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dowolf 01/13/18 9:19:22 PM #303: |
on a scale of 1 to literally buried in tears, how much did you cry?
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NFUN 01/13/18 11:19:48 PM #304: |
It was probably tied with FC. I was skeptical of the setting at first because it would seem to discourage the atmosphere and NPC interaction that were some of the main selling points of the series, but the doors were great.
The game had feels, though I don't think I teared up as much as I did in the other games, but it was definitely good in this department. And I was affected by the story enough that --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/13/18 11:22:57 PM #305: |
#13
Nominator: NBIceman The Last Story - Order and Chaos 85/100 Alright this is intense for a normal battle theme. It's got a lot of stuff going on and all of it works. Oops wrote this part before the chanting that's even better. Even the more sparse parts have a great bass/drums combo which I really like for some reason (http://picosong.com/wRqXt/). Parts remind me vaguely of Become as Gods, which is weird (and likely erroneous) as I've only heard that song like once. Anyways this is good. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Janus5k 01/13/18 11:25:54 PM #306: |
NFUN posted...
I definitely thought of you when I saw the title screen for --- "Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/13/18 11:33:12 PM #307: |
Janus5k posted...
NFUN posted... It took me 2 tries to beat Easy, 3 for Normal, 3 for Brutal, and only 1 for Maniac. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/13/18 11:38:58 PM #308: |
NFUN posted...
<youtube link> oops lol --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NBIceman 01/13/18 11:45:57 PM #309: |
NFUN posted...
#13 The Last Story has a really underrated soundtrack. More than a few awesome battle themes in there. --- http://i.imgur.com/UYamul2.gif Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights ... Copied to Clipboard!
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dowolf 01/14/18 12:24:43 AM #310: |
NFUN posted...
Man, Also, for the Sun Doors, there's a fun bonus line near the copyright in the Japanese version: --- Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/14/18 12:28:19 AM #311: |
#12
Nominator: trdl23 Bastion - Spike in the Rail 85/100 Ah, brings me back to an early-ish rip I loved that I'd completely forgotten about. The Western feel is great; it's a genre weirdly unexplored in terms of videogame music. When made well and used right, like in Rebel Galaxy, it cultivates a really unique feel. This song was made well. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/14/18 1:23:31 AM #312: |
#11
Nominator: Simoun Riviera: The Promised Land - Battle Theme 86/100 The intro is sick, and this is kind of generic and should probably go in the high 60's but it rocks so screw you. It says "GBA Version", but I couldn't find the song in when I ripped the game and this sounds way too high quality to be gba ah well. Also, if the uploader found 60 better alternative battle themes, he either has super weird taste or I really need to check this channel out. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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FL81 01/14/18 1:29:20 AM #313: |
Riviera music is pretty great
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Simoun 01/14/18 2:57:59 AM #314: |
Yeah I actually wondered why this was my highest nom of all entries. I mean, when compared to the other generic fluff down below.
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NFUN 01/14/18 4:30:37 PM #315: |
#10
Nominator: Logicblade Trails of Cold Steel 3 - Brave Steel 87/100 I like this one. Just an all-round solid theme. Also kind of generic but we're in the realm of gut opinions now boys --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Shonen_Bat 01/14/18 5:06:04 PM #316: |
Top ten boys
Could we get a recap of what's left? --- Glaze on the layers of the atmosphere, white stardust sprinkles on a fine parfait. I'll take your hand and you can take me here, up to the Satellite Cafe. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/14/18 5:15:50 PM #317: |
arti: Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk - Salamander
arti: Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland - Estrella dowolf: Gokinjo Boukentai (Neighborhood Adventure Squad) - Normal Battle iiicon: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Battle Theme Janus5k: Trails in the Sky SC - The Fate of the Fairies pyresword: Trails in the Sky - Sophisticated Fight Raka_Putra: Radiata Stories - Struggle II Shonen_Bat: Pokemon Black & White 2 - Team Plasma Battle Zyxyz0: Ar nosurge - Minakata https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1trI8KljOTv8KpF5nYv_QvCW6K1XQxIQ0mFsb39QJKJU/edit?usp=sharing --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/14/18 5:24:56 PM #318: |
Might as well declare the final tier while I'm at it.
