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For people who are heavy, it's very often their legs.

I am not especially heavy, however my answer is still legs. I've just always had really poor upper body strength. When I started in the gym, I would really struggle just to bench anything at all. 95 is a considerable challenge. By contrast, on the inclined leg press, I have no issue putting four plates on each side, which is close to 500 pounds. Yes, your legs are supposed to be inherently stronger and that's an exercise that inherently leads to much larger numbers, but not by a 5:1 margin.

Nominated by...wait, seriously? Nobody thought to nominate this after Soft?

Enix who?

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My response: Rock...followed by Die

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Would you look at those morons? I paid my taxes over a year ago!

Funny story.

In Pennsylvania, they used to do the registration stickers one year as MM YY and then the next year they'd do them as YY MM. I have no idea why. But I didn't know this.

So my parents moved my grandfather into a home and basically gave me one of the cars they inherited as a result. Old car. Nothing anyone would pay any attention to. One day my dad asked me when the last time it'd been inspected was. I shrugged and looked at the sticker. It said 06 08. I didn't think anything of this because it was the first half of 2008. Turns out it was due to be inspected in August 2006.

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Huh, Handlebars at the top. Wouldn't have called that one.

Nominated by UF8

Who would win in a fight, Lemmy or God?
Trick question, asshole! Lemmy IS God!

Somehow we had two "cream" related answers, neither of which were cream of the crop.

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My response: Hudson

For only nominating 2 songs, I'm pretty happy with how things turned out.

Man, I hate the interface of challonge. Just give me a freaking scroll bar.

Nominated by double blank day.

I don't normally change my pick, but as soon as I saw supports for Ogre Battle, I knew I had to. Ended up breaking a three-way tie, too. And now, onto a very iconic number with hopefully a very open-ended prompt.

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My response: Ace of Bass

Nominated by...eh, might as well, right?

I better see a bunch of generic VGM answers for this one. =p

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My response: The Decisive, followed by Boss

FF7
RE1
MGS

Those are easy picks. The fourth is the tough one. So I'm gonna take a personal pick here.

Final Fantasy Tactics

as characters in general, or as characters in smash?

It might sound funny, but of the four games that are on the most common permutation, the one I think is actually most reasonable to remove is OOT. It's a beloved game by many, but I think the other three are more iconic in their own way. At the very least, they're more played today -- or at least SM64 and MK64 are, thanks to speed communities. I'm aware ZOOTR is a thing, but I have stronger memories of playing Goldeneye and the two Marios than I do of OOT, which I beat once and basically never touched again.

PIayer_0 posted...

1) Hosting support:

This could honestly be as simple as "if the topic isn't up within half an hour, somebody else should take it upon themselves to do it." The bigger question is that of vote-counting, because that could be delayed. In the distant past we mostly trusted whatever Ed Bellis counted, and occasionally there would be DQs that we wouldn't even know about, but at this point those of us here aren't generally trying to game the system or pull fast ones, there's a much higher degree of transparency, and there's usually extra people counting to the side. So if I were to consider anything in this regard, it would be for tallying.

PIayer_0 posted...

2) Long bracket stage: Is 256 songs still worth making the bracket take over 3 months to finish?...We can at least do a survey on how people feel about 256, and there's nothing wrong with trying 128 for one year before returning to 256 again.

Won't be needed. Unless attitudes have shifted tremendously, I can already answer this one. People will not like the idea of cutting the field in half. I did it for a few years due to participation rates -- and it was probably the right decision then -- but with current participation rates limiting to 128 often makes the difference of some users getting crowded out of getting their songs in. At 128, locks would need to be reevaluated and the threshold for getting a song in goes much higher, which means only the most popular tracks make it. We'd also likely have to tinker with the number of nominations everyone gets. This would end up being a mess.

I do agree with you -- the contest runs throughout too much of the year. That's always been a feature of VGMC. But now that the community does more than just run VGMC once a year, it's no longer "contest season" and "off season," so concluding the contest more swiftly would be great...it's just a logistical nightmare.

PIayer_0 posted...

we can try something with going beyond doubles. Everyone gets three triples? Or two quadruples? One quintuple? Maybe they can distribute their 20 votes across as few songs as they like, but with a cap per song.

Adding more doubles+ is one of those things that sounds appealing, like when deo gave everyone more total nominations a couple years ago. Functionally, it doesn't really improve anything, and has a strong chance of having the opposite effect from its intentions. Some folks will get one song in that they care about (maybe,) and then nothing else, while others work the system to maximize every one of their choices and end up with 20/20 in the field (or 25/25 or however many we get.)

PIayer_0 posted...

we grew to 256 to have more tastes represented, yet doubling the field doesn't shift any demographics directly...we just get more of everything in the same proportions.

I wonder if this is actually true or not. I feel like the first 128 to get in recent years have heavily favored songs I'm less interested in, and the tracks I enjoy are more frequently in the back half. This led to a bit of a meltdown on my part one year where it felt like everything was incredibly divergent, and yet the final bracket wasn't all that bad. I'm not sure if the same would happen at 128 on a smaller scale, but without tinkering with the numbers, it's hard to say.

