Lurker > DireKrow

Actual last support:
Wild Guns

Also reminder that I've supported Brawl.

Oh just making it explicit again since they're on the sheet now but I'm not marked as having supported them. I've supported:
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wild Guns

My last support?

Freedom Planet 2

Since I sorta promised to do it with that change. Supporting:
MOTHER 3

Jets'n'Guns Gold
Shop Theme | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAk0mwjZ_Rc
Fanvacoolt | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxjkv7AsS7Q
Megascorcher | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3GdBws6nhU
Flames of Fire | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFPuaf9Iu2I
Flight of The Toyota | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aPpMU2n6CM
Super Mission | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8GA-h5njNQ
Alt. Koala in the Spider's Web | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rsAm8xodjc
Alt. Burghammer Hill | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lCJZpucewE
Alt. Hyperchase | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5UmFkpXgIs
Alt. Machinaeguns | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3N9G-fTV4

Adjustments to an existing nomination.

DFA got consistently negative feedback on discord and on here (which is weird given it's the most popular song outside of this community) so I've dropped it entirely. Super Mission has been promoted to main status. The other mains were shuffled up. Hyperchase is a new alt.

I'm completely caught up.

New supports:
Airport CEO
Border Break Airburst
Bravely Default II
Celeste
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
Final Fantasy XIV
Flywrench
Kirby Triple Deluxe
Legaia 2: Duel Saga
No Straight Roads
Oninaki
Rama
Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r]
Wario Land: Shake It!
Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys

Lemmings. Roughly 27-28 years old when I first played it.

I've listened up to and including Trails of Cold Steel.

Have some new supports:

Chrono Trigger
Ecco the Dolphin (Sega CD)
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Rabi-Ribi
Samurai Shodown
The Caligula Effect 2
The Legacy of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru

Jets'n'Guns Gold
Death From Above | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hxZM0wmqiw
Shop Theme | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAk0mwjZ_Rc
Fanvacoolt | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxjkv7AsS7Q
Megascorcher | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3GdBws6nhU
Flames of Fire | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFPuaf9Iu2I
Flight of The Toyota | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aPpMU2n6CM
Alt. Super Mission | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8GA-h5njNQ
Alt. Koala in the Spider's Web | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rsAm8xodjc
Alt. Burghammer Hill | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lCJZpucewE
Alt. Machinaeguns | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3N9G-fTV4

My last nom!

I'll get this out of the way and support:
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
Yugioh Master Duel

After a discussion on the discord, I'm scrapping the system I was using for choosing what to support and just supporting whatever catches my fancy as I listen to them. I've listened up to and including Espgaluda II, plus 13 Sentinels for some reason, so here's a bunch more.

I'm supporting:

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
30XX
Atelier Shallie Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Heartland
Paradise Killer
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection

I will support PMD:GTI and YMD if/when a certain discussed change has happened for each. (Ping me if I forget).

Dicey Dungeons
Step Right Up | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUAqS7mFrI
Swing Me Another 6 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKHKaBM54IU
Fighting Chance | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGL5m0qWzWA
Against All Odds | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqSD6qRM5yU
Tempting Fate | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0EwPLS1Gec
Fortune Favours The Bold | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1xs4CnLqBs
Alt. Lifeline | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVPEgJxzjpc
Alt. Beginner's Luck | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw_o1jixNh0
Alt. Elimination Round | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGnZj61iA4o
Alt. Bonus Round | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb-HswVr0bs

Day 4. Not DLC because I don't think it's legal by the tourney rules, and even if it was, I'm not super familiar with it + don't like it as much as the main soundtrack for the most part.

I've listened up to and including Devil May Cry 3. Here's 7 more supports:

Cotton Rock'n'Roll/Fantasy: Superlative Night Dreams
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Thunder Force IV
Mighty Switch Force 2
Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMIX
Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas
Touhou Shinjutou ~ Hollow Song of Birds

Shovel Knight
Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7rhEKTX-sE
High Above the Land (The Flying Machine) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywaT65aXoq8
La Danse Macabre (Lich Yard) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDGaqUskBRM
An Underlying Problem (The Lost City) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxvCLqFdb2w
In the Halls of the Usurper (Pridemoor Keep) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ao3clVneKk
A Thousand Leagues Below (Iron Whale) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKTFQpHs0JA
Alt. The Defender (Black Knight Battle) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPPXkIHwfyY
Alt. The Fateful Return (Tower Approach) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5aY5YXd8I
Alt. Of Devious Machinations (Clockwork Tower) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWetH8EpNg
Alt. Flowers of Antimony (The Explodatorium) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-IFeszWwo
Alt. The Inner Struggle (Tower) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mZSJZAJqo

Day 3 nom!