Tier 4 Stats: arti - 2/5 azuarc - 0/5 dowolf - 1/5 DragonImps - 0/2 EmeraldEgg - 0/5 FL81 - 0/5 iiicon - 1/3 Janus5k - 1/2 LeonhartFour - 0/5 Logicblade - 0/5 Murphiroth - 0/5 MycroProcessor - 0/5 NBIceman - 0/3 Pirateking2000 - 0/5 pyresword - 1/5 Raka_Putra - 1/5 RySenkari - 0/5 Shonen_Bat - 1/5 Simoun - 0/5 Snake5555555555 - 0/5 trdl23 - 0/1 WhiteLens - 0/5 Wicklebee - 0/2 Zyxyz0 - 1/5 Arti remains the final user with more than one song remaining. I'll save the averages and such for the end of the contest. Tier 5: Quantum I had great difficulty organizing this part of the list. The songs in this tier basically follow the Schrodinger Wave Equation; their placements are probabalistic, and every time I look at them they're in different positions. Eventually I got sick of making changes and forced them into their current and final positions. Don't be upset if your song got this far but just wasn't good enough to make it to the top; chances are, on another day it would've been number one. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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JoshuaAstray 01/14/18 5:28:11 PM #319: |
#9
Nominator: Janus5k Trails in the Sky SC - Fate of the Fairies 91/100 Wanna see what I've got? COME FORTH, WHEEL OF TIME! <see sig> --- I will run no more. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/14/18 6:22:38 PM #320: |
#8
Nominator: Zyxyz0 Ar nosurge - Minakata 92/100 The guy on the violins needs to chill a bit. Besides that, it's a really good theme. Not sure why I liked it so much more than Mikazuchi, but whatever. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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azuarc 01/14/18 6:36:25 PM #321: |
Hmm, I still have the possibility of getting 2 predictions right in this crapshoot, including #1.
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NFUN 01/14/18 6:41:20 PM #322: |
azuarc posted...
Hmm, I still have the possibility of getting 2 predictions right in this crapshoot, including #1. With the scoring scheme that a Top 5 guess is 5 points, spot-on is 7 and correct winner is 15, you still can't catch up to Mana :c At least you beat Snake --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/14/18 7:58:54 PM #323: |
#7
Nominator: Arti Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk - Salamander 93/100 The guitar/flute/weird jrpg plucked string combo rules. This song is fantastic on all fronts. I can't stop listening to it. Fun fact: Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains is the salamander capital of the world, with as many as 30 species and the majority of vertebrate individuals being salamanders in the park. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/14/18 9:18:35 PM #324: |
#6
Nominator: Raka_Putra Radiata Stories - Struggle II 94/100 The song is kind of basic and repetitive, but the instrument choices and atmosphere carry it. I suppose this one takes virtue in its simplicity. I fucking love the clapping and it's relentless in its cheeriness. This song makes me pumped. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Raka_Putra 01/14/18 11:28:19 PM #325: |
Barely missed the Top 5, but I'm happy just the same! Radiata Stories is such a fun game.
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NFUN 01/15/18 5:25:19 PM #326: |
All of the songs in this tier had nebulous placements, but the top five especially so. I spent a few days messing around with the positioning of these songs before just giving them all 100 and deciding to deal with it later (I later changed the scores purely to reflect their final placement). And then I remembered something.
Astute followers of this great project may have noticed a trend in my rankings. In the spreadsheet, I'd left a NOMINATION'D column, indicating whether or not the nominator followed by seemingly purely comedic rule that evolved out of a typo in the original topic title. This column might seem just an artifact of an old mistake, but I discovered a use for it: a tiebreaker. Whenever multiple songs shared the same score, whichever ones weren't NOMINATION'D were automatically ranked lowest. And it just so happens that two of the top five songs have this trait... Sorry arti, icon. Both of your songs had a pretty good chance at being #1, had you only followed the rules. iiicon posted... all of mine are still in and the redacted song is the unofficial number 1 Xenoblade 2's battle theme was the official number 1 for a while. Sucks to be Icon. #5 Nominator: Arti Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland - Estrella 96/100 The flamenco style works really well as a battle theme. Nothing else really to say. Flamenco rocks and so does this song. #4 Nominator: Icon Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Battle Theme 97/100 I love the mixing in this. The strings/guitar/piano fading in and out creates an actiony, exciting theme that sounds great. Usually I dislike ugly electric sound effects, but, when used sparingly like in this, they just add to it. I'm getting a Sonic vibe from it for some reason? Anyway, primo stuff. I really lucked out by doing this topic so soon after the game came out. Top 3 tomorrow because I can --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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dowolf 01/15/18 6:05:24 PM #327: |
savage
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LeonhartFour 01/15/18 6:11:40 PM #328: |
@SaveEstelle
start your contest tonight just to show up this upstart for trying to delay your contest --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Mega Mana 01/15/18 6:14:45 PM #329: |
dowolf posted...
