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I have a drop dead date for music at the end of November, but I really need pieces before then. AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE.

We do not have Tapatalk installed on these forums, no.

I played some bot games with Nabeel and I feel like I finally know what's going on in this game.

I'm sorry, I've had power back for a few days but I've been busy with other things. I will put the music up soon.

I got the white one with AC3:L. It's pretty cool.

Still no power at my house. Remixes are still due today at the indicated time.

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Brandon has control of this thread now.

That's exactly the problem though. There's too much material. There is far too much that takes place in the 50 or so years after Yavin. There are a TON of people out there who are fans of Star Wars that have zero interest in the Expanded Universe; you can't market a movie to these people when they have to learn all of this crap about the Jaina being the Sword of the Jedi and Jacen becoming Darth Caedus. Try explaining the Vong War to someone who has only seen the two trilogies, or to a kid that watches Clone Wars on Cartoon Network. It's all too complicated to easily convey in the opening crawl of Episode VII. If they're going to keep all of the EU material, they have to set the new trilogy in a significantly later time period where much of what happened in post-OT material is largely irrelevant, like maybe 200-1000 years later. Oh, and people really should give up on the Thrawn Trilogy being the template for the new movies; they take place only 5 years after Return of the Jedi, a movie that was made nearly 29 years ago. All of the principal actors are much, much older.

Hello everyone. Hope you're all hard at work. Remember, remixes are due on Sunday, November 4th. I don't have power at my house because of Hurricane Sandy, so music and voting will probably not be live until I get power back. Please try to get your mixes in on time anyway.

That's not true though. I mean the prequels are relatively old; there has been a lot of Star Wars material that's come out since Revenge of the Sith that has been excellent, such as in comics and novels. There are people out there working on Star Wars that care about and understand what's good about Star Wars. I think that at this point, the only real problem is the two decades worth of Expanded Universe material. The 50 or so years after Return of the Jedi is pretty thoroughly documented in novels and comics, and Star Wars Legacy (a long running comic book series) covered a time period even further down the line (about 130 years after the Battle of Yavin). Even if they pick a sweet spot like 80 years after the original trilogy, they still have to explain a lot of things like the Vong War and all that messy stuff. There may be a significant fork in continuity with this new trilogy, which, honestly, would be really refreshing. The books did a lot of interesting things, but there were a lot of developments that I just wasn't a fan of; plus there's just so much that's happened that sometimes it's hard to keep everything straight. A clean-post-RotJ-slate might be just what the EU needs.

Nope. One song per submission, one submission every three weeks.

Simply amazing.

It's a scam and you're a sucker. Editing out link in first post. We don't need to be driving more people to these kinds of sites. Edit: actually you know what? Your posting history indicates that you had another points2shop thread a while ago, yet in your first post here you're acting like you've never done this before. You even said the same thing about getting $2.50 and "ordering a pair of headphones to see if it works." Seems to me that you're some kind of shill. Only warning: post another one of these threads again and you're banned.

Mario is Missing. When I was little I would get very excited whenever I got to play a new game, because it was kind of rare that I'd get new games. I remember one day we were at Blockbuster renting some movies (which we didn't really do that often) and my dad let me pick a game to rent too. I was super excited about this, and I looked around the NES games and found Mario is Missing. For those of you unfamiliar with this game, it's basically a licensed geography edutainment title starring Luigi, who is looking for Mario. It's not very game-like at all; it's mostly just geography trivia with some very light platforming (if even). It wasn't made by Nintendo, and is from the era where Nintendo wasn't as protective of what their IP was associated with as they are now. Basically what I'm saying is that Mario is Missing is a total piece of shit. I didn't really know any of this going in. I just thought it was a new Mario game and I was good at Mario games so I wasted my rare chance in renting a game on it. I remember going home, popping it in, and being utterly confused, then angry, then disappointed. This was not a fun new Mario game with interesting worlds, power-ups, and enemies; it was a mean trick played by adults trying to fool kids into learning boring geography trivia. The depth of my hatred for this game and everything it stands for cannot be overstated.

This whole thing with collabs has gotten me thinking. I think I have a good idea for a rule about collabs for the next time we do a tournament. I think I need to make a simple webpage where you can download the mixes individually.

Glad to see you're good with the decision. Tournaments should be fun and fair; I don't want anyone to be upset.

I don't really want to do a do-over with new tracks or different sources. I don't really want to disqualify anyone either, especially since it's my own fault for not being explicit with the rules. I've looked at everyone's feedback, and I think I have something that will work out for everyone. Here's what's happening: The voting stage for this week's X Bracket mixes is cancelled and we're going back into a mixing stage, which will end on November 4th. The Zero Bracket mixing stage is also extended to end on November 4th. Collaborations are allowed for the rest of this tournament. Prophecy and Phonetic Hero should use the extra time to extend and/or revise their current arrangements. Please do not make brand new ones. I think that's fair for everyone involved. It extends the timeline on the tournament a little bit, but it also helps line up the ends of the two brackets. I also realize that this technically gives the X Bracket folks a couple of extra days over the Zero Bracket guys, but I doubt anyone actually uses every single hour of every single available day anyway. Let's just chalk it up as lessons learned for next time.

... You know what, I didn't even notice that until just now. No, you're actually not allowed to collab with outside people in these compos. I'm sure I've said that somewhere once, but since it's not explicitly stated in the rules, I suppose PH thought it was okay. Two options here: 1) Let it go and let the voting continue as is. 2) Disqualify Phonetic Hero and give Prophecy the win. Not really sure what to do here, since the rule about collaborating is not actually explicitly stated. I'll make sure to do it in future compos, but for now, let me get some community feedback before I make a decision. What do you guys think?

I know exactly what I was saying. There was a story a while ago saying that NSMBu was going to run in true 1080p, as in "not upscaled 720." I guess that's since been debunked/revised, but that was what was said.

Well especially in light of Batman #0 with the Red Hood Gang. They teased some badass stuff at NYCC coming up with Joker and Jason in Outlaws.

I love how Outlaws went from a hard-luck-heroes-on-the-run to big-damn-space-epic. Kory as the captain of a galactic warship? Yes please.

I'm in for group reg. Thanks Wes.

Glad to see Lobdell shaking it up. Superman in the New 52 has been interesting. Action Comics has been very cool, but the main Superman book I feel is still trying to find its rhythm. They've been weirdly tying it into a lot of the old Wildstorm stuff that got rolled into the DCU post-Flashpoint, with Helspont and stuff. A little odd, but if Lobdell and Rocafort bring the same kind of BIG ACTION to this book that they did with Red Hood and the Outlaws, I think it'll be great. The preview they ran in last week's books looks incredible. Rocafort is killing it on the art. As for Clark leaving The Planet, it's about time. I love this new "Clark Kent with a backbone" DC's pursuing, rather than the timid, nebbish, "Golly Lois!" Clark persona that was around for years pre-Flashpoint.