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Toxtricity posted...

ELIMINATION THIRTY-SIX

?) Glacier (Average placement: 111.375)

aw thanks. it's been a real pleasure doing this! i figured, when i nominated capriccio, it would have been the song that got the highest out of all the songs i nominated. glad to see that that prediction was correct. and you're definitely right about us still sharing that thread of mutual fixation.

actually - there's several songs on that fixation thread that i'm planning on nominating for vgmc this year, hahaha; and while i've been compiling a run of nominations for this year, all i can think of is "i'm turning into toxtricity. look at my taste. this is like time by pink floyd it feels like i am running towards where you have been tastewise". but i can still tell there's a lot of difference between us regardless.

it's kind of like we're driving down parallel roads or something, but my car is slightly slower than yours. vroom.

...by the way, i wasn't expecting moonman's fandango to get as high as it did - that was a real surprise! a pleasant one, though, because i always consider that a really personal piece of vgm.

i have reached the finish line of my participation in these rankings and i am happy. if there's another set of rankings like these at some point, i'm definitely going to nominate again. this was like... such a time capsule. really enjoyable, i've said this a few times before but thanks.

Toxtricity posted...

this means we are at the TOP TEN by the way; here are the remaining songs

C-Wars Belly Crawl
Fighting Layer Capriccio
Final Fantasy VI *Remix Dancing Mad (PAL)
Galactic Pinball MOONMAN's Fandango
Lightfield Shadoubt Shaps
Mary Skelter 2 Shissou
Phantasy Star Online 2 Yggdrasil
Secret of Mana (2018) Steel and Snare
Splatoon 2 Frantic Aspic
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru ridicule

kaonashi1 has 3 noms left
Glacier has 2
Place / hotdogturtle / NFUN / azuarc / rwlh all hanging on with 1!

WHAT WILL HAPPEN.

having a hard time believing i have 2 songs in your top 10, im really surprised! i was honestly expecting the highest id get to be in the -teens or 20s, so this exceeds my expectations by like. so much. like the only other person who has more than one song left is kao and with how you've said you have extremely similar tastes in the past its not a surprise to me that kao has 3 songs in the top 10.

im saying this now and im expecting one of my songs to be #9 or something bc its been a while since one of my nominations has gone out... but at the same time a bunch of other people are in that same boat, and kao's been having noms go pretty frequently now; so it all feels like kind of a gamble to me how high my songs get at this point. i dont know how high but however high they get im going to be happy.

this has been such a cool topic so far, your opinions on the songs that have been nominated have been like MEGA INTERESTING to hear [especially as you go into the history of the songs and similarities between prog artists], and im glad that the songs i nominated can help ride out the end of the rankings.

the experience of this all has just been so great and utterly unforgettable. thank u

Toxtricity posted...

64rd
Game: GUNBRICK
Title: Convention 3

haha im glad you liked it! i'm honestly surprised i've got as many songs as i have at this stage. i was expecting one of my songs to make it to magenta [edit: this is a preemptive assumption], but to have 2 still in the contest nearing the 50s is surprising to me and i don't know why. of my remaining songs... one was a song i figured i was going to be this high in the list, but the other is really shocking me that it's making it this far? like in a good way, because its a special song to me

you know, i'd probably pick completely different songs for like. half my nominations nowadays because it's been a few years since this started [wow. its amazing to think you started this in what. mid-late 2018? and youve been slowly progressing it this whole time.] its like a milestone of my life and now its suddenly coming to an end, all the rankings are going by super fast now! wow! :) i'm glad to have participated

anyways i was going somewhere with this. right - as time goes by, music tastes change and schtuff. like... i would have replaced life is a bore with slammasters 2 sydney, i would have replaced the siivagunner pick with a time tripper pick [probably the opnmidi version of the binding], and i would have replaced international superstar soccer 64 training with a gunstar heroes pick [either good night, baby or dancing-smash-hero].

while im at it about hypothetical time travel cathode picks, id probably replace cerebrawl rush the front with either katamari damacy roll me in or mega man perfect blue intro stage... not sure about that though. but there's a few songs i wouldnt have ended up replacing i think. the two you haven't ranked yet, and... potentially this song - but similarly to rush the front its something im not sure about! if i was to do this hypothetical time travel replacement of my songs, i would probably pick convention 2 instead.

because like, it's been 3 and a half?? years since this happened and my taste has developed to be a lot glitchier [this happened when i listened to light industry for the first time], and ive realized i like music that focuses a lot on fuller complex chords now because it provides a lot of EMOTION and ENERGY [thank you sin and punishment] so i tend to seek those out.

on the other hand, my overfocusing on spanish-flavoured vgm has simmered with time. its a similar kind of change to the sort i went through when i first came into board 8, when i went from mainly liking fm music to mainly liking sampled music.

despite all that im saying about theoretical time travel vgm experiments, i wouldn't take any of it back. everybody who took part in this ranking, whether it be you as the ranker or anyone who nominated, has had their tastes change over time i'd imagine. submitting music for this ranking played a part in developing my own music tastes, and im highly curious to see where the other two songs i submitted placed as we head into the MAGENTA ZONE [spooky]!