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I haven't been home yet. Had a red-eye flight Monday night from Seattle to Chicago to Newark and took the train down to Rutgers University (where I work) to do a half-day. At work until 5 and then getting a ride home and then probably just crashing. Music for round 7 will go up after I get some actual sleep (very little sleep in the past 24 hours and running on caffeine right now) and voting will be extended to whatever day of the week is appropriate. Please don't post off-topic stuff like memes in here.

http://youtu.be/JXrqr4OKASM Sorry at pax this is this weeks song

Not really. Sorry guys.

Sure, but that's absolutely not what he was doing in his track.

That is categorically false.

The biggest problem with your track was that the percussion was basically just hi-hat and conga drums, and maybe a ride cymbal every once in a while. Where's the kick? Where's the snare? The congas were really quiet and that exposed the hi-hat, which was just this dinky little "tch" sound over and over again.

Dudes, seriously. If your picture is stretching your post beyond the normal width of a post, it's too big.

Didn't you listen to it before sending it in...?

The Submissions Guidelines section of the first post is updated to reflect guidelines for Block 3.

No, don't PM me. PM DragonAvenger. I don't manage the queue from inbox. I have no inbox access. Also, just to reiterate, if you're not a judge (or site staff), please don't answer questions.

Only one ally theme per week. There is no "use as many sources as you want" option in this block. One Robot Master theme, one Ally theme, one Gauntlet theme.

Round 6 music and Round 4 tallies are up. Scoreboard will be updated after I do Round 5 tallies.

Final block of remixes is a little tougher. You must use three themes. Check the first post for details. I will pretty things up later tonight.

Hey I am out at a friend's place for a get together. I will update sources but it will be very barebones.

Hence my displeasure. I hate that line so much.

And Affleck as Batman will be far from the worst issues of a Superman/Batman movie.David Goyer writing, Zack Snyder directing, and Frank Miller consulting? This movie is going to be awful.

No. The Balance and Ruin Kickstarter was a lot of work and it's still ongoing. It'll be a long time before OC ReMix is ready to organize and manage another crowd-funding effort.

I know that. But I still enjoy the game from a gameplay perspective. I just felt that it would have been better if the story content carried the player all the way through to level 60. As much as I liked flying across the screen as my demon hunter, I just wanted more plot and story to keep me motivated.

I thought the story was fine. I'm not looking for literature here, but as a framing device for the game play and environments, it was pretty good. My only real issue with D3 was that there wasn't enough story content to get me all the way to level 60. I like the game a lot but I wanted a narrative to keep me going. Playing through the same storyline over and over again wasn't really my cup of tea.

Voting for round 4 closes in about 25 minutes. Get 'em in!

He said he didn't actually answer the question. Then he proceeded to say more things without actually answering the question. Asking someone when they started composing is not the same as asking "a piano how long have people been playing it." That's not creative, that's ridiculous. The question isn't all that dull either. It's a prompt for artists to share how they got their start in putting music together—the actual act of putting music together, i.e. composition. Having music just running through your head all the time isn't composition. Organizing those ideas and presenting them in some way, either by scoring a piece on paper, producing it electronically, performing it in a consistent way, or any other similar manner; that's composition.

You still failed to answer the question. Humming tunes in the womb isn't composition. Just sitting around all the time and having musical ideas forming in your head isn't composition. Composition isn't just having ideas, it's transferring those ideas into a medium that can be communicated and shared with other people, whether you're writing sheet music or guitar tabs, or making a recording of your ideas, or simply performing those ideas consistently over and over again. You're throwing down more melodramatic silliness like "musicomania" and Spider-Man characters when the question can easily be answered with something like "I was in high school when I wrote my first piece for solo piano." Anyway, to answer the question, I got my start with composition in high school. I used it as a way to try to understand music theory more in an effort to improve my skills as a trumpet player, and ended up switching entirely over to composition after I left high school.

Example: (Robot Master vs. Zero [X4, Command Mission])

Sanderson is a huge fan of the site and we actually met him at Connecticon. It was super cool. I was actually crazy excited to meet him because he's my favorite author.