby?
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I absolutely love it. It's everything I wanted in a new Dragon Ball series. It's MOST of what was good about Dragon Ball, and drops everything that was bad about Dragon Ball Z. 3 seasons, each resolved in under 20 episodes. No ridiculous charging up. No 30 minuting sequences of the same punch loop used over and over. A damn good amount of humor, and a quick, definitive resolution. I could not have asked for more. Is it a ground breaking anime experience? Of course not. Is it super fun an satisfying? Absolutely.
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I'm surprised there is no thread already.
So how about those login queues?
Today I waited over 6 hours to play on Illidan for about 1.5 hours before the server maintenance.I've been waking up early and keeping myself online to avoid Illidan cues. So far I've been pretty lucky, but I can't say the same for a lot of other people in the guild.
100 tongiht, doe!...then I wait for everyone else >_<
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My work schedule put me working all day Saturday, but I realized this afternoon that I can get it off. I was reallyy upset there for a moment.
Definitely be there Saturday afternoon. MAYBE Friday night.
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Vilecat let me know earlier today. We are aware of the issue and looking into what the problem might be.
Edit: This should be resolved. The IP of the MP3 host had changed. In the future if there's an issue please let us know via our Facebook page or PMing starla, fusion2004, Suzumebachi, or myself or in #thasauce on irc.esper.net
Thank you for your feedback.
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I'm not sure I have a local copy of the dark theme anymore. If you could throw it up on PasteBin and link it to me I could fix it no probs.
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I just wanted to say, I've been subscribed to myself and other friends on MusicBrainz for years now, and I've always been a fan of your work.
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IFTTT was just released for Android and I'm loving it. I use it, along with Trigger to automate a lot of small tasks in my life.
There's also a good thread of popular recipes for it on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/24mtpc/so_now_that_ifttt_is_available_for_android_what/
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There appears to be a file error with compo materials on ThaSauce. I keep getting a "Missing FileController" error
Looking into it.
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In WoW they track EVERYONE's damage. If they added addon support to Diablo they could, theoretically, set up the API to only return data about your own character, but that's not how it is in WoW.
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Haven't played WoW but this does sound good and useful.
The reason damage meters are terrible is because once they're introduced, everything is about damage meters. Playing Diablo with some friends and you're doing a quarter of their damage and they give you nothing but shit about it. Joining a group of randoms and getting kicked for not doing enough damage. Playing with someone who always just talks about how much damage he's doing, etc. If you don't have meters, there's less emphasis on damage and more emphasis on like...the game.
Me and the fiancee quickly beat the game when it was first released and haven't touched it since, I enjoyed it decently enough. Now I'm seeing everyone talking about how much better it is now vs how it was terrible when it released. Can anyone give me a basic rundown on what has changed that has so drastically swayed everyones opinions? If we were to dive back into the expansion, whats the biggest change(s)?The end game of Diablo is to get better gear. Basically not much else. So if weren't into that, you won't be into this. There's some harder difficulties. There's some bigger bosses, but it's all about gear. They made gear drops less terrible. They made the gear grind more bearable. They took a lot of the annoyances about trying to get gear less terrible, but it's still about gear.
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I love that song that plays in the end credits, what is that one? That's like, the best one.. the others are ok but that one, wow.
Almost don't believe they made this, and it's a classical public domain piece or something
The song is called A Mortal Heart, and again just seems to be a variation on the Leroic diablo theme.
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I have no qualms with the overall gameplay. Bosses have a TON of health but I was able to 2 man the whole thing on torment 1 (after a very long time and a lot of potions) but I'll be GD'd if Blizzard didn't phone in that story. D3 as a whole has been some of their weakest story telling ever and that makes me sad ;-;
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Oh shit, that's even closer to me than Nerdapalooza at the Orange County Convention Center was last year. And just in time for my birthday, too!
Fuck yeah, I'll be there.
It's a pretty nice venue, too. I'm not sure if you went to any of the previous Nerdapaloozas, but 2012 and 2011 were both at the Airport Marriott.
Also... If they still have it, they have the BEST elevator. Inverse Phase made a song sampling it:
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My wife's been watching a Lets Play of it despite not being a South Park fan. I've also been watching it in small doses.
Does anyone else feel like this is the South Park version of Paper Mario?
They've said specific influences for making them game were Earthbound, Paper Mario, and Zelda. I feel like that's pretty accurate.
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I've been playing it the past few days. I was really surprised at how good the soundtrack was. Love the Warcraft, Skyrim, etc references. RPG tropes galore. Just a really great RPG overall.
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Just because people only remember a select few games doesn't mean there weren't a ton of great soundtracks back then.
Just because people only remember a select few games doesn't mean there's not a ton of great soundtracks now.
Stop generalizing. You're just trolling at this point. What I just quoted has been debunked through this entire thread and yet you still continue saying it with a straight face.At this point, he's just stating his opinion and, however biased or unpopular, is perfectly valid as an opinion.
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The music he picked to show "present" music is also amazing music (Halo, MGS, etc) but we don't get stuff like that very much anymore. :/ Ramaniscence: I can find good music these days too. I wouldn't call your list the "Norm" anyways. (2 Blizzard games, 2 Capcom games from series they HAVEN'T ruined yet, and a retro 80's style game. Payday was the only "normal" one, and the least interesting sounding one IMO).I'm confused. The video called out large, big budget, modern game themes, and you said they didn't exist anymore. I linked examples of just that and you said they don't count?
The argument here isn't that it doesn't exists anymore, its just that its getting few and far between.Again, market saturation. There's alot more games with a lot more music.
Are you saying "of all games released, most don't have good soundtracks?" because that's a huge generalization. Are you saying "Of all big budget games most don't have good soundtracks?" because even that is a huge generalization.
Here is a list of games released in 2013:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_in_video_gaming
I'm sure there's a good variety of styles in soundtracks, and a good variety of styles of songs on said soundtracks.
Are there more unappealing soundtracks now than there were in the past? Absolutely not.
Do you know how I know?
Because most remixes on OCR come from Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger. Because most people who give examples of good game music point out major franchises. There is a huge catalog of games from SNES, Genesis, and NES, but people only remember a handful of songs/soundtracks. People only remember a handful of songs/soundtracks from modern games too.
Super Mario Bros also has a huge audience. Tons of people have played it. Halo has a huge audience, but less than SMB. Payday has a huge audience, but less than both. Nier. Dual Destines. Etc . As more games come out, regardless of soundtrack quality, less people are familiar with all of them, but games that have been around forever many many people have encountered.
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That was a good video, the only problem when he compares past and present is: The music he picked to show "present" music is also amazing music (Halo, MGS, etc) but we don't get stuff like that very much anymore. :/
Obvious troll bait, and I'm not going to be the only person with a rebuttal, but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeHjfXYBVak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXv8JVbqwao
But hey everyone has their own opinion, and that's fine.
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Also worth noting that this exposed a bug: If you edit a compo from the previous year, the system will set it to the current year. The interface right now does not support changing to a year prior to the current year. Use caution when accessing the last compos of the year right now. They will need to be updated directly by me and fusion to fix.