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| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1382 |
| MetalmindStats 09/08/25 4:50:58 AM #331 | IMO, if Snake and Sora's match pic could shift 5%+ the former's way, why couldn't Kirby and Bowser's have done the same in a markedly low votal bout between two characters with far greater fanbase overlap? Versus Melee Kirby in Melee Dream Land, that Bowser art looks just as clearly out of place as Sora did, and I think the contrast of expressions and match of ice puff against fire breath imparted in Kirby an underdog aura that played perfectly into his appeal. ...another unmentioned possibility (albeit one I tend not to favor) is that nothing notably unusual happened there at all - after all, Luigi arguably has been about on par with Bowser (with some fluctuations in the two's relative standing) ever since the Nintendo Boost. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | The Mount Rushmore of: GameFAQs Contest Match Pics |
| MetalmindStats 09/06/25 8:15:03 PM #28 | Changing my Spyro vs. Morrigan, 2002 vote to Mario vs. Crono, 2005 (https://www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery/albums/sc2k5/br63-8.jpg) for its iconic framing and contextual significance. Honorable mentions to:
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| Topic | The Mount Rushmore of: GameFAQs Contest Match Pics |
| MetalmindStats 09/06/25 3:51:30 PM #21 |
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| Topic | Epic: The Musical *spoilers* |
| MetalmindStats 08/27/25 5:21:47 PM #6 | (Disclaimer, as someone with rather limited experience with musicals), I love love love it! Find it terrifically fun the whole way through, and also it's meaningful and resonant for me in ways that are too private for me to wish to get into here. As for my favorite songs, I'll choose one per Saga because that feels easier, and because there's so much here I love!
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| Topic | Iceman's 30 for 30: Thirty Games, Characters, and Moments for my 30th Birthday |
| MetalmindStats 08/26/25 7:57:05 PM #108 | NBIceman posted... Pokemon Types, Ranked by How Much Fun Id Have as a Gym Leader of That TypeI think this is a really cool and fun idea, and I really enjoyed reading what you wrote for it! It also makes me want to post a bit about what would be my own favorite for this. Also have really liked reading your other write-ups and feel they've been quite insightful. ...three of the last four games are individual games I haven't really played from series I'm fond of to some extent or another, so I don't have much to say, oops. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 228: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited |
| MetalmindStats 08/21/25 5:37:33 AM #16 |
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| Topic | Iceman's 30 for 30: Thirty Games, Characters, and Moments for my 30th Birthday |
| MetalmindStats 08/14/25 7:07:52 PM #49 | I really like your approach and writing and have been very much enjoying reading and following along! Haven't played any of these games but can think of one game I'm guessing will be on your list that I might have a lot to say about. ...though, and I realize this is a small nitpick, I believe a majority of VGMC participants are younger than you. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 227: The Clash - London Calling |
| MetalmindStats 08/14/25 4:46:04 AM #21 | Sorry been meaning but forgetting to actually finalize thoughts and a track ranking for a few days ~
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| Topic | Rank the Tracks 226: Joni Mitchell - Blue |
| MetalmindStats 08/07/25 2:44:24 AM #18 |
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| Topic | LRF Rank 1,250 Songs! [Nomination Topic] |
| MetalmindStats 08/06/25 4:02:35 AM #427 | rwlh posted... You're making great progress! Raka_Putra posted... Much faster than I personally could do for sure.Agreed on both counts! Speaking of the latter, um... Vin_Inari posted... Well, if you wanted to add one extra Block comprised of unnominated songs, that would be fine. It is a bit late, but the list still isn't finalized yet & you did express an interest in making such a Block... seeing as you couldn't very well create it until people were done removing songs, there's probably a bit of a loophole about how by definition that Block of yours had to be blank until now-ish.Thank you all for the invitation, and sorry I didn't respond for a while, again... My original notion about a Block comprised of unnominated songs was that it was something I should nominate either before the official close of nominations or else not at all. And so my plan had been to determine the contents of such a Block based on what looked likely to get cut at that point. Ideally (imo) I'd be using/have used all this extra time to listen to all the unnominated songs, but I haven't been and continue not to be in a good place for that. As things stand, I, uh, have four songs in mind? Hoping to decide on a fifth sooner rather than later, ack. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 225: Deftones - White Pony |
| MetalmindStats 07/25/25 9:45:04 PM #24 | I'm sorry again for deliberately causing that tie, and I'll make a point of not counting others' votes before casting my own again. ~~~
Really not sure how I feel about this. Decent in small portions but too much of it is a LOT.I agree with this and lack anything of substance to add to it. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 224: Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (+album voting) |
| MetalmindStats 07/20/25 10:48:28 PM #47 |
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| Topic | Rank the Tracks 225: Deftones - White Pony |
| MetalmindStats 07/19/25 2:52:27 AM #2 | FoolFantastic posted... I finally got things aligned so the cycles would line up for the 25 week period and then we get a tie.I'm sorry, I deliberately voted to get both RENAISSANCE and At Folsom Prison through, and somehow without it ever occurring to me that our Tracks and Albums cycles had at last reached alignment before my vote disrupted that. I understand if you choose to disregard my vote as such. If that's not the solution you think this calls for, maybe we could run a tiebreaker between the two aforementioned albums, if remaining in alignment is important for us? --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Harry Potter for PS1 is a Fraud! |
| MetalmindStats 07/18/25 5:45:24 PM #17 | MZero posted... Even if we take the upper limits for the UK versions, say the GBC version sold 500k in the US, and all four versions sold 500k in Japan/the rest of the world we don't even hit 7 million.500k a piece on average sounds low if anything to me, given how wildly popular Harry Potter was throughout Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Western Europe, (Japan too I think, but iirc the country has exact sales figures for most console and handheld titles), and to a lesser extent various other countries with less robust markets for video game sales at the time. Combine that with the apparent PAL PlayStation bundles, and it sounds reasonable to me that the mistake here is simply that an all-platforms-at-the-time sales figure was misreported as a sales figure for what was presumably considered the game's primary platform alone. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 224: Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (+album voting) |
