Board 8 > Raetsel's fourth annual music ranking topic. [Nominations]

(+) Yeah! (+)

Will try to do something tomorrow... posting mostly to get this topic onto this account's post list as I've mostly been logged into it all week.

300!

Still limiting writeups to one or two sentences, but it feels good to have some type of progress.

306.

...(Will the ranking start before 2025? Stay tuned!)

316

Acceptable progress under these conditions.

328

354

Been a while since the progress was actually notable.

360

Had to take a few days off again, so less progress obviously.

Youve got this!

Thank you again for the support. 382-ish.

...minor error on the spreadsheet kinda created an error in most songs' placements... I kinda gave a massive boost to one song's score on my notes, but forgot to update the value on the spreadsheet so everything's been a bit... off. Should probably correct that eventually.

...or just be lazy and add a note that the song was inexplicably ranked in positions [redacted] and [significantly more redacted], which is accurate and doesn't actually require me to do any more work. I think I did that with one song last year.

your perseverance is admirable

Thank you very much! For the kind words and keeping this from purging. It does mean a lot.

423; Not an important milestone by itself, but I just finished re-ranking all songs from a certain tier so it's... statistically notable from a spreadsheet standpoint at least.

436 and I need to take another couple days off... been getting overly excited and typing a lot more than I should in other topics, so I'm back to "mild discomfort"; not bad enough that I really need to stop, but enough that taking two days off would be a good idea.

445; minor update since I took the aforementioned days off, but should be back on track starting tomorrow (probably).

...Wow, I hate this automatic numbering system. I just want to post a generic "475." and skip down to the next line, but GameFAQs automatically switches it to a "1" because clearly I must be making a list and the list absolutely has to start at 1. Bleh.

Aaanywho, taking another short break. A friend wants my help with a project he's working on and it's kind-of a big deal to me because I haven't exactly been a good friend in the past & the fact that he actively wants my support means a lot. So I need to focus my energy on being helpful and supportive for a little bit.

...well, I mean, I should always be helpful and supportive -but- I mean that in the context of having something specific to help with at the moment.

489--not much, but I had time to sneak in a few songs here & there.

528; you know how it is.

579; feels like some decent progress made this week.

heck yehhhh

629; another important milestone as that clears out all songs that were clumped together in a certain tier.

Wow, progress has been quick lately.

Can you remind me what's left before rankings come out?

If I'm being reasonable, I'd try to get third and final scores for the bottom 20 songs worked out so that I have a backlog in place and can still post a song or two on days where I'm not up to typing.

There is a non-zero chance that I start without any backlog in place once the second phase is done, but it'll depend on when the second phase is finished & how foolish I feel that day. I would hope for future me's sake that she makes said backlog, but we'll see what happens.

666! ...I was going to stop a while ago, but when the number was at 661, I felt obligated to reach a very specific milestone. Though I'll be taking a day or two off to rest after that.

@UF8

UF8 posted...

Star!Bear (Amakawa Hano/Himekuma Ribon) - AmaHimeKawaKumaHanoRibon
3:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cVT-kcM2dQ

I don't suppose you know of anywhere else this track might have been uploaded or archived? Quite a few songs have had their original links deleted, but this is the only one I haven't been able to find an alternative link for.

Fluttershy_Pony posted...

UF8 posted...
Star!Bear (Amakawa Hano/Himekuma Ribon) - AmaHimeKawaKumaHanoRibon
3:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cVT-kcM2dQ

I don't suppose you know of anywhere else this track might have been uploaded or archived? Quite a few songs have had their original links deleted, but this is the only one I haven't been able to find an alternative link for.

oh lmao i forgot i had nominated this. yeah i took the video down since there was an official topic upload now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yelXhnUTlXY

Thank you! I'll try to update my link to that tomorrow.

696

Still taking it a bit slower for a few more days.

729

...Wow, that's a big number.

You can do it!

I believe in you

Remind me how many songs there are total? You must be getting near the end, right?

Presumably 784? Give or take one for calculating errors. Either way, incredibly close to having listened to everything twice, yes.