Eschatos
POINT OF NO RETURN | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOSRTILzl1s
SILVER LINING | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZ6pqzKc28
STELLAR LIGHT | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOJtEOPaHE
EXTERMINATION (Arrange) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m9xENP4FY8
SURVIVE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKtZ1OoWuFg
MASSIVE X | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntYvtxfl-k
Alt. RUSH INTO | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOM6X9DF1cg
Alt. POINT OF NO RETURN (Arrange) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PglGbLjF-4E
Alt. SILVER LINING (Arrange) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA1m0BT87pw
Alt. STELLAR LIGHT (Arrange) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RpPoFmuyjY

A change to existing nomination for hopefully the last time. Leveraging the fact that the arrangements play in-game and therefore I'm permitted to double-dip, in order to get more than 1 Alt.

Eschatos
POINT OF NO RETURN | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOSRTILzl1s
EXTERMINATION (Arrange) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m9xENP4FY8
STELLAR LIGHT | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOJtEOPaHE
SURVIVE (Arrange) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIzOSNoOwZk
RUSH INTO | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOM6X9DF1cg
MASSIVE X | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntYvtxfl-k
Alt. SILVER LINING | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZ6pqzKc28

This is a change to an existing nomination of mine. Specifically, SILVER LINING and EXTERMINATION were swapped between Main and Alt. EXTERMINATION, SURVIVE and SILVER LINING were then replaced with official arranged versions.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Streetwise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTINr-tsDSI
Pull Back The Bass | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ51RyuJpKY
Jazz Belmont | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUw4rNi33VQ
Labratory | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvmComXOtWU
Jazz Be Damned | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkrBBgz6P9k
Dark Groove | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5PkLYegQ0
Alt. Castle | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrhKZKRNiBg
Alt. Colonius | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kDAdEDBUDE
Alt. Carrotus | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuc4MuGMKLU
Alt. Frolick Lane | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZbDzg1oMo

Day 2 nomination. It was posted previously, but since it wasn't put on the sheet yet nor supported by anyone, I've deleted that and modified it by giving it two more alts (Carrotus and Frolick Lane).

@Huntmaster95
@kamakazikila

Would either of you be opposed to me swapping Silver Lining to Alt in place of Extermination? Eschatos has enough strength to potentially go deep and I feel like Extermination is one of the weaker songs in the set. If it goes deep, it's likely the the Alt will appear multiple times, and since Eschatos only has 1 alt, I'm now thinking that strategically it should be one of the better songs.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Streetwise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTINr-tsDSI
Pull Back The Bass | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ51RyuJpKY
Jazz Belmont | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUw4rNi33VQ
Labratory | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvmComXOtWU
Jazz Be Damned | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkrBBgz6P9k
Dark Groove | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5PkLYegQ0
Alt. Castle | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrhKZKRNiBg
Alt. Colonius | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kDAdEDBUDE

Day 2 nomination

Eschatos
POINT OF NO RETURN | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOSRTILzl1s
SILVER LINING | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZ6pqzKc28
STELLAR LIGHT | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOJtEOPaHE
SURVIVE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKtZ1OoWuFg
RUSH INTO | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOM6X9DF1cg
MASSIVE X | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntYvtxfl-k
Alt. EXTERMINATION | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_j2u9A_1P0

"Day 1" nomination

I've finished listening to everything up to and including Arkanoid DS.

Here's my next top 7 supports:

Mad Rat Dead
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Rivals of Aether
Octopath Traveler
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Hive Jump
League of Legends

I'm going to listen to 21 setlists each day and support my favourite 7 from among all of my unsupported setlists (including ones on previous days).

I've listened to the first 21 (up to LaTale), and the first 7 I am supporting are:

Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
Paper Mario: The Origami King
Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
The Pillagers of Raillore
Spark the Electric Jester 3
Ace Combat 7

At the moment I'd say...
Jolteon > Vaporeon > Flareon > Umbreon > Glaceon > Leafeon > Espeon > Sylveon > Eevee itself

I like all of the 'lutions. Eevee is okay. Dislike none.

It w as brought to my attention that the nominated version of Merciless was the evo one so... I'll nominate the original:

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - The Merciless Savior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1GhOzlGXQk

And will drop Tangledeep - The Final Battle

This is one of my favourite areas of video game music too so I'd love to dive through my memory and try to find some good ones, but I'm seriously lacking time right now.