| MetalmindStats 07/17/25 5:53:35 AM #35 | +5 Sly and the Family Stone - Stand! +4 Parliament - Mothership Connection +3 Joni Mitchell - Blue +2 Beyonc - RENAISSANCE +1 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited ...have we really never nominated a Beyonc album before, or have I simply missed a previous instance where one fell short of selection? Regardless, am hoping that my opinion on its sample song is simply an aberration, temporary or not. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 223: Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain (+ album noms) |
| MetalmindStats 07/17/25 5:32:36 AM #47 |
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| Topic | The Mount Rushmore of: 1980s Songs |
| MetalmindStats 07/10/25 8:12:16 PM #29 | Madonna - Like a Prayer Prince & The Revolution - When Doves Cry Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World The Police - Every Breath You Take --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 222: Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess |
| MetalmindStats 07/10/25 1:36:32 AM #14 | Sorry have had a lot going on lately ~
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| Topic | Rank the Tracks 223: Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain (+ album noms) |
| MetalmindStats 07/05/25 4:22:34 PM #13 | MetalmindStats posted... Sample Track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JvkaUvB-ec&pp=ygUPZXZlcnlkYXkgcGVvcGxlThought about it more and realized there's a few other songs that'd work better for the sample track. In particular, if ok, I'd like to replace this with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q49vjFN6Fsw&pp=ygUec3RhbmQgc2x5IGFuZCB0aGUgZmFtaWx5IHN0b25l FoolFantastic posted... MetalmindStats: always really loved the psychadelic circus sound hereDoesn't really matter much, but Johnbobb was the one who posted this comment. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 223: Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain (+ album noms) |
| MetalmindStats 07/05/25 12:41:51 AM #11 | Might be jumping the gun a bit by my criteria for myself, but it does feel fitting to formally nominate Sly and the Family Stone - Stand! today: Year: 1969 Track Count: 8 (most releases nowadays seem to have 5 extra tracks - singles and rarities - tacked on to the end, which we would not be covering) Runtime: 41:30 (according to Rate Your Music; appears to differ slightly between sites and releases of the same tracklist) Sample Track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JvkaUvB-ec&pp=ygUPZXZlcnlkYXkgcGVvcGxl (Note: many lyrics contain slurs or similarly outdated means of referring to other people, usually to make a point.) Stand! is chock full of the sort of deeply dynamic production paired with the potpourri of contributions one might expect from the groups conceit, in the process encapsulating views of a moment in American culture and history. Plus, its concentration of Sly and the Family Stone's most popular and acclaimed songs almost reaches the extent of a greatest-hits album, each (IMO) easily distinct enough to hopefully enable a compelling ranking process. Follow-up There's a Riot Goin' On has even greater critical acclaim and better fits the moment (at least in the US), but I feel it's rather less accessible and rankable. ...and yes, Sly Stone died two days before Brian Wilson, who we recently paid tribute to by covering Pet Sounds. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 221: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds |
| MetalmindStats 07/03/25 6:03:49 AM #21 |
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| Topic | The Mount Rushmore of: Video Games Ending in "5" / "V" |
| MetalmindStats 06/26/25 4:26:32 PM #43 | Dragon Quest V The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Grand Theft Auto V Civilization V My concept of an ideal Mount Rushmore is an ideally close to even mix of significance and a consensus best/most popular grouping. By that metric, Dragon Quest V is right up there with Grand Theft Auto V and Skyrim as practically mandatory inclusions, IMO. Might change Civ 5 later, though. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Board 8's Top 20 PC (2010s) Games - The Results |
| MetalmindStats 06/23/25 6:12:41 AM #90 | Sheep007 posted... It's kind of narrative and meta-narrative in tandem, overcoming increasingly daunting in-game challenges, while Madeline overcomes increasingly daunting narrative challenges.Mhm, this is the crux of my narrative praise and responsible for that 'even in isolation' bit. For me, Celeste is certainly the most ludonarratively engaging and effective game I've ever played, to the point it's more than mildly impacted my life. ...part of that potency is because I'm simply not good at platformers, but still. Maybe I'll even write more about it if it makes the Switch list (though the PC version is my first and favored) and if I feel like rambling; am undecided as of yet. ~~ And thank you for gathering and posting the list and coordinating write-ups, tazzy! Have really enjoyed following along and also am rather regretting not participating for a few past platforms, especially the DS. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Board 8's Top 20 PC (2010s) Games - The Results |
| MetalmindStats 06/22/25 9:22:25 PM #81 | Really neat write-up, thank you Sheep! I'm unironically quite fond of your approach and its brevity and how different many of the aspects you focused on are from what I might've emphasized in your place. In short, I find Celeste narratively (and musically) compelling and deeply resonant above all else, as excellently executed as I agree its gameplay and game feel are even in isolation. And I think it's really cool that Celeste matters so much to us, as its two first-place voters here, for mostly distinct reasons! --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | LRF Rank 1,250 Songs! [Nomination Topic] |