savage --- "In my headcanon, some staffer saw Trump pull out his phone and start typing so they just Terry Tate Office Linebacker'd him out of his shoes." - FFD ... Copied to Clipboard!
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SaveEstelle 01/15/18 6:17:31 PM #330: |
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LeonhartFour 01/15/18 6:21:07 PM #331: |
you're getting an early sneak peek at the Han Solo movie, huh?
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azuarc 01/16/18 12:26:29 AM #332: |
NFUN posted...
This column might seem just an artifact of an old mistake, but I discovered a use for it: a tiebreaker. Whenever multiple songs shared the same score, whichever ones weren't NOMINATION'D were automatically ranked lowest. And it just so happens that two of the top five songs have this trait... Thanks for screwing over my hopes of getting the #1 pic on the predix right with arbitrary criteria. >< --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/16/18 12:29:58 AM #333: |
azuarc posted...
NFUN posted...This column might seem just an artifact of an old mistake, but I discovered a use for it: a tiebreaker. Whenever multiple songs shared the same score, whichever ones weren't NOMINATION'D were automatically ranked lowest. And it just so happens that two of the top five songs have this trait... still would've lost the prediction game \_()_/ --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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azuarc 01/16/18 12:37:38 AM #334: |
NFUN posted...
still would've lost the prediction game Was gonna lose regardless, after missing the bottom 5 and thinking you might actually give a damn about Persona because you're not me. --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/16/18 12:39:17 AM #335: |
azuarc posted...
NFUN posted...still would've lost the prediction game Hey, with Snake and the reclusive Shonen Bat's help, you guys just barely beat Mana's score --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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azuarc 01/16/18 12:42:04 AM #336: |
NFUN posted...
Hey, with Snake and the reclusive Shonen Bat's help, you guys just barely beat Mana's score You mean without counting the fact that I apparently got #4 spot on? --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/16/18 12:45:25 AM #337: |
azuarc posted...
NFUN posted...Hey, with Snake and the reclusive Shonen Bat's help, you guys just barely beat Mana's score No, counting that --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Simoun 01/16/18 7:51:23 AM #338: |
Awesome top 5
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NFUN 01/16/18 3:22:58 PM #339: |
#3
Nominator: pyresword Trails in the Sky - Sophisticated Fight 98/100 I love Trails and am probably biased towards it, but in my defense, during the first VGMC I participated in before playing this game I voted for this song every time. This song is so fucking good. It's unpretentiously jazzy, gloriously upbeat and so much fun to fight and listen to. During said VGMC, I was told that it gets old after hearing it several hundred times, but it never did. I'm even starting to regret its low placement after, in Trails the Third, In any case, RIP TitS, RIP Falcom and RIP pyre. Two songs remain. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/16/18 3:29:13 PM #340: |
also one song in the third uses it during part of it which was pretty cool
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azuarc 01/16/18 3:54:03 PM #341: |
NFUN posted...
