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Oh, man, this is horrible news. All I can say is I hope it will be really obvious why they force pay to play for certain games. If the games they have pay and play on are just like the online games they've already released, they're going to be seeing a lot less of my business.

I head over here sometimes if I want more details.

Haha I love how 23 of the top 100 are variations of google. That's just amazing.

Seeing kirby actually attempt to eat a colossus to make #97 would be pretty entertaining.

(@ zircon) I actually love DVDs and the relatively low cost at which they're able to be produced (which leads to a lot of obscure releases that might otherwise never have seen a release) - but LOTS of people are getting HDTVs now, and if you've ever seen a DVD on a big and sharp enough screen I'm sure you've noticed how blurry and blocky it gets. Plus, DVDs to my knowledge can't support widescreen without it being pre-squeezed (for the TV to reinterpret and stretch out, making it even blurrier). I know the DVD isn't OBSOLETE or anything but there has to be some kind of format for HDTVs, or it could kill one of its biggest draws. Come to think of it, it's probably not so much the difference in quality as the necessity to have any HD format to release media on.

But do you think HD formats are actually attempting to replace the DVD? It seems to me that they're being sold together, and DVDs are still doing pretty well. As for the appeal, I'm not sure what the difference is - many of my friends seem to be just as divided as we are between being enamored with HD formats and others wishing it wasn't being introduced at all.

Maybe this is just a difference of perspective and maybe you're looking at different HDTVs than I am, but when I see a beautiful panoramic shot of the Alps or something on an HDTV and I can stare deeper and deeper into it and see miniscule little details that would have just entirely been crushed, blurred or cut out of an old 4:3 tube tv, I'm wowed almost every time. My parents have an HDTV at home (a 52 inch Bravia) and at school I have a tube tv, maybe 2 feet or so square (I'm not sure of the exact dimensions). When I come home and I see this thing on the wall I feel almost excited to see it - it's brand new technology, it's beautiful, crisp and clean, and extremely powerful by today's standards. It's kind of like having a new car. But I'm getting sidetracked. Some people want HD because it's "HD" and it's the most recent thing out - it's a buzzword, and it's something to throw money at. But if you really get technical or you see it side by side with an old TV, I think you'll agree watching the old TV is like looking through a tunnel. Maybe it's just me but at that point you have to realize that the old TV is extremely outdated and it's time to move on to something new. As for DVDs, you've got to make the same realization - that they're very outdated as well. You're correct that Sony is in a difficult position in trying to convert people who just got DVD players 8 or 9 years ago. But technology increases in complexity at an exponential rate, and it takes less and less time for a new format to be released that trumps the old one - and at this point, DVDs really are getting very constricting to quality, and it's about time they're left behind. I suppose it would be difficult to figure out how to market something that completely blows yesterday's format away - but that's the way they've got to do it. At least new machines are backward compatible. Sometimes these things have to be forced on people or there's no way the businesses can profit...just look at the digital TV forced conversion next year. It's got to be done or there's going to be a huge gap developing between people on the edge of new stuff and people who have been left behind.

Put Paper Mario on the top of that list and you'll suddenly realize you wound up playing it through the whole break instead of going to the next game.

This is a really cool take on such a simple track. Nice work!

Beatdrop got the PERFECT song, that's all I'm sayin'.

I approve very much of some of the changes on the site, but that one I could never quite understand and it's always bugged me a bit (especially more now than before). I think you guys have certainly been strict enough with the forums now that at this point you don't have to worry anymore about people making "__ bombs" or anything - now it's just kind of a hindrance to normal posting. It's not THAT big a deal, but I don't really see a point other than unnecessary caution for it existing anymore.

Excellent, I was hoping BD would win the fight. Honestly I'd always wondered why there was a fight to begin with. BD IS a technically better format, isn't it (50gigs compared to 30 gigs, higher transfer bitrate, much more space for higher audio quality)? Was advertising money (and thus companies signing up for exclusives) and the 360 the only reason HD-DVD was in the running at all?

Howso? I'm curious since I'll be using him a lot.

This is the greatest smash fight ever (melee). I desperately want to do this with friends.

FANTASTIC. I am in love.

Very nice! This is the perfect way to get WIP/Comp more attention. Great idea!

2 for me. Every so often (I've found it's about one per month or two) there's a song that I actually enjoy quite a bit and actually save to relisten to. But as for all the others that I download and check out once, I'd definitely go with #2.

I don't know what all has been posted here, but my personal recommendation: Take a break! Go do shit outside, go chill with some buddies and whatever you find fun that's not at all related to music. Then that night, sit down and force out 30 seconds of music, no matter how long it takes. You might find it comes easier than you think. It sounds like you're just forcing yourself a bit too hard.

Hahaha, "God-Moving". That's a good tactic.

Love to see this done with, say, the original SMB.

Good job, you guys. Lookin forward to listening. Here was my entry: Warhead: Aftermath Remix (It's not up on Zircon's page). So Zircon, you say you got six entries for this overall? Just curious.

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This is a great idea! All these artists are coming up with fantastic incentives for people to actually buy their albums - Radiohead's thing made a big splash, but I think this is far more intriguing. How awesome would that be to remix NiN?

Just out of curiosity, do you have an estimate of when this is officially "over"? I'd love to hear what everyone came up with and see how well we did.

Hahaha I love that one luigi taunt where he goes through like the 4 different positions: "Hoh! Hah! Hoo! Heh!" I'm going to be using that over and over again to piss off my friends, I can already see it.