| MetalmindStats 06/21/25 3:43:09 AM #405 | Vin_Inari posted... As an experiment, Rae added a very long "write up" to Gamecube Startup under the Inividual Unnominated Songs tab. Is it theoretically readable for anyone? We're trying to keep all of our actual write ups stored on a backup Google Sheet; if anything goes really wrong in real life and we have to stop working on this suddenly, we can just make that sheet public & release all the work we had done. ...But if no one can see write ups posted this way, especially the really long ones with a lot of line breaks, then we're going to have to come up with another solution. ...It doesn't seem to be working on phones (at least, through any browser we've tried; a sheets app may or may not work), but we're hoping it's at least readable for anyone on a computer?For me, on my computer, it's there but almost impossible to actually read in practice. I have found two methods that allow for comfortably reading it, though - 1) Ctrl+C copying the write-up and pasting it into a word processor, or 2) copying the entire Individual Unnominated Songs sheet and then placing my cursor anywhere within the copy's write-up. ~~ Also uhh never actually responded when you answered my question and such Vin, ack. Decided for whatever reason to wait to post my planned others'-nominations-set-to-be-dropped Block at the same time, only to interpret what you said one way until the last minute and never just ask about it and so never actually nominate the Block. ...anyways, my silliness aside, thank you. And I'm really glad you and Flutter are getting along better now, and I found that scene between you and Luce really wholesome and nice. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Board 8's Top 20 PC (2010s) Games - The Results |
| MetalmindStats 06/21/25 1:47:04 AM #52 | azuarc posted... Surprised to see V6 here. What's next, Super Hexagon?That would be neat, imo! ...but then I think I like arcade-style games way more than I'm guessing you do. Also going to call back to what I wrote here: tazzyboyishere posted... but it seems to me veridically very difficult to play this game and not like it at least a little bit.I ran a Best Indie Game Ever contest here some years back (which felt successful and well-received, and I'd still quite like to stage a sequel someday). In the course of that contest, VVVVVV was the only game to receive 20+ votes on its own - doing so twice, no less, peaking at 27 votes. Its second match (against La-Mulana) tied for the highest votal of the contest to that point, alongside the other match of that day's topic, Undertale v Journey. That record held until VVVVVV's next match, against Undertale, where both games received 18 votes a piece - VVVVVV fell off a bit in the subsequent tiebreaker, but it stayed 4-for-4 at turning out voters at an elevated rate. My guess is that its polished, execution-heavy gameplay at a brisk, easily accessible length gives it a disproportionately high playrate (or, uhh, beatrate?) and hence really broad appeal here. ...would be neat to find out how Slay the Spire would fare in that sort of setting, come to think of it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who found and sparked to it years after its release. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Board 8's Top 20 PC (2010s) Games - The Results |
| MetalmindStats 06/19/25 6:59:41 PM #28 | tazzyboyishere posted... Flushed with the sweep of the game's success, Re-Logic reacted by putting up a clinic in how to support a game of this ilkOops, reworded from this (and a few other minor spots) in my write-up after submitting it. I don't actually think Terraria's a fair bar for how to support even a highly successful game post-release - rather, I feel Re-Logic repeatedly went way above and beyond in their post-launch support. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 220: The Doors - The Doors |
| MetalmindStats 06/16/25 7:25:28 PM #16 |
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| Topic | Board 8's Top 20 PC (2010s) Games - Voting Topic *NEW RULES* |
| MetalmindStats 06/14/25 4:59:43 PM #128 | A deadline delay to Tuesday would help me very much too. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 220: The Doors - The Doors |
| MetalmindStats 06/12/25 10:51:41 PM #11 | I think I'd prefer next cycle's theme being one that allows for one or more Beach Boys nominations, but I don't outright object to a special Pet Sounds week. However, I do feel that said special week should be next week (221), thus delaying our other upcoming albums, if we go through with it. And also, Bitto posted... Sounds like a themed nomination idea!I agree with this - think it would complement some of our other cycles and general skews in our album coverage so far effectively as a one-time cycle and am happy with our current nomination cycle method. And it was really neat to see (well, technically remind myself of) the Acclaimed Music top 100 artists list, thank you Fool. Relevant to much of what we've posted about so far, I'm inclined to nominate Sly and the Family Stone's Stand! for next cycle if the theme allows for it and if I'm regularly participating by that point. All I feel equipped to fairly say about the latter is 'hopefully, and hopefully that I've already given this week's album a first listen is a good sign'. --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 219: Dan Terminus - The Wrath of Code |
| MetalmindStats 06/10/25 6:18:28 PM #10 | MetalmindStats posted... ~~~Had to redo the second post due to somehow messing up an artist credit, sorry: none, strictly speaking - technically FoolFantastic, iirc[?] (|| 1 |): || Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas (wk146)* | Place (||| 1): ||| The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop (wk161) PunishedJeezy (||| 3): ||| The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (wk175); Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords (wk181); DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... (wk203) Raetsel_Lapin & Fluttershy_Pony (| 1 | 4 | 2): | The Ataris - So Long, Astoria (wk78) [as originally nominated by Seanchan] | Michael Jackson - Thriller (wk96); Grimes - Art Angels (wk112) [as originally nominated by ZaziGuado]; Desired - Lovestory (wk126); The Weeknd - Dawn FM (wk156) | Mtley Cre - Dr. Feelgood (wk191); Remi Wolf - Big Ideas (wk198) rwlh (|| 3 | 1): || Hisayoshi Ogura - G-Darius Original Arcade Score (wk119); Sade - Love Deluxe (wk136); Me'shell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion (wk148) | Nujabes - Metaphorical Music (wk211) RyoCaliente (| 3 | 2 | 2): | Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (wk50); The White Stripes - Elephant (wk69); Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (wk88) | The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (wk109); Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (wk138) | Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (wk170); MGMT - Little Dark Age (wk186) Seanchan (5 | 3 | 3 | 5): Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (wk4); The Beatles - Abbey Road (wk8); Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (wk17); The Killers - Hot Fuss (wk23); Billy Joel - The Stranger (wk29) | Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (wk48); blink-182 - Enema of the State (wk67); Kylie Minogue - Fever (wk86) | In Flames - Colony (wk107); Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (wk127); Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! (wk135) | ABBA - Arrival (wk167); Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (wk171); Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk (wk194); Daft