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When mentioning the site in written interviews and other things, remember that we have official ways of referring to the site: OverClocked ReMix - Full name of the site. Capital O, C, R, and M OC ReMix - Abbreviates OverClocked. There's a space between OC and ReMix. ocremix - All lowercase, no space. Generally used for official account usernames, URLs, and anywhere else where capital letters and spaces aren't available. OCR - Three letter acronym for the site. Common mistakes/what not to do: Overclocked Remix - Needs capital C and M. OverClocked ReMiX - Never capitalize the X. OCReMix - When capitalizing, always put a space between OC and ReMix OCRemix - Needs a space between OC and R, and the M should be capitalized. OCRM - The M is not part of the abbreviation OverClocked - Don't leave out ReMix. overclocked_remix or oc_remix - if you can't use spaces, don't use underscores and don't capitalize anything, just use "ocremix" O-Clocked - just...no.

Cash is Cash and Change's new artist name. I thought you all might be interested in knowing that this week's theme was composed by Yasuaki Fujita. Fujita-san composed under the alias Bunbun, and was the main composer for the classic Mega Man 3 soundtrack.

Remixes are up. Check 'em out and vote. Remember to READ THE VOTING GUIDELINES before you vote!

Oh no, it's not against any rules. I'm just saying that, as a musician, you should really strive to sequence everything yourself if you can. These competitions are excellent opportunities to train your ear. On a different topic: one thing I've been noticing from some of the more novice mixers in these competitions lately is when you guys use both sources but don't bother putting them in the same key. Some of the transitions I've been hearing have been pretty awkward. Make sure you guys are making the effort to combine both sources into a cohesive piece of music; this more often than not involves determining a common tonality. If you don't feel like you know how to do that, or even what that means, ask your teammates, ask in the workshop, or ask here. This core of this competition is learning how to arrange music, moreso than learning production techniques. There's a certain degree of music theory that you should be picking up and utilizing as you continue to arrange two pieces of music together every week. Good luck.

Not really tough love. You should be able to figure these songs out by ear; they're not really that complex. I didn't realize that people were actually using MIDIs for these competitions; I wish you guys wouldn't, actually. It's very important as an arranger to be able to listen to stuff and understand things like melody and chords just by listening. I certainly hope that nobody is copy and pasting MIDI data from preexisting MIDI files. You should only be using those for reference if you are.

Because I want you to grow as a musician and learn to do things by ear.

Round 2 source is up. Moliarty's Tower from Darkwing Duck. Mixes will go up later tonight.

I'm not a film-maker or a writer, I don't have a formula. But here are a couple of things that I think are important to have in a Superman story. First, Clark Kent is an investigative journalist, and I mean that this is an intrinsic part of his character, not just his job or his cover identity. It speaks to the idea that Superman fights for truth and justice. Clark seeks out the truth about corruption and evil in order to bring about justice. He exposes the wrong-doings of others by writing about them. Mark Waid used this to great effect in Superman: Birthright; rather than having Clark be a fisherman or a busboy at a bar, Clark traveled the world exposing the truth about corrupt politicians and bringing warlords in third-world countries to justice. Superman is not just about a strong guy holding up a collapsing oil-rig while the workers run to the helicopter; there is way more to Clark Kent than his powers. Next, Clark protects people. He doesn't haphazardly throw his opponents into buildings and oil tankers. He doesn't put people in danger by exposing them to unbelievable amounts of collateral damage. Superman is an amazing fighter, but he's not about the fight. He performs feats far beyond the capabilities of mortal men; feats that save lives, not put them in danger. Man of Steel's Superman showed very little concern for everything that was happening around him while fighting Faora and Zod, and I don't think that really jives at all with the character of Clark Kent. Superman is also an inspirational figure. He fills people with wonder, not fear. He interacts with people, and they're excited to see him. The first time people ever see Superman should not be after Metropolis is destroyed and a hundred thousand people have died. People should know and trust Superman; they need to be familiar with him to be able to understand that he's there to help and protect. Also, and this might be more of a gripe than anything else I've said, but don't color correct a Superman movie to be a desaturated grey blob. It's Superman, it should have a lot of color. Krypton especially is always portrayed in film as this bleak, grey mess, whereas in comic books Krypton is filled with colorful alien vistas. Anyway those are just a couple of points; ideally I think a great Superman movie would combine elements of Birthright for Clark's origin with Brainiac for the main hero/villain conflict. Also the movie wouldn't be an origin story; Superman would be around already for a couple of years and the origin would be referenced in a couple of flashbacks.

