Dark_T_Zeratul

Given that it was a version of the theme from Requiem for a Dream remixed for the trailer of the Two Towers, I'd say that's not an unappropriate title. Overture, not Overtime.

Uh, no, it most definitely isn't. It's "Summer Overture," from the movie Requiem for a Dream. More specifically, it's a slightly bigger and more dramatic version that was initially reworked for the trailer for Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers and has since been used in many other things since. The original composer was Clint Mansell. It was performed by the Kronos Quartet for the movie, though I can't say whether or not that's true for this version as well.

See, personally, here's what I think happened:Rowling wrote the book intending for Sirius's death to be final. Almost everyone assumed that he was going to come back somehow, and so she asked David Yates (the director) to make it more clear that he was quite definitely dead.

Seems like all the competitions are having this issue.

In the book, he got hit by a bolt of magic and knocked back into the gate (which was implied, later on, as being sort of a portal into the next world). In the movie, Bellatrix zaps him with the killing curse and he falls into it.

Oddly enough, it was actually LESS vague than in the book. At least, it is if you caught what spell he got hit with.

You're surprised that the secret super-hard nigh-unbeatable special bosses were harder than the final boss?

Yeah. Sticking with something just because it's brand-name is usually not a good idea (notable exception: memory cards). In this case, Norton tends to miss things that other anti-virus programs catch, bug you incessantly about paying for new updates, and make itself completely impossible to remove from your system.The solution, of course, is to go with Grisoft's AVG. Partly because it's free for personal use, and partly because it works exceptionally well.

Probably. Try it.

Depending on the school, anywhere from mid-May to mid-June. I finished middle school around June 15th or so, graduated high school on June 2nd, and got out of college this semester on May 18th.

Well at the time it didn't have any remixes on OCR, and since the only one there now is a reworked PRC entry, my point still stands.

If I may offer a possibility for the lack of entries lately... Look at the more popular PRC weeks. Most of them featured tracks that were already well-known to begin with, many of which have been remixed previously. The trend lately seems to be to pick incredibly obscure and/or older tracks to remix, and while I applaud the effort of getting less-remixed tracks to be remixed, it seems as though there may be a reason that these aren't remixed as often. Now, I'm not saying that people should pick things like Terra's Theme or Ice Cap for a PRC track (the single most popular PRC used Shade Man's theme from Megaman 7, and that doesn't have a single remix on OCR), but I think that a bit more care could be taken in picking the next track. Things that are a bit more well-known will draw more new remixers, and things that have more to them musically will be easier to remix and thus draw more total remixers.Just my two cents.

Prior remixes are only grandfathered in if you agree to the content policy. In other words, your prior remixes are only covered by the content policy if you submit another remix and, in doing so, agree to the policy.

It was left open before. "Reserves the right to" is a VERY common bit of legalese that grants the ability to do something, but does NOT indicate that it will always be done. For example, most restaurants have signs that say, "we reserve the right to refuse service." This means that if they don't want to, for whatever reason, they can tell someone that he (or she) isn't allowed to eat there. Obviously, restaurants don't automatically enact this policy, because if they did then they wouldn't have any customers. It simply means that if there's a reason for them to not serve someone (or for OCR to not take down a track), they are within their legal rights to do it.

I've got a friend who's a composer, and he's very interested in trying his hand at video game music. Any websites out there that I should direct him to?

Well, you could turn it into a vacation, too. 'Course you'd probably need more money for that... Still, I really think you should at least see if it might be possible rather than discounting it outright.

I think a word like "death" would apply very loosely to Will in this case, if at all.

Because it was probably a fatal stab in the lung.

Oh my God. That was absolutely amazing. My only complaint would be that it seemed to end a bit suddenly. Of course, if the title is anything to go by, and this is simply the first movement of something larger, then that's forgiven.

Since nobody's linked it yet... www.starcraft2.com is, of course, now a fully functional site and no longer just a redirect to Blizzard's main page. All the previously released info and more is there.

Alundra. That game needs some remix love.

I don't think this new MMO they're making is going to be announced next month, given that they're only just now hiring people to make the engine. Announcements generally aren't made until that part is mostly complete.

Friggin' PSP.

Genius, I say! GENIUS!

No way a compilation that grandiose, that amazing, that spectacularly awesome could be anything other than a long-planned work of genius.