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Thank you all! Some quick thoughts on the project, in no particular order:

1: I think the main gimmick of Chaos-Neutral-Order actually worked out quite well. All three paths were represented in the top 4, so they were reasonably balanced against each other. I dont know Id repeat this same format again for 2021s topic, but its definitely a viable way of including albums & a variety of random songs.

2: The R-Numbers also worked well enough, for me personally. Im sure it felt like a cheat to spring it on people unannounced, but it made things so much easier on me.

A: It gave me a small number of songs to use as practice, so I could play around with formatting and get a feel for how I wanted things to work before starting the main 599 list.

B: Ive always had a bit of a hard time weighing songs that Ive always loved against new songs. I always wind up undervaluing the old favorites because I want to focus on new things... just dividing them into separate groups made sure the old songs would get a fair chance to shine.

C: Thematically, I liked opening the topic with songs that I liked. I think it was nice to start things off on a positive note, before going into the negative parts.

Again, I dont know that Id repeat it again next time, but it certainly worked for me and accomplished everything I wanted it to.

...also I still have no idea where the term R-Number came from. Closest Ive come is that it might have been a Mega Man joke, owing to the fact that the Numbers were mostly Mega Man related? With the Japanese L/R confusion, the character is sometimes referred to as Dr. Right and Rocks designation is sometimes written as DRN 001 (Doctor Right Number 1) which could be further abbreviated to R Number (or R#)?

[Most likely, it has no significance at all, like anything else written at 4 in the morning. But its the only R Number I can think of and seems like the type of meta joke that might have seemed funny in the middle of the night.]

4: i made pretty good time with this topic. Nominations started in early September, so I can do 600 songs in four months. Part of me wants to go wild and try to out-do NFUNs 1000 songs (a 1,111 song topic has a certain ring to it), but that would likely turn into a year long project... probably too much, but well see how stupid I feel around September.

5: The Final Round worked out well for being a surprise. I wish Id brought more songs to it though; Dead Is The New Alive to add some darkness, None Shall Pass to get some more genre variety, BoLla Twins Mashup so Win the Race isnt the only comedy song, Cabrona, and whatever other 99 point songs there were.

Shorten it a bit (six rounds instead of seven) and up the number of included songs to 30, and it probably goes better. Still, fairly happy with how it went.



Either way, the topic was successful and I thank everyone for continuing to humor me with these yearly endeavors. Ill get to work on the list of extra songs, though fair warning, itll probably be a bit of a slow-burn... just going to listen to whatever I want, whenever I want, as opposed to trying to speed through the list as quickly as possible. Going to start with all the Shnabubula songs in the next post (partially out of laziness; dont have to add all the songs to the list if you get them all out of the way in one post. *taps forehead*)
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