I don't like Donner's Superman movies either, and I think that it takes a lot more than just being "not-Donner" to tell a great Superman story.

That doesn't really even sound like Uptown Girl.

You really think it was a great movie? I found the whole thing to be tedious and utterly joyless, which are two things that should never be used to describe a Superman story. The whole thing also showed very little understanding of the character of Clark Kent.

Not at all! The narrative is what makes it fun. The Walt Disney Company used their commercial empire to fund Dr. Wily's project to rebuild his vast network of castles after his defeat two years ago. But in an effort to make Wily's Castles more family friendly, they've gone and done a lot of remodeling and have generally interfered with Dr. Wily's original vision, which is why all the castles look and sound like old Disney-Capcom game locations. Needless to say, Dr. Wily is not pleased...

I don't shop at Gamestop if I have the choice. They aggressively push used games over new games, with very little difference in price. They lowball you on trade-in credit. They open up merchandise to use the boxes as "display copies" and then sell those opened, beat-up display copies at full retail price. They allow employees to take opened, new copies of games home to play and then sell those used games at full retail price. Employees can be very aggressive about pushing pre-orders at the point of sale. Unlike other retailers, they rarely ever offer any kind of discount on new games. They're a business, true, and all of these things help their bottom line, but they also all add up to a pretty crappy experience for consumers.

As a DC comics fan, I should be incredibly excited about this, but I'm not. Man of Steel was a major disappointment. DCE is just not doing a good job with their movies at all, and I'm resigned to the fact that they seem to think that Man of Steel is a good movie to launch DC's cinematic universe.

First rule of the Steam Sale: Never buy anything that isn't a Daily Deal, Flash Sale, or Community Pick until the very last day of the sale.

Don't call me Sharky.

No joke, "butt" is literally the funniest word in the English language.

We didn't put anything up on Last.fm. We stopped putting information up on Last.fm ages ago, when they killed embeds. You can tell it's unofficial because whoever put it up has us listed as "OverClocked Remix" instead of "OverClocked ReMix." Larry and I are far too obsessive over branding to let that lowercase M fly. Not much we can really do about it. Your beef is with whatever fan decided to muck around with the metadata when he or she was putting the album up.

No. I'm very specifically looking at games for the NES developed by Capcom in partnership with Disney.

So Asami is basically Carol Ferris now? xD

Should probably mention this. Book 1 is out on BluRay. This show looks absolutely gorgeous in HD. The soundtrack for Book 1 has also been released. It is absolutely amazing and very complex. There are some really incredible pieces (including a 7 minute long cello and ehru duet).

Darkwing Duck is a game I played extensively throughout my childhood, and probably one of the main reasons I decided to do the Disney thing for this year's WCRG. I'm not saying I'm going to pick a song from Darkwing Duck, but...

Fixed. Had a bit of a lookup error.

I've replaced the Roster and Team sheets with a new Scoreboard sheet. We'll be keeping track of scores week to week on that sheet. Please give it a look and make sure there are no errors. Also taking suggestions for Capcom-Disney themes for ROUND 2. No guarantees that I will pick anything you suggest, but I will look at all ideas.

I can tell you right now that there will be no special weeks in between blocks. We MAY do a two-week Final Battle at the end of the ninth week where the entire team collaborates.