Nice! Thanks :)

*15 left

Determination.

I've been keeping up with most of these updates, you are a trouper!

784/784.

...This doesn't quite feel real, but every song has been listened to twice and assigned scores.

What now?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/1/AAXIRqAADz0t.jpg

Okay, image posting from the tablet works. That's one thing I needed to check... okay.

Remaining Checklist

Take a couple days off to rest and process that this is actually happening. (In progress)

Some formatting issues to take care of. Nothing complicated, but it'll take a few days due to the number of songs.

Give final listen to bottom X number of songs and finalize their scores, along with updating their writeups so that I have a decent log of songs to post when the ranking starts. Current plan is to have around 20 songs prepared before posting.

Type up the intro post for the ranking topic; explanation of scoring system and what not.

Estimated Time: Let's say around two weeks.

Notes

1: You might want to lower your expectations a bit. After my wrists started acting up, I kinda kept most writeups to one or two sentences... I do plan on *trying* to type more for each song by the time they're eliminated, but I can't promise anything. Physically, I could probably do one large writeup per day, so I'm going to have to find a balance between 'not really commenting on any songs' and 'only posting one song per day so the ranking takes a few years'.

I don't know what that balance is going to look like, so... don't expect a lot of writing for too many songs.

2: I will post what scores each song got (Initial, Revised, and Final) but only a song's final ranking will be posted. I used to post where each song fell in all three versions of the ranking, but it's not exactly feasible at the moment... I was tracking that data and entering it alongside each song, but some things lead to that data not being accurate and needing to be thrown out.

I can re-enter the correct values, but entering 784 data points that don't actually impact a song's final ranking feels like a lot of work for minimal payoff. At the end of the ranking, a full spreadsheet will be posted where you can see all that data yourself; so... I suppose it's less "I'm not going to post where songs fell after the first listen" as it is "due to some issues that data isn't going to be revealed until the very end". Thank you for understanding.

3: Unlike last year, all 784 songs are part of the same ranking. Last year kinda had things split into three: The R-Number list of songs I was familiar with before the ranking started, the main ranking, and a Bonus Round for every song that I considered having in first place at the main ranking. While there were plans to do something similar this year, we've switched to a more traditional "everything in one large pile" format.

This was a last minute change which is why the earlier placement data I was tracking doesn't exactly work... that's entirely my fault for radically changing the topic format at the literal last possible moment, but it is what it is.

4: No song's placement is considered truly final until the first place is decided and may be revised at any time, for any reason. There are a *lot* of songs with extremely volatile rankings... like "+/- 700 ranking positions" bouncing all over the list rankings. It's... possible I may eliminate a song early and then suddenly decide that I really love it and retroactively revise it a few hundred spaces up a few months later. Or vice-versa. Will it actually happen?

*insert Plankton image here a second time*

This is... kinda going to be rather chaotic and done over the course of several months, where I have very little idea what the final list is going to look like. Expect far more errors and chaos than usual. But there'll be a finalized ranking EVENTUALLY. Probably. Hypothetically.

Aaanywho... yeah, I'm expecting around two weeks to get things set up and then songs start getting posted & we see what winds up happening.

Nice!

You did it! Looking forward to the rankings.

Incredible!

Wahoo!

Heck yeeeeeah! \ o /

Hype!

Amazing! Nice work! Can't wait to see the rankings.

Yesss

Remaining Checklist

Take a couple days off to rest and process that this is actually happening. [Check]

Some formatting issues to take care of. Nothing complicated, but it'll take a few days due to the number of songs. [Check]

Give final listen to bottom X number of songs and finalize their scores. [Progress begins tomorrow]

Minor update: I'm going to aim to start on the 10th. I'm going to be busy on the 9th and I'm paying more attention to BOST's nominations than expected (I don't think I've joined in before), so I'll just wait a couple extra days until my schedule is freer.

Since I never gave an exact date before, I'm not sure it counts as a delay exactly, but either way there's now a planned date.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80227540

Topic is up, rankings start tomorrow.