Brandon Strader

Happy birfday little brutta...

Woah, that is quite the mess, sir! You should make a simple html page with just links to the ones you want people to grab now.. I could do it for you if you let me know which tracks.

The guitar tone is Waaaay too dirty for the rhythms, and it has a really boxy type of sound. Apart from that, they song is pretty great. I liked the intro, very creative.

I am starting on mine today... just thought I'd let you know. But I have to find an mp3 of it first for reference so I'll do that now. Also you can put me down for collabs, vocals (clean / heavy), 6-string guitars (no whammy), 5-string bass, acoustic, recorder, tambourine, bongos, live drums (currently only 3 mics though -- 2 overheads and 1 kick mic) I'll personally be programming mine because I probably need double bass. Just so anyone who's interested, my kit is very dampened. I'm looking into picking up a 7-pack of drum mics and some new mic cables, we'll see how that goes but for the moment it's just 3 mics. Working on The Cold Darkness (Dungeon)

A little later than expected but our secret santa has been shipped out yesterday (the 17th)... I really hope you like it, dear recipient.

Every game with a third person perspective and a weapon other than a gun is said to be ripping off God of War anymore. Get over it already. This stuff has been done even before God of War.

My track has been turned in for a while, but I make a lot of tracks on the "side" and had one that fit this purpose that I turned in, so it wasn't any kind of rush for me. Good luck to the rest of you's though!

In 20 years when there's an army of vicious little Ashafrogs running around, people will be all like... is it a bird? is it a plane... Is it... jones? Happy to have been "there".. Congratulations! Prot looks mad in that picture CHz.

Peppermint Pig... sounds appetizing...

I have been looking forward to Dante's infero since it was announced as a CONCEPT. So yeah, it's been a super long time. I'm happy to see how really great this game has come along, and I'm looking forward to trying the demo and buying it. I have an xbox360 and like Europeans, we get shafted sometimes. And my gold ran out. *sigh* But I have enough 48 hour trials to last me for as long as I need, I suppose. At least long enough to download this demo if its gold exclusive.

I'm a 2002er and we've been paying off our house for 14 years, and it embarrassingly wasn't even over 100k. Help us pay it off too. *feels ridiculous* I'm kidding hahah... hah.. *gasp*... It's not even my house. I'M HOMELESS!!

Or it could be called "Utter Crap". > I got a giggle out of your joke though... hahah!

The amount of progress you've received in such a small amount of time is pretty impressive.

Whenever we played secret santa around here, it was always based more on the mystery of the box's contents rather than who was gifting it. If you pick a large box thinking you're getting something truly epic, you would end up with something pretty funny... like a popcorn maker... Which I guess that could be pretty epic depending on the person.

Grabbing the MC3P0 now, but I've got 2 previous episodes to R2D2 first.

There was an episode yesterday? o.O I wasn't nominating it based on what it had accomplished, only based on what it is now... as far as podcasts go, it's not better than OCAD or RadioTheSauceLiveFM so that's how I came to the conclusion... I didn't think it had even recorded a new episode in months, so the podcast without casting would auto-lose.

Shnabubula is the king of piano. I haven't known about his work for very long (shame on me) but I'm really loving it. His holiday-themed piano jams on Youtube with his vocals are simply outstanding as well. This is yet another incredible performance. You can't beat a real piano recording (unless you have a mace of +2 against pianos). I hope to hear a lot more of this kind of stuff from the Shnabubula in the future.

I nominate VGDJ for worst podcast

Hooray, OCR! You're still jailbait though. I was probably 15 years old when I signed up for OCR in 2002, though I did have previous account(s). It was Final Fantasy VII that got me interested in game music back in 1998, and I submitted and failed a Kingdom Hearts remix in 2001, so... OCR can be directly linked to me using and learning Fruity Loops to say the least! But without that knowledge, I wouldn't be where I am today. Thanks OCR!

Gojira kicks butt, I saaw them live with Behemoth in Pittsburgh. It was one heck of a show. Better than Mayhem Festival this past summer. I'll definitely see them again if they come through. Sigh is a pretty cool Japanese metal band, I'm only mentioning them because they have a new CD which I have not yet heard, but the editor for the ezine I work on is mailing it to me... I'm excited. Check out Imaginary Sonicscape -- 2001. Also I have my own metal bands... commentsplz http://www.myspace.com/instaidgrace and www.rainwound.com (full CD on the music page)

Hahah Taucer, I had to laugh out loud at that because that was my exact response to reading that but I didn't know how to express it with words. Good job.

@Hubbard If you want to get technical, I've never "trolled" on the forum, but feel free to talk about whatever you want... nobody will be listening anyway... haahah! You know I'm joking. I think you made a mistake though, some of the games under "game of the year" should be under the "stupid music" category and at least one of the stupid music ones should be under the game of the year category.

I will proudly accept the award for Best Oinkness of 2009 and I'll be back to claim said award for 2010 as well thank you

don't go spending it all in one place!

We are going to be wrapping and shipping out our secret santa within a couple days. I say "our" because I am not in charge of wrapping or shipping per se. I have uhh.. a crafty friend who does that stuff...