Ramaniscence

Check your PMs.

Been having issues with my ISP again. Luckily Denny's has free wireless. THAT SAID we're working out stuff as best/fast we can. Probably gonna be a bit longer on re-rolls etc, but yes I will extend the deadline a bit. I'll determine exactly when once everything is resolved. Sorry again for the dailies

I'd prefer no one talks about it until after Sunday. Because I don't want people knowing what songs might still be available for re-roll and making them want to try to roll again. After Sunday all the active challenges will be posted. And I can tell you right now: There aren't many left for re-roll. ALSO: I apologize in advance if anyone's challenge didn't get picked up. We try to oversaturate the list so there's a bit of diversity and extras in case anyone completes theres and wants another. So if you don't see your challenge picked up on Sunday, know that it still might go out.

At this point in time, unless specifically stated otherwise, all challenges have been sent out via PM. If you have NOT received your challenge or a message of ANY sort, let me know. If you HAVE received your challenge: You have until 11:59PM EST on Sunday, June 21st to confirm this challenge. Otherwise it is locked in by default.

uhhh, energy drinks aren't about being twitchy...they're about staying awake.... ...what about an energy drink to an MMO community doesn't make sense? And really, every nerd on the fricken planet has a mountain dew obsession. It's like synonymous with nerd culture. Anyway, example: etc etc etc etc And...PvP and PvE alike can be pretty fast-faced...it really depends on what's going on and where. PS mountain dew is gross imho.

As of this post no more challenges or mixers will be accepted. We will be sorting out and sending out challenges via PM sometime this week and everyone will get instructions on what to do next.

Ok. Fine. I'll play your game. Those comments made on IRC came after djp and Bahamut were making abrasive, aggressive comments toward me. When made a comment about someone else saying that "if someone's song gets their song rejected they need to grow," was "the most ignorant thing I'd heard in awhile" Wes was constantly badgering me as to why I didn't think HoboKa's post was the "most ignorant thing I've heard in awhile" and my refusal to acknowledge his post with my reply (seemingly trying to insinuate that I agree that djp had vested interests in VGMix getting hacked). I REALLY didn't want to have that conversation, but I kept getting pushed and pushed. Eventually djp chimed in with a tone of his own after having heard from Bahamut about some comments I had made in another, private IRC channel, amongst friends, in frustration, that seemed, to me at least, to be pretty over-exaggerated and at the very least out of context. THAT BEING SAID, yes I was under a lot of pressure from multiple parties. If a bunch people back someone into a corner and start badgering them, they're bound to get an unsavory response. I didn't want to have that conversation. It was frustrating and uncomfortable, I said some things I didn't really mean, and the situation got resolved on IRC. Where it should have stayed, but alas here I am again. With that, if you go back and read my reply in this thread you'll see that I didn't say anything that was either insulting or aggressive toward OverClocked ReMix or it's judges. I generally take great care in what I say on the forums about OCR because I know that if I say the slightest thing that could even be possibly conceived as aggressive I'm immediately going to have a 3 paragraph response making it out to be more than it is. I'm not an english major, I'm a human being, I make mistakes sometimes, and I probably the worst writer in the planet. I have nothing but love and passion for this community as a whole. That's why I have, on so many occasions, gone out of my way to do whatever I can to help. In fact I've done a great deal for OverClocked ReMix specifically. As I told djp I obviously have some qualms about how OCReMix works these days, but I don't deny that it's Dave's site, and he can run it however he sees fit, and that's perfectly fine. No one really should tell him otherwise. That's why I have my own site why I do things my way. starla is he own person, with her own opinions, and I can't control what she says or how she feels. However I DID say to her (in private) that her comments weren't helping the situation and that her aggression is being misplaced. Anything else there is to be said I will talk about with djp directly in private.

He's talking about comments I made in #ocremix while under heavy pressure from multiple parties for unimportant reason that were brought into this thread even though they have little to do with the actual discussion and most people don't even know what it's about. That conversation should've ended in the channel, and it did. Me and djp discussed (and are still discussing despite Embarq's efforts otherwise) what went on in there, and it's really not anyone else's business.

Mega Man 2 by The Adventures Of Duane And BrandO!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUEO9Mfmn4M

That's why this year it's held primarily during the summer, so people have more free time to work, and they get 2 months now as opposed to 1.

What happened is not many people finished: http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/FBRC2008

Anyone can submit a challenge, including remixers in the challenge, and people who AREN'T remixers in the challenge. The only real rule is a remixer can't get what he challenged.

