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I still stress that you should've thought about your Kickstarter rewards as well. Some of the most successful Kickstarters actually offer tier rewards that are relevant to the person / organisation behind it; could be other albums from the artist / group's back catalog, highly-coveted requests for those too-lazy / without-the-tools to do it themselves, or maybe even contribute to the final product in a way beyond just having their name written in small black lettering on the back of some sleeve. You're not meant to go into a KS to attract a "specific" audience - no FF fan would pledge to a KS to end up with some classical music album NOT done by the person that started the KS in the first place; instead, they're looking for something unique and exciting that's either related to the person (hence building up a following) or the wider FF series in general. You want those funds? You got to open lots of doors to get them! Does that make sense? o_O

The kickstarter page itself also looked badly organised - no information on what it's about and why you want to do it? Unclear shipping? Not only are there too many tiers but also a lot of irrelevant giveaways to the cause (i.e. What kind of final fantasy fan would be interested in owning a copy of the Nutcracker suite anyway?). You should have spent more time planning it out and figured out the hows and whys of doing so.

I'm one step ahead of you guys. And so is Mr. Burns.

...my shitty handwriting baffles once again. Yeah, you didn't include anything specific in your wishlist, so I went in the direction of OCR compo references. Making the Elec Man doll was a fun challenge though, and I'm glad everything came in one piece!

Hey Chernabogue - I think Zero's gifting you. He gifted me Abe's Odyssey, Gunstar Heroes and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - 2 retro games and something more recent, and given how ADDICTED I was to the original Binding it's a nice fit! Thanks Cash!

I meant if you actually received anything! xD We still need to get to the bottom on who has Tables's package, haha.

I'd post something if I actually have something - and the only post I've had all week are a few bills. Damned, Chernabogue, what's your statuses?

I'm up for appearing on tonight's Talkback. It's been a while, hasn't it?

I'm very anxious now - the Royal Mail tracking service now states the package is delivered. I hope it came in one piece!

I find it hilarious that some of the staff and artists would throw dignity out of the window and pimp their own work... That said, 15 years is an amazing feat for any website! Here's to 15 more!

Say Chernabogue - assuming we're the only two non-Americans doing this Secret Santa, who do you think will have which? xD

According to the Royal Mail online tracker, the package has hit my recipient's country. Shouldn't be too long now!

Eh? I wrote it, he performed and produced it

And SENT! Amusingly the gift was cheaper than the actual postage, but frankly I don't care. I'm in good anticipation here in the "awaiting-receiver-response club".

I think I've almost got it - could even ship it by Friday if I keep at it. This may be one of my more challenging Secret Santas, but could still be very rewarding.

I remember complimenting this on Facebook when I saw it get approved by the panel. Might as well copy-pasta for significance - I'm very pleased with this outcome, Ben! Having transcribed some of the PS1-era Spyro MIDIs, I can understand the difficulty of being able to work with something more riff-driven, and Midday Gardens is what I feel is even more restricting than the rest of the soundtrack. But regardless of the outcome, I'm really glad we've got some Spyro love on OCR - big love there! (...and I'm sorry Larry for not stepping up my game on this yet =()

Bumping up to proudly say the album was RELEASED over the weekend! Same link as before. Missed the listening party? Go listen into the SMD Podcast with commentary on the entire album with myself and DJ EAR! Listen, before I hurt hedgehog-suited kittens.

Full speed ahead!

My bedroom now has new life as a non-musical workshop for this process. Gotta knuckle down!

That's the problem - I enjoy a good platformer, but the vast majority of them from the past 3-5 years or so really fail to hit the mark as far as jaw-dropping wowness is concerned. I absolutely adored Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 (though obviously 1 was indeed the more novel of the two) and so having seen Nintendo's natural progression, I thought it would be natural that they would keep doing more crazy ways to step up what their tech is capable of. As for having an "alone opinion", Anyway, can we finally get away from this sudden break in the thread and go back to what we were on about in the first place? *_*

The argument is, 3D World and the NSMB Wii U games aren't the big Mario products that Nintendo are doing to persuade users to get a Wii U. I am not at all saying that Sonic's better than Mario or anything of the sort; we're past the 90s as it is; but I won't get a Wii U just to see how awkawrd Rise of Lyric was put together either. To sum it up: NSMB Wii = Not 'Fantastic' Super Luigi U = Not'Fantastic' 3D World = Not 'Fantastic' Rise of Lyric = A BROKEN SHAMBLES Do you get my message? Bottom line - both Sega AND Nintendo need to get their shit together to make sure they stand a chance in this gaming generation.

Not at all. It's just that after giving it more of a chance in the Wii era (and enjoying what I got), I'm expecting Nintendo not to go the cheap way out. The aforementioned three games may sound cutesy cutesy, but they are no way in hell going to convince me to get a Wii U because they aren't 'THE major Mario game every past console generation has had' to me

TRAILER: PREVIEWS: https://soundcloud.com/soundoftss/sets/sotss14-out-of-the-ashes-previews As the previous two TSSMA albums were promoted in Community in the past, I might as well go here too. xD As implied, there's going to be 2+ hours of remixed Sega / Sonic sources from the combined efforts of 20 musicians (including myself) that are either active or affiliated with the TSS. The TSSMA albums were fun to get onto the right foot, but EAR's consistent nit-picking particularly on the production side of things saw him as a good fit to make sure the albums had significantly more punch and cohesiveness in comparison to these previous two albums. Assuming this goes down well, this would mark the start of a new twice-yearly album with themes, so this is set to go down as a more artistic production to come out from the TSS yet! This week's SEGA Mixer Drive will also host a pre-release party for the entire event - this Friday, 28 November, at 4PM EST. Anyone free this Thanksgiving weekend are more than welcome to come on in! Thank you for reading in