Punk - Discovery (wk205); Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (wk223) Seginustemple (1 |||): Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (wk38) ||| Sheep007 (|| 2 | 7): || The Cure - Disintegration (wk133); Mitski - Be the Cowboy (wk154) | King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (wk174); Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju (wk184); Tame Impala - Currents (wk202); Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (wk206); Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (wk212); Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (wk216); Chappelle Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (wk221) Snake5555555555 (2 | 3 | 1 |): Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves (wk32); Taylor Swift - Speak Now (wk35) | Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (wk41); Black Marble - It's Immaterial (wk60); La Dispute - Rooms of the House (wk80) | The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers (wk99) | SpikeSetsFire (3 | 1 ||): Spice Girls - Spice (wk30); The Avalanches - Since I Left You (wk36); Moby - Play (wk37) | Supertramp - Breakfast in America (wk44) || StartTheMachine (1 |||): Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (wk16) ||| Steiner (1 | 1 | 3 |): Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (wk27) | Protest the Hero - Palimpsest (wk79) | Bad Religion - No Control (wk98); Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (wk128); Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (wk157) | StifledSilence (|| 2 |): || Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder (wk122); Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience (wk151) | TheArkOfTurus (2 | 1 ||): Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (wk19); Iron Maiden - Powerslave (wk31) | Rush - Moving Pictures (wk40) || TomNook (1 |||): Hamilton (wk18) ||| VeryInsane (3 | 3 | 1 |): Mastodon - Crack the Skye (wk6); Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (wk7); Pixies - Doolittle (wk14) | The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (wk46); Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (wk65); Nas - Illmatic (wk84) | Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (wk105) | ZaziGuado (3 | 3 | 2 | 1): Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album) [wk2]; Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (wk5); Air - Moon Safari (wk25) | Lorde - Melodrama (wk43); Taylor Swift - Folklore (wk62); Sigrid - Sucker Punch (wk81) | Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (wk101); Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (wk130) | Enya - A Day Without Rain (wk168) ZeroSignal620 (1 |||): Alice in Chains - Dirt (wk11) ||| Endnotes:-Attributions for the albums we selected for weeks 146-151 (and especially for albums 146 and 149, denoted with asterisks above) may be wrong, due to the logging site lacking records of any posts in the topics for weeks 142-150.-Artist and album names as listed in their respective topics, and all usernames are written in full.-Most absences are for users who didn't participate at all in that portion of Rank the Tracks' history.~~~ Then felt like adding a self-indulgent little closing ramble you all should probably skip past: --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 219: Dan Terminus - The Wrath of Code |
| MetalmindStats 06/10/25 4:17:31 AM #8 | Oh, also, out of curiosity and since I have the data anyways: ~~~ Rank the Track Albums by Decade and Year, So Far (counts only) ~~~ 1960s and Before: 13 - 1958 and Before: 0; 1959: 1; 1960-1964: 0; 1965: 3; 1966: 0; 1967: 5; 1968: 0; 1969: 4 1970s: 18 - 1970: 1; 1971: 1; 1972: 3; 1973: 3; 1974: 0; 1975: 1; 1976: 2; 1977: 4; 1978: 1; 1979: 2 1980s: 25 - 1980: 1; 1981: 3; 1982: 1; 1983: 3; 1984: 3; 1985: 2; 1986: 4; 1987: 1; 1988: 1; 1989: 6 1990s: 53 - 1990: 0; 1991: 3; 1992: 10; 1993: 2; 1994: 9; 1995: 5; 1996: 4; 1997: 5; 1998: 9; 1999: 6 2000s: 52 - 2000: 4; 2001: 6; 2002: 4; 2003: 7; 2004: 7; 2005: 3; 2006: 7; 2007: 6; 2008: 2; 2009: 6 2010s: 37 - 2010: 6; 2011: 4; 2012: 2; 2013: 0; 2014: 2; 2015: 10; 2016: 3; 2017: 3; 2018: 5; 2019: 2 2020s: 26 - 2020: 5; 2021: 3; 2022: 7; 2023: 4; 2024: 7; 2025: 0 --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 219: Dan Terminus - The Wrath of Code |
| MetalmindStats 06/10/25 2:39:30 AM #7 | none, strictly speaking - technically FoolFantastic, iirc[?] (|| 1 |): || Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas (wk146)* | Place (||| 1): ||| The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop (wk161) PunishedJeezy (||| 3): ||| The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (wk175); Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords (wk181); DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... (wk203) Raetsel_Lapin & Fluttershy_Pony (| 1 | 4 | 2): | The Ataris - So Long, Astoria (wk78) [as originally nominated by Seanchan] | Michael Jackson - Thriller (wk96); Grimes - Art Angels (wk112) [as originally nominated by ZaziGuado]; Desired - Lovestory (wk126); The Weeknd - Dawn FM (wk156) | Mtley Cre - Dr. Feelgood (wk191); Remi Wolf - Big Ideas (wk198) rwlh (|| 3 | 1): || Hisayoshi Ogura - G-Darius Original Arcade Score (wk119); Sade - Love Deluxe (wk136); Me'shell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion (wk148) | Nujabes - Metaphorical Music (wk211) RyoCaliente (| 3 | 2 | 2): | Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (wk50); The Smiths - Elephant (wk69); Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (wk88) | The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (wk109); Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (wk138) | Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (wk170); MGMT - Little Dark Age (wk186) Seanchan (5 | 3 | 3 | 5): Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (wk4); The Beatles - Abbey Road (wk8); Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (wk17); The Killers - Hot Fuss (wk23); Billy Joel - The Stranger (wk29) | Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (wk48); blink-182 - Enema of the State (wk67); Kylie Minogue - Fever (wk86) | In Flames - Colony (wk107); Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (wk127); Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! (wk135) | ABBA - Arrival (wk167); Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (wk171); Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk (wk194); Daft Punk - Discovery (wk205); Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (wk223) Seginustemple (1 |||): Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (wk38) ||| Sheep007 (|| 2 | 7): || The Cure - Disintegration (wk133); Mitski - Be the Cowboy (wk154) | King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (wk174); Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju (wk184); Tame Impala - Currents (wk202); Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (wk206); Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (wk212); Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (wk216); Chappelle Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (wk221) Snake5555555555 (2 | 3 | 1 |): Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves (wk32); Taylor Swift - Speak Now (wk35) | Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (wk41); Black Marble - It's Immaterial (wk60); La Dispute - Rooms of the House (wk80) | The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers (wk99) | SpikeSetsFire (3 | 1 ||): Spice Girls - Spice (wk30); The Avalanches - Since I Left You (wk36); Moby - Play (wk37) | Supertramp - Breakfast in America (wk44) || StartTheMachine (1 |||): Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (wk16) ||| Steiner (1 | 1 | 3 |): Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (wk27) | Protest the Hero - Palimpsest (wk79) | Bad Religion - No Control (wk98); Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (wk128); Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (wk157) | StifledSilence (|| 2 |): || Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder (wk122); Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience (wk151) | TheArkOfTurus (2 | 1 ||): Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (wk19); Iron Maiden - Powerslave (wk31) | Rush - Moving Pictures (wk40) || TomNook (1 |||): Hamilton (wk18) ||| VeryInsane (3 | 3 | 1 |): Mastodon - Crack the Skye (wk6); Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (wk7); Pixies - Doolittle (wk14) | The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (wk46); Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (wk65); Nas - Illmatic (wk84) | Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (wk105) | ZaziGuado (3 | 3 | 2 | 1): Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album) [wk2]; Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (wk5); Air - Moon Safari (wk25) | Lorde - Melodrama (wk43); Taylor Swift - Folklore (wk62); Sigrid - Sucker Punch (wk81) | Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (wk101); Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (wk130) | Enya - A Day Without Rain (wk168) ZeroSignal620 (1 |||): Alice in Chains - Dirt (wk11) ||| Endnotes: -Attributions for the albums we selected for weeks 146-151 (and especially for albums 146 and 149, denoted with asterisks above) may be wrong, due to the logging site lacking records of any posts in the topics for weeks 142-150.-Artist and album names as listed in their respective topics, and all usernames are written in full.-Most absences are for users who didn't participate at all in that portion of Rank the Tracks' history.~~~ Then felt like adding a self-indulgent little closing ramble you all should probably skip past: From my dives into our archives, Id estimate that the number of users whove ever participated in a Rank the Tracks topic (by ranking an album's tracks, by commenting on an album, or by nominating an album) is roughly twice the total (41) who've gotten at least one album selected before above. It's been really neat to see just how much (albeit transitory) reach we've managed while maintaining a ~10-user core community - one in which several of us have stuck with almost the whole time, while others were regulars for a while before falling off or are regulars nowadays. (And then there's me, in whatever category you wish to file my participation and place in general) Compiling the above data gave me the chance (one I took) to spin several past Rank the Tracks albums (and a few stray songs off other Rank the Tracks) I hadn't heard recently. This turned the process into my pleasure activity for the weekend, which in turn made me feel like I was fully celebrating the history of Rank the Tracks. Most were relistens because I struggle to take in lyrics alongside other activities unless I already know said lyrics well, though this did allow for a few far overdue first-time listens. Of those, I found Desired's Lovestory especially enjoyable! After missing the G-Darius Original Arcade Score's week, this also feels like my first chance to mention how compelling and absorbing it is for me - have been really glad to find music from it in my mind as I write this! ...anyways, our newest album selection process in particular makes me very happy, with its balance between well-known/acclaimed and obscure selections, its interplay between themed and non-themed rounds, and how robust participation in it has been. And it's just one piece of the processes behind Rank the Tracks that have kept this project going for so long, all of which is a tremendous credit to Fool - thank you so much! It's also a great credit to the regulars, and to our participants in general - thank you all so much! This tallying process turned into a project that reinvigorated my interest in Rank the Tracks, and I'm very much hoping to return on a regular basis (from next week on at this point). --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks 219: Dan Terminus - The Wrath of Code |
| MetalmindStats 06/10/25 2:39:23 AM #6 | Finally did this, weeks after I asked about it, ack... ~~~ Rank the Tracks Albums by Original Nominator, So Far ~~~ Note: Bars (|) delineate the different eras of Rank the Tracks album selection processes. Albums before the first bar were nominated and sufficiently supported in the first six weeks; albums in between the first and second bars were chosen via user-select polls before the addition of competitive weeks; albums in between the second and third bars were chosen via user-select polls after the addition of competitive weeks; albums after the third bar are those chosen by the current system of nominating and then voting for five albums among the nominated subset.Bane_Of_Despair (||| 3): ||| AFI - Sing the Sorrow (wk213); Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (wk215); Deftones - White Pony (wk224) Bitto (||| 1): ||| Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 4 (wk195) BlueCrystalTear (| 3 | 3 | 1): | Phil Collins - Face Value (wk56); Sunspot - Singularity (wk75); Lindsey Stirling - Warmer in the Winter (wk94) | Queen - A Night at the Opera (wk118); Weird Al Yankovic - Off the Deep End (wk144); Adele - 21 (wk147) | Roxette - Look Sharp! (wk183) ChichiriMuyo (| 3 | 3 | 1): | VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater (wk55); The Cranberries - No Need to Argue (wk74); Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (wk93) | Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days (wk117); R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (wk145); Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (wk149)* | Garbage - 2.0 (wk163) darkx (| 3 | 2 | 1): | The Beatles - Rubber Soul (wk51); Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction (wk70); Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (wk89) | Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl (wk111); The Cars - The Cars (wk139) | Billy Joel - An Innocent Man (wk208) Evillordexdeath (||| 2): ||| PJ Harvey - White Chalk (wk188); Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (wk190) firefdr (| 2 | 3 |): | Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (wk63); Backstreet