Not a problem. I'll put both of you down. I can keep taking remixers through the remainder of this week if anyone wants to sign up still, but after this week I can't take anyone else. The phase break up is really just to keep things organized. Not necessarily a hard deadline until Phase 2 is over. Also: We're at about 20 or so challenges so make sure to keep those comin'

Me and starla JUST got internet back, I'll update everyone with the status of the challenges as soon as I find out. In the meantime keep'em comin'

PM all requests to starla. She is in charge of them. Each person is limited to 1 request. I have reserve the right to reject any request that's too ridiculous (remember to make your request within the realm of possibility. Some stuff just isn't going to happen). Each request needs at least a link to 1 source. Be it YouTube, GrooveShark, a hosted MP3, or a Midi file. If you're source IS a midi file, a link to one of the OTHER types in addition to midi would be preferred. PLEASE NOTE: Me and starla are current in an internet outage. If you don't hear anything back from either of us in the next 2 days. DON'T FREAK OUT. We'll be around when we can be, and we should be back on our feet 100% by Tuesday at the very latest.

Everyone will get a PM of the match-ups, and the first post will be updated to reflect (probably an article on ThaWiki too) assuming it's possible. There might be an optional progress report thing (where you can upload/post your WIPs every 2 weeks so people can see how far along you are) that there will probably be PMs for if we decide to do that

So I've been working on an update for the OCR3 skin and it is TENTATIVELY complete. It's very functional, but there's still a few more things I have to change. Preview here: Links to the new styles coming in a bit.

Updated the list of mixers signed up thus far. Let me know if I missed/mis-added anyone.

When I was thinking about what to do, and going over characters from Maniac Mansion / DotT I couldn't get the idea of out my head of Hoagie being Mario, Bernard being Luigi, Laverne being Peach, and even Purple Tentacle as a sort of Lakitu. I'm kind of planning a series of pictures, but I haven't gotten any other real work done. Even funnier, me and starla made out entries together, and while she was here once we both finished, I had to play through DotT so she could actually understand the art style/character, and then she did the same for Maniac Mansion with me =P

Yeaaa. My fault. I pretty much just copy/pasted last years thread with a few adjustments. Deadline is August 22nd. First post updated.

Phase 1 is now LIVE until Saturday at 23:59 EST. Please be sure to read the (quasi-) updated main post, as this year I have made adjustments. The MAIN adjustments are these: 1. All challenges will be made IN PRIVATE this year. Last year, since the challenges were PUBLIC, a lot of people ending up rejecting their challenges because they saw another song that had been challenged and wanted to try to re-roll so that could get it. Which leads to... 2. There won't be NEARLY as many re-rolls available this year. I want as many people to finish as they can, but this is meant to be a challenge. If you can't mix the songs you are given, then you are OUT of the challenge. It seems a bit harsh, but last year I had to do a LOT of extra work for people that didn't get their mixes done anyway. We will be working with everyone to do what we can to make the process as fair as possible, but we are NOT going to be holding your hands so that you get that super easy song you wanted to mix anyway. I will be going through the first few pages of the list and populating the the mixers involved, uless anyone wants to back out now. Otherwise just reply here and I'll you added when I can.

Not to offend, but I hate to inform you that you are seemingly uneducated on the matter. http://remix.thasauce.net/song/RTS0004/ This song was NO'd. And I assure you Shnab doesn't need much growing. I'm sure Larry or some of the other judges can back me up in saying just because a song gets a NO does not necessarily mean someone has to GROW at all. Simply that they don't fall within OCReMix's (somewhat strict at times) standards. I sincerely hope that clears up the misconception that "rejected songs are bad."

Some people who give up after getting a NO could just not be making music for OCReMix. A NO doesn't mean their song needs any criticism at all, it just means it needs adjustments to get on OCR. Some people, odd as it may seem, aren't making music for OverClocked ReMix. Some people are just making music because they enjoy making music and want to show homage to the music of a game they once loved. They submit it to OverClocked ReMix as chance to provide OverClocked ReMix with something they created in hopes that others will hear and enjoy it. Whether OverClocked ReMixes chooses to accept their offer or politely decline it is not necessarily relevant to the quality of the track, or the adjustments it might need to make it listening, but rather what it would need to fall within OCReMixes standards. If someone works very hard a song, and they feel the song is complete. It's everything they want it to be, and a good amount of people enjoy it as is, but it gets rejected from OverClocked ReMix. They might hear what the judges have to say about their song, and just feel that they're comfortable with their track AS IS and that they don't feel like revising it to meet OCReMixes needs over their own. It doesn't make them quitters, and it doesn't make them bad people =\

I had achieved a full reskin from OCR4 to OCR3 at one point, but it has since rotted because I haven't been updating it to the sites new changes, HOWEVER... I'm looking over it now, and I might be able to fix it with minimal effort. Edit: This is about as good as you get for now. Apparently I had already fixed vBulletin to look more like OCR3, but they're pretty broken now too. Going over it now. No ETA yet, though.

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