I was told that it gets old after hearing it several hundred times, but it never did. I thought it got old after the tenth battle, TBH. --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/16/18 4:46:34 PM #342: |
#2
Nominator: Shonen_Bat Pokemon Black & White 2 - Team Plasma Battle 99/100 Gen 5's soundfont is legit, and the weird-ass instruments that start around a minute in just add to it; I've been listening to Star Control 2's OST so much recently I've grown to love weird samples just tossed in. It has all of the tension of most battle themes with even more fun and chaos mixed in. This is more interesting than Pokemon themes tend to be, and I enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting. --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/16/18 4:46:36 PM #343: |
#1
Nominator: dowolf Gokinjo Boukentai (Neighborhood Adventure Squad) - Normal Battle 100/100 This song fucking rocks. It's so fun and interesting, and the silly instruments just add to it. It's like the joy of Sophisticated Fight was mixed with the chaos of Team Plasma Battle. This was one of the first nominations but I listened to it nearly daily since I first heard it. Like I said, there was a lot of indecision upon the exact placement of these songs, but this one was probably doomed to #1 early. This placement was irrevocable when it showed up in the VGM Guessing Game and I realized how excited I was for such an obscure, great song to show up. I think one of the comments describes my feelings best: "Youtube now almost exclusively recommends me weird Japan-only RPG music but I frankly couldn't be happier" --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Shonen_Bat 01/16/18 4:58:49 PM #344: |
Close. Didn't expect any of my songs to get that far though, so that's cool.
The #1 song being so obscure is pretty great. --- Glaze on the layers of the atmosphere, white stardust sprinkles on a fine parfait. I'll take your hand and you can take me here, up to the Satellite Cafe. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/16/18 5:08:46 PM #345: |
Final Stats:
User: Score/Position MycroProcessor: 44.4/86.6 Snake5555555555: 54.8/73 Wicklebee: 57/81.5 Shonen_Bat: 58.2/66 LeonhartFour: 64.2/64.8 WhiteLens: 64.8/67 RySenkari: 66/62.4 Simoun: 66.6/58.6 EmeraldEgg: 67.4/57.8 Logicblade: 67.6/52.8 Zyxyz0: 68.8/54.2 FL81: 70.6/52.4 Raka_Putra: 71/48.8 azuarc: 73/45.8 pyresword: 74.4/47.6 Murphiroth: 74.8/41.4 dowolf: 76.6/37.8 Pirateking2000: 76.8/34 DragonImps: 77/30.5 NBIceman: 77.33333333/36 arti: 80.6/32 Janus5k: 83/23.5 trdl23: 85/12 iiicon: 86/16.66666667 Mega Man won the prediction game with 45 points. Azuarc had 28, Snake 14 and Shonen_Bat 5. Since they participated and why not, Mana, Azuarc and Snake can add me on Steam to get a copy of Crypt of the Necrodancer (or the DLC if they have it) I put a histrogram of the score distribution on the spreadsheet, as well as the average scores/placements and all of the writeups. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1trI8KljOTv8KpF5nYv_QvCW6K1XQxIQ0mFsb39QJKJU/edit?usp=sharing --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 01/16/18 5:11:15 PM #346: |
This was a ton of fun! I've heard so much great music from games I've never even heard of, and now I'm getting really interested in videogame music. It's nice to know this topic sparked another (one that will have much more interesting writeups), and I plan on doing another, more ambitious ranking this summer.
Make sure to vote in azuarc's reverse ranking topic and give Wickle and Quinton the support they deserve --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Arti 01/16/18 5:13:47 PM #347: |
best ranking of people who nominated five songs
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dowolf 01/16/18 5:47:20 PM #348: |
NFUN posted...
"Youtube now almost exclusively recommends me weird Japan-only RPG music but I frankly couldn't be happier" I found it off a list of top VGMs from a Japanese community, personally. Most of them I already knew, but this one (and one other -- If you're curious, it's from an SNES RPG that's never been translated. I haven't had much time to get too far into it, but it's about a kindergartner who gets sent on missions by God, basically. Kinda feels like Earthbound, in terms of writing. --- Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius ... Copied to Clipboard!
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azuarc 01/16/18 8:16:54 PM #349: |
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NFUN 01/16/18 9:01:59 PM #350: |
azuarc posted...
That's a, uh, interesting top few. hey, you predicted two of them, one was Pokemon, and I will defend Gokinjo and Sophisticated Fight to my death. Part of the reason I found it so difficult to organize the top 5 was because it was so fucking eclectic and the songs were all in such different styles --- Thus is our treaty written, thus is our agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ARF ... Copied to Clipboard!
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dowolf 01/16/18 9:32:49 PM #351: |
Also, I remember you saying in the noms topic "Astute readers might have a good shot at guessing what my number 1 would be," or something to that effect, and I've been wondering if that was a reference to Gokinjo, since I did post that in the discord channel right before you started this >_>
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Murphiroth 01/17/18 7:29:10 AM #352: |
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