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Helping your competitor?! How brazen!

Just know that the calendar is there for you to use, so if you want to put mixing rounds on the calendar, that's fine by OCR.

Hey everyone, djpretzel and I have finally gotten around to working on calendar and event permissions. We've created a new usergroup on the forums for Event Schedulers. These folks are able to post to calendars and approve their own events. I've added the folks who regularly run competitions to this group: MindWanderer, SuperiorX, HoboKa, and Bundeslang. Anyone else needs to have their events approved by a moderator (like me). If you are planning on running a recurring compo or a tournament, I can approve your events for you and if things work out, I can eventually add you to the ES group.

Yeah we have to look at events again. Permissions might've been mucked in the upgrade.

The idea was to reuse the character models from Spirits Within as other characters in other movies made by Square Enix. Essentially treat the character models as "actors" that could be recast.

Which smiley?

It's possible this is related to the content of your posts. Next time this happens, make a note of any special characters or the length of your post.

They're working.

I played this this past weekend. Really amazing game. I get why everyone's so crazy over it.

I think you should rename this competition to "CASTLEMANIA!!"

Yeah I was asking you, since you did the Iwata album and the Pokémon one, but if you don't have time that's cool.

Certainly an easier way to give recognition to smaller games/series that might not get the steam for its own big anniversary tribute album. Any game with a 5x + 10 anniversary would be eligible, year to year. Interested in running it?

Instead of doing 10 remix albums, why not do one with a track from every anniversary game? Could be cool.

I would argue that the non-classic themes didn't sound like his other Star Wars work, but that Rey's Theme in particular feels straight out of one of his Harry Potter scores.

Actually one of the things I really liked about this movie was that it made Stormtroopers more powerful and scary. First Order Stormtroopers are more on the level of the Repubic's Clonetroopers than the Empire's old Stormtroopers. That fight between Finn and the Riot Control Trooper was awesome.

The Star Wars Saga is comprised of the numbered "episode" movies. Episodes 1-6 originally. Now that there's a new set of "episodes," those are included. Next year's "Rogue One" and the Young Han Solo movie that they're making are "anthology" movies. There are other characters and other things that happen in the Saga, but it's always meant to have been the story of the Skywalker family. We started with Luke, went back to see what happened with Anakin, and now we're seeing what happens with Rey.

The Star Wars Saga is the story of the Skywalker family.

Oh I know. I'm just saying that the word Modus is looking for is "remake." Also Nabeel is joking. Brandon said in his post that Rey is possibly the daughter of "Luke and Leia." He probably meant "or."

It's okay. Everyone enter this, it is a cool and interesting competition run by a cool and interesting person.

Learn words. Say "remake."

That's not a reboot.

How is it a reboot? It references the previous trilogy in such a specific way. It's a sequel. It has Leia, Han, Chewie, and Luke, all played by their original actors, all older, decades later. Nothing is being rebooted (except maybe the Expanded Universe?).

I loved the running gag with with Han finally discovering the joys of the Bowcaster.

I saw The Force Awakens last night and I'm so incredibly excited about Star Wars being BACK. The movie hit all the right notes for me. Really great, strong characterization, a fantastic, emotional storyline, great action sequences, and wonderful humor in the style of the classic trilogy. I cheered a lot while watching the movie. Han Solo in particular was just fantastic and exactly as snarky and funny as he was in The Empire Strikes Back. I was so sad to see his fate, but it was a great scene between him and Kylo Ren. I'm really intrigued about Rey's storyline. I'm subscribing to what is probably the prevailing theory that she might be Luke's daughter. All of the stuff with Anakin and Luke's lightsaber and the reaction Rey has to it when she holds it leads me to believe that she's a Skywalker. I really wish I could just watch Episode VIII right now because the mystery surrounding her and Luke is killing me right now. Finn and Poe were great. I love how they immediately became bros, and there were shades of Luke and Han's friendship between them. Another thing I loved about this movie was that, like the original trilogy (and lacking in the prequel trilogy), there was a really ancient, lived-in quality to the galaxy again, especially on Jakku, with all the old broken war machines laying around. This movie finally treated the Force the same way that Yoda spoke about it in The Empire Strikes Back: it wasn't a scientific phenomenon like it was in the prequels, and it wasn't just a substitute for magic like it was in a lot of old Expanded Universe material. There was a really mystical quality to it. I have a ton of other thoughts but can't really collect them all. I'm going to go see this movie a couple of more times so that I can unpack it more.