PIayer_0 posted...

4) Nom deadlines: How many rules do we add to try and satisfy everyone?

There are a lot. At the very least, it's probably confusing to anyone new. Other than the freeze itself, the two major features of this -- the limit of 5 on the first day and the existence of locks -- are both my doing, but the first was technically a suggestion and limited to day 1 and the second was never intended to be quite as major a feature as some people made it out to be. I just wanted a way to appease the folks who hated the nom shifting games that take place at the final deadline.

I'm not certain we need two days of holding to 5/day. After the first day, it's basically open season in my mind anyway, and if we keep the freeze, it still takes a fair bit of dedication to get to the end of the day 1 nominations by the end of it. The hard deadline for locking is mostly for administrative purposes, so that's the only line on that list of dates I would consider cutting, but it would simplify the start-up phase of nominations a good bit.

PIayer_0 posted...

I also see people say nominations are the best part - maybe that's a sign that we need more events like crowdsources, community mixes, or VGM gift exchanges?

There's truth to this. Once upon a time, VGMC was the only game in town. Then BOST happened. Then discord. Then other communities and the chase and vgm-quiz and who knows what else. While VGMC might be the big signature event everyone looks forward to, there's certainly merit in evening out the interest and participation throughout the year.

And there's certainly no harm in tinkering with the system, so long as we're not looking at big sweeping changes. The two-phase system of year 10 possibly could have worked long-term with some tweaks, but it had some definite issues that needed addressing, and I especially felt bad for Toxtunnelprocessratioin11/16time only getting one track -- nominated or supported -- into the field, and losing in R1.

But okay, you want a change that has some precedent? How about this...

One of the two years I ran 192, it was with byes for a third of the field. Now, this was problematic because the methodology of selecting what got byes and not was biased. Left purely to me, that probably would have been a disaster....but what if those are the locks? What if the field only consisted of 64 locks, with a higher threshold, but the tracks that got that demonstrated the sort of obvious support that warranted a free ticket to R2.

I'm sure this idea will have problems, foremost among them how it reinforces the significance of locks, but it would get rid of 32 R1 matches, it would reward the songs that have strong returns early...I dunno, it's something to think about. I know it won't go over. People are generally against the idea of reducing the field size. But it's an interesting take, at least.

UF8 posted...

I get that people may still be strongly against my thoughts here but I like to think that the drop protection system i also test ran in bost actually was a success as an alternative that didn't have that same effect

I honestly do not even remember what the drop protection system was. Can you give me the TLDR version?

Mario 64
Mario Kart 64
Goldeneye
Ocarina of Time

Nominated by Chaeix

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My response: Ready, followed by -tested and born

There are a decent number of characters to pull from for 2020. I can't promise we won't be scraping the bottom of the barrel by #64, but there's depth at the top.

UF8 posted...

you're really putting the freeze before the full amount of noms have been unlocked?

The thing you're purposefully ignoring is that everyone has a limit for how many songs they're willing to listen to before they shut down and say fuck it. They'll support maybe a few things that pop up later that they know, and ignore the rest. If we don't put in a freeze, you may as well forget about nominating anything after day 2 anyway unless it's already well-known. Certainly not the sort of things you'd normally be trying to roll out there.

So, ironically, the person the freeze helps the most is probably you.

pff, I'm way past 50 the way I see it. I have no desire to watch myself rot until finally something stops working enough to reach critical failure.

Only thing good about Vanille being in the bracket would have been that I'd know how to vote in any match where she appeared.

+ Hong Kong 97 | Main Tehme | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qxqz-0wJZ0

This one's been on my own list for a while, but Chaeix suggested something similar yesterday.

And I combined all the Metal Gear-related answers. I can't think of a good reason not to.

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My response: Little Bighorn...dunno why that came to mind first, but w/e.

Snake5555555555 posted...

Do you have a preference between the two?

...choose wisely. ><

Oh. That's weird. And utterly fantastic for a literal tutorial when they don't tell you crap.

Thank you.

Decided to take a chance on the game. I am sooo lost with these controls. God, I hope this starts to make sense later, but I'm almost 3 hours in and this plays like a Bethesda game where the command inputs are all wrong. Also, how am I supposed to be able to do this?

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Johnbobb posted...

Looking over the nominees, Amicia de Rune may legitimately be my favorite character of the decade

Let's hope she gets in.

Nobody in the 2's or 3's I want to push (that I haven't already,) so let's help some seeding ig.

Mordin Solus
Madeline
Mae Borowski

I only support people who start with M.

Nominated by AbsolutelyNoOne

Not one person said "cast."

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Aecioo posted...