Boys - Millennium (wk82) | blur - Parklife (wk102); The Who - Tommy (wk121); Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (wk131) | FoolFantastic (4 | 3 | 3 | 10): Nirvana - Nevermind (wk3); LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (wk12); Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters (wk21); The Knife - Silent Shout (wk28) | Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (wk47); Portishead - Third (wk66); black midi - Hellfire (wk85) | David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (wk100); Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (wk107); Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (wk134) | Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (wk159); Bjrk - Homogenic (wk164); Black Country, New Road - Ants from Up There (wk177); Charli XCX - Brat (wk179); Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads (wk185); Everything Everything - Get to Heaven (wk192); Fontaines D.C. - Romance (wk197); Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (wk200); Radiohead - In Rainbows (wk210); Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (wk217) Giggsalot (2 | 3 | 3 |): Massive Attack - Mezzanine (wk22); Outkast - Aquemini (wk33) | Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (wk49); Love - Forever Changes (wk68); Duke Ellington - Far East Suite (wk87) | Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus (wk110); FKA twigs - Magdalene (wk137); Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges - Clube de Esquina (wk140) | Great_Paul (| 3 | 3 | 1): | System of a Down - Toxicity (wk53); Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold (wk72); Green Day - American Idiot (wk91) | My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (wk104); Sabaton - The War to End All Wars (wk114); Simple Plan - Get Your Heart On! (wk142) | Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (wk158) HBJDubs (| 2 | 4 | 2): | Dream Theater - Images and Words (wk58); Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (wk77) | Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica (wk95); The xx - xx (wk125); Antimatter - Saviour (wk153); Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible (wk155) | The Protomen - Act II: The Father of Death (wk176) [as originally nominated by Raetsel_Lapin & Fluttershy_Pony]; Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (wk204) -hotdogturtle-- (||| 2): ||| Freezepop - Fantasizer (wk173); Kahimi Karie - Montage (wk193) jcgamer107 (1 | 3 | 2 |): Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five (wk24) | Miracle Musical - Hawaii: Part II (wk54); Jack White - Fear of the Dawn (wk73); Ween - Quebec (wk92) | Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation (wk115); Crash Kings - Crash Kings (wk143) | Jesse_Custer (3 | 2 ||): U2 - Achtung Baby (wk9); Radiohead - OK Computer (wk10); Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal (wk34) | Coeur de pirate - Roses (wk42); Eagles - Hotel California (wk61) || Johnbobb (3 | 3 | 3 | 8): Pink Floyd - The Wall (wk13); Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) [wk15]; The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (wk26) | Soundgarden - Superunknown (wk45); Mos Def - Black on Both Sides (wk64); Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (wk83) | clipping. - Splendor & Misery (wk103); Pearl Jam - Ten (wk108); Rusted Root - When I Woke (wk132) | Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain (wk162); Babymetal - Babymetal (wk165); Superorganism - Superorganism (wk178); Nina Simone - Pastel Blues (wk180); Childish Gambino - Atavista (wk199); Green Day - Dookie (wk207); Stone Temple Pilots - Core (wk214); The Doors - The Doors (wk220) MarkS2222222222 (||| 2): ||| Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (wk169); Dan Terminus - The Wrath of Code (wk219) MaxGalactica (|| 2 | 9): || Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION (Deluxe Expanded Edition) [wk123]; Yoko Kanno - Ragnarok Online II O.riginal S.ound T.rack (wk152) | Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores (wk166); Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (wk172); Porter Robinson - Smile! :D (wk182); Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix (wk187); Paramore - After Laughter (wk189); Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker/Pyotr Ilyich Tchiakovsky - The Nutcracker (wk196); Talking Heads - Remain in Light (wk201); Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (wk218); Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (wk222) MetalmindStats (| 3 | 3 | 1): | Tears for Fears - The Hurting (wk39); Peter Gabriel - So (wk57); Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (wk76) | Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain (wk116); SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides (wk124); Madonna - Like a Prayer (wk129) | Portishead - Dummy (wk209) MoogleKupo141 (1 |||): The Strokes - Is This It (wk20) ||| neonreaper (| 3 | 3 |): | Opeth - Damnation (wk52); Faith No More - Angel Dust (wk71); Black Sabbath - Paranoid (wk90) | Tool - 10,000 Days (wk97); Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (wk113); Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell (wk141) | NFUN (|| 2 | 1): || Night Verses - From the Gallery of Sleep (wk120); Nekomata Master - Follow Slowly (wk150) | Knower - Knower Forever (wk160) none, strictly speaking, though Jesse_Custer was the first to nominate Gorillaz (1 |||): Gorillaz - Demon Days (wk1) ||| (list to be continued next post, out of necessity) --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Albums: Champions League - Finals! (To Pimp A Butterfly v Rumours) |
| MetalmindStats 06/10/25 12:13:57 AM #18 | Rumours American Idiot --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Think of a job/class from an RPG game |
| MetalmindStats 06/09/25 5:05:41 PM #39 | Sorcerer Going by something like Sorcey or Sorcee sounds fun, hehe (and I already tend to go by a shortened version of my legal first name anyways) --- she/her (they/them also okay) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Board 8's Top 20 PC (2010s) Games - Voting Topic *NEW RULES* |
| MetalmindStats 05/31/25 10:36:07 PM #33 | Before I forget, and because it's unlikely I play (let alone greatly enjoy) anything new in the next week or so... +5 Celeste +4 Night in the Woods +4 Terraria +3 Civilization V +3 Sayonara Wild Hearts +3 Slay the Spire +2 A Short Hike +2 Civilization VI +2 Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age +2 Stardew Valley +1 GRIS +1 Minecraft +1 Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+ +1 Portal 2 +1 Race the Sun +1 Super Hexagon +1 Tabletop Simulator +1 Tales of Maj'Eyal +1 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth +1 VVVVVV For once, I've actually greatly enjoyed enough eligible games and also actually remember enough of my experiences with those games to feel fine about participating, yay. ...sadly not many remotely obscure ones, though. I may be able to give write-ups for any of the above if no one else volunteers, but don't count on it. --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Rank the Albums: Champions League - Knockout Round Play-In |