Tons of things that came to mind, like Azure Arbitrator, Merciless Savior, Second Dark Matter Battle, Dialga's Fight to the Finish, Daughter of the Dark God, Unwavering Belief, It Has To Be This Way have already been nominated. Consider all of those honorary nominations from me too :)

I guess I'll just have to go with whatever five first come to mind that isn't already up...

Kirby: Triple Deluxe - Moonstruck Blossom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSG9Z9NopVg

Bug Fables - Transcending, Overpowering, Everlasting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yje-g6s6mY

Cave Story - Last Battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zW7Dmx9WYQ

Tangledeep - The Final Battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7R-YRNlGn0

Crash Twinsanity - The Evil Twins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIeg07SVUJ0

Someone on the discord suggested that we could use the rankings to calculate what the 1v1 scores would be for every pair of songs if they hypothetically took each other on in VGMC. So here they are:

https://pastebin.com/ACgfmwiG

Final outliers:

https://pastebin.com/HdRgkZXQ

1. Waveshine_2001 ... 100
2. ZaziGuado ... 100
3. Mega Mana ... 96
4. Collen ... 94
5. Chaeix ... 90
...
47. deo ... 46
48. JONA ... 42
49. R-Man ... 36
50. skulltrumpet ... 36
51. DoctorJimmy133 ... 34

Final compatibilities:

https://pastebin.com/pCaVZGTB (differences)
https://pastebin.com/s1M6DWn6 (squared differences)
https://pastebin.com/3txZUDek (ranking of pairs)

1. Eddv & Robazoid ... 22
2. JONA & NFUN ... 28
3. DoctorJimmy133 & R-Man ... 32
4. JONA & sergiocornaga ... 34
5. deo & Team Rocket Elite ... 36
6. Mega Mana & Robazoid ... 36
...
1270. Chaeix & Janus5k ... 120
1271. Prince46 & pyresword ... 120
1272. Prince46 & tazzyboyishere ... 120
1273. tazzyboyishere & vaati000 ... 120
1274. vaati000 & ZaziGuado ... 122
1275. loweffortmemes & Waveshine_2001 ... 126

I voted that I wouldn't remember, because I tried to recall it just now, checked, and got it wrong. Specifically, I thought it was A B, but it's B A.

azuarc posted...

Square rooting wouldn't affect the order, though, so does it have a tangible benefit?

Not necessarily. Quite arbitrary on my part. Just puts the numbers back into a number range / distribution that is vaguely along the lines of the non-squared ones.

azuarc posted...

Stupid question...why are the squared differences smaller numbers and decimals, when the regular decimals aren't? Are you square rooting instead?

Disclaimer: Despite having a math degree, I never had to pass a statistics course, oddly.

Ah sorry, I explained this when I first posted them, but dropped the explainer from later posts.

I take each of the individual differences, square them, then add them together, then square root the total.

Outliers after #3:
https://pastebin.com/Gt5JnJAW

Compatibilities after #3:
https://pastebin.com/2cYWX8ni (differences)
https://pastebin.com/V02EfGDk (squared differences)
https://pastebin.com/BRT2s5tA (ranking of all pairs)

Honestly this all looked and sounded a lot better than I was expecting.

Outliers after #5:
https://pastebin.com/Znuync7Z

Compatibilities after #5:
https://pastebin.com/yaN1ahM8
https://pastebin.com/ipQ6q3hs
https://pastebin.com/BKJbsjKv

We discovered that all of the compatibilitiesI'd posted up to this point have had some errors. The source of the error has been discovered and squashed, but I'd like to sincerely apologize, especially to Pablo Smith, Place, Plasman, PIayer_0, whose stats were all scrambled up!

Outliers after #7:
https://pastebin.com/ZKmxQaDd

Compatibilities after #7:
https://pastebin.com/z2jQUnPx
https://pastebin.com/Dhji7MA1
https://pastebin.com/L1sE4Cbh

Mouth
Arnold
Possible
Digimon

We're at the half way point.

Outliers after #9:
https://pastebin.com/AYYSTya4

Compatibilities after #9:
https://pastebin.com/gL5KWU06 (differences)
https://pastebin.com/a4ShuvH6 (squared differences)
https://pastebin.com/HJbpBHAT (pair rankings)

Castlevania
Batman
Megas
Infinity

Character design wise, I think Spyro is on top.
Musically it'd be very tough, but I think I'd put either Spyro or Ape Escape on top.

In terms of the games, I slightly prefer Spyro to Crash and slightly prefer the original R&C trilogy to the original J&D trilogy, so Insomniac has ND's number there. But having said that, Sly 2 is a serious contender for my single favourite game out of all of these. But I don't think 1 and 3 live up to 2's heights, where as the other series are a bit more consistent.

