Geoffrey Taucer

One friend to the forums (though she seldom ever posts these days) and several of my students to the music.

Excellent. Love it.

Wow, I was in 7th grade when OCR was born.

I'm down with that.

The website isn't done yet. There may be some other stuff (ie setting up mirrors, torrents, etc), but I think either Wes or Larry is handling that. And there's the 3 uncompleted mixes. I think that's it.

So you know: This project almost certainly will not be ready for release on the 11th. It will very likely be ready for release within the next month, though.

Excellent! Very cool stuff.

Jill, what tracks are you on for this? One of the voices in Mado Kara Mieru sounds a lot like you, but I can't tell for sure.

Can't help you with transportation, but how about if I offer to buy you a smirnoff ice* *under the condition that you agree not to puke all over the door of my room

Yeah: the prize is they get to play a REAL Tetris Attack player. Namely, me.

Huh????? :(

And then there were three.

SO I have a friend who's going to be coming with me -- anybody got sleeping room for one more?

Whoah! The resemblance is quite striking!

What remains to be done before the project can be released?

So this thread got me thinking about what causes a strong emotional response from a game, and a posted my thoughts in a rambling note on facebook:

I'll be honest: I laughed my ass off when Aeris died. I thought she was an extremely irritating character, and to the extent that I actually gave a shit about any of the characters (not much), I wanted Cloud to end up with Tifa. FFVI -- When Celes tried to commit suicide. Her theme just fits the scene so perfectly, makes it a real tear-jerker. Also the whole thing with Locke and Rachel. Chrono Trigger -- The ending. Watching Chrono and Marle drift off into the sky with that beautiful music playing, it really got to me. Radical Dreamers -- Several of the endings, several parts within the story -- all of them accompanied by either the music box theme or Star-Stealing Girl. Both of those themes have always had a very powerful effect on me. FFIII -- I started playing this right around the time Avien died. I heard Winds of Eternity before I actually got to the point in the game where that source plays. When I got a bit further in the game and heard the original, I definitely shed a tear or two. LoZ: Twilight Princess, Xenogears, Shadow of the Collosus, Beyond Good and Evil, and Prince of Persa: Sands of Time came close at a couple of points, but I don't think I was ever actually in tears. Interesting, now that I think of it: I have a much more powerful emotional response to the older console games than I do to those with more realistic graphics. I think it's because the older games leave the gamer's mind to fill in the details and give the characters life, which gets us far more attached to them.

Crash + Restore by Ziwtra (from the xenogears album) Pretty much anything by Kaijin. Pretty much anything by me, 'cause I'm awesome like that. Pretty much anything by klutz

He just used the word coprophage. This is win.

Congratulations!

I'm gonna have to sit this one out. Maybe next year

Fix'd tenkarakaturs

You mean this arrangement specifically? I'd contact Vampire Hunter Dan and ask him.