| MetalmindStats 05/26/25 4:59:30 PM #14 | Homogenic The Black Parade Hybrid Theory Master of Puppets Melodrama Am undecided on the third match and too behind to vote in the first two. --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | LRF Rank 1,250 Songs! [Nomination Topic] |
| MetalmindStats 05/25/25 9:32:54 PM #279 | *Metal kneels down onto the ground, nearly sitting on it, and waves while smiling softly* Hi, Vin. It's nice to meet you! ~~~ Didn't think my next Block would come together as more than an idea this quickly, my bad. Might have been too quick, even... Block 4 Tears for Fears | The Big Chair (3:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBbUuSkZak Peter Gabriel | Digging in the Dirt (5:19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73iIDGT2Yr4 Ccile Corbel | Arrietty's Song (English Version) [3:32] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0q0Q228xY8 Supertramp | The Logical Song (4:10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=low6Coqrw9Y POLIA | Dark Star (5:02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oQ5VEuHufI on a boat, in the sea. ~~~ ...not sure how I feel about nominating an English version of a non-English song, but it's the version that really resonated with me. Anyways, I do anticipate actually waiting a bit this time to nominate more Blocks and also lack anything else even close to ready at this time. However, I would like to ask you all and frankly also others outside the Hotel who see this, How would you feel about (close to nominations closing) me devoting, say, one of my Blocks to nominating songs others have already nominated? There's currently, by my count, three songs from that category I'm certain I care about that (based on the information available to me) seem to be at potential risk of getting cut. My idea is to give those who do wind up needing to make such decisions a bit easier of a time doing so, depending on how exactly things shake out at that point. ...would that mean each of those songs technically would have two nominators, though? Is that something I'd be making others think about? --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | LRF Rank 1,250 Songs! [Nomination Topic] |
| MetalmindStats 05/24/25 9:07:33 PM #273 | Okay, thank you times two, Flutter! For now, here goes... Block 1 Patricia Taxxon | Sir Duke (3:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNELQfAwY94 SOPHIE | BIPP (3:01) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVc3Z-bG6Eo Patricia Taxxon | Show Us What You're Made Of (2:11) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/show-us-what-youre-made-of Patricia Taxxon | Cilantro (4:37) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/cilantro Patricia Taxxon | Castle Sinclair Girnigoe (4:08) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/castle-sinclair-girnigoe ~~~ Block 2 Patricia Taxxon | Flap Flap (3:28) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/flap-flap Patricia Taxxon | Rocking Music (4:07) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/rocking-music Patricia Taxxon | Take as Many as you Like (6:31) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/take-as-many-as-you-like Patricia Taxxon | Nine Stars (8:27) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/nine-stars Patricia Taxxon | Catch These Hands (10:03) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/catch-these-hands ~~~ Block 3 Patricia Taxxon | Birdsong (11:20) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/birdsong Patricia Taxxon | Would You Please Wake Up? (5:28) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/would-you-please-wake-up Patricia Taxxon | My Best Friend (4:07) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/my-best-friend Patricia Taxxon | I Haven't Died (6:57) https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/i-havent-died Patricia Taxxon | Bauhaus (6:18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avr6FG70BnQ Featuring the album I asked about, plus another Taxxon original, a Taxxon cover, and a song off her musical influences playlist (which happens to be the *first* song on it, oop). ...I suppose the Bauhaus video also takes the spotlight, though unlike the Sir Duke video I was referring to with that question, it doesn't really feel that way to me. (Full Pix & Bit video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD6Z10D7spU Don't know of any easy list of timestamps or other convenient means of knowing when one song closes and another opens in the above, though, so figure it's much more reasonable to simply use individual links for each song. Still, maybe the Bandcamp links won't work all the way through or something. If that happens, ask and I'll make a timestamp list instead of expecting you all to listen for songs' exact endings and beginnings.) --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | LRF Rank 1,250 Songs! [Nomination Topic] |
| MetalmindStats 05/24/25 5:40:31 AM #270 | Am finally almost ready to nominate a few Blocks to start, but first figure I should ask a couple questions relevant to my intended nominations - 1) my current plan is to nominate every song from an album which has two back-to-back songs over 10 minutes long each. I'd split them into two separate Blocks (first song ending a Block while the second starts another), but that feels like an arbitrary divide on my part, something I feel like I'd be doing for the express purpose of sneaking two >10-minute songs in close proximity. Am quite alright with changing things such that I'm not nominating both those songs (in which case I also wouldn't nominate most of the rest of their source album) - would you all prefer that? and 2) another of my currently intended nominations has a video that I feel takes the spotlight over the song itself, which seems at least somewhat against the spirit of nominating songs. Again, am happy to take that as a cue to choose some other song with a less center-stage video instead - should I do so? --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | LRF Rank 1,250 Songs! [Nomination Topic] |
| MetalmindStats 05/08/25 11:48:28 PM #115 | Fluttershy_Pony posted... That's completely fine! There are no restrictions with what you do with your Blocks, so 20 songs from the same artist is quite allowed. Mixing artists in a Block is also fine, if you decide you'd rather go that route--Bane has a Block comprised of two excess songs from nominated albums (they had 11 songs each) & three individual songs, so either way is fine.Okay, thank you! Still deliberating on my nominations but did want to point out that both hombad46 and ZaziGuado have nominated Outer Wilds. --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | An American Pope? |