Well then it's time to play the goty 2023, Baldurs Gate 3. Shadowheart is my future wife and Astarion is the best friend I never knew I needed (or will ever trust). They are both legitimately great but to consider them above others on that list is lol.

but seriously play BG3

Maybe, but I got kinda burned out on DOS2. I don't think I'd enjoy it enough to justify paying over $50.

I legit had to look up who Astarion and Shadowheart were.

Can we also take a second to point out Sackboy at #5?

Nominated by lordjers

Word to the mother.

I have my doubts we'll get much variety with this one, but only one way to find out!

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I don't expect other Borderlands characters to do well, especially after 3, which really made Lilith look bad, but Handsome Jack is one of the defining villains of all-time. (As near as I can tell, the only villains currently in are Wheatley and Armstrong.)

Anyway, if Sazh is already in -- which I think is kinda funny -- then we may as well try a late push for:

Add:
Oerba Yun Fang (Final Fantasy XIII)

azuarc posted...

Chloe Price (Life is Strange)
Wheatley (Portal 2)

Aloy (Horizon: Zero Dawn)
Amicia de Rune (A Plague Tale: Innocence)
Cadence (Crypt of the Necrodancer)
Dana Iclucia (Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana)
Emily Kaldwin (Dishonored...technically 1)
Handsome Jack (Borderlands 2)
Hat Kid - A Hat in Time
Henry (Firewatch) -- or Delilah if people would prefer
Jesse Faden (Control)
Knight, The (Hollow Knight)...aka The Vessel
Lady Dialla (Path of Exile)
Leah (CrossCode)
Malady (Divinity: Original Sin 2)
Ori (Ori and the Blind Forest)
Rachel Amber (Life is Strange: Before the Storm)
Reno Jackson (Hearthstone)

Surprised not one person has supported Handsome Jack.

Dana and Dana Iclucia in the 1's are the same person.

Add:
Bayonetta
Lightning
Miranda Lawson
Monokuma (with an O, of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc)
Estelle Bright

Drop:
Henry
Lady Dialla
Malady
Reno Jackson

PrinceKaro posted...

Dusa (Hades)

I know this was in early access for a long time, but officially it came out in 2020. Otherwise I likely would have picked something from Hades.

10

Ever have one of those moments where you go to bed and think, "Did I forget something?"

I went to a steakhouse once where they don't put the prices on the menu. It turned out I was spending around $50 per plate.

Other than that one occasion, I think I cap out at around $25.

I feel like you're trying to tell me to vote for Green Hills Zone.

Seanchan posted...

I'm a little biased against normal, humans

Locked slots so far: Animated crockery, human, human, skeleton, artificial intelligence, android, human, anthro dog, human cowboy, human...uh...hacker guy thing? (Don't ask me about Persona), skeleton, human tribal warrior, human cowboy, human time traveler, comic relief, human, human in fantasy setting, cartoon human, human, antrho cat, human I assume?, human, salarian, walking suit of armor, human in fantasy setting.

That's not too many "normal" humans, and the ones that are there are from interesting settings.

Only 6 people with multiples left, and yet in 3 song drops, only one elimination.

Denise

TheArkOfTurus posted...

I'm not sure if I'm happy that I didn't nom a 4th track (because perfect), or sad (because perfect could mean a lot more.)

Nice that nothing has dropped, though!

I only gave 2 and the first just dropped here, but I'm perfectly happy with this.

Glad you enjoyed Stray Gods. I could have given you a song that's more spoiler-y in the name of villainy, but I thought this was the most interesting track I could have chosen. Plus, there's no song in the game that doesn't at least partially feature Grace interacting with the other parties, which means this was the closest we get to an unfiltered villain's monologue.

Nominated by Leon

I legit did not realize I had counted that many emblems. It snuck up on me.

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rwlh posted...

talk amongst yourselves. Ill give you a topic: do you feel like you understand my musical taste a little better after this ranking? Or are you more confused than ever? Or are you just here for funny kazoo songs?

Sorry, I'm a little verklempt.

Oh, I see...in that case, yes, that's exactly why I didn't click on it.

Bitto posted...

3-2 does well. The cast and the uniqueness of the case were strengths in its favor. Though, this was the lowest amount of votes for a case so far. Is it because of Easter weekend? Or is it because I typoed the case shorthand in the title?

I did not see the thread for 3-2. Insert your own reason. In fact, I still don't see it.

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IIRC, this is the one case that has basically nothing to do with the rest of the plot of game 3, and it's nothing terribly exciting, given that it gets broken up over too many investigation periods where you talk to the same characters. Plus that chef dude makes me uncomfortable.

5/10

Snake5555555555 posted...

Just saying I'm counting this as Henry only unless told otherwise.

Of course. I'm only indicating that if someone would prefer Delilah, I'm happy to switch.

Oh, and I typo-ed. The CrossCode character is just Lea with no H. Leah with an H is Diablo 3 or Stardew Valley -- also eligible, but not who I was nominating.

Deodorant is also antiperspirant. Even if I didn't care about protecting against odor inherently, just preventing sweat alone goes a long way toward reducing it.