Ended up voting Spyro, but barely.

Some wikis have ads and even auto-play videos that go through ublock unless I manually add them. Then, because of the way the domain names work, I have to do this individually for every wiki it happens on. There's also this enormous "fan feed" at the bottom of every single page with obnoxiously huge thumbnails, somehow unfiltered by ublock.

Some wikis have tons of wasted space on the left/right and panes dedicated to things like unhelpful most popular pages that consumes an entire column and scrolls with the view. On some pages there's even links to entirely unrelated wikis there. They also like to have various little pop ups in the corners to various ends I never use.

Most wikis also have an obnoxious bright yellow fandom banner on the left hand side which looks bad and draws the eye. For some reason the search function is there instead of in the main wiki body??

Speaking of the search, I don't like how when you search something, even an exact title, it goes to a search page instead of just going to the page (Bulbapedia does this too), even though it gives you auto-complete and search suggestions to direct you to specific pages!

A lot of communites that use fandom wikis will rely on category pages to aggregate lists (e.g. "lists of bosses"/"lists of items", etc), even though they're terrible to use because they're just a list of links without pictures in alphabetical order, strewn across multiple pages, with no further context or hierarchy (except sometimes categories within categories). Oh but don't worry, fandom helpfully gives you 5 big thumbnailed "Trending pages" results at the top that you have to scroll past every time. Surely those are what you're actually looking for!

I loathe how it dominates search results on Google, so that when there is dev-supported and/or more complete and/or more accurate non-fandom wikis, the results for them get buried by the fandom equivalents every time. It can be surprisingly hard to find the non-fandom pages sometimes. Terraria is a notable case of this.

There's some more fiddly things too like how file urls not ending in their image extensions by default screws with some image-related things I've tried to do with them in the past which just adds to my ire.

And this is completely subjective and not always true but: non-fandom wikis, for when games have both, tend to just... look better? The communities put more effort into nice presentation and usability for their own wikis than what you get from the fandom default.

Arcane
Death
Boondocks
Flintstones

I've used FireFox + uBlock Origin forever and still think fandom is awful. It goes beyond the ads. Terrible news.

depends if I'm going somewhere crowded

Outliers after #11:
https://pastebin.com/8KWuZ6Nx

Compatibilities after #11:
https://pastebin.com/VkmL2uU8 (differences)
https://pastebin.com/6B1NbyN3 (squared differences)
https://pastebin.com/sizn1nKd (pair rankings)

Outliers after #13:

https://pastebin.com/cBNg6WuA

Compatibilities after #13:

https://pastebin.com/tC3Pk1v6 (sum of differences)
https://pastebin.com/mW0uiw4x (squared squared differences)

And something new, a ranking of every combination of 2 voters, from most compatible to least:

https://pastebin.com/U9LQK7dy

Sealab
Piece
She-Ra
Duckula

Avatar
Rocko
Johnny
Scooby

Compatibilities after #15:

https://pastebin.com/fAYnjs0Y

^ This one is calculated simply by taking the differences in ranking for each song between you and the other person and adding them together

https://pastebin.com/yR5NNNu4

^ This one is calculated by taking the squared differences in ranking for each song between you and the other person, adding them together, then taking the sqrt of the result.

I probably won't post these after every ranking, but if you want to see yours at any time, just ping/dm me.

Outliers after #15:

https://pastebin.com/vyA6D0uL

There's four different methods used here:

• The sum of (the differences between your ranking and the song's final ranking)
• The sum of (the differences between your ranking and the song's average ranking by voters)
• The sqrt of (the sum of (the squared differences between your ranking and the song's final ranking))
• The sqrt of (the sum of (the squared differences between your ranking and the song's average ranking by voters))

The first method is the traditional one used for outliers in most contests and ranking threads on here. The current top and bottom of that is...

(Most different to final ranking)
1. Chaeix ... 24
2. Mega Mana ... 24
3. pyresword ... 23
4. ZaziGuado ... 23
5. tazzyboyishere ... 22
6. Waveshine_2001 ... 19
7. FL81 ... 18
8. Mac Arrowny ... 18
9. tgs2 ... 17
10. TheArkOfTurus ... 17
...
41. R-Man ... 4
42. rwlh ... 4
43. Snake5555555555 ... 4
44. JONA ... 3
45. Place ... 3
46. sergiocornaga ... 3
47. DoctorJimmy133 ... 2
48. NFUN ... 2
49. Team Rocket Elite ... 2
50. vaati000 ... 1
51. DragonImps ... 0
(Least different to final ranking)