| MetalmindStats 05/08/25 3:29:03 PM #16 | I... especially don't really get why you all are poking fun at someone who (afaik) lives in a country where English isn't the lingua franca and for whom English is a second language for having a not-great grasp of English grammar. --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | LRF Rank 1,250 Songs! [Nomination Topic] |
| MetalmindStats 05/08/25 12:00:35 AM #91 | hi! How would you all feel about me nominating, say, two albums from a single artist that add up to exactly 20 songs combined, and then listing those as my Blocks 1-4? The links I'd post would be for the whole albums, but I'd list the other components of your preferred nomination format for each song within my post. If that's not good with you all, I'm happy to go for a different approach. (or, alternatively, are mixed blocks of say one album and then some other songs not from that album to reach a multiple of 5 good? Would still list each song as above.) (Also not sure why I abstained from your last song ranking, in retrospect, especially after rereading some of the one before it...) --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | The Mount Rushmore of: WRPGs |
| MetalmindStats 05/07/25 2:26:59 PM #52 | Using real-life Mount Rushmore logic to snub Baldur's Gate 3: Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar Planescape: Torment Deus Ex The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim It felt important to me to have at least one pre-2000 WRPG and at least one sci-fi WRPG. --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1381 |
| MetalmindStats 05/06/25 7:15:58 PM #31 | My opinions re others' opinions: LightningStrikes posted:I deliberately underseeded Astro Bot to give it a potential second-round draw against Metaphor, but not by that much IMO. Having it as a 1-seed at the end of the decade sounds plausible enough to me, though neither Mario Odyssey nor any Sony-published game got there in 2020. However, I tried to seed the top half or so based on how I think it'd shake out right now, and I definitely don't think Astro Bot is up there yet. ...though by that same logic, I think your Remake/Rebirth comparison makes lots of sense in retrospect, just not that Xenoblade 3 should sink for it. And what you said is really nice, thank you. MacArrowny posted... Which reminds me, 13 Sentinels should probably be in that GotD bracket...I forgot 13 Sentinels was a 2020 release outside Japan, oops. Though by my logic in determining the bottom half, it'd likely have only been a 50/50 inclusion or so. And I was trying to limit the influx of Atlus JRPGs, but in retrospect should have subbed out Shin Megami Tensei V for Persona 3 Reload. Re Wonder, I sort of agree with you and originally had similar plans, but I also think you're on the low end of B8 respect for it - that most of us would take it over the likes of Ragnarok and Xenoblade 3 without thinking twice. ctesjbuvf posted... I think Persona 5 being a remake might hurt nominations more if anything. It likely doesn't get that high a seed.Ehh, Golden didn't seem to get hurt in 2020, considering it was a Vita exclusive at the time - whereas Royal's on every contemporary platform that matters here. And I mostly agree with those who think Royal shouldn't be in, fwiw, but that particular cat's already out of the bag. --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1380 |
| MetalmindStats 05/06/25 2:34:24 AM #481 | LightningStrikes posted... Yes.swirIdude posted... We want the damn bracket!ctesjbuvf posted... Those are always fun!As you wish... Division 1 (1) Baldurs Gate 3 vs. (16) UFO 50 (8) Tales of Arise vs. (9) Stray (5) Marvels Spider-Man 2 vs. (12) Trials of Mana (4) Ghost of Tsushima vs. (13) Shin Megami Tensei V (3) Animal Crossing: New Horizons vs. (14) Sea of Stars (6) DOOM Eternal vs. (11) OMORI (7) Astro Bot vs. (10) Hogwarts Legacy (2) Metaphor: ReFantazio vs. (15) Tunic Division 2 (1) Persona 5 Royal vs. (16) Sonic x Shadow Generations (8) It Takes Two vs. (9) Fire Emblem Engage (5) Super Mario Bros. Wonder vs. (12) Helldivers 2 (4) Resident Evil 4 vs. (13) Cult of the Lamb (3) Metroid Dread vs. (14) Inscryption (6) Yakuza: Like a Dragon vs. (11) Triangle Strategy (7) Horizon Forbidden West vs. (10) Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2) Final Fantasy VII Remake vs. (15) Animal Well Division 3 (1) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom vs. (16) Half-Life: Alyx (8) Silent Hill 2 vs. (9) Cyberpunk 2077 (5) Balatro vs. (12) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (4) Final Fantasy XVI vs. (13) Psychonauts 2 (3) Genshin Impact vs. (14) Black Myth: Wukong (6) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth vs. (11) Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (7) Vampire Survivors vs. (10) Diablo IV (2) God of War: Ragnarok vs. (15) Hi-Fi Rush Division 4 (1) Elden Ring vs. (16) Guilty Gear -Strive- (8) The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom vs. (9) Stellar Blade (5) Alan Wake II vs. (12) The Last of Us Part II (4) Monster Hunter Rise vs. (13) Pikmin 4 (3) Hades vs. (14) Marvel Rivals (6) Kirby and the Forgotten Land vs. (11) Pokmon Legends: Arceus (7) Street Fighter 6 vs. (10) Resident Evil Village (2) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 vs. (15) Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Prioritized near-guaranteed inclusions for about the top half of the bracket, and then games that could create interesting matches to comprise nearly its bottom half. Nine Sols eventually became the very last cut. There were, I felt, a great many games I had to snub in the process - albeit mostly almost surefire fodder, admittedly. Bayonetta 3, Dead Space, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, NEO: The World Ends with You, and Octopath Traveler II are a few examples that I hope hint at my process for whittling down the bottom slightly-less-than-half. --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | The Mount Rushmore of: Silent Protagonists |
| MetalmindStats 05/05/25 10:00:53 PM #99 | FFDragon posted... Doesn't Steve have a song on the top 100 charts right now?IMO this prompt doesn't expect that the character stays silent in every adaptation of their source material, but tbf A Minecraft Movie is just too big to remain separable from Steve in Minecraft, in retrospect. MetalmindStats posted... Charlie Chaplin/The TrampChanging again, keeping the quoted trio and dropping Steve for Doomguy/Doom Slayer. --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | The Mount Rushmore of: Silent Protagonists |
| MetalmindStats 05/05/25 8:09:12 PM #94 | MetalmindStats posted... Charlie Chaplin/The TrampReplacing Wile E. Coyote with Steve (Minecraft) since vocal expressions are fine, and the latter's a better fit for the protagonist part of this Rushmore. --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
| Topic | The Mount Rushmore of: Silent Protagonists |
| MetalmindStats 05/05/25 8:04:16 PM #93 | Charlie Chaplin/The Tramp Erdrick/Hero (Dragon Quest III) Gromit Wile E. Coyote --- she/her (or they/them) ~never knows what to say~ |
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